Tropescilloscope: Ghost Fiction

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