Tropescilloscope: The Ghost

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

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