Tropescilloscope: The Ghost

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

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