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* DropInNemesis: An enemy that kills you with little to no warning if you make a mistake.
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* DyingToWakeUp: Dying in a dream instantly wakes you up.
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* CompetingWithACorpse: A LoveTriangle in which one of the love rivals is already deceased.
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* SymbolicCastFadeout: A cast list that fade out or marks whenever a cast member dies.
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* DeagedInDeath: A person's soul looks young even though the person in question died at an older age.
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* DeathIsCheap: When it's ridiculously easy for dead people to come back to life more than once.
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* DeathIsCheap: When it's ridiculously easy for dead people Certain media, particularly superhero comics, have a tendency to come resurrect characters after killing them off, often due to popular demand, a writer seizing the opportunity to bring the character back to life more than once.because they felt it was a bad idea to kill them off in the first place or the character simply being too important for their death to be permanent.
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* WidowMistreatment: Someone is treated poorly follow the death of their spouse.
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* WidowMistreatment: Someone is treated poorly follow following the death of their spouse.
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* WidowMistreatment: Someone is treated poorly follow the death of their spouse.
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* KillAndReplace: Killing someone to impersonate them.
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* ObituaryMontage: A {{montage|s}} featuring recently-deceased people.
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* DiedInIgnorance: A character dies without ever finding out a massive truth that completely alters their situation, usually TheReveal.
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* HandshakeOfDoom: A handshake that means death.
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* SharedFateUltimatum: A threat that if one person dies, then someone will die with them.
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* DoomedHurtGuy: Someone is injured and attempts are made to help them, but they die anyway.
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* DismemberingTheBody: A character chops up pieces of a body to make it easier to dispose.
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* PleaOfPersonalNecessity:PleaOfPersonalNecessity: A villain pleads for the hero not to kill them because they still need them.
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* TragicAidsStoryTragicAidsStory: Someone dies tragically from [=AIDS=].
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* VillainKiller
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* VillainKillerVillainKiller: A character who successfully kills a significant number of villains over the course of the story.
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* DeadlyHazing: Hazing results in death.
* DeadManHonking: A dead driver's corpse falls forward and honks the car horn.
* DeadMansTriggerFinger: Someone armed with a gun involuntarily fires once they're killed.
* DeadMansSwitch: Character arranges it so their death causes bad things to happen. May or may not be a supernatural being.
* DeadManWriting: Someone leaves a posthumous message.
* DeadMansChest: Hiding a body by stuffing it in a trunk.
* DeadPartner: Someone has a partner die in the line of duty.
* DeadPersonConversation: Communicating with the deceased. Usually a witch or psychic.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Using the identity of a deceased person as an alias.
* DeadSerious: Someone proves they're not fucking around anymore by killing someone important.
* DeadSidekick: Hero is haunted by the death of their ward.
* DeadStarWalking: Character is killed after being set up as the protagonist.
* DeadToBeginWith: Story starts with the main character already dead and goes on in the afterlife.
* DeadManHonking: A dead driver's corpse falls forward and honks the car horn.
* DeadMansTriggerFinger: Someone armed with a gun involuntarily fires once they're killed.
* DeadMansSwitch: Character arranges it so their death causes bad things to happen. May or may not be a supernatural being.
* DeadManWriting: Someone leaves a posthumous message.
* DeadMansChest: Hiding a body by stuffing it in a trunk.
* DeadPartner: Someone has a partner die in the line of duty.
* DeadPersonConversation: Communicating with the deceased. Usually a witch or psychic.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Using the identity of a deceased person as an alias.
* DeadSerious: Someone proves they're not fucking around anymore by killing someone important.
* DeadSidekick: Hero is haunted by the death of their ward.
* DeadStarWalking: Character is killed after being set up as the protagonist.
* DeadToBeginWith: Story starts with the main character already dead and goes on in the afterlife.
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* DeadlyHazing: Hazing results in death.
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* DeadManHonking: A dead driver's corpse falls forward and honks the car horn.
* DeadMansTriggerFinger: Someone armed with a gun involuntarily fires once they're killed.
* DeadMansSwitch: Character arranges it so their death causes bad things to happen. May or may not be a supernatural being.
* DeadManWriting: Someone leaves a posthumous message.
* DeadMansChest: Hiding a body by stuffing it in a trunk.
* DeadPartner: Someone has a partner die in the line of duty.
* DeadPersonConversation: Communicating with the deceased. Usually a witch or psychic.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Using the identity of a deceased person as an alias.
* DeadSerious: Someone proves they're not fucking around anymore by killing someone important.
* DeadSidekick: Hero is haunted by the death of their ward.
* DeadStarWalking: Character is killed after being set up as the protagonist.
* DeadToBeginWith: Story starts with the main character already dead and goes on in the afterlife.
* DeadMansTriggerFinger: Someone armed with a gun involuntarily fires once they're killed.
* DeadMansSwitch: Character arranges it so their death causes bad things to happen. May or may not be a supernatural being.
* DeadManWriting: Someone leaves a posthumous message.
* DeadMansChest: Hiding a body by stuffing it in a trunk.
* DeadPartner: Someone has a partner die in the line of duty.
* DeadPersonConversation: Communicating with the deceased. Usually a witch or psychic.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Using the identity of a deceased person as an alias.
* DeadSerious: Someone proves they're not fucking around anymore by killing someone important.
* DeadSidekick: Hero is haunted by the death of their ward.
* DeadStarWalking: Character is killed after being set up as the protagonist.
* DeadToBeginWith: Story starts with the main character already dead and goes on in the afterlife.
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* LudicrousGibs: Someone explodes into bloody giblets everywhere when they die.
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* InverseDialogueDeathRule: The more important a character is, the longer it takes for them to die.
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* InverseDialogueDeathRule: The more A dying, important a character is, the longer it takes for them to die.gets several lines of {{dialogue}} before kicking it.
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* ObfuscatingPostmortemWounds: Additional wounds are inflicted on a corpse to mask the true cause of death.
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* MortalityGreyArea: A character is considered to be neither alive nor dead, or both at once.
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* SorrowfulStutter: A grieving character is unable to speak about their departed loved one without getting choked up.
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* ThreadsOfFate: Powerful and supernatural threads that can represent or influence fate and destiny, cutting one often directly ends a person's life.
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* WringEveryLastDropOutOfHim: Other people grow impatient with a dying person taking forever to kick the bucket.
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* WringEveryLastDropOutOfHim: Other people grow impatient with a dying person taking forever to kick A character is on the bucket.brink of death, but takes a while to actually die.
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* QuietingTheUnquietDead: Helping the {{undead}} pass on.
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* QuietingTheUnquietDead: Helping the {{undead}} TheUndead pass on.
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* PreMortemCatchphrase: A character dies saying their CatchPhrase.
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* PreMortemCatchphrase: A character dies saying their CatchPhrase.catchphrase.
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Someone (usually a family member) cradles a person in their arms as they die.
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Someone (usually a family member) member or a love interest) cradles a person in their arms as they die.
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* MainCharacterFinalBoss: The main protagonist also plays the role of final boss and in some cases end up dead as a result.
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* MainCharacterFinalBoss: The main protagonist also plays the role of final boss and in some cases end ends up dead as a result.
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* MainCharacterFinalBoss: The main protagonist also plays the role of final boss and in some cases end up dead as a result.
