Tropescilloscope: Posthumous Character

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

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