Tropescilloscope: Posthumous Character

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

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