And There Was Much Rejoicing: Difference between revisions

** Also in R2, with Lelouch. As Nunnally cries over his dead body, the crowd in the background is chanting Zero's name in celebration. Then again, [[Thanatos Gambit|that was exactly what he wanted.]]

* Nisshi's death in ''[[Gantz Abridged]]'' in a parody of the treatment of his death in the original. He was a complete [[Jerkass]], and while the characters try to mourn him, it doesn't really work since he had no redeeming qualities. The most successful attempt is to the effect that since Nisshi forgot to insult his eulogist when insulting everyone else, that makes him ok.

== [[Fan Fiction]] ==

* Invoked in the Naruto Fanfic ''Roku Naruto'', when Naruto makes Sakura trip on a rock.

* There may not have been literal rejoicing when the obnoxious [[The Load|Lucky Larry]] got squashed by the machinery in ''Poseidon'', but none of the band of survivors was particularly broken up about it. Was one of the better SFX shots of the film, too.

* ''Revenge of [[The Pink Panther]]'' involves Inspector Clouseau surviving an assassination attempt and then [[Faking the Dead|pretending to be dead]] in order to track down the mob boss who ordered the hit. At Clouseau's "funeral", his former boss, Chief Inspector Dreyfus, is assigned to give the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P5DkZsrJN0 eulogy]...during which he keeps bursting helplessly into hysterical, gleeful laughter. He then tries to cover it by pretending to shed [[Manly Tears]], causing everyone else to weep in sympathy.

{{quote| And here lies old King Frederick<br />

He stole for forty years<br />

They cried? They cried "Three cheers!" }}

* ''[[Drowning Mona]]''

* In ''[[Natural Born Killers]]'', when the warden ([[Tommy Lee Jones]]) learns Jack Scafferty ([[Tom Sizemore]]) is dead, his reaction is basically "Meh."

{{quote| "And, by the way, it pleases me that I am called 'Larry the Liquidator', because at ''my'' funeral, you'll leave with a smile on your face and a few bucks in your pocket. Now, that's a funeral worth having!"}}

== [[Literature]] ==

*** The same thing happens later when she accidentally kills the ''other'' witch, and the guards respond by thanking her.

**** [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|Hopefully the poor girl didn't end up convinced that murdering friendless old women was the way to public acclaim.]]

** Although not so much better that Terry didn't insist it be undone by the end of the book.

* Odgen Nash's poem "The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus" relates the morality tale of Jabez Dawes, an [[Jerkass|unrepentant brat]] who denied the existence of Santa Claus, until Kris Kringle turned him into a jack-in-the-box in retaliation. Which leads to the following stanza:

{{quote| The neighbors heard his mournful squeal;<br />

And people drank a loving cup<br />

And went and hung their stockings up. }}

* In Moliere's ''Don Juan'', after the title character is dragged off to hell, his servant [[Bumbling Sidekick|Sgnarelle's]] only regret is that his master's death will mean that he won't receive his wages.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* In one of the final episodes of ''[[Oz]]'' Beecher unknowingly kills Vern Schillinger, in a [[The Scottish Trope|staged performance of Macbeth]]. When the audience of prison inmates finds out, everyone immediately starts cheering to high heavens and pumping their fists. Granted Schillinger was a malicious Nazi rapist, who performed [[Complete Monster|a good deal of horrible actions throughout his lifetime]].

** This appears to be the response to any act of violence witnessed by the inmates. A notable exception is when Simon Adebisi, a [[Scary Black Man|feared Nigerian gangster]] who's been ruling Em City as a trustee, is killed -- the initial reaction is a shocked gasp of disbelief from both inmates and guards, as Adebisi seemed so [[Badass]] he couldn't be killed by ''anyone''.

* An episode of ''[[The Commish]]'' had two police officers agonizing endlessly over the best way to break a death notice to a man's family, only to find they're overjoyed about his death.

* One episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'' sees Dr Kelso's portrait, hung on a hallway just before he goes on vacation, turned into a memorial to the deceased as a prank by [[Dr. Jerk|Dr. Cox]]. Almost everyone in the hospital walks past it and celebrates, but [[Butt Monkey|Ted the Lawyer]] later comes ''back'' to it to dance in front of it.

{{quote| '''B.J. Hunnicutt:''' This reduces the enemy to just North Korea!}}

** At least until they discover he's been cleared, promoted, and stationed back in the States.

{{quote| '''All''' (''as crowd''): Hooray!<br />

'''Crow''': Are you sure he's dead?<br />

* Similarly, in an episode of ''[[CSI New York]]'', a crowd gathered around the scene and, upon confirming who the victim was, applauded. Then Stella gives a [[Quip to Black]] about finding someone ''without'' a motive being the hard part.

* Played with in ''[[Frasier]]'', when Frasier's hated and mean-spirited aunt passes away; while Frasier, Niles and Martin express no grief at her death, it's not exactly an opportunity for celebration either as Frasier's been burdened with writing the eulogy for the memorial service (which gives him no end of grief as he tries to find some genuine virtue he can extol about her, having stubbornly refused to lie and invent virtues the woman didn't have) and Niles has been burdened with finding a place to dispose of her ashes.

* In ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' Alex freezes Stevie and Max shatters her. No one really seems to care and eventually Alex and Harper go to celebrate their friendship while Justin takes pictures of a unconscience man's body with Stevie's "pieces" all over him while Max draws a moustache on him.

{{quote| '''Dick:''' (cheerfully) Dr. Albright! You got your wish!<br />

'''Harry:''' (begins clapping, stops when nobody else joins in) }}

* While the character doesn't actually die because the poisoning was discovered right before it killed him, the attempted murder of the Commodore in ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'' is treated this way by the other characters on account of his being a lecherous racist and total jerkass. When Jimmy thinks his mother (who was impregnated by the Commodore at 14) is the poisoner, he makes a comment to the effect that he doesn't really have a problem with the Commodore being murdered, but if she's doing it for financial reasons, he doesn't want the Commodore's money. When the poisoner is discovered to be the Commodore's put-upon maid, Nucky tells her that she did wrong in actually attempting what others would only think about and gives her money to leave town and start a new life.

* Even ''[[Full House]]'' wasn't immune to this. Jesse inherited a local club from its previous owner, who died of heart failure. The funeral was (by character narration alone) done this way, but [[Justified Trope|justified]] because that was what the deceased owner wanted.

* ''[[Seinfeld]]'': When George's fiancee Susan dies, he is more relieved than anything else. This is later used as evidence against him at the trial in the series finale.

* This has happened several times on ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', with the remaining teams all celebrating the elimination of a hated/feared team:

** As is Hefner's "The Day That Thatcher Dies", complete with a [[Kids Rock|children's choir]] singing "[[The Wizard of Oz|Ding dong, the wicked witch is dead]]!"

* "Ringo" by Lorne Greene (of ''[[Bonanza]]'' fame). The spoken-word narrative, which reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1964, is a first-person account of an ex-outlaw-turned-Western lawman, and his encounters and relationship with the title character and antagonist, a notorious gunfighter who spread terror as he engages in a crime spree in the Old West. Toward the end of the song, the two meet (for the first time in several years) and engage in a gunfight. Ringo -- remembering a time the main protagonist saved is life -- shows a rare ounce of mercy to his old friend, but when he turns to walk away, he is met by a spray of gunfire and killed. As the trope-fitting lyrics point out after Ringo is declared dead, "''The town began to shout and cheer/Nowhere was there shed a tear for Ringo''."

* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'', [[Large Ham Radio|Three Dog]] will react positively to the death of President Eden should the player kill him

{{quote| '''Three Dog''': Ding dong! The sanctimonious, self-righteous, self-proclaimed Presidential asshole is ''DEAD''!}}

** Many will also rejoice if the player kills Caesar.

** A less positive example: When Carla Boone was kidnapped by the Legion, she was hardly missed by the citizens of Novac (though they still believe this a horrifying fate for anyone) Manny Vargas was pretty much overjoyed. This however led to her husband Craig to bear a grudge against the citizens of Novac and pretty much destroyed his friendship with Manny (who is heavily hinted to be [[Incompatible Orientation|in love with him]]).

* Arisdel in ''[[Dumnestors Heroes]]''. She wasn't killed, but nobody was broken up when she left the game.

* Pretty much anyone in ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' is ambivalent, at best, about seeing allies (apparently) die. They usually don't stay dead, though.

** The only subversion is that Miko's still alive. Maybe Elan wouldn't have specifically celebrated, but no one would've been sorry to see her go (she's routinely sent off on missions that keep her out of the country for years at a time, because not even her fellow paladins like her).

** Ironically, when she ''did'' [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0464.html die], [[Alas, Poor Scrappy|no one celebrated]].

== Web Original ==

* A bit of a subjective case, but the fact that ''Encyclopedia Dramatica'' was shut down made some users rejoice. Or, to put it better, the [[Troll]] [[Hatedom]]<ref> [[Justified Trope|(a justified hatedom at that)]]</ref> [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|rejoiced.]]

** During the funeral for Homer's mother, Abe commented that he'd imagined himself dancing on it but no longer had the mood. (He was wearing tap shoes during the funeral)

** In the Season 8 episode "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show," the introduction of the character [[The Poochie|Poochie]] (a dog "with an attitude") as an attempt to regain falling viewershp is universally panned, save for Homer (who coincidentally is Poochie's voice). The Poochie character is such a spectacular failure that the production company is forced to immediately abandon the character and hastily write him out before his second cartoon. When that cartoon airs -- another voiceover artist inserts the line "I have to go, my planet needs me" into a poorly edited cartoon -- Krusty the Clown (on whose show the "Itchy & Scratchy" cartoons air) gleefully announces that Poochie died on his way home, to which the audience ''wildly cheers''. (Incidentally, the edits are made after Homer deliberately goes against the script, instead improvising a plea for the character's reprieve.)

** In the Season 2 intro, the Smurfs do a merry circle dance around a staked-down Gargamel and Azrael.

* On ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]: The Curse of the Were-rabbit'', everyone thinks the Were-Rabbit has been killed, and the Vicar turns to Lady Tottington and reassures her that they feel her pain. The minute he turns his back, he and the rest of the villagers start rejoicing.

* On more than one occasion, Squidward starts party preparations whenever it looks like [[SpongeBob]] is going to move away for good.