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 10 subcategories, out of 16 total.
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- 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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- 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
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- 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
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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
R
- Railing Kill
- Rasputinian Death
- Really Dead Montage
- Red Shirt
- Redemption Equals Death
- Refusing Paradise
- Regularly-Scheduled Evil
- Released to Elsewhere
- Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
- Rescued From Purgatory
- Ret-Gone
- Retirony
- Revival Loophole
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
- Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies
- Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts
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- Sacrificial Lamb
- Sacrificial Lion
- Say Your Prayers
- Scope Snipe
- The Scourge of God
- Sealed Evil in a Duel
- Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics
- Secretly Dying
- Sedgwick Speech
- "Seen It All" Suicide
- Self-Destructive Charge
- Self-Disposing Villain
- Self-Immolation
- Self-Sacrifice Scheme
- Senseless Sacrifice
- Seppuku
- Serial Killer Killer
- Shapeshifter Swan Song
- Shinigami
- Shoot Him! He Has a Wallet!
- Shoot the Dragon
- Shoot the Messenger
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog
- Shot At Dawn
- Shrine to the Fallen
- Sickbed Slaying
- Silent Credits
- Silent Scapegoat
- Sketchy Successor
- Slashed Throat
- Smoldering Shoes
- Sniping the Cockpit
- Snow Means Death
- Sole Survivor
- Someone Has to Die
- Someone to Remember Him By
- Sorry That I'm Dying
- Sorting Algorithm of Deadness
- Sorting Algorithm of Mortality
- Soulless Shell
- Sound-Only Death
- Spared as a Messenger
- Spared by the Adaptation
- Speak Ill of the Dead
- Spontaneous Human Combustion
- Spurned Into Suicide
- Staking the Loved One
- Stars Are Souls
- Start to Corpse
- Starts with a Suicide
- Starts with Their Funeral
- Stat Death
- Stay with Me Until I Die
- Staying Alive
- Stripped to the Bone
- Stuffed Into the Fridge
- Stupid Sacrifice
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
- Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum
- Suicide as Comedy