Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 76: Dead All Along

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Yesterday's Results
Sonic & Knuckles - 5
Phoenix Wright & Miles Edgeworth - 5
Scorpion and Sub-Zero - 3
Red & Blue - 2
Dante & Vergil - 2
Rem & Ram - 2
Mugen and Jin - 2
Catherine/Katherine - 2
House Stark & House Lannister - 1
Iceman & Pyro - 1
Chris & Leon - 1
Dream & Death - 1
Ratchet & Clank - 1
Solid & Liquid Snake - 1
Sawk & Throh - 1
Ash Ketchum/Gary Oak - 1
Batman/The Joker - 1
Neo/Agent Smith - 1
Sayaka and Kyouko - 1
Ryu and Ken - 1
angel/spike - 1
goku/vegeta - 1
Zuko and Azula - 1
Tomo/Yomi - 1
Chie/Yukiko - 1
Sailor Mercury/Sailor Mars - 1
Lumiere and Cogsworth - 1
Haruhara Haruko and Jinyu - 1
Naruto and Sasuke - 1
Bert & Ralph - 1
Ernie & Bert - 1

Nominations
Iconic Sequel Character
Intelligible Unintelligible
Corpsing
One of Us
Disney Villain Death
Eldritch Location
Supervillain Lair
Obfuscating Stupidity
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Lady of War
Dark Is Not Evil
The Everyman
A Hell of a Time
Badass Driver
Always a Bigger Fish
Ramming always works
Disco Dan
What Could Have Been
Tall, Dark And Handsome

Vote for UP TO THREE CHARACTERS/ETC. you think best embody the trope of the day (or just for your favorite characters that fit the trope). Feel free to change your vote, but if you do just specify who you're changing from and changing to. Try to include the source the character's from.

Feel free to nominate tropes for future days, preferably ones that have TV Tropes pages to make it easier. Day will end in 24 hours or so.
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Full Results
https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope
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Genius Bruiser - Beast (X-Men) / Bane (Batman)
Haunted Castle - Dracula's Castle (Castlevania)
Adolf Hitlarious - Downfall Meme
Body Surf - Mario (Super Mario Odyssey)
Stepford Smiler - Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club) / Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
The Juggernaut - Juggernaut (Marvel)
Deader Than Disco - Instrument-based rhythm games
Uncanny Valley - Junji Ito
Red Oni, Blue Oni - Sonic & Knuckles (Sonic) / Phoenix Wright & Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)

Today's tropes is the Dead All Along
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadAllAlong

You probably thought these characters were alive.

NOPE! They're not. They're dead.

A character is dead; really dead. However, because the Powers That Be wanted him back, he is. He walks, he talks, he breathes just like everyone and neither the characters (sometimes, not even himself), nor the audience suspects anything fishy until The Reveal, at which point he usually dies for good or otherwise disappears because Undeath Always Ends. Severe Death Amnesia is mandatory if the character was previously unaware of their condition. Sometimes a character only realizes this upon finding their own corpse.

Because this is a spoilery trope, mark any major/non-obvious spoilers
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Kafuka Fuura - Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
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Auron Final Fantasy X
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Fuyubachi, Zebra & Kamome (Paranoia Agent)
Dr. Malcolm Crowe (The Sixth Sense) [does this even need spoiler-tagged?]
Everyone (Lost Season 6)

HM:
The entire family (The Others)
Ben (Scrubs)
Franklin and Celia (We Need to Talk About Kevin)

Dishonorable Mention:
The Mother (How I Met Your Mother)
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Reznov (cod black ops)
Master miller (mgs)
Nicole (dead space)
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Kafuka Fuura - Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
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Jacob Singer - Jacob's Ladder
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Dhurke Sahdmadhi (Ace Attorney Soul of Justice)
Kafuka Fuura (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei)
Kinzo Ushiromiya (Umineko no Naku Koro Ni)
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Kinzo Ushiromiya (Umineko)
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....Everyone.... The Sexy Brutale
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DeathChicken posted...

Jacob Singer - Jacob's Ladder

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Viktor Reznov (Call of Duty: Black Ops)
Jacob Singer - (Jacob's Ladder)
Norma Bates (Psycho)

HMs:
Nan Adams (The Twilight Zone - "The Hitch-Hiker")
Harry Mason (Silent Hill: Shattered Memories)
John Konrad (Spec Ops: The Line)
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Kinzo Ushiromiya (Umineko)
Auron (Final Fantasy X)
John Konrad (Spec Ops: The Line)

honorable mention to Noah Czerny (The Raven Cycle)
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Auron (Final Fantasy X)
Nicole (Dead Space)
Rachel Amber (Life is Strange)

Norma Bates - Psycho
Malcolm Crowe - The Sixth Sense
The servants AND the family - The Others

The Others is genius in that it pulls off this trope twice within about 10 minutes
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Dhurke Sahdmadhi - Ace Attorney Spirit of Justice
Auron - Final Fantasy X
Kinzo Ushiromiya - Umineko
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jcgamer107 posted...

Malcolm Crowe - The Sixth Sense

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burning
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Auron - Final Fantasy X
Kinzo - Umineko
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John Konrad (Spec Ops: The Line)
Fuyubachi, Zebra & Kamome (Paranoia Agent)
Auron (Final Fantasy X)
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XIII_rocks posted...

jcgamer107 posted...

Malcolm Crowe - The Sixth Sense

TexasZea posted...

Auron - Final Fantasy X

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GavsEvans123 posted...

Rachel Amber (Life is Strange)

If this person counts I vote for them as well, but they dont really seem to fit the trope as described...
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Malcolm Crowe - The Sixth Sense
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Nominate tropes "Flaming hair" and "Monster Clown"
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Pirate_Harris posted...

Nominate tropes "Flaming hair" and "Monster Clown"

Monster Clown was actually already done, won by Pennywise from It
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Johnbobb posted...

Pirate_Harris posted...

Nominate tropes "Flaming hair" and "Monster Clown"

Monster Clown was actually already done, won by Pennywise from It

My bad I'll grab something else
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Nominate trope "Glass cannon"
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Master Miller Metal Gear Solid.

Master Miller - MGS
Auron - FFX

Johnbobb posted...

(The Sixth Sense) [does this even need spoiler-tagged?]

Probably not, but it's worth noting that even knowing this trope applies to this movie pretty much gives it away. There's not exactly a huge amount of possibilities.
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Johnbobb posted...

(The Sixth Sense) [does this even need spoiler-tagged?]

Probably not, but it's worth noting that even knowing this trope applies to this movie pretty much gives it away. There's not exactly a huge amount of possibilities.

But what if it was actually the kid that was dead the whole time and Bruce Willis was the one that saw dead people

plot twist
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kevwaffles posted...

even knowing this trope applies to this movie pretty much gives it away.

I feel like this applies to most stuff in most spoilery tropes.
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Auron - FFX
Nearly everyone - The Others
Nearly everyone - TWEWY
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Fuyubachi, Zebra & Kamome (Paranoia Agent)
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@Shonen_Bat where you at
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Fuyubachi, Zebra & Kamome (Paranoia Agent)
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Underleveled posted...

kevwaffles posted...

even knowing this trope applies to this movie pretty much gives it away.

I feel like this applies to most stuff in most spoilery tropes.

To a large extent yes, but in FFX for instance you don't have a reason to narrow it down so immediately in a larger cast. You'll probably eventually catch on, sure, but no sooner than you could have potentially guessed it anyway.
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Auron (FFX)
Ben (Scrubs)
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NFUN posted...

Ben (Scrubs)

Yep these are my three
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GenesisSaga posted...

XIII_rocks posted...

jcgamer107 posted...

Malcolm Crowe - The Sixth Sense

TexasZea posted...

Auron - Final Fantasy X

Fuyubachi, Zebra & Kamome (Paranoia Agent)
Kinzo Ushiromiya (Umineko)
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Master Miler (Metal Gear Solid)
Ben (Scrubs)
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Santos (Ugly Betty)
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The FFX one
The Sixth Sense one

I would not support the Life is Strange one because it doesn't apply. We never encounter her in game 1, and in the prequel, she's alive and well. If anything, you should be using Chloe, because throughout the first game, she's alive and well thanks to Max's intervention, and yet, you end up watching her die anyway.
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