History Main / DeadAllAlong

* Excellen from ''SuperRobotWarsCompact2'' was killed during a space shuttle accident before Compact 2 or Original Generation takes place, but was reanimated by a monster as part of the set-up for its evil schemes. Interestingly, she suffers the same fate in the MirrorUniverse, but in that version her MadScientist parents make a cyborg SuperSoldier out of her corpse instead and she changed her name to [[SuperRobotWarsAdvance Lemon Browning]].

* Multiple characters on ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' are revealed to have been dead for years and their ghosts have become trapped in the house. Other characters die during the show itself, but it isn't known by themselves, other characters or us for several episodes.

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* Averted in ''A Very Long Engagement'' where you slowly find mounting evidence that the main character's fiance has died. He is saved by another soldier who is an impostor after having been shot by a passing German plane, and given a dead young soldier's identity. When the soldier's mother visits the hospital, she realizes instantly her son is dead, and the young man in front of her has severe amnesia. Rather than turn him in, knowing the penalty would be death, she adopted him, and he lived as her son until she died, then he was committed to an asylum.

* Johnny Depp in ''Dead Man''. Though he might have just been dying slowly the whole time. Nobody probably knows for sure.

->''Cool -- you're a ghost, and you don't know it.''
-->-- '''Tucker''', ''AreYouAfraidOfTheDark''

* All of the postal deliverers in ''{{Shigofumi}}'' are people who died.
* Carrossea Doon in ''{{Madlax}}''. He only stays around because of both his love for Margaret and the fact that he doesn't even remember he's dead. When he realizes that he fits in here, he actually fades away.
* Souji Mikage in ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' (according to one interpretation, anyway) and Kiryuu Touga in TheMovie.

* Shito and Shiba in ''ZombieLoan'', and in the former case he was actually ''born'' dead. Don't try to think about that one too much...

* [[spoiler:Snowe]] in ''VideoGame/StarStealingPrince'' was killed [[spoiler:in the HopelessBossFight. The only reason he's still around is that the demon didn't want him to die.]]

* [[spoiler:Snowe]] in ''Star Stealing Prince'' was killed [[spoiler:in the HopelessBossFight. The only reason he's still around is that the demon didn't want him to die.]]

* AnneHathaway and the 'plane crash survivors', who actually were all passengers in ''Passengers''. The reason the passengers were disappearing one by one from the protagonist's group therapy sessions was not because of a conspiracy, but because they accepted their deaths and were able to cross over.

* ''Titus'': The episode "The Visit" has Titus, Dave, Tommy, and Ken (Papa Titus) trying to capture Juanita (Titus's homicidal, manic-depressive schizophrenic mom) whom they think escaped from the mental hospital again and is out to ruin Titus and Erin's chance at adopting Amy [[hottip:*: who was sent to live with Titus and Erin after Amy's disastrous birthday in her run-down apartment, which featured her drugged-out mom passing out on the cake and her drunk stepfather nearly beating Amy when she confesses to calling Child Welfare on him]]. Titus, Dave, Tommy, and Ken have her cornered in the closet -- until Erin comes in and tells Titus that she got a phone call from the Missouri police department with news that Juanita killed herself four hours ago. To drive the point home, Titus opens the closet and finds no one there and the episode ends with [[TearJerker a heartbreaking message about how hard it is to be a parent and how Titus forgives his mom -- even though everyone now thinks he's crazy]].

* In ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'', near the end of Nageki's route it's revealed that he's been a ghost the entire time, trapped in the library, and that you're the first person to see him. His love for you finally frees him, causing him to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.

* [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation One way]] to interpret the ending of the New Order song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l36eO6BwPq8 Love Vigilantes.]]" It's a little hard to catch thanks to the LyricalDissonance and the lead singer's lack of coherency. It's better in the Iron & Wine [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugx0zC3Otwk version]], which seems to deliberately be aiming for this ending.

* Yuuko in ''XxxHOLiC'' and ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', who is not "dead" as such, but has simply had a RealityWarper [[DivideByZero tell reality to ignore the fact that she died for several hundred years.]] When she moves on, things reset and it is as if she had died when she, er, died. Yeah, descriptive words get kinda difficult here. However her death couldn't completely set right the multiverse. The consequences had twisted reality beyond repair.

* The protagonists in Creator/StephenKing's short story "Willa" from ''Just After Sunset''.

* In the fourth episode of ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'', Beatrice declares to the player that Kinzo Ushiromiya, the protagonist's grandfather and the reason the entire mess started, is in fact, dead at the beginning of not just the game in question, but all the other games in the series.
** Considering the number of important plot scenes the character has [[UnreliableNarrator supposedly taken part in]] at the time of ''TheReveal'', the implications are... [[MindScrew complicated]].

* Itsuki in ''VisualNovel/{{Suika}}'' actually died years ago.

* In ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'', near the end of Nageki's route it's revealed that he's been a ghost the entire time, trapped in the library, and that you're the first person to see him. His love for you finally frees him, causing him to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.

* There was an episode of ''SoWeird'' where somebody kept writing the message "YOU'RE DEAD" for an old woman to find. It turned out that it wasn't an enemy threatening her, it was the ghost of her husband trying to ''tell'' her that she was, literally, dead.

* In ''{{Naruto}}'', Uchiha Madara is revealed to be dead when Kabuto resurrects him. The BigBad claiming to be Madara is in fact [[TakeUpMySword the person Madara chose to complete the plan]]. However, Madara ''had'' lived well beyond his supposed death in battle and ultimately died of old age long after his natural lifespan ended.

** "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" does this, as well. One of the archaeologists follows him around for quite some time before the Doctor notices that she no longer has two shadows and has had the flesh eaten off her bones.