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{{quote|'''Valentine''': He was me best mate. I'll never forget him. Ah, well. Onwards and upwards.

'''Helena''': Did you know him long?

 

Heroes often have to be motivated to pick up [[The Call]], or are simply forced to by chilling events. An all too common way for this to happen is to have their friends and loved ones become [[Friendly Target]]s and suffer [[Death by Origin Story]] to kick start their quest.

 

Contrast [[Dead Guy, Junior]], [[To Absent Friends]] and see also [[Death by Origin Story]]. When a character simply goes missing, with their ultimate fate unrevealed (to the other characters ''or'' to the audience,) yet nobody (in the story) seems to care, it's [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]. When it's the ''villain'' who can't remember... whoever it was he killed that has made [[The Hero]] mad at him, it's [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]]. Compare [[Friendless Background]].

 

* Despite criticism claiming otherwise, this is averted in the second season of ''[[Code Geass]]''—the death of pretty much any named character gets brought up again. Lelouch and Suzaku definitely experience some [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]] due to {{spoiler|the deaths of Shirley and Euphie}}, and even if they don't constantly mention them (though {{spoiler|once Suzaku is sure that Lelouch got his memories back, he spends plenty of time interrogating him over killing Euphie}}), both of them are obviously still boiling over their losses later on. Suzaku becomes less nice, {{spoiler|and Shirley's death makes Lelouch hate Rolo that much more - his first attempt to kill Rolo was in the next episode.}}

* In ''[[Transformers Headmasters]]'', Sixshot kills several of Chromedome's oldest friends in front of him, yet Chromedome is always [[Snap Back|back to normal]] by the start of the next episode. The death of Abel, Chromedome's best friend in the galaxy, was particularly egregious, as he mourned him for all of one minute and then went back to playing with Wheelie and Daniel.

** There is also the death of {{spoiler|Maes Hughes}}, which is a HUGE driving motivation for Roy and is thus prevalent throughout the plot.

* Chor Tempest loses half its members in the first episode of ''[[Simoun]]''. Much angst ensues over Amuria and Eri, but the first pair to actually die not only are never mentioned again, they never even get names on-screen.

* In the first few episodes of ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'', Yukari Hirai shows Yuji the reality of the world, spurs him to let her enjoy her last days, has her existence consumed, and is never mentioned again.

** Well it's [[Justified Trope|justified]] for everyone (Yuji's being the only one that's weird), considering Yukari never disappeared and Shana just took her place, the denizens and flame hazes wouldn't bat an eye at the disappearance of a [[Unperson|torch]], and Yuji wasn't really close to her and he gained a [[Love Interest]] in her replacement.

** This is pretty regularly averted in the entire ''Gundam'' series, for that matter - in the original ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', for instance, Amuro gets angry at a Federation officer after they finally reach Jaburo since all they can do for the dead Ryu is give him a posthumous two-rank promotion. He also meets and apologizes to another lieutenant who had been engaged to Matilda Ajan, who died around the same time as Ryu, and much later {{spoiler|the death of Lalah is what drives him to truly hate Char for the rest of the series}}.

* Subverted in ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', which has had three significant character deaths. Lisanna's death is first mentioned in the Phantom Lord arc, and her sibling are seen going to pray for her near the aniversary of her death about 100 chapters later (not to mention {{spoiler|her coming back}}) Ur's death, which also happened in a back story, plays a large roll in Gray's arc, and that she became part of the ocean at the end is actually a significant point ''200'' chapters later despite not being mentioned once before then. And of course, the death of {{spoiler|Simon}} comes up whenever Jellal is playing a large part in whatever is going on, even if it's usually pushed out of mind when Jellal isn't around.

 

 

 

 

* Anyone who [[Die for Our Ship]] will be swiftly forgotten.

 

* Persistently and conspicuously averted in the second season of ''[[Sanctuary]]''. Following {{spoiler|Ashley's [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}, Magnus is shown grieving in nearly every episode, with her attempts to cope driving the plot in some instances.

** Also, {{spoiler|Clara Griffin}} is mentioned several times by Will but only when it is absolutely necessary (such as telling his new girlfriend about his exes).

** Apollo's pregnant fiancée is a played-straight example. He barely thinks about the fact that he left her to be nuked, aside from one episode.

** Arguably, [[The Woobie|Peter Laird]] though people could be forgiven due to the fact that he dies at the start of a mutiny that takes the lives of over a hundred other people including the entire Quorum.

** {{spoiler|Felix Gaeta}} is never mentioned again after {{spoiler|he and Zarek are executed for the mutiny}}. No one is shown placing a photo on the memorial wall, either, not even {{spoiler|Baltar, who was with him shortly before he was executed}}.

*** To be fair, {{spoiler|Gaeta}} had just co-lead a mutiny, so no one was feeling too charitable towards him. And {{spoiler|Baltar}}'s a self-absorbed jerk, so he hardly counts.

** Averted in the new series, where Zac died much earlier and plays a significant part in several subplots.

* Handled oddly in ''[[The Wire]]''. It seems as though {{spoiler|Wallace}} has been pretty well forgotten by Poot and Bodie after season one, but the mention of his name in season four provokes Bodie into panicked alarm.

** Followed by: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100512 and http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100514

** It was pretty averted even earlier: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20041025. Really, the troper saying she wasn't affected doesn't seem to have actually read the series.

** Well, Dex is [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000814 remembered a little]:

{{quote|'''Riff:''' Gee, Zoe! Sorry your boyfriend got eaten by kittens!