Tropescilloscope: Ghost Fiction

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