Tropescilloscope: The Ghost

Mentioned but never seen character. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Scenery Porn Anyone Can Die Hollywood Darkness Mooks Batman Gambit Madness Mantra All There in the Manual Expository Hairstyle Change Neck Snap Rape as Drama Moment Killer Bland-Name Product An Axe to Grind Serious Business Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Shower Scene After the End Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Suspiciously Similar Substitute BFG Kill It with Fire Dirty Cop timeperiod Light Is Not Good Cool Old Lady The Sociopath Twist Ending Badass Boast Riddle for the Ages Driven to Suicide Punny Name Stuff Blowing Up Ungrateful Bastard Artistic License – Physics One Steve Limit Shut Up, Hannibal! Kick the Dog You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Retcon Immune to Bullets Politically Incorrect Villain The Great Depression No Celebrities Were Harmed Older Than They Look In Medias Res Mercy Kill Drill Sergeant Nasty Belligerent Sexual Tension Married to the Job B-Movie A God Am I The Hero Dies Every Car Is a Pinto Friend to All Children Leitmotif Body Horror Sinister Minister Shipper on Deck Not Even Bothering with the Accent Villain Opening Scene Zombie Stories Psychological Thriller Reckless Gun Usage Hooker with a Heart of Gold Grey and Gray Morality Leave the Camera Running Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Public Domain Feature Films Music Stories Mystery and Detective Films The Lost Lenore Together in Death Villain Song Cain and Abel Adult Fear My God, What Have I Done? Homage Cruel and Unusual Death Only a Flesh Wound Distracted by the Sexy He Knows Too Much Big Eater Police are Useless Freudian Excuse Truth in Television Mr. Exposition Novelization Age Lift Amoral Attorney Parental Substitute Show Within a Show He Who Fights Monsters Beta Couple Spell My Name with an "S" Here We Go Again! Heroes Want Redheads Call-Back The End... Or Is It? All Just a Dream Calling the Old Man Out My Greatest Failure Annoying Younger Sibling Bi the Way Blood Knight Refuge in Audacity Disappeared Dad Genre Savvy Meaningful Echo A.I. Is a Crapshoot Rich Bitch Taking the Bullet Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Catapult Nightmare Not What It Looks Like World of Ham Vacation Films Ominous Latin Chanting Funny Background Event Title Drop Dark Is Not Evil Mighty Whitey Suspiciously Specific Denial The Cameo Insane Troll Logic Poor Communication Kills Fanservice Extra Pre-Asskicking One-Liner A Father to His Men Drowning My Sorrows Left the Background Music On No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Vomit Discretion Shot Black and Gray Morality Fourth Date Marriage Crucified Hero Shot Only Known by Their Nickname Villain Ball Romantic False Lead Early-Bird Cameo Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Re-Cut Nice Hat Historical Villain Upgrade Ass Shove Index of Film Westerns What the Hell, Hero? Neck Lift Implacable Man Demoted to Extra Earn Your Happy Ending Vitriolic Best Buds Dark and Troubled Past Getting Crap Past the Radar Cool Old Guy Film Noir Index Historical In-Joke Air-Vent Passageway Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Offscreen Moment of Awesome One-Word Title Bloodier and Gorier Enemy Mine Dramatic Gun Cock Evil Is Hammy Big Bad Duumvirate Armor-Piercing Question Red Oni, Blue Oni The Casanova Mythology Gag Bunny-Ears Lawyer Card-Carrying Villain The '70s Jerk Jock Protagonist Title Death by Irony Does This Remind You of Anything? Brutal Honesty Evil Brit Tagline Funny Foreigner Tempting Fate Break the Haughty Throwing Your Sword Always Works Disproportionate Retribution Almost Kiss Central Theme Guile Hero Unresolved Sexual Tension French Films Canadian Movies Character Development Bloody Hilarious Toplessness from the Back Running Gag Flipping the Bird Unusually Uninteresting Sight Soft Glass Made of Iron Empathic Environment Sanity Slippage Villain Protagonist Genre Shift Those Two Bad Guys It's Personal Silent Movie Abusive Parents Historical Hero Upgrade Suddenly SHOUTING! The Film of the Book Plucky Comic Relief Historical-Domain Character Shown Their Work Russian Films Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Action Prologue Not Quite Dead Kill 'em All Redshirt Army Obviously Evil Abhorrent Admirer Diabolus ex Machina Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Motor Mouth Red Shirt Laughing Mad Paper-Thin Disguise Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Needs Wiki Magic Love Evil vs. Evil Reality Ensues Evil Plan Yandere Mind Screw Large Ham And Starring Black Best Friend Ghost Fiction I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Bavarian Fire Drill Boom, Headshot! The Un-Reveal Sci-Fi Horror Book-Ends Cat Scare Anguished Declaration of Love Improbable Aiming Skills Jitter Cam Hell Is That Noise Fatal Flaw Covers Always Lie In Name Only Aside Glance Retired Badass Humiliation Conga From Bad to Worse Apocalypse How An Arm and a Leg N-Word Privileges Stock Footage From Nobody to Nightmare Trailers Always Spoil Make It Look Like an Accident Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Eagleland British Films Camp Gay Gory Discretion Shot Real Life Writes the Plot No Ending Groin Attack War Is Hell For Want of a Nail Dark Action Girl Let's Get Dangerous! Stepford Smiler Crazy Jealous Guy Only One Name Brainless Beauty Shirtless Scene Peek-a-Boo Corpse Dying Moment of Awesome Blood from the Mouth Black Dude Dies First Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Authority Equals Asskicking Bury Your Gays The Mafia Fainting Based on a True Story Sexy Discretion Shot Betty and Veronica Death Glare Too Dumb to Live Ambiguous Ending Never My Fault Hero Antagonist Affably Evil I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Hollywood Law Foreshadowing Anti-Hero Nothing Is Scarier Adults Are Useless I Did What I Had to Do Rousing Speech Kubrick Stare Fiery Redhead Vomit Indiscretion Shot Cowboy Cop Our Vampires Are Different The Big Guy Everyone Has Standards Bad "Bad Acting" The Musical Smoking Is Cool Faking the Dead The Brute Eldritch Abomination Training Montage Informed Ability A Minor Kidroduction Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Manic Pixie Dream Girl Rule of Symbolism Last-Name Basis Translation Convention Evil Laugh Drives Like Crazy Adaptational Attractiveness Rasputinian Death Monumental Damage Better to Die than Be Killed Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Contrived Coincidence Fake Shemp Retirony Science Fiction Films Wounded Gazelle Gambit Word of God Bad Boss True Companions Sir Swears-a-Lot Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Spanner in the Works The Starscream Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Martial Arts Movie Heterosexual Life-Partners Stealth Pun Properly Paranoid Take a Third Option Mundane Made Awesome Psychopathic Manchild Defiant to the End Adaptational Villainy Artistic License – Law Does Not Like Shoes Berserk Button Mr. Fanservice Unreliable Narrator She's Got Legs Karmic Death Fun with Acronyms Token Minority Super Strength La Résistance Scary Black Man Star-Crossed Lovers Slashed Throat Red Right Hand Reality Has No Subtitles Mistaken for Gay Cat Fight Unspoken Plan Guarantee Made of Explodium Meaningful Background Event Australian Movies Knight Templar Framing Device Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Woman Scorned Self-Deprecation Lampshade Hanging The '50s Manipulative Bastard The Ditz The Bully Epic Movie Psycho for Hire Chewing the Scenery Television Movie Index Bloodless Carnage The '60s Real Life The '90s Big Fancy House What Happened to the Mouse? 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Catch-Phrase The Dragon It's All About Me Children Are Innocent Extremely Short Timespan Noodle Incident Eureka Moment Hypocrite Those Wacky Nazis Darker and Edgier The Hero Biopic Anachronism Stew Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Despair Event Horizon Actually Pretty Funny Call-Forward Smug Snake Lock and Load Montage All There in the Script Be Careful What You Wish For Country Matters Really Gets Around Video Credits The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Butt-Monkey Mad Scientist Agony of the Feet Hong Kong Films "Shaggy Dog" Story Heroic Sacrifice Brick Joke Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Creative Closing Credits Parental Neglect Dramatic Irony The Bad Guy Wins Those Two Guys Hidden Depths Names to Run Away from Really Fast Auto Erotica The Vamp Canon Foreigner Romantic Comedy No Name Given Curse Cut Short Wrong Genre Savvy Vampire Fiction Adaptation Name Change Continuity Nod Rule of Cool Pimped-Out Dress Jerkass Easily Forgiven Death by Adaptation Japanese Films Took a Level in Jerkass There Is No Kill Like Overkill Well-Intentioned Extremist Dressing as the Enemy Naïve Newcomer Death of a Child Demonic Possession Naked People Are Funny Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Flashback The Chick Aluminum Christmas Trees Hope Spot folderlabel Once More, with Clarity! 20 Minutes into the Future Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Artistic License – Military Instant Death Bullet The Stoner Pet the Dog Up to Eleven Setting Update Chekhov's Gunman Men Are the Expendable Gender Corrupt Corporate Executive Rated M for Manly Anachronic Order Death Seeker Pay Evil unto Evil No-Sell Wicked Cultured O.O.C. Is Serious Business Badass Longcoat Grievous Bottley Harm The X of Y "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Cool Guns Major Injury Underreaction The '80s More Dakka Gone Horribly Right Ambiguously Gay Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Artistic License – Geography Becoming the Mask Depraved Bisexual Kids Are Cruel And the Adventure Continues Handicapped Badass Sealed Evil in a Can Interrupted Suicide Redemption Equals Death Deliberately Monochrome "Well Done, Son!" Guy Good Is Not Nice Early Installment Weirdness Documentary Male Gaze Straight Gay You Have Outlived Your Usefulness You Have Failed Me Animal Motifs Shoot the Shaggy Dog Credits Gag Wham Line I'm a Humanitarian Arc Words Arch-Enemy The Alleged Car What You Are in the Dark Unwitting Instigator of Doom Breaking the Fourth Wall Superhero Badass Grandpa Off with His Head! Broken Bird Product Placement The Faceless Gorn Fantasy Films Your Head A-Splode Jump Scare Facial Horror Meet Cute Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Killed Mid-Sentence Bolivian Army Ending Gold Digger Bullying a Dragon Malevolent Masked Men May–December Romance Amusing Injuries Not So Above It All Bottomless Magazines Exact Words Camera Abuse Casting Gag Combat Pragmatist Cool Car Adaptational Heroism Spiritual Successor Fire-Forged Friends Rewatch Bonus Black Comedy Rape Gilligan Cut Cassandra Truth Outrun the Fireball Pragmatic Villainy Serial Killer Curb-Stomp Battle Dutch Angle Badass in a Nice Suit Sequel Hook The Dog Bites Back Punch-Clock Villain Failed a Spot Check Adaptation Dye-Job And I Must Scream It Can Think Chekhov's Gun Obstructive Bureaucrat The Mole Artistic License – Biology The Stinger Take That! No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Horror Comedy Bond One-Liner Chiaroscuro Horror Films Imagine Spot Evil Sounds Deep Dogged Nice Guy My Beloved Smother Irony Animated Credits Opening I Have Your Wife Guns Akimbo Heroic BSoD Bittersweet Ending Chekhov's Skill Put on a Bus Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Police Brutality Deliberate Values Dissonance Say My Name Stylistic Suck Epic Fail Red Eyes, Take Warning Frame-Up Stalker with a Crush Italian Films Improvised Weapon Visual Pun Shell-Shocked Veteran Pre-Mortem One-Liner Rule of Three Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience One-Man Army Adaptational Badass Lighter and Softer Man on Fire Male Frontal Nudity Big Bad Big-Bad Ensemble Posthumous Character Mexican Standoff Bond Villain Stupidity Morality Pet Get Out! 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