Tropescilloscope: Not Quite Dead

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

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