Blacked out
Dead and blacked out are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Dead" instead an adjective phrase "Blacked out".
Dead
Dead adjective - No longer living.
Blacked out and dead are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Blacked out" instead an adjective "Dead".
Nearby Word: deadly
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For the one in MW3 Sandman is the only one who's face isn't initially blacked out (though it's not too hard to recognize the characters), Ghost is already dead, and when all the faces are revealed Soap is dead as well.
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Seimei Aoyagi from Loveless has over half the tropes on his entry on the character paged blacked out after The Reveal that he's alive after having been assumed dead since the start of the story.
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Characters who've vanished and are probably dead are blacked out.
Source: Removed from the Picture
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Dead and Blacked out. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/blacked_out/dead
Blacked out & Dead. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/blacked_out/dead>.
Dead or Blacked out. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/blacked_out/dead.
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