Tropescilloscope: Posthumous Character

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

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