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Basic Trope Description: A character dies, and the whole cast assembles for a solemn and usually sad funeral in which they all pay their respects.

  • Straight: Alice dies, and everyone who knew her arranges and holds a solemn, sad and respectful funeral for her with black clothes, heart-wrenching eulogies and sad music.
  • Exaggerated: The whole city appears at Alice's solemn and fine-made funeral.
  • Downplayed: Since they Never Found the Body, Alice's friends do a remembrance ceremony for her.
  • Justified: Alice was a good friend and neighbour, and people are sad and feel that she deserves a good funeral.
  • Inverted: All her friends come in black clothes, sad music is played and a coffin is made ready - but it is Alice's birth, and the coffin serves as her cradle.
  • Subverted: A solemn funeral ceremony is held, but Alice comes Back from the Dead while it proceeds.
  • Double Subverted: She Came Back Wrong and is immediately killed again by this reason.
  • Enforced: The storyboard wants to allow the audience to say their final goodbyes to Alice together with the other characters.
  • Averted: We do not see Alice's funeral.
  • Parodied:
    • Everyone on the funeral cries so much that the chapel is flooded with tears in the end.
    • The "Fun" in "Funeral"
  • Invoked: Bob plans a nice funeral for his dead girlfriend Alice and really thinks of everything in the process, including the invitation of the whole cast.
  • Defied: Bob would like to give Alice a good funeral, but this isn't possible since The Plague is raging and also killed Alice. He has to see Alice being torn out of his hands and getting dumped into a mass grave.
  • Plotted A Good Waste: Bruce turns Alice's funeral into a very disrespectful kind of altar call, and this is depicted as making it even better.

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