Point of discontinuation/Pepsi

Pepsi products that were at the point of discontinuation.

	+ Game Fuel zig-zags this, but the taste is always different with each flavor of Game Fuel that comes out.
	+ Diet Voltage, the diet version of Mountain Dew Voltage, was only released for FanDEWmonium. It lost to Diet Supernova and was discontinued.
		- Speaking of Diet Supernova, despite winning FanDEWmonium, it was discontinued permanently after twelve weeks. Way to upset the public, PepsiCo.
	+ Mountain Dew Throwback used to zig-zag this, but is now a permanent flavor.
	+ Any Mountain Dew flavor in numbers (#736, #286, #722, #648) got discontinued after only being sold in 2009.
	+ Mountain Dew Distortion and Mountain Dew Typhoon are two Mountain Dew flavors that have been discontinued after only being sold in 2010.
		- The Typhoon flavor eventually returned as part of "Back by Popular DEWmand".
	+ Any Diet Mountain Dew flavor outside the original diet flavor, Caffeine-free Diet, and Diet Code Red tend to be threatened with this.
	+ Mountain Dew A.M. (a mix between Mountain Dew and Tropicana) has been discontinued in-name.
	+ Every Mountain Dew Freeze sold at Taco Bell, with the exception of the Baja Blast Freeze, has been discontinued as of 2016.
	+ Baja Blast has zig-zagged this since 2014. One season, it's in cans and bottles; the next, it's only at Taco Bell. But now Pitch Black has been introduced (for Dewcision 2016). Pitch Black booted Baja Blast back to being a Taco Bell exclusive until it returned to stores for summer 2018.
		- Its diet variant suffered worse; it was discontinued for a Kickstart flavor.
	+ Solar Flare was discontinued around the same time as Sierra Mist, but at least the latter got a similar, if not an exact, replacement in the form of Mist Twst. Solar Flare, however, was replaced with a completely different flavor.
		- An unrelated flavor (Diet Mountain Dew Flare) also suffered this, since any diet flavor that isn't related to the regular, caffeine-free, or Code Red variants have also suffered this.
* Crystal Pepsi (a clear, caffeine-free Pepsi) was only sold for at most a year before getting discontinued.
	+ In 2016, it was reformulated with caffeine, and was sold for a limited time.
	+ Another Caffeine-free Pepsi, Pepsi Free, was also discontinued in the 80s, but the formula returned as Caffeine-free Diet Pepsi a few years later.
	+ Pepsi used to be called "Brad's Drink", if Wikipedia is to be believed. Brad's Drink got discontinued in-name, but the formula was still sold as Pepsi-Cola after 1898.
		- Pepsi lampshaded that there used to be a "Brad's Drink" with their "1893" product lineup.
* Sierra Mist has a complicated history of this, both as its current name and when it was Mist Twst:
	+ Sierra Mist Free, the temporary name for Diet Sierra Mist (and not to be confused with Pepsi Free) was discontinued in-name, but the formula remained sold as Diet Sierra Mist.
	+ Sierra Mist Ruby Splash (and it's diet variant) was discontinued in 2010 and 2011, respectively.
	+ Similarly, Sierra Mist Undercover Orange and it's diet variant got discontinued sometime after the film it was promoting, Get Smart, was released.
	+ Strawberry Kiwi Splash was only sold in 2012 before getting discontinued.
	+ In 2016, PepsiCo actually changed the name for Sierra Mist to "Mist Twst". And added a Cherry flavor to further compete with 7-UP. Ironically, it's been doing better ever since the Mist Twst introduction...
		- ...but only one new flavor since the reintroduction (the aforementioned Cherry flavor) was introduced as of December 2016, and even *that* isn't available in some areas. Due to this, Sprite and 7-UP were the first brands of lemon-lime soft drinks to have their cherry flavor distributed nationwide. And now it's discontinued.
		- As of 2018, Sierra Mist is back... at the expense of getting rid of the Cherry flavor. Chances are the Cranberry flavor won't be back until around Christmas.
* Zig-zagged with their root beer brand *Mug*. It's available everywhere, of course, but in some areas it's only sold in cans.
	+ Back before Sierra Mist became Mist Twst, Mug Root Beer was even in some areas where Sierra Mist wasn't. This was especially true for Canada.

### Other countries

* Mountain Dew in Canada used to be caffeine-free. This was due to a former Canadian law saying *all* soft drinks (except colas, Dr. Pepper-like drinks and root beer) were to be caffeine-free. Come 2012, you could find Mountain Dew with caffeine in it.
	+ Mountain Dew in the UK was discontinued for a while, but was brought back under "Mountain Dew Energy", and eventually back to "Mountain Dew".
* For a while, Sierra Mist was announced to be coming into the UK. It has never been introduced in the UK.
* Pepsi had to start marketing itself as "Pecsi" in Argentina.