10 Iconic Horror Movie Characters Done Dirty

Roy Scheider is one of cinema's greatest ever actors, and the New Yorker was never better than his turn as Martin Brody in Steven Spielberg's iconic Jaws. Likewise, Scheider was on similarly excellent form in Jeannot Szwarc's Jaws 2.

Unfortunately for film fans, Scheider didn't return for either Jaws 3-D or Jaws: The Revenge. While that in itself was disappointing - although even the presence of the Academy Award nominee wouldn't have saved those two stinkers - even more baffling was the decision to kill the Chief Brody character off-screen and between movies.

While Scheider purposely took on the Murphy role in Blue Thunder to make himself unavailable for Jaws 3-D and stop Universal asking him to return as Brody, he was offered the chance to reprise the Amity Police Chief gig for Jaws: The Revenge. And much like Matt Hooper actor Richard Dreyfuss, Scheider declined to be involved with The Revenge.

As a result of this, Universal opted to have Jaws: The Revenge reference how Martin Brody had died of a heart attack between the events of Jaws 3-D and that fourth film. With that, a beloved character was done dirty; disposed of with a throwaway line that served simply to fuel the grief of Brody's wife, Ellen.