Tropescilloscope: Ghost Fiction

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More Tropes Big Fancy House Combat Pragmatist Oh, Crap! Spiteful Spit Disney Death Kick the Son of a Bitch The Oner German Films Not So Different Homage The Alcoholic Earn Your Happy Ending Only Known by Their Nickname Dark and Troubled Past Heroes Want Redheads Chase Scene Dark Action Girl You Killed My Father Cool Car Only Sane Man Naked People Are Funny Unwitting Instigator of Doom This Is Gonna Suck Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Broken Bird Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Tap on the Head Scenery Porn Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Large Ham Defiant to the End Silent Movie Deconstruction Sports Stories Black Best Friend Card-Carrying Villain Bad Boss Demoted to Extra Jitter Cam The Starscream And I Must Scream Big Bad Duumvirate Totally Radical Call-Forward Star-Crossed Lovers Evil vs. Evil Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Not So Above It All Wham Shot I'm a Humanitarian As the Good Book Says... Due to the Dead What the Hell, Hero? The '50s Dull Surprise Grey and Gray Morality Stuff Blowing Up Overly Long Gag Shirtless Scene As Himself Foreshadowing Adaptation Name Change Karma Houdini Older Than They Look Blood from the Mouth Action Survivor Cat Fight Badass Boast Big Damn Heroes Romantic False Lead From Bad to Worse All There in the Script As You Know Fatal Family Photo Improvised Weapon Meet Cute BFG Bloodier and Gorier Romantic Comedy Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Damsel in Distress Betty and Veronica Taking the Bullet Artistic License – Military Cool Old Lady Flashback Refuge in Audacity Cool Guns French Films Anyone Can Die Fainting Hollywood Darkness Take That! Red Shirt Bond Villain Stupidity Hypocrite The Atoner One Steve Limit Rated M for Manly Documentary Failed a Spot Check Race Lift Bavarian Fire Drill Parental Neglect Slashed Throat Hero Antagonist Does Not Like Shoes Adaptational Attractiveness Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Bully The Mafia Casting Gag Disproportionate Retribution Fanservice Author Avatar Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Serial Killer Scare Chord Facial Horror Green-Eyed Monster Match Cut Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Coming-of-Age Story No-Sell Bare Your Midriff Hoist by His Own Petard True Companions Self-Deprecation Mind Screw Accidental Misnaming Race Against the Clock The Smurfette Principle Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Obfuscating Stupidity Adaptation Expansion After the End Bullying a Dragon Stock Footage Humiliation Conga One-Man Army Hate Sink Love at First Sight Composite Character It's Personal The Vamp Our Vampires Are Different Punny Name Deadpan Snarker Dutch Angle Contrived Coincidence Really Gets Around Actually Pretty Funny Aside Glance Red Oni, Blue Oni Bittersweet Ending Works Set in World War II Russian Films Wretched Hive "Well Done, Son!" Guy Evil Sounds Deep Stealth Pun Names to Run Away from Really Fast Agony of the Feet Credits Gag Properly Paranoid Interrupted Suicide Sanity Slippage Broken Pedestal Bolivian Army Ending Only One Name Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Nothing Is Scarier Freeze-Frame Bonus Face Death with Dignity Artistic License – Law Heroic BSoD Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Offscreen Moment of Awesome Posthumous Character Attempted Rape Film Series Asshole Victim Every Car Is a Pinto Together in Death Broken Aesop Bury Your Gays Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds "Awesome McCool" Name From Nobody to Nightmare Affectionate Parody Air-Vent Passageway Drowning My Sorrows Cruel and Unusual Death Face–Heel Turn Imagine Spot Neck Snap Hypocritical Humor Batman Gambit Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Adapted Out Decoy Protagonist Villain Protagonist Retcon Never Trust a Trailer Real Life Writes the Plot The '90s Fantastic Racism What You Are in the Dark Affably Evil I Need a Freaking Drink Shower Scene Half the Man He Used to Be Foregone Conclusion Black Comedy Science Fiction Films Dramatic Gun Cock Meaningful Echo Never Found the Body You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Music Stories Loads and Loads of Characters Anachronic Order Manipulative Bastard Didn't Think This Through A.I. Is a Crapshoot Lock and Load Montage Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Historical Hero Upgrade Curse Cut Short Adaptational Badass Cassandra Truth The Bad Guy Wins Jerk Jock Improbable Weapon User Word of God Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Male Gaze Wrong Genre Savvy Light Is Not Good And the Adventure Continues The Alleged Car Eureka Moment Ax-Crazy Ambiguous Disorder Did Not Get the Girl Five-Man Band Small Name, Big Ego Madness Mantra A Father to His Men Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Mr. Fanservice Bloody Hilarious The Smart Guy Fingore Butt-Monkey Henpecked Husband Setting Update Silence Is Golden Closed Circle Death by Irony Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Meaningful Background Event Not Using the "Z" Word May–December Romance For Want of a Nail Mundane Made Awesome Ungrateful Bastard Bad "Bad Acting" Easily Forgiven Freudian Excuse Revenge Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Re-Cut Big Bad Insult Backfire Gilligan Cut Domestic Abuse Recycled IN SPACE! Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Important Haircut Spell My Name with an "S" Guns Akimbo Animal Motifs Eldritch Abomination Spanner in the Works Stealth Hi/Bye Dissonant Serenity Auto Erotica Hair-Trigger Temper Shoot the Shaggy Dog Zombie Stories Time Skip Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Fiery Redhead Fake Shemp Poor Communication Kills Hong Kong Films Index of Film Westerns Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Retired Badass Malevolent Masked Men Apocalypse How The Ace Evil Is Petty The Faceless The Chessmaster Demonic Possession Dirty Coward Brutal Honesty Anachronism Stew Alas, Poor Villain The Reveal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Novelization Cain and Abel Motor Mouth Does This Remind You of Anything? Faux Affably Evil Cat Scare Mexican Standoff Evil Plan "Shaggy Dog" Story Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Would Hit a Girl Costume Porn Serious Business Sexy Discretion Shot Mooks British Films Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Villain with Good Publicity Informed Ability Epic Movie War Is Hell No Name Given Tempting Fate Bowdlerise Say My Name Fire-Forged Friends Body Horror MacGuffin Cluster F-Bomb Chekhov's Gunman Video Credits Becoming the Mask Aluminum Christmas Trees Dying Moment of Awesome The Mole Empathic Environment Heterosexual Life-Partners Everyone Has Standards My Greatest Failure Ascended Extra Christmas Movies Index Honor Before Reason Parental Incest Soundtrack Dissonance Not So Stoic Despair Event Horizon Stylistic Suck Cool Old Guy Fish out of Water Historical-Domain Character Distracted by the Sexy Villain Ball I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Plot Hole Dark Reprise Put on a Bus Evil Is Hammy Award-Bait Song Beware the Nice Ones Straight Gay No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Insistent Terminology Psychological Thriller Narrator Male Frontal Nudity Calling the Old Man Out The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Establishing Character Moment How We Got Here Unspoken Plan Guarantee Sacrificial Lion It Can Think Suspiciously Specific Denial Big Eater Artistic License – History Early Installment Weirdness The Power of Love Dirty Old Man Deus ex Machina Black Dude Dies First Jerkass Knife Nut Twist Ending Continuity Nod Left the Background Music On Framing Device Smug Snake Shout-Out Obviously Evil Reality Ensues Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Leave the Camera Running Bilingual Bonus Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Hero For the Evulz Stepford Smiler Only a Flesh Wound The Stinger Daddy's Girl The Load The Sociopath Action Genre Diabolus ex Machina Blood Knight Genre Throwback Soft Glass Suspiciously Similar Substitute Smoking Is Cool Anti-Hero Taking You with Me The Big Guy The Musical Pimped-Out Dress The Hero Dies Cloudcuckoolander Instant Death Bullet Fun with Acronyms Rule of Funny Took a Level in Badass Obstructive Bureaucrat The Film of the Book I Have Your Wife Lighter and Softer Plucky Comic Relief Dark Is Not Evil Determinator aka: The Determinator Scenery Gorn An Arm and a Leg Unreliable Narrator Pretty Little Headshots Amoral Attorney Celebrity Paradox Amusing Injuries She Cleans Up Nicely Creepy Child Crapsack World Outrun the Fireball Parental Abandonment Men Are the Expendable Gender Manic Pixie Dream Girl Riddle for the Ages Noodle Incident Darker and Edgier Well-Intentioned Extremist Sealed Evil in a Can The Quiet One Sir Swears-a-Lot Superhero Call-Back Wham Line The Chick Armor-Piercing Question Children Are Innocent Catch-Phrase Meaningful Name Bottomless Magazines Death Seeker Woman Scorned Horror Comedy Crucified Hero Shot Gold Digger Arch-Enemy No OSHA Compliance All There in the Manual Love Triangle Get Out! Driven to Suicide Japanese Films Annoying Younger Sibling Blatant Lies Horror Films timeperiod Mad Scientist More Dakka The Un-Reveal Happily Married Badass Grandpa It's All About Me Epic Fail Up to Eleven Married to the Job Black Comedy Rape The Brute Naïve Newcomer Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Hope Spot Show Within a Show Australian Movies Psychopathic Manchild Guile Hero Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Dressing as the Enemy Token Minority Corrupt Corporate Executive Rule of Three Final Girl Overprotective Dad Villain Song Jerkass Has a Point The End... Or Is It? Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Super Strength Canadian Movies Ambiguously Gay Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Protagonist Title Antagonist Title Irony You Have Failed Me Vacation Films Hidden Depths Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Big-Bad Ensemble Not Quite Dead Vitriolic Best Buds Camp Gay Depraved Bisexual In Medias Res Monumental Damage Sassy Black Woman Unusual Euphemism Handicapped Badass In the Back Deal with the Devil Peek-a-Boo Corpse Dies Wide Open Mistaken for Gay Military and Warfare Films Ominous Latin Chanting Dramedy Film Noir Implacable Man Gainax Ending Brother–Sister Incest Redemption Equals Death Those Two Bad Guys Villainous Breakdown Death of a Child Kick the Dog My Beloved Smother Take a Third Option Good Is Not Nice Pay Evil unto Evil Truth in Television Spiritual Successor Exact Words Creative Closing Credits Better to Die than Be Killed Unusually Uninteresting Sight Leaning on the Fourth Wall Badass Bookworm Arranged Marriage Pragmatic Villainy My God, What Have I Done? The Lancer Mercy Kill Only in It for the Money Break the Haughty Brainless Beauty Nice Hat Femme Fatale An Axe to Grind Martial Arts Movie Spared by the Adaptation Advertised Extra Eyepatch of Power Those Wacky Nazis Toplessness from the Back B-Movie Yandere Chewing the Scenery Camera Abuse All for Nothing Shell-Shocked Veteran Sequel Hook Sole Survivor It Will Never Catch On Author Appeal Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Even Evil Has Standards Karmic Death Kubrick Stare Death by Sex Arc Words Roaring Rampage of Revenge Killed Mid-Sentence Fourth Date Marriage Punch-Clock Villain Boom, Headshot! Catapult Nightmare Hell Is That Noise Action Prologue Here We Go Again! Market-Based Title Rousing Speech Developing Doomed Characters The Stoner Deliberately Monochrome Fantasy Films Shut Up, Hannibal! Intergenerational Friendship Rich Bitch Frame-Up Belligerent Sexual Tension Anguished Declaration of Love Age Lift Foil The Ditz Beta Couple Title Drop Laser-Guided Karma As Long as It Sounds Foreign Random Events Plot Playing Gertrude Bait-and-Switch In Name Only Rule of Cool Back from the Dead Mood Whiplash The '60s Let's Get Dangerous! Genre Savvy Ghost Fiction The '80s Brick Joke Adaptation Dye-Job Papa Wolf Major Injury Underreaction Laughing Mad Translation Convention Italian Films Red Right Hand Babies Ever After Manly Tears Captain Obvious The Lost Lenore Deliberate Values Dissonance Disguised in Drag Gratuitous English Evil-Detecting Dog One-Word Title He Knows Too Much Sadistic Choice Sinister Minister Pretty in Mink Bland-Name Product Death by Adaptation Ironic Echo The Great Depression Manchild Evil Counterpart Very Loosely Based on a True Story A God Am I Rewatch Bonus Ms. Fanservice Ship Tease Those Two Guys No Celebrities Were Harmed Adaptational Heroism Reasonable Authority Figure Berserk Button Skewed Priorities Fatal Flaw Paper-Thin Disguise What Happened to the Mouse? Biopic Early-Bird Cameo Break the Cutie The Place Hero of Another Story Training Montage Funny Foreigner There Is No Kill Like Overkill Parental Substitute Crazy Jealous Guy Genre Shift Red Eyes, Take Warning Even Evil Has Loved Ones Police Brutality Accidental Murder Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Artistic License – Gun Safety Dirty Cop Eiffel Tower Effect Expository Hairstyle Change Mighty Whitey Enemy Mine Real Life Evil Laugh Humans Are Bastards Bunny-Ears Lawyer Alliterative Name Gory Discretion Shot Politically Incorrect Villain Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Alpha Bitch The Voiceless Crazy-Prepared Bound and Gagged Running Gag Nice Guy Gorn The X of Y Sci-Fi Horror Kill It with Fire Mama Bear Shown Their Work Department of Redundancy Department Corpsing Reality Is Unrealistic Stalker with a Crush Exactly What It Says on the Tin Four-Temperament Ensemble Thriller Determinator Bond One-Liner Abusive Parents Vomit Indiscretion Shot Canon Foreigner Vampire Fiction Loophole Abuse You Have Outlived Your Usefulness All Men Are Perverts Dumb Blonde The Stoic Character Development Mystery and Detective Films Country Matters Big Applesauce Greater-Scope Villain Ambiguous Ending Eagleland Not Even Bothering with the Accent Last-Name Basis Morality Pet Extremely Short Timespan Redshirt Army Cowboy Cop Blackmail Moment Killer Would Hurt a Child Beauty Is Never Tarnished Film Noir Index The Remake Almost Kiss Curb-Stomp Battle Our Zombies Are Different Your Head A-Splode Villain Opening Scene Animated Credits Opening Car Fu Ass Shove The Dragon Animal Title Index Off with His Head! Made of Explodium Whole Plot Reference Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Historical In-Joke Daylight Horror Same Language Dub Drill Sergeant Nasty Dramatic Irony Based on a True Story Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Beard of Evil Drives Like Crazy Grievous Bottley Harm Made of Iron Fat Bastard Authority Equals Asskicking Black and Gray Morality Abhorrent Admirer NO INDOOR VOICE Badass Normal La Résistance Double-Meaning Title Once More, with Clarity! Double Entendre Knight Templar Fate Worse than Death Badass in a Nice Suit Adult Fear Product Placement O.O.C. Is Serious Business Retirony Victoria's Secret Compartment Worthy Opponent He Who Fights Monsters Non-Indicative Name Unresolved Sexual Tension The Cameo Maybe Ever After Hollywood Law Jump Scare Eye Scream Insane Troll Logic Cold-Blooded Torture Conspicuous CG Wicked Cultured Artistic License – Biology Historical Villain Upgrade Bi the Way Covers Always Lie Have a Gay Old Time Big Brother Instinct Funny Background Event Darkest Hour Immune to Bullets Bald of Evil Creator Cameo Ripped from the Headlines Idiot Ball Death Glare Offscreen Teleportation N-Word Privileges Adaptation Distillation Pre-Mortem One-Liner Awesome, but Impractical The Dog Bites Back Scary Black Man Destination Defenestration World of Ham Cool Shades Precision F-Strike folderlabel Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Visual Pun Disney Villain Death I Want My Beloved to Be Happy No Ending Trailers Always Spoil Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Pyrrhic Victory The Cavalry Off-into-the-Distance Ending Famous Last Words Dogged Nice Guy All Just a Dream Neck Lift And Starring Dropped a Bridge on Him Bar Brawl Too Dumb to Live Not What It Looks Like Fanservice Extra Book-Ends Slap-Slap-Kiss Flipping the Bird Make It Look Like an Accident Central Theme Sequel Escalation Reality Has No Subtitles Big "NO!" Drugs Are Bad Missing Mom Comically Missing the Point Heel–Face Turn Action Girl I Did What I Had to Do Wounded Gazelle Gambit Suddenly SHOUTING! Artistic License – Physics Fan Disservice Bloodless Carnage Be Careful What You Wish For Never My Fault Intrepid Reporter Heroic Sacrifice No Antagonist Red Herring Needs Wiki Magic Love Evil Brit Chekhov's Gun A Minor Kidroduction The Dreaded Adorkable "The Reason You Suck" Speech Actor Allusion She's Got Legs The Ghost Bring My Brown Pants Man on Fire Psycho for Hire Public Domain Feature Films Tranquil Fury Artistic License – Geography Heel Realization Tagline Gone Horribly Right All Girls Want Bad Boys Rasputinian Death Dwindling Party Disappeared Dad Mythology Gag Your Cheating Heart Logo Joke Pragmatic Adaptation Vomit Discretion Shot Rule of Symbolism Rape as Drama A Date with Rosie Palms Reckless Gun Usage An Aesop Badass Longcoat Woman in White Chekhov's Skill Leitmotif '80s Hair Jerk with a Heart of Gold Breaking the Fourth Wall Police are Useless Slasher Movie Defrosting Ice Queen Room Full of Crazy Dual Wielding The Casanova Friend to All Children Adaptational Villainy Storming the Castle Improbable Aiming Skills Mugging the Monster Faking the Dead Pet the Dog Shipper on Deck Chiaroscuro Took a Level in Jerkass Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Hooker with a Heart of Gold Gender Flip Expy Lampshade Hanging The '70s Adults Are Useless 20 Minutes into the Future Getting Crap Past the Radar Line-of-Sight Name Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Captain Ersatz Groin Attack Slasher Smile Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Television Movie Index Downer Ending Anti-Villain Kill 'em All Kids Are Cruel Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Throwing Your Sword Always Works Extreme Doormat Mr. Exposition Undying Loyalty