Tropescilloscope: Faking the Dead

A character fakes their own death for specific reasons. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Reality Has No Subtitles Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Stoner Manic Pixie Dream Girl Manchild Our Zombies Are Different Book-Ends Hope Spot Ship Tease Artistic License – Physics Ascended Extra A Minor Kidroduction Reality Is Unrealistic Earn Your Happy Ending Mr. Fanservice Cat Fight The Chick Chiaroscuro Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Those Two Bad Guys Loophole Abuse What Happened to the Mouse? Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Improvised Weapon Dirty Old Man Re-Cut Animated Credits Opening Badass Bookworm Dressing as the Enemy Small Name, Big Ego Antagonist Title Mighty Whitey Heroic Sacrifice Tap on the Head Yandere Historical Villain Upgrade Asshole Victim Bad Boss Offscreen Moment of Awesome No Antagonist Daylight Horror From Bad to Worse It's All About Me Everyone Has Standards Really Gets Around Bavarian Fire Drill Same Language Dub And I Must Scream Genre Savvy Expository Hairstyle Change Betty and Veronica Logo Joke Attempted Rape Wham Shot Mexican Standoff A God Am I Bare Your Midriff A.I. Is a Crapshoot Hero Antagonist Riddle for the Ages Mad Scientist Leave the Camera Running Beauty Is Never Tarnished Retirony Homage Dwindling Party Depraved Bisexual Older Than They Look Enemy Mine Humiliation Conga The Big Guy Anti-Villain Creator Cameo The Film of the Book Composite Character Early-Bird Cameo Laser-Guided Karma Sole Survivor Mundane Made Awesome Empathic Environment Big Brother Instinct Comically Missing the Point Bond One-Liner Made of Iron Villain Song Obviously Evil No Ending Peek-a-Boo Corpse La Résistance Real Life Jump Scare Up to Eleven Abhorrent Admirer Ripped from the Headlines Credits Gag It Will Never Catch On Distracted by the Sexy Missing Mom The Casanova Eureka Moment Horror Comedy Woman Scorned Spanner in the Works Fan Disservice Bittersweet Ending Pretty Little Headshots Bullying a Dragon Cloudcuckoolander Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Crazy Jealous Guy Sci-Fi Horror Beware the Nice Ones Dumb Blonde Villain with Good Publicity Only One Name Better to Die than Be Killed Black Comedy Rape No Name Given Adult Fear Damsel in Distress Scare Chord The Atoner Vomit Discretion Shot Camp Gay Cool Shades Artistic License – Military The Cavalry Dissonant Serenity The Hero Dull Surprise Outrun the Fireball The Reveal Flipping the Bird Artistic License – History Dropped a Bridge on Him The Un-Reveal Adaptation Dye-Job Black Best Friend Car Fu Continuity Nod Novelization Meaningful Name Bald of Evil Back from the Dead Actor Allusion Big-Bad Ensemble Did Not Get the Girl N-Word Privileges The Dragon Heroic BSoD Ambiguous Disorder Fanservice Manly Tears Almost Kiss Rule of Three No Celebrities Were Harmed Sanity Slippage Never Found the Body Batman Gambit Dark Reprise timeperiod Super Strength Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique '80s Hair "Where Are They Now?" 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Major Injury Underreaction Red Shirt War Is Hell Italian Films Mooks Your Head A-Splode Funny Foreigner Not What It Looks Like Only in It for the Money Documentary Nice Guy Evil Brit Big Applesauce Insult Backfire Bottomless Magazines Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Evil Plan Exact Words Cool Car Left the Background Music On Properly Paranoid The Lost Lenore What You Are in the Dark Villain Protagonist Kick the Son of a Bitch Not So Different Horror Films Rule of Funny Insane Troll Logic Works Set in World War II Undying Loyalty Non-Indicative Name Character Development Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Faking the Dead Kill It with Fire Put on a Bus Broken Aesop Bloodless Carnage Green-Eyed Monster Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Alcoholic Blackmail Deus ex Machina Conspicuous CG Product Placement Vacation Films Leaning on the Fourth Wall The X of Y Race Against the Clock Extreme Doormat Fanservice Extra True Companions Bilingual Bonus Bland-Name Product For Want of a Nail Fish out of Water Blood from the Mouth Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Calling the Old Man Out Heel Realization Knight Templar Contrived Coincidence Paper-Thin Disguise Even Evil Has Standards Slasher Movie I'm a Humanitarian Face–Heel Turn Married to the Job Cassandra Truth Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Celebrity Paradox Defrosting Ice Queen The Remake Totally Radical NO INDOOR VOICE Arch-Enemy Self-Deprecation Gilligan Cut Rape as Drama Bad "Bad Acting" Needs Wiki Magic Love Kill 'em All The Bully The Bad Guy Wins Reasonable Authority Figure Death by Adaptation Dramedy Manipulative Bastard Grey and Gray Morality Department of Redundancy Department Driven to Suicide Guile Hero No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Dirty Coward Dark and Troubled Past Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Sociopath Red Right Hand Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Guy Artistic License – Law Adaptation Distillation B-Movie Wicked Cultured Rule of Cool Adaptational Attractiveness Determinator aka: The Determinator Instant Death Bullet Heel–Face Turn Red Herring Hoist by His Own Petard Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Unresolved Sexual Tension Australian Movies Black Dude Dies First Hooker with a Heart of Gold Fourth Date Marriage Taking the Bullet Historical-Domain Character Shower Scene Red Oni, Blue Oni Zombie Stories A Father to His Men Aluminum Christmas Trees Mythology Gag Frame-Up Naked People Are Funny Jitter Cam As You Know Big Damn Heroes Apocalypse How Artistic License – Gun Safety Brother–Sister Incest Four-Temperament Ensemble Author Appeal Parental Incest Suspiciously Similar Substitute Beard of Evil Film Noir Let's Get Dangerous! Extremely Short Timespan I Did What I Had to Do Karma Houdini Only a Flesh Wound Training Montage Race Lift Bring My Brown Pants Truth in Television Annoying Younger Sibling Adapted Out Deconstruction Epic Fail Evil Is Hammy Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Alleged Car Rousing Speech Those Two Guys The '90s Hypocrite Demonic Possession Cowboy Cop Posthumous Character The Oner Gold Digger Funny Background Event The Place The '50s Papa Wolf Hero of Another Story Broken Bird Cain and Abel Police are Useless Reckless Gun Usage Motor Mouth Sequel Hook Good Is Not Nice Eye Scream Badass Boast An Arm and a Leg Adorkable Does Not Like Shoes You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Fiery Redhead Broken Pedestal Hollywood Darkness Catapult Nightmare Chekhov's Skill Genre Shift Scenery Porn Dark Is Not Evil Death Glare The Stoic Stock Footage Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Kids Are Cruel Took a Level in Jerkass Refuge in Audacity Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Pragmatic Villainy Running Gag Badass Longcoat Implacable Man Fake Shemp Age Lift Oh, Crap! 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Take That! How We Got Here Shut Up, Hannibal! 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