Tropescilloscope: The Ghost

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

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