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