Tropescilloscope: Posthumous Character

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

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