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** The heroes think (well, thought) of Evil Billy as a WorthyOpponent and decide he deserves some last respects.
** The bad guy is dead. The heroes think that keeping in ragging about his misdeeds is literally flogging a dead horse.

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* '''Justified''': Failure lacerates the feelings of the living, and sometimes brings back the dead as ghosts.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Failure lacerates the feelings of the living, and sometimes brings back the dead as ghosts.ghosts.
** As much as [[HateSink Evil Billy]] was [[HatedByAll loathed]] by the heroic side of the cast, [[EveryoneHasStandards they all unanimously agree]] that he did not deserve to die like ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath that]]''.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Jack grieves so excessively that he neglects the living, Jill ignores the dead, James practices strange customs that no one can recognize, Jeff sticks stolidly to the local custom and doesn't recognize anyone else's.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Zagged''':
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Jack grieves so excessively that he neglects the living, Jill ignores the dead, James practices strange customs that no one can recognize, Jeff sticks stolidly to the local custom and doesn't recognize anyone else's.else's.
** The characters are from a culture that regards a dead body as just a useless lump of flesh that holds no connection to the spirit who once inhabited it, and so [[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia just tosses it in the trash]] the same way one would a wrapper that no longer contains snack food. They do, however, hold an hour-long ceremony where people who knew the deceased list and celebrate that person's contributions and good qualities.
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* '''Straight''': The hero buries the dead after a skirmish, and the villain throws the bodies to the ravens.

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* '''Straight''': The hero buries the dead after a skirmish, and the villain throws the bodies to the ravens.vultures.
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'''Basic Trope''': Respect for the dead is a sign of morality, wile desecrating the dead is a sign of immorality.

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'''Basic Trope''': Respect for the dead is a sign of morality, wile while desecrating the dead is a sign of immorality.
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'''Basic Trope''': Respect for death is a sign of morality

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'''Basic Trope''': Respect for death the dead is a sign of moralitymorality, wile desecrating the dead is a sign of immorality.

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* '''Inverted''': The villain parades his mourning and arranges lavish funerals for his victims, where the hero leaves behind corpses to care for the living.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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The villain parades his mourning and arranges lavish funerals for his victims, where the hero leaves behind corpses to care for the living.
** The AntiVillain was driven by necessity to the deaths, and is deeply grieved, where the KnightTemplar hero doesn't notice how he hurts the
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** The AntiVillain was driven by necessity to the deaths, and is deeply grieved, where the KnightTemplar hero doesn't notice how he hurts the living.

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* '''Double Subverted''': Janet doesn't have any claim on Jack's attention; she's just blaming Jill because she wants to blame someone.

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* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
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Janet doesn't have any claim on Jack's attention; she's just blaming Jill because she wants to blame someone.

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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???The hero buries each body in its own grave and gives them full rites; the villain puts them together in a mass grave and says a few quick words before moving on to more pressing matters.



** It turns out that, in the villain's religion or culture, consumption by carrion eaters is considered the most honorable way of disposing of a body.



** But he knows full well that the dead people in question considered being eaten by ravens a horrible fate, and allows it anyway just to spite them.



* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???The villain makes sure to slaughter any innocents in his path as he flees the hero, knowing that the hero will feel compelled to give them final rites and a proper burial.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Tombs, funerals, commerations, etc. all are more important than any other duty to the hero, but the villain [[ImAHumanitarian eats the dead]].

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* '''Exaggerated''': Tombs, funerals, commerations, commemorations, etc. all are more important than any other duty to the hero, but the villain [[ImAHumanitarian eats the dead]].dead]].
* '''Downplayed''': ???



* '''Inverted''': The villain parades his mourning and arranges lavish funerals for his victims, where the hero leaves behinid corpses to care for the living.

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* '''Inverted''': The villain parades his mourning and arranges lavish funerals for his victims, where the hero leaves behinid behind corpses to care for the living. living.



* '''Deconstructed''': Mourning is a way for {{Hypocrite}}s to parade their concern about people they never cared about, living, and empty forms.
* '''Reconstructed''': Characters may truly be concerned for those where it did not show publicly -- perhaps they were alienated from the dead character and are doubly grieved that they can never make up in this life -- and the forms of mourning give structure to people suffering from such emotions they can not think of what to do.



* '''Lampshaded''': "Yes. Yes, I'm buying flowers, and yes I'm driving to the cemetary to put them on Mom's grave. Good guys do that."

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* '''Lampshaded''': "Yes. Yes, I'm buying flowers, and yes I'm driving to the cemetary cemetery to put them on Mom's grave. Good guys do that."



* '''Exploited''': ???



* '''Conversed''': "Okay.. yep.. cemetary. Lots of people. There's one kneeling down gently brushing the dirt off a tombstone.. that must be our good guy."

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* '''Conversed''': "Okay.. yep.. cemetary.cemetery. Lots of people. There's one kneeling down gently brushing the dirt off a tombstone.. that must be our good guy.""
* '''Deconstructed''': Mourning is a way for {{Hypocrite}}s to parade their concern about people they never cared about, living, and empty forms.
* '''Reconstructed''': Characters may truly be concerned for those where it did not show publicly -- perhaps they were alienated from the dead character and are doubly grieved that they can never make up in this life -- and the forms of mourning give structure to people suffering from such emotions they can not think of what to do.



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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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* '''Straight''': The hero shows proper respect for the dead, and the villain doesn't.

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* '''Straight''': The hero shows proper respect for buries the dead, dead after a skirmish, and the villain doesn't.throws the bodies to the ravens.

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* '''Subverted''': The AntiVillain was driven by necessity to the deaths, and is deeply grieved, where the KnightTemplar hero doesn't notice how he hurts the living.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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The AntiVillain was driven by necessity to the deaths, and is deeply grieved, where the KnightTemplar hero doesn't notice how he hurts the living.

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