History Main / CeilingCorpse

* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', this was what became of Sam's girlfriend in the pilot episode and her body is revealed when [[DroolHello it drips blood on his face.]] It was a repeat of what happened with his mother, as pictured above.

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': The episode Bushwacked ups the ante with (nearly) the whole crew of a derelict cargo vessel strung upside down on the ceiling awaiting discovery by River long after the others had entered and explored the rest of the ship looking for them.
* In one episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'', the unsub kills three people in a fit of rage and lies down to go to sleep; when he feels a blood drop in his face and opens his eyes again he sees the bodies of his victims stuck above him on the ceiling, blood pool and all. [[labelnote:Context]]The victims are hallucinations haunting him, and all he wants to do is sleep, but they keep him awake until he kills someone.[[/labelnote]]

* Not bodies (because they weren't dead), but in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'''s "Cold Fire", Janeway looks up to see B'Lanna and Tuvok pinned to the ceiling.

* ''VideoGame/DoomII'': The secret level end with the [[Videogame/CommanderKeen Keen]] corpses hanging from the ceiling.
** And in ''Doom 3'' the cinemtic introducing the first Maggot sees the marine walk into a room and find an ''eviscerated zombie'' stuck to the ceiling by spikes through its limbs, with its torso peeled open from its neck down to its hips, still "alive" and screaming.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doom 2]]'': The secret level end with the [[Videogame/CommanderKeen Keen]] corpses hanging from the ceiling.

This trope is when a person's body is, through supernatural means or otherwise, stuck to the ceiling. Since [[NoPeripheralVision no one has peripheral vision]], it is almost always set up for a shocking reveal. Is usually revealed by [[DroolHello dripping blood.]]

Subtrope of PeekABooCorpse. Often a subtrope of BodyInABreadbox.

* ''Franchise/OnePiece''. In Punk Hazard's frozen laboratory, half of the Straw Hats and the giant kids are running out of the facility when they see frozen corpses sticking off the ceiling. The Straw Hats have to cheer the kids up by singing.

This tropes is when a person's body is, through supernatural means or otherwise, stuck to the ceiling. Since [[NoPeripheralVision no one has peripheral vision]], it is almost always set up for a shocking reveal. Is usually revealed by [[DroolHello dripping blood.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Predator}}s'' are fond of leaving flayed human corpses dangling gruesomely from treetops and ceilings

* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', this was what became of Sam's girlfriend in season one and her body is revealed when [[DroolHello it drips blood on his face.]] It was a repeat of what happened with his mother, as pictured above.
** Rowena's debut in season 10 has her casually pinning three bodies to the ceiling and continuing to read her book like it's nothing.

* In ''VideoGame/MarkOfTheNinja'', you can hang guards from grappling hook points with the chain of your hook, either after you've killed them or, if you've taken the Hangman's Hymn perk, in the process of doing so. Any guards who spot the corpse will be immediately [[OhCrap terrified]].

* A couple of these appear in ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'', probably just to show ''how bad'' [[EverybodysDeadDave the incident on the Ishimura was]].

* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', this was what became of Sam's girlfriend in season one and her body is revealed when [[DroolHello it drips blood on his face.]] It was a repeat of what happened with his mother.

[[caption-width-right:350:Ceiling Corpse is watching you [[BringMyBrownPants piss yourself]].]]

%%* A couple of these appear in ''VideoGame/DeadSpace''

* In ''Film/{{The Blob|1988}}'' (1988), a man walks into a projection room and a yo-yo falls down from above. He looks up, and sees the projectionist is stuck to the ceiling, half dissolved by the blob.

* [[http://xkcd.com/542/ This]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}} strip plays with this trope. It isn't so much a body as it is evidence of what's left of it...

* The infamous SL-1 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1 nuclear accident]] in 1961 which resulted in the United States Army getting out of the nuclear power business. An operator took a control rod that was supposed to be withdrawn 10 cm and, likely by accident, withdrew it 66 cm. A prompt critical reaction occurred, followed by the explosion of the reactor vessel. Rescue workers who were making necessarily brief visits into the highly reactive room found one dead operator and a second operator who died minutes after being taken out. The first responders initially could not find the third man in the three-man crew and were unable to account for his whereabouts. They finally found him hanging 13 feet over the reactor vessel, pinned to the ceiling by a piece of debris.

!!Examples

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* Non-deadly example: ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} once duct-taped his neighbor's little dog to the ceiling above her phone, and when she called Jon about the missing dog, indicated that he should tell her to look up.

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* In ''Series/AgentsOfShield'', this is how Skye discovers [[spoiler:Eric Koenig]]'s body and realizes that [[spoiler:Ward is a traitor]].

* [[{{VideoGame/Doom}} Doom 2]]: The secret level end with the [[Videogame/CommanderKeen Keen]] corpses hanging from the ceiling.

* A couple of these appear in ''VideoGame/DeadSpace''

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* [[http://xkcd.com/542/ This]] {{Webcomic/xkcd}} strip plays with this trope. It isn't so much a body as it is evidence of what's left of it...

* WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated: A professor was found in a cocoon on the ceiling. [[spoiler:He did it to himself to appear innocent.]]
* WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons episode "Lisa the Veterinarian" has a subplot where Marge becomes a crime scene cleaner for the police department. Her first job involves one of these (the police warn her about the scene, she looks around the apparently corpse-free room, and then body parts start falling from the ceiling).

* At the haunted house ride in the British theme park Drayton Manor the entrance to the actual ride was set up (though it might have changed by now) as if the participants are volunteer paranormal investigators, and at one point the park employee/lead "investigator" makes a reference to all the previous investigators still being missing. Later in the ride intro/experience, a painting comes alive, warns people to get out, then tells them to look up. Those floating bodies slowly tumbling about on the ceiling were very convincing...

* ''Franchise/{{Predator}}s'' are fond of leaving flayed human corpses dangling gruesomely from treetops and cielings

* ''[[Franchise/{{Predator}}]]s'' are fond of leaving flayed human corpses dangling gruesomely from treetops and cielings

* Firefly: The episode Bushwacked ups the ante with (nearly) the whole crew of a derelict cargo vessel strung upside down on the ceiling awaiting discovery by River long after the others had entered and explored the rest of the ship looking for them.

* Not bodies (because they weren't dead), but in ''StarTrekVoyager'''s "Cold Fire", Janeway looks up to see B'Lanna and Tuvok pinned to the ceiling.

* In MarkOfTheNinja , you can do this hang guards from grappling hook points with the chain of your hook, either after you've killed them or, if you've taken the Hangman's Hymn perk, in the process of doing so. Any guards who spot the corpse will be immediately [[OhCrap terrified]].
* [[{{VideoGame/Doom}} Doom 2]]: The secret level end with the Ken corpses hanging from the ceiling.

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* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', this was what became of Sam's girlfriend in season one and her body is revealed when {{DroolHello it drips blood on his face.]] It was a repeat of what happened with his mother.

* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', this was how Sam's girlfriend's body is revealed. It was a repeat of what happened with his mom.

* In ''Series/AgentsOfShield'', this is how Skye discovers [[spoiler:Eric Koenig]]'s body and realises that [[spoiler:Ward is a traitor]].