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