Tropescilloscope: Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome

They survived the first installment, only to die early or suddenly in the sequel. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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