“ | Hello, brother. Didn't think you could get rid of me so easily, did you? See, my days were numbered, but you oh, you can continue on for me, be my ultimate revenge! So, calm yourself. Don't fight it. Breathe it in. This gas was a special mixture I had made, just for you. Something to finally set you free. It's time to have some fun. Burn it down, brother. Burn it all down! | „ |
~ Jerome Valeska announcing his legacy for Jeremiah Valeska. |
“ | Guy's some piece of work, isn't he? Six feet under and half a face, he's still screwing with us. | „ |
~ Hank Schrader about Gus Fring. |
Posthumous Villains who either died for real or have an unknown fate yet continue to have lasting impacts and presences from beyond their grave/long-time absence in an earthly and terrestrial way. They can even be deceased from the very beginning and appear primarily as Flashbacks (e.g. Bertrand Zobrist). Their actions, legacies and the harm they caused may continue to have lasting impacts after their demise. A good example of this is Scar of The Lion King, as he died but Zira used her son Kovu to continue his plans.
In regards to what characters can be regarded as posthumous villains, Artificial Intelligences can also apply in spite of being machines and therefore have no bodies nor souls if their actions still has any lasting impact on the story (i.e. the Marvel Cinematic Universe iteration of Ultron, whose actions on Sokovia caused the public view on the Avengers to shift, leading to the Avengers Civil War) as so Forces of Nature if their influence likewise remains on the story (i.g. The Black Mass was destroyed by Samurai Jack's father but it created Aku so he could cause chaos and destruction on to continue with the Black Mass' genocidal rampage).
Evil Organizations can also apply as posthumous villains if they were fully disbanded although not all its members have to die (or have died) yet they still have a lasting impact on the story (i.e. the Galactic Empire, which disbanded after Emperor Palpatine's first death but many of its surviving members went to the Unknown Regions and formed the First Order to replace it).
Note: Characters who came back as Noncorporeals, Zombies, Vampires and so on cannot be Posthumous as actions are still being carried out by them as the Undead UNLESS:
- their Undead forms are also killed off and have such effects afterwards (i.e. Shane Walsh),
- they disappear or withdraw from any action and no longer connect with the plot essentially being permanently removed (i.e. Darth Vader),
- are defeated and sent (back) to an afterlife dimension from which they cannot return (i.e. Imhotep)
- or conflicts take place in an afterlife and do not reconnect with a world of the living (i.e. Ernesto de la Cruz).
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- Chang Kung-Fu
- Chaos Sonic
- Char Aznable
- Chara (Undertale)
- Charles "Trout" Walker
- Charles (Choo-Choo Charles)
- Charles Dalimar
- Charles DiLaurentis
- Charles Henry Moffet
- Charles Pike
- Charlie Grimille
- Charlie Hewitt Jr.
- Charlie Manx
- Charlie Stubbs
- Charlie Walker
- Charlotte DiLaurentis
- Charlotte Ermengarde
- Charlotte Hoyle
- Charlotte the Babysitter
- Charmaine Diyoza
- Chase Andrews
- Chatterbox (Nikke)
- Chen Gong
- Cheng Yu
- Cherie's Uncle
- Chic
- Chica the Chicken (Five Nights at Freddy's)
- Chief Banks (comics)
- Chief Lion
- Chiester 556
- Chikara Horadori
- Child of Perdition
- Chill Penguin
- Chilled
- Chimera Ant Queen
- Chin the Conqueror
- China (Fallout)
- Chinatsu
- Chirakashizky
- Chisa Yukizome
- Chitauri
- Cho Sang-woo
- Chou Ga Ryuu
- Chou Sou
- Chris Buyer
- Chris Hargensen
- Chris Shelton
- Christiano Berti
- Christopher Pelant
- Chuck Hankins
- Chuck McGill
- Chuck Shocks
- Chuck Vance
- Chuuei Toutaku
- Chyna
- Chí Phèo
- Cinnibar Brenneka
- Circus Baby (Five Nights at Freddy's)
- Circus Baby (Novel Trilogy)
- Citlali Grey
- Claes Fagerman
- Clan Leader
- Clara and Mia Buhalmet
- Claudine "DeeDee" Blanchard (The Act)
- Clay Morrow
- Clayton (Disney)
- Cleon the Great
- Clifford Blossom
- Clifford DeVoe (Arrowverse)
- Clive Deare
- Clive Koch
- Cloak-Bot
- Clockwerk
- Clord
- Clove
- Clovis la Britannia
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- Cobalt (Rust)
- Cobalt Blue (Arrowverse)
- Cobra Unit
- Coconteppi
- Colin Kent
- Collectors (The Owl House)
- Colonel (Mega Man X)
- Colonel Autumn
- Colonel H. Stinkmeaner
- Colonel Henry Favours
- Colonel Otto
- Colonel Yon-Rogg
- Colt Fathom
- Combo (Breaking Bad)
- Comedian (Watchmen)
- Commander Black
- Commander Leopard
- Commander Magenta
- Commander Red
- Commander Rourke
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- Commander Tartar
- Commissioner Loeb (Arkhamverse)
- Commissioner Pike
- Common Consciousness
- Conal Cochran
- Confederacy of Independent Systems
- Conky
- Conquest (Invincible)
- Constance Hatchaway (original)
- Constance Langdon
- Constance Lenz
- Constance Nebbercracker
- Consuela
- Controlatron
- Copperfield
- Copy X
- Copybot
- Cora Mills
- Corey Comstock
- Cornelia Arnim
- Cornelius Hawthorne
- Corporal Edwards
- Corporal Spivey
- Cortland Bryce Ryan
- Corvus Lestrange
- Cosinga Palpatine
- Count Bleck's Father
- Count Dooku
- Count Dracula (Nosferatu, the Vampyre)
- Count Dracula (Universal classics)
- Count Mecha
- Count Olaf (original)
- Countess Elizabeth Johnson
- Covenant (Halo)
- Coyolxāuhqui
- Crablante
- Craig Black
- Cranberry, Musician of the Forest
- Crank Zent
- Craven (The Walking Dead)
- Crawford Oberson
- Crazed Square (We Become What We Behold)
- Credo
- Creepox
- Cretaceous and Maelstrom
- Crimson Countess (comics)
- Criston Cole
- Crossbones (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Crucabena
- Crux Dogatie
- Cujo
- Cult Leader (Attack on Titan)
- Curator Ponds
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- Cursa
- Cyber Gildo
- Cyborg Superman (DC Animated Movie Universe)
- Cycledrone
- Cygnus (Mega Man Star Force)
- Cylo
- Cypher Reagan
- Cyprian Wiley
- Cyrax (Mortal Kombat)
- Cyrus (The Warriors)
- Cyrus Temple
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- Dad (Frailty)
- Daelin Proudmoore
- Daemon I Blackfyre
- Daemon II Blackfyre
- Daemon Targaryen
- Daen
- Daenerys Targaryen
- Daeron I Targaryen
- Daevites
- Dagoth Ur
- Dahlia Hawthorne
- Daigo Kagemitsu
- Daisy Fitzroy
- Dalton Greyjoy
- Damaras
- Damien (A Song of Ice and Fire)
- Damien Darhk (Arrowverse)
- Damien Thorn
- Damocles Rowle
- Damon Harris
- Dane Vogel
- Danelle Lothston
- Daniel (Detroit: Become Human)
- Daniel Dickens
- Daniel Holtz
- Daniel Linderman
- Daniel Morris
- Daniel Quinn
- Daniel Whitehall (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Daniel Whitehall (Marvel)
- Dante (FMA 2003)
- Dante (The Walking Dead)
- Dante Madarang
- Danzō Shimura
- Daphne (Re:Zero)