History Main / SpeakIllOfTheDead

* ''Fanfic/WhyAmICrying'': The Daze brothers make ''very'' clear that they aren't the least bit saddened by Diamond Tiara's sudden death, with Shady Daze telling Silver Spoon outright that he wishes ''both of them'' were killed in the same accident.

* In the chapter of ''[[Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic III]]'' following [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle]]'s death, several people reassure Lightning Dawn that he shouldn't blame himself for what happened... in favor of BlamingTheVictim rather than her murderer.

** In "Mhysa", several Frey and Bolton soldiers openly mock those they killed in the Red Wedding. This gets them killed by Arya and the Hound when they spur the formers ire.

** In "The Queen's Justice", [[spoiler:Lady Olenna]] uses her last moments to reminisce on the late [[spoiler: King Joffrey]] in front of the deceased's father: nonchalantly insulting him with CountryMatters, mocking his CruelAndUnusualDeath, and confessing to orchestrating his murder.

** The death of Prince Philip was called "a tragedy if you don't know a single thing about him", and had even worse words for his wife Usefulnotes/ElizabethII, with John [[https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/queen-elizabeth-ii-jokes-cut-from-last-week-tonight-john-oliver-1234591683/ mocking the mourning period]], claiming the queen was "in the afterlife, looking up at Diana", and eventually did [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWterDbJKjY a whole segment questioning if the Monarchy should remain.]]

* Brazil's version of ''Last Week Tonight'', ''Greg News'', made a RunningGag out of providing reminders that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olavo_de_Carvalho Olavo de Carvalho]], a right wing pundit and one of the ideologues of Usefulnotes/JairBolsonaro, was dead.

** The wake for Tony's awful mother begins with the usual platitudes and fake respect. And then Carmela says what everyone's really thinking about the deceased, and things go rapidly downhill.

* On ''Series/{{Succession}}'', the PR/communications heads, Karolina and Hugo, offer the Roy brothers two ways to spin [[spoiler:Logan's death]]: the kinder one is to portray it as Roman and Kendall [[spoiler:naturally taking over the reigns from their beloved father]]; the harsher one is to [[spoiler:portray Logan as infirm and incompetent towards the end of his life and say the children had unofficially taken over by the time of his death]]. Roman is reluctant to go with the latter, but Kendall goes behind his back and tells Hugo to start trashing in the press.

** After Shinjiro, one of your TrueCompanions from SEES, dies in ''VideoGame/Persona3'', the school holds a memorial service. During this, you overhear some of the students talking bad about the recently deceased and can choose to confront them.
** It takes place off-screen, but during the campout in ''VideoGame/Persona4'', Kanji remarks that he heard that the second-year students' homeroom teacher Morooka has been badmouthing the two women that were murdered at the start of the game.

** In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'', Phoenix does this reluctantly with the recently deceased Archie Buff, mentioning that he was responsible for stealing various artifacts he intended to study, since at the moment, Phoenix is [[spoiler:trying to prove that his client, Paul Atishon-Wimperson, is the actual owner of the Founder's Orb.]]

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', aside from Nale's girlfriend Sabine, Elan is the only person who feels bad when Tarquin kills Nale after the latter finally pushes his luck too far. Haley and Tarquin, not so much. Haley says that Nale was a terrible human being who deserved to die. Tarquin is even harsher, coldly dismissing Nale, his own son, as nothing more than [[StarterVillain a B-villain that Elan has outgrown]]. Laurin Shattersmith, another old friend of Tarquin's and Malack's (the latter of whom Nale killed not long before his death), merely says "good riddance" and Disintegates Nale's corpse to make him DeaderThanDead.

'''This is a DeathTrope, so expect unmarked spoilers ahead.'''

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* In ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'', the death of Prince Philip was called "a tragedy if you don't know a single thing about him", and had even worse words for his wife Usefulnotes/ElizabethII, with John [[https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/queen-elizabeth-ii-jokes-cut-from-last-week-tonight-john-oliver-1234591683/ mocking the mourning period]], claiming the queen was "in the afterlife, looking up at Diana", and eventually did [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWterDbJKjY a whole segment questioning if the Monarchy should remain.]]

* After Shinjiro, one of your TrueCompanions from SEES, dies in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', the school holds a memorial service. During this, you overhear some of the students talking bad about the recently deceased and can choose to confront them.
** It takes place off-screen, but during the campout in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', Kanji will remark that he heard that the second-year students' homeroom teacher Morooka has been badmouthing the two women that were murdered at the start of the game.

** In ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'', Manfred Von Karma calls Byrne Faraday incompetent as a prosecutor before and after finding out that he's been murdered. In the sequel, Manosuke Naito (Horace Knightly in the fan translation) insults his dead fellow bodyguard Gai Tojiro (Ethan Rooke) in the first case, and everyone else is horrified. [[spoiler: Naito also turns out to be Tojiro's murderer]].
** From ''Justice for All'', we have Dr. Turner Grey, who, a few years ago, lost a large number of patients at his hospital, and blamed nurse Mimi Miney over it. The same night, Mimi was killed in a car accident [[spoiler:(or rather, her sister Ini was; Mimi underwent facial reconstruction surgery and took on a new life impersonating Ini)]]. Turner doesn't think any higher of Mimi despite her death and seeks out spirit channeling so he can force Mimi's soul to confess to her misdeeds. Unfortunately for him, he's murdered shortly thereafter [[spoiler:by [[{{Revenge}} Mimi herself]]]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'': In addition to bullying Lilo, [[AlphaBitch Mertle]] also has a habit of making snide remarks about her late mother.

* The "[[Recap/BeavisAndButtheadS7E41BeavisAndButtHeadAreDead original finale]]" of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' had everyone at school mistakenly thinking the titular duo are dead (they are actually still alive). Principal [=McVicker=] and all the teachers ''hold a party in the Teacher's Lounge'' in response, finally glad to get rid of them. The only ones who mourned their loss was Mr. Van Driessen and Stewart.

* The "[[Recap/BeavisAndButtheadS7E41BeavisAndButtHeadAreDead original finale]]" of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' had everyone at school mistakenly thinking the titular duo are dead (they are actually still alive). Principal [=McVicker=] and all the teachers ''hold a party in the Teacher's Lounge'' in response, finally glad to get rid of them. The only one who mourned their loss was Mr. Van Driessen.

** Marge, Uncle Vernon's sister, tends to spend most of her visits at the Dursleys' home [[ImStandingRightHere openly insulting either Harry or his late parents]]. This does not end well for her.

** Rita Skeeter published an unsavory 900-page book about Dumbledore just a few months after his death. What she says about him personally isn't necessarily untrue, it's just lacking a lot of context.

* ''Film/TheColorPurple'': Mr's sisters are talking to Celie and start criticising Mr's old wife - she was apparently terrible at housework and by the end of her life was having an affair ([[SympatheticAdulterer which was understandable,]] and also [[IfICantHaveYou her cause of death]]). They [[LampshadeHanging lampshade it]] by saying "It's not good to speak ill of the dead, but the truth can never ''be'' ill."

** Even after [[spoiler: [[AntiHero Kokichi]]]] dies, no one other than Kiibo can sympathize with his death and his [[SympatheticMurderer killer]] still declares that he hates him, even knowing that in the end, he wasn't as bad as he wanted to seem.

** [TheLadette Miu]] does this several times throughout the game. Her penchant for crude nicknames and insults is applied to living and dead classmates alike, such as when she posthumously refers to [[spoiler:Angie]] as a "kooky fuckin' bitch" or comments on [[spoiler:Ryoma]]'s fate(his corpse was eaten by piranhas) by noting that "Tomorrow, he'll be fish shit."

** At Jackie Aprile Jr.,'s wake, Tony's uncle "Junior" Corrado is quite blunt about what an idiot the young man truly was. Indeed, the reason Jackie got whacked is that he tried to rob a mafia card game and failed.
--->'''Junior:''' Didn't he almost drown in five inches of water once as a kid?

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': Ghidorah's [[MultipleHeadCase three heads]] have all done this at least once, what with the sadistic prick that the three-headed King of Terror is traditionally known for being. Ichi/Eldest Brother, Ni/Elder Brother and San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother all express contempt for Alan Jonah when he dies sometime after being absorbed into the Many's HiveMind, and Ni also passingly calls the Thunderers (whom Ghidorah exterminated) "misbegotten" creatures.
** Ichi and Ni are also on the receiving end from Vivienne Graham, who tells [[HeelFaceTurn San]] when comforting him that his brothers (who are presumed to be dead at this time) were quite simply the biggest assholes ever known to man -- San, who has no love lost for his abusive brothers, joins in on this trope.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "Wingmen", Robert's former friend Moe Jackson, whom he had fallen out with long ago, has now passed away, and he left a video will saying that he wanted Robert to deliver his eulogy. With reluctance, Robert agrees. At the funeral, he's given a script Moe had prepared beforehand. Robert starts reading it out, only to find out that it talks about how awesome Moe was, making Robert say that he was sexy, paid his rent numerous times, and so on. Robert gets fed up and tells the funeral-goers the honest truth: that Moe was an asshole who only asked for Robert so that he could make a fool of him again. The other attendees, who had previously expressed an incredibly rose-tinted view of Moe, suddenly had an about-face and felt free to agree with Robert.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': In "Requiem," while attacking Karai and setting fire to the Mutanimals' hideout, The Shredder (who had just mutated himself into [[OneWingedAngel The Super Shredder]]) mocks Tang Shen's death right to her face, boasting that it's fitting that she should die just as her mother did. It just goes to show [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget how far off the deep end Shredder's gone]], especially since his love for Tang Shen, as well as his jealousy that she chose Hamato Yoshi/Splinter over him, was his [[LoveMakesYouEvil primary reason for turning to evil in the first place]].