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* ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'':
** Scheiner, one of the recurring medical examiners, is a very eccentric and at times off-putting man with NoSocialSkills. When Bolander returns to work after being shot, Scheiner cheerfully comments he expected to see him in the morgue as one of his corpses.
** The VillainOfTheWeek from "The Documentary" was a mortician who stole the corpses from his mortuary so they would keep him company. He murdered his neighbors in cold blood for threatening to report him for it.
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* In ''Literature/TheUndertaker'' novels, Barnaby Gold was this before becoming a gunslinger: having been an {{Undertaker}} alongside his father. The folks of his hometown always regarded him as [[invoked]]'[[DiagnosedByTheAudience not right up top]]'; being cold and emotionally detached and not having normal emotional responses to events like his father's death.

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* In ''Literature/TheUndertaker'' novels, Barnaby Gold was this before becoming a gunslinger: having been an {{Undertaker}} alongside his father. The folks of his hometown always regarded him as [[invoked]]'[[DiagnosedByTheAudience not "not right up top]]'; top"; being cold and emotionally detached and not having normal emotional responses to events like his father's death.
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* ''WebAnimation/TheBackwaterGospel'' features an undertaker who simply sits and waits...

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* ''WebAnimation/TheBackwaterGospel'' features an undertaker who simply sits and waits... He's believed by the townfolk to bring death whenever he appears. [[spoiler:And he does. But not directly.]]

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* ''Film/Mortuary1983'': [[spoiler:Paul. He works as a mortician with his father, and is a killer who murdered Mr. and Mrs. Parson, Josh, and then his father.]]

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* ''Film/Mortuary1983'': ''Film/{{Mortuary|1983}}'': [[spoiler:Paul. He works as a mortician with his father, and is a killer who murdered Mr. and Mrs. Parson, Josh, and then his father.]]



* ''Film/TheUndertaker1988'': Roscoe, the titular undertaker, is this. He rarely raises his voice, he looks like a fatter, less handsome Creator/VincentPrice, he talks to the corpses while working on them... oh, and he's a killer who likes keeping his victim's bodies hanging from chains on a pipe in his basement office.

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* ''Film/TheUndertaker1988'': ''Film/{{The Undertaker|1988}}'': Roscoe, the titular undertaker, is this. He rarely raises his voice, he looks like a fatter, less handsome Creator/VincentPrice, he talks to the corpses while working on them... oh, and he's a killer who likes keeping his victim's bodies hanging from chains on a pipe in his basement office.



* Averted (bordering on discussing this trope) in one of Creator/DeanKoontz's novels, where it is specifically stated that the morgue crew the protagonists meet are totally unlike the stereotypical image of their profession in fiction.



* Invoked and averted in ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan''. When Darren is still a new half-vampire refusing to drink human blood, his mentor Mr. Crepsley takes him to the city morgue to meet the pathologist Jimmmy Ovo. Darren grew up on a steady diet of horror movies, books, and comics in the early '80's, and he's surprised that the morgue is as clean and professional and un-creepy as it is, and that Jimmy is such a normal person. An added twist is that Jimmy is as creeped out by the vampires as they are of him. (As for why he helps them anyway, the [[Literature/TheSagaOfLartenCrepsley prequels]] give a backstory to this -- vampires saved his father from a concentration camp).



* Invoked and averted in ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan''. When Darren is still a new half-vampire refusing to drink human blood, his mentor Mr. Crepsley takes him to the city morgue to meet the pathologist Jimmmy Ovo. Darren grew up on a steady diet of horror movies, books, and comics in the early '80's, and he's surprised that the morgue is as clean and professional and un-creepy as it is, and that Jimmy is such a normal person. An added twist is that Jimmy is as creeped out by the vampires as they are of him. (As for why he helps them anyway, the [[Literature/TheSagaOfLartenCrepsley prequels]] give a backstory to this -- vampires saved his father from a concentration camp).
* Averted (bordering on discussing this trope) in one of Creator/DeanKoontz's novels, where it is specifically stated that the morgue crew the protagonists meet are totally unlike the stereotypical image of their profession in fiction.



* ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''. Special Agent Madani wants to look at some corpses the NYPD has in the morgue, so Karen Page gets the help of a medical examiner's assistant whom everyone refers to as "Creepy Ed", who asks an unnamed favor from Karen in return. The audience doesn't find out what the favor is until a later scene showing Karen walking around the hospital barefoot, while Ed is wearing her high-heeled shoes.



* ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''. Special Agent Madani wants to look at some corpses the NYPD has in the morgue, so Karen Page gets the help of a medical examiner's assistant whom everyone refers to as "Creepy Ed", who asks an unnamed favor from Karen in return. The audience doesn't find out what the favor is until a later scene showing Karen walking around the hospital barefoot, while Ed is wearing her high-heeled shoes.



* Aesop Carl, the Embalmer, from ''VideoGame/IdentityV'', follows the game's trend of having Survivor characters who are actually more messed up than the supposedly-villainous Hunters. Aesop's backstory is that he was taken in by an embalmer after his mother died, and taught the trade -- the twist is that his mentor believed there were a lot of people walking around alive who were actually dead, and it's the embalmer's job to help them accept their deaths. Aesop follows in the mentor's footsteps so eagerly that the mentor himself becomes a victim. Letters from the manor show that Aesop didn't give up his practices after arriving there, and wants to embalm his teammate, Postman Victor Grantz.



* Aesop Carl, the Embalmer, from ''VideoGame/IdentityV'', follows the game's trend of having Survivor characters who are actually more messed up than the supposedly-villainous Hunters. Aesop's backstory is that he was taken in by an embalmer after his mother died, and taught the trade -- the twist is that his mentor believed there were a lot of people walking around alive who were actually dead, and it's the embalmer's job to help them accept their deaths. Aesop follows in the mentor's footsteps so eagerly that the mentor himself becomes a victim. Letters from the manor show that Aesop didn't give up his practices after arriving there, and wants to embalm his teammate, Postman Victor Grantz.



* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'': One episode had the undertaker Union unhappy that Luke is damaging their business by minimising fatalities so that they ask an expert undertaker Mortimer Deadflower to do something about it, the undertaker takes the recurring extra undertaker Barnaby (who is shunned by anyone else in town )as a lackey and ends up trying to drive the inhabitants of the town Luke is staying in to kill each other, sorta like in Recap/AsterixAndTheRomanAgent even setting the Sheriff against Luke by convincing him that Luke wants to steal his job. [[spoiler: In the end Luke manages to outsmart him by being nice to Barnaby and tricking everyone into believing the Sheriff shot Luke in a duel over who gets his job, leading the undertaker to tell everyone in town about Deadflower's plan to make them fight and kill each other to boost sales.]]

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* DoubleSubverted in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' by Robbie's parents. They run the town funeral home, but unlike their sullen EmoTeen son are constantly happy and friendly. So much so that they come out the other side and become creepy again whenever they talk about their work.
-->'''Mr. Valentino:''' ''[insincerely]'' Oh dear, I hope nobody was killed.\\
'''Mrs. Valentino:''' Oh yes, that would be awful. ''[laugh]''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'': One episode had has the undertaker Undertaker Union unhappy that Luke is damaging their business by minimising fatalities fatalities, so that they ask an expert undertaker Mortimer Deadflower to do something about it, the it. The undertaker takes the recurring extra undertaker Barnaby (who is shunned by anyone else in town )as town) as a lackey and ends up trying to drive the inhabitants of the town Luke is staying in to kill each other, sorta like in Recap/AsterixAndTheRomanAgent ''Recap/AsterixAndTheRomanAgent'', even setting the Sheriff against Luke by convincing him that Luke wants to steal his job. [[spoiler: In [[spoiler:In the end end, Luke manages to outsmart him by being nice to Barnaby and tricking everyone into believing the Sheriff shot Luke in a duel over who gets his job, leading the undertaker to tell everyone in town about Deadflower's plan to make them fight and kill each other to boost sales.]]



* DoubleSubverted in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' by Robbie's parents. They run the town funeral home, but unlike their sullen EmoTeen son are constantly happy and friendly. So much so that they come out the other side and become creepy again whenever they talk about their work.
-->'''Mr. Valentino:''' ''[insincerely]'' Oh dear, I hope nobody was killed.\\
'''Mrs. Valentino:''' Oh yes, that would be awful. ''[laugh]''
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* Waldo Trumbull in ''Film/TheComedyOfTerrors'' is an undertaker... played by Creator/VincentPrice. In [[LovecraftCountry a small New England town]]. ''Of course'' he's murdering people to keep his business going. As the film is a comedy he's not the scariest Vincent Price character (he's not very competent, and Vincent Price's usually menacing LeanAndMean appearance comes across more as gangly and ungainly when he's [[TheAlcoholic drunkenly staggering around]]), but he's still killed multiple people before the events of the film, and kills or tries to kill several more ''during'' the film. He's a petty, cruel bastard who shows a total LackOfEmpathy or remorse, and thinks MurderIsTheBestSolution to any problem.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'': One episode had the various undertakers unhappy that Luke is damaging their business by minimising fatalities so they ask an expert undertaker to do something about it, the undertaker takes the recurring extra undertaker ( who is shunned by anyone else in town )as a lackey and ends up trying to drive the inhabitants of the town Luke is staying in to kill eachother , sorta like in Recap/AsterixAndTheRomanAgent even setting the Sheriff against Luke by convincing him that Luke wants to steal his job, in the end Luke manages to outsmart him by being nice to the lackey and tricking everyone into believing the Sheriff shot luke in a duel over who gets his job, leading the lackey to tell everyone in town about the other undertakers plan to make them fight and kill eachother to boost sales.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'': One episode had the various undertakers undertaker Union unhappy that Luke is damaging their business by minimising fatalities so that they ask an expert undertaker Mortimer Deadflower to do something about it, the undertaker takes the recurring extra undertaker ( who Barnaby (who is shunned by anyone else in town )as a lackey and ends up trying to drive the inhabitants of the town Luke is staying in to kill eachother , each other, sorta like in Recap/AsterixAndTheRomanAgent even setting the Sheriff against Luke by convincing him that Luke wants to steal his job, in job. [[spoiler: In the end Luke manages to outsmart him by being nice to the lackey Barnaby and tricking everyone into believing the Sheriff shot luke Luke in a duel over who gets his job, leading the lackey undertaker to tell everyone in town about the other undertakers Deadflower's plan to make them fight and kill eachother each other to boost sales.]]
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* In ''Literature/TheUndertaker'' novels, Barnaby Gold was this before becoming a gunslinger: having been an {{Undertaker}} alongside his father. The folks of his hometown always regarded him as '[[AmbiguousDisorder not right up top]]'; being cold and emotionally detached and not having normal emotional responses to events like his father's death.

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* In ''Literature/TheUndertaker'' novels, Barnaby Gold was this before becoming a gunslinger: having been an {{Undertaker}} alongside his father. The folks of his hometown always regarded him as '[[AmbiguousDisorder [[invoked]]'[[DiagnosedByTheAudience not right up top]]'; being cold and emotionally detached and not having normal emotional responses to events like his father's death.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'': One episode had the various undertakers unhappy that Luke is damaging their business by minimising fatalities so they ask an expert undertaker to do something about it, the undertaker takes the recurring extra undertaker ( who is shunned by anyone else in town )as a lackey and ends up trying to drive the inhabitants of the town Luke is staying in to kill eachother , sorta like in Recap/AsterixAndTheRomanAgent even setting the Sheriff against Luke by convincing him that Luke wants to steal his job, in the end Luke manages to outsmart him by being nice to the lackey and tricking everyone into believing the Sheriff shot luke in a duel over who gets his job, leading the lackey to tell everyone in town about the other undertakers plan to make them fight and kill eachother to boost sales.
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The trope can just be PlayedForLaughs as well as PlayedForDrama, with often a lot of overlap between the two. The more unsettling version lurks around the graveyard and has an unhealthy obsession with his deceased clients. When they're not in the graveyard, they can be found in rather eerie places, such as near newly deceased bodies or in coffins. Often they are the primary suspect whenever something particularly creepy happens. May turn out to be a LivingDollCollector, a [[ILoveTheDead Necrophille]], or an outright evil {{Necromancer}}. Prone to spout ominous-in-context lines like "Be seeing you..."

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The trope can just be PlayedForLaughs as well as PlayedForDrama, with often a lot of overlap between the two. The more unsettling version lurks around the graveyard and has an unhealthy obsession with his deceased clients. When they're not in the graveyard, they can be found in rather eerie places, such as near newly deceased bodies or in coffins. Often they are the primary suspect whenever something particularly creepy happens. May turn out to be a LivingDollCollector, a [[ILoveTheDead Necrophille]], Necrophile]], or an outright evil {{Necromancer}}. Prone to spout ominous-in-context lines like "Be seeing you..."
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* ''Film/TheUndertaker1988'': Roscoe, the titular undertaker, is this. He rarely raises his voice, he looks like a fatter, less handsome Creator/VincentPrice, he talks to the corpses while working on them... oh, and he's a killer who likes keeping his victim's bodies hanging from chains on a pipe in his basement office.
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* Aesop Carl, the Embalmer, from ''VideoGame/IdentityV'', follows the game's trend of having Survivor characters who are actually more messed up than the supposedly-villainous Hunters. Aesop's backstory is that he was taken in by an embalmer after his mother died, and taught the trade -- the twist is that his mentor believed there were a lot of people walking around alive who were actually dead, and it's the embalmer's job to help them accept their deaths. Aesop follows in the mentor's footsteps so eagerly that the mentor himself becomes a victim. Letters from the manor show that Aesop didn't give up his practices after arriving there, and wants to embalm his teammate, Postman Victor Grantz.

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