Tropescilloscope: Back from the Dead

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

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