Tropescilloscope: Posthumous Character

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

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