Tropescilloscope: Disney Death

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

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