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Talking to the Dead

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Talking to the Dead	comment	The mundane equivalent to Dead Person Conversation, a Sub-Trope of Surrogate Soliloquy. A character addresses a dead person, not expecting a response, not getting one — at least, not an unequivocal one. Can be spoken to the corpse, the coffin, the grave — or to thin air. (If the body is present, often Peaceful in Death is in play.) Ubiquitous in Japanese media; it is believed in Japan that unless the living keep the memories of their near and dear ones alive by talking to them, their spirits will disappear into oblivion. Thus a manga or anime character chatting about everyday things with a picture of their dead parents or sibling is not a sign of losing it. It is also the basis for the "communion of saints" — that's what it's called in the Catholic Creed, but many religions include the idea that the living are forever linked to friends and relatives in the hereafter through God's fellowship of love, and personal experiences of communication are part of that. Libation for the Dead may involve this. For some reason, I Gave My Word is actually particularly binding in this situation (generally for Best Served Cold). Does not, of course, preclude the dead person's not actually being dead but does require that the character believe the person to be dead. (Please Wake Up does not fall under this.) Symbolic or ambiguous apparent messages from the dead start to edge this into Dead Person Conversation. Compare Converse with the Unconscious. Motives may be similar. A Grief Song is often a musical version of this.
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Talking to the Dead / int_1077f3ae	comment	Triangle Strategy: At various points in the game, Sernoa visits the grave of his mother Lady Destra. Benedict also visits the grave regularly, and is responsible for leaving snowbell blossoms at the gravesite periodically. In the Freed Utility (Liberty) endgame, Serenoa and Frederica visit Symon's grave on the eve of a meeting with Aesfrost. They then hide nearby when Benedict unexpectedly arrives to tell the grave how much he regretted letting Symon and Regna use Serenoa's mother as a political pawn, and how he's planned to make up for it by turning Serenoa into a more powerful leader than either of them were.
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Talking to the Dead / int_125b1be6	comment	In Enter the Dragon, Lee visits the graves of his mother and sister, preemptively asking forgiveness for what he's about to do to avenge the latter's death.
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Talking to the Dead / int_1946aaf7	comment	Lampooned in the disaster movie parody The Big Bus with so many people talking in the graveyard the protagonist has to shout in order to be heard above the din.
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Talking to the Dead / int_1b386512	comment	Ranma Â½: Ranma Saotome has one of these moments with Akane TendÅ�, when he thinks she has died. However, after his declaration of love, it turns out she was only severely stunned, and able to hear everything even if she couldn't move.
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Talking to the Dead / int_1c7b6907	comment	Early in The Dragon Doctors, Kili writes a letter to her parents. Seeing as how she's a shaman, it's entirely possible that they did actually receive it.
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Talking to the Dead / int_1ca04465	comment	In Greater Tuna, several characters, including Aunt Pearl and Stanley Beaumiller, address the town's recently-deceased Hanging Judge, who was found dead of a stroke dressed in a bra and panties. Stanley complains to his corpse how hard it was to dress him in his wife's lingerie after killing him by injecting air into his veins.
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Talking to the Dead / int_1d7b02d7	comment	Total War: Warhammer II has the trailer for its Vampire Coast DLC open up with Luthor Harkon casually telling his life story to a dead Empire soldier while he digs up Lustrian artifacts. Whether it's his immense ego or slippery grasp on reality driving the conversation is anyone's guess.
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Talking to the Dead / int_200f0be8	comment	In the closing scene of Tommy Boy the titular character has a heart to heart with his dearly departed dad, whilst stuck on a lake in a sailboat.
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Talking to the Dead / int_21bf1f01	comment	When Tuco catches up with Blondie in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, he finds Blondie running the same bounty racket with another bandit. Blondie is forced to watch his new partner die, to which he mutters, "Sorry, Shorty."
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Talking to the Dead / int_21eccc35	comment	The Doctor Blake Mysteries: In "Hear the Angels Sing", Jean sits at the grave of her late husband Christopher and talks to him about her plans to marry Lucien, essentially asking his permission.
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Talking to the Dead / int_22147342	comment	Arrow In the second episode, Thea Queen tells Oliver how she would visit the gravestone put up after Oliver and their father were Lost at Sea to pour out her troubles, and laments how she felt closer to him then than to the emotionally-distant brother who returned to her. At the end of the episode Oliver does the same with his father's headstone, before ordering the workmen to remove his own. Emiko Queen is shown to talk to her father's headstone despite her hatred of him for refusing to acknowledge her.
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Talking to the Dead / int_22211d68	comment	Booth encourages Bones to talk to her mother's grave, though Bones is skeptical of its value.
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Talking to the Dead / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: At the end of "Redemptio," after he finds out who had killed his estranged sister, Maya, years earlier, Sheldon visits her grave and catches her up on all that's been going on in his life since they'd last spoken.
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Talking to the Dead / int_22cf7df9	comment	Mikey in The Goonies has a heart-to-ribcage chat with the skeletal remains of One-Eyed Willie.
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Talking to the Dead / int_22d74b2e	comment	Brian Jacques's Redwall: Matthias addresses a tapestry showing Martin the Warrior about his weakness. Heck, just about every Redwall book has one of the characters talking to the tapestry of Martin the Warrior. Given that many of them actually receive a response of some sort (especially if they're the main character of the book), this usually falls within the realm of Dead Person Conversation, but not always.
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Talking to the Dead / int_22d76c13	comment	Wonder Girl: Cassie visits Conner's grave and speaks to his headstone. Herc has the temerity to interrupt her there glamoured to look like Conner and pretend to speak for him, with rightly infuriates her.
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Talking to the Dead / int_25a2add7	comment	In Shenandoah, Charlie Anderson talks to the grave of his late wife Martha.
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Talking to the Dead / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	In Heroes Ted Sprague visits his wife's grave before he goes to Nuke Mr. Muggles. And the rest of the Bennetts.
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Talking to the Dead / int_2bd883dc	comment	And Yet the Town Moves: Seaside Maid Cafe owner Uki talks to her dead husband as though he was there... He's listening, though.
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Talking to the Dead / int_2d7b43c1	comment	The final scene of the Korean war drama, Taegukgi, has Jin-seok discovering that his older brother, Jin-tae, had actually died in battle fifty years ago in a Hold the Line moment fending off the North Korean army. Suffering a Heroic RRoD, the elderly Jin-seok then collapses beside his brother's skeleton and pleads for Jin-tae to speak to him. Bring tissues, you will need them.
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Talking to the Dead / int_302a4c	comment	LunarLux: The game starts with Bella talking to the memorial of fallen Lunex Warriors, which includes her mom.
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Talking to the Dead / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: After discovering and accepting the truth of his father's Heroic Sacrifice and defiance of his indelible curse, Neji smiles at the sky, having put his rage at same indelible curse behind him: Sasuke also starts talking to Itachi after he killed him. It's just another reminder of his Sanity Slippage. Kakashi often stands at the memorial stone and talks to his old friend Obito about everything in his life. Which is how Obito, who is still secretly alive, finds out about Naruto's secret birthplace. He then goes and sets off the events of the night when the Nine Tails attacked Konoha. All because he overheard Kakashi confiding vital information to his gravestone.
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Talking to the Dead / int_310607c9	comment	Wolf 359 does this in the third-season finale "Bolero", with several characters, preparing for a memorial service, having imaginary conversations with their fallen crewmates after the original crew teams up with Captain Lovelace to seize the ship from Colonel Kepler and his crew, leading to the deaths of Lovelace, Hilbert, and Maxwell. Of note is Hera, the ship's AI, having one of these with Doctor Maxwell demanding an explanation for her betrayal of Hera, an explanation that Maxwell sadly lampshades is something Hera can never get now that Maxwell is dead.
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Talking to the Dead / int_311de776	comment	Providence: The main character talks to her dead mother at least Once an Episode.
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Talking to the Dead / int_31e24f1e	comment	The Joker does this in The Killing Joke, when "purchasing" the amusement park. He kills the man he bought the place from, and keeps talking to him afterwards.
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Talking to the Dead / int_32318e9a	comment	When Roseanne's father dies, she has a private conversation with him in the funeral home before the burial, essentially reading a letter she wrote to him in which she finally lets go of her lingering anger over her abusive childhood. She concludes by saying, "I love you. Goodbye," then puts the folded letter into the coffin with him before leaving the room.
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Talking to the Dead / int_32c541e6	comment	Near the very end of Fullmetal Alchemist (and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood), Hoenheim makes his way back to Resembool and visits the grave of his late wife Trisha, Ed and Al's mother, to tell her all about the boys' recent adventures. He dies there. The manga includes an extra series of panels showing the parents reuniting in the afterlife. Much earlier in the story, following Hughes's funeral, Mustang stands at the grave and talks to him until Hawkeye joins him.
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Talking to the Dead / int_3729373e	comment	Towards the end of Detroit: Become Human, Markus will visit his former owner Carl's grave (if he died in a previous scene) to mourn him and plead for advice on how to confront the impending android genocide.
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Talking to the Dead / int_3b91d912	comment	Evangelion 303: In chapter 13 Asuka was talking to the grave of Jessika for hours to get her hurt off her chest, explaining everything what had happened after her death and why she was running away.
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Talking to the Dead / int_3c99ae9e	comment	At the end of Zero Context: Taking Out the Trash, the story's protagonist visits the grave of the escaped convict who tried to rape her and talks to it after coming to grips with recent events. She knew full well that she was never going to get a response but does it anyway, viewing it as a form of catharsis.
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Talking to the Dead / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: One episode has Carla (uncomfortably) speaking to her mother's grave while she and Turk were having marital problems. Turk also has to ask Carla's dead mother for forgiveness: "I asked her if she was still mad at me and the sprinklers came on."
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Talking to the Dead / int_3ef1def5	comment	The Death of Superman: After Superman's death, Lex Luthor asks for a moment alone with the corpse, and proceeds to gloat over how he is now free. The novelization takes an opposite approach, as he's with the corpse of Doomsday, and smashes a chair over its head while shouting "Miserable, stinking..." It's not that he's sorry Superman is dead, it's that he wanted to kill Superman himself.
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Talking to the Dead / int_3efc191f	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide: As Misato is about to betray NERV to protect Shinji and Asuka, she plays a visit to Kaji's melon patch, and talks to her dead lover about the choices she is about to make.
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Talking to the Dead / int_3f36a9e3	comment	Under the Northern Lights: The does of Hrimfaxi's temple are able to do this, as long as they have part of the deceased; fortunately, reindeer leave their antlers with them before death. They try this on a figure from ancient deer lore, Wiglek the Wicked. It fails. Wiglek isn't dead...
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Talking to the Dead / int_4249cc3a	comment	Played for bleak laughs in Candorville. Lemont's lawyer spends several strips shackled to a wall next to a skeleton, which turns out to be one of his process servers who'd gone missing. He blames himself for the process server's death, and asks him "Can you forgive me? Then, since he's a lawyer, he takes the skeleton's silence to mean "yes."
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Talking to the Dead / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: Dean does this twice: over his father's grave in What Is And What Should Never Be and over Sam's corpse in All Hell Breaks Loose II. The entirety of Castiel's monologue on his park bench in "The Man Who Would Be King" could be taken like this, though he's attempting to talk to God, who isn't exactly dead. No-one knows this, however. Crowley has a one-sided conversation with a dead Dean in the 9th season finale, "Do You Believe in Miracles".
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Talking to the Dead / int_4368553e	comment	"Guilding Day" is framed as one letter written by Kara to her recently-murdered father Zor-El where she tells him how (very badly) her mother is dealing with his loss, and explains why she's choosing the Science Guild instead of following his footsteps and choosing the Arts Guild as she had always intended.
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Talking to the Dead / int_43a9c333	comment	In Cowboy Bebop, Spike is ambushed in a convenience store shortly after its owner bleeds to death. Before the action starts, he says to the dead owner, "Sorry, gonna make a bit of a scene."
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Talking to the Dead / int_44715363	comment	In the original Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Ryou Bakura is shown writing a letter to his sister Amane. Word of God says she died in a car crash beforehand, showing that her death either had a rather traumatizing effect or very little effect on his actions. And in a series full of significant siblingrelationships and characters motivated by protecting/rescuing/avenging their loved ones, it's a little jarring.
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Talking to the Dead / int_47aeb1b8	comment	The Leopard Man: Consuela visits her father's grave on her birthday. While it's partially an excuse to meet her boyfriend Raoul, she also talks to her father's headstone about how she feels guilty for lying to her mother about Raoul and hopes that they will be able to get along soon.
Talking to the Dead / int_47aeb1b8	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_47aeb1b8	featureConfidence	1.0
The Leopard Man	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_47aeb1b8
Talking to the Dead / int_47c78ce2	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_47c78ce2	comment	At the end of A Farewell to Arms after Catherine dies in childbirth Frederic tries this but, "It was like saying goodbye to a statue."
Talking to the Dead / int_47c78ce2	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_47c78ce2	featureConfidence	1.0
A Farewell to Arms	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_47c78ce2
Talking to the Dead / int_497bd288	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_497bd288	comment	Cruella: Estella often sits by the Regency Park fountain to tell her mother whatâ€™s going on in her life.
Talking to the Dead / int_497bd288	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_497bd288	featureConfidence	1.0
Cruella	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_497bd288
Talking to the Dead / int_49ebb569	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_49ebb569	comment	In Code Lyoko: Evolution, Aelita gets into the habit of talking to her father, Franz Hopper, while on Lyoko, usually by addressing the Lyoko Core, since Lyoko is Franz Hopper's greatest creation.
Talking to the Dead / int_49ebb569	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_49ebb569	featureConfidence	1.0
Code Lyoko: Evolution	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_49ebb569
Talking to the Dead / int_4cc06582	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_4cc06582	comment	In Hot Fuzz, Nicholas Angel has a few words at a grave that appears to belong to his partner, Danny Butterman, after the latter took a blunderbuss shot to save his life. It ends up being a Subverted Trope, as the grave actually belongs to Danny's mother, and the words are actually directed at the very much alive Danny.
Talking to the Dead / int_4cc06582	featureApplicability	-0.3
Talking to the Dead / int_4cc06582	featureConfidence	1.0
Hot Fuzz	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_4cc06582
Talking to the Dead / int_4dc4fbf5	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_4dc4fbf5	comment	A character on Jericho (2006) does this to his dead, deaf sister. Interestingly, he signs the conversation over her body instead of speaking out loud to her, even after she is dead because that was the way he communicated with her his entire life.
Talking to the Dead / int_4dc4fbf5	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_4dc4fbf5	featureConfidence	1.0
Jericho (2006)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_4dc4fbf5
Talking to the Dead / int_4f01368	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_4f01368	comment	Static Shock: Virgil often went to talk to his mom during the first bit of the series.
Talking to the Dead / int_4f01368	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_4f01368	featureConfidence	1.0
Static Shock	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_4f01368
Talking to the Dead / int_4f115950	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_4f115950	comment	Robin III, Tim Drake, stands at his parents' graves and talks to them shortly after his father's death. Bruce finds him there and asks his own parents to keep an eye on the Drakes before leading Tim home.
Talking to the Dead / int_4f115950	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_4f115950	featureConfidence	1.0
Robin (1993) (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_4f115950
Talking to the Dead / int_5022a2c4	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_5022a2c4	comment	Xena of Xena: Warrior Princess does this at her brother's grave in the pilot episode.
Talking to the Dead / int_5022a2c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_5022a2c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Xena: Warrior Princess	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_5022a2c4
Talking to the Dead / int_54277b38	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_54277b38	comment	In Deadwood, Calamity Jane has talked to the grave of Wild Bill Hickok a few times, mostly to apologize for being away while he was killed and vent her frustration with herself and everything else.
Talking to the Dead / int_54277b38	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_54277b38	featureConfidence	1.0
Deadwood	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_54277b38
Talking to the Dead / int_5755b96a	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: In one comic, it appears that Haley is talking to Roy's ghost. Roy realizes by the end of the conversation that Haley doesn't know that he's there and she's talking to his corpse. Elan over Therkla's grave. Redcloak to Right-Eye. Malack gives this treatment to Durkon. However, this overlaps with Converse with the Unconscious, because Malack knows he'll wake up as a vampire soon.
Talking to the Dead / int_5755b96a	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_5755b96a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_5755b96a
Talking to the Dead / int_579b991b	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_579b991b	comment	Implied in the first Leave It to Beaver Made-for-TV Movie, when Barbara Billingsly is seen in front of a gravestone uttering her famous line, "Ward, I'm worried about the Beaver." Hugh Beaumont, who played Ward, passed away before the movie was made, and The Character Died with Him.
Talking to the Dead / int_579b991b	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_579b991b	featureConfidence	1.0
Leave It to Beaver	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_579b991b
Talking to the Dead / int_584365d4	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_584365d4	comment	Late in Melody, the title character visits her motherâ€™s grave to tell her about the good things that have recently started happening in her life.
Talking to the Dead / int_584365d4	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_584365d4	featureConfidence	1.0
Melody (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_584365d4
Talking to the Dead / int_5921531a	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_5921531a	comment	In Persona 3, after Shinjiro's funeral, Akihiko comes to talk to him, before breaking down about how he's lost someone important to him again. Eventually, Akihiko picks himself up, forming a new resolve and causing his Persona Polydeuces to evolve into Caesar. In the Portable Updated Re-release, if the female protagonist maxed the Moon Arcana Social Link, Shinjiro survives, and the scene instead has Akihiko Converse with the Unconscious in Shinjiro's hospital room.
Talking to the Dead / int_5921531a	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_5921531a	featureConfidence	1.0
Persona 3 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_5921531a
Talking to the Dead / int_5a3dae52	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_5a3dae52	comment	In the episode of Misfits, when Nathan finds Ruth dead, he tearfully apologizes for the way he treated her. And calls her a "tart".
Talking to the Dead / int_5a3dae52	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_5a3dae52	featureConfidence	1.0
Misfits	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_5a3dae52
Talking to the Dead / int_5afbc0cb	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_5afbc0cb	comment	In Undertale, both Flowey/Asriel and Sans do it at the True Pacifist and Genocide routes respectively.
Talking to the Dead / int_5afbc0cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_5afbc0cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Undertale (Video Game)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_5afbc0cb
Talking to the Dead / int_5c549dd8	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_5c549dd8	comment	In Left, Frodo tells Sam that he is "so sorry" after he kills him in a fit of Ring-jealousy. Luckily, it's All Just a Dream.
Talking to the Dead / int_5c549dd8	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_5c549dd8	featureConfidence	1.0
Left (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_5c549dd8
Talking to the Dead / int_5d21fab8	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_5d21fab8	comment	In Wolf Hall and its sequel, Thomas Cromwell frequently addresses his late master Cardinal Wolsey in his thoughts, asking Wolsey what he'd do in a given situation or wondering what he'd think of the events going on now and how Cromwell is handling them.
Talking to the Dead / int_5d21fab8	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_5d21fab8	featureConfidence	1.0
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_5d21fab8
Talking to the Dead / int_5d2be66d	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_5d2be66d	comment	The Barrier: The epilogue is framed as Emilia talking to her husband RamÃ³n, who now has a proper grave, after being taken away by the army on the Day of the Jackboot twenty-five years earlier.
Talking to the Dead / int_5d2be66d	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_5d2be66d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Barrier	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_5d2be66d
Talking to the Dead / int_5f46db0f	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_5f46db0f	comment	Kanamemo: Kana converses with her dead grandmother at the start and end of every episode in the anime.
Talking to the Dead / int_5f46db0f	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_5f46db0f	featureConfidence	1.0
Kanamemo (Manga)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_5f46db0f
Talking to the Dead / int_60156176	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_60156176	comment	Vorkosigan Saga: Miles Vorkosigan has a tendency to talk to dead people during crises of motivation, most particularly his grandfather and a baby girl named Raina who was killed for having a birth defect. In Memory, he tells his driver that he wants to go talk to the latter of these two, causing the driver to doubt his sanity.
Talking to the Dead / int_60156176	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_60156176	featureConfidence	1.0
Vorkosigan Saga	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_60156176
Talking to the Dead / int_605704fb	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_605704fb	comment	Roza to the skeleton
Talking to the Dead / int_605704fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_605704fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Roza (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_605704fb
Talking to the Dead / int_63a951c3	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_63a951c3	comment	In Life is a Roller Coaster, this is seen briefly at the teachers' 1930s party, when the Hawke sisters mention a particular antic of their late brother Carver. Bethany glances at the ceiling and remarks, "Cheeky, brother. Very cheeky."
Talking to the Dead / int_63a951c3	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_63a951c3	featureConfidence	1.0
Skyhold Academy Yearbook (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_63a951c3
Talking to the Dead / int_643a10a0	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_643a10a0	comment	Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl: After her confrontation with Lex Luthor, Supergirl spends a while kneeling in front of her cousin's grave, crying and telling him she hopes that he'll like his resting place.
Talking to the Dead / int_643a10a0	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_643a10a0	featureConfidence	1.0
Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_643a10a0
Talking to the Dead / int_64dc9897	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_64dc9897	comment	This happens a fair bit in The Tudors. Charles Brandon talking to his dead wife in the first season is a notable example.
Talking to the Dead / int_64dc9897	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_64dc9897	featureConfidence	1.0
The Tudors	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_64dc9897
Talking to the Dead / int_69843f52	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_69843f52	comment	Compare with Monster House, which is kind of the opposite. Nebbecracker's wife already had formed some sort of spiritual attachment to the house, her soul being bonded to it somehow. When she died, she lived on literally as the house, meaning Nebbecracker is literally speaking to her and not her grave.
Talking to the Dead / int_69843f52	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_69843f52	featureConfidence	1.0
Monster House	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_69843f52
Talking to the Dead / int_69d15cc0	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_69d15cc0	comment	In the Marvel Cinematic Universe fanfic I'm still alive, Jen regularly talks to Howard about anything and everything. She does the same (though much less often) to Peggy at least until she turns out to be very much alive and the Jarvis couple. Hell, she even talks to Dum Dum Dugan's grave at one point.
Talking to the Dead / int_69d15cc0	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_69d15cc0	featureConfidence	1.0
Marvel Cinematic Universe (Franchise)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_69d15cc0
Talking to the Dead / int_6a33dbc3	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_6a33dbc3	comment	A Year and Change: Owen spends most of the movie writing journal entries to a Jen, who was his twin sister that died shortly after childbirth.
Talking to the Dead / int_6a33dbc3	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_6a33dbc3	featureConfidence	1.0
A Year and Change	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_6a33dbc3
Talking to the Dead / int_6ba673f9	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_6ba673f9	comment	Jack frequently talks to his dead wife, Mary, in New Tricks.
Talking to the Dead / int_6ba673f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_6ba673f9	featureConfidence	1.0
New Tricks	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_6ba673f9
Talking to the Dead / int_6c9193a1	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_6c9193a1	comment	Subverted in The Venture Brothers. Henchman 21 talks to the skull of Henchman 24 several times during the first half of Season 4, but we only hear him talk. It isn't until the mid-season finale that we learn 24 responds to him...
Talking to the Dead / int_6c9193a1	featureApplicability	-0.3
Talking to the Dead / int_6c9193a1	featureConfidence	1.0
TheVentureBrothers	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_6c9193a1
Talking to the Dead / int_6d02517d	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_6d02517d	comment	On 8 Simple Rules, in the first episode in which the characters (and cast) have to deal with the death of John Ritter's character Paul, his wife and children find what has become his final newspaper column and read it together. He observes that parents can hear the love of their children hidden in anything they say, even if they claim to hate the parents. Elder daughter Bridget, who has been despairing over the fact that the last thing she said to her father was an irritated "I hate you," swallows her tears and says, "Wow... thanks, Dad!" It's a tear-jerking cap to an altogether gut-wrenching episode.
Talking to the Dead / int_6d02517d	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_6d02517d	featureConfidence	1.0
8 Simple Rules	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_6d02517d
Talking to the Dead / int_6d7c7f1c	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_6d7c7f1c	comment	In SomethingPositive, Davan occasionally chats with Scotty's grave; Branwen and a few others went to visit her father; and several people spoke to Faye at her funeral.*
Talking to the Dead / int_6d7c7f1c	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_6d7c7f1c	featureConfidence	1.0
Something*Positive (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_6d7c7f1c
Talking to the Dead / int_6eb8058d	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_6eb8058d	comment	In The Most Happy Fella, Tony turns his eyes to a certain part of the sky and talks (and sings) to his "Mamma up in Heaven."
Talking to the Dead / int_6eb8058d	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_6eb8058d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Most Happy Fella (Theatre)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_6eb8058d
Talking to the Dead / int_6ee4478f	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_6ee4478f	comment	In chapter 4 of Once More with Feeling, Shinji visits his mother's grave and talks to her for a long while, saying that he's scared because he doesn't think he's strong enough to go through everything a second time.
Talking to the Dead / int_6ee4478f	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_6ee4478f	featureConfidence	1.0
OnceMoreWithFeeling	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_6ee4478f
Talking to the Dead / int_6f734712	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_6f734712	comment	Smallville: In early episodes, Lana would go to the cemetery to talk with her dead parents.
Talking to the Dead / int_6f734712	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_6f734712	featureConfidence	1.0
Smallville	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_6f734712
Talking to the Dead / int_71a2d83d	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_71a2d83d	comment	Damon of The Vampire Diaries sadly talks to Alaric's grave marker in a somewhat non-supernatural example. Sure, the ghost of Alaric is there listening, but Damon doesn't actually know that, so it fits the trope.
Talking to the Dead / int_71a2d83d	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_71a2d83d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Vampire Diaries	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_71a2d83d
Talking to the Dead / int_73d7930f	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Sisko talks to Jadzia's coffin at the end of Season 6. O'Brien talks to deceased Mauve Shirt Muniz at the end of "The Ship", telling him how the mission ended successfully and how he would have loved to see the elegance of their solution to unburying the titular enemy craft.
Talking to the Dead / int_73d7930f	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_73d7930f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_73d7930f
Talking to the Dead / int_766e8369	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_766e8369	comment	Somos Familia: Facundo's reaction to finding his daughter (who's seen as an Old Maid In-Universe) having sex with a friend of Mateo (and how the kids who respond to his scream mistake it for a wrestling match) goes from angry, to happy, to speaking to his long dead wife.
Talking to the Dead / int_766e8369	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_766e8369	featureConfidence	1.0
Somos Familia (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_766e8369
Talking to the Dead / int_77f5af7f	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_77f5af7f	comment	Thomil of Juathuur frequently speaks to his dead girlfriend, Neilli. She isn't actually dead.
Talking to the Dead / int_77f5af7f	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_77f5af7f	featureConfidence	1.0
Juathuur (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_77f5af7f
Talking to the Dead / int_7832b74c	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: "Steven's Dream" has the official debut of Blue Diamond, who is seen at Pink Diamond's destroyed palanquin, crying as she talks to Pink. What she doesn't know is that Pink is, in a sense, standing close by, hearing every word.
Talking to the Dead / int_7832b74c	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_7832b74c	featureConfidence	1.0
Steven Universe	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_7832b74c
Talking to the Dead / int_78e27fa7	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_78e27fa7	comment	In Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, after Leila is killed, Matthew occasionally talks to her. He even goes so far as to imagine that Leila told him to give up on trying to enact revenge on Jaffar, who was responsible, because he wasn't really in control of himself at the time, and Matthew obediently lets him go and backs down.
Talking to the Dead / int_78e27fa7	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_78e27fa7	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_78e27fa7
Talking to the Dead / int_792239e5	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_792239e5	comment	At the beginning of Tales of Symphonia, Lloyd talks to Anna's grave at Dirk's house. He does it again at the end, asking her if it's OK that he let his dad go.
Talking to the Dead / int_792239e5	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_792239e5	featureConfidence	1.0
Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_792239e5
Talking to the Dead / int_7aaf9e41	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Bruce Wayne frequently visits the dual grave of his parents, usually to tell them about his feelings, doubts, and resolve regarding his mission. At the end of "I am Bane," it seems like he finally closes the door on the habit. The Joker does this in The Killing Joke, when "purchasing" the amusement park. He kills the man he bought the place from, and keeps talking to him afterwards. Robin III, Tim Drake, stands at his parents' graves and talks to them shortly after his father's death. Bruce finds him there and asks his own parents to keep an eye on the Drakes before leading Tim home. In Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, after Joker breaks his own neck, the corpse is set on fire, and the corpse appears to be smiling, and Batman "hears" him still laughing. Batman simply tells him to shut up.
Talking to the Dead / int_7aaf9e41	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_7aaf9e41	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_7aaf9e41
Talking to the Dead / int_7ae8ef1a	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_7ae8ef1a	comment	John Preston (Christian Bale) tearfully apologises to Sean Bean's corpse in Equilibrium. Preston was the one who executed him for feeling emotions, a crime punishable by death. Preston was now committing that same crime.
Talking to the Dead / int_7ae8ef1a	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_7ae8ef1a	featureConfidence	1.0
Equilibrium	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_7ae8ef1a
Talking to the Dead / int_7c48915b	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_7c48915b	comment	Gunnerkrigg Court: Antimony apologizes to the dead mechanical bird before snipping it open to verify that it was, indeed, mechanical. Then she thanks it.
Talking to the Dead / int_7c48915b	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_7c48915b	featureConfidence	1.0
Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_7c48915b
Talking to the Dead / int_834197b2	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_834197b2	comment	In the Horus Heresy short story "Warmaster", Horus talks to the skull of Ferrus Manus about what that title means to him.
Talking to the Dead / int_834197b2	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_834197b2	featureConfidence	1.0
Horus Heresy	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_834197b2
Talking to the Dead / int_8714888	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_8714888	comment	In Cas and Dylan, Dylan roots through Cas's cell phone and finds a frequently-dialed entry for "Denise." Thinking it's a friend, she calls the number repeatedly, but the calls go straight to voice mail. Eventually, Cas reveals that "Denise" is his long-dead wife, and he has kept her account active all these years just so he can occasionally hear her voice.
Talking to the Dead / int_8714888	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_8714888	featureConfidence	1.0
CasAndDylan	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_8714888
Talking to the Dead / int_89f4bc45	type	Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead / int_89f4bc45	comment	One WWE backstage segment has The Undertaker visit his (kayfabe) parents' graves to talk to them about his issues with Kane and apologizing for having to break his promise not to hurt his younger brother.
Talking to the Dead / int_89f4bc45	featureApplicability	1.0
Talking to the Dead / int_89f4bc45	featureConfidence	1.0
The Undertaker (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_89f4bc45
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Talking to the Dead / int_8a836c90	comment	The Walking Dead: Michonne reveals to Rick that she understands his lingering hallucinations of dead wife Lori, since she still speaks to her long-dead boyfriend to cope with her grief. Several seasons and years later, Michonne now speaks to Rick, who had become her husband and who she believes is dead. Negan has formed a strong attachment to the baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire that he forged on the night he learned his wife Lucille had died, and thus often speaks to the bat as if itâ€™s his wife still being with him, sometimes praying to her for strength. In the Season 10 finale, Negan finally comes to terms with the loss of Lucille over a decade earlier and speaks to her one last time before burning the damaged remains of the bat.
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Talking to the Dead / int_8ba4613a	comment	Light from Death Note does this to L, in the deleted anime scenes of his funeral, complete with loads of Trash Talk and Evil Gloating. Note that, in this case at least, it is most definitely a sign of Sanity Slippage, accompanied by creepy bright red lighting and something that looks suspiciously like Light humping the grave. Eugh. The Antagonist in Mourning is not a pretty sight.
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Talking to the Dead / int_8c05f749	comment	Death in Paradise: In "A Murder in Portrait", Jack holds a conversation with a photo of his dead wife as he debates with himself whether he should allow himself to go on his first date since she died.
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Talking to the Dead / int_8d817ccb	comment	Several instances on Lost, the most tearjerking of which may have been Hurley talking to Libby's grave. (This was before the dead people started answering him.)
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Talking to the Dead / int_8d81bb26	comment	Ducky does this all the time on NCIS to the corpse he is autopsying. He also claims that the dead speak to him (metaphorically, of course). When we see him doing the autopsy on Caitlin Todd, we see him imagine her talking back. His assistant, Jimmy Palmer, also does this on occasion. One episode is framed by Ellie Bishop typing a letter to President Woodrow Wilson. Another one is Timothy McGee reading a letter to his recently-deceased father.
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Talking to the Dead / int_8d81f086	comment	Monk also frequently visits his late wife's grave, often to ponder whether or not she would approve of his actions (usually, such actions involve giving up something of hers in order to help someone else, or anything he thinks might cause him to drift away from her memory).
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Talking to the Dead / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: The Death of Superman: After Superman's death, Lex Luthor asks for a moment alone with the corpse, and proceeds to gloat over how he is now free. The novelization takes an opposite approach, as he's with the corpse of Doomsday, and smashes a chair over its head while shouting "Miserable, stinking..." It's not that he's sorry Superman is dead, it's that he wanted to kill Superman himself. The Supergirl from Krypton (2004): After returning to Themyscira Kara visits Harbinger's grave and talks to her departed friend. Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl: After her confrontation with Lex Luthor, Supergirl spends a while kneeling in front of her cousin's grave, crying and telling him she hopes that he'll like his resting place. One flashback scene in Action Comics #500 has Clark Kent visiting his recently-departed parents' graves. After lamenting his incapability to save his ill parents, he promises to Jonathan and Martha he will not allow the pain to overwhelm him or stop him from doing what is right. Who is Superwoman? opens up with one scene where Kara's conversing with her dearly missed father. "Guilding Day" is framed as one letter written by Kara to her recently-murdered father Zor-El where she tells him how (very badly) her mother is dealing with his loss, and explains why she's choosing the Science Guild instead of following his footsteps and choosing the Arts Guild as she had always intended.
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Talking to the Dead / int_8e209fd7	comment	League of Super Redundant Heroes: Subverted with Flying-Fox Man. Despite being a Batman expy, his parents are not dead, and when seen talking to a grave under the rain, he is actually making a phone call with an unseen earpiece.
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Talking to the Dead / int_8f165ac0	comment	Mass Effect: Human Revolution: Hein and Shepard at the end of chapter 28.
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Talking to the Dead / int_8f8df73b	comment	In The Lion King (1994), both the movie and the musical have Simba talking to Mufasa, though sometimes crossed with Rage Against the Heavens. And trust us, he knows.
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Talking to the Dead / int_8fa6282e	comment	In Wooden Overcoats, the Season Three finale deals with the first couple days after Georgie's beloved grandmother dies, and we're shown multiple flashbacks of their arrival in Piffling Vale, a few years before the series began. One of these flashbacks has Georgie arguing with her... before it suddenly segues back into the present day, and becomes her screaming at her grandmother's empty house, asking why she has to be gone and why she didn't ever tell her how much she meant to her. It's utterly heartbreaking.
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Talking to the Dead / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series: Mr. Freeze in the episode "Heart of Ice", talking to a snowglobe that represents his wife, Nora. He talks to her again at the end of the episode, begging for her forgiveness. It's heartwrenching. (Later episodes show that Nora is alive, but she's clearly meant to be dead in this one.)
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Talking to the Dead / int_90c73dda	comment	Subverted in Animorphs - Jake visits Rachel's grave often, but Marco doesn't think that he talks to her. Marco wishes that he would, though, as talking to a dead person is better than not talking at all.
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Talking to the Dead / int_93fa24df	comment	Part of the second chapter of All the World's a Stage has Roger Rabbit doing this at Eddie Valiant's grave. (The fic was written shortly after Bob Hoskins death.)
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Talking to the Dead / int_944191c6	comment	Kyo Kara Maoh!: After Wolfram dies, Yuuri has a conversation with his preserved body, promising to save him. The imaginary ghost of the deceased does most of the talking. It's more halfway between this and Converse with the Unconscious. While Wolfram is technically dead, the preservative apparatus and Yuuri's determination that Wolfram will get better make it feel more like Wolfram's comatose or unconscious.
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Talking to the Dead / int_9472b00d	comment	Bright talks to a photo of Amuro in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. Judging by what happens at the end of episode 5, it looks like Amuro was listening.
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Talking to the Dead / int_95d534e1	comment	The Dragon Prince: Amaya takes some time to speak to a statue of her deceased older sister, lighting her a candle, kneeling and signing.
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Talking to the Dead / int_95fdd189	comment	In Season 3 of Shtisel, as he's falling in love with Racheli, Akiva goes to his wife Libbi's grave and asks her to let him move on and stop appearing to him.
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Talking to the Dead / int_99055407	comment	Family Matters: In "I Should Have Done Something," Carl is depressed because it's the one-year anniversary of a hostage situation to which he responded, which unfortunately ended with the hostage getting shot and killed. The next morning, Carl goes to the victim's grave and gives a tear-jerking monologue expressing the guilt he feels for not doing something at the scene that might have made things go differently.
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Talking to the Dead / int_99f885c7	comment	In Reignfall, May Marigold has been assumed dead for seven years when her old best friend Winter Schnee catches a glimpse of and desperately follows her, only to find an empty courtyard. Partially to vent feelings that she has kept bottled up since May's "death", and partially in the vain hope that May really is there and hidden from sight, Winter sits down and talks about it. How much she misses May, how she has tried but can't move on from her, how much she regrets all the things she could have done different, and how much it hurts to keep May's gender secret while listening to others misgender her. She ends it by begging May to give even the slightest hint that she's alive, though she's met with nothing but silence.
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Talking to the Dead / int_9a7088bc	comment	In Star Trek: The Original Series fanfic Illogical features Kirk after Spock's death, sitting in the Vulcan's cabin and talking to his friend in an effort to find closure.
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Talking to the Dead / int_9a9aef9b	comment	In Leaving Iowa, Don holds several conversations with his father's urn as he drives in search of a suitable place to put the ashes.
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Talking to the Dead / int_9ab064e6	comment	In Les MisÃ©rables, Marius's Heroic BSoD song Empty Chairs at Empty Tables ends with him begging his fellow (dead) revolutionaries for forgiveness that he survived and they didn't, especially because he doesn't even know if their deaths accomplished anything. Little does he know that, in most productions, their ghosts are standing just behind him and can hear him, but they don't seem to be able to interact with him, and just watch his pleas impassively/sympathetically.
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Talking to the Dead / int_9b1333a5	comment	Maverick in Top Gun says "Talk to me, Goose" (referencing his deceased former backseater) during the final air battle
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Talking to the Dead / int_9b90b485	comment	Tangled Up In Blues: Throughout the two final chapters, the protagonist/narrator is addressing his dead mentor directly to tell him about how life is going and how thankful he is for everything the mentor's done for him.
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Talking to the Dead / int_9d4943d5	comment	In Shadow and Rose, which retells Dragon Age: Origins in the form of Alistair's diary, there are a few lines in which Alistair 'speaks' to the late King Cailan, his half-brother, wondering about his motives for a particular decision.
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Talking to the Dead / int_9d7264f	comment	Alexx on CSI: Miami not only talks to corpses but also calls them "baby".
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Talking to the Dead / int_9e580149	comment	Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie: While stranded on Europa, Linkara briefly talks with Allen's corpse, venting about his frustrations with his life, before finally admitting that he genuinely does enjoy talking about bad comics and realizing that's his ultimate purpose in life. Once he's finished, Allen comes back to life, having been restored by the healing effect of the Plot Hole.
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Talking to the Dead / int_a4514a75	comment	Towards the end of Iji, when (barring an Easter Egg) Dan gets killed by Assassin Asha, Iji has a Heroic BSoD and continues to act like he's her Mission Control, even tucking him into bed so he can 'rest'.
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Talking to the Dead / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass: C.C. talked to Marianne, who was alive (in a sense).
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Talking to the Dead / int_a65b3e0f	comment	In the finale of Mimpi Metropolitan, a flashback set not long before Bambang goes to Jakarta shows him and his father visiting his late mother's grave and tell her about Bambang's graduation from high school and his plan to study in Jakarta.
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Talking to the Dead / int_a9c907c7	comment	Warhammer 40,000 Expanded Universe: In Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts novel Only in Death, Rawne addresses Gaunt's sword, which was recovered, telling him he's angry about being stuck with this. In James Swallow's Horus Heresy novel The Flight of the Eisenstein, Garro finds his armor, carefully readied for him by his now-dead housecarl Kaleb. Garro addresses the air, telling Kaleb that he was an honor to the Legion. In James Swallow's Deus Encarmine, Rafen, deeply troubled by Koris's dying words, goes to see the corpse and implores him to show him the path, one last time. Koris's not-yet-deactivated vox, which has command codes, falls to his hand, and he uses it to get out word. Later, when Sachiel hears that Rafen was caught in an exploding factory (No One Could Survive That!), he gloats, actually saying, "Rafen, you are dead." In the Horus Heresy short story "Warmaster", Horus talks to the skull of Ferrus Manus about what that title means to him.
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Talking to the Dead / int_ab4f6c9	comment	Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Bruce meets Andrea Beaumont when he visits his parents' graves and overhears her casually talking to her dead mother. This prompts him to do the same thing — including in costume years later, which is how she figures out who he is. Played for tearjerker effect when Bruce falls in love with Andrea, and visits his parents' graves begging to be released from his promise to avenge them.
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Talking to the Dead / int_ac7fd385	comment	During Hatoful Boyfriend's BBL route a badly shaken Sakuya asks his seemingly-dead brother "What should I do?"
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Talking to the Dead / int_aeb84363	comment	Some live-action versions of A Christmas Carol use this trope in the Bad Future scene of Tiny Tim's death. The 1970 and 2004 musicals show Bob talking to Tim's grave as if Tim were still alive, while in the 1999 version he talks to Tim's corpse at his bedside.
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Talking to the Dead / int_b07ab1cd	comment	In Sleepless in Seattle, Sam (Tom Hanks) talks to his wife about stuff that is happening in his life.
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Talking to the Dead / int_b30ae4db	comment	In Game of Thrones, Ramsay, of all people, talks to Myranda's corpse after she's found dead.
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Talking to the Dead / int_b36e17f1	comment	In Nell, the title character talks to (and plays with) the memory of her dead sister. It's a lot less creepy than it sounds.
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Talking to the Dead / int_b3aba9af	comment	David from Six Feet Under does this a lot as a way of resolving his real-world frustrations, particularly in the first series. Most notably, he argues with his dead father, a dead gang member teaches him to act tough and resolves a good portion of his Gayngst due to his discussions with a young man who was beaten to death for his homosexuality.
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Talking to the Dead / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: Spider-Man: Blue's framing device, Spider-Man's recording tapes for Gwen Stacy, serving for a whole series flashback.
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Talking to the Dead / int_b60b7a6b	comment	The Supergirl from Krypton (2004): After returning to Themyscira Kara visits Harbinger's grave and talks to her departed friend.
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Talking to the Dead / int_b8e5dfd9	comment	Disco Elysium: The Detective, with a high enough Inland Empire stat, can carry out a metaphorical "conversation" with the Hanged Man while investigating his death. The Hanged Man even "responds", though it's explicitly the Detective's imagination filling in the blanks from a mixture of subconscious cues and the Detective's own eccentricities. Probably.
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Talking to the Dead / int_b9e3bd3	comment	On The Jeffersons, Florence is rocked when the new preacher of her church steals the money meant for a big trip. She's at the church, considering losing her faith when the kindly Reverend Taylor comes up and gives her a pep talk. Florence returns home to tell the Jeffersons about how great it was to hear from Taylor. As she walks off, George and Louise exchange baffled looks.
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Talking to the Dead / int_bacb3abc	comment	The Rock opens with Hummel visiting his wife's grave, and explaining what he is about to do. It ends with him asking for forgiveness, and hoping that, whatever happens, she won't think less of him.
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Talking to the Dead / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, a character known only as The Child Left Behind is seen doing this.
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Talking to the Dead / int_c01688c8	comment	In Batman (1989), the Joker has a conversation with a mob boss named Antoine Rotelli, whom he just killed with an Electric Joybuzzer. It is during this conversation that the Joker decides to kill the whole lot of the mob summit immediately, allegedly under Rotelli's "suggestion".
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Talking to the Dead / int_c2cdb82b	comment	In the sci-fi story Enemy Mine, humans and aliens are at war. After becoming stranded, the human William Davidge becomes friends with the alien Jeriba Shigan. After Jeriba dies while giving birth, Davidge talks to Jeriba's memory about his concerns. At one point he does bluntly say, "You can't answer, Drac, you're dead," quoting the Drac's holy book (which he learned to read), then goes back to talking to Jeriba's memory.
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Talking to the Dead / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Doctor Who series finale "The Big Bang" has Rory doing this to Amy, whom he just killed.
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Talking to the Dead / int_c95e9d87	comment	Carl in the movie Up does this occasionally. He talks to his house but means his wife, Ellie. Russell thinks his house is named Ellie. Part of Carlâ€™s journey to heal from his grief is when Russell begins speaking to the house, pretending to have a conversation with "Ellie" and that she agrees to let him get his way on something Carl told him "no" about; when Carl snaps at "Ellie" that he told Russell no, he stumbles as he realizes just how silly he sounds speaking to their house.
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Talking to the Dead / int_c9b98f4e	comment	In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf novel, Empath talks to his mother at her grave site while he was with Smurfette on a date.
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Talking to the Dead / int_cb840c8f	comment	In The Sixth Sense, Anna talks to Malcolm, not knowing he can hear her. Additionally, Cole's mother occasionally visits and speaks to the grave of her own mother. She finally realizes that her son is telling the truth about seeing dead people when he tells her the answer to the question she had asked her mother, which he would have no way of knowing. She asked her mother, "Do I make you proud?" and the answer was "Every day."
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Talking to the Dead / int_cbad9b62	comment	Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Reinhard von Lohengramm does this constantly when facing a moral quandary. And he's not the only one. Later on, Julian Mintz views the act of collecting and editing Yang Wen-li's old papers as an extension of the conversations they used to have while the latter still lived.
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Talking to the Dead / int_cc1ec7ec	comment	Daredevil: Daredevil: Yellow's whole story is framed as a series of letters written by Daredevil himself to his recently-killed girlfriend Karen Page.
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Talking to the Dead / int_d0d11190	comment	In Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, after Joker breaks his own neck, the corpse is set on fire, and the corpse appears to be smiling, and Batman "hears" him still laughing. Batman simply tells him to shut up.
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Talking to the Dead / int_d352a67f	comment	Identity Crisis: Ralph Dibny does this at the end of the series. While getting ready for bed, he talks to his deceased wife Sue on the suggestion of Green Arrow, who had told him earlier, "She can hear you." (And Green Arrow would know...)
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Talking to the Dead / int_d3c7d64	comment	In The Rose Tattoo, Serafina delle Rose, at least according to her daughter, talks to her late husband's ashes as if he were still alive.
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Talking to the Dead / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica (2003): Adama does this to Laura Roslin at the end of the finale.
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Talking to the Dead / int_d4f9ccf	comment	In Disney's Aladdin the song "Proud of Your Boy" was written for Aladdin to sing to his living mother, but cut when it was decided to make him an orphan. The stage musical keeps him as an orphan but reinstates the song, reimagining it as this trope.
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Talking to the Dead / int_d56c92f3	comment	Who is Superwoman? opens up with one scene where Kara's conversing with her dearly missed father.
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Talking to the Dead / int_d7ff26ff	comment	In James Swallow's Deus Encarmine, Rafen, deeply troubled by Koris's dying words, goes to see the corpse and implores him to show him the path, one last time. Koris's not-yet-deactivated vox, which has command codes, falls to his hand, and he uses it to get out word. Later, when Sachiel hears that Rafen was caught in an exploding factory (No One Could Survive That!), he gloats, actually saying, "Rafen, you are dead."
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Talking to the Dead / int_d9e1a051	comment	Tohru of Fruits Basket tends to address her deceased mother Kyoko in her inner monologues, and will sometimes talk to photos of Kyoko as though they really are her. However, as the manga goes on it becomes clear that it's rather unhealthy for her to do this, with scenes like Hiro taking her wallet with her mother's photo inside (with Tohru reacting as though her mother had actually gotten kidnapped) showing she still hasn't moved on from Kyoko's death.
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Talking to the Dead / int_df7f7270	comment	Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective: The eponymous character would "talk" to every murder victim he comes across in order to find out about how they died and who killed them.
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Talking to the Dead / int_e21e4293	comment	In Kubo and the Two Strings, Kubo tries to talk to his dead father at his grave but gets no answer, for obvious reasons.
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Talking to the Dead / int_e4032728	comment	Seen briefly in Quest for Camelot, when Lady Juliana is exasperated with her daughter Kayley's professed desire to be a knight. They quarrel a bit and Kayley runs out of the room. Juliana sighs then glances at a tapestry depicting the two of them with her late husband, Sir Lionel. "What would you do?" she asks him.
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Talking to the Dead / int_e5497d09	comment	Tsume to Toboe's body in Wolf's Rain.
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Talking to the Dead / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Takamichi of Negima! Magister Negi Magi during his date with Asuna: "Master... even though I can't tell her everything, I would at least like to tell Asuna-kun about you..."
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Talking to the Dead / int_e9e265b6	comment	Severa visits her father's grave in Chapter 10 of Secret Dreamer, to wish him a happy birthday and tell him what has happened since the last time she stopped by.
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Talking to the Dead / int_ea37dbd4	comment	Little By Little: The second half of the fic consists of Jett going to Springfield's cemetery to visit Frank's grave and talk to him.
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Talking to the Dead / int_ecf67680	comment	In Scaramouche, Andre-Louis Moreau prays to the spirit of his dead friend, Phillipe, before going to a duel.
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Talking to the Dead / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: Used when Future Janeway had a talk with Dead Chakotay about her plans to illegally time travel to save him and Voyager.
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Talking to the Dead / int_efa49b17	comment	The Mentalist: Generally averted, as Patrick Jane (a former phony psychic) insists repeatedly that it's pointless because the dead are just gone. He's only visited his dead wife and daughter's graves once and refused to try speaking when he did ("They aren't here"). That said, he once consoled a young boy whose mother had died by telling him he could still talk to her when he missed her (and that he did the same thing with his dead wife, though we never see it onscreen). Toyed with and overlapping with Dead Person Conversation, in a tear-jerker episode where Jane accidentally takes a powerful hallucinogen and spends most of the episode conversing with a vision of his dead-daughter-as-he-imagines-she'd-be-as-a-teenager. He knows she's not a real ghost, just a figment of his subconscious, but he still talks to her like she's really there, beams with pride at the young lady she's become, and begs her not leave as the drugs wear off.
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Talking to the Dead / int_f186f924	comment	In Horizon Zero Dawn, the player can return to Rost's grave at any point in the game, and Aloy will update him on where she is in her quest. This is notably the only times in the game that Aloy removes her Focus voluntarily, since she doesn't want Sylens to spy on her visiting her father's grave.
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Talking to the Dead / int_f6bc8d0c	comment	Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: This trope is the topic for the pilot episode, in which the duo dismiss the likes of John Edwards and James Van Praagh as "performance artists". In the cold open, Penn is shown talking to a (prop) gravestone of his idol Harry Houdini.
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Talking to the Dead / int_f6e5bd7f	comment	It is implied that Shilo Wallace in Repo! The Genetic Opera does this.
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Talking to the Dead / int_f711ddcb	comment	Lands of Arran: In Orcs & Gobelins, the Orc necromancer Nerrom can speak to the dead and uses his power to interrogate Nelyr the mage, allowing Lanawyn to learn that Ulronn the Black Elf is responsible for a massacre Lanawyn has been investigating.
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Talking to the Dead / int_f9cb2c07	comment	The Second Try: In the After the End chapters Shinji and Asuka -and later their daughter Aki- go every so often to the Dead Red Sea -formed by the liquefied bodies of all humans- to talk to them, announce something or get things off their chests.
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Talking to the Dead / int_fa70a76a	comment	One flashback scene in Action Comics #500 has Clark Kent visiting his recently-departed parents' graves. After lamenting his incapability to save his ill parents, he promises to Jonathan and Martha he will not allow the pain to overwhelm him or stop him from doing what is right.
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Talking to the Dead / int_fdfa23fe	comment	The Royal Diaries book Sondok is framed as Sondok's offerings to her ancestors. In the beginning she asks her grandmother's permission to include her own personal thoughts, and she goes on to write very conversationally to her grandmother. (That is, until she bargains with heaven to spare a loved one's life and vows to offer only prayers instead of "selfish ramblings", and her writing becomes strikingly impersonal, obedient, and prayerful).
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Talking to the Dead / int_fe32cb72	comment	XCOM: Second Contact: Shepard and Jenny.
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Talking to the Dead / int_ff9ab17f	comment	The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" features a "Talking to the Assimilated" variant, with newly-promoted Captain Riker looking at the ready-room chair of the assimilated Picard and asking "What would you do?"
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide (Fanfic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Once More With Feeling (Crazy-88) (Fanfic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Silent Partner, Unfinished Business (Fanfic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Skyhold Academy Yearbook (Fanfic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Gun Hero's Arrival (Fanfic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Imperial Heresy (Fanfic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Seven Hunters (Fanfic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Zero Context Series (Fanfic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
A Bronx Tale / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
A Christmas Carol (1999) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
A Year and Change / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Adult Life Skills / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Attack of the Clones / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Batman (1989) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Cool Runnings / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Enter the Dragon / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Heathers / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Inspector Blunder / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
La Soupe aux choux / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Nobody / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Planes, Trains and Automobiles / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Red Lights / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Rogue One / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Shenandoah / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Sooky / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Taegukgi / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Abominable Dr. Phibes / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Big Bus / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Exorcist III / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Rise of Skywalker / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Thor: Ragnarok / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Thunder Road / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Tommy Boy / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Valentine / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
A Witch Shall Be Born / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Bone Street Rumba / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Gaunt's Ghosts / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Halo: Contact Harvest / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Horus Heresy / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Intertwined II The Lost Spirits / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Legend of the Galactic Heroes / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Legends of Panthera / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Newsflesh / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Nineteen Minutes / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
President's Vampire / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Redwall / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Scaramouche / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Sekhmet / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Tales of MU / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Behemoth / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Overstory / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Turtles All the Way Down / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
When We Were Animals / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Wolf Hall / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Worm / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
And Yet the Town Moves (Manga) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Death Note (Manga) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Evangelion 303 (Manga) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Fruits Basket (Manga) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Kanamemo (Manga) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Monster (Manga) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Mysterious Joker (Manga) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Princess Jellyfish (Manga) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Die Toten Hosen (Music) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Fearful Symmetry (Music) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Wolf 359 (Podcast) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Wooden Overcoats (Podcast) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Astral Cabal (Roleplay) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Gama (Roleplay) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Roleplayedingly (Roleplay) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
We Are Our Avatars Escapist (Roleplay) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Alma GÃªmea / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Barbarians / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
CSI: Miami / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
City Guys / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Dead Like Me / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Death in Paradise / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Des (2020) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Hang Time / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Lockwood & Co. (2023) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Made in Canada / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Magnificent Century / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Masada / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
MonkTropesS-Z	seeAlso	Talking to the Dead
One Tree Hill / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Shtisel / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Slings & Arrows / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Station Eleven / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Barrier / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Deuce / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Jeffersons / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The King 2 Hearts / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Nanny / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Vampire Diaries / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Wire in the Blood / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Wolf Hall / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Xena: Warrior Princess / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Hollow Earth Expedition (Tabletop Game) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Aladdin (Theatre) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Don Giovanni (Theatre) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Hello, Dolly! (Theatre) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Salome (Theatre) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (Video Game) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Video Game) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Dark Chronicle (Video Game) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Lamplight City (Video Game) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Metal Gear Solid (Video Game) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams (Video Game) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Onimusha: Warlords (Video Game) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Rebuild (Video Game) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Resident Evil Village (Video Game) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (Video Game) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Triangle Strategy (Video Game) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Hate Plus (Visual Novel) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Kira-Kira (Visual Novel) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Melody (Visual Novel) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Spirit Hunter: NG (Visual Novel) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Where Was My Hero...? (Web Animation) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie (Web Video) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Harry Potter Comics (Webcomic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
It Hurts!! (Webcomic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Juathuur (Webcomic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
League of Super Redundant Heroes (Webcomic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Modest Medusa (Webcomic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Pure Light (Webcomic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Sleepless Domain (Webcomic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Something*Positive (Webcomic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Dragon Doctors (Webcomic) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Gnomeo & Juliet / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
ParaNorman / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Static Shock / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Superman: The Animated Series / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Up / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Chris Benoit (Wrestling) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Undertaker (Wrestling) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Fearless (1993) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead

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