Tropescilloscope: Disney Death

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

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