Basic Trope: Insulting the deceased.
- Straight: Rob has died. This doesn't stop Heather from saying nasty things about him.
- Exaggerated:
- After Rob's death, Heather shows up at his funeral specifically to taunt and torment his friends and family with slanderous lies and uncomfortable truths. Heather takes particular delight in making his little sister Becky absolutely miserable, claiming that it was all Becky's fault her big brother died.
- Several people at Rob's funeral have unkind things to say about him, possibly even his close relatives.
- Downplayed: Heather for the most part bore no hostility towards Rob, but during his funeral she does gripe about never being repaid some money she loaned him.
- Justified:
- Heather is a Jerkass sociopath who hated Rob's guts and as such, she has no sympathy for him.
- Rob actually did seriously wrong Heather, or someone else, in the past and she isn't willing to let it slide simply because he's no longer around to defend himself.
- Heather is brutally honest.
- Heather is from a culture that doesn't consider it to be a bad thing to speak ill of the dead.
- Heather killed Rob.
- Rob requested to be remembered Warts and All.
- Inverted:
- Rob's ghost shows up to level accusations at Heather.
- Rob writes various insults for people to read after he dies.
- Heather insults pregnant woman's fetus's, who haven't lived to do anything.
- Subverted:
- Heather shows up at the funeral, setting those who know her on guard... but she's honestly there just to mourn his death.
- While Heather has a bad opinion of Rob, she decides his funeral isn't the time and place to insult him.
- Double Subverted:
- ...However, the suspicious reaction she receives goads her into starting to rant about how he wasn't "such a great guy" and listing his flaws.
- ...especially since she knows that she'll have plenty of time to speak her mind once people have moved on from his death.
- Parodied: Heather goes up to Rob's coffin and rants at his corpse. His corpse, not having any of this, Hyperspace Mallets her.
- Zig Zagged: After Rob's death, Heather has nothing particularly malicious to say about him, but when it comes to light that he's done some terrible things that shock even her, she spits in his grave, but admits that she didn't even dislike him that much, though "We still need to punish you somehow."
- Averted:
- Knowing that she would inevitably cause a scene, Heather doesn't attend Rob's funeral.
- Heather never speaks ill of Rob when he's dead even though she hated him.
- Enforced:
- The producers know someone needs to call out Rob for the problems he's caused in the past, but now that he's dead, only Heather is uncouth enough to do it.
- The creators want to have Heather do something cruel to prove she's not a good person, so they have her say bad things about Rob with no regards to how his surviving relatives and friends would feel.
- Lampshaded: "What's he gonna do? He's dead, and good riddance."
- Invoked:
- Heather's friend Meg brings up Rob's recent death and comments about how everyone's talking about what a great guy he was now, subtly goading her into reacting.
- Self-invoked: see Justified #6.
- Exploited: Meg deliberately baits Heather into talking shit about Rob in order to turn others against her and make them see Heather as nothing more than a petty Jerkass.
- Defied:
- Heather is not allowed to his funeral because she's probably going to make a scene.
- After drinking a Truth Serum, Heather is asked about Rob and how awesome of a guy he was. So she decides to say nothing instead, reasoning that "If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all."
- Jason keeps interrupting Heather, every time she's about to insult Rob (or at the very least, every time he thinks she's about to insult him).
- Rob makes Heather sign a contract that reads "You're not allowed to make fun of me while I'm dead."
- Discussed: Charlie and Eve notice Heather come in. "I bet she's going to go up and rant about him in front of everyone."
- Conversed: "Why does Heather have to kvetch about Rob in front of his bereaved relatives? If I were Rob's family, I'd have already had Heather thrown out of the funeral."
- Implied: Rob has died off-screen and his bereaved loved ones bring up that Heather wasn't very respectful during the funeral.
- Deconstructed: Heather has a complex emotional history with Rob, and with his death, feels as though it will never be resolved to her satisfaction. Due to this, she can't bring herself to stay silent and listen to everyone whitewash his flaws, and she lashes out with such venom that people are disgusted with her 'overreacting' and being needlessly dramatic to draw attention to herself.
- Reconstructed: Rob had been a flawed (or outright terrible) person not just to Heather, but to everyone. By breaking the social code to draw attention to his flaws, Heather points out the Elephant in the Room and people realize she's right.
- Played For Laughs:
- Heather shows up at the funeral to poke fun, but every time she opens her mouth, she receives an Offhand Backhand.
- At Rob's request, Heather makes fun of him at his funeral in order to lighten the mood.
- Rob's funeral is a big roast with everyone cracking jokes (that range from So Unfunny, It's Funny to intentionally funny) at his expense.
- Played For Drama:
- Losing her beloved brother has pushed Becky to the brink of the Despair Event Horizon. As she struggles to wrap her mind around the fact he won't be there for her anymore, Heather shows up to rub salt into the wound.
- Rob was a genuinely horrible person, and Heather is the only one to bring it up, with everyone sweeping his actions under the rug.
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