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This article is reprinted with permission from First
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Dulles, S.J. (1918-2008) was the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and
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author of twenty seven books, including: Church and Society: The Laurence J. McGinley Lectures,
1988-2007, Magisterium: Teacher and Guardian of the Faith, Newman, The New World of Faith, Models of the Church,and Church Authority In American Culture: The Second
Bernardin Conference.
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"If the creator wants to bring back a dead character, then that character will come back."
It doesn't maatter how Deader Than Dead or Killed Off for Real that character is, they'll find a way to return. Much handwaving may be required to explain it (if they don't leave it unexplained), but anything is possible with a bit of Foreshadowing thrown in.
Also known as "Comic book death" because comic books are especially known for taking place in long-spanning continuities where Death Is Cheap, important characters almost never come back wrong, Applied Phlebotinum is everywhere and iconic villains always come back from whatever fate that no carbon-based lifeform could have survived. In addition, the turnover of writers means that even if one writer says, "No really, they're dead this time," with no intention of bringing them back, odds are some future writer will disagree and bring them back a few years down the road.
The First Law Of Resurrection almost always trumps the Sorting Algorithm of Deadness, with only a few exceptions (like Death by Origin Story). May lead to Opening a Can of Clones. See also Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggeratedand Disney Death
Deader Than Dead
"We've got to verify it legally to see if she is morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably, and reliably dead."
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Death is permanent, as we all know. Because people die when they are killed. In Real Life. In fictional works, however, this need not necessarily apply. In fiction, people regularly do come Back from the Dead. This is fine if they're on the side of the heroes, but once a villain has pulled this a couple of times it gets really old. The solution? Death is not enough, time to kill them Deader Than Dead. The actual implementation of a Deader Than Dead varies: Sometimes it requires killing more than one component of the target (often its soul and its body at the same time). Sometimes it requires following the dead to the afterlife and killing them there. Sometimes it involves tons and tons of Maximum Overkill that reduces the villain to a fine paste. Sometimes it involves having to kill them in a special way, or with a particular weapon. Sometimes it involves a sworn affidavit declaring they will never return. And sometimes some alternative to death (sometimes a "Fate Worse than Death") has to be found. For demons and the like, the latter often means "sealing" them somewhere, though more often than not, this is just a surefire way to end up with Sealed Evil in a Can. Your Soul Is Mine is an uncommon way of ensuring total death as well—pulling someone's literal life force out of their body and eating or smashing it is a good way to ensure that they're never coming back. On the other hand, if it's a story where resurrection requires a (mostly) intact body, it's simply a matter of making sure the body isn't intact.
Characters who come back from the dead while staying dead (i.e., the Undead) are a special case, but of course, being "dead" also has a very special meaning in this case.
If you have to rely on this trope often, it tells you that you have cheapened the meaning of "death" to the point of uselessness. Relying on it after you have already pulled it for the same character tells you that maybe you're lacking in imagination to come up with good characters.
Or it might be that the character is too popular or iconic (to the fans or the writer) to stay permanently dead. So, it's not really that surprising when they pull something out of left field and let someone use Time Travel to...
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Common for important bosses in video games (see Non-Lethal K.O.), but not rare outside them either. Compare with Final Death and Rasputinian Death. Common ingredient in a Death by Origin Story. Often related to Cessation of Existence. This may be the function of an Immortal Breaker - it causes any being to completely obviated from existence (especially important if the immortal in question has Resurrective Immortality).
Older Than They Think — a Fairy Tale may outline the villain's death in graphic detail to ensure that, unlike the hero, they cannot come Back from the Dead. (Often, the Family-Unfriendly Death is proposed by the villain as a suitable punishment for his crimes, as a general principle.)
Despite the similar sounding name, not related to Harder Than Hard, although the attempt to kill someone Deader Than Dead is by no means easy. Related to Killed Off for Real, which results when the audience would have expected the Deader Than Dead character to come back.
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"...when it is prophesied that no man can defeat me, I will keep in mind the increasing number of non-traditional gender roles."
A character receives a prophecy or curse of the form "X cannot happen until Y," where Y is seemingly impossible. X is frequently (but not always) the character's death or defeat.
Of course, Y ends up happening somehow, usually through some trick of wording or a loophole, with X promptly following.
Over-reliance on this phrase by the baddie usually leads to a delicious Oh, Crap! moment. It often involves a Eureka Moment, followed by the newly minted Magnificent Bastard drawing his sword and Cutting the Knot. Macbeth met his end at the hands of a man "born" via C-section, for example. When the clause includes an exhaustive list — neither by night nor by day, or neither by man nor by beast — a Liminal Being such as a werewolf or a Liminal Time such as twilight may slip through because being half of each, it's neither fully.
A subtrope of Prophecy Twist and Double Meaning; compare Prophetic Fallacy. Can be a form of False Reassurance. For some other instances of impossible conditions being met, see Impossible Task and Engagement Challenge. For when condition Y isn't really fulfilled but a half-assed excuse is used to justify X happening anyway, see Metaphorically True. Its more comic Sister Trope is Cue the Flying Pig
Back from the Dead
· A major character, possibly even a popularly nasty Big Bad, has been killed, pronounced dead and buried. However, the established laws of the universe allow for Functional Magic, a Sufficiently Advanced Alien, Applied Phlebotinum, Deus ex Machina or similar agency to intervene and subvert what naturally follows dying. Namely, staying dead. (In some cases, an explanation isn't even bothered with.)
Maybe the writers were running short of new ideas and decided to recycle some old characters. Maybe the actor has recently acquired some indecent photographs of the producers. Maybe the new writer was devastated his predecessor killed the character. Who knows? He is now Back From The Dead!
The form of afterlife can vary pretty widely. They may "simply" be resurrected or reincarnated (usually as a sentient pet animal), physical or mental alterations (good or bad) optional; or we may now have a ghost, or vampire... zombie, angel, godling, demon... haunted car... okay, that last one will be hard to top (except with a Love-matic Grandpa!). Bringing someone back from the dead by supernatural means is generally treated as being a negative thing because of how unnatural it is.
If a character cannot come back from the dead entirely, they may show up as a Spirit Advisor or Mentor Archetype, letting them be literally dead, but allowing them to interact with the living.
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Mortal Coil", Neelix actually dies for real but is (some would argue unfortunately) brought back to life some 18 hours later. This is an example of Contractual Immortality. In order to qualify for being brought Back From The Dead, a character in a TV show would have to be still dead at the end of one episode and resurrected, by whatever means, in a later episode (2-parters don't count).
This is exceedingly common in American superhero comic books, to the point that whenever a popular character dies, it's a given that they'll be back on within no more than five years. At one time, it was said that "Nobody ever stays dead in comics, except Bucky, Uncle Ben, and Jason Todd." Naturally, since that phrase was coined, Bucky and Jason Todd have both been recalled to life.
See Death Is Cheap for when this becomes a regular feature of a 'verse, Sorting Algorithm of Deadness for the odds a particular death will stick, and the accompanying betting pool for which modern Lazarus is due back next. See also Resurrective Immortality for where this is an everyday part of a character's life.
A general rule of thumb is that if you Never Found the Body, the character is Not Quite Dead in the first place (and therefore not a candidate for this trope). One of the most common examples of this is that if a character falls off of a cliff or other high structure, especially into water, he or she is almost guaranteed to still be alive; see Disney Death. An explosion gives more reasonable odds. Of course, even if you've see the body and you've atomized it so finely that each individual molecule is a galaxy apart... there's always Time Travel. Removing the entire thing from existence can be done, and equally undone by a similar Deus ex Machina.
Faking the Dead has its own trope. See also First Episode Resurrection when this happens at the start of the series.
Man of Woman Born
"...when it is prophesied that no man can defeat me, I will keep in mind the increasing number of non-traditional gender roles."
A character receives a prophecy or curse of the form "X cannot happen until Y," where Y is seemingly impossible. X is frequently (but not always) the character's death or defeat.
Of course, Y ends up happening somehow, usually through some trick of wording or a loophole, with X promptly following.
Over-reliance on this phrase by the baddie usually leads to a delicious Oh, Crap! moment. It often involves a Eureka Moment, followed by the newly minted Magnificent Bastard drawing his sword and Cutting the Knot. Macbeth met his end at the hands of a man "born" via C-section, for example. When the clause includes an exhaustive list — neither by night nor by day, or neither by man nor by beast — a Liminal Being such as a werewolf or a Liminal Time such as twilight may slip through because being half of each, it's neither fully.
A subtrope of Prophecy Twist and Double Meaning; compare Prophetic Fallacy. Can be a form of False Reassurance. For some other instances of impossible conditions being met, see Impossible Task and Engagement Challenge. For when condition Y isn't really fulfilled but a half-assed excuse is used to justify X happening anyway, see Metaphorically True. Its more comic Sister Trope is Cue the Flying Pigs.
Since this trope is frequently used as a surprise twist, major spoilers abound below!
Weapon of X-Slaying
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A weapon which gets extra bonuses against a specific enemy type. Sometimes they may outright kill them in one hit.
Ways this can happen:
- Anti-Air: Either weapons that deal bonuses against airborne enemies, or the only weapons that can hit them at all.
- Anti-Armor: The weapon may do more damage against armored enemies. Or, it may strip them of their armor altogether.
- Anti-Cavalry: The weapon is more effective against cavalry units.
- Anti-Infantry: The weapon works better against infantry than against vehicles or cavalry.
- Anti-Magic: The weapon ignores magical defense or disables magical abilities.
- Anti-Structure: The weapon is more effective at destroying or shutting down structures.
- Anti-Vehicle: The weapon works better against vehicles, or it's the only weapon that can damage vehicles at all.
- Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: Whether silver bullets against werewolves or Kryptonite spear against Superman, the weapon relies on being made of, having a component of, or shooting, something that the thing is weak against.
- Elemental Rock–Paper–Scissors: Elemental weapon does more damage to enemies with an inferior element.
- Immortal Breaker: The weapon capable of killing the otherwise-immortal.
- Villain-Beating Artifact: This is the only thing capable of harming an otherwise invulnerable villain.
It is a subtrope of Situational Sword, and a form of Situational Damage Attack. Related is Achilles' Heel, which this weapon can be.
Unique-named weapons with this kind of property often come with Exactly What It Says on the Tin naming.
The brainchild of independent cartoonist Matt Groening (author of Life in Hell), The Simpsons first aired from 1987 to 1989 as a series of animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. Unofficially known as "Season 0," the original 48 ad-bumpers kicked off what is now well established as one of television's all-time classic series (which premiered on the then-fledgling FOX network in December 1989). It is currently in its twenty-eighthseason, making it the longest-running prime-time sitcom in American TV history (worldwide, that honor belongs to Last of the Summer Wine, although the latter has fewer episodes, with 297 while The Simpsons has made 600 episodes so far). It has also been renewed for two more seasons, which will take it up to 669 episodes in total, which will make it surpass Gunsmoke as the the longest running scripted television program by episode count ever.
Depicting the animated adventures of the upper-lower-middle class Simpson family, the show started as a parody of Dom Com conventions, but quickly incorporated elements of social satire, pop culture references, and a mix of highbrow and lowbrow humor that has kept it popular year after year.
When it was first adapted into television, it set a new trend in animation - much of the voice acting had been rather industrial, with voice actors simply reciting a list of their character's linesnote , in whatever emotion the script called for. The Simpsons, however, recorded its lines like a live-action movie, the voice actors for a given scene recording together, allowing for more organic interaction between the characters.
One reason for the show's longevity is the massive cast of over 100 recurring characters it has built up over time, allowing the writers to work with a rich variety of relationships and milieus. Another thing that has established The Simpsons as being unique is an absolute refusal to acknowledge the passing of time. Bart has remained 10 years old and in general the show employs an active Negative Continuity, sometimes even acknowledged in the show.
For roughly the first 10 seasons, The Simpsons was widely considered to be one of the most consistently funny TV shows ever produced. However, it is generally considered that at some point after (or near the end of) that, the series declined in quality. Exactly when it declined, and by how much, is difficult to find a consensus on, but viewership has decreased over the years. Its numbers remain strong though, and the merchandising juggernaut shows no signs of stopping. Fox at one point considered setting up a separate Simpsons/spin-off network
; though that didn't happen, Simpsons re-runs became a cornerstone of the comedy-oriented FXX cable network when that was spun off from the FX network. Though, despite claims that it's not as good as it once was, there's something to be said about a show that debuted (as a series of shorts) whenRonald Reagan was U.S. President, debuted in prime-time and referenced by name when George H.W. Bush was in office, had its best years when Bill Clinton was in office, was more-or-less still going strong during the George W. Bushadministration, saw Barack Obama get elected twice and was around to repeatedly mock the incumbent presidentthroughout his entire campaign and ongoing tenure.
; though that didn't happen, Simpsons re-runs became a cornerstone of the comedy-oriented FXX cable network when that was spun off from the FX network. Though, despite claims that it's not as good as it once was, there's something to be said about a show that debuted (as a series of shorts) whenRonald Reagan was U.S. President, debuted in prime-time and referenced by name when George H.W. Bush was in office, had its best years when Bill Clinton was in office, was more-or-less still going strong during the George W. Bushadministration, saw Barack Obama get elected twice and was around to repeatedly mock the incumbent presidentthroughout his entire campaign and ongoing tenure.
A feature film (creatively titled The Simpsons Movie) was released in summer 2007. Perhaps not surprisingly, reactions from fans were mixed, with some fans claiming it to be on the level of the Golden Age episodes, and some considering it just an extra long Tarnished Age episode. Nevertheless, the film was a huge financial success and received a positive response from critics, earning a 89% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes and getting a 80 on Metacritic.
Many of the people behind the show are also responsible for Futurama (and while Futurama certainly takes some comedic cues from this show, it is a far cry from a Simpsons clone).
Matt Groening has said he created the core family members in The Tracey Ullman Show's production office waiting room after realizing he didn't want to sign the rights to his Life in Hell characters over to Rupert Murdoch.
In 2009, the show began its 21st season, officially dethroning Gunsmoke as the longest running primetime American television series of all time, before surpassing Gunsmoke's episode total in 2018 (although Sesame Street, among other daytime programs, still retains an even longer run with 40 seasons).
Check out this character sheet for more info on Fox's "first family" of animation. Also has a work-in-progress recap page here.
Fate Worse than Death
"A fate WORSE than a fate worse than death? That's pretty bad."
Think death is the cruelest fate? Think again. There are several things much worse: torture, taxes, and tofu, to name but a few. And more often than not, some unfortunate soul will experience it. Originally, this phrase meant rape, but now there'seven worse than that.
This phrase is usually used in a Just Between You and Me moment by the Evil Overlord as they boast about the agony-inducing Death Trap that awaits the hero for delaying their plans. It's also fairly commonly used as a warning to the hero against seeking forbidden power or knowledge, and consequently to foreshadow the particular Karmic Death the villain will suffer because of meddling with the universe's Cosmic Keystone.
Mercy Killings are common when heroes find anyone in this state. If the character can beg for help, I Cannot Self-Terminateoccurs; if they can act on their own, they are often Driven to Suicide. Indeed, since all involve choosing death over a given fate, the characters often conclude that that fate is worse than death. Contrast Cruel and Unusual Death, for when the victim instead gets a gruesome death that sucks beyond telling.
See also: Cruel Mercy, Empty Shell, To the Pain, The Punishment, Room 101, And I Must Scream, and occasionally Cool and Unusual Punishment. Tailor Made Prisons may be this by nature or design in order to torture its prisoner. Not to be confused with A Fête Worse Than Death, though the two can occasionally overlap.
Sealed Evil in a Can
"Old folk saying: 'You can catch the devil, but you can't hold him long.'"
Long ago, An Ancient People faced a terrible evil. Using various methods, they bound the evil into a prison from which they thought it could never escape.
It did.
Sealed Evil In A Can, as the title suggests, is a way to introduce a villain suddenly, especially one that is legendary and powerful. It also explains why the villain hasn't done anything up to that point: it just now escaped.
A sealed evil is often introduced as a Greater-Scope Villain: the direct Big Bad's plan will be to unseal the can of some ancient God of Evil, hoping they'll get some of that great power as a reward. Of course, Evil Is Not a Toy: if they succeed, it usually turns out that the Sealed Evil does not care for them (or may have even been manipulating them into freeing them) and disposes of them, making the Sealed Evil the true Final Boss. Sealed Evil™ almost never rewards those who release it. It may even act like the malevolent flavor of a Jackass Genie, twisting their releasers' wishes back on them. (Of course, occasionally the Big Bad actually succeeds in controlling the sealed evil.)
The hero occasionally breaks the seal himself due to lack of information or active manipulation by the villain.
Or perhaps it was awoken by unsuspecting miners or archaeologists who Dug Too Deep and found something better left buried and undisturbed — often ignoring every single warning they found before releasing it.
Oddly enough, no matter what the cause of the seal being broken, it seems to always happen 1,000 years after the evil was first sealed. Yet nobody ever seems to know that the evil is about to reemerge in that time frame.
The primary question is usually "Why did they just seal it, as opposed to KILL it?" Well, the answer tends to vary; but usually it's a variant of The Punishment (for both the sealed and everyone else), Thou Shalt Not Kill (heroes can take pity and/or show mercy towards the oddest things), and/or As Long as There is Evil. Maybe it couldn't be killed for good (or more commonly, the conditions weren't right to deal the final blow), so sealing it was the next best thing. Another common excuse is the Balance Between Good and Evil; if they'd killed the ancient evil, then a bigger, badder evil would've taken its place, thus sealing it away neutralizes the threat but also keeps it in the world and maintains the balance. For some reason, only on a very few occasions was the evil sealed simply because the good guys didn't have the power at the time to kill it outright. Or maybe it was killed and the method of breaking the seal was resurrecting it.
Expect the mere release of the SEIAC to cause a World-Wrecking Wave, Walking Wasteland, and sundry other disasters. That said, being cooped up for centuries is likely to have weakened the SEIAC, meaning it needs some time to recover its lost strength. This could mean that the hero(es) has a chance to seal it back up, or even destroy it once and for all.
Since this trope can be traced back to Greek mythology, it's Older Than Feudalism. Note that, minus your standard speculative fiction elements, it's functionally identical to a plot where a horrible criminal escapes from or is released from prison. Not to be confused with Exactly What It Says on the Tin — although your Evil-in-a-Can may be clearly labeled as such. But no one will ever read or believe the label.
This is an extremely common plot and backstory in video games, especially Role-Playing Games, because it's such a simple backstory: the Big Bad, put away by some ancient hero, has escaped. You (the player) must put them back in. Or, as mentioned above, the current Big Bad wishes to release the Greater-Scope Villain to use it’s power, and the hero must stop them.
Related Tropes
- Banishing Ritual: May result in a sealed evil, especially the "sealing" variation.
- Sealed Good in a Can: The good version.
- Sealed Badass in a Can: A neutral version of this trope.
- Girl in a Box: A neutral version specifically used for females.
- Leaking Can of Evil: An evil being is sealed away as per this trope, but in a way that allows it to still affect the world.
- Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: The evil is imprisoned inside a living being.
- Sealed Army in a Can: One can is used for multiple evils (or goods).
- Sealed Evil in a Six Pack: One evil is sealed within multiple cans.
- Sealed Evil in a Duel: The evil is sealed away with an equally powerful good which will keep it occupied so it can't try to escape.
- Tailor-Made Prison: When the current generation makes its own can to (usually temporarily) imprison evildoers.
- Greater-Scope Villain: A particularly powerful Sealed Evil overshadows a setting but never manages to affect the plot directly enough to be a Big Bad.
Deader Than Dead
"We've got to verify it legally to see if she is morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably, and reliably dead."
Death is permanent, as we all know. Because people die when they are killed. In Real Life. In fictional works, however, this need not necessarily apply. In fiction, people regularly do come Back from the Dead. This is fine if they're on the side of the heroes, but once a villain has pulled this a couple of times it gets really old. The solution? Death is not enough, time to kill them Deader Than Dead. The actual implementation of a Deader Than Dead varies: Sometimes it requires killing more than one component of the target (often its soul and its body at the same time). Sometimes it requires following the dead to the afterlife and killing them there. Sometimes it involves tons and tons of Maximum Overkill that reduces the villain to a fine paste. Sometimes it involves having to kill them in a special way, or with a particular weapon. Sometimes it involves a sworn affidavit declaring they will never return. And sometimes some alternative to death (sometimes a "Fate Worse than Death") has to be found. For demons and the like, the latter often means "sealing" them somewhere, though more often than not, this is just a surefire way to end up with Sealed Evil in a Can. Your Soul Is Mine is an uncommon way of ensuring total death as well—pulling someone's literal life force out of their body and eating or smashing it is a good way to ensure that they're never coming back. On the other hand, if it's a story where resurrection requires a (mostly) intact body, it's simply a matter of making sure the body isn't intact.
Characters who come back from the dead while staying dead (i.e., the Undead) are a special case, but of course, being "dead" also has a very special meaning in this case.
If you have to rely on this trope often, it tells you that you have cheapened the meaning of "death" to the point of uselessness. Relying on it after you have already pulled it for the same character tells you that maybe you're lacking in imagination to come up with good characters.
Or it might be that the character is too popular or iconic (to the fans or the writer) to stay permanently dead. So, it's not really that surprising when they pull something out of left field and let someone use Time Travel to...
Ow! Ouch! Stop kicking me!
Common for important bosses in video games (see Non-Lethal K.O.), but not rare outside them either. Compare with Final Death and Rasputinian Death. Common ingredient in a Death by Origin Story. Often related to Cessation of Existence. This may be the function of an Immortal Breaker - it causes any being to completely obviated from existence (especially important if the immortal in question has Resurrective Immortality).
Older Than They Think — a Fairy Tale may outline the villain's death in graphic detail to ensure that, unlike the hero, they cannot come Back from the Dead. (Often, the Family-Unfriendly Death is proposed by the villain as a suitable punishment for his crimes, as a general principle.)
Despite the similar sounding name, not related to Harder Than Hard, although the attempt to kill someone Deader Than Dead is by no means easy. Related to Killed Off for Real, which results when the audience would have expected the Deader Than Dead character to come back.
Sorting Algorithm of Deadness
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