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 8 subcategories, out of 16 total.
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- Rebirth and Reincarnation Tropes (12 P)
- Resurrection Tropes (37 P)
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- Skeletal Tropes (12 P)
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- Television Is Trying to Kill Us (62 P, 1 F)
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- 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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- 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
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- 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
- Suicide Attack
- Suicide by Cop
- Suicide by Sunlight
- Suicide Dare
- Suicide for Others' Happiness
- Suicide Is Painless
- Suicide Mission
- Suicide Pact
- Suicide, Not Accident
- Suicide, Not Murder
- Surprisingly-Sudden Death
- Survivor Guilt
- Suspect Existence Failure
- Sympathetic Murder Backstory
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- Tag-Team Suicide
- Take a Moment to Catch Your Death
- Take Care of the Kids
- Take Me Instead!
- Taking the Bullet
- Taking You with Me
- Talking Down the Suicidal
- Talking the Monster to Death
- Talking to the Dead
- Tears of Blood
- Technicolor Death
- Teenage Death Songs
- Thanatos Gambit
- That Poor Plant
- That Was the Last Entry
- These Hands Have Killed
- They Died Because of You
- They Killed Kenny Again
- They Knew the Risks
- This Bear Was Framed
- Throw'em to the Wolves
- Thrown From the Zeppelin
- Thrown Out the Airlock
- Time-Delayed Death
- To Absent Friends
- Together in Death
- Tongue Suicide
- Tonight Someone Dies
- Tontine
- Too Cool to Live
- Too Dumb to Live
- Too Dumb to Live/Film
- Too Dumb to Live/Literature
- Too Dumb to Live/Live-Action TV
- Too Dumb to Live/Video Games
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth
- Too Happy to Live
- Too Powerful to Live
- Torso with a View
- Touch of Death
- Tragic Bromance
- Traumatic C-Section
- Trial by Friendly Fire
- Turbine Blender
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- Walking Wasteland
- Wall Slump
- Wax Museum Morgue
- We All Die Someday
- We Hardly Knew Ye
- We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future
- Weapon Tombstone
- Went to the Great X In the Sky
- What a Drag
- What Happened to the Pet?
- What Is One Man's Life in Comparison?
- White Shirt of Death
- Who Dunnit to Me?
- Why Couldn't You Save Them?
- Why Won't You Die?
- The Wild Hunt