Tropescilloscope: Back from the Dead

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

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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil War Is Hell The Atoner No-Sell Enemy Mine Retcon Politically Incorrect Villain Naïve Newcomer Groin Attack Big Brother Instinct Beauty Is Never Tarnished Peek-a-Boo Corpse Composite Character Cool Car Fourth Date Marriage '80s Hair Took a Level in Jerkass Age Lift Badass Normal The Quiet One Freudian Excuse Gender Flip Only One Name Annoying Younger Sibling Shown Their Work Jerk Jock Abhorrent Admirer Yandere Frame-Up Cool Guns Eye Scream Face–Heel Turn Almost Kiss Major Injury Underreaction Deus ex Machina Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Happily Married Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Rule of Symbolism Film Noir Index Department of Redundancy Department Adaptational Badass Anguished Declaration of Love Vomit Indiscretion Shot N-Word Privileges Beware the Nice Ones Television Movie Index Extremely Short Timespan Zombie Stories Tap on the Head Killed Mid-Sentence Rasputinian Death Death by Sex The '60s Slap-Slap-Kiss Dull Surprise Hooker with a Heart of Gold Non-Indicative Name Put on a Bus Arc Words Stylistic Suck Show Within a Show Dramedy Disappeared Dad Covers Always Lie Sole Survivor The Great Depression Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Air-Vent Passageway Actor Allusion 20 Minutes into the Future Pre-Mortem One-Liner Award-Bait Song Pretty Little Headshots Brother–Sister Incest Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Power of Love Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Car Fu Aside Glance Auto Erotica Evil Is Hammy Sadistic Choice Red Herring Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Heel–Face Turn Scare Chord Corrupt Corporate Executive Rewatch Bonus "Shaggy Dog" Story Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Translation Convention Ambiguous Ending The Film of the Book Evil Brit Credits Gag And the Adventure Continues Protagonist Title Hidden Depths All for Nothing Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Ambiguously Gay Artistic License – Biology Fantastic Racism Sexy Discretion Shot Bury Your Gays Laser-Guided Karma Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Here We Go Again! Hoist by His Own Petard Belligerent Sexual Tension Creepy Child The Ghost Black and Gray Morality Evil Sounds Deep Ghost Fiction Sci-Fi Horror Ironic Echo Woman Scorned Eiffel Tower Effect The X of Y Sinister Minister Big Applesauce Improbable Weapon User Man on Fire Scary Black Man The '90s Word of God Revenge Motor Mouth Cluster F-Bomb Alas, Poor Villain Breaking the Fourth Wall Badass Bookworm Diabolus ex Machina Shout-Out Bound and Gagged Market-Based Title Broken Bird Depraved Bisexual Romantic False Lead Defrosting Ice Queen Vacation Films Wham Shot Black Comedy Serious Business Even Evil Has Loved Ones Ripped from the Headlines Historical In-Joke Dying Moment of Awesome La Résistance Funny Foreigner Outrun the Fireball Due to the Dead Beta Couple Papa Wolf Martial Arts Movie timeperiod Drugs Are Bad Dirty Old Man I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Fantasy Films Red Shirt Those Wacky Nazis It's All About Me Precision F-Strike Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Undying Loyalty World of Ham Artistic License – Military Love at First Sight Femme Fatale Dumb Blonde Curb-Stomp Battle Dressing as the Enemy Does This Remind You of Anything? 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What Happened to the Mouse? 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