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)

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