Tropescilloscope: Back from the Dead

A character who was dead comes back to life. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Car Fu Irony Action Girl Ship Tease Big Applesauce Show Within a Show The Bully Unresolved Sexual Tension Rule of Symbolism Break the Cutie Gratuitous English Extremely Short Timespan Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Unspoken Plan Guarantee Sanity Slippage Mystery and Detective Films Loophole Abuse Slashed Throat Genre Throwback Real Life Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Boom, Headshot! Thriller Recycled IN SPACE! Guile Hero Greater-Scope Villain Good Is Not Nice Nice Hat As You Know Facial Horror Expository Hairstyle Change Offscreen Teleportation Black Comedy Hero of Another Story The Place Implacable Man Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Jerkass Has a Point Dirty Coward Hong Kong Films Eye Scream Red Right Hand Vitriolic Best Buds Motor Mouth Gone Horribly Right Improvised Weapon As Himself Tagline Truth in Television Grey and Gray Morality Those Wacky Nazis Intergenerational Friendship Redemption Equals Death Reckless Gun Usage Death Seeker Peek-a-Boo Corpse Badass Longcoat Italian Films Advertised Extra Obstructive Bureaucrat timeperiod Market-Based Title Skewed Priorities Immune to Bullets Vomit Discretion Shot I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Sequel Escalation Babies Ever After Earn Your Happy Ending Covers Always Lie Chekhov's Gun Last-Name Basis Camp Gay Canadian Movies Accidental Murder Sole Survivor No Ending Captain Obvious Biopic The Cavalry Loads and Loads of Characters There Is No Kill Like Overkill Dying Moment of Awesome Martial Arts Movie Framing Device Grievous Bottley Harm Killed Mid-Sentence A Minor Kidroduction "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Costume Porn Index of Film Westerns Victoria's Secret Compartment The X of Y Corpsing And I Must Scream Only in It for the Money Hooker with a Heart of Gold Only Sane Man Moment Killer Diabolus ex Machina Roaring Rampage of Revenge Take a Third Option Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Papa Wolf Worthy Opponent Calling the Old Man Out Drill Sergeant Nasty Russian Films He Knows Too Much The Dragon Author Appeal Monumental Damage Hollywood Darkness Despair Event Horizon Slap-Slap-Kiss Black Dude Dies First Bi the Way Crazy Jealous Guy Historical Villain Upgrade Bloody Hilarious Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Sassy Black Woman Death by Sex Handicapped Badass "Shaggy Dog" Story Due to the Dead Danny Peary Cult Movies List One-Word Title Mind Screw Light Is Not Good Retcon Jump Scare Creepy Child All There in the Manual Double-Meaning Title It Will Never Catch On Abhorrent Admirer Enemy Mine Left the Background Music On The Quiet One Romantic False Lead Aside Glance Darkest Hour Cool Shades Catch-Phrase Dirty Old Man Animal Motifs It's Personal Butt-Monkey Genre Savvy Adaptation Expansion Dies Wide Open Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Sociopath Married to the Job Obviously Evil Suspiciously Specific Denial Blatant Lies The Chessmaster Belligerent Sexual Tension Rasputinian Death Card-Carrying Villain Rated M for Manly The Big Guy Final Girl Evil-Detecting Dog Disney Villain Death Nothing Is Scarier Important Haircut Scary Black Man Sacrificial Lion The '50s Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Zombie Stories Anti-Villain Silence Is Golden N-Word Privileges Idiot Ball Exactly What It Says on the Tin Agony of the Feet Military and Warfare Films Red Shirt Five-Man Band Funny Background Event Taking You with Me Artistic License – Geography Needs Wiki Magic Love After the End Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Bittersweet Ending Stepford Smiler Manipulative Bastard All Just a Dream Naïve Newcomer Psychological Thriller Same Language Dub Pet the Dog Honor Before Reason Early-Bird Cameo What Happened to the Mouse? Genre Shift Plot Hole This Is Gonna Suck Wrong Genre Savvy Authority Equals Asskicking Mooks Bunny-Ears Lawyer Attempted Rape Body Horror Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Fourth Date Marriage Pimped-Out Dress Large Ham Awesome, but Impractical Not So Different Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Throwing Your Sword Always Works No Celebrities Were Harmed Karmic Death Adaptational Heroism Central Theme Ambiguous Ending Tranquil Fury Overly Long Gag Does This Remind You of Anything? Straight Gay The Faceless Cruel and Unusual Death Random Events Plot Empathic Environment Manly Tears Up to Eleven Never Found the Body Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Fan Disservice Bilingual Bonus Bury Your Gays Line-of-Sight Name Kick the Son of a Bitch Race Lift Action Prologue Beauty Is Never Tarnished Black Best Friend Room Full of Crazy Mad Scientist An Arm and a Leg Mugging the Monster Eagleland Character Development Happily Married Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Villain Protagonist Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! What the Hell, Hero? Adaptation Distillation And Starring Spiteful Spit Anguished Declaration of Love Reality Has No Subtitles Take That! Humans Are Bastards Well-Intentioned Extremist Composite Character Mercy Kill Obfuscating Stupidity Credits Gag Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Lancer Missing Mom The '90s Posthumous Character Creative Closing Credits Aluminum Christmas Trees Mexican Standoff Brutal Honesty No-Sell Fun with Acronyms Sadistic Choice How We Got Here Country Matters All Girls Want Bad Boys Deus ex Machina Jerk Jock Not Quite Dead Fanservice Extra I'm a Humanitarian Dissonant Serenity Punch-Clock Villain Adapted Out Unwitting Instigator of Doom Took a Level in Badass Manic Pixie Dream Girl Love at First Sight Police are Useless Pay Evil unto Evil "Well Done, Son!" Guy Better to Die than Be Killed Dull Surprise Red Herring Adults Are Useless Scare Chord Flipping the Bird Annoying Younger Sibling Woman Scorned Ominous Latin Chanting Didn't Think This Through Almost Kiss Rich Bitch Dramedy Ungrateful Bastard Dramatic Irony Documentary Cool Old Lady Face–Heel Turn May–December Romance Blackmail Arch-Enemy My God, What Have I Done? Riddle for the Ages Creator Cameo Science Fiction Films Deadpan Snarker Fantastic Racism Twist Ending Kill 'em All Hero Antagonist Defrosting Ice Queen Made of Explodium Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism More Dakka Ironic Echo Anyone Can Die The Load Fantasy Films Accidental Misnaming For Want of a Nail Decoy Protagonist Cool Guns Meet Cute Gender Flip Improbable Weapon User The Smart Guy Sci-Fi Horror Depraved Bisexual Everyone Has Standards Bald of Evil Gainax Ending Captain Ersatz Those Two Bad Guys Word of God One Steve Limit Chase Scene Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Pretty in Mink Disney Death From Bad to Worse Fat Bastard Flashback Gilligan Cut Big Bad Your Head A-Splode Tempting Fate Faking the Dead Did Not Get the Girl Becoming the Mask The '60s Neck Lift Bloodless Carnage The Vamp Hypocrite Insult Backfire Film Noir Index Gory Discretion Shot Super Strength Brother–Sister Incest Fainting Token Minority Early Installment Weirdness The Remake Only One Name Artistic License – Law Demoted to Extra From Nobody to Nightmare Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Back from the Dead Black Comedy Rape Politically Incorrect Villain Award-Bait Song Slasher Smile Training Montage Film Series Trailers Always Spoil Precision F-Strike Male Frontal Nudity Daddy's Girl Affectionate Parody Rule of Cool Jerkass Improbable Aiming Skills Instant Death Bullet The Musical Villain Ball Extreme Doormat Storming the Castle Antagonist Title Green-Eyed Monster No OSHA Compliance Rousing Speech Stylistic Suck Ambiguous Disorder Arc Words folderlabel Really Gets Around One-Man Army Product Placement It's All About Me Psycho for Hire Pragmatic Adaptation The '80s Corrupt Corporate Executive Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique 20 Minutes into the Future All Men Are Perverts Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other An Aesop Dual Wielding Foreshadowing Kick the Dog Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Conspicuous CG Dwindling Party Dirty Cop Casting Gag Smug Snake Toplessness from the Back Cool Car Drugs Are Bad Bad Boss Heterosexual Life-Partners Animated Credits Opening Half the Man He Used to Be Off-into-the-Distance Ending Our Zombies Are Different Big Bad Duumvirate An Axe to Grind Rule of Funny The Great Depression Love Triangle Major Injury Underreaction Christmas Movies Index Catapult Nightmare Stealth Pun Reality Ensues NO INDOOR VOICE Knight Templar Ax-Crazy Too Dumb to Live Fate Worse than Death Freeze-Frame Bonus Non-Indicative Name Silent Movie Big "NO!" Serial Killer Imagine Spot Pyrrhic Victory Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Actually Pretty Funny Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Voiceless Rewatch Bonus Dark and Troubled Past The Ace Developing Doomed Characters Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Unusual Euphemism Artistic License – Biology Based on a True Story Affably Evil Pragmatic Villainy Demonic Possession Dropped a Bridge on Him Destination Defenestration Man on Fire Leave the Camera Running Scenery Porn Easily Forgiven Laser-Guided Karma Dark Reprise Face Death with Dignity Eiffel Tower Effect Nice Guy Historical In-Joke Bring My Brown Pants Canon Foreigner Here We Go Again! Broken Pedestal Sports Stories Public Domain Feature Films The Cameo Epic Fail Sexy Discretion Shot Celebrity Paradox Dark Action Girl Manchild Continuity Nod Match Cut Scenery Gorn Suddenly SHOUTING! Evil vs. Evil Punny Name The Oner Humiliation Conga Crapsack World Kids Are Cruel Would Hit a Girl Stalker with a Crush Artistic License – Gun Safety Works Set in World War II Film Noir The Hero Epic Movie Homage Faux Affably Evil Shipper on Deck Anti-Hero Soft Glass Bond Villain Stupidity Mighty Whitey A Date with Rosie Palms Bullying a Dragon Every Car Is a Pinto Video Credits Broken Bird You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! British Films Adult Fear Pre-Mortem One-Liner Broken Aesop Wham Shot As the Good Book Says... I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Deal with the Devil Drives Like Crazy Badass Grandpa The Un-Reveal Cool Old Guy Stock Footage The Stoner Alpha Bitch Romantic Comedy Serious Business Meaningful Echo Chiaroscuro Author Avatar Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Offscreen Moment of Awesome Famous Last Words Funny Foreigner The Lost Lenore Department of Redundancy Department Hidden Depths Poor Communication Kills Double Entendre Domestic Abuse Distracted by the Sexy Made of Iron Ghost Fiction Heroes Want Redheads Kill It with Fire Bavarian Fire Drill Amoral Attorney My Greatest Failure Breaking the Fourth Wall The Casanova Not So Stoic Your Cheating Heart Bolivian Army Ending Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Badass in a Nice Suit German Films Ascended Extra Evil Plan Ass Shove Book-Ends Villain with Good Publicity Children Are Innocent All for Nothing Crucified Hero Shot Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Deliberate Values Dissonance Taking the Bullet Properly Paranoid Camera Abuse Unreliable Narrator Informed Ability Police Brutality Parental Neglect Fish out of Water Adaptational Badass Shown Their Work Dumb Blonde Henpecked Husband Asshole Victim Together in Death World of Ham Animal Title Index Age Lift Fingore Woman in White "The Reason You Suck" Speech Brick Joke Spell My Name with an "S" Call-Forward Mundane Made Awesome Abusive Parents Drowning My Sorrows Japanese Films Oh, Crap! Shower Scene The Ghost A God Am I Evil Is Hammy Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Blood from the Mouth Mood Whiplash Translation Convention Sinister Minister Chekhov's Gunman Stuff Blowing Up Hypocritical Humor Horror Films War Is Hell Leitmotif Our Vampires Are Different I Have Your Wife Contrived Coincidence The '70s Smoking Is Cool Visual Pun Determinator aka: The Determinator Big Brother Instinct Hope Spot The Ditz The Brute Fake Shemp Slasher Movie Heel–Face Turn Coming-of-Age Story Insane Troll Logic I Did What I Had to Do Lighter and Softer Evil Sounds Deep Death by Irony Star-Crossed Lovers Vampire Fiction Expy A.I. Is a Crapshoot Spanner in the Works Tap on the Head Darker and Edgier Lock and Load Montage Would Hurt a Child Running Gag Eldritch Abomination She's Got Legs Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Reasonable Authority Figure In the Back Groin Attack Ripped from the Headlines Jerk with a Heart of Gold You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Retired Badass The End... Or Is It? Fanservice Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy All There in the Script Malevolent Masked Men No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Artistic License – Physics Small Name, Big Ego She Cleans Up Nicely Not Using the "Z" Word Closed Circle The Alleged Car Villain Song Bottomless Magazines Only a Flesh Wound Curse Cut Short Foregone Conclusion Fatal Flaw The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Once More, with Clarity! Ms. Fanservice Narrator Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Let's Get Dangerous! Be Careful What You Wish For Bloodier and Gorier A Father to His Men Whole Plot Reference Noodle Incident Shoot the Shaggy Dog Pretty Little Headshots Action Genre Setting Update Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Bad "Bad Acting" Unusually Uninteresting Sight Not Even Bothering with the Accent Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Chick Comically Missing the Point Artistic License – History Karma Houdini Fatal Family Photo BFG What You Are in the Dark Heroic Sacrifice Bound and Gagged Knife Nut Parental Substitute No Antagonist True Companions Curb-Stomp Battle Mistaken for Gay Arranged Marriage Ambiguously Gay Bowdlerise Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Parental Abandonment Big-Bad Ensemble Cat Fight Blood Knight Evil Brit Madness Mantra '80s Hair Hoist by His Own Petard Hair-Trigger Temper Batman Gambit Badass Bookworm MacGuffin Put on a Bus Cold-Blooded Torture Jitter Cam Artistic License – Military Anachronic Order As Long as It Sounds Foreign Black and Gray Morality Older Than They Look Lampshade Hanging Plucky Comic Relief Novelization Undying Loyalty Big Fancy House Self-Deprecation Protagonist Title My Beloved Smother Get Out! Hollywood Law Adaptational Attractiveness Alas, Poor Villain Failed a Spot Check Adaptational Villainy In Medias Res Parental Incest Adaptation Name Change Stealth Hi/Bye O.O.C. Is Serious Business Combat Pragmatist Title Drop The Atoner Death of a Child Sequel Hook Horror Comedy Cloudcuckoolander Damsel in Distress Have a Gay Old Time Getting Crap Past the Radar Spared by the Adaptation Logo Joke Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Evil Laugh Shirtless Scene Frame-Up Not So Above It All No Name Given Freudian Excuse French Films The Hero Dies I Need a Freaking Drink Cluster F-Bomb Villainous Breakdown Hate Sink Historical Hero Upgrade Deconstruction Does Not Like Shoes You Killed My Father Heel Realization Neck Snap The Bad Guy Wins Big Damn Heroes Chewing the Scenery Big Eater Wretched Hive The Starscream Villain Opening Scene Never My Fault The Reveal Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Never Trust a Trailer Dark Is Not Evil Shout-Out Dramatic Gun Cock Deliberately Monochrome Disguised in Drag Outrun the Fireball Even Evil Has Standards Dressing as the Enemy Defiant to the End Time Skip Adaptation Dye-Job Psychopathic Manchild Kubrick Stare The Power of Love You Have Failed Me The Dog Bites Back Mama Bear Dogged Nice Guy The Alcoholic Actor Allusion The Dreaded Badass Normal Laughing Mad Cassandra Truth Adorkable Alliterative Name Took a Level in Jerkass Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Disproportionate Retribution Berserk Button Fire-Forged Friends Morality Pet Guns Akimbo Beta Couple Race Against the Clock Hell Is That Noise Paper-Thin Disguise Retirony Eyepatch of Power Names to Run Away from Really Fast Re-Cut Establishing Character Moment Crazy-Prepared Not What It Looks Like Leaning on the Fourth Wall Bland-Name Product Cat Scare Redshirt Army Wham Line Friend to All Children Spiritual Successor Auto Erotica The Film of the Book He Who Fights Monsters Femme Fatale Superhero Armor-Piercing Question The Stinger It Can Think Off with His Head! Betty and Veronica Say My Name Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Beware the Nice Ones Evil Is Petty Sealed Evil in a Can Mr. Exposition Cain and Abel Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Daylight Horror Mr. Fanservice Music Stories Bond One-Liner Meaningful Name Badass Boast Rule of Three Suspiciously Similar Substitute Death by Adaptation Yandere Brainless Beauty La Résistance The Stoic Revenge Mythology Gag In Name Only Gorn Eureka Moment Foil Evil Counterpart Fiery Redhead Insistent Terminology Overprotective Dad Rape as Drama Make It Look Like an Accident Amusing Injuries Interrupted Suicide Men Are the Expendable Gender For the Evulz Cowboy Cop Sir Swears-a-Lot Four-Temperament Ensemble Call-Back And the Adventure Continues Soundtrack Dissonance Bait-and-Switch Air-Vent Passageway The Mole Red Eyes, Take Warning Red Oni, Blue Oni The Mafia Very Loosely Based on a True Story B-Movie Playing Gertrude Meaningful Background Event Determinator Australian Movies The Smurfette Principle Historical-Domain Character Shell-Shocked Veteran Disappeared Dad Death Glare Male Gaze Beard of Evil Downer Ending Real Life Writes the Plot Totally Radical Heroic BSoD "Awesome McCool" Name Maybe Ever After Apocalypse How Driven to Suicide Intrepid Reporter Chekhov's Skill Wicked Cultured Anachronism Stew Gold Digger No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Break the Haughty Action Survivor Dutch Angle Only Known by Their Nickname Television Movie Index Naked People Are Funny Refuge in Audacity Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Bar Brawl Bare Your Midriff Vacation Films Reality Is Unrealistic Those Two Guys Shut Up, Hannibal! 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