Tropescilloscope: Back from the Dead

A character who was dead comes back to life. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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