Basic Trope: A montage lets you know a character has been Killed Off for Real.
- Straight: Alice dies and then a Happy Flashback montage plays to sad music. She has been killed off and won't come back.
- Exaggerated: Before, after, and during Alice's death, sad music and a flashback montage plays.
- Downplayed: Montages are common in this show, even when a character Disney-Dies, but this montage shows Alice is actually dead, because the sadness of the music is cranked up to eleven.
- Justified: The characters are reminiscing on the happy times they had with Alice.
- Inverted:
- Alice Disney Dies, and when she is resurrected, a montage of the times they spent grieving is played to happy music.
- Alice is born and a montage of her parents' thoughts plays.
- Subverted: Alice faints and a sad montage starts playing, but she wakes up and says "Hey! I ain't done with it yet!
- Double Subverted: But then she gets shot and dies, and the montage plays.
- Parodied: The montage plays when an inconsequential background character dies. The characters see the montage, somehow, and wonder who the hell was that person.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: No montages play when a character dies, no montages play at all, or Everybody Lives.
- Enforced: The writers want to show that Alice is actually dead because Death Is Cheap in this show.
- Lampshaded: "I'm having so many happy memories about sweet departed Alice, but I'm so sad."
- Invoked: Alice dies, and Bob tells Charles to hit the montage music.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: All the characters have resurrection abilities.
- Discussed: "Alice died! Darn... And This Is the Part Where... we start having memories."
- Conversed: "I hate these montages, as they mean there's no hope of them ever coming back!"
- Played for Drama: Alice's death scene is particularly tragic and the montage is to a very sad song.
This page is gonna get cut. How about a Really Dead Montage?
