Tropescilloscope: Posthumous Character

This character is dead, but still somehow part of the story. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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