Cut down
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The RollerCoaster Tycoon games, at least, deal with this by making some items not give you back money when you remove them, like fences and trash cans, and forces you to pay money to remove trees and bushes, which would likely have to be cut down with no gain.
Source: You Break It, You Profit -
If you like Journey to the West, you probably know that you'll have a hard time finding any adaptations which don't cut down Yu Lung's role or just remove him entirely, but Enslaved: Odyssey to the West does that and removes Sha Wujing.
Source: Adapted Out -
Altaïr will slaughter his way through an ambush of roughly fifty Elite Mooks in about fifteen to twenty minutes without bothering to rest afterwards because he has sworn to remove you from this mortal coil in a timely fashion, and anything that gets in his way is just one more thing to cut down.
Source: Implacable Man
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