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Sometimes, the end of the road is only the beginning. Well, it is if the cast or a character is Dead to Begin With. This trope covers stories set partially or wholly in the afterlife, a genre sometimes known as "Bangsian fantasy", since it was a popular premise for writer John Kendrick Bangs. Whether the characters are hanging in Fluffy Cloud Heaven, struggling to survive against hideous demons in a Fire and Brimstone Hell, ghosts stuck in the mortal world, mortals who are Trapped in Another World before their time, or whatever, they're here to answer the question "Now that we're dead, what do we do for an encore?" Unless, of course, they have another question: "Whodunnit to Me?, and how can I stop them from murdering anyone else?" If a part of the plot has the character in question travelling to whatever awaits beyond death, then they're on The Journey Through Death. Expect The Grim Reaper, either as a guest star or as one of the main characters. Compare Dead All Along and First-Episode Resurrection. Characters who are Dead to Begin With may be susceptible to Ghost Amnesia. Also related to You Can't Kill What's Already Dead, for the self-explanatory reason. Not to be confused with Posthumous Character, which is a character who is dead when the story begins and is shown only in flashbacks. Or with You Are Already Dead. Also not to be confused with My Death Is Just the Beginning, where an established character's death brings about a whole new set of machinations. If these are real-life personalities, see Celebrities Hang Out in Heaven. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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Sherlock has an unusual variant. In "The Sign Of Three," John's old commander, Major Sholto, has been stabbed before the episode starts. It's not until he undoes the belt of his military uniform (which is stopping the wound from bleeding) that he will die. Then he doesn't. | |
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The Odyssey starts with the main character falling into a coma. Although he's not dead, he's completely disconnected from reality in a comatose dream world. | |
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Considering that it takes place in Puella Afterlife, this trope applies to Resonance Days without question. | |
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Ubik by Philip K. Dick is all about this. | |
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The first story and starting point of The Unforgiving Flowers Blossom in the Dead of Night has the weak-willed Marie Moriya bullied by her classmates and raped by her homeroom teacher on a daily basis. After meeting a y�kai (the titular Higanbana), she tries to rebel against her teacher; it fails. Horribly. She is strangled to death and reduced to a pitiful sobbing ghost. However, when meeting again with her murderer and receiving a harsh lecture from him, she finally manages to kill him and become the y�kai Mesomeso. | |
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In The World Ends with You you start off dead, and are playing "The Reaper's Game" to come back to life. Initially, the constant discussion about the Reapers and Noise 'erasing' people make this look like a case of Never Say "Die", making it that much more shocking; it turns out that erasure in the Reaper's Game is a case of Deader than Dead. | |
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All the Prinny characters in the Disgaea series. Prinnies are human souls that did something bad in their previous life and must work in the Netherworld to pay off their sins. Most notable example is Fuka in Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten, who kept her human body. She has no idea that she is really dead even while other characters keep telling it to her over and over again. She thinks her appearance in the Netherworld is All Just a Dream. | |
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Sleepy Hollow (1999) is a co-candidate for Trope Namer, along with A Christmas Carol, although neither of them is an example of this trope. | |
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In Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, the heroes spend most of the film as ghosts trying to stop evil robotic duplicates of themselves from messing up the timeline. Along the way, the duo travels to Heaven and Hell, and infamously play for their lives against Death in not just chess, but (when he turns out to be kind of a sore loser who demands rematch after rematch) also Twister, Battleship, and other games. | |
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Bleach, especially the Soul Society arc. The main character and most of his (initial) friends aren't dead, though. | |
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Ubersoldier begins with your character (a Nazi soldier) getting killed by a partisan ambush in the opening FMV, before Nazi scientists recovers your corpse for the Ubersoldier project, an experiment to convert deceased troops into Super Soldiers. You're recovered by Allied forces before the conversion could be completed, leading to you helping the Allies for the remainder of the game. | |
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The film (as the book) The Lovely Bones starts with the murder of the main character and mostly follows her watching her family from heaven. | |
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Wristcutters: A Love Story takes place in a special purgatory for suicides. | |
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Death Parade is about how dead people are judged as either fit for reincarnation or the void, by playing games in a bar called Quindecim. The audience knows they're dead from the beginning, but the characters don't, and the mystery revolves around learning about lives they left behind. The arbiters themselves are technically immortal, although they're made from the souls of those cast into the void, except for the dark-haired woman, an actual human woman temporarily serving as an assistant to an arbiter to test the system. | |
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Night of the Necromancer: The player's character is assassinated in the backstory, but is granted a second chance by the Watcher of the Gate to return as a revenant and investigate the circumstances of his demise. | |
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In Dark Souls, the player character died some time before the start of the game, but because they are marked with the Darksign, they come back to life every time they are killed. | |
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Alois Hingerl in Der Münchner im Himmel. He dies on duty at Munich's main station at the beginning of the Short Story which is largely about his hijinx as the beer-deprived Bavarian angel Aloisius. | |
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The Haunted Hathaways: The shows premise is about a single mother and her daughters living in a home already habited by the ghosts of a single father and his boys. | |
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The protagonist of Revenant. | |
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The main plot of The Night's Dawn Trilogy kicks off when dead peopple start possessing the living, with a few of them becoming relatively prominent characters. | |
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The 2003 Japanese film Sky High (not to be confused with the Disney film of the same name) was a prequel to the Sukai hai TV series. | |
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Niven and Pournelle's Inferno (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle) is all set after the protagonist's death. | |
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Haunter: Lisa and her family are spirits who are stuck in some Purgatory-like state because the evil spirit who killed them won't let them leave the house. | |
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Star Trek: Discovery: When Gray Tal is introduced, he's already dead, killed in a flashback by a meteorite collision. His Trill symbiont is implanted in his human partner Adira, who then begins to experience him in a way that suggests his consciousness is somehow still alive (which is not how it usually goes for joined Trill). This is ultimately confirmed and his consciousness is transferred into a cyborg body, effectively resurrecting him. | |
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A Matter of Life and Death (released in the States as Stairway to Heaven), where David Niven plays a World War II pilot who strikes up a romance with a female radio operator after a near-death experience, which becomes complicated when he is approached by an agent of Heaven who informs him he was supposed to have died. | |
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Kid Eternity, one time Teen Titans member drowned and died before his time after the boat his kidnapper stowed him on sunk and he was raised from the dead with the power to summon historical and fictional figures. | |
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In Rule of Rose the entire cast, including your beloved Canine Companion are Dead to Begin With, and the purpose of the entire plot is for the protagonist Jennifer to come in terms with it. | |
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Corpse Bride has the titular character Emily. Before the events of the film, she was murdered on the night that she and the man she fell in love with were to elope together. | |
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Fujiwara no Sai, one of the leads and the plot instigator of Hikaru no Go, has been dead for approximately a thousand years. He's only been really conscious for like twenty of them, though. He needs a host consciousness. | |
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Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit offered the infamous hypothesis that "Hell is other people". Turns out it's actually more of a tacky hotel. | |
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The one constant in all the craziness of Twelve Hundred Ghosts is that Jacob Marley was dead to begin with. | |
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In The Dresden Files book Ghost Story, the main character Harry has to solve his own murder as a ghost, after being shot by an unknown gunman at the end of the previous book. Subverted at the end, when he's revealed to be An Astral Projection, Not a Ghost, and returns to life instead of moving on. Also, it turns out that he ordered his own death, but used magic to make himself forget. It Makes Sense in Context. | |
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This is part of the recruitment process for the titular Death Vigil, a group of undead knights protecting the world from Eldritch Abominations. | |
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Variant in Discworld: The Nac mac Feegle believe that this world is their Valhalla, thus explaining their riotous behaviour as they've already got to paradisenote They still feel bad about Feegles who die, because it means they have to go back to the "World of the Living" for a while. In Reaper Man, Windle Poons' storyline concerns his posthumous experiences as a zombie. | |
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World of Warcraft, if you roll a Forsaken Undead and/or Death Knight. Your death occurs before you begin playing. If you play a Forsaken Death Knight, you died 2 times. Once as a human, then as a Forsaken. | |
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The musical Ride the Cyclone begins with the teenage members of the St. Cassian High School chamber choir dying in a tragic roller coaster accident. The dead teens arrive in a sort of limbo controlled by the mechanical Fortune Teller from the Crappy Carnival where they died, who offers one of their number the chance to return to the land of the living. | |
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Brimstone involves a deceased cop making a Deal with the Devil to catch 113 souls that had escaped from hell. | |
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The Adventure Time: Distant Lands special "Together Again" begins with the reveal that Finn and Jake are both dead, Finn having died recently and Jake having died sometime after the original Series Finale, and focuses on them reuniting in the afterlife and having one last adventure before reincarnating as new people. | |
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Homestuck: During the intermission featuring the Midnight Crew versus The Felt, the Felt members Crowbar, Matchsticks, and Quarters have already been killed by the Midnight Crew. Due to the various time and space manipulating powers of the Felt, however, Crowbar still winds up fighting Spades. Jade's Grandpa and Aradia were both killed before the story began. However, due to Weird Time Shit and ghost-hood, Grandpa was able to save John from some monsters and pick up his granddaughter's dead body, while Aradia becomes one of the most important characters in the troll's session and later comes back to life and ascends to godhood. Jake's dream-self was similarly killed before the start of Act 6. All of the pre-scratch trolls are ghosts by the time we meet them. |
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The Wish List by Eoin Colfer is about a girl who is exactly 50% good and 50% evil, so she's sent back to Earth when she dies and has to do good deeds in order to try to get into heaven (mostly by helping the old man she was robbing when she died complete the titular wish list). | |
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Child of Light opens with Aurora's illness and death, then awakening in Lemuria, described in poetic form: | |
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A Fine and Private Place is set in a cemetery, and the characters include several ghosts of the recently-interred. In what becomes a major plot thread, two people who never knew each other in life meet and fall in love after being buried next to each other. | |
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The first line of Grave of the Fireflies, spoken by protagonist Seita, is "September 21st, 1945. That was the night I died." We learn that his younger sister is dead too before the opening credits roll. | |
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In Exalted, the Underworld is a place anyone can visit, though the majority of the natives are ghosts. Campaigns set in the Underworld are an explicit option. | |
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And then there's the Geist: The Sin-Eaters, where the characters die, then get better. | |
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Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance have your quest for the gods officially beginning after your assassination in the hands of Arruntius. Where you then arrive at the Elysian Fields and is granted a second chance to return. | |
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Ash in Phantom Brave. All of the other Player Mooks are dead to begin with too, since Marona's ability is to see and recruit ghosts to her side. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition had a setting book called Ghostwalk about a world with a very different relationship to the afterlife than a normal D&D world, such that you could continue play as a ghost after you died or even start as a ghost. | |
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Old Harry's Game: As the series is mostly set in Hell, all of the major human characters are already dead by the time of their introduction. | |
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Plus, all those vampire characters are also somewhat slightly dead too. | |
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The main character of The Secrets of the Afterlife is a coming back from the Dead. She's walking and talking like anyone but nothing in her is "alive". | |
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Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin — Liz is hit by a car at the beginning. She wakes up on a boat not knowing where she is. She is going to Elsewhere (a.k.a. Heaven), where you age backwards until you are a baby and then you are reincarnated. | |
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Grim Fandango takes place in an afterlife based on the DÃa de los Muertos, Aztec Mythology, and Film Noir. Oddly, it works. | |
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Tim Burton's Beetlejuice opens with the death of the two main characters, and revolves around their attempts to haunt their own house and navigate the afterlife's bureaucracy. | |
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Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol starts just after Marley dies, quoting the original story's description verbatim. | |
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''Bloodlist'' starts with the protagonist, Jack, waking up on a beach with no memory of the past few days, having just been murdered, with marks from extensive torture rapidly fading away as his newly-vampiric healing kicks in. He spends the rest of the book solving his own murder. | |
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Everlost by Neal Shustermann — Nick and Allie die when their respective cars collide. They become Afterlights, which is when the souls of children (ages 5-15) don't get to where they were going, because they lack the sense of direction needed. Afterlights roam the earth until the end of time, but they can be sucked into the center on the earth when they stand on living ground. | |
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Slightly Damned's Rhea Snaketail suffers from this; she gets better. Kind of. She doesn't seem particularly upset by this for very long though. "Whatever. I'm getting used to dying". When she died, her marginally negative karma got her sent to the boring-but-harmless Ring of the Slightly Damned, which is where she met her ally Buwaro. | |
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In Valkyrie Profile 1 and 2, most of the cast become playable once they've died, as their doomed plots led their souls getting rescued by the titular valkyries and becoming the their einherjar. | |
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Elisabeth starts in the underworld as Luigi Lucheni is being tried for the murder of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. This process has been going on for ages. Lucheni complains that he is long dead and has tired of the proceedings, then calls upon other long-dead witnesses to talk about Elisabeth, as well as Death himself. The story then begins with Elisabeth as a preteen girl, though it is unclear whether this is a narrative convention to walk the audience through Lucheni's testimony, or it is actually the dead's past selves recreating the plot in the afterlife for the judge and audience to review. | |
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Earth X features dead characters from the Marvel Universe fighting each other in the "Realm of the Dead". They're unaware of their deaths and believe those who are actually still alive are the dead ones. Little is done with this in the original, but Universe X is about the war to kill the personification of Death so that the deceased can build a heaven, while Paradise X is about the problems inherent in that heaven (and the search for the suffering living to find a new way to die). Yes, these are very odd books. | |
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Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Two siblings, Milton and Marlo, die and are sent to the afterlife. Turns out that people too young for the real H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks are sent to a junior (but no less torturous) version called Heck. There they stay for eternity or until they turn eighteen, whichever comes first. | |
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The protagonist of Linebarrels of Iron who mysteriously awoke covered in blood halfway through the episode after a giant mecha landed on him is told that he's already dead at the end of the first episode. | |
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What Dreams May Come, based on the novel, where Robin Williams plays a dead man who literally travels to Hell and back to save the soul of his wife after she commits suicide. | |
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Brutal Orchestra: The game starts with Nowak falling into Purgatory, and meeting other denizens there who have also died. This trope later ends up being subverted, as it's revealed to at least be partially Nowak's Dying Dream as he succombs to his injuries from falling. | |
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Of Breakable Things begins with the main character Alex's death. The book is then about the afterlife. | |
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In Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Kain is murdered in the first playable scene, and spends the rest of the series as a vampire. In Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Raziel had been killed, brought back as a vampire, and then killed again before the game itself actually begins. | |
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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: the title character dies early in the book, then awakes in the Hotel Valhalla amidst other long-dead folk. They still interact with the mortal world pretty regularly, though. | |
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Monkeybone is the tale of Stu, a cartoonist stuck in a world between life and death known as "Downtown", who has to stop his manic creation, the titular Monkeybone, from escaping to the mortal world as part of a plot to give the people of Earth chronic nightmares. | |
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Sissel from Ghost Trick. And Ray, who we first meet as a ghost possessing a lamp. And Yomiel. | |
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As was the case with Annie, from the British version of the show. In various episodes, Annie also would meet people who were already dead. Usually these people were introduced to teach Annie some skill regarding her ghost state. One episode also had a zombie girl, who was dead but still stuck in a rotting body. | |
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Being Human (US): Sally starts off dead and confused about how she died. As the story progresses, she eventually finds out how she died, as well as a few perks of being a ghost. As was the case with Annie, from the British version of the show. In various episodes, Annie also would meet people who were already dead. Usually these people were introduced to teach Annie some skill regarding her ghost state. One episode also had a zombie girl, who was dead but still stuck in a rotting body. |
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The Lexx crew were the first living people ever to stumble across the human afterlife — a twin planet system tucked away in the bleakest part of a sparsely populated universe — and spent a whole season trapped in its orbit. | |
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Painkiller. You die in a car accident and then hunt demons in purgatory and hell. With shotguns and stuff. And a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning. | |
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All human characters except the narrator in The Great Divorce, seeing as it's a dream he has about what the Christian afterlife is like. | |
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Akuji the Heartless starts with the titular Warrior Monk hero being killed on his wedding night, only to strike a deal with Baron Samedi after arriving in the underworld, that by collecting souls for Samedi he can then be given a second chance to return to the land of living. | |
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In The 7th Guest, you start off knowing that everyone in the game has died, and you have to piece together the clues to find out what happened and why. This is more complicated than it sounds, since you are the titular seventh guest, you are also dead, and only by completing the game can you save yourself from damnation, because your soul was sold. | |
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In Topper, a married couple killed in a car wreck realize that they need to do a good deed to get into heaven. Comic hilarity ensues. | |
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The Good Place is about the afterlife, so naturally, the show begins with the main character dying, and meeting other Good Place inhabitants who have also died. | |
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Knights in the Nightmare: With the exception of the protagonist, death is a requirement to be recruited; it would be easier to list cast members who aren't dead when you meet them. | |
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Dead Like Me never goes into the afterlife per se, but all the main characters are Grim Reapers... sort of. They collect the souls of the dead and send them to whatever it is that's after life. In the meantime, they have to work for a living, so to speak, like normal people and attend to their reaper duties before they can die for real. | |
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The player character in Avenging Spirit gets shot to death in the opening cutscene. Fortunately, his ghost can Body Surf. | |
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Much of the cast of Haibane Renmei are suspected to be dead upon entering the town of Glie, in a form of purgatory. | |
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The Nameless One of Planescape: Torment is dead to begin with. Several times over. The exact timeline is very difficult to say, but the clues in the game implies that he's been dying repeatedly for up to a few thousand years (it suggests that he knew Lum the Mad) by the point in time that the game begins. | |
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Jack has this as the central premise. All the recurring characters are dead, and the comic takes place mostly in hell. | |
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All the Ghosts in Guardian Ghost, although the living half of the main cast got revived from their own deaths, so they could count for this too | |
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The entirety of Hell(p) takes place in Hell, so every human character is dead from the start. Made quite obvious due to people retaining any physical injury that killed them forever. Whether demons are alive or not is unclear. | |
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The main characters of The Brothers Lionheart die about 10 minutes in. Turns out that the afterlife (Nangijala) is very much like life, to the point of having their own after-afterlife (Nangilima). The story ends there, or they might end up in the after-after-afterlife. | |
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In A Christmas Carol, we must remember that Jacob Marley was "dead to begin with". The narrator stresses the importance of the reader remembering this, because the story won't seem as special if the reader forgets. | |
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Maken-ki!: Takeru and the Tenbi student council spend the entirety of the Venus Arc (chapters 14-24) and the Okino Island saga (33-60) trying to protect Himegami from Ouken Yamato, because they believe Ouken intends to kill her. But in chapter 49, Ouken tells Takeru they've wasted their time since Himegami's been dead for over 2,000 years. The girl they were trying to protect is an apparition made from what's left of the real Himegami's element. | |
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The Revenant mod for Neverwinter Nights and the Dark Avenger mod for Neverwinter Nights 2 both revolve around the deceased player character trying to work out the circumstances surrounding his/her death. | |
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Nick in R.I.P.D., actually the entire Rest In Peace Department, and the things they're trying to protect the living from. | |
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DDG starts with Zip's arrival in the afterlife as a gameshow contestant. Genderbending hilarity ensued. | |
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Trapped with Jester: It isn't until Jester grants the protagonist's memories back that they remember being betrayed and killed by their family, now a body being sent away in a carriage. It is Jester's presence that brings them back to life. | |
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The Crow movies always involve the main character coming back from the dead to avenge their own death and that of the people they love. | |
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White Wolf visited this trope a few times: in Wraith: The Oblivion, the characters were ghosts, stuck in the Underworld until they Transcended or fell to Oblivion. In Orpheus, the PCs were members of the Orpheus Group, a corporation that discovered ghosts were real, and that living people could project themselves into their world - and being a corporation, naturally tried to make a profit out of it. It... didn't work out. And then there's the Geist: The Sin-Eaters, where the characters die, then get better. In Exalted, the Underworld is a place anyone can visit, though the majority of the natives are ghosts. Campaigns set in the Underworld are an explicit option. Plus, all those vampire characters are also somewhat slightly dead too. |
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven starts when the protagonist, Eddie, dies by trying to save a little girl from being crushed by a broken fair-ground ride and getting crushed himself in the process. The book then follows him meeting five people in heaven who's lives were all connected to his in some way, whether he knew it or not. It isn't until the end of the novel we find out he did save that girl's life, and that he'll be one of the five people she meets when she dies. | |
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Quite a few characters of The Brief History of the Dead, living in The City. | |
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Demon Candy: Parallel can be considered this since it takes place in Hell, but Johnathan isn't dead, but would have been if he wasn't turned into an incubus. | |
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All the characters in the first Digital Devil Saga except Sera and Angel are artificial intelligences who are partially composed of the data (or souls) of people who died in the real world. Some characters gradually remember their past lives and sometimes even the circumstances of their deaths. They're almost invariably unpleasant. | |
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Menma in Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, whose ghost now lives with the boy who loved her and needs to fulfill some Ghostly Goals that she cannot remember before she can actually pass on. | |
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Simon from Cry of Fear: the Hole's first ending. He committed suicide, and the dark, monster infested mine tunnels that he is now lost in is his own personal hell. | |
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Unsounded: Duane died after succumbing to his wounds in a vain attempt to defend his daughter from Crescian assassins. Six years later, he's one of the protagonists of the story, albeit an interesting subversion of a typical zombie or a typical lich. | |
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Cult of the Lamb begins with the titular Lamb being sentenced to death by the Bishops of the Old Faith, before being subsequently revived by The One Who Waits. | |
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The Zombie Knight is a Web Serial Novel which starts this way. It opens with the protagonist meeting a grim reaper and realizing he has no body, not even a ghostly one. | |
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R, the main character of Warm Bodies wonders at the start of the movie why he doesn't eat better, why he doesn't stand straighter, and why he can't connect with the people around him. Then he remembers; it's because he's dead. | |
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A Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfic titled Being Dead Ain't Easy starts with Joey Wheeler dying at the hands of a psychopath, taking a bullet meant for Kaiba. However, as his spirit heads towards the light, he... trips over his shoelaces? Stuck in the mortal world, he makes it his mission to haunt Kaiba. Hilarity Ensues for the next thirty chapters. | |
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The Sixth Sense: The main character has been dead the entire time. | |
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LeChuck from the Monkey Island series died before the events of the first game, and returned as a ghost pirate... then as a zombie pirate... then as a demon pirate... then as a pirate god. | |
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The Orfeo ed Euridice opera starts with Orpheus mourning Eurydice, who's already died; some versions have the Overture depicting her happy dancing and subsequent death. | |
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In Mad Rat Dead, the player character is a lab rat who just got vivisected and killed. | |
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In A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong Jacob Marley is supposed to be this, but he's clearly alive. He ends up buried alive. | |
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In the first level of Geist, your character is parted from his body and spends almost the remainder of the game as a body-snatching ghost. But his actual body isn't dead yet, so he can find a way to get it back. He doesn't learn that for a while, though. | |
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Limbo heavily implies, but never outright states this. You had to end up in Limbo somehow, right? | |
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Gantz: An alien sphere kidnaps the souls of people who have just died, gives them new cloned bodies, outfits them with futuristic battle suits and high-tech weaponry, and forces them to battle monsters and aliens that secretly live among humans. If the hunters are killed by their prey (which happens frequently), they stay dead unless other players pay the Gantz sphere to "resurrect" them by making new clones - again. | |
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The titular character in Nanana's Buried Treasure is a ghost of a killed girl. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, the bad guys remove Zelda's soul from her body; most people can't see her soul and her body is lifeless. The plan is to then house a monster's spirit in her body and thus control Hyrule. | |
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A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin begins with the protagonist waking up two years after his death. | |
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Blood West have you playing as a slain desperado in the Wild West, who's revived by Native American spirits in the opening stages to stop an impending evil. The spirits who revives you also retains your skills in kicking ass, which is appropriate because the West after dark is infested with all kinds of monsters. | |
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Shadow of Destiny begins with the murder of the protagonist. He is resurrected and sent back in time, only to die many, many more times before he can discover who is trying to kill him and why. | |
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In Undead Friend, half of the cast are already ghosts who live alongside humans; only some people can see them. | |
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In Turgor, the player starts off as a lingering spirit stuck in The Void and spends the whole game trying to avoid absolute death. | |
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In the first episode of Shakugan no Shana, Yuuji finds out that he's a Torch; a temporary replacement for the real Yuuji, who has been killed and consumed by a Rinne. Under normal circumstances, he would be erased from existence entirely once his flame burned out. However, he happened to carry a Treasure Tool within him called the 'Reiji Maigo'note translated to the 'Midnight Lost Child', which replenishes his Power of Existence at every midnight, meaning that, even if his real self is dead, his Torch still carries on. | |
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Esther from Mr. Hopp's Playhouse: She already dead sometimes before the event of the first game, but her soul revealed to be imprisoned in the underworld after passing away, giving her an appearance of her younger self. After being freed by Ruby who's so happen to be dragged into it in the third game, it's up to Esther to guide her to safety and get her out from the underworld. | |
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The Forest Quartet sees you playing as the ghost of a singer named Nina, who must unite your grieving former bandmates for one last concert. | |
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Angel Beats! is set in the afterlife. A group of teenagers who died in shady or tragic circumstances now need to "fight" against an Absurdly Powerful Student Council and its President to rebel against God... | |
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Bit from Hacknet died two weeks before the game begins. The reason for his untimely demise is not revealed until shortly before the game's end. | |
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Thistil Mistil Kistil starts off with Coal entering the afterlife and, since he died in battle, he doesn't seem unhappy about it. | |
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The Buffyverse tends to combine this with Death Is a Slap on the Wrist, due to the sheer number of characters whose deaths did not prevent them from continuing on. Spike (among others) hangs a lampshade on this one. | |
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The Lovely Bones starts with the murder of the main character, and the book mostly follows her watching her family from heaven. | |
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YuYu Hakusho starts with a boy. The boy's name is Yusuke. He's 14 years old, and is supposed to be the hero of the story, but oddly enough, he's dead. However he's not supposed to be, as he caught the universe by surprise with an unexpected Heroic Sacrifice. So he's being allowed to earn his way back to life. | |
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Subverted in NEO: The World Ends with You, where the three main characters never died in the first place, instead being directly transported to the Reaper's Game via special pins that detect people with latent Psychic Powers. | |
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