When a character dies, instead of another character honoring their life, they instead choose to dishonor them. Generally, the character who is doing so is a real jerk, though it can be justified if the character in question wasn't well-liked.
A related trope is And There Was Much Rejoicing.
As a Death Trope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.
Examples[]
- In The Simpsons, when Frank Grimes goes insane and fatally electrocutes himself, Homer chooses to take a snooze at his funeral.
- In another episode, when Homer seemingly dies, Patty and Selma come up with a tombstone stating that they're richer for having lost him. Marge is understandably offended.
- When Bart imagines his funeral, Nelson chooses to punch his corpse. Ironically enough, Milhouse thanks Bart for letting him take the day off from school. Homer is also happy that he got a day off from work, though Marge encourages him to mourn his son's death...which he does.
- Subverted in Family Guy with Quagmire. Despite his clear dislike for Brian, he actually chooses to attend his funeral (in a timeline in which he dies after being run over by a speeding car), though he's clearly more interested in watching a baseball game on his phone.
- In Dark Simpsons, after Bart Simpson gets drowned by Homer, his family celebrates his demise.
- In Robot Chicken, after the Blockhead Brothers are executed for killing Gumby, Pokey takes a dump on their grave.
- In The Wizard of Oz, when the Wicked Witch of the East gets flattened by Dorothy's house, the Munchkins begin to sing "Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead!"... and they made her death a national holiday. This is a justified example, as the Wicked Witch of the East was, well... wicked.
- Though it's an exaggeration, when Wilbur tells Lewis what will happen to him if his parents find out that he broke the time machine, not only will they murder him, they will dance upon his grave.
- In the 1970 musical Scrooge, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge a scene where a crowd on the street is actually celebrating his demise, led in song to "Thank You Very Much". Scrooge fails to even realize they're celebrating his death.