Tropescilloscope: Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome

They survived the first installment, only to die early or suddenly in the sequel. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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