Soooo... has there been a verdict on whether this is a trope or not? Should the entries be moved to the trivia page or what?

When did Law & Order do a tribute episode for Jerry Orbach? I don't remember one, and checking fan pages for the series show a lot of comments that there should be one, or that it's a shame there wasn't one, but no evidence that there was one.

This page seems to be contradicting itself. It has the trivia banner, which states that it isn't a trope, but then the description insists that it is a trope because the plot is affected by the death of the actor.

I'd also like to wonder if some of the examples where a character is removed from the show after the actor's death, but there's no explanation for why they're not around anymore, shouldn't count, since it seems like this should be only cases where the character is specifically stated to be dead.

Does anyone have any source for the rumor that Word Of God says the Joker was executed offscreen between The Dark Knight and the Dark Knight Rises? Wikipedia makes no mention of this, and a google search doesn't turn up anything. And the movie itself never mentions Joker at all, preferring to leave the issue as the proverbial elephant in the room.

The Danny Thomas show was the first to do this. I'd add. It myself, but the iPad won't let me scroll down while editing