10 Movie Heroes Who Fell For The Same S**t In The Sequel
8. Snake Gets Arrested & Sent On A Suicide Mission - Escape From L.A.
John Carpenter's cult classic action-thriller Escape from New York follows the exploits of war hero-turned-criminal Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), who gets arrested after breaking into the Federal Reserve and is offered a deal - rescue the missing President (Donald Pleasance) and his criminal slate will be wiped clean.
To enforce the mission's 24-hour time limit, Snake also has explosive capsules placed in his carotid arteries primed to blow if the POTUS isn't rescued within that time. Snake completes the mission, and that's that.
Escape from L.A. is a classic case of a sequel that's basically the same movie with some variables changed. Snake is once again arrested and given a grim out - if he can retrieve a technological MacGuffin he'll be pardoned, but with a virus coursing through his veins he's only got 10 hours to get the job done.
Granted the world is an absolute dystopian hellhole in both Escape from... movies, so Snake's crimes were perhaps more about survival than mere greed, but even so, knowing the stern punishment he suffered the first time, he might've wanted to keep his crimes a little more low-key in future, no?
At least with Snake effectively undoing all of humanity's technological advancement at the end of Escape from L.A., he can probably drop off the grid for the rest of his life.