11 Powerful Movie Deaths Devalued By The Sequels

11. Jaws - Jaws 2 (1978)

Now, hear me out.

The original Jaws was blown up in spectacular fashion by Martin Brody aboard the Orca, as we all know. It was a definitive end to the great white menace, and neatly closed the book while assuring us that the waters of Amity Island would be sufficiently shark-free thereafter.

So, when Jaws 2 introduced another great white shark, just as deadly and prolific as the first (and hunted by Brody once again, no less), the film's very existence created an unfortunate implication: that the first Jaws was not just a one-off, and that the risk of great white sharks wandering in and snacking on swimmers is practically constant, effectively making Brody's efforts for nothing.

It's a terrifically awful way of belittling the threat that the shark in Steven Spielberg's 1975 original posed. And if that wasn't bad enough, this problem is drawn attention to even further in the two sequels that followed Jaws 2. What a way to ruin a timeless classic.