Tropescilloscope: Ghost Fiction

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