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