Tropescilloscope: Ghost Fiction

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