Tropescilloscope: Back from the Dead

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

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Slashed Throat Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Retired Badass Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Adaptation Name Change Creator Cameo In the Back Fan Disservice Neck Snap Depraved Bisexual Sexy Discretion Shot Despair Event Horizon Breaking the Fourth Wall Sadistic Choice It Can Think Daddy's Girl Homage Damsel in Distress No Antagonist Bittersweet Ending Shipper on Deck Evil-Detecting Dog One-Man Army The Musical Vitriolic Best Buds Freeze-Frame Bonus Deus ex Machina Combat Pragmatist Your Head A-Splode Artistic License – Gun Safety She's Got Legs Deliberately Monochrome Gory Discretion Shot Advertised Extra Gold Digger Stalker with a Crush Artistic License – Biology Epic Fail Badass Normal I Have Your Wife Word of God Cold-Blooded Torture Evil Is Petty Killed Mid-Sentence Monumental Damage Throwing Your Sword Always Works Red Eyes, Take Warning Determinator Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Foreshadowing Take That! 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Epilogue La Résistance Intrepid Reporter Taking the Bullet Yandere Dark Action Girl Beta Couple The Stinger Unusual Euphemism Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Frame-Up Cruel and Unusual Death Once More, with Clarity! Riddle for the Ages Mighty Whitey Shower Scene Shut Up, Hannibal! Nice Hat Easily Forgiven All There in the Manual Rule of Symbolism Curb-Stomp Battle Logo Joke How We Got Here Protagonist Title Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Film Noir Oh, Crap! Pimped-Out Dress Martial Arts Movie An Aesop Not So Stoic Hong Kong Films Ship Tease Break the Haughty Ironic Echo Age Lift Animal Title Index Rule of Cool She Cleans Up Nicely I Did What I Had to Do Film Series Foil Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Heroic Sacrifice Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Not So Different Random Events Plot Big Eater Match Cut Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Final Girl Immune to Bullets Star-Crossed Lovers Hero Antagonist Artistic License – Law Bloody Hilarious Index of Film Westerns Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Abhorrent Admirer Bring My Brown Pants Red Herring Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The '50s Kubrick Stare Mr. Exposition Four-Temperament Ensemble Berserk Button True Companions I'm a Humanitarian Jump Scare Overprotective Dad Darkest Hour Amoral Attorney Let's Get Dangerous! As Himself Camera Abuse Papa Wolf Deliberate Values Dissonance Soft Glass Cool Shades Blood from the Mouth Big Bad Duumvirate Television Movie Index Children Are Innocent Chekhov's Gun Dogged Nice Guy Black Comedy Rape Arc Words Expository Hairstyle Change Fat Bastard Crazy-Prepared Off with His Head! 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Names to Run Away from Really Fast No OSHA Compliance Insistent Terminology Dies Wide Open Downer Ending The Oner And the Adventure Continues Show Within a Show Villain with Good Publicity B-Movie Animal Motifs Death of a Child Victoria's Secret Compartment Wounded Gazelle Gambit Psychological Thriller Obfuscating Stupidity Reality Has No Subtitles Crapsack World Death Seeker Intergenerational Friendship What the Hell, Hero? Male Gaze Laughing Mad Hollywood Law Interrupted Suicide Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Informed Ability Beard of Evil Dying Moment of Awesome Accidental Murder Alas, Poor Villain Tap on the Head Dirty Old Man Rasputinian Death Driven to Suicide Get Out! Artistic License – History Naked People Are Funny Shell-Shocked Veteran Villain Ball Everyone Has Standards Evil Sounds Deep Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Hero Non-Indicative Name Action Genre Aside Glance Establishing Character Moment Batman Gambit Boom, Headshot! 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Is a Crapshoot Posthumous Character Stock Footage Well-Intentioned Extremist Military and Warfare Films Decoy Protagonist Car Fu Due to the Dead A Father to His Men Black Best Friend Kick the Dog Lighter and Softer Adaptational Villainy Ominous Latin Chanting Fantastic Racism Shirtless Scene Bare Your Midriff And Starring The Cavalry Mr. Fanservice Hate Sink Asshole Victim No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Your Cheating Heart Empathic Environment Didn't Think This Through Leave the Camera Running Big Brother Instinct Babies Ever After Setting Update Australian Movies Knight Templar Smoking Is Cool Genre Shift Fantasy Films Badass in a Nice Suit Unspoken Plan Guarantee Rape as Drama Police Brutality Eyepatch of Power The Ace Friend to All Children Made of Iron Neck Lift My Greatest Failure Toplessness from the Back Badass Grandpa The Mafia Pay Evil unto Evil Revenge Based on a True Story Dual Wielding Corrupt Corporate Executive Mercy Kill You Killed My Father Real Life Writes the Plot Book-Ends Unusually Uninteresting Sight Bait-and-Switch '80s Hair The Smurfette Principle Ambiguously Gay "Well Done, Son!" Guy Death Glare Unreliable Narrator Fire-Forged Friends The Dog Bites Back Disney Villain Death Pragmatic Villainy Heel Realization Horror Films Rule of Funny Drowning My Sorrows More Dakka 20 Minutes into the Future Mind Screw Corpsing Alliterative Name Pre-Mortem One-Liner A God Am I Race Against the Clock folderlabel Did Not Get the Girl Bound and Gagged Nice Guy Truth in Television Red Right Hand Death by Adaptation Sir Swears-a-Lot Affably Evil Apocalypse How Take a Third Option Dirty Coward The Hero Dies Twist Ending The Stoner Mexican Standoff Dramedy For Want of a Nail The Film of the Book Pyrrhic Victory Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Green-Eyed Monster BFG Bond One-Liner All Girls Want Bad Boys Dark Reprise The Lost Lenore Bloodier and Gorier Ambiguous Disorder Parental Incest The Starscream Closed Circle Spell My Name with an "S" Motor Mouth Dissonant Serenity Psychopathic Manchild The Lancer Exact Words May–December Romance Credits Gag Flipping the Bird Fatal Family Photo Humans Are Bastards Evil vs. Evil Bloodless Carnage Offscreen Teleportation Hell Is That Noise Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Italian Films Made of Explodium Bad Boss Agony of the Feet The Stoic The Alcoholic Heterosexual Life-Partners Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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