Tropescilloscope: Posthumous Character

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

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