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