Tropescilloscope: Ghost Fiction

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