Tropescilloscope: Ghost Fiction

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