About: Undeath Always Ends   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

The Undead are neither dead nor alive, nor do they last in that state particularly long. For whatever reason, most media showing an undead character with sentience will have said character not be undead by story's end. Sort of like Schrodinger's Zombie, they can only stay in an 'in between' state until observed in a movie. Whether a vampire, lich, mummy, or rarer fare, you can rest assured that by the story's end any notable undead character will not be undead because of one of the following: This is an , so spoilers follow. Examples of Undeath Always Ends include:

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Undeath Always Ends
rdfs:comment
  • The Undead are neither dead nor alive, nor do they last in that state particularly long. For whatever reason, most media showing an undead character with sentience will have said character not be undead by story's end. Sort of like Schrodinger's Zombie, they can only stay in an 'in between' state until observed in a movie. Whether a vampire, lich, mummy, or rarer fare, you can rest assured that by the story's end any notable undead character will not be undead because of one of the following: This is an , so spoilers follow. Examples of Undeath Always Ends include:
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:all-the-tro...iPageUsesTemplate
dbkwik:allthetrope...iPageUsesTemplate
abstract
  • The Undead are neither dead nor alive, nor do they last in that state particularly long. For whatever reason, most media showing an undead character with sentience will have said character not be undead by story's end. Sort of like Schrodinger's Zombie, they can only stay in an 'in between' state until observed in a movie. Maybe they're tired of Immortality and choose to end their existence or cure their undead state, or embrace it so thoroughly they confuse eternal youth with indestructibility and get cocky fighting the hero. Whatever the case, undeath does not grant one the ability to stay alive no matter what ... well, undead no matter what. Whether a vampire, lich, mummy, or rarer fare, you can rest assured that by the story's end any notable undead character will not be undead because of one of the following: * The character accepts their death or fulfills whatever duty kept them tethered to the world and rests in peace or ascends to the afterlife. * The character is killed by someone else (hero, villain; doesn't matter which). * The character, unhappy with his/her undead state, commits suicide or convinces the heroes to slay/vanquish/exorcise him/her. * The character kills himself or herself inadvertently. * The character dies in a Heroic Sacrifice. * The character is miraculously restored to full life. It seems that not all undeath is equal - some undead are deader than others. More living undead, such as vampires, are less likely to fit this trope than less living undead (such as zombies). This trope seems to apply most strongly to ghosts, who are often called simply 'dead' even though they're technically undead. Vampires favor Suicide by Sunlight. This is an , so spoilers follow. Examples of Undeath Always Ends include:
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software