Tropescilloscope: The Ghost

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

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