Tropescilloscope: Disney Death

You think he's dead, but he turns up alive. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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