Tropescilloscope: Posthumous Character

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

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