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