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Died During Production

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Died During Production	comment	A fandom's worst nightmare: a creator dies before completing their work, leaving it orphaned. 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 their work can be continued by another author, or possibly even several. This may result in the series Jumping the Shark if the replacement isn't very good, 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 What Could Have Been. This can also happen with individuals who play a major role in creating a group work; for instance, 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 Franchise Zombie. Please note that this trope applies when a creator (writer, director, etc.) ceases work on a project, not a participant (actor) unless they had significant input, such as being a series regular or a key supporting cast member. 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 The Character Died with Him (where the show goes on without the character a dead actor portrayed), Actor Existence Limbo (where a character previously with a voice role does not have a voice in future episodes) or Fake Shemp (where there is an attempt to disguise the absent actor). Not to be confused with Death of the Author (a criticism trope), Apocalyptic Log or Creator Killer (where the author merely falls from grace and loses their reputation as a result of a failed work). See also Swan Song (when the production is the creator's very last creation), Fatal Method Acting (when this happens because of the production), and Posthumous Credit (when someone gets credited on a work after their death).
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Died During Production / int_1153f710	comment	The Gungan Council has had two confirmed deaths of writers: Skelosh Delaroch and Raven Darkness.
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Died During Production / int_14461185	comment	The director of The 08th MS Team, 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 Gundam production until Gundam Unicorn, except the long-running period for that has been planned from the start.
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Died During Production / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston died of cancer in 1947, and despite working under a pen name which he shared with Joye Murchison on the comic DC did not keep Murchison on as writer, and instead replaced him with Robert Kanigher who had a very different take on the Amazon princess and the rest of the cast, and placed everyone he didn't put on a bus in far more traditional gender roles.
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Died During Production / int_17a5d855	comment	And a decade and a half later, Umanosuke Iida, aka the guy who took over for Kanda... died while working on another series, Towa no Quon.
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Died During Production / int_18270023	comment	Abe Yates, who portrayed Fregley in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid fan-film "Freshman Year" died in December 2021, three months before the film was uploaded to YouTube. The film was dedicated in his memory.
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Died During Production / int_1ad4d09c	comment	In May 2015, American mathematician John Forbes Nash, whose life was dramatized in A Beautiful Mind, had told a friend that he was working on an equation that he believed could replace Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Sadly, Nash and his wife Alicia were killed in an auto accident a couple of days later as they were coming back from Norway, where he had gone to receive the Abel Prize.
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Died During Production / int_1b4b2f5c	comment	The author of Highschool of the Dead, Daisuke Sato, passed away at age 52 due to ischemic heart disease, severely lowering its chances of returning from its extended hiatus. Illustrator Shoji Sato maintains that, while not impossible, continuation has become more difficult in light of the former's passing.
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Died During Production / int_1cc09117	comment	Masaaki Tsukada, the voice actor for Shigekuni "Genryusai" Yamamoto from Bleach, passed away in 2014. Binbin Takaoka replaced him in Bleach: Brave Souls, and reprised this role for the 2022 anime adaptation of the Thousand-Year Blood War Arc.
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Died During Production / int_1cd8b4ca	comment	Albert Temple, aka Gene Catlow of Gene Catlow, was found dead of natural causes in his apartment on March 9, 2017. The comic is planned to be concluded based on his remaining notes.
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Died During Production / int_214c0680	comment	Tanabata Usagi, artist for several webcomics like Danger Zone One, Iguality, and My Inflatable Girlfriend, passed away in May of 2021 from COVID-19 complications. While she was only an artist-for-hire on Danger, the latter two comics, being personal projects of her own, will sadly remain unfinished.
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Died During Production / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: Gunter's Japanese voice actor Rokurō Naya passed away from cancer in November 2014, seven months before the Japanese release of Fire Emblem Fates. He did manage to record all of Gunter's lines before his death, and they were used accordingly. Billy Kametz died of stage IV colon cancer on June 9, 2022, fifteen days before the worldwide releases of Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, where he reprised his role as Ferdinand von Aegir, and AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative, where he played Tearer.
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Died During Production / int_2475f237	comment	Three Carry On... Series stars died during theatrical commitments. In 1976, Sid James was appearing in a revival of The Mating Season at the Sunderland Empire Theatre and suffered a heart attack on stage. His co-star Olga Lowe thought that he was joking at first when he wasn't saying his lines until she realised something was wrong. The audience, who thought it was all part of the show, laughed, especially when asked "Is There a Doctor in the House?". An ambulance took him away, but he was pronounced dead on arrival at Sunderland Royal Hospital. In 1979, Peter Butterworth was starring as Widow Twankey in a pantomime of Aladdin at the Coventry Theatre. When the show had finished, he went back to his hotel following the evening's performance. His failure to return for the following day's matinee show caused alarm, and he was found dead in his room from a heart attack. In 1993, Bernard Bresslaw was to play Grumio in the New Shakespeare Company's production of The Taming of the Shrew when he collapsed and died of a heart attack in his dressing room.
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Died During Production / int_247d03ac	comment	Inside Out 2 suffered from this with its Japanese dub. Yuko Takeuchi, who voiced Joy, committed suicide in 2020, leading to Ami Koshimizu replacing her.
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Died During Production / int_25124728	comment	Jason Raize committed suicide just months after the movie Brother Bear was released, making this his only theatrical movie appearance, as the voice of Denahi. Because of this, Denahi noticeably doesn't return in the movie's sequel, not even during Kenai and Nita's wedding.
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Died During Production / int_28ccdd97	comment	Fellow comic book author Edgar P. Jacobs died while working on the second part of "Professor SatÃ³'s Three Formulae", the last volume of his Blake and Mortimer series. Unlike HergÃ©, however, he had left plenty of notes and a complete outline of the story, which made it possible for another artist, Bob de Moor, to complete the story three years after Jacobs' deathnote The first part was published in 1977, the second completed in 1990; Jacobs died in 1987.. Because he suspected he wouldn't finish "Three Formulae", Jacobs left the copyright of the series relatively open so it would eventually have an ending, (leading to Olrik being Killed Off for Real). Which worked, but also led to new Blake and Mortimer adventures made by two different writer/artist teams. One team actively tries to ignore established canon. The other team was very good... but one of its members, RenÃ© Sterne, died while working on the first volume of the dyptich The Curse of the Thirty Denarii. The volume was eventually finished by Sterne's girlfriend, Chantal de Spiegeleer, and the second part made by another artist.
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Died During Production / int_2a216010	comment	In early December of 2016, Bryan Spiegler, creator of Middleways died of a heart attack. His wife has claimed the story will continue, but she does not have access to all his art and notes.
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Died During Production / int_2a6aae36	comment	Goscinny's death also happened while the production of Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons was in the finishing stages. It caused the doom of his animation studio Studios IdÃ©fix, which only produced this film and The Twelve Tasks of Asterix prior to it.
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Died During Production / int_2a8943c0	comment	The Miraculous Ladybug fic author Maerynn died in a car accident in February 2018, leaving a number of fics incomplete. However, they were mostly collaborations, and as of November 2018, one of them, Under Lock and Key , was completed by the other author based on her notes.
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Died During Production / int_2c3cd68a	comment	Within the same issue of an X-Wing Rogue Squadron comic, there is a sudden Art Shift. The reason for the abrupt shift into a fairly unpleasant style is that the artist, Edvin Biukovic, had to quit due to health problems, which he later died from.
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Died During Production / int_2cfe43cb	comment	Adventures in Odyssey: Will Ryan, who played several characters in this radio show, most notably Eugene Meltsner, lost his battle with cancer on November 19, 2021. In 2023; the entire Meltsner family (Eugene, Katrina and recently-adopted son Buck) were Put on a Bus to Baltimore; with new lines recorded by Townsend Colemannote normally the voice of Jason Whitaker; though he and Will Ryan knew each other dating back to their days working in radio in Cleveland during the 1970s while Focus on the Family ended up using voice cloning software to match Coleman's voice sound more like Ryan's portrayal.
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Died During Production / int_2e0dbc6d	comment	The original Japanese version of Shimajiro: A Wonderful Adventure had this occur twice during its run: The voice of Michiyo Sorano went from Sayuri Yamauchi to Hiroko Nishi after the former's death from cancer in 2012. Nyakki's voice actress, Saori Sugimoto, passed away on October 21, 2021, due to heart failure caused by anorexia.
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Died During Production / int_2f8f16ed	comment	Eddie Guerrero, having become a born-again Christian and cleaned up from his pill-popping days, was set to participate in the upcoming RAW vs. SmackDown Survivor Series match and — according to Stephanie McMahon, who may have been emotionally compromised at the time — win the World Heavyweight Championship. Unfortunately, the weekend after he qualified for the aforementioned Survivor Series match, Eddie (a sufferer of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease) died unexpectedly of a heart attack at the age of 38. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease was also the cause of Brian Pillman's death on the morning of the Bad Blood PPV in 1997, where he was to face off against Goldust. Pillman was 35.
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Died During Production / int_30ad4e9	comment	The death of John Latouche while working on the musical Candide with Leonard Bernstein is one major reason the show ended up having so many lyricists. Bernstein himself, librettist Lillian Hellman, and Dorothy Parker all contributed a little, but finally, Richard Wilbur became the principal lyricist and rewrote many of the Latouche songs.
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Died During Production / int_322c3c6a	comment	Despera went to Development Hell 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.
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Died During Production / int_367f632a	comment	The death of lead developer Brian Wood of Relic may leave the fate of Dawn of War in limbo as well as the company itself.
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Died During Production / int_36d154a	comment	Long-running MMO DC Universe Online brought back legendary voice actor Kevin Conroy to reprise the role of Batman, and he continued to play the part in various additional campaigns added to the game, up until he died from cancer in November 2022. He also reprised the role in Multi Versus, which released a few months before his death, and posthumously for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, a game set in the Batman: Arkham Series, prior to his death, with the World Premiere trailer including a dedication to Conroy. Mark Hamill retired as the Joker, Batman's iconic Arch-Enemy, in response to Kevin Conroy's death.
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Died During Production / int_36f0e706	comment	Angel "Inqy" Yates of Wicked Alchemy wrote on her LiveJournal about her declining health not long before her sudden death in the summer of 2009. In addition to the webcomic, she also had a slice-of-life comic strip, Onna Chance, and a pirate avatar game. Sadly, Onna Chance and her original site Mutedfaith are both down, more than a year after her death.
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Died During Production / int_3790ae45	comment	Palmer, the lead developer of Double Homework, passed away before the final chapter was completed. The rest of the team finished the story.
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Died During Production / int_3953baf0	comment	Eight months before the release of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mary Wickes died as the result of battling four different health conditions. Her character Laverne's final lines were recorded by Jane Withers.
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Died During Production / int_3e173dfa	comment	Bob Kingsley of Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40 announced his retirement in October 2019 and died only three days later, leading to a rotation of guest hosts before Fitz became his successor.
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Died During Production / int_3e8c09b9	comment	In April 2017, a stage adaptation of Attack on Titan had to be scrubbed after an acrobat who was a key part of the staff died in a freak accident.
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Died During Production / int_3f4c0009	comment	Bil Keane of The Family Circus died of heart failure in 2011. His son Jeff Keane is continuing it, having assisted Bil with it in his final years.
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Died During Production / int_42cfcd5d	comment	Lisa Michaelson, the voice of Satsuki in the original Streamline dub of My Neighbor Totoro, died in a car crash three years before the dub saw a theatrical release.
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Died During Production / int_43e4ba78	comment	The story of Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages was too complex to be able to fit into a single 90's era game, and it shows in the final product with the rushed last act, and while it technically had three endings, it was clear that there was still more to the story that needed fleshing out. The game's creator, Harry Horse (birth name Richard Horne), considered making a sequel called "CULT" that would have tied everything up, but the difficulty he had with making the first game combined with the real cult violence happening around the same time during the '90s made him reluctant to revisit that subject matter again. However, he claimed in the mid-2000s that Rockstar Games approached him about the possibility of making a sequel, but the controversial deaths of himself and his wife Amanda in 2007 have ensured that will never happen.
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Died During Production / int_449cae87	comment	In 2014, Focus on the Family sought to put on a radio production of Pinocchio, and thought it would be an excellent idea to bring Dick Jones, who voiced the title character in the 1940 Disney version, out of retirement — this time to voice Geppetto. When contacted, Jones, despite having been retired for decades, was enthusiastic about the idea. Unfortunately, their follow-up call just a few weeks later revealed that Jones had passed during the intervening period.
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Died During Production / int_46518682	comment	Sesame Street: Ever-so-narrowly averted by Jim Henson: while he filmed his last segments for Sesame Street a year before his passing, he had many other projects that never got off the ground (or took a long time in doing so) after he died in 1990, most notably the selling of the Muppet characters to Disney, which wouldn't go through until 2004. Puppeteer Steve Whitmire took over as Kermit almost immediately and — after the character spent three years as The Voiceless — began performing Ernie as well in 1993. Henson's passing also ended plans for a "Pig of the '90s" multi-media campaign that would've used a storyline about Miss Piggy breaking up with Kermit as a way to drum up interest about all the other planned Muppet projects going on at the same time. Also averted with Jerry Nelson, who passed in 2012. Due to his fading health, his Muppet involvement had mostly been reduced to voicing his characters on Sesame Street, with other puppeteers having taken over the majority of his characters prior to his death. Afterwards, Matt Vogel took over the characters that Jerry was still voicing, including the Count. Unfortunately played straight with Richard Hunt, whose 1992 passing resulted in many of his characters (including most, if not all, of his Sesame Street characters) being retired or reduced to bit parts for many years. For a specific example, Natalie Cole was set to appear on the show singing her cover of "Unforgettable" alongside Hunt's character Forgetful Jones, but the original taping date had to be rescheduled, and in between the original date and the planned rescheduled date, Hunt passed away. Another aversion was Caroll Spinney, who retired a year before his death, though several segments he recorded would not air until afterwardsnote however, the last episode he was involved in had his vocals dubbed over by Matt Vogel, possibly because Spinney's age was very much showing through his voice at that point. The first new episode to air after his passing featured an In Memoriam tag at the end that said, "Thank you for bringing so much life to Big Bird and Oscar. We'll miss you, Caroll." This trope almost happened to Spinney 33 years before his actual death. In 1986, he was invited to go on the ill-fated Challenger mission as a civilian passenger. However, he rejected the offer, and social studies teacher Christa McAuliffe was chosen instead. Joe Raposo, one of the show's most famous songwriters, died on February 5, 1989, of lymphoma. New songs that he had written for this show appeared until 1990, with one nabbing him a posthumous Emmy. Raposo also wrote several songs for Shining Time Station, including its theme song; that show aired its second episode on the day he died. He only wrote songs for the first season, with Margaret Jones writing songs that appeared later in the show's run. Perhaps the most famous example of this trope was Will Lee, who played Mr. Hooper during the show's first decade on the air. He was ill with cancer during his later years on the show and passed away from it in 1982. The cast decided to make an episode in response to his death, which became one of Sesame Street's signature moments. Jeff Moss died of cancer in 1998; he wrote his last song, "You and You and Me", the day of his death. The song was filmed in January 1999. Several other songs written by Moss, some of them written years before his passing, were also later taped posthumously (such as "Pigeons, Cookies, and Trash"). Michael Jeter, who played Mr. Noodle's brother, suffered a fatal seizure in 2003, while the Elmo's World segments were still in production. The character would not return to the segments until 2017, when Elmo's World itself was rebooted. There was a discussion about bringing Alaina Reed back to play Olivia in the mid-'00s, but the plans fell through, and Reed would pass away from cancer in 2009. Subverted with Northern Calloway as David; while Calloway himself passed away in 1990, he had already been forced to retire from the role following a series of increasingly erratic misbehavior on-set, and following his passing, David was unceremoniously removed from the series.
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Died During Production / int_46bb4aa8	comment	Jucika's creator PÃ¡l Pusztai died of heart failure a day after his magazine had published what turned out to be his last comic, in September 1970. A poetry collection about the comic also went unreleased out of respect — at least until someone finally published it in 2009.
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Died During Production / int_47a76e65	comment	OrionPax09, known for his series of fanfics in the Superwomen of Eva series, was reported to have passed away in June 2022 following a long, undisclosed illness. His death left many works in the series unfinished. Downplayed when it was later confirmed by a private email that he was alive but had retired from the internet due to a severe mental breakdown.
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Died During Production / int_4965fb90	comment	In 2016, Incredibles 2 was announced, with the film later being released in 2018. But Elizabeth PeÃ±a, who played Mirage in the first film, passed away in 2014. Mirage does not return in any form in the sequel as a result.
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Died During Production / int_49a88442	comment	Sian Blake voiced the character Yugiri in the English version of Final Fantasy XIV during the A Realm Reborn and Heavensward chapters. Tragically, Blake was murdered while Heavensward and its future patch content were still in development, which caused the developers to temporarily write out the character and not give her any lines for the scenes where she did appear. Once Blake's murder case was fully resolved in court, she was replaced by Eleanor Matsuura.
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Died During Production / int_4bcdb0e6	comment	Krazy Kat was created during an era when cartoonists had virtually no creative control over their work. So when creator George Herriman died during the comic's run, it was expected that the strip would be passed to a new artist by the newspaper. But in a then-unprecedented move, the publisher ended the strip with Herriman's death. It turned out that they had tried to find a replacement in the event of the author's passing, but they could never find a cartoonist who could replicate Herriman's one-of-a-kind style.
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Died During Production / int_4e588869	comment	The author of the online short story Gamer died after only updating it twice. One of his friends worked on a video game continuation on and off for four years, and finally completed it in 2017.
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Died During Production / int_50a9ace1	comment	Elzie Segar wrote and drew Thimble Theater, which you know as Popeye, along with his other strip Sappo, until near the end of his life in 1938. He'd started giving the work to assistants but still handled the storylines. He was drafting a comeback for the wildly popular Sea Hag when leukemia complicated by liver failure caught up with him and killed him. He was 46.
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Died During Production / int_53d952c8	comment	Reggie Groover, AKA Otaku D Furiku, suddenly died in January of 2023 from a fatal seizure followed by cardiac arrest during the production of Dragonball Gohanverse season 2. As a result, Daitomodachi had to rewrite the second half of the season to remove his character Slick Goku and the rest of Universe 2GS from the story.
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Died During Production / int_577107ce	comment	BenoÃ®t Sokal, the creator and director of the Syberia series, died midway through production of the newest installment, Syberia: The World Before. While the game is still set for release, the future of the series is in doubt.
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Died During Production / int_57ad0c07	comment	Noboru Sugimura, the head story writer for Capcom's Resident Evil franchise from Resident Evil 2, died from a heart-related condition in 2005 after several attempts to write a sequel to Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica failed. To honour his work on the series, Capcom's writing team decided to leave the story on a cliffhanger and not refer to groups like H.C.F., which were entirely his creation. The cliffhanger, which saw Wesker assemble an army intent on destroying Umbrella and selling its assets to terrorists, was somewhat resolved in Wesker's favour in Resident Evil 5, though the circumstances themselves were left vague.
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Died During Production / int_583d2746	comment	Mia Ikumi died while Tokyo Mew Mew New was being produced for a July 2022 release.
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Died During Production / int_5936f6eb	comment	The creator of Coffee Talk, Mohammad Fahmi, died on March 27th, 2022, from asthma complications. This is one of the major reasons the sequel's release was pushed back from 2022 to 2023. The credits of Episode 2 has an In Memoriam dedication to him.
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Died During Production / int_5a79ecef	comment	Barely avoided by Brian Goldner, who died three weeks after My Little Pony: A New Generation was released. He was the executive producer for that film.
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Died During Production / int_5ae0bec6	comment	WWE superstar Michael "Hawk" Hegstrand appeared with his partner Joe "Animal" Laurinatis on the May 17, 2003 WWE Raw and despite his history of severe drug and alcohol abuse, performed exceptionally well, as he had finally gotten completely clean. According to those who knew him, Hegstrand had dedicated himself to staying drug-free for the rest of his life; unfortunately, his years of drug abuse had taken such a physical toll on his body that he died of a heart attack six months later. He, unlike many drug addicts and alcoholics, managed to live up to hope — he remained clean for the rest of his life.
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Died During Production / int_5c897f4a	comment	It's a common joke among the Schlock Mercenary fandom that no one will notice when Howard Tayler dies, due to his perfect update schedule.note The comic has gone its entire nearly 14-year run with new strips every day. Once, the day's strip was late by several hours. Because the server's power supply had exploded with enough force to destroy three walls. At the end of the universe, there will be a few scattered neutrinos, some clumps of exotic matter, and Schlock Mercenary, still updating every 24 hours without fail.
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Died During Production / int_65268dd1	comment	Schaffrillas Productions was a collaboration between brothers James and Patrick Phyrillas, and Chris Schaffer. While James did the majority of the reviews on the channel, Chris and James did a series of reviews of terrible, low-effort mockbusters. Chris, Patrick, and James also frequently did a separate channel called "ShinyCast" (along with several others). On January 29th, 2023, the three men were driving together, and went through an intersection under construction. At the same time, a Tractor Trailer also went through the intersection[1]. The end result was the death of both Patrick Phyrillas, and Chris Schaffer. The Schaffrillas youtube channel was put on hiatus with no certainty of when it would return, with James eventually returning to posting content as he felt neither his friend nor brother would want the channel to die. He also did one final mockbuster review of What's Up? Balloon to the Rescue as a final tribute to Chris, officially ending that series of reviews, but was determined to continue making analysis videos and keep the name "Schaffrillas" alive.
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Died During Production / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In 1995, Nigel Findley, game designer and novelist who wrote for Dungeons & Dragons, Shadowrun, and other RPGs, died suddenly of a heart attack at age 35. His work introduced many key metaplot elements (e.g. bug spirits) to the Shadowrun game setting, which later authors expanded upon.
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Died During Production / int_6c47db4e	comment	Tragedy struck for the Dynasty Warriors franchise when Tsuyoshi Takishita, the 37-year-old voice actor who'd famously voiced the character Sima Yi for every installment — seven main games plus side games, spanning over a decade — succumbed to injuries from a bad fall on his way home less than two weeks after the release of Shinsangokumusou 7 (Dynasty Warriors 8). He was replaced by Ryōtarō Okiayu for future installments.
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Died During Production / int_6e657b27	comment	Chris Benoit. His death was just as tragic as his best friend Eddie's, for all the wrong reasons. If he hadn't died, he would've won the ECW Championship and worked a program with CM Punk.
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Died During Production / int_6eeae06c	comment	Momoko Sakura, the creator of Chibi Maruko-chan, died of breast cancer in August 2018 while the anime adaptation of said manga was still on the air. But unlike the Shin-chan and Sazae-san examples, Momoko had little involvement in the anime after 1996 (which was when the original manga ended although it was brought back four times, in February 2003, in April 2009, in December 2018 and in October 2022, with the last two issues been published after her death, and the last one are done by her assistants) only returning to the show to write three Milestone Celebration episodes. *These were "The Day I Was Born", the show's 1,000th episode that aired in 2012, and "Maruko Sings A Song In The Bath" and "I Love Tama-Chan", the episodes that aired on the day of the show's 25th anniversary in 2015.
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Died During Production / int_710d4269	comment	Daisuke Jinbo, the sound effects editor for both the original anime and PokÃ©mon Horizons: The Series passed away in July of 2023 as confirmed in these tweets by a couple of industry people who had worked with him in the past, leaving fellow ex-Swara Pro employee Kenji Koyama note who had been assisting Jinbo since episode 253 of the original anime to fully take over Jinbo's position as the series' sound effects editor. That said, Jinbo's still credited in current episodes along with Koyama likely out of respect for his contributions.
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Died During Production / int_7385bc4d	comment	The Doraemon anime suffered from this when both people behind Fujiko A. Fujio died in 1996 and 2022, respectively.
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Died During Production / int_75bd5686	comment	Raposo also wrote several songs for Shining Time Station, including its theme song; that show aired its second episode on the day he died. He only wrote songs for the first season, with Margaret Jones writing songs that appeared later in the show's run.
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Died During Production / int_767bd4d8	comment	Cerebus the Aardvark: Although Dave Sim did not die while making Cerebus, he had "planned ahead" (using this term very loosely) in case this happened. He had mentioned in interviews that, if he DID die before completing the series, the series would continue all the way to issue 300, but all subsequent issues would only have the background art (by Sim's colleague Gerhard). There would be no characters or text/narrative of any kind.
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Died During Production / int_7849f0c1	comment	Ken Ishikawa, the creator of Getter Robo. Though he did leave some notes behind, they were apparently only for Getter Robo Hien — a prequel. The cliffhanger ending of Getter Robo Ä€á¸¥, the latest series chronologically, has yet to be resolved.
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Died During Production / int_78c969c4	comment	GyÃ¶rgy KovÃ¡sznai, director of Foam Bath, died in 1983 while working on a proposed Franco-Hungarian adaptation of Candide. He actually refused treatment for his illness and escaped from his hospital bed to go back to making art. Fans of KovÃ¡sznai later picked up the unmade project and released their own animated version of Candide in 2018, though it had little to do with the original idea outside of featuring Deranged Animation. It was a series rather than a movie and produced without French involvement.
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Died During Production / int_791e7b7f	comment	On July 20, 2023, furry artist and fanfiction writer Alps Sarsis passed away, leaving his extensive, long-running Zootopia fanfic Guardian Blue unfinished.
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Died During Production / int_797793b1	comment	Shaman King: While the Latin American dub of the 2021 reboot brings back a lot of the 2001 anime's voice cast, actress Monica VillaseÃ±or fell ill before she could fully reprise her role as Hao Asakura and could only voice him as a baby during the opening flashback. Eventually she passed away and the role was given to Ivan Bastidas.
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Died During Production / int_7c48915b	comment	Tom Siddell, of Gunnerkrigg Court, has joked that due to his strip buffer, if he were to keel over and die this instant, we'd still get about three months' worth of strips.
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Died During Production / int_7db5e90f	comment	Goscinny died while an album from his other major series, Lucky Luke, was in the publication stages, that being 1977's The Singing Wire. Other writers replaced him, with varying results.
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Died During Production / int_7e1563ba	comment	In 2000, "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song. As per Oscars tradition, the song was to be performed by its original performer, Mary Kay Bergman, but she committed suicide four months before the ceremony, so her close friend Robin Williams performed it instead.
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Died During Production / int_7f88571c	comment	The Mobile Suit Gundam SEED movie was placed on indefinite hold, heavily believed to be cancelled outright, following GS/GSD head writer Chiaki Morosawa's death from an aortic dissection in February 2016. It was announced to be back in production in 2021 by her surviving husband Mitsuo Fukuda after his late wife's script was completed by new contributors and himself (basing it on the hundred drafts she went through while initially planning the movie).
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Died During Production / int_8954c942	comment	Takao Saito, creator of Golgo 13, the world's longest-running manga still in production, died of pancreatic cancer on September 24, 2021. Similar to how Yasuo Yamada passed on his role as Lupin III, Saito specified in his will that production continues under a company he formed for the purpose, Saito Productions.
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Died During Production / int_89726260	comment	Gaston Lagaffe ended after AndrÃ© Franquin's death in 1997.
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Died During Production / int_8d31a0ac	comment	Florian Husky, the creator of Super Mario War and one of the founders of 72dpiarmy, died of suicide before progress of the game was ever finalized. While others working on the project tried their best to keep it alive, development has officially ceased, with only a single bug release update left that has yet to show.
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Died During Production / int_8d7f29ec	comment	While nothing happened to the author, we do get a meta version; the Glee fic Sister Directions was deleted after the death of Christina Grimmie, whom the author had cast as main character Freya. To make matters worse, a new chapter had been scheduled for the same night the singer was murdered.
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Died During Production / int_8e8a801	comment	The Lion King: Sarabi's voice actress, Madge Sinclair, lost her battle with leukemia a year after the film's release. This resulted in her not being seen on-screen in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. Alfre Woodard voiced her in the live-action remake. Robert Guillaume (voice of Rafiki) died two years before the remake was released and two years after The Lion Guard came out. John Kani replaced him in the former and Khary Payton replaced him in the latter. This might also affect the aforementioned reboot of Timon and Pumbaa, as he had his own segment on the show.
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Died During Production / int_909860d7	comment	Keiko Tobe, the mangaka of With the Light, died of an unspecified illness in late January 2010, leaving the manga unfinished.
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Died During Production / int_92a85363	comment	Phil Stone co-created the Roy D. Mercer prank call character for his morning radio show on KMOD-FM in Tulsa, and the character was voiced by his co-host Brent Douglas. For nearly 15 years, they released many of the Roy D. Mercer calls on CD as well. One month after the show ended in 2012, Stone died of heart disease.
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Died During Production / int_938e19ec	comment	Fraggle Rock: Doc's counterpart "The Captain" in the UK adaptation of the show was only featured in the first two seasons of the show because of Fulton MacKay's unfortunate death. The Captain's nephew, P.K. ("Principal Keeper"), took over the lighthouse in season 3 as a result. The series received a surprise short-form revival in 2020 called Fraggle Rock: Rock On! for Apple TV+. However, Gerard Parkes, who played Doc, died in 2014, so he doesn't appear in the series proper. Shortly thereafter, an actual new Fraggle series was announced for the same platform, so it remains to be seen how this new series will address Parkes' passing. Subverted at least in regards to Jerry Nelson's character Gobo, who had already been passed on to John Tartaglia several years prior to his death. Less certain is how it would affect Nelson's other characters on the show (including Pa Gorg and Marjory the Trash Heap), as well as characters played by Richard Hunt (most notably Junior Gorg and many minor characters) and Jim Henson (Cantus the Minstrel and Convincing John).
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Died During Production / int_955b43a6	comment	Philip D. Garcia, who wore Binyah Binyah's costume in the show Gullah Gullah Island, was killed in a car crash in January 1997, before production on the fourth and final season, as well as the short-lived spinoff Binyah Binyah!, began. Justin Campbell took over the role as a result.
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Died During Production / int_96f39607	comment	Jeanne S. Chall, one of the curriculum consultants on Between the Lions, died on November 27, 1999, five months before the series premiered.
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Died During Production / int_987ae287	comment	The character Doc Hudson was completely absent in Cars 2 out of respect for his voice actor Paul Newman, who passed away from lung cancer in 2008. This didn't stop Paul from posthumously reprising his role in Cars 3 via archival dialogue that was recorded during production of the first film.
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Died During Production / int_9a67b688	comment	Masakazu Yokoyama, the original sound effects editor of Case Closed passed away on 3 March 2020 with episode 974 being his last credited episode, and as of episode 975, Yokoyama's former colleague from his days at E&M, Takahisa Ishino of Chura Sound took over his position as show's sound effects editor along with Yokoyama's daughter, Aki, who had been assisting her father since episode 345.
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Died During Production / int_9edf7c1d	comment	Mike Wierningo died working on an issue of What If? featuring the Fantastic Four, having only drawn seven pages. It was finished by a group of different artists doing a couple of pages each and published a year later, with the proceeds going to charity. Additionally, before he died, he was in the planning stages of a collaboration with Warren Ellis. Ellis refuses to reveal any hints as to what the project was even about.
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Died During Production / int_9f8b219c	comment	The third volume of The Queen Who Fell To Earth 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 of that year. Another author, viningc, later posted an authorized final chapter for it on his own account and then a sequel set on Pern.
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Died During Production / int_a60e69d0	comment	In a similar spirit, the Japanese dub of the Disney 100th anniversary short Once Upon a Studio was pushed back two months, partly because the 2021 suicide of Anna's previous dub actress Sayaka Kanda required them to need extra time to find another actress. Risa Shimizu got the part, and the short was released in Japan in December 2023 along with the Japanese dub of Wish.
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Died During Production / int_a7921e74	comment	Fluttering Feelings was cut short because of the artist's cancer diagnosis in 2016. In 2018 she passed away.
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Died During Production / int_a7e3674	comment	Ojarumaru creator Rin Inumaru tragically took her own life by jumping off the 14th floor of her apartment in September 2006, likely due to the severe stress she was under at the time. Ojarumaru itself has Outlived Its Creator and is still running as of 2021.
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Died During Production / int_a9d9d1f1	comment	The Rose of Versailles anime's director Tadao Nagahama died after producing 18 episodes, so Osamu Dezaki took over for the remaining ones.
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Died During Production / int_b18ca9e5	comment	You Can With Beakman and Jax, the inspiration for Beakman's World, ended its run after Jok Church died of a heart attack.
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Died During Production / int_b2ac2311	comment	The newspaper comic Peanuts narrowly averted this. Charles M. Schulz died the day before the final Sunday strip was published; he was aware of his failing health and had planned to conclude the strip precisely where it actually ended.
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Died During Production / int_b2c6817c	comment	This happened twice to Sazae-san: first in 1992 when the creator Machiko Hasegawa died and again with Ichirō Nagai, the voice actor for Namihei. While the show continued without Machiko, Namihei is now voiced by Chafurin.
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Died During Production / int_b310c8f4	comment	Brice Armstrong, who played Miss Etta in Barney & Friends, died in January 2020 of natural causes, while a Continuity Reboot, as well as another movie, were still in development. It is unknown if she and fellow puppet character Scooter will be in either of these productions due to this or if they'll appear with new voices, as the original show had an odd tendency to replace the characters who aren't Barney and the other three dinosaurs (Baby Bop, B.J. and Riff) every few years due to the Fleeting Demographic Rule.
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Died During Production / int_b4816c2e	comment	The Legacy of Kain series was supposed to have one more game to tie up all the loose ends. However, the departure of series writer Amy Hennig for uncharted waters and the death of Tony Jay, one of the major voice actors, means that the series is now in limbo. Not only did Hennig leave, but two of the other main writers (out of a group of four, with Hennig being the lead and most well-known) also left the company as well. The fourth? He passed away.
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Died During Production / int_b637553	comment	Sarabi's voice actress, Madge Sinclair, lost her battle with leukemia a year after the film's release. This resulted in her not being seen on-screen in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. Alfre Woodard voiced her in the live-action remake.
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Died During Production / int_b797aae4	comment	Shindere Shoujo to Kodoku na Shinigami began in 2011, but went on an indefinite hiatus in 2013 due to its writer Masaki Himura's poor health. Himura passed away in 2015 before the manga could be properly finished; she was also in the middle of writing another work, Nyuuin Note, before she died.
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Died During Production / int_b7c37594	comment	Several animators, including Yasuhiro Takemoto, the director of the anime adaptation of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid were murdered in a 2019 massacre and arson targeted at their production company, Kyoto Animation, leaving an announced second season unfinished. This also impacted an anime adaptation of light novel 20 Seiki Denki Mokuroku, a new movie based on Free! and the second Violet Evergarden movie. Of these, Violet Evergarden was able to be completed by a different team, but wound up being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down theaters. The second season of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid was eventually released in 2021, with Tatsuya Ishihara taking over as director. Finally, the Free! movie was delayed, but it managed to be released in two parts from 2021 to 2022.
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Died During Production / int_b854e655	comment	Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure: Originally, Sora's father Shido was voiced by Yasumichi Kushida, but he died before episode 15 aired, so Takanori Hoshino took on the role from episode 23 onwards.
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Died During Production / int_c0d295c4	comment	Though Team Fortress 2 could not be said to be in ongoing development, it does still receive occasional cosmetic and seasonal updates. As such, the passing of voice actor Rick May in 2020 due to complications from COVID and a prior stroke leaves the beloved nutjob Soldier voiceless. Soldier had previously been one of the most regularly voiced characters alongside Scout, with hundreds of voice lines due to May's willingness to return and voice the role.
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Died During Production / int_c2b94f57	comment	TimberWolf, Chuck Jones's final creation, was cut short after his death in 2002.
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Died During Production / int_c410034a	comment	The planned sequel to Blasto was cancelled due to the aforementioned Phil Hartman's murder two months after the first game's release.
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Died During Production / int_c4282b71	comment	MythrilMoth, author of many, many fics for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Miraculous Ladybug and a number of other series, passed away in his sleep due to health complications on May 6, 2019. His friend Zef has since announced that he himself will be finishing MythrilMoth's story Persona EG, and that the other stories are open to adoption, but any continuation will require his personal approval.
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Died During Production / int_c583c2cc	comment	The original version of A Glass of Wine by Dale Carson, also known as 94saturn, remains unfinished due to Carson's death in mid-2009 following complications with diabetes.
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Died During Production / int_c6b738c4	comment	2 time Ring of Honor world champion and 13 time ROH tag team champion with his brother Mark, Jay Briscoe (real name Jamin Pugh) was killed in a car accident on January 17, 2023, a little over a month before ROH was relaunched as an AEW sub-promotion, in which Jay and Mark were slated to be top guys. He was 38 years old.
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Died During Production / int_c9fea0c4	comment	Barefoot Gen was discontinued in 2009 due to author Keiji Nakazawa developing cataracts and vision problems, and he died of cancer just three years later.
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Died During Production / int_cf5c0f55	comment	Yoshitaka Murayama, creator of the Suikoden series and lead writer for Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, passed away on February 6, 2024, more than two months before the latter's release. Fortunately, his work was done before he passed on.
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Died During Production / int_cfbea3ba	comment	When Kenneth Horne died suddenly in 1969, the fifth series of Round the Horne was cancelled, the scripts being adapted into a Kenneth Williams vehicle called Stop Messing About. Horne had a heart attack at the podium of an awards dinner on 14 February, and the first episode had been planned for 16 March.
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Died During Production / int_d2b60e7a	comment	Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease was also the cause of Brian Pillman's death on the morning of the Bad Blood PPV in 1997, where he was to face off against Goldust. Pillman was 35.
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Died During Production / int_d2d729b6	comment	Eddsworld creator Edd Gould died after a long fight with cancer on March 25th, 2012. However, his friends are continuing the series.
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Died During Production / int_d2e4bb5b	comment	After Lost in the Stars, Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill began work on a musical adaptation of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Weill died, and the project was aborted, leaving behind five songs.
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Died During Production / int_d3ec742	comment	Similarly, after B.C. and The Wizard of Id creator Johnny Hart died in 2007, both of his strips went to his grandson, Mason Mastroianni.
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Died During Production / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: In the original Japanese version, Giovanni's seiyuu (Hirotaka Suzuoki) died during Battle Frontier. He was replaced by Kenta Miyake. Unshō Ishizuka, who voiced Professor Oak and the narrator in Japanese, and who had a few voices for Pokemon retained in the English dubnote Kingler, Gyarados, Onix / Steelix, etc, passed away from esophageal cancer in 2018. He was replaced by Kenyū Horiuchi for Oak and the narrator, while his audio tracks for the Pokemon remained in use throughout the series, though those he only recently started voicing (like Kiawe's Charizard) were recast to other actors. His original narration for PokÃ©mon: The First Movie was also retained in its remake Mewtwo Strikes Backâ€”Evolution. In the German dub, Ash's second voice actress, Veronika Neugebauer, died after season 11. Caroline Combrinck, the voice of Ash in the first three seasons, returned to the role until she was replaced by Felix Mayer in Sun & Moon. In the Latin Spanish dub, Jessie's voice actress, Diana PÃ©rez, who'd voiced her from the very beginning of the anime, died after season 1 of Journeys. She was replaced by Rebeca Gomez. In the English dub, Ren and Inteleon's voice actor, Billy Kametz, died during the dubbing of PokÃ©mon Journeys: The Series. He was succeeded by Barrett Leddy, and Billy's final recorded episode — fittingly, Ren's focus episode — had an In Memoriam dedication. Daisuke Jinbo, the sound effects editor for both the original anime and PokÃ©mon Horizons: The Series passed away in July of 2023 as confirmed in these tweets by a couple of industry people who had worked with him in the past, leaving fellow ex-Swara Pro employee Kenji Koyama note who had been assisting Jinbo since episode 253 of the original anime to fully take over Jinbo's position as the series' sound effects editor. That said, Jinbo's still credited in current episodes along with Koyama likely out of respect for his contributions.
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Died During Production / int_d616724d	comment	In League of Legends, the original voice actor for the character of Nasus, Eugene McDaniels, passed away in 2011. The announcement in 2013 that the character would receive a visual upgradenote Where a character's model, animations, artwork, and/or voiceovers change in order to maintain a high standard of quality across all champions was met with some backlash due to the plans to recast the actor of a now-beloved voiceover, but thankfully his replacement, Jonathan Adams, proved himself to be a worthy successor for the character.
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Died During Production / int_da9706e5	comment	The future of Sugar Bits remains to be seen since the passing of the comic's writer Dondi "DMajorBoss" Bethea, who lost his life to cancer on May 6th, 2013.
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Died During Production / int_dc8622eb	comment	Ric Hochet: Co-creator Tibet passed away in 2010. Similar to Tintin and Alph-Art, the album has been released in an incomplete state. DuchÃ¢teau is still around, but a reboot entitled The New Adventures of Ric Hochet was made in 2015 with new writers.
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Died During Production / int_dc98c64c	comment	According to Jim Ross on his "Grilling JR" podcast, there were plans in motion to bring back Umaga — who had been released from WWE in June of 2009 for refusing to attend rehab after a second wellness policy violation — into WWE for the 2010 Royal Rumble. Umaga would die in December of 2009 from a couple of heart attacks brought on by a combination of drugs in his system.
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Died During Production / int_e31a4abd	comment	Every so often, Megatokyo's Fred Gallagher will poke fun at his sometimes-glacial update pace, and on one occasion kinda hinted at this trope.
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Died During Production / int_e3ed54c7	comment	Pretty Cure: Miyu Matsuki, the voice of Choppy in Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star, died in October 2015 of lymphoma that she got as a complication of a chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection. This happened while Pretty Cure All Stars: Minna De Utau Kiseki no Mahou, which featured the cast of all the Pretty Cure series until Maho Girls Pretty Cure! including the Splash Star characters, was still in production. As a result, Cure Bloom was the only Splash Star character to have a speaking role in the film, and Lulun was the only pre-Go! Princess fairy from the franchise to speak. This event, along with the fact that there were now way too many Cures to give speaking and screen roles to, led to the All Stars films from then on featuring only the current team and the two teams before it. The later film HuGtto! Pretty Cure Futari Wa Pretty Cure: All Star Memories, which features the Splash Star characters once again, did not include the fairies from that incarnation, with only Mepple, Mipple, and Mofurun being the three pre-Hugtto fairies with speaking roles. Yuuji Yamaguchi passed away while he was working as a storyboarder for Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure. Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure: Originally, Sora's father Shido was voiced by Yasumichi Kushida, but he died before episode 15 aired, so Takanori Hoshino took on the role from episode 23 onwards.
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Died During Production / int_e43ccc76	comment	Four months before the American VHS release of Kiki's Delivery Service, Phil Hartman, who played Jiji, was murdered in his home. Said release of the film ends with a dedication to Hartman.
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Died During Production / int_e5d98394	comment	M.U.L.E. was a classic of early computer gaming. Its creator Danielle Bunten was working on an online version when she died in 1998, and the game has sadly been officially out of print ever since.
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Died During Production / int_e6275a02	comment	Similar to the above, the writer of Looking for Group and Least I Could Do has mentioned keeping a special script that should resolve things, and his notes on future plots, in a safe in the event that he passes away before his comics finish. Either the artist has the combination, or one of their wives do.
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Died During Production / int_e6a2610e	comment	Archive of Our Own has taken a proactive stance regarding this possibility for its thousands of members. Among the tools available to fic writers on the site is the option to appoint their "fannish next-of-kin" — another author on the site who will be permitted to assume control of the writer's account and works in the event of their death. Both parties must agree to the 'inheritance' ahead of time.
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Died During Production / int_e7f260e5	comment	Hiroto Wada, the creator of the Lilo & Stitch spin-off manga Stitch & the Samurai, died from a cerebral hemorrhage and other contributing factors on July 18, 2021, at just 46 years old while he was working on his third and final manga Yankee Mito KÅ�mon. He only managed to complete ten chapters of Yankee in total before his sudden passing, and his death was just three days before its first and only tankÅ�bon was published. Kodansha published the final completed chapter in the seventeenth 2021 issue of Evening on August 10.
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Died During Production / int_e9169644	comment	A sequel to Illbleed was going to be developed, but the death of the president of Climax Graphics, makers of the series, stopped all plans for it.
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Died During Production / int_e9d7acf9	comment	Joe Dever, the author of the Lone Wolf series, passed away in 2016 due to illness, leaving the series with three books left. His son Ben announced that his family will work on the final three books.
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Died During Production / int_f0103cc6	comment	Spoofed in PRIMARCHS, where the Emperor of Mankind! obliterates the writer at the keyboard for back-chatting him. He gets better.
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Died During Production / int_f04b4111	comment	Reuben Kee was working on making a Samus Aran for M.U.G.E.N before his fatal boating accident.
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Died During Production / int_f13aaeda	comment	Michael Lin, the lead developer of the Chaos Code series published by FK Digital, passed away from illness in December 2017. His brother Mickey, the series producer and long-time co-developer, had continued development of Chaos Code Next in his stead until February 2020 (only a month after the game was announced to the public) when FK Digital announced that the game was cancelled.
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Died During Production / int_f1a38c03	comment	Willy Vandersteen left very specific instructions behind for the continuation of his Suske en Wiske franchise after his death. No character could ever age, or change, no main character may ever be dropped or added, and sex is a taboo, and a number of situations may never be altered (Lambik and Sidonia may never wed). Vandersteen died in 1990 but had given up artistic control of the Suske en Wiske franchise in 1972; to this day his wishes remain the guiding principles of the comic — though it must be said that his successors have seriously pushed it in almost unrecognizable directions.
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Died During Production / int_f1fbeee0	comment	Destroy the Godmodder: Directly invoked when both Build and Split, the two main characters of Twin Builder, are killed following their Shatter. As there is no one left to tell the story, it just... stops. The Update Terminal used to transcribe the game displays an error message, searching for another candidate to tell the tale. As luck would have it, it turns out there's someone else who can do the job — Doc Scratch, another First Guardian. He proceeds to remake the game in his image, forcing the players into a Side Quest.
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Died During Production / int_f38f5664	comment	Robert Guillaume (voice of Rafiki) died two years before the remake was released and two years after The Lion Guard came out. John Kani replaced him in the former and Khary Payton replaced him in the latter. This might also affect the aforementioned reboot of Timon and Pumbaa, as he had his own segment on the show.
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Died During Production / int_f3f68a7b	comment	Garry's Mod machinima maker Colin Wyckoff (a.k.a kitty0706), famous for series like Moments with Heavy, Team Fabulous 2, Mass Defect, and Elliot Goes To School, passed away from leukemia on January 25, 2015.
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Died During Production / int_f57c42c3	comment	The Croods: Barely avoided by Gran; two months after the second film's release, her voice actress, Cloris Leachman passed away, dampening any prospects of a third film. Ã�ngeles Bravo, the Latin American Spanish voice for Gran, passed away on December 18, 2018. As such, she was replaced by Magda Giner.
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Died During Production / int_fa1ef96b	comment	Inu Ã— Boku SS creator, Cocoa Fujiwara passed away on March 31, 2015, of an unspecified illness while working on "Katsute MahÅ� ShÅ�jo to Aku wa Tekitai Shiteita".
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Died During Production / int_fec91a1d	comment	Combined with The Rescuers Down Under flopping at the box office, the death of Eva Gabor, the voice of Miss Bianca, essentially killed off the chance of another Rescuers movie ever being made.
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