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* ProtagonistTitleProtagonistTitle: Mort is the main character and is named in the title.
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** A lot of the deceased teenagers in the afterlife are shown to have gotten themselves killed by [[TooDumbToLive dong dangerously stupid things]], like lighting a bunch of explosives at once just to see what happens and thinking they're cool to drive after engaging in underage drinking.

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** A lot of the deceased teenagers in the afterlife are shown to have gotten themselves killed by [[TooDumbToLive dong doing dangerously stupid things]], like lighting a bunch of explosives at once just to see what happens and thinking they're cool to drive after engaging in underage drinking.
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** A lot of the deceased teenagers in the afterlife are shown to have gotten themselves killed by [[TooDumbToLive dong dangerously stupid things]], like lighting a bunch of explosives at once just to see what happens to thinking they're cool to drive after engaging in underage drinking.

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** A lot of the deceased teenagers in the afterlife are shown to have gotten themselves killed by [[TooDumbToLive dong dangerously stupid things]], like lighting a bunch of explosives at once just to see what happens to and thinking they're cool to drive after engaging in underage drinking.

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** A lot of the deceased teenagers in the af

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** A lot of the deceased teenagers in the afafterlife are shown to have gotten themselves killed by [[TooDumbToLive dong dangerously stupid things]], like lighting a bunch of explosives at once just to see what happens to thinking they're cool to drive after engaging in underage drinking.
** Mort isn't pleased to see how cheap his family was in preparing his funeral, and is especially incensed that [[MisplacedSorrow his mother is only mourning that he died without clean underwear, while his dad is more upset about his Studebaker being destroyed than he is at his son's death]].
** At one point, Mort tries to haunt a horror film by taking up the role of slasher villain and using a chainsaw to dismember and slaughter the cast, only to see that the audience isn't frightened due to being desensitized by the amount of violence there is in the media already.
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* BlackComedy: As one might expect from a light-hearted series about a teenager becoming a ghost after the accident that killed him, there are plenty of morbid gags to go around.
** Mort's character portrait below the Marvel Comics banner depicts his open-casket corpse, which has its state of decay advance each issue until his remains are skeletonized by the cover of the final issue.
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* UranusIsShowing: The final issue twice uses the gag of a character exclaiming "My what?" in response to the mention of Uranus, first with Mort on the title page and the second time with a female customer of the car wash Mort works at in one of the hypothetical timelines of how his life would turn out had he not been killed as a teen.

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* TheGrimReaper: Aside from the traditional personification of Death, Mort spends much of the miniseries interacting with Teen Death, who is the former's adolescent son and specifically serves as a psychopomp for deceased teenagers.



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* HorrorComedyHorrorComedy: The miniseries is about a teenage ghost who died from getting hit by a train and is filled with a lot of humor.

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