Tropescilloscope: Ghost Fiction

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