Basic Trope: Someone is Back from the Dead with little to no explanation.
- Straight: Alice gets killed, but she is suddenly alive again a few scenes later. This is not commented on again.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice is constantly killed off and there is never any explanation for why she comes back.
- Alice is reduced to Ludicrous Gibs or is rendered Deader than Dead, but somehow returns just fine a few seconds later.
- Everyone dies, but suddenly they all return later for reasons left unexplained.
- Downplayed:
- There is an explanation for why Alice came back, but it's fairly minor.
- Alice is injured, ill, or under some form of brainwashing, but is seen just fine later on.
- The doctor's declare that Alice will most likely never walk again, a few days later she only requires a cane.
- Justified: Generally not applicable due to this trope having no explanation/justification by definition. However, in some cases, there is an implication that the person was resurrected/healed offscreen.
- Inverted: Alice dies, and there is no explanation as to how she died.
- Subverted:
- It wasn't Alice, but her identical twin Carol.
- Alice reveals she really did have a reason why she came back to life.
- Double Subverted:
- Alice then shows up, perfectly fine.
- The reason why Alice came back to life ends up being a Voodoo Shark.
- Parodied: Alice kills herself under crippling depression, but after coming back, she's all happy again.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice constantly gets killed off - sometimes there is an explanation as to why she returns, but sometimes there isn't.
- Averted:
- Nobody dies.
- Nobody comes back from the dead.
- Anyone who comes back from the dead has a proper justification.
- Enforced:
- The producers didn't want to kill off Alice for real, but there was a scene where she ended up dying anyway. They decided to bring her back from the dead, but couldn't figure out any reason as to why.
- It's just funnier to not give any reason for why Alice suddenly came back to life.
- Lampshaded:Bob: "Wait a minute, Alice, didn't you die earlier?"
Alice: "Yeah."
Bob: "How are you still alive?"
Alice: "I don't know." - Invoked: Bob is talking to Charlie after Alice's death, in mourning, and says "I wish Alice were still here" and just like that, she miraculously shows up, and the two lovingly embrace.
- Exploited: Alice is Genre Savvy and uses this to her advantage.
- Defied: Alice makes sure that the writers forget about her when she dies, because that would be better than to try to trust that they'd let you die for real.
- Discussed: "So, are we just gonna pretend we didn't see Alice die yesterday?"
- Conversed: "I love it when characters I love come back after dying, or seemingly dying."
- Implied: Alice is implied to have been a victim of a fatal accident that no one could ever survive, but she's still here.
- Deconstructed: This kind of recovery is admittedly beneficial, but not without people wondering who will come back and who will not, and not without this seemingly preferring people who want to die for real.
- Reconstructed: ...but at least they get to know if there is an afterlife.
- Played for Laughs: Alice says something like "I'm back, baby!" after recovering.
- Played for Drama: Alice's husband and children are all dead. Why is she the only one coming back?
- Played for Horror: Recovering people look fine at first, but a subversion reveals that they're back as collapsing zombies, but no one still knows how it happens.
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