
Hell, if a character played a major role in season one, they are most likely Demotedto Extra in season 2 and especially season 3.
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The Metal series takes this up a notch due to having a LOT of major characters. The trope is only slightly less in effect for the original than for the dub, because the show as aired in Japan ends with a Back for the Finale. The Season 2 teams are put on a bus in Season 3. Most of them come back in Season 3, but often incomplete and with far less shine than they used to have. In Bakuten Shoot Beyblade, all Season 1 teams other than the BBA were put on a bus in Season 2. The bus came back, and he's just as bad as when he left. It's also worth noting that Fukuda asked him if he was willing to let things end the way they did as he left, which is some indication that he may not. Takagi considers having him come back and work for them as an assistant, but Mashiro suggests that if he comes back, it should be as a mangaka, before the scene cuts to Nakai discontent with his life and looking a some manga volumes. In Bakuman。 Nakai, after in the course of a few days, alienating Aoki by asking her to be his girlfriend in order for him to draw for her, losing his job as assistant when the manga he's working on gets canceled, alienating his fellow assistant when his proposal for Aoki comes to light, and upsetting quite a few of his friends as a result, decides that he used his art skills for the wrong reasons, and leaves for home. In Bakugan all the Haos, Subterra and Darkus users are put on a bus the next season, along with their bakugans. Ymir has yet to reappear (though a letter from her to Krista/Historia has appeared), but Reiner and Bertolt returned in the "Return to Shinganshina" arc, during which Reiner was badly injured and Bertolt was eaten by Titan!Armin to save Armin's life by making him a Titan Shifter.
Reiner, Bertolt, and Ymir all flee human territory in the aftermath of the climatic battle with the multi-branch force. Once revealed and cornered, though, she puts herself in a Crystal Prison and has been in custody offscreen since. Annie seems to be suffering from this when she joins the Military Police Brigade, but she spends the next storyline as the primary antagonist in her Titan form.