Tropescilloscope: The Ghost

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

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