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