Tropescilloscope: Peek-a-Boo Corpse

Dead bodies show up when and where they're not expected. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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