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A catchall term for the often confused reactions characters may have after losing someone close to them — or perhaps even an enemy. Symptoms include frustrated speech, attempts to explain the sudden emptiness and feelings that nothing is right, and shock that one day a person can be there and the next they're gone. A person in this state tends to either rant or have trouble stringing two sentences together. Compare Antagonist in Mourning, when a villain finds themselves depressed and listless after the demise of their longtime arch-enemy. May overlap with Death Equals Redemption, if the person dying actually redeems them in the eyes of others, and Death Means Humanity if one of the reactions involves seeing the humanity in a deceased non-human being. As a Death Trope, this page will naturally contain spoilers! Examples |
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Genshin Impact: Bennett's character story has him once ponder about what "death" truly means or feels like. He got a bit fearful when he thought about it, but he then thought that if an "adventurer's death" is a good one, then it must be an adventurer's final fortune... and then he went on to think that "not that fortune has anything to do with him". With that, he just stopped thinking about death altogether and goes on to find his next treasure. | |
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Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan's near-omniscience causes him to become disinterested in human experiences like life and death. When he hears about the Comedian's death, he says "A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?" | |
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Apocalypse Now: "The horror... the horror..." | |
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The title characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead spend much of the play trying to understand the nature of death and how it's the only certainty of life. | |
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Tanz Der Vampire is the Trope Namer: this trope shares a (translated) title with a song Magda sings as she vents her unhappiness that a rowdy man who constantly harassed her can look peaceful and calm in death, and her mixed feelings of "good riddance" and suddenly missing him. | |
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In the Miraculous Ladybug fic The Legend of Royal Blue and La Sylphide, Gabriel is numb to the sudden death of M. Lévêque, his building's de facto handyman, who he only recently became friendly with. It's not until the memorial that Gabriel finally mourns. Not really for Lévêque, but because he waited until his last chance to talk to someone who lived downstairs. | |
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An early episode of Mad Men opens with the characters hearing about a plane crash. A few minutes later, Pete learns that his father was on the plane. What stuns him the most? "Everything's exactly the same." This is all complicated by the fact that he and several others had been making sick jokes. Also, he hated his father. | |
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Harry Potter's reaction to his godfather Sirius dying is a confused kind of anger that he can't even express properly. He has a similarly complicated reaction to Snape's murder. | |
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Sesame Street: One famous episode deals with the death of Will Lee, who'd played friendly shopkeeper Mr. Hooper on the show for years. The writers decided to have the character die too and create a plot about Big Bird, the Audience Surrogate for children watching, dealing with conflicting emotions about the situation. At first, Big Bird doesn't get it at all and thinks Mr. Hooper will be coming back, and the adults have to gently explain that he is gone for good. Big Bird then moves through confusion, worry, and panic as he tries to piece together what death means. He ultimately becomes angry because the situation simply isn't fair. When Big Bird demands that someone give him "one good reason" why Mr. Hooper had to die, Gordon can only reply "It has to be this way...because. Just...because." | |
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The Usual Suspects: "It's the strangest thing." Although it's possible that this was MacManus' reaction to finding out the Twist Ending. | |
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Robin (1993): Tim Drake notes that he's not sure what to feel after Karl Ranck was killed since Ranck seemed to have been trying to be friendlier but had been a grade A jerk whom Tim mostly considered an annoyance. He spends the funeral feeling out of place. | |
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The Dragons in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim are eternal, immortal beings, and even when they die, they can be resurrected easily by another. As a result, the concept of mortality is alien to them; so alien in fact, that the humans weaponize it against them with the Dragonrend Shout. Made of 'Mortal', 'Finite' and 'Temporary', the Shout is a Brown Note to dragons, disorienting and causing them to fall from the sky. | |
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Resident Evil 5 has Irving dying (although you could have seen that coming) with the line, "Dying ain't so bad, but it ain't gonna change nothin'; you're still screwed!" Touching. | |
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In Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars, when George questions a French Jerk road worker who saw the murder victim before he died, he has nothing but bad things to say about him; but after George tells him the man died, he feels bad for everything he said. Lampshaded by George's narration. | |
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In Big Hero 6, Baymax is a robot designed to provide medical care. For a while, he struggles to grasp that his creator, a young man in good physical health, has unexpectedly died in a fiery explosion. | |
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A mild version shows up in Howl's Moving Castle (the book, not the movie), where Sophie reacts to Mrs. Pentstemmon's murder by first being shocked that the passing was so sudden, and then realizing that "that's how it was, wasn't it? People are alive right up until they die." | |
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In Satou Kashi no Dangan wa Uchinukenai, this happens to Nagisa when she goes to Mokuzu's house and not only sees her Abusive Parent Masachika in there, but finds evidence that he kiled Mokuzu and dismembered her corpse. The poor kid is so horrified and shocked that they begin babbling about a quiz they heard of some time ago which dealt with a murderous mother. | |
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The Underland Chronicles: The "Everyone Dies" Ending leaves Gregor in a state of emotional distress about many characters, many of whom were absolute jerkasses toward him. Particularly in Gregor and the Code of Claw, when faced with the Prophecy of Time that foretells his own death. On a smaller scale, the True Companions have a very confused, not-quite-stunned reaction to the death of Tick in Gregor the Overlander. |
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In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Gunslinger", Joel tries to explain to Crow and Tom about being dead, and the two are just utterly confused about it, Crow expressing that it's like "throwing the baby out with the bathwater". | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: As Galadriel explains in the opening narration, before Morgoth, the elves of Valinor did not know anything about the concept of death since they were immortal beings. After the War of Wrath, a war that lasted centuries with the death of elves being proportional to its length, the elves came to know many words for death. | |
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This is a large part of the premise of Six Feet Under. | |
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In the Doctor Who episode "Dark Water", Clara Oswald suddenly loses her boyfriend Danny Pink after he's hit by a car while talking to her on the phone. After this, she is surprised at how "boring" his death was. | |
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Justified in an early episode of Il Était Une Fois...... l'Homme: the cast is in the Neanderthal times, so when one of them (Maestro) sleepily passes away, they cannot fully understand what's going on at first. Once they do, they bury him very respectfully, mirroring the start of human funeral rites. | |
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The Tachikoma in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, as robots whose memories are constantly backed up, are completely unable to comprehend death and are highly fascinated by what they consider the greatest philosophical mystery. Even when facing permanent dismantling or risking the destruction of their backup databases, they are unable to feel fear or sadness, and even seem to get a little giddy about the closest thing they can experience to death. | |
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In Inheritance Cycle, the main character Eragon is morbidly amused by death, expressing to Arya the elf that he wonders who or what it is that determines that they get to live while others are dead. | |
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Homestar Runner: Strong Bad's reaction to losing the Compy 386 in the Strong Bad Email "virus" is to babble incoherently and repeatedly Head Desk. | |
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In The Saga of Darren Shan, after Mr. Crepsley dies in book 9, Darren breaks down completely. It isn't the first time he's experienced the death of a friend — that was in book 2, when he was 12 and his new friend Sam was eaten by a monster right in front of him — but this is someone a lot more important to him, for much longer than that. Even after he cries about it and doesn't look completely empty-eyed, he still spends a whole 2 years hiding from his quest (and having offscreen "heated arguments" with his best friend about it) until he's forced back in. | |
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