Tropescilloscope: Never Found the Body

Unless you actually have a dead person's corpse or see them die in front of you, the odds are they're still alive. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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