# Have MovieClip Remove Itself

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/have-movieclip-remove-itself/283013>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 1, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/have-movieclip-remove-itself/283013 "2009-03-01T12:40:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![absameen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@absameen](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/absameen)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/have-movieclip-remove-itself/283013/1 "2009-03-01T12:40:56Z")

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A MovieClip is added to the stage using addChild(myMovieClip)

How can I remove it from the class itself? I tried stage.removeChild(this) and removeChild(this), both don’t work.