Tropescilloscope: Back from the Dead

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

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Crucified Hero Shot Call-Back My Beloved Smother Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Dumb Blonde Adult Fear Killed Mid-Sentence Meaningful Name Victoria's Secret Compartment Only in It for the Money Foreshadowing Race Against the Clock Agony of the Feet Anguished Declaration of Love Abusive Parents Belligerent Sexual Tension It Will Never Catch On Say My Name Evil Brit Five-Man Band Flashback Cat Scare Awesome, but Impractical Monumental Damage Blood Knight Hate Sink Woman in White Guns Akimbo Dying Moment of Awesome Rule of Symbolism Developing Doomed Characters The Quiet One Heterosexual Life-Partners Depraved Bisexual Grey and Gray Morality Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Drowning My Sorrows Male Frontal Nudity Evil Counterpart Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! In Medias Res Parental Substitute The Lancer Double Entendre Star-Crossed Lovers Mr. Fanservice Accidental Murder Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Pay Evil unto Evil Reality Ensues Drives Like Crazy Establishing Character Moment Adaptation Distillation Pet the Dog Laser-Guided Karma Mexican Standoff Cluster F-Bomb Title Drop Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Antagonist Title BFG My Greatest Failure Unresolved Sexual Tension Deliberate Values Dissonance Heel–Face Turn Reality Is Unrealistic I Have Your Wife The Starscream Reality Has No Subtitles Captain Ersatz Bald of Evil An Arm and a Leg Ambiguous Ending All Just a Dream Sports Stories Creepy Child Gratuitous English Award-Bait Song Sir Swears-a-Lot Small Name, Big Ego Chewing the Scenery Improbable Weapon User Kids Are Cruel Pre-Mortem One-Liner Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Jump Scare Exactly What It Says on the Tin Chiaroscuro Poor Communication Kills Sanity Slippage Pretty Little Headshots Re-Cut Reasonable Authority Figure Random Events Plot Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Hero Dies Flipping the Bird Japanese Films Animal Motifs Darker and Edgier Country Matters Due to the Dead Not Quite Dead Ripped from the Headlines Large Ham Vampire Fiction Have a Gay Old Time Bloody Hilarious Parental Abandonment Driven to Suicide British Films Documentary Despair Event Horizon Humiliation Conga Defiant to the End Defrosting Ice Queen Epic Movie Everyone Has Standards The Load It's All About Me Henpecked Husband Punctuated! For! Emphasis! NO INDOOR VOICE Big Bad Suspiciously Specific Denial Dark Reprise Redemption Equals Death Love Triangle Dark and Troubled Past The Stoner The Alleged Car Fire-Forged Friends Not What It Looks Like As Himself Disguised in Drag Mercy Kill Peek-a-Boo Corpse Men Are the Expendable Gender For Want of a Nail What Happened to the Mouse? Ominous Latin Chanting Attempted Rape Fatal Family Photo Genre Savvy Stuff Blowing Up The Stinger Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Instant Death Bullet The Brute Big Fancy House The Place Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Grievous Bottley Harm Artistic License – History Spiteful Spit Meaningful Background Event The Mafia Didn't Think This Through Take a Third Option Face Death with Dignity Neck Lift Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Dramedy Badass Longcoat Disney Death Coming-of-Age Story French Films Hair-Trigger Temper Offscreen Moment of Awesome Really Gets Around Missing Mom Retired Badass Gone Horribly Right Take That! Ambiguous Disorder Chekhov's Gunman Your Head A-Splode Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Morality Pet Our Zombies Are Different The Dragon Plot Hole Worthy Opponent Four-Temperament Ensemble Italian Films Mind Screw Earn Your Happy Ending Took a Level in Badass Eagleland Bond Villain Stupidity Lock and Load Montage Cruel and Unusual Death Captain Obvious Does This Remind You of Anything? This Is Gonna Suck No Celebrities Were Harmed Revenge Match Cut The End... Or Is It? Once More, with Clarity! Black Dude Dies First Improbable Aiming Skills You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Is Serious Business Bland-Name Product Soundtrack Dissonance Fiery Redhead Card-Carrying Villain Tranquil Fury Laughing Mad Public Domain Feature Films The Film of the Book Calling the Old Man Out Combat Pragmatist Bond One-Liner Amusing Injuries Military and Warfare Films Failed a Spot Check Continuity Nod The Chessmaster Mama Bear Make It Look Like an Accident Shout-Out Unwitting Instigator of Doom Scenery Porn Actually Pretty Funny Evil Sounds Deep Put on a Bus The '50s It's Personal Manic Pixie Dream Girl He Knows Too Much Hypocritical Humor As the Good Book Says... 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Is a Crapshoot Demonic Possession Superhero Show Within a Show Works Set in World War II A Father to His Men Early Installment Weirdness The Dreaded Sci-Fi Horror Interrupted Suicide All Men Are Perverts Adaptation Expansion Greater-Scope Villain Recycled IN SPACE! 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Camp Gay Call-Forward Implacable Man Adaptational Badass All for Nothing Karmic Death Adaptational Attractiveness Spanner in the Works Evil vs. Evil Brutal Honesty Death by Irony Downer Ending Film Noir Index Department of Redundancy Department Kick the Son of a Bitch Kill It with Fire Vomit Discretion Shot Retirony Very Loosely Based on a True Story Heroic Sacrifice Straight Gay Off with His Head! Annoying Younger Sibling Better to Die than Be Killed Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Manipulative Bastard Not Even Bothering with the Accent Artistic License – Gun Safety Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Scenery Gorn Nice Guy Alliterative Name No Name Given Loads and Loads of Characters Those Two Guys The '80s Fanservice Extra Villain Song Eureka Moment Artistic License – Physics Groin Attack World of Ham Moment Killer Tempting Fate Bolivian Army Ending Villain Ball Logo Joke Face–Heel Turn Black Comedy Silence Is Golden Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Ghost Fiction Horror Comedy timeperiod Adapted Out Politically Incorrect Villain Sealed Evil in a Can "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Not Using the "Z" Word Shown Their Work Gainax Ending A God Am I Stealth Pun Only Sane Man Berserk Button Smug Snake The X of Y Zombie Stories Jerkass Has a Point Wretched Hive Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Historical Villain Upgrade Arc Words Extreme Doormat Shipper on Deck Bait-and-Switch Adaptational Heroism "Shaggy Dog" Story Bad "Bad Acting" Actor Allusion Beta Couple And Starring Friend to All Children Outrun the Fireball The Cameo Faking the Dead Tap on the Head Visual Pun Even Evil Has Standards The Oner Self-Deprecation Breaking the Fourth Wall Exact Words Only Known by Their Nickname Taking You with Me The Voiceless Celebrity Paradox Karma Houdini Bi the Way Fanservice Sinister Minister Bullying a Dragon Bound and Gagged Psycho for Hire Hooker with a Heart of Gold Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Cool Guns Market-Based Title Rousing Speech Danny Peary Cult Movies List Properly Paranoid No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Affably Evil Knife Nut Determinator Last-Name Basis Blatant Lies Easily Forgiven Twist Ending Left the Background Music On The Dog Bites Back Race Lift Oh, Crap! Slashed Throat Motor Mouth Bury Your Gays Martial Arts Movie All There in the Script Punch-Clock Villain The Ghost Immune to Bullets Room Full of Crazy Naïve Newcomer Retcon Slasher Movie True Companions The Faceless One-Man Army The Big Guy Every Car Is a Pinto For the Evulz Creative Closing Credits Real Life Writes the Plot Cat Fight You Have Failed Me Armor-Piercing Question Camera Abuse 20 Minutes into the Future Children Are Innocent Green-Eyed Monster Setting Update Hollywood Darkness Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Daylight Horror Domestic Abuse Chekhov's Skill Mad Scientist Action Girl Bittersweet Ending Wham Shot Credits Gag Cool Old Lady Badass in a Nice Suit Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Death Seeker Line-of-Sight Name Fake Shemp Bunny-Ears Lawyer A Date with Rosie Palms Reckless Gun Usage Noodle Incident Destination Defenestration Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Gold Digger She Cleans Up Nicely Arch-Enemy Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Russian Films The Bully Needs Wiki Magic Love Humans Are Bastards Broken Bird Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Artistic License – Biology Faux Affably Evil Cain and Abel Decoy Protagonist Posthumous Character Ship Tease Sequel Hook Rule of Three Rape as Drama War Is Hell The Sociopath Genre Shift Hope Spot Early-Bird Cameo "Well Done, Son!" 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