History Main / SpeakIllOfTheDead

* In Nancy Atherton's ''Aunt Dimity: Detective'' Lori and her family return from a vacation to find that Prunella Hooper was bludgeoned to death. Lori asks her live-in nanny why she didn't mention this when she heard about it.

** [[spoiler: Kokichi Oma does this a lot after Miu Iruma died in Chapter 4. Kokichi still calls Miu by derogatory names with Shuichi telling him that was going too far. This gets played with later during the Class Trial, when [[NiceGuy Gonta]] said that if it wasn't for the killing game, everyone would've been friends with her. However, ''everyone else'' was quick to say that they wouldn't have been friends with her anyway.]]
** [[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 by noting that "tomorrow, he'll be fish shit."

--> '''Luthor Crabb:''' We served same as you, Ser Alliser, through the Battle of the Bells, the Trident, and the Sack. A king may be anointed, and still be a bad man.

--> '''Luthor Crabb:''' We served same as you, Ser Alliser, through the Battle of the Bells, the Trident, and the Sack. A king may be anointed , and still be a bad man.

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* PlayedForDrama in ''WebVideo/EscapeTheNight''. After Andrea Brooks is killed in a gas chamber, [[DumbBlonde Justine]], who was supposed to save her, talks trash about her. Everyone in the group is shocked. Soon after they discover that one among them is a [[TheMole mole]]. Andrea's best friend Timothy immediately blames Justine, with only Joey standing up for her. [[LaserGuidedKarma The next episode sees most of the group murder Justine in cold blood.]]

* The original finale of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' had everyone at school mistakingly 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.

* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', Rimmer dies before the start of the story proper but is brought back as a hologram. Lister insults him just as much as when he was alive. To be fair, it's much easier to speak ill of the dead when they're still walking around, [[{{Jerkass}} being a massive pain in the ass]].

* 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 insults his dead fellow bodyguard Gai Tojiro in the first case, and everyone else is horrified. [[spoiler: Naito also turns out to be Tojiro's murderer]].

* ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'': [[spoiler: Out of all of Abby's friends who participated in the killing of Joel, Nora was the vilest about it, referring to him as a piece of shit and calls him a monster. Even as she cornered by a vengeful Ellie, she pleads to "remember what he's done" [[TooDumbToLive to an angry young woman who Joel raised like a daughter]]. She gets beaten to death by a pipe for her troubles.]]

* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Molly Hayes drops her [[ObfuscatingStupidity "Rudy Huxtable" routine]] when [[spoiler: the time-displaced Geoffrey Wilder]] calls her out on it. She then coldly mocks Alex Wilder [[spoiler: Geoffrey's son murdered by the Gibborim for his failure]] and calls him "a total frikkin' failure."

* ''SonOfTheSannin'': During the final battle, [[BigBad Madara Uchiha]] has the nerve to refer to Maito Gai as "that green-clad fool", even after admitting that he made him fear for his life for the first time in decades when he used the Eight Gate to fight him (and Madara only survived by sheer luck and [[WorfHadTheFlu Gai being tired from destroying his giant Chibaku Tensei meteors to save as many lives as possible]]). Naturally, the Konoha 15, especially Gai's own students, do ''not'' take this kindly.

* In "Winterfell", after [[SexForServices coercing Cersei into sleeping with him]], Euron asks Cersei how he compares in bed to "the fat king". Cersei answers that despite constantly whoring, Robert had no idea how to satisfy a woman in bed.

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* In ''Anime/FafnerInTheAzureDeadAggressor'', Shouko's death resulted in some of the islanders desecrating her grave to the horror of her friends who saw her make a HeroicSacrifice for them. This was done by [[spoiler: Soushi himself]] to make sure other pilots do not throw their lives away in battle by sacrificing themselves and that in reality everyone in the island misses her very much and mourns deeply for her sacrifice.

** A defining characteristic of [[BigBad Yhwach]] is that he constantly [[UnsportsmanlikeGloating insults and belittles]] already-dead enemies [[BadBoss and allies]] alike, often to the proverbial faces of their corpses. He takes it UpToEleven with [[spoiler:Yamamoto]], subjecting his corpse to a lengthy, brutal, and oddly poignant TheReasonYouSuckSpeech before desecrating his body by hacking off his one remaining arm, stomping on his head, and incinerating the rest.

** Erwin, standing over the body of Dimo Reeves, a man Erwin is accused of murdering, [[BrutalHonesty truthfully]] brings up the time when Reeves delayed the evacuation of Trost District by trying to bring his wealth with him (and only backed down when Mikasa threatened to kill him). That said, Erwin then mentions Reeves' work to revitalize Trost District and give people work in the time after the invasion, and vows to find Reeves' killer.
** Griez badmouths the recently deceased [[spoiler:Sasha Blouse]] as a "whore" and a "daughter of devils" when speaking to some of her imprisoned comrades, including the man she loved. [[AssholeVictim This earns him a bullet in the head from Yelena]], since she doesn't care for what he's saying.

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* ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'': Opportunistic BountyHunter Gunhawk decides to shoot [[spoiler: Kid Colt]] InTheBack and then has the nerve to call him "saddle trash" as justification for such an uncerimonious and untimely death... right in front of Caleb Hammer, who had been pursuing him for a long time and [[WorthyOpponent had grown to respect him somewhat.]] He proceeds to [[spoiler: gun the sonuvabitch down]]. Maybe you shouldn't have said that, Gunhawk...
* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Molly Hayes drops her [[ObfuscatingStupidity "Rudy Huxtable" routine]] when [[spoiler:the time displaced Geoffrey Wilder]] calls her out on it. She then coldly mocks Alex Wilder [[spoiler:Geoffrey's son murdered by the Gibborim for his failure]] and calls him "a total frikkin' failure."

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* ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': When Erik Selvig, who has been mentally disturbed by the events of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', [[spoiler:in which he was brainwashed by Loki, finds out that Loki has died (except he [[FakingTheDead hasn't]])]]:

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* ''Literature/BreakOfDark'': When they shoot down the German pilot in ''Blackham's Wimpy'', Blackham and his crew not only spend the next 20-30 minutes exulting and mocking him as he burns to death, but carry on their celebrations when they get back to base. Strongly implied that this is why he comes back to haunt them.
* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', Clove intentionally mocks [[spoiler: Rue]]'s death while pinning Katniss down at her mercy. However if she didn't chose to rant and kill Katniss right there, [[spoiler: Thresh]] would have never overheard and [[spoiler: killed Clove for saying such things]].

** Hermione criticizes Sirius, more than a year after Sirius' death: "Sirius was horrible to Kreacher... I've said all along that wizards would pay for how they treat house elves. Well, Voldemort did... and so did Sirius." Dumbledore said more or less the same, although noting that Sirius's problem was Kreacher and not house-elves in general.

** 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.

-->"I can't believe Craig would kill her," she was saying. "She was a bitch and he hated her but I can't believe he would kill anyone. Even a rotten tramp like Crystal."\\

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* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', Rimmer dies before the start of the story proper, but is brought back as a hologram. Lister insults him just as much as when he was alive. To be fair, it's much easier to speak ill of the dead when they're still walking around, [[{{Jerkass}} being a massive pain in the ass]].

** Queen Cersei and King Joffrey have no qualms posthumously calling [[spoiler:the late Lord Renly Baratheon]] a "degenerate" in "Dark Wings, Dark Words." Cersei is a woman who had three children with her twin brother. Joffrey also calls [[spoiler: Renly]] a "deviant" in front of Brienne and Margaery in "The Lion and the Rose". Later in the episode, the dwarf actor who plays [[spoiler: "Renly"]] is derided as a "degenerate" by his "Joffrey" co-star.

** 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.

* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', when [[spoiler:Lionel]] died, even the usual NiceGirl Chloe isn't too sorry about it. Justified because he had a strike force with kryptonite tasers to capture [[{{Superman}} the love of her life]] and trap him in an adjustable kryptonite cage just two episodes before.

** After Michael Cambias' death, everyone in Pine Valley goes to his funeral just to give eulogies about how much they hate his guts for [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil what he did to Bianca]], with Bianca's lover Lena going so far as to [[SpitefulSpit spit on his grave]].

** 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 because he tried to rob a mafia card game and failed.

* In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', Felicity Smoak is a fan of this, doing so right after the deaths of both [[spoiler:Moira Queen]] (''her funeral'' no less) and [[spoiler:Amanda Waller]].
* ''Series/TheExpanse'': Johnson has no illusions whatsoever about what kind of person [[spoiler:Miller]] was after the latter performs a HeroicSacrifice, calling the belated "a pain-in-the-ass, suicidal ex-cop".

* In the ''Series/{{Superstore}}'' episode "Sal's Dead", the Cloud 9 staff are relieved to hear that the corpse found in the store's walls is their coworker Sal, and not somebody they actually cared about. Newcomer Kelly is a little disturbed at how calm they are until they tell her what Sal was like in life.

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* Subverted in ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar''. Anthony's speech sounds like it's going to be this ("I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him") but by clever twisting of his words he turns the assembled people against Caesar's killers.

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* ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'': [[spoiler:Out of all of Abby's friends who participated in the killing of Joel, Nora was the vilest about it, referring to him as a piece of shit and calls him a monster. Even as she cornered by a vengeful Ellie, she pleads to "remember what he's done" [[TooDumbToLive to an angry young woman who Joel raised like a daughter]]. She gets beaten to death by a pipe for her troubles.]]

* 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 insults his dead fellow bodyguard Gai Tojiro in the first case, and everyone else is horrified. [[spoiler:Naito also turns out to be Tojiro's murderer]].

* [[ANaziByAnyOtherName In case you didn't already know he was a scumbag]], [[SmugSnake Kvar]] from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' insults [[TheHero Lloyd]]'s dead parents to his face, calling them "worthless maggots" after explaining [[YouKilledMyFather how he killed Lloyd's mother]]. Lloyd is [[YouBastard understandably incensed]], as is [[TheStoic (for once)]] Kratos. [[spoiler:Kratos gives his comments a CallBack when he kills him during his ExtremeMeleeRevenge.]]

* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda:'' In the post-game, Ryder finds an autopsy report on [[spoiler:The Archon]] telling everyone to stop claiming their cause of death was "Pathfinder". Not because of any actual respect toward the individual, just because of their concern about the ''actual'' cause of death and what it might mean.

* At the end of ''VideoGame/DinoCrisis'', if Gail dies, Dr. Kirk mocks his death by saying "And this is the reward for lifetime of service to the government. Sad, isn't it?" Regina has none of it and punches Kirk in the face.
* In ''VideoGame/FarCry4'', Pagan Min, [[TheCaligula the despotic king]] of Kyrat, tells PlayerCharacter Ajay Ghale that Ajay's father Mohan Ghale, the leader of [[LaResistance the Golden Path]], "was a [[CountryMatters cunt]]." Pagan's rudeness makes sense when you consider that [[spoiler:Mohan [[WouldHurtAChild killed Lakshmana, Pagan's infant daughter]] with Ajay's mother Ishwari Ghale. After that, a vengeful Ishwari killed her husband and took Ajay with her to America, leaving Pagan behind to bitterly subject the people of Kyrat to fresh atrocities. Pagan has every reason not to speak respectfully of a man like that.]]

** [[spoiler: Kokichi Oma does this a lot after Miu Iruma died in Chapter 4. Kokichi still calls Miu by derogatory names with Shuichi telling him that was going too far. This gets played with later during the Class Trial, when [[NiceGuy Gonta]] said that if it wasn't for the killing game, everyone would've been friends with her. However, ''everyone else'' was quick to say that they wouldn't been friends with her anyway.]]
** [[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 by noting that "tomorrow, he'll be fish shit."

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* When Levin died in ''Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars'', Michelle, Nova and Longram openly criticized him. According to Nova, he wad "a pain in the ass to deal with, posed friendly fire risks, did not stop to think, was way to quick to extend the phallic symbol that was his weapon, and did not understand the concept of humility"

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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': When Soos' grandmother mentions going to heaven, Soos suggest she would reunite with her deceased husband. She [[AwfulWeddedLife calmly insists that she will not]], and then looks downward.

* 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.

** At Jackie Aprile Jr.,'s wake, Tony's uncle Corrado is quite blunt about what an idiot the young man truly was. Indeed, the reason Jackie got whacked is because he tried to rob a mafia card game and failed.

* In ''Series/TheSopranos'', 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.

** Later, after Chris and Jake's [[YouKilledMyFather confrontation]] near the end of their respective campaigns, Piers insists that Chris didn't have to confess to Jake because Wesker deserved to die and Chris [[IDidWhatIHadToDo did what he had to do]] to keep the world safe. Chris is quick to point out that, even after everything Wesker had done, [[JerkassHasAPoint he was still Jake's father and Jake had every right to know what happened to him]]. Notably, Chris doesn't shy away from telling the truth. ''The '''whole''' truth'' (at least in what little time they have), and Jake has no real connection with Wesker anyway, having been abandoned by him as a kid.

* ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': When Erik Selvig, who has been mentally disturbed by the events of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', [[spoiler:in which he was brainwashed by Loki, finds out that Loki has died (except he [[FakingTheDead hasn't)]]]]:

-->'''Thor:''' [[spoiler:Loki's]] dead]].\\

* ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': When Erik Selvig, who has been mentally disturbed by the events of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', [[spoiler:in which he was brainwashed by Loki, finds out that Loki has died]]:
-->'''Thor''': [[spoiler:Loki's dead]].\\
'''Erik''': Oh, thank God!\\
'''Thor''': ''[looks at Selvig, appalled]''\\
'''Erik''': [[OhCrap I mean]]...I'm so sorry for your loss.
** [[spoiler:[[FakingTheDead But then it turns out that Loki never died after all...]]]]