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