Due To The Dead / Fan Works

Examples of Due to the Dead in Fan Works

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• Afterglow: Walker buries Lugo and Adams in what's left of the refugee camp:
  Walker: Sleep tight, gentlemen. I'll see you again someday.
• In The Amazing Spider-Man: True Purpose, when Spider-Man is killed by Magik during the events of Avengers vs. X-Men, the inhabitants of K'un Lunn agree to keep his body safe in a temple until the current crisis has been resolved and he can be properly buried, Thor taking a moment alone with the corpse to affirm that Spider-Man is worthy of a place in Valhalla for his sacrifice even if the Avengers don't have time for a more detailed funeral. When the gathered heroes return from the final battle to find the body apparently desecrated, Thor, the Thing and Carol Danvers are particularly enraged at what someone has done to their friend before they learn that this was actually part of a complex cycle that brought Spider-Man back to life.
• In ARTICLE 2, John and Shane are astronaut marines. John bets Shane 50 dollars that they will discover intelligent life. Their ship crash lands on Equestria and Shane is the only survivor. As soon as he is able, Shane visits John's body in the morgue and gives him his money.
• Aurora Falls: Selkirk constructs a massive obelisk jutting out several metres above sea level using the Terraformer, topped with a plaque in memory of his comrades aboard the Aurora. The whole thing is quite poignant.
• Avengers of the Ring;
  • When Wanda witnesses Pietro's memorial statue in spin-off sequel The Witch, the Wizard and the Sorcerer, she reflects that she prefers the dwarves' simple toast to his memory when she first told them her story in Bag End, as the dwarves' actions showed sorrow for a precious life cut short whereas the statue just turns Pietro into an idol.
  • In Methteilien, those killed before the Snap are given due deference, as the dead of Middle-Earth are buried in Wakanda and Boromir and Sif's bodies are preserved until they can be taken back to Minas Tirith, while Loki is given a traditional Asgardian funeral to affirm that he has been forgiven for his past sins. Later in the fic, Rogers, Gandalf and Galadriel retrieve Gamora's body from Voromir so that she can receive a better burial than just being left on the planet, with Rocket speaking a brief eulogy as the only remaining member of the original Guardians while Banner, Rhodes, Pippin and Galadriel attend the funeral.
• Played with in Chapter 30 of BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant. Sena's still technically alive, as his soul dwells in Luna's body, but his original body is dead. Despite this, Luna makes it a point to give his body a proper burial, with Jubei helping her in doing so after they meet.
• Chasing Dragons: After Viserys dies in the Fourth Slave War and his body ends up in the possession of the abolitionists, some of Robert's commanders suggest chucking the corpse in the river. Septon Deryk instead offers to perform last rites and a proper burial despite having been on opposite sides, viewing it as something everyone deserves. Robert sees his point and lets him do it.
• In Child of the Storm, two MI13 Agents likely died a horrible death and suffered an unspeakable fate post-mortem in order to give the Prime Minister the chance to escape, doing so in full knowledge of what would happen to them. The Prime Minister rather stiffly insists to Sharon Carter a.k.a. Agent 13 that he be given their personal details so he can ensure that they are suitably honoured. They are awarded the Victoria Cross (the direct equivalent of the Medal of Honour, and even more rarely awarded). This is made all the more remarkable by the fact that they are still technically running for their lives at this point.
  • In chapter 72, Dumbledore holds a vigil over Luna Lovegood's corpse.
• After John Wick kills himself in CLICK (because he'll never be free regardless of whether he kills Santino), Winston puts a contract on Santino and pays extra for John to have the "special" for his dinner reservation.
• This in one of Naruto's basic ideals in Cry of the Raiju
  "I don't care if you are a god or a tailed beast, or even the first Hokage himself...you will not talk bad about my father and think that your word will not go unpunished. I will make your life a living hell if you want to boast and degrade the works of the dead and the sacrifices that they had to make in order to keep their world safe just a little more."
  • It's also an ideal of the Sage of Six Paths.
  'You may be the successor to your progenitor Kurama, but that does not mean that I will not punish you if you do not remember and pray for the lives that your progenitor has taken from these lands.'
• In the Angel/The Hunger Games crossover "Demon's Games", one of Angel's first actions after Panem's government is overthrown is to re-name the hospital the Primrose Everdeen Memorial Hospital, to commemorate Prim's memory after she was turned into a vampire and had to be staked by Katniss.
• In the Harry Potter fanfic, Dominus Mundi : The King of Kings, James and Lily (Maria Theresa)'s remains are exhumed a decade after their deaths and brought to Portugal, and they remain lying in repose for several days while four Requiem masses are held for them in different countries. The last one takes place in Portugal and is attended by a few Hogwarts professors and a few other wizards (despite the place being packed with Muggles).
• Dragon Princess: Having come to view Kaido as a Worthy Opponent after successfully defeating and killing him, Oden make sure to have the pirate's body cremented, his bones buried and his Wrecked Weapon used as a gravestone. As Oden had during the start of his flashback arc in the manga with an old friend, Oden shows his own due by using Kaido's cremented remains to cook his namesake food, the new Shogun hoping that Kaido will find peace in the afterlife.
• Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls: Takes place in a world where everyone knows what happens after death, yet every group has their own ways to honor their friends and loved ones:
  • Despite working with death, Soul Reapers have their own funeral rites. When a soul "dies", it leaves a body before being absorbed into the ambient reishi. They use cremation to speed up the process, so they don't bury their dead. Instead, they carve their names on stone pillars.
  • Quincy perform a Military Funeral for those that had lost their lives during the attack on Las Noches. Each family carried a casket of their fallen family member (at least of those that bodies been managed to be brought back) towards a graveyard counting possibly ten of thousands of graves, followed by a speech from Quincy King. Twilight, in cremented, grief finds the whole ordeal superfluous.
  • Since Hollows disintegrate when they die, they remember them by carving their names into stone.
• Fire Emblem Awakening: Invisible Ties:
  • In chapter 4, when the Shepherds come across victims of a Risen massacre, Chrom insists that they give them a funeral pyre.
  • In chapter 21, it's revealed that Chrom went so far as to give Gangrel a proper burial after beheading him, in order to honor Emmeryn's legacy. Robin admits to Lucina that after everything Gangrel did, none of the other Shepherds would have done the same; he himself would have gladly mounted Gangrel's head on a pike and paraded it through Ylisstol.
• The Flash Sentry Chronicles: After Cold Steel helps defeat and capture Swift Wind, the one who murdered his mentor and Parental Substitute Noble Banner, Cold pays his respects to his deceased mentor by visiting the Hall of Knights in the Crystal Empire and placing the Storm Blade, the weapon that was meant for Noble before Swift stole it for himself and named himself after it, by Noble's statue. This significes that Noble has finally been avenged, and allows Cold to move on with his life.
• When Zuko stumbles upon the bones of the dead airbenders that were killed years ago in Flow Like Fire, he burns them and scatters their ashes as per Fire Nation tradition to hopefully appease their spirits.
• Yiereth in the Star Wars fanfic The Form of Survival does her best to give every dead Jedi she comes across a proper burial. When making a funeral pyre is not possible, she goes for the closest option, and it often comes to blowing up their bodies.
• Funeral for a Flash: The funeral for Barry Allen is televised and held outside of the Flash Museum in Central City. It is attended by two thousand people, including Barry's family, the Justice League, the Flash of Earth-Two, and even some reformed Rogues.
• The Funeral Rites of Tributes details the funeral rites that each Panem district gives their dead tributes when their bodies come home. District 1 tributes are considered failures and dumped in an open pit without any ceremony, their bodies left to decay. District 2 gives their tributes lavish funerals with golden death masks and sweet-scented oils, burying them in a huge crypt with their favorite weapons and armor. District 3 puts small squares of bread into their tributes' coffins. District 4 gives their tributes Viking Funerals. District 5 gives their tributes' families framed diffraction photos of their DNA. District 6 tributes are buried far inland, away from the radioactive ocean. District 7 buries their tributes in pine coffins and covers their eyes with sprigs of spruce. District 8 tributes are the only ones with individual headstones. District 9 tributes are buried in thick cement vaults. District 10's coffins are sent out to sea and said to eventually rest on the other side of the world. District 11 tribute funerals are celebrations of life, the coffins painted with fruit inks while the attendees sing and play music. In District 12, coal dust is sprinkled over the dirt of the coffins after the year's first rain, followed by tessera grain after the Reaping.
• In the Naruto fanfic Go Through His Pockets and Look For Loose Change, Sakura hits and berates Naruto for trying to rob Zabuza (who was apparently dead), as she sees it as disrespecting the dead. As he wasn't vandalizing a graveyard or disrupting his funeral, Naruto doesn't get her point (and later takes Zabuza's sword after he actually dies).
• The Good Hunter: When an Agent of the Wild Hunt is slain, the Blood Contract they have in person is returned to the Master, Cyril. He then records their deeds and the end of their career, before burying the deceased Agent in a grave, one among many amidst the field of White Asphodels surrounding his Workshop.
• Half Past Adventure: A Lonely Funeral is thrown for Shillelagh by Robin after they're killed by the Grass Dragon, in an attempt to give them the dignity they didn't get in life.
• The Hivefled prequel Reprise shows Gamzee, locked in a torture chamber and sure he's going to die, performing the last rites due all trolls sacrificed to the Mirthful Messiahs for all the previous victims of the cell. Admittedly, it was done partly out of spite for his captors, but still.
• In How the Light Gets In, sometime after marrying Dean, Laurel updated her will to saying she was to get a Hunter's Funeral. This was because she wanted to ensure she would not Come Back Wrong, found the idea of rotting in a coffin horrifying, and was worried about the effects embalming fluid would have on the environment. Her parents unfortunately had other ideas.
• Hunters of Justice: During their escape from Brainiac's ship, Fria sacrifices herself by using the last of her Maiden powers and passes them onto Penny. Penny then cremates her body using her newfound powers in order to prevent Brainiac from experimenting on her corpse.
• I Ain't a Doll, This Ain't a Dollhouse: As the ground by the Joestar mansion was too solid for a proper buriel, Giorno transforms the bodies of George Joestar and the wedding guests killed by Dio into plants to bring new life. Joseph hands his grandmother Johanna the chestnut seed that used to be her father so she'll have the final say, with the noblewoman choosing to keep it at her side.
• In the Kingdom's Service shows a traditional funeral for a VSS agent after Vanguard (Cardin Winchester) falls in the line of duty. The service is completely silent with those present being in full gear and allowed to approach the casket, in order of their closeness to the deceased, to say something silently. Afterwards, the casket is kept under vigil for twenty-four hours then interred in the agency's catacombs. Downplayed however in that Oobleck tells Jaune that Cardin specifically asked for a traditional VSS funeral and offers to let Jaune decide what should be done if he dies; Jaune asks if he does, his body be returned to his family and Oobleck give him a good (read: heroic) death.
  • Averted with Mercury's death. Once Emerald confirms his passing for Cinder, she simply kicks his body into the sewer and leaves.
• In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night: When Abin Sur dies and his ring selects Shining Armor as his replacement Green Lantern, Shining — despite not fully understanding what's happening — still takes the time to bury Abin, saying it's the least he can do.
• Kazuma V Tanya: Kazuma may be an incredibly poor child, but he still removes his shirt to give some decency to the body of a girl who was murdered as a result of his actions. He then carries her around the city in search of a cemetery before realizing there isn't one and giving her a river burial.
• In Kimberly T's Gargoyles fic "The Times, They Are a-Changin'", the Clan and their allies have a funeral for Phil Marsden, the deceased husband of new ally Anne Marsden, who was never officially declared dead because he was turned to stone and smashed during the Lost Nights. During the funeral, Father Sullivan (a priest who has become friends with the Clan) expresses regret that he couldn't meet Phil based on Anne's stories of how Phil became a good man despite his difficult childhood, and Goliath delivers a vow on Phil's grave that appears to essentially proclaim Anne and Bethany as having been adopted into the Manhattan Clan.
• Because the Total Drama story, Legacy is all about the repercussions of a contestant's death, it naturally has several examples:
  • The black-draped seat at the bonfire site.
  • Two of the surviving contestants keep a space between them during the finale.
  • The contestant's death is partly blamed on the unsafe conditions at the camp, which leads to the enactment of a new law named after her. This new law improves safety for reality show contestants.
• Life After Hayate includes Hayate Yagami's private funeral in the story, and briefly describes her service memorial as well. It notes that while uniform was mandatory for the service memorial, Chrono Harlaown chose to come to the private ceremony in uniform as well as a show of respect.
• Manehattan's Lone Guardian: While in the thrall of the Luminous Cruelty, Leviathan notes that Axl's remains were eventually found by archaeologists. He is subsequently returned to Neo Arcadia so that he can be given a sendoff worthy of his status as a Maverick Hunter.
• In My Little Pony vs..., Rarity, following a forced Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny to the death against Toph Bei Fong, makes sure to give her a proper burial before heading to the next arena.
• The Naked Jedi: Since Sarza's planet is not named in the Jedi archives, she asks that it be named the Zarazell system in honor of her parents, with the planet being named "Tarizal" after her mother and its moon "Zoyed" for her father.
• In the Arrowverse fic Never Be Silent, when Oliver and Laurel decide to turn the former C.N.R.I. building into a shelter for metas, Barry suggests naming it after Bette Sans Souci as the first meta he failed to help, establishing it as a place for metas to come for help or even somewhere to stay.
• The Night Unfurls:
  • As per Bloodborne canon, the Hunter's Dream has a garden riddled with graves. Each gravestone stands in honour of the memory of every hunter who visited the Dream during the Night of the Hunt.
  • A private funeral is held for Luu-Luu at the end of the Rad Arc. In a similar vein, Kyril would later be shown cleaning a gravestone, the list of names of those lost carved into the surface, including Luu-Luu's and Indriga's.
  • The beginning of Chapter 2, remastered version reveals that Kyril offered to clean and bury the corpses of the two victims from the orc band attack in the previous chapter, a gesture no one expected from a grim man like him. Turns out that he was accustomed to burying the dead.
  • In the very same chapter, however, he dissuades Alicia and the others from grieving and burying their dead comrades after they are ambushed by an orc band. Prioritising pragmatism over respecting the dead, he reasons that more of them would die should the orcs come back, so they should get to a safer area as soon as possible. Naturally, he gets called out for this, but Alicia, still shaken from the assault moments before, ultimately relents.
• The Smallville/The Fast and the Furious crossover On the Run opens with Clark saving Letty from her near-death moment in Fast & Furious and subsequently learning that Chloe Sullivan is dead. With Lex Luthor actively hunting Clark as an 'alien invader', Clark recognises that he can't go to Chloe's funeral without turning it into a potential catastrophe as Lex's forces try to capture him, refusing to taint Chloe's memory like that. As a result, Letty volunteers to attend in Clark's place, leaving a memento for Chloe that only she, Clark and Pete Ross would understand.
• In "The Only Way to Go", Sobaru Lanstar's funeral is a mix of Bajoran funerary rites and a United States military funeral Recycled In Space. The ceremony is officiated by a Bajoran priest with prayers to the Prophets, but also features a flag-draped coffin and a three-volley salute.
• The Parselmouth of Gryffindor has Hermione insist they bury the snake nailed to the door by Gaunt, as the characters investigate the Gaunt Shack. Dumbledore complies. (Somewhat necessary context: snakes are fully sentient in this interpretation of the Harry Potter universe.)
• In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, it's said early on that the active six Pokémon limit was established due to a criminal only known as Twenty Gyarados Bill that terrorized the coast of Johto forty years ago. A sidestory further expands on this, revealing that an Elite Four trainer named Denki Tekina, who only used six Pokémon during his entire career,brought him down at the cost of his own life, thus establishing the number from then on.
• The Prayer Warriors give their dead Christian burials, but leave the bodies of their enemies to rot.
• Subverted in Rocketship Voyager. The pragmatic issues of Disposing of a Body on a spaceship or after a nuclear war mean that funeral rites are entirely separate from body disposal, and it's not unknown for bodies to be recycled as reaction mass for the ship's engines. Captain Janeway has to be reminded that they have a Burial in Space to carry out just before they fire up their engines (so the bodies can be cremated by their torchship plume) because the funeral was held over a week ago.
• In the Hannibal Lecter fic "Settling Accounts", Susana Alvarez Lecter, the daughter of Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling, takes time out from her Roaring Rampage of Revenge against her father's still-living enemies to visit the grave of Clarice's father. While standing over the grave, Susana muses that, with her parents' distaste of religion, visiting the grave of the grandfather her own mother treasured so much is the closest Susana has ever been to visiting a sacred place.
• At the beginning of The Seven Misfortunes of Lady Fortune, Marinette visits Gabriel's funeral, despite all he had done to her. In the epilogue, she makes Adrien visit the grave.
• Son of the Sannin:
  • Exploited by Madara Uchiha. After his fateful duel and defeat at Hashirama's hands, he knew that Tobirama would preserve his corpse to give him a proper burial out of respect. When he makes his return to wreak havoc among the Shinobi Allied forces, he explains to the heroes that, had they destroyed his body, he wouldn't have been able to use the time-delayed Izanagi to resurrect himself. Sasuke makes sure not to repeat this mistake, incinerating his body with Amaterasu when the Konoha 15 finally manage to kill him a second time.
  • In a much straighter example, Maito Gai has an entire memorial park named in their honor (complete with a statue of their likeness near the entrance) following their Heroic Sacrifice during the Fourth Ninja War. Kakashi makes a point of regularly visiting the statue, much like how he used to with Obito's name on the Memorial Stone.
  • Two mass funerals are held during the story, one early on for the victims of the Uchiha Insurrection and another in the finale for those who died in the Fourth Ninja War.
• In the Castle (2009) fic Solid Ground, when the plane crash survivors finally learn that a rescue boat is coming to their island, they create guiding fires for the rescue boat and a series of smaller fires for all those lost in the crash and their subsequent time on the island. However, they deliberately avoid creating fires for Bracken’s henchmen, who were responsible for some of the subsequent deaths.
• The Downton Abbey fanfic "Sybil's Influence" centers around the many, many tributes sent to the Abbey after Sybil died in childbirth. Mrs. Hughes has to convert the boot room into a makeshift storeroom just for the baskets.
• In A Thing of Vikings, after Toothless's sister Fearless gives her life to stop the Screaming Death that was once her nest-lord, Hiccup makes sure to tell the rest of Berk about her sacrifice. Even the Christian priest currently visiting Berk sets up a monument for Fearless, musing that, regardless of whether or not dragons have souls, he wants God to know that they appreciate her sacrifice. Later, Óengus, a silversmith, asks for some scales from Toothless to complete various pendants he's making in the style of a Night Fury to further honour Fearless's sacrifice. By Chapter 139, Hiccup has completed a runestone commemorating Fearless's memory, with Toothless the first person to see the completed stone.
• This Bites!: When Whitebeard dies during the Marineford War, Buggy hijacks the communications in order to eulogize the man, expressing the deep respect he has for his old captain's friend and rival.
• Valkyrie on Fire:
  • During the 74th Hunger Games, Glimmer goes to great lengths to give Finch the District Five girl known as 'Foxface' in canon- a Viking-style funeral after she's killed by Marvel's spear. During the 'funeral', Glimmer privately admits to Katniss that she thinks that Finch could have excelled at the Academy as she had the spirit to be a great Career with training, not even crying when she was stabbed through the chest, where Glimmer had seen some Academy trainees bawling over far more minor wounds. While on her Victory Tour, Glimmer addresses District Five to tell them to be proud of Finch, who showed Glimmer that just being smart could be an asset.
  • Also, as an indirect homage to Finch, Cinna's designs for Glimmer's outfit in the opening of the Quarter Quell are based on the Valkyrie, Glimmer's outfit including veils that form into wings when an electrical charge is sent through them.
• In Wake, Asuka sets up a little shrine for her late guardian Kaji on a cliff overlooking the ruins of Tokyo-3.
• In White Devil of the Moon, during the heroines' expedition to the moon, the present-day Sailor Mars builds a gigantic funeral pyre for the dead of the Moon Kingdom.
• World of the Dead: On more than one occasion, the group covers up the bodies of the deceased.
• You Are (Not) At Fault: During his early wanderings, Shinji builds a memorial for his family and friends by the sea of LCL.
  The tears came again, but Shinji ignored them and continued on. A long piece of wood was stabbed deep into the soft sand, and a horizontal piece was attached with some old nails and a good-sized chunk of concrete. Several hours passed. Eight crosses were made, all standing next to each other. A larger nail was turned into a crude chisel, and eight names were scratched into the wood. Shinji slowly removed the shining silver cross from around his neck and hung it on the nail in Misato's memorial, completing the picture he had formed in his mind several hours ago. He sat back on his haunches and wiped his eyes clear, solidifying the image in his mind.
  'I'll have to come back in a few days, to make sure they're still standing. Perhaps I should come here once a week, like some sort of pilgrimage.'

Evil

• Evil is a stretch, but in How the Light Gets In, the fact that Laurel's parents went against her wishes (see above) by having her embalmed, given an open casket funeral, and buried (with a pitiful tombstone) is used to show just how little they cared about what she wanted. Dean's inability to prevent any of this is a major source of guilt for him. Still, it worked out since she came Back from the Dead.
• Queen of Shadows: Kyouaku's Establishing Character Moment, among other things, shows that his standard procedure for people who die during his naval battles is to throw their bodies overboard, regardless of whether they were friend or foe.
• Vow of the King: Hollows eat any other Hollows (and presumably other souls) they kill as a form of respect towards their foes and see not doing so as incredibly disrespectful.