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