10 Movie Characters That Sequels Totally Forgot
8. Bud Fox - Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Michael Douglas's amoral Gordon "greed is good" Gekko may have stolen the show, and picked up an Oscar, in Oliver Stone's cautionary tale of 80s financial dodgy deals, but it was Charlie Sheen's Bud Fox who was the supposed protagonist of the original Wall Street.
In the course of the movie Bud experienced a heap of highs and lows brought on by illicit insider trading, from living in a glitzy Manhattan penthouse to giving his father a heart attack. And, although he got his well deserved comeuppance in the end, it wasn't without taking down his more colourful mentor/enemy at the same time.
Flash forward twenty years to sequel Money Never Sleeps and Gekko was out of jail and getting another young stock trader (Shia LaBeouf's Jake Moore) into illegal manipulation of the market.
Sheen, on the other hand, just managed to drop by for a single scene cameo which was basically irrelevant to this movie's plot and only served to reveal that Bud had implausibly become a multi-millionaire philanthropist.
At least he actually made the finished cut, unlike Donald Trump whose scene filmed for Money Never Sleeps was left on the cutting room floor after Stone found it too distracting.