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