Basic Trope: Someone dies, and everyone reacts with happiness, including the character's allies.
- Straight: Pike, a member in the Five-Man Band, gets killed by the The Hero. Both the villains and the rest of the Five-Man Band see this as a joyous moment.
- Exaggerated:
- Both teams are so happy about Pike's death, that the heroes and villains decided to lighten up with each other and have a truce (and a Heel–Face Turn on the villains' side).
- The anniversary of Pike's death becomes the national holiday for years afterwards, with as much celebration seen as on the day the news was announced.
- Downplayed:
- Everyone gets a smile on their face after Pike dies, but they go about their business.
- Pike is not a hated character, but his death goes unnoticed.
- Pike doesn't actually die. Instead he departs into the sunset, and everyone rejoices as soon as he is out of hearing.
- Pike's death is not celebrated, but there is a sense of relief from everyone, who are no longer stressed by his presence.
- Justified:
- Pike was a Jerkass who annoyed both the hero and villain teams.
- The Big Bad dies. The heroes rejoice for obvious reasons, while the allies and subordinates of the Big Bad rejoice because he was a Bad Boss, afflicted with Chronic Backstabbing Disorder or even mind-controlling people who didn't really want to work with him.
- Pike is Hated by All.
- To the villains, Pike was an enemy. To the heroes, he was The Friend Nobody Likes.
- Pike was a terrible human being who did little (or nothing) but hurt people for selfish reasons (or for no reason at all). While celebrating the death of a fellow human being may be harsh, it's at least somewhat understandable that people are happy that, because Pike is dead, he can't hurt anyone anymore.
- Everyone decides that if they were the ones who died, Pike would happily dance on there graves.
- Inverted:
- Pike was hated by both sides all along, but his death goes unnoticed.
- Pike dies, and the villains mourn the loss as well as the other heroes.
- The Big Bad dies in a lucky accident, and his minions celebrate. However, the heroes mourn the loss, because it his demise was Redemption Equals Death.
- Subverted:
- Pike was so annoying you would expect even his friends to rejoice; instead, they realize for the first time how unappreciated he was.
- At first, everyone celebrates, but then Pike's girlfriend, Alice, reprimands them.
- Pike's funeral is filled with people celebrating. However, Pike was never disliked. Pike decided to make his funeral a party in order to make it less sad. Pike's friends are obeying his will by partying.
- Double Subverted:
- This is promptly forgotten when they remember all of Pike's bad decisions, and decide they are better off without him.
- The team make the collective silent decision to continue their party when Alice is not around, or do something equally symbolic like take a swig of their best liquor.
- Pike's friends party out of duty. Jim the Jerkass parties out of glee.
- Parodied: The mook who killed Pike is hailed as a hero by the gang, despite being unambiguously evil.
- Zig Zagged: Some of the characters react happily, but others... not so much.
- Averted:
- All deaths are mourned.
- No one dies.
- Pike's death causes a chain of events that leaves the cast too busy to consider this train of thought - some may even hate the fact Pike died, if nothing else because him being around prevented this headache.
- Enforced: Pike was The Scrappy, so the heroes' positive reaction to his death showed that they hate him as much as the audience.
- Lampshaded: "That bastard's dead! PARTY AT MY HOUSE!"
- Invoked: Pike deliberately acts like a jerk so his friends will celebrate his death.
- Exploited: The villains knew that the heroes will celebrate Pike's death and will lower their guard during the festivities, so they plan a direct attack on the heroes' headquarters right after Pike's demise.
- Defied:
- While everyone was glad to see him go, Pike is nevertheless properly mourned and respectfully buried.
- Pike is a negative person, but the heroes find no reason to be joyful in someone's death, no matter how bad they are.
- "If you have it in yourselves to desire to celebrate the death of Pike, you are fucks a million times sicker than he ever was." That definitely kills the celebration mood.
- (Dramatic Gun Cock by one of Pike's grieving family members) "By all means... please continue planning your party..."
- Pike takes precautions to ensure that, in the event of his death (untimely or otherwise), Very Bad Things will occur that will leave people too imperiled to even consider the mere thought of feeling happy about his demise, let alone organize a celebration.
- Discussed: "Lesser heroes would have been happy about Pike's death, but not us."
- Conversed: "They certainly seem happy about Pike's death. Don't the writers know that a death is nothing to be happy about?"
- Implied: Everyone's expression brightens when Pike dies, but no one says anything.
- Deconstructed:
- The celebrations at his funeral reveal how utterly uncaring and evil Pike's "friends" were...
- After a while of celebrating, the heroes realize that any human life ending in not one individual mourning them is tragic and feel guilty.
- Pike was just a cog in a great machine that continues, unhindered, to try to destroy our heroes. Celebrating Pike's death is a waste of time that they already have very little to spare.
- Reconstructed: ...But later, it was revealed that Pike's Jerkass tendencies have crossed the Moral Event Horizon before he died, justifiying the group's joy.
- Played For Laughs: Pike's funeral erupts into a wild and raucous Dance Party Ending.
- Played For Drama:
- It takes a serious case of Lack of Empathy to perform this without a single ounce of regret, doubly so if they can't at least wait until they are away from the public eye before starting, and as a result at least one member of the cast or the other funeral goers will be completely horrified by this act.
- Pike in life was a total narcissistic Jerkass who thought everyone loved him because he was so great. As his ghost sees people celebrating his death, he has a Jerkass Realization on how his actions have turned everyone away until they no longer miss him.
- Its all a sign that Pike's presence has taken its toll on the Five-Man Band and turned them much more callous.
- Played For Horror: The episode in which Pike's funeral takes place has Pike's son as the POV character. The funeral is savagely interrupted by the people who want to dance on Pike's grave, in both a figurative and literal sense. The whole thing is portrayed in a Disney Acid Sequence as we see Pike's son slowly being mentally scarred for life.
- Untwisted: Pike was so friendly and pleasant that you would expect his friends to mourn; instead, they celebrate the loss.
- Intended Audience Reaction: Pike is the main villian. His death is directly followed by a Dance Party Ending and the plot was based around the journey to kill him.
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