History Main / DeadAllAlong

* ''DigimonTamers''' Alice is thought to be a ghost. She was incredibly pale, and literally disappeared after she did all that she could to help the Tamers. It is also hinted by several characters that she was already dead. ''WordofGod'' neither confirms nor denies this.

* Maester Mika, head of the CorruptChurch in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''. As he was an incredibly old man when he died, no one who wasn't in on it noticed that he wasn't getting any older lately...
** Seymour, who you have to kill three times after his initial death before he stays dead.

* Maechen, the age-old historian from ''FFX'', is revealed to be dead in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' in a movie sphere that can be collected on a bonus mission.

* Colonel John Konrad in ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine''.

* A particularly {{squick}}tastic example occurs with Bathilda Bagshot in ''HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''. Bathilda's corpse was reanimated by Voldemort, and Nagini hides ''inside the corpse'', lying in wait for Harry and Hermione.

** [[spoiler: Also in the episode "[[SupernaturalS9E09HolyTerror Holy Terror]]"]]

* ''Literature/{{Liar}}'' provides an interesting example. [[spoiler: When he was introduced, Jordan was just an ordinary AnnoyingYoungerSibling to Micah. Then, [[UnreliableNrrator Micah]] tells the reader that she had been lying and Jordan never existed. ''[[MindScrew Then]]'' she tells us that he actually did exist, and he died in an accident when he was eight.]]

* In ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'''s movie, there is a group of terrorists known as NEVER. After encountering three of the members and a look-up on who they are, the heroes find that the group are really undead zombies invented by a scientist who based her research on one of the main character's predicament of being dead all along. This gets pointed out when NEVER's leader points out how they are NotSoDifferent multiple times, with said hero [[ShutUpHannibal shutting him up]] at nearly every turn. Although at that point he hasn't found out the AwfulTruth.

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

* In ''KamenRiderDouble'''s movie, there is a group of terrorists known as NEVER. After encountering three of the members and a look-up on who they are, the heroes find that the group are really undead zombies invented by a scientist who based her research on one of the main character's predicament of being dead all along. This gets pointed out when NEVER's leader points out how they are NotSoDifferent multiple times, with said hero [[ShutUpHannibal shutting him up]] at nearly every turn. Although at that point he hasn't found out the AwfulTruth.

* ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiracies'': General Rinaker turns out to have been dead for more than 50 years. The man everyone ''thinks'' is Rinaker is actually a Shadoen infiltrator.

** This goes especially for John Locke, as he dies in the events of seasons 4-5 and is revived midway through the fifth season. Then it turns out that Locke actually was never brought back and is still dead; the person that's appeared to be Locke walking around for the remainder of the series has actually been [[BigBad The Man in Black]] assuming his form.

* In "You Do Something to Me" in ''Creepy'' #24 the main character destroyed a black magic amulet which he believed his wife was trying to kill him with, only to discover that it had actually been keeping him "alive" since his accidental death three years ago.

* Julia Jason Andelius, from Maria Gripe's ''The dung-beetle flies at dusk''. She somehow found out about the mysteries behind an old house she owned in the Swedish countryside, but died before she could reveal them to the public... so, via mysterious phone calls, her ghost started dropping hints to the teenagers who spent a whole summer taking care of said home. It's not until the whole mystery is solved by the kids that we find out about Julia's passing.

* ''{{Proof}}'' opens with a conversation between Cathy and Robert in which the latter reassures the former that she isn't crazy. Except that she's talking with her dead father, which may punch a hole in that theory.