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We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
The two examples I can think of are Stephanie Brown's ghost showing up to talk to Cass in Batman, when she had faked her death, and Superman meeting his father's ghost in the underworld during the Reign Of The Supermen storyline.
Classic comic book Retcon.
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
pictures for sad children did this in one comic as a weird Magic Realism gag. It wasn't even a plot hole or retcon: the main character could see his father's ghost haunting his apartment while simultaneously talking over the phone with his actually-still-alive father.
I didn't write any of that.
An Astral Projection, Not a Ghost or Living Memory, maybe, if it's intentional that the ghost is supposed to appear though the character isn't really dead
We have Undercover When Alone, for when a character acts like someone else even when nobody's around because it wasn't revealed (or decided) that he's actually The Mole. But, what about when we see a character's ghost (or some other afterlife equivalent) when afterwards, it's revealed that the character faked his death, or whatever? Is there a trope for that?
Edited by Pisthetairos