Tropescilloscope: Ghost Fiction

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