10 Movie Sequels That Totally Insulted Great Characters
7. Vanessa - Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
At the end of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, it seems that Austin and his new girlfriend, Vanessa Kensington, have found their happily ever after. They spent the film working together, slowly growing to respect one another, and finally falling in love, famously honeymooning in the final scene.
However, less than ten minutes into the sequel, we learn that it was all a crock. The Austin Powers team wanted to follow the James Bond tradition of a different love interest in every movie, so they had to find some way get rid of Vanessa to make way for Heather Graham's new character, Felicity Shagwell.
As such, in her one scene in the sequel, Vanessa reveals that she'd been a fembot in disguise throughout the first film. She never loved Austin, and was just posing as a human woman so she could kill him. This revelation not only undermines her arc in the original, but it is a lazy and uncreative way to ditch her.