A rare non-actor version of this once occurred in the classic adventure strip Terry and the Pirates.If a voice actor dies (or otherwise stops being available) but the character simply stops having voiced appearances, it's Actor Existence Limbo.Īs this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound.

Fans may do this preemptively via Death Fic. A Really Dead Montage may result for longstanding characters. However, outside of the narrative, it may prompt an episode or credits nod In Memoriam. This is a trope, as the event affects the narrative. The inverse is Character Outlives Actor when a character is taken out of a show and is still alive, but the actor who played them has died and sometimes in the case of animation, replaced with a soundalike, though in some cases, both can overlap if the character's death took place later than their actor's. It's usually seen in Anime, Western Animation, and Live-Action TV, but this can happen in film as well if the movie is a series (see Indiana Jones below). If the character was a big enough part of the show, it could be derailed or even ended altogether. This often causes major changes in the cast dynamic. In these circumstances, don't expect the character to be Put on a Bus to Hell, but rather an episode directly (and often respectfully) dealing with the death and deceased. In other words, the Grim Reaper himself arranges an (obviously long) bus trip. Frankie Boyle, Mock the Week, memorialising Heath Ledger in Lines You Wouldn't Hear In A Superhero MovieĪ sad form of Real Life Writes the Plot and the Logical Extreme of Written-In Infirmity: a character is written out of the show or even (and usually) Killed Off for Real because the actor who portrayed them has left not just the show, but the mortal coil itself.

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