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- This was reversed at the beginning of season three: Because Buffy was "absent", the Scoobies had to work without her, and the role of bait was passed to Cordelia.
Source: The Bait -
The Bus Came Back: Oogway returns in this film after having been completely absent from the second film (considering he had passed on).
- The first Film of the Book plays this straight, as his father passed away before the story begins, and both parents are absent in the 2010 opera The Golden Ticket.
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