Tropescilloscope: The Ghost

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

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