Tropescilloscope: Not Quite Dead

You thought they were dying/dead. Not so. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Dramatic Gun Cock Crapsack World The Ace Implacable Man Rule of Three Posthumous Character Bloodless Carnage Villainous Breakdown Fatal Family Photo Manipulative Bastard Decoy Protagonist Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Insult Backfire Improbable Weapon User Adaptational Badass Bottomless Magazines Light Is Not Good What You Are in the Dark Daddy's Girl Affectionate Parody Word of God The Great Depression The Chessmaster Villain Ball Adapted Out Bloody Hilarious Expository Hairstyle Change Gorn Pragmatic Villainy Amusing Injuries Real Life Improvised Weapon Failed a Spot Check Up to Eleven Creator Cameo The Vamp Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Dropped a Bridge on Him Hooker with a Heart of Gold Reasonable Authority Figure Bittersweet Ending Alpha Bitch Mercy Kill Downer Ending Age Lift Adult Fear Never Found the Body Anguished Declaration of Love Happily Married The Load Flashback Fake Shemp Depraved Bisexual Immune to Bullets Eureka Moment Eye Scream No-Sell Award-Bait Song Honor Before Reason Curse Cut Short I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Faux Affably Evil Made of Iron Male Gaze The '80s Only One Name Card-Carrying Villain Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Rewatch Bonus Gender Flip Cain and Abel Non-Indicative Name Dies Wide Open Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Domestic Abuse Butt-Monkey Spiritual Successor Annoying Younger Sibling Roaring Rampage of Revenge Sassy Black Woman Hollywood Law Car Fu In Medias Res Irony Agony of the Feet Lock and Load Montage Public Domain Feature Films Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Almost Kiss Dual Wielding You Have Failed Me Have a Gay Old Time Mama Bear Determinator aka: The Determinator Earn Your Happy Ending 20 Minutes into the Future Names to Run Away from Really Fast Never My Fault Diabolus ex Machina Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Celebrity Paradox Adaptational Villainy Despair Event Horizon Danny Peary Cult Movies List Italian Films Manic Pixie Dream Girl Break the Cutie Roger Ebert: Great Movies List He Who Fights Monsters Kick the Dog Needs Wiki Magic Love Casting Gag Central Theme Driven to Suicide Coming-of-Age Story Obviously Evil Sports Stories A Date with Rosie Palms Rule of Cool Retired Badass Stealth Hi/Bye Badass Bookworm Loophole Abuse Retcon Smug Snake Undying Loyalty The Lancer Badass Longcoat Monumental Damage Animal Title Index Adults Are Useless Interrupted Suicide Developing Doomed Characters Deal with the Devil Rasputinian Death Shipper on Deck Cold-Blooded Torture Novelization The '90s Took a Level in Jerkass Police Brutality Spell My Name with an "S" A.I. 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Is Serious Business Ominous Latin Chanting Heel–Face Turn Pretty in Mink The Oner Together in Death The Faceless Race Lift Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Horror Films Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Off with His Head! My Beloved Smother Ambiguously Gay Knight Templar Nothing Is Scarier Deliberate Values Dissonance BFG Canon Foreigner Unusual Euphemism Due to the Dead Gone Horribly Right Badass Normal Ambiguous Ending Death by Sex Shut Up, Hannibal! The Starscream Dutch Angle No Name Given Grievous Bottley Harm Those Wacky Nazis Insane Troll Logic Imagine Spot Once More, with Clarity! 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World of Ham Jerkass Has a Point Reality Ensues Villain Opening Scene Cat Scare Index of Film Westerns Humiliation Conga Henpecked Husband Killed Mid-Sentence No Antagonist Five-Man Band Fingore British Films Gilligan Cut I Did What I Had to Do Reality Is Unrealistic Cloudcuckoolander Australian Movies Action Girl Ironic Echo I Have Your Wife German Films Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Evil Counterpart Foil Mood Whiplash Extreme Doormat Our Zombies Are Different Cool Guns Kids Are Cruel Overly Long Gag Every Car Is a Pinto Idiot Ball Humans Are Bastards Our Vampires Are Different Running Gag Pimped-Out Dress Darker and Edgier Big Fancy House Mexican Standoff May–December Romance Stylistic Suck Artistic License – Military Yandere Those Two Guys Rated M for Manly Fish out of Water Would Hit a Girl Informed Ability Historical-Domain Character Air-Vent Passageway Black Best Friend The Musical Pretty Little Headshots Ripped from the Headlines Christmas Movies Index Unresolved Sexual Tension Outrun the Fireball Creepy Child Properly Paranoid Framing Device Tap on the Head Woman in White Morality Pet The Mole Catch-Phrase The Remake MacGuffin Broken Pedestal Suddenly SHOUTING! Gratuitous English Big "NO!" Cruel and Unusual Death Demonic Possession Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Country Matters Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Artistic License – Physics Adaptation Name Change Funny Background Event Unspoken Plan Guarantee Gory Discretion Shot After the End Romantic Comedy The Atoner Costume Porn Kick the Son of a Bitch Knife Nut It Will Never Catch On Bound and Gagged The Alcoholic Famous Last Words Blackmail Improbable Aiming Skills Fan Disservice All for Nothing Groin Attack Historical In-Joke Narrator Would Hurt a Child Evil Brit Defiant to the End Wrong Genre Savvy Determinator Frame-Up Hate Sink Stepford Smiler Tagline The End... Or Is It? Enemy Mine Karma Houdini Disguised in Drag Adorkable Rule of Symbolism The Dreaded Author Appeal Better to Die than Be Killed The Cavalry Visual Pun Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Adaptation Expansion The Bully Hoist by His Own Petard Nice Hat Death by Adaptation Match Cut Hope Spot Whole Plot Reference Jitter Cam You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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