Tropescilloscope: Not Quite Dead

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

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