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—, A 's worst nightmare: A creator dies before completing their work, leaving it. If readers are lucky, the author had enough warning or foresight to keep notes on their plans for the rest of the series or at least fill someone else in on the most relevant plot points, so that,.

This may result in the series if, but at least you have closure. Worse would be if the series just isn't popular enough to justify going through the effort to find a new author, leaving fans to wonder. This can also happen with individuals who play a major role in creating a group work; for instance, actors or directors. In any case, it gets to be pretty sad that so many people lose their jobs because of one person's death, but if the work was good enough it's likely that those who worked on it won't have too much trouble finding another job. If the author is still alive but decides to quit, they're preventing a. Please note that this trope applies when a creator (writer, director, etc.) ceases work on a project, not a participant (actor, well.

Horse Handicapping Software Ratings. The Author Existence Failure trope as used in popular culture. A Fandom's worst nightmare: A creator dies before completing their work, leaving it orphaned.

Mostly actors) unless they had significant input. Also note that since all creators are mortal, this is not merely when creators die, it's when they die with works still in progress. This might result in, where the show goes on without the character a dead actor portrayed, or, where there is an attempt to disguise the absent actor. Not to be confused with the criticism trope known as '. Or, where the author merely falls from grace and loses their reputation. See also, where this happens during part of the production. • When died, he left his life's work unfinished.

Which is an absolute shame, as he quite clearly had great plans for it. Had he stayed alive to finish it,, the 'present', and tying all the loose ends of the Phoenix's story together. Now we can only wonder. • Happened the same with the other great mangaka legend,, who left his most famous manga unfinished, taking a long hiatus and promising to creating an end for it exactly in the year 2000. But he died early in 1998. Fortunately in 2012, Shogakukan announced the story would reach a proper conclusion based on Ishinomori's original concept notes, sketches, and a novel draft. It was illustrated by Masato Hayase and Sugar Sato, and written by Ishinomori's eldest son Jo.

Unfortunately, the finished product resulted in a huge over liberties that Ishinomori's son had taken with his father's storyline. • Noboru Yamaguchi spent the rest of his life working to avert this trope by attempting to finish as fast as possible while also undergoing treatment for cancer. Though he sadly passed away on April 4, 2013 (which was a cruel twist of fate due to the fact he was about to conclude the novel series), he ended up succeeding from beyond the grave when it was announced in June 2015 that the series will finally see its completion after all, ending a years-long limbo. • Ken Ishikawa, the creator of. Though he did leave some notes behind, they were apparently only for Getter Robo Hien - a prequel. The cliffhanger ending of Getter Robo Āḥ, the latest series chronologically, has yet to be resolved.

• The director of, Takeyuki Kanda, died while the OVA was still being produced. One effect of that was that it took over three years to finish it, making it the longest-running single production until, except the long running period for that has been planned from the start. • And a decade and a half later, Umanosuke Iida, aka the guy who took over for Kanda.

Died while working on another series,. • 's author Sunao Yoshida died in 2004 and the story was finished some while later by other writers.

However, the manga is still ongoing. Yoshida was also the original story creator for, which didn't get picked up until 2013, a whole decade after it was first announced. • 's manga, was left incomplete when she passed away after a tragic accident. Luckily, she had the ending semi-planned out, and it was used for the anime. • Perhaps not a total Existence Failure, but what happened to mangaka Kyoko Okazaki certainly comes close: in 1996, she was hit by a drunk driver before completing the last few chapters of her -esque cosmetic surgery drama. The resulting accident.

The manga was finished in 2004, by her former assistant (yup, the wife of ), working from Okazaki's storyboards and with her consultation, albeit on a. Okazaki's rehabilitation continues to this day. • Takahiro Yamato of died in 2009 before his work was finished. • Yoshito Usui of. Tragically killed in a hiking accident in September 2009. The anime (which mostly uses original stories not found in the manga anyway) was put on hiatus for a few weeks after his death, but it was later announced it would continue.

Now the word has come that (in another parallel with newspaper comics) the manga will also continue with a new author. • Keiko Tobe, the mangaka of, died of an unspecified illness in late January 2010, leaving the manga unfinished. • suddenly died while making a film called The Dream Machine, which he described as aimed at a younger audience but accessible for his older fans, with a cast made entirely of robots. Kon learned that he had a late-stage pancreatic cancer in April 2010, but initially didn't tell anyone because he didn't want to disturb them — cancers are still something of a taboo in Japan. He later regretted this decision and verbosely apologized to everyone in his farewell note (he ended it with an apology for 'leaving while everyone else was still working') after his producer Masao Maruyama promised to him to finish the movie. Sadly, the film is now stuck in. • 's author Akinari Matsuo passed away without warning on April 18, 2011.

The phrasing of the letter, which does not mention accident nor illness, suggests suicide. •, most recognizable as the voice of, died of a brain hemorrhage in 1995, a month before the release of, the movie that would mark the series' return to the big screen in ten years. Fortunately, his will stated that, if he were to pass away, the baton should be passed to (a popular comedian and impersonator), from that movie onwards. In honor of Yamada, a message was placed at the end of the film's credits: 'To Yasuo Yamada, Eternal Lupin the Third: Thank you!'

• Similarly, fellow seiyuu spoke to to see if they'd in his latest series,. Kawakami succumbed to ovarian cancer in 2011.

• was discontinued in 2009 due to author Keiji Nakazawa's developing cateracts and vision problems, and he died of cancer just three years later. • went to due to the director Ryutaro Nakamura's health issues, and later death in June 2013. Later on, however, series artist Yoshitoshi Abe announced they had found a new director, though who it is is currently unknown and no other news has been released. • passed away on March 31, 2015 of an unspecified illness while working on another series. • In a foreign dub example, Brazilian voice actor Antonio Akira, known for playing Dragon Ryuhou in the local dub of, succumbed to meningitis in July 26th, 2015.

This, along with the passing of veteran voice actress Maralisi Tartarine, who played Ophiuchus Shaina, has currently left the state of the second season's dub up in the air. • The dub resumed in 2016, with Fred Mascarenhas replacing Akira and Patricia Scalvi replacing Maralise. • The afterword for the second novel included a note saying ' in Volume 3,' but no third volume was released, and with dying in 2010, it's certain it never will be. • The upcoming movie is likely to be placed on indefinite hold, if not cancelled outright, following GS/GSD head writer Chiaki Morosawa's death from an aortic dissection in February 2016.

• Tomohiro Matsu, the writer of and,, leaving two of his other works, Hatena Illusion and Elsa of the Mysterious Island unfinished. • Yuki Shinkiba, the author of, had to put the manga on hiatus in 2013 due to her bad health. She passed away in 2015, before she could retake it. • The author of, Daisuke Satou, passed away at age 52 due to ischemic heart disease, severely lowering its chances of returning from its extended hiatus. • The anime's director Tadao Nagahama died after producing 18 episodes, so took over for the remaining ones. • It is unknown what will happen to Bulma in after her seiyuu,, died in her car under mysterious circumstances, later revealed to involve heart problems, on November 16, 2017. •, a noted fanfiction author, committed suicide in 2014, leaving incomplete, including.

• Cody Scheetz, a prominent writer on the Deadfrontier forums, died in a gun accident halfway through writing the second novel of the Biohazard Nation series. In addition to the story never being resolved, plans to pitch the series for dead tree publication were abandoned since he'd expressed wishes not to publish until he'd had the chance to revamp his earlier writing. • A noted AU,, in the fandom, is a retelling of Aang's storyline in a 1920s 'verse. It was cut short just around the time the Earth King equivalent was introduced. The author, Lyralocke, died somewhat unexpectedly of heart problems. • Narrowly avoided in regards to Worldmaker, the author of.

Shortly after his last full chapter was published, the writer was involved in a near-fatal accident. He spent two weeks in a coma, and then spent further weeks learning to use his arms and legs again. Nearly two months after the accident, he finally posted a short note to his fans letting them know what happened and that, as soon as he has the time and energy, will be continuing his stories. • Ghost, the artist behind, passed away in 2013 due to an undisclosed illness. As if that wasn't sad enough, was the last thing she posted to her blog.

• Jim Bader, also known as Shadowmane, the author of fanfics such as (a - crossover where Shampoo is the one who opposes Lum in the tag game and ends up accidentally married to her) died on November 17th, 2014. While has posted his fanfictions onto their Fanfiction.Net account, they have no intention of continuing them.

Drivers License Number Format Ontario. • While nothing happened to the author, we do get a meta version; the fic Sister Directions was deleted after the death of Christina Grimmie, whom the author cast as main character Freya. What makes it worse was a new chapter was planned the same night of the singer's death. •: The story was left on right on a cliffhanger back in 2010, when the artist passed away. According to, she had passed of heart failure brought on by a cold. • The third volume of is unlikely to ever be finished, as the author announced that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer in February 2016 and then stopped updating. Apparently, he passed on in April that year. • written by Dale Carson, also known as 94saturn, remains unfinished due to Carson's death in mid-2009 following complications with diabetes.

• Author becuzitswrong - - -, passed away in 2016 note shortly after improvements to his health led him to invoke, leaving behind a handful of finished stories and a large body of well-reviewed unfinished works including and. • Jordan Williams, known as Loyal among the brony fandom, wrote the story, as well as its three sequels,, and, but was never able to complete them before he took his own life in mid-2017. • has said there cannot and will not be another movie without. Turns out, though, that this only meant 'with the original all-male cast', as an all-women reboot was announced, produced by Clooney and starring and. • died just before the shooting of was scheduled to begin, so the movie was directed by his assistant Takashi Koizumi. The Sea Is Watching, another screenplay Kurosawa had written and intended to direct, was also filmed by another director in 2002.

• Parodied in; the knights are saved from a cartoon monster by the (fictitious) death of the animator,. •: Because George Lucas hated the process of script-writing he went through on, he hired noted pulp science fiction author and Golden Age Hollywood film scriptwriter to write the script for, based on ideas they came up with together in story meetings beforehand. She produced a first draft script, but Lucas wasn't completely satisfied with it. Sadly, though, Brackett died of cancer before she could revise her draft. Lucas was forced to write the next few drafts of the Empire story himself, after which Lawrence Kasdan came on board to polish the dialogue.

(Incidentally, the passing of Brackett and Lucas's subsequent return to the drawing board was what led to the revelation; in Brackett's draft, Vader was not Luke's father, while Anakin was a Force ghost and best pals with Obi-Wan.) • With dying suddenly from a heart attack in December 2016, it's unknown what will be the future of her character Princess Leia following the release of. Disney has stated that Leia's part in TLJ won't be changed, nor would they use CGI to recreate her during Episode IX (despite her family expressly giving them permission to do so) like they did in (which was done with her approval). • A unique example would be actor. In 1980, he was co-writing a script for series for the first time, Romance of the Pink Panther, that he intended as a for his Inspector Clouseau character.

He submitted a revised draft of it to shortly before his death in 1980. It ultimately was never produced., the director and co-writer of most of the previous entries, decided to continue the series his own way (he was quite specifically not to have anything to do with Romance), writing out Clouseau and introducing character Clifton Sleigh over two films shot at the same time, (which featured clips of Sellers from the previous films) and.. • brought to the screen after 's passing on; in this case, though, Kubrick had had him in mind to direct (or at least produce) from the start. • Kubrick passed away just five days after showing his completed cut of to Warner Bros. The movie took a record 400 days to shoot. However, as its premiere wouldn't take place until four months later, who knows if the notorious wouldn't have wanted to work on it it a bit more.

Ultimately, made changes of its own before its release. • Kinji Fukasaku refused treatment in order to film 2, but died after directing only one scene. His son Kenta finished it. • Simultaneously and subverted in Bob Fosse's; a fictionalized account of Fosse's own life story, including a serious heart-attack which occurred during one of the most stressful periods of his career — while producing both the film Lenny and the Chicago stage musical simultaneously. A heart attack that he survived; but which his didn't. The question of whether the 'play within the film' would ever be completed is left hanging; although previous scenes strongly hinted that it would be simply scrapped. 'You could be the first show on Broadway to make a profit without really opening.'

• The Polish film Passenger ( Pasazerka) suffered AEF when director Andrzej Munk died suddenly in a road accident. The film is a series of flashbacks.

When Munk died, many of the scenes taking place in the present day were unshot. His assistant decided to use still images for these scenes.

• After, producer of the franchise Mustapha Akkad died, dashing hopes for the original series to continue. • The script for a third film (which would've served as an actual sequel to Addams Family Values) was being prepared when lead actor (Gomez) died suddenly that October of a stroke (after having been ill of stomach cancer for a while), at which point the idea of a third film in the series was scrapped.

• created choreographed fights for and had great plans for it, but one month after was finished came his untimely death. •, best known for the, attempted to repair his career following the abysmal disaster of (which has since been ) with a film based off the Nazi occupation of the Soviet city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg, Russia), but halfway through planning his heart disagreed with him. • Brandon Lee was killed during filming of. The film was retooled and the character's remaining scenes were filmed using,. Haliki, the man that gave us (1974) died while filming the Gone in Sixty Seconds 2, when and he was crushed by a telephone pole.

• Trinidad Silva died in an auto accident before he filmed all his scenes as Raul in, so the movie had to abort his subplot before the poodles got their revenge. The film is dedicated to him. • died two weeks into shooting on. Stepped in to finish directing the film; he had replaced Lubitsch as director of A Royal Scandal for similar but less fatal reasons.

• 2 has been postponed for the foreseeable future and will likely never be made after Tony Scott committed suicide in August 2012. There is some speculation that 's upcoming film based on (which was announced in April 2013) may be a of whatever has been drafted of the Top Gun 2 script.

• The future of.