Tropescilloscope: Ghost Fiction

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