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