History Film / CemeteryMan

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* AntiHero: Francesco when he kills people including some of them in his dream for whom he may or may not bear responsibility. Though they die for real thus providing him with he new clients. He does not cross into the straight villain territory due to the ProtagonistCenteredMorality.

* OneSteveLimit: Played with. Francesco and Franco are related names but not the same. [[spoiler: As one version is that Francesco is a figment of Franco's imagination this trope is played with even to a greater extent.]]

* ZombieInfectee: Zigzagged. Decisively subverted for Francesco himself. He is bitten by [[spoiler: Lei]] but notices to Gnaghi ready to off him that he of course is not going to die as the bite is not mortal, merely a flesh wound. It only means that when he dies he will definitely return. Then again other people who return as zombies were not bitten when alive.

** In the end [[spoiler: Gnaghi should have known if the bite of a zombie were not lethal as he is working together with Francesco and should be aware of such a basic detail. Which Francesco has to tell him to avoid being killed.]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: Gnaghi who is about to kill Francesco when he is bitten by a zombie. OurZombiesAreDifferent so you do not die of their bite because it is not a lethal wound. [[spoiler: Though Gnaghi '''should''' already know so it is odd that he does not.]]

** In the end [[spoiler: Gnaghi should have known if the bite of a zombie were not lethal as he is working together with Francesco and should be aware of such a basic detail. Which Francesco has to tell him.]]

* VomitDiscretionShot: Played with as Gnaghi is not shown in tha act of vomiting on the mayor's daughter. However the results are shot, the vomit is very much seen on her dress but not the act itself.

* ServileSnarker: Francesco to the oldest regular visitor of his cemetery who itertains herself frequenting it. She asks him whether the cemetery is open. He answers that for her it is always open. As she is 89 one realises this remark is quite snarky. [[spoiler: Later the character dies.]]

* InsistentTerminology: Francesco is called "ragioniere" (meaning accountant, translated into English as the more similarly-sounding "engineer") by his oldest visitor and the mayor. It is something of a honorable euphemism but Francescoe tends to dislike it as his is not an accountant but a gravedigger.

* MrFanservice: Francescoe Dellamorte played by Rupert Everett.

* SuddenlyVoiced: Gnaghi [[spoiler: in the end pronounces a coherent sentence asking Francescoe to take him away from the abyss.]] Francesco replies with [[spoiler: gna.]]

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Francesco and Gnaghi switch vocabularies at the end.]]
* IdenticalStranger: Not a stranger but Franco's appearance is quite similar to that of francesco.

* {{Gonk}}: Gnaghi, of course. Francescoe tells that his physical description should read: "Distinguishing makrs: All".

* AnyoneCanDie: Zigzagged. People die very quickly, some of them out of nowhere but it is a film about the cemetery and the death and all the characters apart from Francesco and Giaghi are of no great importance. While [[spoiler: Francescoe and Gnaghi always survive.]] However in the end [[spoiler: Gnaghi in fact dies]]. Still then in the very end [[spoiler: Gnaghi is revived.]]
* AttractiveZombie: Lei/She the first time it comes after Francesco kills her is the one. She just has some strange branch-like structures on her head. Later Lei/She never returns as a zombie but rather appears as a human being who pretends not to know Francescoo.

* AnyoneCanDie: Zigzagged. People die very quickly, some of them out of nowhere but it is a film about cemetary and death and all the characters apart from Francesco and Giaghi are of no great importance. While [[spoiler: Francescoe and Gnaghi always survive.]] However in the end [[spoiler: Gnaghi in fact dies]]. Still then in the very end [[spoiler: Gnaghi is revived.]]

* FleetingPassionateHobbies: Gnaghi is initially very fond of the fallen leaves and is very upset when the wind starts to blow carrying some of them away so that he cannot collect it. Later it is dropped and does not lead anywhere.

* ALoveToDismember: Gnaghi tears off the head of the dead daughteк of the mayor. A romance ensues.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Francesco can be considered not a straight villain because of that.

* RevenantZombie: Lei or She when she once comes back as a zombie appears rto be with. [[spoiler: Played with as later she still bites the characters]]
* ServileSnarker: Francesco to the oldest regular visitor of his cemetery who itertains herself frequenting it. She asks him whether the cemetery is open. She answers that for her it is always open. As she is 89 one realises this remark is quite snarky. [[spoiler: Later the character dies.]]

* SuddenlyVoiced: Gnaghi [[spoiler: in the end pronounces a coherent sentence asking Francescoe to take him away from the abyss.]] Francesco replies with [[spoiler: Gna.]]

* VomitDiscretionShot: Played with as Gnaghi is not shown in tha act of vomiting on the mayor's daughter. The results are shot, the vomit is quite seen on her dress but not the act itself.

* ZombieInfectee: Zigzagged. Decisively subverted for Francesco himself. He is bitten by [[spoiler: Lei]] but notices to Gnaghi ready to off him that he of course is not going to die as the bite is not mortal, merely a flesh wound. It only means that when he dies he will definitely return. Then again other people who return as zombies are not bitten.

** Also [[spoiler: Francesco early into the film still tries to avoid being bitten by numerous zombies who attack him. It is implied that their bites might have irreversable damage for the body of a living human.]]

* DissonantSerenity: No-one is concerned at all when Gnagh vomits on the mayor's daughter. That includes the mayor himself as well as her boyfriend. The latter asks her for a ride on the bike one which she presses herself to him. She is vomited on from the front so she should have smear his back with Gnaghi's vomit big time. No-one seems to care.

* FleetingPassionateHobbies: Gnaghi is initially very fond of the fallen leaves and is very upset when the winds starts to blow carrying some of them away so that he cannot collect it. Later it is dropped and does not lead anywhere.

* StressVomit: For Gnaghi when he sees a girl he likes.

** Many of those because of zombies, of coursew.

* ShoutOut: A possible shout-out to Creator/DarioArgento's ''Film/DeepRed'' as Francesco is annoyed when an old woman keeps calling him an engineer.

* Foil: Gnaghi for Dellamorte.

* AnyoneCanDie: Zigzagged. People die very quickly, some of them out of nowhere but it is a film about cemetary and death and all the characters apart from Francesco and Giaghi are of no great importance. While [[spoiler: Francescoe and Gniaghi always survive.]] However in the end [[spoiler: Gniaghi in fact dies]]. Still then in the very end [[spoiler: Gniaghi is revived.]]

* BetaCouple: Gniagh and mayor's daughter[[spoiler:'s head]]. The latter in her current state cannot be picky, of course.

* DissonantSerenity: No-one is concerned at all when Gniagh vomits on the mayor's daughter. That includes the mayor himself as well as her boyfriend. The latter asks her for a ride on the bike one which she presses herself to him. She is vomited on from the front so she should have smear his back with Gniaghi's vomit big time. No-one seems to care.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Almost no one in the town refers to Francesco by name. They usually call him "Engineer," which he hates. [[spoiler:Even the undead mayor refers to him this way, and Francesco finally gets to take his anger out on something.]]

* FleetingPassionateHobbies: Gniaghi is initially very fond of the fallen leaves and is very upset when the winds starts to blow carrying some of them away so that he cannot collect it. Later it is dropped and does not lead anywhere.
* Foil: Gniaghi for Dellamorte.

* FreakyFridayFlip: [[spoiler: It appears to happen to Francesco and Gniaghi in the ending when Gniaghi addresses Francesco coherently and the latter only answers "Gnia".]]

* {{Gonk}}: Gniaghi, of course. Francescoe tells that his physical description should read: "Distinguishing makrs: All".

* JobTitle

* ALoveToDismember: Gniaghi tears off the head of the dead daughteк of the mayor. A romance ensues.

* PokemonSpeak: Gniaghi always says only "gnia". That's why he is called Gniaghi.

* SuddenlyVoiced: Gniaghi [[spoiler: in the end pronounces a coherent sentence asking Francescoe to take him away from the abyss.]] Francesco replies with [[spoiler: Gnia.]]

** Also mayor's daughter for Gniaghi.

* VomitDiscretionShot: Played with as Gniaghi is not shown in tha act of vomiting on the mayor's daughter. The results are shot, the vomit is quite seen on her dress but not the act itself.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Gniaghi who is about to kill Francesco when he is bitten by a zombie. OurZombiesAreDifferent so you do not die of their bite because it is not a lethal wound. [[spoiler: Though Gniaghi '''should''' already know so it is odd that he does not.]]
* ZombieInfectee: Zigzagged. Decisively subverted for Francesco himself. He is bitten by [[spoiler: Lei]] but notices to Gniaghi ready to off him that he of course is not going to die as the bite is not mortal, merely a flesh wound. It only means that when he dies he will definitely return. Then again other people who return as zombies are not bitten.

** In the end [[spoiler: Gniaghi should have known if the bite of a zombie were not lethal as he is working together with Francesco and should be aware of such a basic detail. Which Francesco has to tell him.]]

* OneSteveLimit: Played with. Francesco snd Franco are related names but not the same. [[spoiler: As one version is that Francesco is a figment of Franco's imagination this trope is played with even to a greater extent.]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: Gniaghi who is about to kill Francesco when he is bitten by a zombie. OurZombiesAreDifferent so you do not die of their bite iа it is not a lethal wound. [[spoiler: Though Gniaghi '''should''' already know so it is odd that he does not.]]

** However [[spoiler: The death of the first Lei is a contradiction as her wound from the bite of her husband is no more lethal than the later wound of Francesco who is bitten by her. Further zigzagged as Francesco himself implies that she might in hact have not died, just passed out after the bit from her husband. Then as she came to herself still alive he killed her.]]

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Francesco can be considered nbnot a straight villain because of that.

* MrsFanservice: Lei played by Anna Falchi.

* ALoveToDismember

* PuchClockVillain: Subverted with the AntiVillain Francesco who is not a punchclock anti-villain even though he always does his job (until later in the movie). As he works around the clock both in day and at night.

* AntiHero: Francesco when he kills people [[spoiler: including some of them in his dream for whom he may or may not bear responsibility. Though they die for real thus providing him with he new clients. He does not cross into the straight villain territory due to the ProtagonistCenteredMorality]]
* AntiVillain: At firsyt Francesco who is very callous to zombies but has to kill them of course. Then at some point he starts killing living people turning into the AntiHero. This does not make him a straight villain in this movie because its morals are too centered on him.

* AntiHero: Francesco when he murders people [[spoiler: including some of them in his dream for whom he may or may not bear responsibility. Though they die for real thus providing him witht he new clients.]]
* AntiVillain: Francesco who is very callous to zombies but has to kill them as it seems. Then at some point he starts murdering people turning into the AntiHero. This does not make him a straight villain in this movie because its morals are too centered on him.

* AnyoneCanDie: Zigzagged. People die very quickly, some of them out of nowhere but it is a film about cemetary and death and all the characters apart from Francesco and Giaghi are of no importance. While [[spoiler: Francescoe and Gniaghi always survive.]] However in the end [[spoiler: Gniaghi dies]]. Still then in the very end [[spoiler: Gniaghi is revived.]]

* BetaCouple: Gniagh and mayor's daughter[[spoiler:'s head]]. Who in her current state cannot be picky, of course.

* MeaningfulName: UpToEleven with Francesco Dellamorte Dellamore (the latter is the surname of his mother and is not usually mentioned as a part of his name but is put into the title). It means something like "Of death Of love".

* AnyOneCanDie: Zigzagged. People die very quickly, some of them out of nowhere but it is a film about cemetary and death and all the characters apart from Francesco and Giaghi are of no importance. While [[spoiler: Francescoe and Gniaghi always survive.]] However in the end [[spoiler: Gniaghi dies]]. Still then in the very end [[spoiler: Gniaghi is revived.]]

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%%* BlackComedy

%%* DysfunctionJunction

* TemporaryLoveInterest: Zigzagged wildly. Francesco begins to love passionately Lei several times as she always returns to him. However every time as she is offeв he takes it relatively easily for such a huge love.

** However [[spoiler: The death of the first Lei is a contradiction as her wound from the bite of her husband is no more lethal than the latter wound of Francesco who is bitten by her. Further zigzagged as Francesco himself implies that she might in hact have not died, just passed out after the bit from her husband. Then as she came to herself still alive he killed her.]]

* ZombieInfectee: Zigzagged. Decisively subverted for Francesco himself. He is bitten by [[spoiler: Lei]] but notices to Gniaghi ready to off him that he of course is not going to die as the bite is not mortal, merely a flesh wound. It only means that when he dies he will definitely return. Then again other people who returns as zombies are not bitten.

** Also [[spoiler: Francesco early into the film still tries to avoid being bitten by numerous zombies who attack him. It is implied that their bites might have irreversable damage for the body of a living human.]]

* MayDecemberRommance: For Lei (the first one) and her deceased husband.

* ZombieInfectee: Decisively subverted for Francesco himself. He is bitten by [[spoiler: Lei]] but notices to Gniaghi ready to off him that he of course is not going to die as the bite is not mortal, merely a flesh wound. It only means that when he dies he will definitely return. Then again other people who returns as zombies are not bitten.

** However [[The death of the first Lei is a contradiction as her wound from the bite of her husband is no more lethal than the latter wound of Francesco who is bitten by her. Further zigzagged as Francesco himself implies that she might in hact have not died, just passed out after the bit from her husband. Then as she came to herself still alive he killed her.]]
** Also [[Francesco early into the film still tries to avoid being bitten by numerous zombies who attack him. It is implied that their bites might have irreversable damage for the body of a living human.]]
** Also [[Gniaghi should have known if the bite of a zombie were not lethal as he is working together with Francesco and should be aware of such a basic detail.]]