Tropescilloscope: Disney Death

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

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