Tropescilloscope: Posthumous Character

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

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