History Main / HappierHomeMovie

* [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sadjournal/wonderyears.html The Secrets That I Keep]] show's a whole other side of [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad]] And [[TheEeyore Strong Sad]] for that matter. Too bad it's only a few seconds long.

[[AC: {{Video Games}}]]

*** Also, the first time the player sees the video being played over and over, they might think it's Harry watching the video because he's so worried about his daughter. Once TheReveal happens, however, [[spoiler: you realize it's the oppposite, and that Cheryl is the one watching it obsessively because [[TearJerker she misses her dad so much.]]]]

Related to TroubledBackstoryFlashback. If the video was made intentionally prior to death, see VideoWill.

Related to TroubledBackstoryFlashback.

** [{TearJerker "Is that it? Am I done?"]]

* On ''{{Angel}}'' some time after Doyle makes his HeroicSacrifice they happen upon the video he made when Cordy was trying to make a commercial for Angel Investigations.

A common subtrope is watching a Wedding Video. Sometimes this is after a divorce, and affair, or something else breaking up the couple. Or maybe it's after a death leaving one of the couple behind.

* Played with in ''CowboyBebop'' when the crew receives a mysterious antique videotape, which leads to amusing escapades as they try to locate a matching player and then MoodWhiplash when it turns out to be a happier home movie the amnesiac Faye sent to her future self during the childhood she can't remember. Eventually, however, it becomes the key that unlocks her memories of the past.. only to trigger another MoodWhiplash when she realizes [[YouCantGoHomeAgain that world is gone for good.]]

* Played with in ''CowboyBebop'' when the crew receives a mysterious antique videotape, which leads to amusing escapades as they try to locate a matching player and then MoodWhiplash when it turns out to be a happier home movie the amnesiac Faye sent to her future self during the childhood she can't remember. Eventually, however, it becomes the key that unlocks her memories of the past.. only to trigger another MoodWhiplash when she realizes SheCantGoHomeAgain.

* This is one of VincentPrice's most effective scenes in ''[[IAmLegend TheLastManOnEarth]]''.

* This is one of VincentPrice's most effective scenes in ''TheLastManOnEarth''.

* The IsaacAsimov short story ''The Dead Past'' has a variation where an inventor produces an improved chronoscope, a device that allows you to view images from the past. He is horrified that his wife intends to use it to relive scenes from their dead sons life, who died as a child in a house fire, worried that she would be dangerously obsessive and end up living in the past. [[spoiler:He's also afraid that she might end up finding out that it was his accidentally dropped cigar that started the fire that killed their son.]]

[[AC:Literature]]

[AC:Literature]]
* The IsaacAsimov short story ''The Dead Past'' has a variation where an inventor produces an improved chronoscope, a device that allows you to view images from the past. He is horrified that his wife intends to use it to relive scenes from their dead sons life, who died as a child in a house fire, worried that she would be dangerously obsessive and end up living in the past. [[Spoiler:He's also afraid that she might end up finding out that it was his accidentally dropped cigar that started the fire that killed their son.]]

This doesn't '''''have''''' be a death trope, but it is often an ending trope, so may involve spoilers.

A character in desperate circumstances, perhaps alone, on the verge of death, or on the run, comes "home" to watch old videos of his past life, usually childhood videos or family outings, sometimes surrounded by [[KitschCollection items from his past life]] or [[MementoMacguffin memorabilia]] he has carried with him the whole way which turns out to be [[ItWasHisSled significant]] to learning more about his persona. A person trying to find him, may find him watching the videos, even if he was strenuously attempting to avoid pursuit earlier; or the videos will have been left on.

** The movie that serves as the opening to ''SilentHillShatteredMemories'' falls under this trope by implication. It's rewound and replayed several times consecutively, as if to suggest that the watcher is really hung up on their loss.

* ''Matinee'' (1993) combines this trope with [[ColdWar Nuclear Nightmare]], because the hero's DisappearedDad is on a boat in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This doesn't have be a death trope, but it is often an ending trope, so may involve spoilers.

Click the edit button to start this new page.