Tropescilloscope: Not Quite Dead

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

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