Tropescilloscope: Ghost Fiction

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