Tropescilloscope: Chuck Cunningham Syndrome

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

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