History Main / DeadAllAlong

** Notably, episode 5 reveals to the audience that [[spoiler: the dark haired woman is not an arbiter, but a human who died [[PlotTriggeringDeath just before the series begins]]. She doesn’t realize this herself until episode 7, however]].

* ''Literature/JaineAustenMysteries'': [[spoiler:It's revealed in ''Death of a Gigolo'' that Daisy Kincaid, the woman who hired Jaine to write her romance book, was actually murdered by her companion, and said companion is the Daisy that Jaine and the staff know.]]

* 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 in a long time. His love for you finally frees him, causing him to depart for the afterlife. If you work in the library before choosing Anghel's route you can find out that Anghel can see him. [[spoiler:and in the [[GenreShift Bad Boys' Love/Hurtful Boyfriend]] route Ryouta can also see Nageki, when you play him as a protagonist.]]

* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' had an episode where Section 9 had to prevent the assassination of a rich recluse. They succeeded, then found out that he had been dead for several months. He'd had computer programs automatically manage his finances for him, that combined with him being quite a recluse, is why nobody realized he was dead.

* Near the end of the short ''[[Anime/{{Memories}} Magnetic Rose]]'', Heintz's daughter Emily is revealed to have died years ago. Not even his co-workers know she's deceased. As a little kid, Emily wanted to be an astronaut like her father so she climbed onto the house's roof to play, but she ended up falling off the roof. Coming to terms with her death is a major part of Heintz's arc and what sets him apart from Eva.

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*** DARPA Chief has the same case, hence the inconsistencies the player might see between the "DARPA Chief" (really Decoy Octopus in disguise, with even the Chief's blood fully transferred into Octopus to make it more believable to any other person) and the decaying DARPA Chief that Solid Snake discovers when locked in the cell and also notices that his blood has been drained, hence the detail above.

*** DARPA Chief has the same case, hence the inconsistencies the player might see between the "DARPA Chief" (really Decoy Octopus in disguise, with even the Chief's blood fully transferred into Octopus to make it more believable to any other person) and the decaying DARPA Chief that Solid Snake discovers when locked in the cell.

* ''Anime/DeathParade'': Every OneShotCharacter who winds up at Quindecim turns out to be this, their memories are erased and slowly return as a Test of Character to determine if they are sent to [[{{Reincarnation}} Heaven]] or [[CessationOfExistence Hell]] based on their actions during a chosen event.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue:''

** ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriendHolidayStar reveals the criteria for seeing ghosts. Only those with pure hearts can see spirits and that includes the above, as well as Oko San.

* 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 (except in the audio drama [[spoiler:and the [[GenreShift Bad Boys' Love/Hurtful Boyfriend]] route]], where Ryouta can, and the manga, where both Ryouta and Oko San can... and ''maybe'' Anghel). His love for you finally frees him, causing him to depart for the afterlife.

* ''Film/ATaleOfTwoSisters'' reveals at the end that Su-mi's younger sister, Su-yeon, died when a fallen wardrobe crushed her and their WickedStepmother Eun-joo [[MurderByInaction knowingly let her perish]] to spite Su-mi for insulting her. The Su-yeon seen throughout the film was Su-mi's hallucination. (The ending ''also'' reveals that there really was a ghost in Su-mi's house, but [[AmbiguousSituation it's not clear]] if it had anything to do with Su-mi's hallcuinating.)

* ''Film/{{Fall}}: Everything that happened after Becky supposedly pulled Hunter up was a delusion Becky visualized due to her dehydration and hunger, as Hunter fell and hit the satellite below and bled out.

%%* The little sister in ''Film/ATaleOfTwoSisters''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'', the Tiger Clan was stricken with plague around the time Tygra was born. The more prideful members of the clan rejected Tygra's father Javan's suggestion to seek help from Thundera and convinced him to make a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the Ancient Spirits of Evil]]. The Spirits agreed to save the clan but demanded that Javan sacrifice Tygra in exchange since Tygra was destined to become their enemy. Javan couldn't go through with it and sent Tygra away in a hot air balloon to Thundera. The Spirits punished the clan by sending the plague back to the village, killing them all. The Spirits then cursed them with undeath and nightly transformations into mindless horrors.

* Jin's Music/KagerouProject has an entire cast of dead characters, as that is how one obtains the eye powers everyone is known to have in the first place.

* Manbou-P's A Clingy Boy Sticking For 15 Years, alternatively, Pursuing a Cute Boy For 15 Years. In each of the songs, the singer is singing to a love interest who never responds to their love poems. Near the end of the song, the said love interest is revealed to have "died 15 years ago". Surprise.

* ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'': Rei, or rather, Niko. She was an IllGirl who died in 1999 due to TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed, and in the afterlife started to grow resentful when she felt that she was alone and died for no meaning. Chronos, one of the aspects of [[TheGrimReaper Death]], took an interest in her and tried to get her to speak to him by replicating the school she was supposed to go to ([[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Yasogami High]]), but [[NotQuiteTheRightThing that only made things worse]] as it reminded poor Rei what she missed out on because she died so early. In an attempt to cheer her up, Chronos [[LaserGuidedAmnesia took away her memories]] and turned the entire replicated school into a festival to make her happy, while sealing any possibilities of her memory returning within the labyrinths of the game, and just to delay the inevitable a little longer, took away his own memories and called himself Zen. Once the player gets through all the labyrinths, Zen's memories return to him, he gives Rei her memories back, and things get sour from there.

* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' gave us ''The Ghost Next Door'', where the narrator is actually the ghost, along with the grandparents in ''Ghost Beach''.

* The short story "The Thing in Auntie Alma's Pond" by Creator/BruceCoville is about a girl running away from home to her aunt's house and being terrified of the pond there. The girl later swims to the bottom of the pond and realizes she had actually drowned at the bottom of the pond when her leg got caught, after finding her swollen, decayed body at the bottom.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', when a person dies, they are supposed to be "Sent" to a peaceful afterlife via a summoner's ritual. When they aren't, they become an Unsent -- a dead person who stay arounds due to strong emotional attachment or other unfinished business. Some are dead for years before the plot gets to them.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', when a person dies, they are supposed to be "Sent" to a peaceful afterlife via a summoner's ritual. There is a class of these people called Unsent, who stay around due to strong emotional attachment or other unfinished business. Some are dead for years before the plot gets to them.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', there is a class of these people called Unsent, who stay around due to strong emotional attachment or other unfinished business. Some are dead for years before the plot gets to them.

*** Maester Seymour, who you have to kill three times after his initial death, follows in Mika's footsteps.
*** Auron, the heroes' [[MentorArchetype mentor]], who finally reveals that he is an Unsent near the end of the game.

** The short story "Incident at Owl Creek Bridge" (see above under Literature) was made into a short film and featured as an episode.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'': The 16th Student, Mukuro Ikasuba, is set up to be a ChekhovsGunman and possibly the Mastermind... but come Chapter 5, she shows up murdered, [[spoiler: and it's revealed in the 6th trial that this had happened ''long'' before her body appeared in the garden; she is the one who was killed by spears for defying Monokuma way back in Chapter 1, but since she was disguised as her twin sister Junko Enoshima at the time, nobody knew this fact- something the Mastermind exploited to fake a murder with her as the victim.]]
* Chiaki in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' was revealed to have died before the events of the game in the real world, and the one met in the game is an AI with her personality.

* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'', it's revealed by Eveline that the protagonist, Ethan Winters has actually died during Jack Baker's infamous 'Welcome to the Family' speech, but not even Jack or Ethan knew about it then. It explains how Ethan became so resilient in the 2 games, as he was rebuilt by the Mold after he died.

* In [[https://moringmark.tumblr.com/post/664393691989000192 this]] [[MemeticMutation memetically infamous]] ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' comic by Webcomic/{{Moringmark}}, Belos reveals to Luz that the Boiling Isles is ''hell'' -- she was killed by a car after an argument with her mother -- and he is the devil.

* The main character in classic horror film ''Film/CarnivalOfSouls''.

* Randi James in ''Film/DeadHeat''.

* The girl who ''thinks'' she's the FinalGirl in ''Film/TheDevilsGround''.