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Ensembles, whether in musical or acting settings, are tricky things to get right. Each member brings something different to the table and all of them have to gel together if they want any chance at success. Shaking up the lineup too much can make it hard to produce the same sound and style for music, or the same vibe for a TV show. Sometimes, though, one member departs, for personal or professional reasons (sometimes both), or due to death. When that happens, the remaining band/cast members might look for a replacement to try and maintain the dynamic or style the departing member is known for. Other times, though, they'll decide that they can continue with the remaining members and not hire anyone new. For some groups, this works fine and they continue with their band (or cast) down one member. In the case of some Long-Runners, a group's time without the departed member may last longer than the time that member spent with the group. This can come as a shock to those who become fans of a group or show later in their run and begin exploring their back catalog, only to discover that there used to be an extra band/cast member. Most likely to be seen in music groups as a member's departure can be covered by hiring session instrumentalists and vocalists to work in the studio and on stage without having to bring in an official replacement. Only the official members typically appear in publicity photos, music videos, and album covers. They may even use the departure as the opportunity to experiment and release a New Sound Album. It can also be seen in works like TV and movie series, where a member of the cast doesn't return and the-powers-that-be decide to retool with the actors and/or characters who are left rather than find someone new. Compare and contrast with The Band Minus the Face (where a specific member departs), Revolving Door Band (where lineup changes are relatively frequent), Step Up to the Microphone (where an existing member steps into the departed member's place), and The Pete Best (where a replacement happens early in a group's run and the original member becomes a footnote in history). |
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When Steve Hackett departed in 1977, the other members decided to proceed as a trio, instead. Mike Rutherford took over lead guitar duties on post-Hackett albums and Daryl Struemer was hired to play Hackett's parts on tour. | |
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Since Camila Cabello left Fifth Harmony, it's been pretty much a Non-Indicative Name for them. | |
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This is part of Min Juyoung's past in Buried Stars. She was once the lead singer of the idol group Beloved, but some years ago, she departed the group without a word of explanation, collapsing not just the band but also their agency, Stric Entertainment. The reason was that Stric's head tried to have her sleep with a would-be benefactor who'd insisted on that specific condition. Even though her resolve kicked in just in time to leave the benefactor high and dry, the situation was still traumatic enough to start up her panic attacks, and by the time she recovered, she had no faith that her bandmates would believe her story. | |
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On Bones, after intern Zack Addy leaves the team after being revealed as the Gormogon's apprentice at the end of Season 3, rather than having just one Suspiciously Similar Substitute, the team cycles through a whole host of recurring intern characters, essentially auditioning through an extended interview process. Initially, the in-universe justification is that the team just isn't ready to replace a longtime friend whom they lost in such a traumatic way. | |
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Season 4 of House begins with all of the original fellows having left Princeton-Plainsboro (Foreman and Cameron having quit, Chase having been fired by House). House has been dragging his heels when it comes to replacing them. Following Cuddy's ultimatum in the premiere, House finally starts bringing in replacements — specifically, forty candidates whom he plans to whittle down in a kind of in-universe reality show-style game. Most of the candidates are gone by the end of the next episode, but the majority of the season switches focus between the remaining candidates — often giving particular focus to the characters whom House then decides to cut. While three new fellows, Taub, Kutner, and Thirteen, are eventually selected, only Taub's replacement lasts until the end of the series, and only Cameron never rejoins the team — both Chase and Foreman eventually come back to work for House. | |
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Brian McFadden blindsided Westlife when he announced that he was leaving the group mere weeks before they were going to go on tour to promote Turnaround. After hastily rearranging all their rehearsed routines and completing the tour successfully, the remaining members continued as a quartet and had a longer run without McFadden than with him. | |
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While Community averted this with Pierce and Shirley when their actors left, they did not replace Troy after Donald Glover departed. | |
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Final Fantasy VII: Aerith is the designated healer of the Player Party, who joins early on and brings stats and special abilities geared towards this purpose. After she suffers a Plotline Death half-way through the game, however, no other party member has the stats and specialties to replace her in that niche for the rest of the game — which was a deliberate choice by the designers, intended to make players feel her loss just as strongly in the gameplay as the characters reel from it in the narrative. | |
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When Willie Rushton, a regular panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue since its very early years, died in 1996, they realised he could never truly be replaced and all the possible replacements were younger, alternative comedians with very different comedy styles. His seat was made a permanent guest spot instead. | |
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Nearly every part in Jojos Bizarre Adventure has such a dynamic with its main cast of characters, to the point where it's easier to name the two outliers: Stone Ocean, in which Foo Fighters' role after she dies is replaced by Narciso Anasui and (to an extent) Weather Report, and Jojolion, in which no main character has died or otherwise left thus far. | |
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Drummer Steve Smith and bassist Ross Valory were dismissed during Journey's original run in 1986. The remaining members toured with hired musicians (including Randy Jackson, later of American Idol, on bass) until they went on hiatus in 1995. When the two departed again in 2020, permanent replacements were found. | |
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A Different World was created as a vehicle for Lisa Bonet. But when she departed the series, it was retooled around the remaining cast members rather than bringing in a replacement lead, with no appreciable drop in viewership. | |
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Star Trek: When the Star Trek: The Original Series launched, Grace Lee Whitney, portraying Yeoman Janice Rand, was intended to be a series regular as a recurring love interest for Kirk, was featured even more prominently than Spock and McCoy in promotional materials, and indeed was a major fixture of the first half of season one. Whitney also directly contributed to a number of design elements, from the incredibly short female uniformsnote a dancer, Whitney wanted a short skirt to show off her legs and even the development of the tricorder. She was eventually cut from the show by the halfway point of the series.note It's unclear precisely why Rand was removed. The reasons vary from NBC looking to cut costs and argued that random nameless characters could fulfill her same role for cheaper than a regular, showrunners deciding they wanted Kirk to remain single and free to hook up with the random Girl of the Week, a sexual assault by an NBC executive leading to her termination, or even blaming Whitney having personal or substance abuse problems as the reason. Although Rand's role as Kirk's aide was taken up by the occasional background extra, there was never a permanent replacement. And while Roddenberry long regretted her termination and Janice has remained a popular character (and Whitney was a regular fixture at conventions) ever since, this did clear the way for perhaps the most iconic Power Trio in television history by giving more room for the Kirk-Spock-McCoy dynamic. Whitney later returned as Rand in several of the films, (having made the jump from a lowly yeoman to the officer track, eventually rising to the Executive Officer position aboard Excelsior). After Denise Crosby's character was killed off in Star Trek: The Next Generation's first season, Worf (Michael Dorn) was promoted to Security Chief to consolidate the ensemble to the core we know now. |
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Bill Wyman was the The Rolling Stones' bassist from 1962 to 1993. After he departed, the remaining members brought Darryl Jones in to play bass on records and tours as a hired musician and not as a replacement to Wyman within the group. If the Stones continue on their current course, their time without Wyman will exceed the time he spent with them in 2024. | |
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M*A*S*H replaced many of its characters over its eleven-season run. However, when Gary Burghoff left the series, the producers simply moved Klinger (Jamie Farr), already a regular character, into Radar's job of company clerk. | |
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When the Star Trek: The Original Series launched, Grace Lee Whitney, portraying Yeoman Janice Rand, was intended to be a series regular as a recurring love interest for Kirk, was featured even more prominently than Spock and McCoy in promotional materials, and indeed was a major fixture of the first half of season one. Whitney also directly contributed to a number of design elements, from the incredibly short female uniformsnote a dancer, Whitney wanted a short skirt to show off her legs and even the development of the tricorder. She was eventually cut from the show by the halfway point of the series.note It's unclear precisely why Rand was removed. The reasons vary from NBC looking to cut costs and argued that random nameless characters could fulfill her same role for cheaper than a regular, showrunners deciding they wanted Kirk to remain single and free to hook up with the random Girl of the Week, a sexual assault by an NBC executive leading to her termination, or even blaming Whitney having personal or substance abuse problems as the reason. Although Rand's role as Kirk's aide was taken up by the occasional background extra, there was never a permanent replacement. And while Roddenberry long regretted her termination and Janice has remained a popular character (and Whitney was a regular fixture at conventions) ever since, this did clear the way for perhaps the most iconic Power Trio in television history by giving more room for the Kirk-Spock-McCoy dynamic. Whitney later returned as Rand in several of the films, (having made the jump from a lowly yeoman to the officer track, eventually rising to the Executive Officer position aboard Excelsior). | |
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The Now Show used to have a regular cast made up of Marcus Birgstocke, Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin, and Jon Holmes. By 2016, they were all cut in favor of bringing in guests who provide a more diverse style of humor and different viewpoints. | |
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One Piece: The Doflamingo Pirates' organization structure consists of 4 "top executives" right beneath the captain, Doflamingo, which have Playing Card Motifs: Diamante (diamond), Trebol (club), Pica (spade), and Corazon (heart). The last one, however, is currently unoccupied — it was meant to be filled by Trafalgar Law, but the latter defected from the group years before the present to form his own pirate group. | |
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On NewsRadio, WNYX had two anchors - Bill and Catherine - for the first three seasons and into the fourth. After Khandi Alexander left the show Bill became the sole anchor. Bill was replaced after Phil Hartman's death, but Max Louis never had a co-anchor. | |
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Better Than Ezra formed as a quartet and remained so until the suicide of guitarist Joel Rundell. The band broke up and reunited a few months later as a trio. Rundell has never been officially replaced. (The other members have made offers to touring guitarist Jim Payne to become a permanent replacement, but he's politely turned them down.) | |
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Chrono Trigger: This can be done intentionally at several points, as the game lets you face the Final Boss at nearly any point including five minutes into the game: The major one is Crono's death, the reversal of which is technically entirely optional (and if left undone, changes the ending so the other characters are working on it). You can duel Magus to the death or recruit him, and he won't come back in the former case. Robo can be left to toil away planting a forest for hundreds of years, getting him back is up to the player. |
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Momoiro Clover went from sextet to quintet after Akari Hayami left in 2011 (becoming Momoiro Clover Z in the process) and then to quartet after Momoka Ariyasu left in 2018. | |
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On Blake's 7, after Gan was killed off, he was never replaced. The show retained the "Seven" part of its name by considering the computer Orac, who was already part of the show, to be one of the "Seven". | |
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Genesis: When Steve Hackett departed in 1977, the other members decided to proceed as a trio, instead. Mike Rutherford took over lead guitar duties on post-Hackett albums and Daryl Struemer was hired to play Hackett's parts on tour. Phil Collins tried to invoke this after Peter Gabriel left Genesis, suggesting that they retool themselves into an instrumental group. The others voted him down and eventually convinced him to Step Up to the Microphone. |
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Robbie Williams split with Take That (Band) acrimoniously in 1995 and wasn't replaced before they broke up in 1996. The group reunited in 2005, sans Williams, and worked as a quartet before Williams reconciled with everyone and they reformed as a quintet in 2010note It could have been sooner, as Williams was willing to meet with the other members and clear the air in 2005, but the producers of a retrospective documentary intentionally kept him in the dark about a meeting between the other four members to create drama. Williams left again to refocus on his solo career and Jason Orange followed not long after, although everyone made it clear that these departures were friendly and the two were welcome back at any time. The remaining three continue to record and tour together. | |
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Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen are adamant that Freddie Mercury will never be formally replaced. Instead, they tour as "Queen +", with the vocalist being a featured performer and not an actual part of the band. Similarly, John Deacon has never been formally replaced at bass. | |
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