Tropescilloscope: Due to the Dead

Giving the dead proper funerary rites is virtuous, while the opposite—desecrating their remains—is disgraceful. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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