Tropescilloscope: Not Quite Dead

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

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