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'''Frank Bigelow''': I was.|''[[DOA (Film)|DOA]]'' }}
This is where the protagonist has been murdered and is either [[Dead to Begin With|dead]] or [[Your Days Are Numbered|soon will be]]. The rest of the story concerns their efforts to solve the crime in the time they have left. A subplot can also be their trying to protect a loved one from the killer who did them in. This can be supernatural or non-supernatural depending on whether the protagonist is already dead or dying slowly but inevitably. If he or she is already dead, may involve [[Near
A common science-fictional version involves characters who have the ability to back themselves up, through [[Brain Uploading]] or some similar technology. This is often used as a way to get around the issue that most victims know who murdered them: the version of the character that's trying to solve the murder is only as up-to-date as their most recent backup, which means they naturally have no memory of the murder or anything immediately before it.
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'''As a [[Death Trope]], all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''
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== Already Dead ==
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=== Web Comics ===
* ''[[Slightly Damned (Webcomic)|Slightly Damned]]'' begins with Rhea already in purgatory, ready to be judged, with no idea how she got there. [[Unexplained Recovery|She got better]], and there's only so many places that her killer can be...
* {...} in ''[[Hanna Is Not a
* [http://www.missmab.com/Demo/undead.php Rachel-Rebecca the Third] from ''[[Dan and
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' once [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=297 pointed out] one of problems with vengeful ghosts.
* In ''[[No Songs for The Dead (Webcomic)|No Songs for The Dead]]'', the main protagonist Hector wakes up to find himself undead and unable to remember anything about what happened to him or his identity. The story revolves more around Hector trying to figure out his past and why he is now back, than his death.
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* Used in ''[[CSI (TV)|CSI]]'', when an attorney who'd been working with Sarah informs her that she won't be able to finish the case because the bullet lodged in her cranium from a previous crime has shifted inside the skull and will soon kill her. Subverted when, against all expectation, she survives the surgery to remove the bullet, {{spoiler|which subsequently proves that she'd been shot while in the process of murdering her husband.}}
* [[Truth in Television]]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov Georgi Markov], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko Alexander Litvinenko]
** The latter apparently [[Ripped
** A similar, earlier case in which a fight between two Northern European naval personnel ended with one pinning the other with a piece of equipment that discharged a radioactive field, and firing. It was reported that prosecutors were faced with the difficulty of how to press charges, because a fatal dose was delivered, but murder charges could not be pressed because it would take years for the victim to die.
* ''[[New Amsterdam]]''
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== Restored From Backup ==
=== Literature ===
* ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Literature)]]''. Unlike ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Film)|Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'', Roger is dead, and his doppelganger (a temporary copy of himself) goes to Eddie to find out who iced the original.
* ''[[Down and Out In The Magic Kingdom]]''
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]]''
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