Tropescilloscope: The Ghost

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

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