Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 170 - Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Even the Girls Want Her
Even the Guys Want Him
One True Love
Disc-One Nuke
Beef Gate
Lampshade Hanging
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
Breather Boss
That One Level
Breather Level
Game-Breaker
Broken Base
Cliffhanger
Cruel and Unusual Death
Evil Cripple
Squishy Wizard
Magic Knight
Mighty Glacier
Big Bad Friend
Torch the Franchise and Run
Lights Off, Somebody Dies
Grand Finale

The winners of yesterday's trope, Glass Cannon (Redux), were Tracer (Overwatch), Hypno Disc (Robot Wars), and Nightmare (Battlebots), who got 2 votes each.

Previous winners: Day 131 onwards
Redemption Equals Death - Darth Vader (Star Wars) / Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) / Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Godzilla Threshold - Operation Zero Dawn (Horizon Zero Dawn) / Crossing the streams (Ghostbusters)
One Winged Angel - Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
11th-Hour Ranger - Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Informed Poverty - The Simpsons
Post-Climax Confrontation - The Scouring of the Shire (The Lord of the Rings)
Death by Childbirth - Padme (Star Wars)
Defeat Means Friendship - Dragon Ball in general / Scotsman (Samurai Jack)
Elegant Gothic Lolita - Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa)
The Turret Master - Engineer (Team Fortress 2)
Shear Menace - Scissorsman (Clock Tower)
Infinity +1 Sword - Ultima Weapon (Kingdom Hearts)
Infinity -1 Sword - Fully Evolved Starters (Pokemon)
Poisonous Person - Poison Ivy (DC Comics)
Too Good for this Sinful Earth - Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa 2)
That One Boss - Ultra Necrozma (Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon)
B***h in Sheep's Clothing - Matt Engarde and Dahlia Hawthorne (Ace Attorney)
Blue-Collar Warlock - John Constantine (Constantine)
Despair Event Horizon - John Wick's dog is killed (John Wick)
A**hole Victim - Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
Crutch Character - Marcus (Fire Emblem 7)
Your Soul is Mine - Maximillian Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!) / Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat) / Dementor's Kiss (Harry Potter)
Pop-Cultured Badass - Deadpool
Acquitted Too Late - Tom Robinson (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Lightning Bruiser - The Flash (DC Comics) / Bob Barker (Happy Gilmore)
Me's a Crowd - Naruto / Multiple Man (X-Men)
A Taste of Power - Samus (Metroid Series)
Shrinking Violet - Violet (The Incredibles)
Stone Wall - Shuckle (Pokemon)
One Scene Wonder - The Black Knight (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Magikarp Power - Magikarp (Pokemon) / Pawn (Chess)
Joke Character - Pichu (Super Smash Bros Melee) / Dan Hibiki (Street Fighter)
Lethal Joke Character - L-Block (GameFAQs Contests)
Stupid Statement Dance Mix - They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard / All Your Base
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere - Necron (Final Fantasy IX)
Roaring Rampage of Revenge - The Punisher (Marvel Comics) / John Wick / The Bride (Kill Bill)

Without even knowing that exact trope definition.. Just reading that title immediately made me think of Bottles from Banjo Tooie.

Today's trope, (which is actually new this time!) is Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome. Here's the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome

So you're a character in a genre where Anyone Can Die but somehow, you've managed to survive the big confrontation. Once the sequel rolls around, everything should be fine, right?

Hey, that bridge over there looks a bit unsteady. Wait, what's that? It looks like the bridge is....falling...Oh, Crap!

CRASH!!!

Guess Anyone Can Die after all. In fact, you're likely to bite it in the first few minutes if you appear in the sequel at all. And if you're a Final Girl who's in more than one installment of a Slasher Movie series, your life expectancy drops dramatically.

This can happen for several reasons: Maybe a character needs to stay single and the other character is in the way, maybe the actor died between films (in which case the death is usually offscreen, if not expect use of a Fake Shemp) or can only make a cameo, or maybe the character was only popular enough for a token appearance. Or the character is Killed by Request on part of the actor playing them. Whatever the case, Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome often comes off as more than a little mean-spirited, to the point that it can be compared to Fridging or Bridging if handled especially badly.

TL,DR: A major character from the previous story dies early on in the sequel.

Nominations:
Harry (Silent Hill 3)
Vanessa (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)
Count Dooku (Star Wars Episode III)

Honourable Mention:
The Normandy (Mass Effect 2) (It's a vehicle rather than a character, but it's the same principle.)

David Palmer and Michelle Dessler (24 Season 5)
Boromir (LOTR: The Two Towers)
Hedwig (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
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Marie (The Bourne Supremacy)
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XIII_rocks posted...

Marie (The Bourne Supremacy)

First one I thought of
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Hector (Fire Emblem 6) (Though this is more of a Sudden Prequel Death Syndrome)
Byakuya Togami (Danganronpa 2)
David Palmer and Michelle Dessler (24 Season 5)
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Bill (Left 4 Dead 2)
King Harold (Shrek the Third)
The Normandy SR1 (Mass Effect 2)
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Hedwig
King Harold
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Mewtwo59 posted...

Hector (Fire Emblem 6) (Though this is more of a Sudden Prequel Death Syndrome)

I din't think this really counts because the game he was a major character in was released after the game in which he died early, so the opposite is true - he went from being a minor character who was killed off early to a major character.
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Zoe Barnes (House of Cards)
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Thanos (Avengers Endgame)
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Harry (Silent Hill 3)
Crossbones (Captain America: Civil War)
Alice clones (Resident Evil: Afterlife) (because lmao)

This trope is either really effective or really stupid.
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Bottles (Banjo-Tooie)
Boromir (The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers)
Count Dooku (Revenge of the Sith)
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Johnbobb posted...

XIII_rocks posted...

Marie (The Bourne Supremacy)

First one I thought of

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Nanis23 posted...

Zoe Barnes (House of Cards)

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Honorable Mentions:

Wrinkly Kong (Donkey Kong 64)
Duckworth (Ducktales 2017)
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Paxton - Hostel 2
Alex - Final Destination 2
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Rankings so far:
Marie (The Bourne Supremacy) - 3 votes
David Palmer and Michelle Dessler (24 Season 5) - 2 votes
Hedwig (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) - 2 votes
King Harold (Shrek the Third) - 2 votes
Harry Mason (Silent Hill 3) - 2 votes
Bottles (Banjo Tooie) - 2 votes
Boromir (LOTR: The Two Towers) - 2 votes
Count Dooku (Star Wars Episode III) - 2 votes
Zoe Barnes (House of Cards) - 2 votes
Vanessa (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)
Byakuya Togami (Danganronpa 2)
Bill (Left 4 Dead 2)
The Normandy SR1 (Mass Effect 2)
Thanos (Avengers Endgame)
Crossbones (Captain America: Civil War)
Alice clones (Resident Evil: Afterlife)
Paxton (Hostel 2)
Alex (Final Destination 2)

Byakuya Togami, sorta (Danganronpa 2)
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