History Main / HesDeadJim

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': The pet shop customer uses a non-stop stream of synonyms to insist the parrot he bought is dead when the pet shop owner keeps claiming otherwise. The ''Live at City Center'' album adds even more:

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyKF2qd0-iQ&feature=fvw Everybody's dead, Dave.]] Granted, it's been three million years and every "body" is now a pile of dust.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyKF2qd0-iQ&feature=fvw Everybody's dead, Dave.]]

Since this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, expect '''''unmarked spoilers'''''.

* ''Film/CitizenKane'' has the hand falling and dropping the snow globe.

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* In ''Series/{{Bones}}'' episode "The Hole in the Heart" Booth is applying pressure to Vincent's bullet wound after he is shot. When he lets go, Bones tries to put his hands back and says "You have to keep applying pressure". Booth responds with "No I don't" and we see Vincent's eyes have gone blank.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E21AllHellBreaksLoosePartOne "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One" (S02, Ep21)]], Dean assumes slashed throats and open eyes equals death, as he does not check a pulse or perform any first aid for the humans left behind in the Sunnyside Diner.

* In an episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", an exhibitor at a science-fiction fans' convention is murdered; Hodges-from-Trace is on the scene and calls Captain James Brass to tell him, "I'm at the convention, there's a problem with one of the exhibitors"; when Brass asks, "What's wrong with him?", Hodges replies, "HE'S DEAD, JIM"; the world reverberated to the sound of millions of viewers groaning; it got progressively worse as the cliches flew thick and fast thereafter.

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* Done from at least a ''kilometre'' away in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[PaintingTheMedium thanks to the comic's art style.]]
--> "Does he... does he have the X's in his eyes?"

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* [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney]]:
** In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', parodied when Scuttle believes Eric was dead because after checking Eric's foot and finding no heartbeat. 'Course Scuttle is a KnowNothingKnowItAll and Ariel finds Eric to be breathing.

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', [[spoiler:Eugene]] slumps in [[spoiler:Rapunzel's]] arms.

* ''Film/{{Anon}}'' takes place in a world where EverythingIsOnline. After a policeman is shot, the detective protagonist just glances at him and continues his pursuit of the killer, as the victim's vital signs are online and displayed in the detective's POVCam.

* ''Series/TheFallAndRiseOfReginaldPerrin'': Reggie steals a truckload of loganberry esence and sends a note to CJ saying "Blood Will Flow"; he then dumps the essence in CJ's favourite trout stream where CJ is hosting a fishing party of Sunshine Desserts executives; thinking the water has turned to blood, CJ collapses and falls into the river, unconscious; Doc Morrissey pulls him out, and says "My God, he's dead!" At which point CJ opens his eyes and replies, "You're fired!"

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E9PerchanceToDream Perchance to Dream]]". A psychiatrist (who is therefore a medical doctor) interviews a new patient. At the end of the episode, the man screams while he's asleep. The psychiatrist checks his pulse and immediately pronounces him dead. He doesn't even bother to apply first aid or call for an ambulance.

* ''Film/ThreeAmigos''. The Invisible Swordsman is dead, but we don't know until one of the Amigos lifts and drops his invisible arm, creating a very nice puff of dust in the process.

* ''Franchise/StarWars Episode IV: Film/ANewHope'': when Vader is [[NeckLift choking the Rebel]], we see a close-up of his feet, but it's only to establish that Vader is holding him up in the air; his legs are never kicking even when he dies (well, at least we don't see it). [[SickeningCrunch The bones in his neck being crushed]] sorta drove the point home.

** It's worth noting that Mal knows Kaylee is fine, he's just playing a cruel joke on Simon, who's partially responsible for her shooting and has been threatened with death should she fail to recover.
*** It's also partially a SecretTestOfCharacter, given the aforementioned threat. Simon avoided being spaced because of where he ran at that news: straight to the medbay.
** ''And'' averted it the other way around in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': [[spoiler:Wash is pretty clearly dead (alive people have less harpoon in their chests) but Zoe snaps and refuses to believe it momentarily]].
** Another averted example in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': Simon arrives as Mal is holding the dying [[spoiler:Book]], but slows down after seeing the expression on Mal's face, and then goes to check him. It's easy to miss as the camera focus is on Mal and Simon's just working in the background.

** Tracy caused a case of glassy stare and unmistakably grievous bodily injury.
*** [[spoiler:That one didn't take either.]]

** Well, they were little piles of white dust. You would have to stretch things a bit to get one of them to be [[OnlyMostlyDead alive]].

* Nobody ever checks for vitals in any of the ''[[Franchise/StargateVerse Stargate]]'' shows, unless a qualified medical specialist is available on-hand. This includes the QuickDraw between Sheppard and Kolya. No one bothers to make sure Kolya is really dead. They assume Sheppard is that good a shot.

* The ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' series uses and subverts this trope fairly liberally.
** ''[[Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay Miracle Day]]'' has some of the most disturbing and egregious variations on this trope, as:
*** Anybody designated Category 1 would have died before "the miracle" that has prevented people from dying when they ordinarily would have, so we have lots of people with grievous bodily injuries who ''aren't dead''
*** Captain Jack Harkness, who was, until "the miracle", temporally locked, has a flashback to his time in the 1920s during which he is repeatedly shot, stabbed, and beaten to death just to see him revive again.

* In one of the two Made for TV Movies featuring Ewoks[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/StarWarsEwokAdventures]] the one titled Ewok:The Battle For Endor had the Towani family (the human stranded on Endor in the first film, Caravan Of Courage) wearing life monitor bracelets. The bracelets have lights representing each family member, which goes out when they die. As the youngest child, the girl, Cindel sadly notices when raiders invade the Ewoks village where her mother and brother, Caterine and Mace, were. Her father, Jeremitt, escapes briefly and managed to carry her into the forest. He orders Cindel to run and was killed by the raiders as he stayed behind to distract them.
** One of the bracelets was a plot point in the first movie to indicate to Mace and Cindel that their missing parents were alive. They were featured more prominently in the second movie, especially the one that Cindel wore. Perhaps to indicates death without the mostly kids audience (Both movies were considered family movies, shown in prime time) actually seeing her family dying violently.

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'', after Zero accidentally killed Iris he realized she was dead after calling her name and trying to shake her back to consciousness. Sadly, the English version of this scene is {{Narm}} thanks to the bad acting.
** This scene was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf-JE2FKD-k redubbed]] by Zero's voiceactor from ''VideoGame/MegaManX8''. It loses its narm, but X8 Zero does a much better job with it.

** Another one that may or may not count is in the Lungfishopolis level. When Goga - I mean, Raz, as a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant monster rampaging across the city]] talks to one of the lungfish, they shout in pain and collapse. Another rushes in, looks at the lungfish on the ground, and immediately says:
--->'''Lungfish:''' He's dead.
--->'''Raz:''' Oh my god, I'm so sorry.
--->'''Lungfish:''' We are all prepared to die for the resistance, Goggalor.
** Humorously, Raz sees the dead lungfish briefly clutch at the air before going back to being dead.
*** And is about to point this out, but the other lungfish continues to talk. [[ReactionShot Raz's face]].

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' the auto responder knows that everyone's dead, and tells this to Jake in an attempt to make him kiss Dirk.
** There is also the DEAD UnsoundEffect.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', never having been shy about a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/StarTrek'', uses this trope often. The two most common characters to say it are Fry and Zoidberg -- except Fry is TheDitz, and Zoidberg is a doctor but [[ComicallyIneptHealing not a very good one]], so neither of them are right most of the time. Fry even has a bit of a RunningGag where he would announce, "He's dead," whenever the cast came across a body, much in the spirit of this trope.

*** Actually, Prowl and Ratchet's nearly-monochrome appearance makes it hard to tell, although we do see Prowl's red head-crest fade to black as his head rears back. Ironhide is still clinging to life as the camera cuts away, just before Megatron delivers the deathblow, so he wouldn't be faded. As for Brawn, Wheeljack, and Windcharger, who are all shown still in full color, however... it's not helped through a possible animation error in "Call of the Primitives" that shows Windcharger, a definite animation error in "Carnage in C Minor" that shows Brawn alongside a miscolored Huffer and an unidentified Constructicon, and the Japanese-only sequels that show Wheeljack alive and well. (Further mucked up in that Prowl is also seen in ''The Headmasters'', despite being name-checked among the dead in "Dark Awakening"!)

* In ''Film/CarryOnBehind'', this is played for laughs when Fred and Ernie are somewhat drunk, and investigate Roland Crump lying unconscious in his caravan bed, supposedly with a bleeding head.
--> '''Fred:''' Have you got a mirror, Ern?\\
'''Ernie:''' Why, are we going out?\\
'''Fred:''' (Urgently) I want a mirror!\\
(Ernie finds one on the inside of the wardrobe door. He breaks the door off, and Fred puts the whole door over Roland's face)\\
'''Ernie:''' Is he dead?\\
'''Fred:''' [[SuddenlyShouting 'COURSE HE'S DEAD!!!!!]]\\
'''Ernie:''' What did you want the mirror for?\\
'''Fred:''' I want a second opinion. Is the glass misted over?\\
'''Ernie:''' (Checking) No.\\
'''Fred:''' He's dead. (Drops the door on to Roland's head, waking him)\\
'''Roland:''' No I'm not! I'm not! Am I?\\
'''Fred:''' He must have been holding his breath.
* In ''Film/CarryOnUpTheKhyber'' a soldier appears to be dead so they pull a sheet over his face. He then sits up and goes: "That's right, suffocate me!" then dies for real.

--> '''Fred:''' Have you got a mirror, Ern?
--> '''Ernie:''' Why, are we going out?
--> '''Fred:''' (Urgently) I want a mirror!
--> (Ernie finds one on the inside of the wardrobe door. He breaks the door off, and Fred puts the whole door over Roland's face)
--> '''Ernie:''' Is he dead?
--> '''Fred:''' [[SuddenlyShouting 'COURSE HE'S DEAD!!!!!]]
--> '''Ernie:''' What did you want the mirror for?
--> '''Fred:''' I want a second opinion. Is the glass misted over?
--> '''Ernie:''' (Checking) No.
--> '''Fred:''' He's dead. (Drops the door on to Roland's head, waking him)
--> '''Roland:''' No I'm not! I'm not! Am I?
--> '''Fred:''' He must have been holding his breath.

* In ''Film/TheHobbit'', Bilbo's sword glows blue whenever there are orcs or goblins nearby. When Gollum drags away a wounded goblin and starts bashing its head in with a rock, the sword's glow becomes dimmer and eventually flickers out.

-->'''Spotted Horse:''' Spotted Horse...cannot...be killed... ''(staggers to his feet)'' ...by a bullet...
-->'''Cort:''' [[OhCrap Give me another bullet!]]

--> (The nobleman leaves his lands to the Church)
--> '''King:''' You will change your mind later, I know it.
--> (Nobleman groans and drops the quill)
--> '''Bishop:''' I think not.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Turn Left", The Doctor's arm hangs off the stretcher, the sonic screwdriver falling to the ground.
** In "The Big Bang", the Doctor meets a future version of himself, who plops down. The Doctor then declares him "dead", our group goes off, and the future Doctor then proceeds to (off camera) wake up and fix things when no one is looking.

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': After the US Army has little to no effect at bringing down the Decepticon Brawl, Bumblebee pelts him with shots from his own weapon, eventually scoring a direct hit on his spark, killing him and having his dead body collapse and crash through a wall next to where the soldiers were taking cover. One of the lines that follow from the soldiers: "OK, the tank is definitely dead ''now''."

* "Series/The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin" Reggie steals a truckload of loganberry esence and sends a note to CJ saying "Blood Will Flow"; he then dumps the essence in CJ's favourite trout stream where CJ is hosting a fishing party of Sunshine Desserts executives; thinking the water has turned to blood, CJ collapses and falls into the river, unconscious; Doc Morrissey pulls him out, and says "My God, he's dead!" At which point CJ opens his eyes and replies, "You're fired!"

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic! The Second Raid'' uses the arm-drop with Yu Lan, one of the CreepyTwins.

* Whether the character doing the checking is [[FunnyAnimal even]] [[BizarreAlienBiology human]].