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