Tropescilloscope: The Ghost

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

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