History Main / DeathIsSuchAnOddThing

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* Justified in an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois... l'Homme'': the cast is in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal Neanderthal times]], so when one of them ([[spoiler: Maestro]]) [[PassedInTheirSleep sleepily passes away]], they cannot fully understand what's going on at first. Once they do, [[DueToTheDead they bury him very respectfully]], mirroring the start of human funeral rites.

As a DeathTrope, this page will naturally contain '''spoilers!'''

* [[TearJerker Anya's speech]] in the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "The Body": one of the most touching moments from her, where she explains her thought process, coming from immortality to mortality and being unprepared to deal with [[spoiler:Buffy's mother, Joyce,]] being suddenly dead. And how she really doesn't know how to act, and human society makes it taboo to even ''ask'' how to act, so....

* In the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode featuring ''Film/{{Gunslinger}}'', Joel tries to explain to Crow and Tom about being dead and the two are just utterly confused about it, Crow expressing that it was like "throwing the baby out with the bathwater".
* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', Clara Oswald suddenly loses her boyfriend Danny Pink after he's hit by a car while talking to her on the phone. [[DeathIsDramatic After this she is surprised at how "boring" his death was.]]

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Before Morgoth, the Elves of Valinor did not knew anything about the concept of death since they were immortal beings, but after the War of Wrath, a war that lasted centuries with the death of elves being proportional to its length, the Elves came to know many words for death.

** The KillEmAll ending leaves Gregor in a state of emotional distress about many characters, many of whom were absolute {{jerkass}}es toward him. Particularly in ''Gregor and the Code of Claw'', when faced with [[spoiler: the Prophecy of Time that foretells his own death]].

* [[BrokenBird Alain]] of ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'' has similar confused reaction as Anya. All about immortality to mortality, complaining about things being stupid and mortal (he would do that about quit a few things actually) and not understading human customs. His elderly human friend died a peaceful death, which he had never considered beforehand, not understanding that when people die it's not always huge and dramatic. This was not made any better by the fact that Alain had some notion of death in physical way [[spoiler: having seen his father die ealier]] already so he understood what it means for her in this regard. It hits him as hard if not harder than everyone else because he considered death to be just a physical thing, meaning that he thought that once someone dies, it's the definitive end. He was deeply confused by the mixed emotions he saw among people at her funeral, not understanding why some of them are smiling while other are crying. His friends explained to him that people are both cherishing good memories of her and mourning her as while death is an end, it's not as definitive as he thought. This is one of the points of ''Ghost'' after all. It still took him some time to grasp this.

* In ''{{Comicbook/Watchmen}}'', Dr. Manhattan's near-omniscience causes him to become disinterested in human experiences like life and death. When he hears about the Comedian's death, he says "A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?"
* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' Tim notes that he's not sure what to feel after Karl Ranck was killed since Ranck seemed to have been trying to be friendlier but had been a grade A jerk whom Tim mostly considered an annoyance. He spends the funeral feeling out of place.

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Compare AntagonistInMourning, when a villain finds themselves depressed and listless after the demise of their longtime arch-enemy. May overlap with DeathEqualsRedemption, if the person dying actually redeems them in the eyes of others, and DeathMeansHumanity if one of the reactions involves seeing the humanity in the deceased.

Compare AntagonistInMourning, when a villain finds themselves depressed and listless after the demise of their longtime arch-enemy.

* In Disney/BigHero6, Baymax is a robot designed to provide medical care. For a while, he struggles to grasp that his creator, a young man in good physical health, has unexpectedly died in a fiery explosion.