Tropescilloscope: Chuck Cunningham Syndrome

A character disappears from the work with no explanation and is never mentioned again. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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