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 12 subcategories, out of 16 total.
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- Heroic Sacrifice Tropes (21 P)
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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 649 total.
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- 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
- My Life Flashed Before My Eyes
N
- Near-Death Experience
- Neck Snap
- Necro Non Sequitur
- Negate Your Own Sacrifice
- Never Found the Body
- Never Got to Say Goodbye
- Never One Murder
- Never Say Goodbye
- Never Speak Ill of the Dead
- Never Suicide
- Night Swim Equals Death
- No Body Left Behind
- No Dead Body Poops
- No Longer with Us
- No One Could Survive That
- Nobody Can Die
- Noose Catch
- Nostalgia Heaven
- Not Afraid to Die
- Not Enough to Bury
- Not Quite Dead
- Not Quite Saved Enough
- Not So Invincible After All
- The Nothing After Death
- Nothing Left to Do But Die
O
P
- Parting Words Regret
- Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Death
- Patricide
- Peaceful in Death
- Personal Effects Reveal
- A Plague on Both Your Houses
- Player Punch
- Please Kill Me If It Satisfies You
- Please Wake Up
- The Plot Reaper
- Plot-Triggering Death
- Plotline Death
- Pop Goes the Human
- Population X and Counting
- Post-Mortem Comeback
- Post-Mortem Conversion
- Posthumous Character
- Posthumous Narration
- The Power of Legacy
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner
- Pretty Spry for a Dead Guy
- The Problem with Fighting Death
- Psychic-Assisted Suicide
- Psychopomp
- Public Execution
- Pummeling the Corpse