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