History SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''

* In ''Film/TopGunMaverick'', it was mentioned that Rooster's mother, Carole, [[BusCrash passed away several years before the events of the film]].

** ''H20'' also had Marion Chambers, who survived the first two films, be kill in the opening. ''Film/HalloweenKills'', set in another timeline, also brings her back only to have her be killed, alongside Marcus and Vanessa, who survived the previous film. Tommy Doyle, Leigh Blackett, and Lonnie Elam, who also survived the original film, meet their ends as well.

** In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', Count Dooku can fight both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to a standstill, effortlessly [[IncrediblyLamePun disarms]] Anakin one-on-one, and [[SadisticChoice he forces Yoda to save Anakin and Obi-Wan]] so [[KarmaHoudini he can run away]]. In the [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith next movie]], he's killed in a duel with Anakin with little fanfare during the ActionPrologue to show how much more powerful (and closer to the Dark Side) Anakin has become in the intervening years. Behind the scenes information also suggests that one reason this may have occurred was because Creator/ChristopherLee found the fight scenes physically straining due to his advanced age since he was 80 at the time the first film was released and 83 by the second.

* ''Film/XXxStateOfTheUnion'' Vin Diesel's character from the first ''Film/XXx'' is mentioned in passing as having been killed by a guerrilla ambush in the beginning of ''xXx: State of the Union,'' to make way for Ice Cube as the new xXx. We see the death in the Director's Cut, where Xander is played by Vin Diesel's stunt double, never showing his face, and with dubbed lines from the first film. Vin Diesel returns as Xander Cage in ''Film/XXXReturnOfXanderCage'', which his earlier apparent death being retconned as a case of ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated.

* ''Film/XXxStateOfTheUnion'' Vin Diesel's character from the first ''Film/XXx'' is mentioned in passing as having been killed by a guerrilla ambush in the beginning of ''xXx: State of the Union,'' to make way for Ice Cube as the new xXx. We see the death in the Director's Cut, where Xander is played by Vin Diesel's stunt double, never showing his face, and with dubbed lines from the first film. Vin Diesel returns as Xander Cage in ''Film/XXXReturnOfXanderCage''.

** In ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', Cyclops is killed early on by Phoenix.

** Part 3's Kristen was killed in [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster Part 4]] (along with the rest of her Dream Warriors team).

* While Annie Brackett was SparedByTheAdaptation in ''Film/Halloween2007'', she meets her end in ''Film/HalloweenII2009''.

** In [[Film/Halloween2018 the 2018 film]], which ignores all films with the exception of [[Film/Halloween1978 the very first one]], it's mentioned that Dr. Loomis died of natural causes during the 40-year TimeSkip. This is because Creator/DonaldPleasence [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim died long before it began filming]]. Previously, ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'', which only follows from the first two movies and made a few years after Pleasence's death, likewise had Dr. Loomis mentioned to have died recently.

** ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': Picard discovers that his brother and nephew, who appeared in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E2Family Family]]", died in a fire

* Christopher Pike in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''. The man survives being tortured by a crazy, genocidal Romulan (which involved having Veritaserum Slugs shoved down his throat) in the first film, only to get offed by a crazy, genocidal superhuman in the first half-hour of the second film.

* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' brings back several of the surviving team members from [[Film/SuicideSquad2016 the first movie]], only to [[DroppedABridgeOnHim kill off Captain Boomerang during the opening skirmish]].

* Several major characters have died in the ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' sequels. Rocky's coach Mickey died of a heart attack in ''Film/RockyIII'', his former rival turned best friend Apollo Creed is beaten to death by Ivan Drago in ''Film/RockyIV'', his wife Adrian dies of breast cancer prior to ''Film/RockyBalboa'', and his brother-in-law Paulie passes away prior to the events of ''Film/{{Creed|2015}}''. Duke, who was trainer to Apollo and later Rocky, is implied to have passed away by the time of ''Film/CreedII'', due to [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim the death of his actor Tony Burton]], with a deleted scene revealing that Spider Rico, who fought Rocky in the opening scene of the first movie, also passed away, and in ''Film/CreedIII'', Apollo's widow Mary-Anne would later die of a stroke.