Tropescilloscope: Peek-a-Boo Corpse

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

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