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