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