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** According to fanon (and a few fan-made addons) he became Nerevarine's companion in the quest. Also, in the Elder Scolls IV: Oblivion, asking certain characters about rumours will reveal that Jiub has become a saint in Morrowind. And why? Because he drove the Cliff Racers out of Morrowind. Hell yeah.

*** They also say that he was killed by the Daedra during the invasion.

** The first game caused an accidental disappearing mouse. In the fourth case von Karma makes a throwaway reference to having a daughter whose child has a dog named Phoenix. In the second game we meet his daughter Franziska, who does ''not'' have any children. While this was probably not intended, many people are left wondering who the mysterious older von Karma daughter is.

*** Of course, Von Karma could just be lying. {{spoiler|It wouldn't be his first lie.}}

**** There is also the missing 4th clue from the final case in Justice for all, that Franziska took with her abroad and promised to return to Wright when they meet again. She never did give it to him in the next game Trials and Tribulations

** In the third case of the first game, Sal Manella disappears after his testimony, and is never mentioned again after {{spoiler|Phoenix mentions that he helped Dee Vasquez move the body}}.

*** In the new DS game, Magus, {{spoiler|upon the realization that he could never be strong enough to deal with the Time Devourer, casts aside his memories and winds up in a forest. What happens to him from ''there'' on the other hand...}}

* ''[[Magical Vacation|Magical Starsign]]'' has a pretty odd one; at the Starfall Festival event, a breather not-quite-cutscene, you can wander around and talk to the individual members of your party. The event only ends when you talk to Mokka the robot (if the player character is a girl) or Lassi the [[Petting Zoo People|rabbit girl]] (if the player character is a boy}. They're just about to admit to being in love with you, but your clueless [[Heroic Mime]] will be hijacked by another character and poor Lassi/Mokka will confess their feelings into thin air. Before and after that, nothing. No further acknowledgement, nothing in the epilogue. Cue a massive "Huh? Why was that even put in there?" on the player's part. It could just be part of ''Magical Starsign's'' odd humour, but the nature of the scene hints that this development has a significance the game never gives it.

** This issue pops up with Pico and Sorbet's blooming romance as well. It's pretty obvious that Pico is in love with Sorbet, and in one cutscene, they have a touching moment together, but {{spoiler|Pico drops out of the academy, and Sorbet becomes part of The Space Police}} and that little subplot remains unresolved.

** Opposing Force was developed by Gearbox Software, so Valve may not own that character or may not consider him canon. The Race X enemies haven't reappeared either.

* In the newest ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' game, the main character begins it by losing his donkey, Farah. He's wandering around, calling for her when he runs into the princess. Although she is occasionally referenced Farah is never seen.

** It is later explained in the credits of the EDC for the game. {{spoiler|Farah the Donkey is dead, but the developers assure us that no real donkeys were harmed.}}

* A comedic example in ''[[Fallout 2]]''; you can take up a short treasure hunt, which culminates in lowering a treasure-hunting dwarf down a well to retrieve a bag of loot. It turns out to hold a fortune in bottlecaps, the now-worthless currency of the previous game. After cursing, kicking a bit of dirt and ultimately having a good laugh about it, you head off again, leaving the dwarf stuck down the well.

** Quite famously within the fandom, you never do rescue Sulik's sister, find Sulik's village, or any trace of the slaver group that kidnapped her.

* What was with [[Utawarerumono|Kamyu's]] blood drinking, spirit talking and... other nighttime activities, anyway? Presumably they were supposed to be foreshadowing for Mutsumi but... she didn't do any of that stuff either. And it's not like the original her even ''could'' have done anything like that. Plus, {{spoiler|isn't Mutsumi Hakuoro's surrogate daughter?}} It seems doubtful that she would do anything like she did if she's supposed to be being influenced or something.

* ''[[Resident Evil]]'' has a very bad habit of doing this. Rebecca, Billy, Carlos, and all the characters in Survivor and Dead Aim never have their fates revealed aside from "they survived". Barry, Hunk, and Sherry run very close into this, only having the epilogues in 3 reveal some things about what happened to them. In a nutshell, if you're in this series and your name isn't Chris, Jill, Leon, or Claire, the plot doesn't really give a damn about you.

** Dana shows up again in ''[[Video Game]]/Prototype2'', no worse for wear. Ragland's still unaccounted for.

** Speaking of Dark Dawn, Psynergy Vortexes are a significant part of the very early plot, but you never hear one whit about them after you get Rief out of his box cage. {{spoiler|That is, until the quest is over, the initial trio return to the Goma Plateau, [[Averted Trope|and Matthew]] [[Sequel Hook|points out over the horizon]]...}}

* At the very beginning of ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'', Yuri gets his arm ripped off and is able to reattach it, and it heals instantly. He never manifests this power again, and its origin isn't explained.

** In the same sequence, Alice is shown to have a pendent which somehow repels evil spirits. We never see or hear about it again. She repelled the evil the pendant wasn't actually important.

* The sex scenes in ''[[Kanon]]'' suffer from this. They happen and then they're never mentioned again (beyond the screen immediately afterwards), even if the follow-up scene would warrant a mention. Particularly glaring in Shiori's and Ayu's scenarios, where one of the characters reminisces about everything they've done together and ''mentions everything except the sex''. Makes it kind of easy to [[Bleached Underpants|make the clean version]], huh?

** Made more strange by the fact that in The Trojan's last hit he says he will be accompanying you, but he never shows up. A probably unrelated character named 'The Trojan' is on the family tree in the second film listed as being in prison for drug peddling so this may have been his fate.

* ''Infinity'' series:

** The true identity of the bodies discovered on Mt. Akakura in ''[[Remember 11]]'' is never revealed. {{spoiler|They are initially presumed to be Kokoro, Lin, and Yomogi, as those three were the only unaccounted-for passengers of a plane that crashed in that area, but the true end reveals that the three of them survived.}}

*** Although Yuni implied that {{spoiler|the newspaper with the article itself was fabricated.}}

** Actually, if you've been talking to everyone like you should, you'd find out that the doorknob has been a lot of places. Salsa can even pick it up outside Osohe Castle.

** Also, what happened to the Ultimate Chimera? The last we see of it, it's {{spoiler|being turned on again by the bird on its back.}}

** This is not surprising if you have played as a Death Knight. During the starter quests, a Val'kyr will typically help you once or twice after you die in battle and not be seen again. However, Annhylde's fate is revealed in Sylvanas's short story; she is one of a few surviving Val'kyr and {{spoiler|gives her life to revive Sylvanas after her suicide}}.

** In ''Burning Crusade'', we meet Sabellian, a black dragon who helps the player defeat a Gronn. He survives the battle and disappears afterward. Two expansions later, the Fangs of the Father questline is centered around helping the uncorrupted black dragon Wrathion eliminate the rest of the Black Dragonflight. Despite Wrathion claiming to be the [[Last of His Kind]] at the end of the questline, Sabellian is neither killed nor mentioned to be dead, leading some to believe he may have survived. Of course, it's also possible he died offscreen and the player just doesn't find out.

** There was a rumor that he was originally supposed to be killed by crashing a plane into his building, which was removed for obvious reasons after 9/11, but this has been debunked.

** The last mission you "do" for him--Donald's Disappearance--is only for the purpose of showing you that he's gone.

** If you save them, you can see them flying off in what is assumed to be their own ship after the planet blows up. In ''Metroid Fusion'' you find them on one of the decks of the station, so it's assumed that either Samus brought them there for testing (since she was working with the scientists) or they were caught and taken there separately.

*** It's generally assumed to be the latter, since Samus' dialogue shortly after releasing them in Fusion implies that she hadn't known of their fate.

** Actually, Jun being alive is a plot point which Namco have deliberately kept a mystery for dramatic effect. It is likely but unconfirmed that it will form a major part of the story later on in the series. The reason Asuka is in ''Tekken 5'' is to be a scrappy for Jun so that (nearly) all the characters who were in ''Tekken Tag'' would be playable (in some form) in ''Tekken 5'', as Namco had received a lot of flak for not including them in ''Tekken 4'', people obviously missing the point of ''Tag'' being a compilation game and not a canonical sequel.

*** Given that both Asuka and Jun are in ''Tekken Tag Tournament 2'' and Jun has a direct connection to the boss of that game, it's now painfully clear that Askua is not and never was going to be a replacement for anybody. Remember, too, that even if a ''Tekken'' fighter ''was'' dead, that doesn't mean that person is dead ''now''... Bryan Fury, anyone?

** And what happened to Kunimitsu?

*** It seems to be implied that she is in hiding--she stole from her tribe and Yoshimitsu presumably wants to kill her. In the non-canonical ''Tag'' he actually does kill her in one of the endings. Some of her moves were carried over to Raven, as well as Yoshimitsu.

** And the biggest mystery of them all, Kuma's second costume in the first two games is a polar bear. From the third onwards, (where Kuma is replaced by his identically named son) his second costume is another character, Panda. Nobody knows what happened to polar bear Kuma and it's never been mentioned.

*** "Polar Bear Kuma" was simply an alternate [[Palette Swap]] rather than an additional character. That's like asking what happened to the Heihachi who wore nothing but a bandage diaper.

** Alex? Okay, he's marginal at best, but if Mokujin could make the cut for ''TTT2''...

*** Granted, Mokujin's bio in ''T5'' explains that he (re)awakens in response to great evils (Ogre in ''3'', Jinpachi--or more specifically, the devil controlling Jinpachi--in ''5'', Azazel in ''6''). Alex seems to have just fallen off of the face of the earth, which is made even more puzzling by the fact that Roger not only has a family (his wife and son appear as a duo starting in ''T5''), but Roger ''himself'' is still alive and kicking as of ''T5'' and ''T6''.

** The first ''[[Valkyrie Profile]]'' has an odd version, because you know what happens to the character, but no idea ''how''. Lawfer's recruitment cutscene doesn't show or even allude to how he dies, but he ends up one of your Einherjar anyway once it's finished. The manga has him turn into a vampire and get killed by Arngrim, but this doesn't fit with the events of the game.

** Jack's fate is implied rather than shown: He's in the Plantation jail along with Sue, then he's gone by the time the plot [[Cutscene Incompetence|forces you to get thrown in jail]]. The implications aren't pretty. However, it's possible to completely skip seeing Jack in the cell, rendering his disappearance from the game rather more baffling.

* ''<nowiki>~Star Ocean: The Second Story~</nowiki>:'' A rather large (if technically optional) aspect of the first part of the game involves you finding an ancient text in Cross Cave and showing it to a linguist named Keith. Keith finally takes it and begins studying it, but before you learn anything about it, {{spoiler|the world explodes}}. You never find out what was actually in it, making several long-winded events and dungeons seem annoyingly pointless.

* Discussed in ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]]''. Big Boss rides into the Costa Rican cloud forest on a mule, but encounters enemies who spook the mule and he runs away. While most of your support team is focused on the mission, the younger two, Paz and Chico, are more concerned with what happened to the mule. (It doesn't show up again.)

* A really bad case of this happen in ''Scrapland''. Through the game, three important city officials are murdered and have their "matrix" (which allow them to be resurrected) stolen, effectively removing them from existence, the goal of the protagonist is to investigate the case and find out who's responsible. However, even after you find and defeat the guy responsible for the plan, what happened to the victims's matrix isn't addressed in any way.

** What happened to Dogi during ''V''?

* In ''[[Lufia 2 Rise of the Sinistrals]]'', Maxim's childhood friend Tia is the second member of your party. Tia clearly loves Maxim, and follows him on his journey for this reason, despite his cold behaviour towards her. Later, the party meets Selan, who Maxim is clearly interested in. The game appears to be developing a rivalry between Selan and Tia, which one might expect to end with Maxim finally realizing his own true love for Tia, but instead Tia suddenly decides she's had enough and leaves the party, never to be heard from again except in a small scene at the end.

* Towards the very beginning of ''[[Banjo-Kazooie|Banjo-Tooie]]'', a couple of characters mention how excited they are about "the upcoming kickball game between the Jinjos and the moles": indeed, it's the main reason Jingaling wants to see the Jinjos rescued. The game is never mentioned again.

** Also, [[The Dragon|Klungo]] from the first game. He only appears during the scene where Grunty is shown building the machine she will use to suck the beauty out of Banjo's sister, after which he disappears and is simply never seen, heard, or mentioned again. The only time you ''ever'' see him again is if you lose the game, where he actually succeeds in turning Grunty beautiful... at least, until his brief appearance in the ending sequence. He gets an expanded role in all of the other ''Banjo'' games, though.

** Given what happens to Reach, is that really surprising?

* ''[[Dynasty Warriors]] 4'', due to its flexible mission structure, had a few of these:

** As Wu, it's possible to get Race For The Nan Territory, where both you and the Shu army battle a total of four Wei generals, after Wei has already been destroyed. Since none of the four die in this battle, it's unclear what becomes of them afterward, or for that matter what the hell they're doing here in the first place.

* In ''[[Lego Adaptation Game|Lego Batman]]'', a cutscene shows a man preparing to propose to his girlfriend. When he produces the ring, the girl screams and ducks under the table. The man is sad, not realizing that she screamed because Joker and Scarecrow were coming up from behind him in their aircraft. The man is swept up by the planes and is last seen clinging to a steeple. Did he ever get down? Did Batman rescue him? Did his girl say yes?

* In ''[[Time Crisis]]: Project Titan'', not only is Kantaris alive, she appears in a couple of cutscenes. She doesn't die, or for that matter fight anyone. And she has not been seen, heard, or mentioned in any Namco game since. (For that matter, does the fact that she's alive mean that Richard Miller ''failed'' his special assignment in [[TC 1]]?)

* ''[[Syphon Filter]]: The Omega Strain'': What happened to Ivankov?

* In ''[[Puzzle Quest]] 2'' after you gain Rahn the guardsman as a companion (gaining the Besiege spell), you never hear from him again. He has no dialog, unlike your other companions. And when you rescue your companions from Dark Elf Arena, he's not even mentioned.

* At the very beginning of ''[[Home Front]]'', you are arrested in your home by a KPA colonel named Jeong, who seems like he will be a significant antagonist. He appears exactly one other time in the game, leaves, and is not mentioned again afterward.

* ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]'' reveals in the third disc {{spoiler|Shana is the twin sister of the dead Princess Louvia, which makes her daughter of Queen Theresea and heir to the throne of Mille Seseau.}} This is never mentioned again or even touched upon for that matter. Many found it to be a glaring plot hole.

** {{spoiler|Kano}} is last seen frozen {{spoiler|by Cyber Sub-Zero}}, but not shattered. He just disappears from the scenes, although apparently he did warn {{spoiler|Quan Chi of Cyber Sub-Zero}}.

** {{spoiler|Cyrax and Sektor}} may or may not be dead.

* Every single comic relief baddie from the ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]'' series games. They all only appear in the very beginning, and they all disappear without a trace as the series progresses. Heck, they don't even return after [[Disc One Final Boss|Primal Dialga]] has finally been taken care of! It's implied that the main reason why they all disappeared very early is because they are actually all afraid of the series' [[Big Bad]], {{spoiler|[[Omnicidal Maniac|Darkrai]]}}, and that Primal Dialga is the least of their worries.

* In ''[[Scaler]]'', what happened to [[Terrible Trio|Looger's Henchmen (and woman): Jazz, Rhombus, and Turbine]]? They appear at the start, make an appearance at the first boss, then turn up as the second boss, are shown in a beaten-up (and alive) state [[Department of Redundancy Department|when you beat them]]... and then are promptly never seen again. What happened? Did they run off? Did they die/[[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|Looger dispose of them]]? Did they come back to our world? We shall never know.

* Invoked by [[Silent Hill]] and [[Silent Hill 2]] with the fates of Cybil and Angela. Cybil isn't mentioned after the first game, and Angela is never seen again after {{spoiler|she acsends the staircase in the second.}} [[Word of God]] has stated that they wanted their fates to be open to interperetaion.

* [[Soul Calibur]] 5 really shook up the character list, with almost half the characters from the previous game being removed. Most have retired and passed their skills on to children or successors (Xianghua, Taki), some have just reached the end of their journey and have no reason to continue fighting (Setsuka, Zasalamel), some are dealing with their own stuff (all the Korean characters) and some have just dropped off the face of the earth. Sophita and Cassandra in particular are implied to be dead, and Talim has simply vanished.

* ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' leaves quite a few missing mice for the [[Grand Finale]]. When the Citadel is {{spoiler|taken by the Reapers}}, there is no mention of what happened to the people ''on'' the Citadel, which is ''quite a few characters''. Then there's {{spoiler|the mass relays exploding}}, which carries quite a few implications itself {{spoiler|given that ''everyone'' is in the vicinity of Earth, including most of the galaxy's fleets, in some cases notably the Quarians, as Rannoch, their ancestral homeworld you ''just'' got back to them, is pretty far from Earth. Oh, also the Citadel can blow up in some endings}}.