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