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