Tropescilloscope: Back from the Dead

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

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