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