Tropescilloscope: Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome

They survived the first installment, only to die early or suddenly in the sequel. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Author Appeal Broken Aesop Expy Vacation Films Slap-Slap-Kiss Big Bad Super Strength Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Drill Sergeant Nasty Destination Defenestration Unreliable Narrator Hong Kong Films Blood from the Mouth Dirty Old Man Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Leaning on the Fourth Wall Fanservice Big-Bad Ensemble Composite Character Badass Bookworm She's Got Legs I'm a Humanitarian Artistic License – Geography Celebrity Paradox Only One Name After the End Extremely Short Timespan Romantic Comedy Woman in White Jerk Jock Karma Houdini Yandere Take That! Mistaken for Gay timeperiod Science Fiction Films Important Haircut B-Movie Black Comedy Rape Back from the Dead Historical In-Joke Vomit Indiscretion Shot Madness Mantra I Did What I Had to Do Retcon A Father to His Men Crucified Hero Shot Fate Worse than Death No Name Given Recycled IN SPACE! Same Language Dub Dark Reprise My Greatest Failure Age Lift British Films Male Gaze Line-of-Sight Name Self-Deprecation Hair-Trigger Temper Bloodless Carnage I Need a Freaking Drink The Sociopath Every Car Is a Pinto Narrator Running Gag Meaningful Background Event La Résistance Defiant to the End Red Eyes, Take Warning Early Installment Weirdness Hate Sink Totally Radical Eagleland Abhorrent Admirer Zombie Stories Nice Guy Contrived Coincidence Funny Foreigner Downer Ending Made of Explodium Bare Your Midriff Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Villain with Good Publicity Bi the Way Determinator aka: The Determinator Animal Motifs Vitriolic Best Buds Wretched Hive Punny Name Taking the Bullet The Stoner Worthy Opponent Room Full of Crazy Disappeared Dad Killed Mid-Sentence Slasher Smile Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Bavarian Fire Drill Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Paper-Thin Disguise Covers Always Lie In Medias Res Domestic Abuse One-Word Title Man on Fire Only in It for the Money Never My Fault Hero Antagonist Stealth Hi/Bye Revenge Twist Ending Plucky Comic Relief folderlabel Flashback Bittersweet Ending Jitter Cam Sir Swears-a-Lot 20 Minutes into the Future Psychological Thriller Accidental Misnaming Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Eureka Moment Arranged Marriage Adapted Out The Big Guy Psycho for Hire Leave the Camera Running Laughing Mad Sequel Escalation Not Quite Dead Not So Above It All Non-Indicative Name Small Name, Big Ego The Brute The Smart Guy Driven to Suicide Evil Is Petty Shipper on Deck Leitmotif Hoist by His Own Petard Morality Pet Catch-Phrase Mundane Made Awesome Anti-Villain Femme Fatale Silent Movie Half the Man He Used to Be The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Malevolent Masked Men Genre Shift Agony of the Feet Curse Cut Short No Antagonist Bond One-Liner Slashed Throat Evil Sounds Deep Red Oni, Blue Oni Corrupt Corporate Executive "Awesome McCool" Name '80s Hair For the Evulz Author Avatar Random Events Plot Dramatic Irony Honor Before Reason Continuity Nod Left the Background Music On Sequel Hook Action Prologue Ominous Latin Chanting Blood Knight Failed a Spot Check Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Call-Forward Kick the Dog Exactly What It Says on the Tin Disguised in Drag Grey and Gray Morality Retired Badass Adaptation Dye-Job Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Adaptational Badass All Just a Dream "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Lancer Guile Hero Expository Hairstyle Change The Dreaded Anyone Can Die Adaptation Name Change Curb-Stomp Battle The Bad Guy Wins Greater-Scope Villain Deadpan Snarker Handicapped Badass Scary Black Man Drowning My Sorrows Stuff Blowing Up Market-Based Title Empathic Environment Camp Gay Spell My Name with an "S" The Atoner Fire-Forged Friends Would Hurt a Child Let's Get Dangerous! An Axe to Grind Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Butt-Monkey Make It Look Like an Accident Up to Eleven Spared by the Adaptation Gainax Ending Adorkable Obfuscating Stupidity Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Department of Redundancy Department Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Groin Attack Soundtrack Dissonance Would Hit a Girl Beauty Is Never Tarnished Bury Your Gays The X of Y No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Call-Back Manchild Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Never Trust a Trailer Knight Templar Faking the Dead Big Bad Duumvirate Gorn Jerkass Has a Point Genre Throwback Dark Action Girl Never Found the Body Evil Is Hammy Award-Bait Song Villain Song Heterosexual Life-Partners Betty and Veronica Combat Pragmatist Costume Porn Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Cluster F-Bomb You Have Outlived Your Usefulness He Knows Too Much Bad "Bad Acting" The Ghost The Oner NO INDOOR VOICE Apocalypse How How We Got Here Enemy Mine Face–Heel Turn Dirty Coward Insistent Terminology Alpha Bitch Naïve Newcomer The Great Depression Creepy Child Overprotective Dad Not So Different Not Using the "Z" Word Dying Moment of Awesome Animated Credits Opening No OSHA Compliance Adaptational Attractiveness Mythology Gag Men Are the Expendable Gender Roaring Rampage of Revenge Precision F-Strike Heroic Sacrifice Alliterative Name Hell Is That Noise Lock and Load Montage Epic Movie Reality Has No Subtitles Naked People Are Funny Have a Gay Old Time Product Placement Unspoken Plan Guarantee No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Sole Survivor Names to Run Away from Really Fast Wrong Genre Savvy Coming-of-Age Story Ungrateful Bastard Dressing as the Enemy Irony Noodle Incident Manic Pixie Dream Girl Hollywood Darkness Film Series Poor Communication Kills Face Death with Dignity Bait-and-Switch Deliberately Monochrome Genre Savvy Chase Scene Parental Abandonment "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Grievous Bottley Harm Trailers Always Spoil Setting Update Offscreen Teleportation Jerk with a Heart of Gold Does Not Like Shoes Dirty Cop Damsel in Distress Reality Is Unrealistic Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Australian Movies Tranquil Fury Dark and Troubled Past Did Not Get the Girl Frame-Up What the Hell, Hero? Really Gets Around Spiritual Successor Breaking the Fourth Wall Here We Go Again! Conspicuous CG Unresolved Sexual Tension Light Is Not Good Hypocrite Say My Name Famous Last Words Suddenly SHOUTING! The Faceless Karmic Death Eiffel Tower Effect Rasputinian Death Badass in a Nice Suit German Films Does This Remind You of Anything? The Cameo Affably Evil Pet the Dog Captain Ersatz Evil Cannot Comprehend Good War Is Hell Too Dumb to Live Whole Plot Reference Cat Fight Rich Bitch Screw This, I'm Outta Here! One-Man Army Annoying Younger Sibling Eyepatch of Power Big Damn Heroes Gory Discretion Shot Disproportionate Retribution Russian Films Beta Couple Race Lift Fanservice Extra Peek-a-Boo Corpse Faux Affably Evil In Name Only Mugging the Monster Redemption Equals Death Shut Up, Hannibal! Word of God The Ace Funny Background Event Intrepid Reporter Improbable Aiming Skills Crapsack World Nice Hat Suspiciously Similar Substitute Diabolus ex Machina Danny Peary Cult Movies List Improbable Weapon User Red Shirt Black Dude Dies First BFG I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Deconstruction Evil Plan From Bad to Worse Token Minority Heel–Face Turn Parental Substitute Death Glare As Long as It Sounds Foreign Offscreen Moment of Awesome Blatant Lies My Beloved Smother Blackmail Freudian Excuse Tempting Fate Amusing Injuries Informed Ability Serial Killer Retirony Chekhov's Gun Eldritch Abomination Action Genre Bunny-Ears Lawyer Martial Arts Movie Cool Old Guy Big Fancy House Big Applesauce Loophole Abuse Closed Circle No Ending What Happened to the Mouse? A Date with Rosie Palms Central Theme Obstructive Bureaucrat Married to the Job Aluminum Christmas Trees Fatal Flaw Sci-Fi Horror Neck Snap Beard of Evil Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Meaningful Name Slasher Movie Due to the Dead Rated M for Manly Scenery Gorn Together in Death Idiot Ball Creator Cameo Card-Carrying Villain Those Wacky Nazis As the Good Book Says... Those Two Bad Guys Improvised Weapon Red Right Hand Chewing the Scenery For Want of a Nail Visual Pun The Bully Batman Gambit Outrun the Fireball The '80s Time Skip Get Out! Moment Killer Arc Words Fan Disservice Woman Scorned Wounded Gazelle Gambit Re-Cut Anachronism Stew Despair Event Horizon Dissonant Serenity Bald of Evil Black Best Friend Older Than They Look Put on a Bus Red Herring Cloudcuckoolander Country Matters The Stinger Punch-Clock Villain Badass Grandpa Immune to Bullets Ironic Echo Wicked Cultured Cold-Blooded Torture Book-Ends Gilligan Cut Dies Wide Open Darker and Edgier Adults Are Useless Thriller Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! It Can Think Shown Their Work Tagline Freeze-Frame Bonus Drugs Are Bad Double Entendre Romantic False Lead Bad Boss Developing Doomed Characters Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Sacrificial Lion Aside Glance The Ditz The Hero Dies And the Adventure Continues Humiliation Conga Rule of Three Brother–Sister Incest Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome I Have Your Wife Bilingual Bonus Hollywood Law Brutal Honesty Fingore My God, What Have I Done? Artistic License – History Reasonable Authority Figure Your Head A-Splode She Cleans Up Nicely Evil Brit Exact Words Pay Evil unto Evil Chekhov's Gunman Took a Level in Jerkass Ambiguous Ending Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" A God Am I Race Against the Clock The Film of the Book Mad Scientist True Companions Green-Eyed Monster Stepford Smiler Actually Pretty Funny Our Zombies Are Different Death by Irony Mr. Fanservice Dwindling Party Scare Chord Heroes Want Redheads Politically Incorrect Villain Last-Name Basis Mood Whiplash Cool Guns Broken Pedestal "Shaggy Dog" Story Children Are Innocent Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Only Sane Man Pragmatic Adaptation Fainting The Dog Bites Back Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Villain Protagonist Dumb Blonde Final Girl The Alleged Car Happily Married The Lost Lenore Fake Shemp Creative Closing Credits The Chick Berserk Button The '60s Police Brutality Authority Equals Asskicking Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Place Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Dogged Nice Guy Bloodier and Gorier Brick Joke The Vamp The Dragon Depraved Bisexual The Mole Public Domain Feature Films Extreme Doormat Rewatch Bonus Silence Is Golden Sassy Black Woman Ass Shove Italian Films Artistic License – Biology French Films Insult Backfire Bring My Brown Pants Hope Spot Air-Vent Passageway Sinister Minister Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Throwing Your Sword Always Works Took a Level in Badass Nothing Is Scarier Video Credits As You Know Easily Forgiven Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Missing Mom Plot Hole You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Demoted to Extra Translation Convention Lighter and Softer Major Injury Underreaction Sadistic Choice The Casanova Framing Device The Reveal The Musical Intergenerational Friendship Not Even Bothering with the Accent Ghost Fiction Shirtless Scene Death of a Child Mind Screw Canadian Movies Bland-Name Product Scenery Porn Artistic License – Physics Jump Scare Fun with Acronyms Truth in Television It's Personal The Mafia Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds This Is Gonna Suck Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Pimped-Out Dress Mooks All Girls Want Bad Boys Large Ham Four-Temperament Ensemble Artistic License – Gun Safety Loads and Loads of Characters "Well Done, Son!" Guy Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Meaningful Echo Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Rule of Funny Villain Ball Only Known by Their Nickname Redshirt Army Pretty Little Headshots Pyrrhic Victory Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Rousing Speech Male Frontal Nudity Historical Hero Upgrade No Celebrities Were Harmed Not So Stoic Spiteful Spit Television Movie Index Daddy's Girl Decoy Protagonist Manipulative Bastard Deus ex Machina Wham Shot Unusually Uninteresting Sight Death Seeker Needs Wiki Magic Love Cool Shades Dramedy Anachronic Order Sealed Evil in a Can Instant Death Bullet Sexy Discretion Shot Kill 'em All Mama Bear Overly Long Gag Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Parental Neglect Friend to All Children It Will Never Catch On Ms. Fanservice Anguished Declaration of Love Daylight Horror Soft Glass The Smurfette Principle Animal Title Index And Starring There Is No Kill Like Overkill Christmas Movies Index Car Fu Crazy-Prepared Posthumous Character From Nobody to Nightmare Gold Digger Death by Sex Obviously Evil Monumental Damage Alas, Poor Villain Our Vampires Are Different An Aesop Villain Opening Scene Big Eater Heroic BSoD Eye Scream Cassandra Truth Smoking Is Cool Spanner in the Works Evil-Detecting Dog Artistic License – Military Bar Brawl Jerkass Hooker with a Heart of Gold Broken Bird Facial Horror Rape as Drama The Voiceless Reality Ensues Deal with the Devil May–December Romance Everyone Has Standards All Men Are Perverts Dramatic Gun Cock Awesome, but Impractical Asshole Victim All for Nothing Distracted by the Sexy Off with His Head! Biopic Mystery and Detective Films Guns Akimbo Kick the Son of a Bitch Parental Incest Chiaroscuro Shout-Out Earn Your Happy Ending Almost Kiss Didn't Think This Through Accidental Murder Interrupted Suicide Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Bloody Hilarious Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Film Noir Index Bullying a Dragon Bolivian Army Ending Abusive Parents Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Undying Loyalty Bound and Gagged A.I. Is a Crapshoot Heel Realization Kill It with Fire Real Life Dual Wielding Index of Film Westerns Military and Warfare Films Star-Crossed Lovers Drives Like Crazy Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Foil Fish out of Water An Arm and a Leg Becoming the Mask The Starscream O.O.C. Is Serious Business Badass Boast Fatal Family Photo Taking You with Me Unwitting Instigator of Doom Five-Man Band Establishing Character Moment Toplessness from the Back Ripped from the Headlines Once More, with Clarity! Stock Footage Flipping the Bird Death by Adaptation Stealth Pun Adaptational Heroism Belligerent Sexual Tension Cat Scare Match Cut Good Is Not Nice Adaptation Expansion Be Careful What You Wish For It's All About Me Crazy Jealous Guy Historical-Domain Character Title Drop The Quiet One Manly Tears Getting Crap Past the Radar Mighty Whitey Cain and Abel Boom, Headshot! Amoral Attorney Horror Comedy And I Must Scream Love at First Sight Foreshadowing Better to Die than Be Killed Actor Allusion MacGuffin Based on a True Story More Dakka Fourth Date Marriage Evil Counterpart Double-Meaning Title Historical Villain Upgrade All There in the Manual Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other N-Word Privileges Action Girl Stylistic Suck Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Badass Normal The '70s Vampire Fiction Gone Horribly Right Take a Third Option Armor-Piercing Question Stalker with a Crush Playing Gertrude Dark Is Not Evil Advertised Extra What You Are in the Dark Determinator Straight Gay All There in the Script Implacable Man Auto Erotica Black Comedy Big Brother Instinct Casting Gag Camera Abuse Shell-Shocked Veteran Cool Car You Killed My Father Adult Fear I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Pretty in Mink Ambiguously Gay Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Hypocritical Humor Dull Surprise Artistic License – Law Even Evil Has Standards Adaptational Villainy Break the Haughty Kubrick Stare Knife Nut Very Loosely Based on a True Story Mexican Standoff Beware the Nice Ones Early-Bird Cameo Antagonist Title Evil vs. Evil Darkest Hour Chekhov's Skill Mr. Exposition Babies Ever After Credits Gag Show Within a Show Deliberate Values Dissonance Arch-Enemy Suspiciously Specific Denial As Himself Properly Paranoid Music Stories Storming the Castle Affectionate Parody He Who Fights Monsters The Remake Only a Flesh Wound Film Noir You Have Failed Me Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Body Horror Evil Laugh Works Set in World War II Villainous Breakdown Anti-Hero Bottomless Magazines Dropped a Bridge on Him Sanity Slippage Vomit Discretion Shot Imagine Spot The Cavalry Superhero The '90s A Minor Kidroduction Character Development The Power of Love Brainless Beauty Cruel and Unusual Death Defrosting Ice Queen Shower Scene The '50s Homage Victoria's Secret Compartment Fantastic Racism Police are Useless Bowdlerise Neck Lift Real Life Writes the Plot Documentary Off-into-the-Distance Ending Hero of Another Story Laser-Guided Karma Black and Gray Morality Epic Fail Rule of Symbolism Tap on the Head Foregone Conclusion Calling the Old Man Out The Hero Skewed Priorities Comically Missing the Point Corpsing Disney Death Rule of Cool Badass Longcoat Fiery Redhead Motor Mouth Well-Intentioned Extremist Disney Villain Death Hidden Depths No-Sell In the Back Smug Snake The Alcoholic Ambiguous Disorder Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Chessmaster Pre-Mortem One-Liner Bond Villain Stupidity The Un-Reveal Pragmatic Villainy Dutch Angle Henpecked Husband Captain Obvious Ax-Crazy Psychopathic Manchild Serious Business Adaptation Distillation The Stoic Mercy Kill Big "NO!" Maybe Ever After One Steve Limit Lampshade Hanging Insane Troll Logic Protagonist Title Novelization Riddle for the Ages Canon Foreigner Made of Iron Horror Films Gratuitous English Your Cheating Heart Demonic Possession Oh, Crap! Ascended Extra Attempted Rape Ship Tease Even Evil Has Loved Ones Humans Are Bastards Logo Joke Those Two Guys Not What It Looks Like Papa Wolf Meet Cute Reckless Gun Usage Wham Line Cowboy Cop Kids Are Cruel Break the Cutie World of Ham Training Montage Sports Stories Fantasy Films Fat Bastard Catapult Nightmare The Load Action Survivor Japanese Films Love Triangle Refuge in Audacity Cool Old Lady Unusual Euphemism Gender Flip The End... Or Is It?