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)

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