Tropescilloscope: Posthumous Character

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

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