Category:Death Tropes
Death is a major event in stories. No, now... it is a really big deal. Really. Except when it isn't.
Obviously, there will be lots of spoilers. Due to the nature of these tropes, the spoilers are unmarked to avoid having to highlight them constantly.
Subcategories
This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total.
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- Afterlife Tropes (33 P)
- Apocalyptic Index (72 P)
C
F
- Funeral Tropes (30 P)
H
- Heroic Sacrifice Tropes (21 P)
I
L
- Last Words (34 P)
M
- Murder Tropes (43 P)
R
- Rebirth and Reincarnation Tropes (12 P)
- Resurrection Tropes (37 P)
S
- Skeletal Tropes (12 P)
T
- Television Is Trying to Kill Us (62 P, 1 F)
U
W
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? (9 P, 1 F)
Pages in category "Death Tropes"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 650 total.
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- Do with Him as You Will
- The Dog Bites Back
- Don't Fear the Reaper
- Doom Magnet
- Doomed Appointment
- Doomed by Canon
- Doomed Contrarian
- Doomed Moral Victor
- Dragged Off to Hell
- Driven to Suicide
- Drop-Dead Gorgeous
- Dropped a Bridge on Him
- Due to the Dead
- Duel to the Death
- Dwindling Party
- Dying Alone
- Dying as Yourself
- Dying Declaration of Love
- Dying Dream
- Dying for Symbolism
- Dying Moment of Awesome
- Dying to Be Replaced
E
F
- Face Death with Dignity
- Facing the Bullets One-Liner
- Fake Kill Scare
- Faking the Dead
- Family-Unfriendly Death
- Famous Last Words
- Fatal Family Photo
- Faux Death
- Fed to Pigs
- Fed to the Beast
- Final Death
- Final Solution
- Final Speech
- Finally Found the Body
- Finger in the Mail
- Finish Him!
- Flatline
- Flatline Plotline
- Fond Memories That Could Have Been
- Forgiveness Requires Death
- Friendly Target
G
H
- Half the Man He Used To Be
- Happier Home Movie
- Happily-Failed Suicide
- He Had a Name
- He's Dead, Jim
- He's Just Hiding
- Hellish Copter
- Her Heart Will Go On
- The Hero Dies
- Hero-Killer
- Heroic Sacrifice
- Heroic Suicide
- His Name Is--
- His Quirk Lives On
- Hoist by His Own Petard
- Hollywood Heart Attack
- Hospital Surprise
- How Dare You Die on Me!
- Human Sacrifice
- Humanity's Wake
- Hunting Accident
I
- I Cannot Self-Terminate
- I Die Free
- I Don't Want to Die
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die
- I Will Only Slow You Down
- I Wished You Were Dead
- I'm Cold... So Cold...
- I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin
- I'm Melting
- If We Get Through This
- If You Die, I Call Your Stuff
- Immortal Hero
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
- Implied Death Threat
- In the Back
- Incurable Cough of Death
- Inferred Survival
- Informal Eulogy
- Inhuman Human
- Interrogating the Dead
- Interrupted Suicide
- Inverse Dialogue Death Rule
- Involuntary Battle to the Death
- Involuntary Suicide Mechanism
- It Always Rains At Funerals
- It Is Not Your Time
- It's Always Sunny At Funerals
K
- Karmic Death
- Kill Him Already
- Kill It Through Its Stomach
- Kill It with Fire
- Kill It with Ice
- Kill It with Water
- Kill One, and the Others Get Stronger
- Kill the Cutie
- Kill the Ones You Love
- Kill the Poor
- Kill Us Both
- Kill'Em All
- Killed Mid-Sentence
- Killed Off for Real
- The Killer Becomes the Killed
- King in the Mountain
- King on His Deathbed
- Kiss of Death
- Klingon Promotion
L
- Last Breath Bullet
- The Last Dance
- Last Grasp at Life
- Last Kiss
- Last of His Kind
- Last Request
- Last Rites (trope)
- Last Stand
- Last Survivor Suicide
- Leave Behind a Pistol
- Leave No Survivors
- Leave No Witnesses
- Left for Dead
- Legacy Immortality
- Legally Dead
- Let Them Die Happy
- Life Will Kill You
- Lights Off, Somebody Dies
- Like You Were Dying
- Literally Shattered Lives
- Little Dead Riding Hood
- Living Explosive Individual
- Living on Borrowed Time
- Load-Bearing Boss
- Lonely Funeral
- Look Both Ways
- Looting the Body
- Losing the Team Spirit
- Losing Your Head
- Lunatic Loophole
M
- Made of Plasticine
- Make It Look Like an Accident
- Make Sure He's Dead
- Man in the Machine
- Marked to Die
- Matter of Life and Death
- Mauve Shirt
- McLeaned
- Meaningful Funeral
- Men Are the Expendable Gender
- Mentor Occupational Hazard
- Mercy Kill
- Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds
- Miles to Go Before I Sleep
- A Million Is a Statistic
- Misplaced Sorrow
- Moment of Silence
- Monster From Beyond the Veil
- Monster Misogyny
- More Expendable Than You
- More Hero Than Thou
- Mortal Wound Reveal
- Murder by Cremation
- Murder by Mistake
- Murder the Hypotenuse
- Murder-Suicide
- Murder.Com
- Mutual Kill
- My Death Is Just the Beginning