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1* ''Film/Scream3'': Cotton Weary, a recurring character who helped Sidney in the second movie (despite the fact that she mistakenly sent him to jail about a year before the first) and killed the BigBad, died in the first 10 minutes of the third movie to enforce one of the "rules" of a threequel: In the third movie all bets are off and AnyoneCanDie.
2* As this is very common in horror movies, ''Film/ScaryMovie'' series makes fun of this by having Charlie Sheen's character from the [[Film/ScaryMovie3 third movie]] die in the first scene of the [[Film/ScaryMovie4 fourth]] via [[ItMakesSenseInContext giant erection]]. Brenda from the first two films also dies in the first and early in the third, but since she seems to die ''[[TheyKilledKennyAgain a lot]]'' and come back, [[NegativeContinuity it doesn't really count.]]
3* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
4** In ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', Cyclops is killed early on by Phoenix while Xavier dies about halfway through.
5** Emma Frost is listed among the mutants who died between ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' and ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' by ComicBook/{{Magneto}}. Azazel, Angel, and Banshee are also dead by this time, and, given his absence, Riptide presumably suffered the same fate.
6* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
7** The Other is Thanos's right hand man, who serves as both a communication between Loki and Thanos, and as a way of hiding Thanos's identity from the audience until TheStinger of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. In ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'', he shows up just long enough to be killed by [[TeamKiller Ronan the Accuser]].
8** Brock Rumlow acts as a recurring villain in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' working for HYDRA and survives the movie's events, albeit greatly injured. He returns in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', now operating under his more familiar identity from the comics known as Crossbones, for the opening battle and dies trying to use a bomb to [[TakingYouWithMe take Cap with him]] by the end of the scene.
9** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' has Hogun, Volstagg and Fandral killed off by Hela in the first act. Odin also dies shortly before them.
10** The first scene of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' has Thanos kill Heimdall, Loki, and half of the Asgardian people.
11** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': Thanos, the victorious BigBad of the previous film they'd been building up to since ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' seven years ago, is executed by Thor early into the film after a brief confrontation. Partially averted, as the film's BigBad is an alternate timeline version of Thanos, leading to the ultimate climactic battle.
12** T'Challa dies offscreen of a mysterious illness in the first scene of ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'', due to Creator/ChadwickBoseman's real-life passing.
13* ''Franchise/FinalDestination'':
14** ''Film/FinalDestination'''s final shot before the credits made it quite clear that the three survivors were going to be down to two. We never saw the freak accident that took out the hero of the first movie. We only got to hear Clear describe it in the sequel who herself almost, but not quite, survived to the credits.
15** The protagonists of ''Film/FinalDestination2'' and ''Film/FinalDestination3'' are also implied to be dead by newspaper clippings. With the three survivors of the fourth movie being killed in the end, it's clear that [[TheProblemWithFightingDeath whoever survives in the movie will die eventually]].
16** ''Film/FinalDestination5'' may take the crown: even the survivors there are guaranteed death after the credits roll, since the movie turns out to be a prequel for ''Final Destination'', where they become some of the nameless innocents in the opening plane crash.
17* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'':
18** At the beginning of ''Film/Alien3'', the ''Sulaco'' launches an escape pod that lands on a planet. Newt and Hicks are both killed in gruesome ways (the gory aftermath is shown), and Bishop has one scene in which he asks to be turned off. The Comic Canon (quite a lot of which was written before ''3'') sees Hicks and Newt survive, and quite a few fans consider it superior for that reason.
19** Elizabeth Shaw, the heroine of ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'', is long dead by the events of ''Film/AlienCovenant'', having been experimented on and killed by David after the prologue.
20* ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' reveals that Sarah Connor died of leukemia a few years after [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay its predecessor]]. Three movies later, in an AlternateContinuity, ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'' one-ups that in a case which fans compared to the above mentioned ''Alien 3'' as the very first scene has John Connor being shot dead by a Terminator, only a few years after the second movie as well - in front of his mother Sarah, no less.
21* ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'': Alice, the FinalGirl of ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'' who killed Pamela Voorhees, becomes the very first victim of Pamela's son Jason at the beginning of ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPart2 Part 2]]''. Jason's next victim, Crazy Ralph, also survived the first movie.
22* ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'':
23** Rachel Carruthers was the FinalGirl of ''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers'', and was killed by Michael Myers in the first act of [[Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers the fifth movie]].
24** Likewise Jamie Lloyd finally bit the dust in the first act of ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers'', after surviving the previous two films.
25** And Laurie Strode's death in the opening of ''Film/HalloweenResurrection''. Even earlier in the first timeline, she is mentioned to have died during the TimeSkip, despite surviving ''Film/HalloweenII1981''.
26** While Annie Brackett was SparedByTheAdaptation in ''Film/Halloween2007'', she meets her end in ''Film/HalloweenII2009''.
27** 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 was made a few years after Pleasence's death, likewise had Dr. Loomis mentioned to have died recently.
28** ''H20'' also had Marion Chambers, who survived the first two films, be killed 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.
29* The ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' movies famously had heroines return in sequels only to have them killed off after passing the torch to a new heroine.
30** [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984 Part 1]]'s Nancy was killed in [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors Part 3]]. Her father dies as well.
31** Part 3's Kristen was killed in [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster Part 4]] (along with the rest of her Dream Warriors team who survived the last movie).
32** Subverted with "Dream Master" Alice, who survived not one but two films (Parts 4 and [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet5TheDreamChild 5]]). Her LoveInterest Dan plays things straight however, as he survives the climax of 4 only to die early on in 5.
33* In ''Film/DamienOmenII'', the old archaeologist from the first movie (played by Leo [=McKern=]) who was the only character to know the truth about Damien to survive from the first movie is killed in the opening minutes.
34* The main character from ''Film/IronEagle'', Doug Masters, is literally killed off in the first 5 minutes in ''Film/IronEagleII''.
35** The character of Doug Masters returns, having not really been dead after all, in ''Film/IronEagleIV''. Different actor, though.
36* ''The Godfather''
37** In ''Film/TheGodfatherPartII'', we learn that Peter Clemenza has allegedly died of a heart attack (with Willi Cicci implying he was actually murdered by the Rosato Brothers). Then again, that never caught anyone as a surprise. This happened because the actor insisted on writing his own dialogue. The character of Frank Pentageli takes his place.
38** In the [[VideoGame/TheGodfather second video game]], the player character, Aldo, dies at the start.
39** In ''Film/TheGodfatherPartIII'', we are told that Tom Hagen died shortly before the beginning of the film. This was done because Robert Duvall refused to reprise the role unless he was paid the same as, or marginally close to, what Al Pacino was getting paid.
40* Johnny Cage's death in the opening of ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation''.
41* The surviving protagonist of ''Film/TheHidden'', whose life was actually saved by the other protagonist transferring his essence into him, looks like he has alien cancer at the beginning of the sequel.
42* The hero of ''Film/TheArrival'' dies off-screen sometime between it and the sequel.
43* ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'' killed off ''all'' of the Alice clones found at the end of the third film in the first ten minutes.
44* ''Franchise/StarWars''
45** In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', Count Dooku can fight both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to a standstill, effortlessly [[LiteralDisarming 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.
46** After making a return in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Admiral Ackbar dies early on in ''Film/TheLastJedi''.
47** In the ''Legends'' continuity, the first ''Film/StarWarsEwokAdventures'' film is about a brother and sister searching for their parents with the help of friendly Ewoks after after they crash on Endor; the second film opens with [[HappyEndingOverride almost all of the humans and Ewoks being killed or captured.]]
48* ''Film/TheGrudge''
49** Creator/SarahMichelleGellar survived and was soon killed off in the sequel, to be replaced by her sister Creator/AmberTamblyn.
50** The only survivor of the second, Jake, quickly dies in the third.
51* A WhatCouldHaveBeen almost-example from the ''Film/JamesBond'' movies: Tracy Bond originally was intended to survive ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' and not get killed ([[CartwrightCurse a common fate for Bond's love interests]]) until the opening of the next movie, ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''. Lazenby's departure forced things to be shortened. Keep in mind that this is also her fate in the books.
52* In ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'', as a parody of the above James Bond example, Austin's love interest in the first movie, Vanessa, is revealed to be a fembot and is quickly destroyed. To make the revelation [[RuleOfFunny even more absurd]], Basil admits that they'd known all along. Austin mourns her death for all of three seconds before realizing he's single again. Interestingly enough, Vanessa ''was'' meant to continue to be alongside Austin in the plan for the second film, but Elizabeth Hurley having scheduling issues meant that this happened.
53* ''Film/TheBourneSeries'' pulled it twice, first in ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'' with Marie (who in the original novels lives through the end), who dies early on and motivates Bourne to come out of hiding, and then in ''Film/JasonBourne'' with Nicky.
54* ''Film/HostelPartII'': Paxton, the [[FinalGirl Final Guy]] from the [[Film/{{Hostel}} first film]], is decapitated early on.
55* The character Jake from ''Rings'', a short film that bridges ''Film/TheRing'' and ''Film/TheRingTwo'', spends the majority of the (surprisingly well-written) story hallucinating and freaking out over the influence of the [[ArtifactOfDoom Cursed Tape]]. At the end of the horrible [[MindScrew seven day-long mind screw]], he calls up a girlfriend to pass the curse on to her... He dies in the opening scene of ''The Ring Two'', as the girl refuses to watch the tape and he's pulled into a [[SpecialEffectsFailure cheesy special effect]].
56** There's an even better example in the original Japanese works. The protagonist of the first book dies in the sequel, ''Rasen'' (Spiral), and in ''both'' the movie sequels (an adaptation of ''Rasen'' and an original, alternative sequel, ''Ring 2''). In all cases, a contributing reason for his/her death is simply not being the protagonist anymore.
57* Mr. Wing, the Chinese man who originally owned Gizmo, returned to reclaim him at the end of the original ''Film/{{Gremlins|1984}}'', and dies about ten minutes into [[Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch the sequel]]. This, of course, ensures that he is [[ThePlotReaper out of the way]] so Gizmo could end up being reunited with Billy. It's possible that actor Creator/KeyeLuke was in too poor of health to have an extended role in the film, as he died a year after the film's release.
58* ''Film/WelcomeToTheDollHouse'', which was very depressing as it was, had a small shred of hope for the tragic main character at the end of the film...until ''Palindromes'' was released as a loose sequel. It was revealed that the same main character has committed suicide from dead straight up in the beginning of the sequel.
59* Whistler dies in the beginning of ''Film/BladeTrinity'' to make room for Blade's super cool new sidekicks, despite the fact that ''Film/BladeII'' went to the trouble of resurrecting him after he died in the first film. At least he got a last stand this time.
60* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'':
61** ''Film/SawII'' revealed that Adam Stanheight, one of the main characters from [[Film/SawI the first movie]], had died, showing us his corpse. ''Film/SawIII'' not only showed his death scene (in a flashback), but in its early part also killed off Allison Kerry, who had been investigating the Jigsaw case since the beginning.
62** David Tapp, whose fate was unclear at the end of the first movie, is confirmed to be dead in ''Film/SawV''. A similar fate for Tapp is shown in the canonical ending of [[VideoGame/{{Saw}} the first video game]].
63** Daniel Rigg was shot at the end of ''Film/SawIV'', but was otherwise alive. He is declared dead at the beginning of ''Saw V''.
64** Peter Strahm was first introduced in ''Saw IV'', and died at the end of ''Saw V''.
65* ''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'', with his earlier apparent death being retconned as a case of ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated.
66* Brenda Wyatt, Connor [=MacLeod=]'s romantic interest in the original ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' film, has been killed off in [[CanonDisContinuity every single different sequel]] which followed on from the original film:
67** In ''Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening'' Brenda is shown in flashback to have died in 1995 as a result of environmental catastrophe.
68** In ''Film/HighlanderIIITheSorcerer'' Brenda is said to have died in 1987 after both she and [=MacLeod=] are run over by a car.
69** An alternate cut of ''Film/HighlanderEndgame'' shows Brenda being hit by a car thanks to the BigBad of the film, possibly in reference to ''The Sorcerer''.
70* 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 [[Film/{{Rocky}} first movie]], also passed away, and in ''Film/CreedIII'', Apollo's widow Mary-Anne would later die of a stroke.
71* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInMexico'' killed off Carolina, the LoveInterest from ''Film/{{Desperado}}'', in a backstory event that didn't get revealed until the end of the second act of the film. She and Mariachi had a kid before it all went down, which made things extra tragic, since the little girl wasn't spared either. Marquez, the killer and TheDragon for the movie's BigBad, [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon is Mariachi's main target for revenge during the movie]].
72* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'' quickly kills off Governor Swann and Commodore Norrington.
73* Dimon the Burnt in the sequel to the Russian film ''Bumer'', which is kind of strange considering that his survival is part of what gave the ending to the first film impact.
74* Creator/BruceCampbell's protagonist in ''Film/ManiacCop'' gets one scene to catch his bearings in ''Film/ManiacCop2'' before being killed by the still-living monster cop while reading about himself in the newspaper.
75* Nancy Allen, who played Officer Ann Lewis in the ''Franchise/RoboCop'' trilogy, is dispatched less than halfway through ''Film/RoboCop3''. Allen [[KilledByRequest asked the producers to write her character out of the franchise]].
76* Although Tank seemed to be quite fine by the end of ''Film/TheMatrix'', the actor's refusal to reprise the role (or leaking details of the plot, according to some) made the OnlyAFleshWound fatal after all.
77* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'':
78** Indy's dad is revealed to have died offscreen prior to the events of the movie, thanks to Connery declining to appear in the film. Henry Jones was already old in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' and the fourth film takes place eighteen years later, so many viewers probably saw his death coming anyway.
79** Marcus also dies between ''Crusade'' and ''Crystal Skull'', due to [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim the death of actor Denholm Elliot]].
80** In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'', Mutt is revealed to have died in Vietnam.
81* ''Film/DaughterOfTheDragon'': Warner Oland starred in the first two Literature/FuManchu films as the title character, the YellowPeril villain. But in this movie he's killed off less than a third of the way through, leaving his daughter Ling Moy to be DaddysLittleVillain.
82* Kraven, the ManipulativeBastard who survived all the reversals and betrayals of ''Film/{{Underworld|2003}}'', dies barely 10 minutes into ''Film/UnderworldEvolution'' when Marcus, the new big bad, learns of his treachery and gruesomely slaughters him. He also slaughters everyone else in the mansion, albeit off-screen, including Erika.
83* In the 1999 remake of ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1999'', the only survivors were Eddie and Sara. At the beginning of the 2007 sequel, ''Film/ReturnToHouseOnHauntedHill'', Sara's sister Ariel gets a phone call telling her that Sara has committed suicide. (We never learn what happened to Eddie.)
84* The two final survivors in ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'' film are revealed in ''Film/HouseOfTheDeadIIDeadAim'' to have died in the interim. This is something of an unusual example in that the ending of the first film had the guy bring the girl back to life as a semi-zombie using the BigBad's formula, so even back then you knew things weren't going to end well for the two of them.
85* Ironhide in ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''. And Ratchet in ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction''. For a villainous example averting JokerImmunity, both Starscream and Megatron bite it in ''Dark of the Moon''. Though Megs returns as Galvatron in the follow-up.
86* Played with in ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' where it first appears that the Ethan Hunt's wife Julia from the third film fell victim to this trope. Later it is completely subverted when it is revealed he faked her death to protect her and she is alive and well. She even makes a brief appearance.
87* Irene Adler dies within the first few minutes of ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows''.
88* Io in ''Film/WrathOfTheTitans''.
89* ''Film/PitchBlack'' survivor Imam fares much worse in the sequel ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick''. Jack/Kyra meanwhile doesn't make it either but at least survives all the way to the climax.
90* Commissioner Loeb is one of the Joker's first major victims in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', while Mayor Garcia is one of the first ones to get killed by Bane in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.
91* Duke in ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation''. Thanks to the Joes' base being destroyed, it's also possible that Ripcord, Scarlett, and the other Joes from the [[Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra first movie]] died as well. When asked about it in interviews, Marlon Wayans seemed to suggest his character had indeed been killed off-screen.
92* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
93** ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': Picard discovers that his brother and nephew, who appeared in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E2Family Family]]", died in a fire.
94** 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.
95** Spock Prime is revealed to have died early on in ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'', owing to the [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim death]] of Creator/LeonardNimoy.
96* At the end of ''Film/{{Machete}}'', Machete and Sartana ride off as a couple. The sequel, ''Film/MacheteKills'', continues from that point but apparently they wanted Machete to be a loner: Sartana is killed five minutes into the movie.
97* ''Film/KickBoxer 2'' begins with the protagonist from the first film, getting killed by the villain Tong Po out of anger for losing to him in the kickboxing match, which was the original film's climax. This was done to write Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme (who refused to return) out of the sequel and replace him with Sasha Mitchell, another martial artist slash actor, as the remaining brother in the family out for revenge. Mitchell starred in the next three sequels, but then was unceremoniously killed at the beginning of Kickboxer 5 by a group of henchmen; he was replaced in the movie by Matt Reeves (Mark Dacascos).
98* Cpt. Esteridge survives ''Film/TheHitcher'' but is killed at the very beginning of ''The Hitcher II: I've been waiting''.
99* The murder of Lenore in ''Film/{{Taken}} [[Film/{{Taken}} 3]]'' launches a RoaringRampageOfRevenge by Bryan Mills.
100* Honey Pie falls victim to this in the ''Film/{{Feast}}'' franchise. She barely manages to survive the first two films, but when the third rolls around and she's looking particularly fierce on the [[https://bargainblockbusters.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/feast-3.jpg poster]], she instead meets an early demise within the first 5 minutes or so.
101* The ''Film/{{Subspecies}}'' franchise does this when necessary:
102** Stefan meets an early demise in ''Bloodstone'' at Radu's hand.
103** Michelle's sister, Becky, and Mel who were both protagonists in ''Bloodstone'' and ''Bloodlust'' meet this fate in the ''Bloodstorm''. [[WordOfGod The director explained]] that this was an instance where both actors were too busy to return and the idea to kill the characters originated from a joke passed around on set of the previous two films that he was going to kill them in the fourth film for annoying him on set.
104* In ''A Better Tomorrow II'', Kit is killed by the main henchman.
105* ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' sees Jasmine go as the SacrificialLamb fairly early in the film. Before the events of the movie, Steven Hiller was killed in a training accident, and a supplementary novel states that Constance had died in an accident. Subverted with Julius, who initially appears to die in the tidal wave caused by the mothership's landing, but later turns up alive and well.
106* ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle'': Roxy and J.B. (Eggsy's pug) perish early in the first act.
107* ''The Mummy's Tomb'', sequel to ''Film/TheMummysHand'', part of a series of 4 movies starring the mummy Kharis [[note]](which are sort-of sequels to ''Film/TheMummy1932'', or at least use lots of stock footage from them)[[/note]] killed off archaeologist Steve Banning, his LoveInterest Marta, and his comic relief sidekick Babe Jenson, who survived the first film. Marta was said to have died offscreen between films (since her actress didn't return) while the aforementioned Kharis killed the other two.[[note]] Oddly, the movies also [[AvertedTrope avert]] this as well, as the villain of the first movie would appear in the next two [[UnexplainedRecovery having somehow survived his earlier death.]] [[/note]]
108* Vanessa in ''Film/Deadpool2''. Marketing made a big deal out of her, but she dies in the prologue. By the end of the film, her death is reversed by Wade's time travel antics.
109* Despite being one of the protagonists of the first movie, Mako Mori is killed off in the first half of ''Film/PacificRimUprising''. Her death motivates the new protagonist, Jake Pentecost, to join the PPDC and become a Jaeger pilot again.
110* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'':
111** Letty is KilledOffscreen within the first twenty minutes of ''Film/FastAndFurious''. Doubles as BackForTheDead since this is her first flick in nearly eight years, having skipped the intervening two films. Subverted later when TheStinger of ''Film/FastFive'' reveals that she is NotQuiteDead. She joins the series again as a main character in ''Film/FastAndFurious6'' and has stayed since.
112** Vince, who debuts in the first film as one of Dom's gang, gets killed off halfway through ''Fast Five''.
113** Elena Neves, who debuts in ''Fast Five'' and survives the next two sequels, gets killed in ''Film/TheFateOfTheFurious''.
114* ''Film/MammaMiaHereWeGoAgain'': Donna died four years after the events of ''Theatre/MammaMia,'' one year before the start of the sequel.
115* Peggy and Socket Cleek pass away between ''Film/TheWoman'' and ''Film/{{Darlin}}''.
116* ''Film/TheFlyII'': In the opening scene Veronica Quaife suffers DeathByChildbirth and the remainder of the film chronicles the resultant SpinOffspring. Also counts as TheOtherDarrin since she is played by Saffron Henderson due to Creator/GeenaDavis not wanting to reprise her role just for that (earlier concepts for the sequel gave Veronica significantly more to do).
117* In ''Film/ThreeFromHell'' Rondo and Captain Spaulding get a scene to catch their bearings before dying early on.
118* ''Film/Coming2America'' does this to King Jaffe Joffer and Queen Aoleon of Zamunda from the [[Film/ComingToAmerica first film]]. Jaffe Joffer is terminally ill and passes away a few minutes into this film, allowing Akeem to become the new ruler of Zamunda. Aoleon died some time before the events of the film [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim due to Madge Sinclair's death]] in 1995.
119* ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'':
120** ''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]].
121** ''Film/AquamanAndTheLostKingdom'': Vulko is mentioned to have died sometime between the events of the [[Film/Aquaman2018 first film]] and this film because of a plague caused by pollution from the surface world.
122* In ''Film/TopGunMaverick'', it was mentioned that Rooster's mother, Carole, [[BusCrash passed away several years before the events of the film]].
123* ''Film/ClerksIII'': Becky Scott is revealed to have suffered a BusCrash in-between sequels.
124* ''Film/BillAndTedFaceTheMusic'': Rufus is mentioned to have died during the 28-year interim since the last movie. This is due to his actor Creator/GeorgeCarlin's real-life passing.
125* ''Film/ReturnOfTheFly'', the first of two sequels to ''Film/TheFly1958'', begins with Phillipe Delambre and his uncle Francois attending the funeral of Phillipe's mother Hélène, who [[SparedByTheAdaptation survived the events of the first film in spite of committing suicide in the original short story the film was adapted from]].
126* Charon is killed off a few minutes early in ''Film/JohnWickChapter4'' by the [[BigBad Marquis de Gramont]] to [[SacrificialLion establish the stakes against John and his allies are now faced with]].
127* ''Krrish'', the 2006 sequel to ''Film/KoiMilGaya'', starts with both Rohit Mehra and his wife Nisha dead by the start of the film, survived by their son Kirshna and Rohit's mother Sonia. Later in the film, this gets subverted with Rohit as it is revealed [[FakingTheDead he is actually still alive]] but held captive by BigBad [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou who needs him to activate a powerful supercomputer]], with Krishna ultimately saving his father.
128* ''Film/TheExorcistIII'' has Father Dyer, who survived the [[Film/TheExorcist original film]], be killed by the Gemini Killer, like in the book that the film adapts, ''Legion''. Father Kanavan, who was also in the original film, also dies early on.
129* In ''Film/CocoonTheReturn'', Joe gives up his life force to save Alma.
130* In ''Film/JawsTheRevenge'', it's revealed that Martin Brody died some time prior to the film. His son Sean also dies early on.
131* In ''Film/MenInBlack3'', Zed is revealed to have died recently.
132* ''Film/BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice'': Lydia's father Charles has passed away. We get a glimpse of his funeral in the teaser (complete with a glass headstone that displays a black-and-white photo of him).[[note]]He was most likely killed off because the actor who played him, Creator/JeffreyJones, is a registered sex offender.[[/note]]
133* Egon Spengler, owing to the passing of Creator/HaroldRamis in 2014, is killed in the opening scene of ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'' by either Zuul or Vinz Clortho, then goes on to be the unseen SpiritAdvisor for Phoebe and Trevor throughout the film before reappearing in ghost form in the film's climax to help put down Gozer for good beside his old teammates.

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