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