Tropescilloscope: Chuck Cunningham Syndrome

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

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