Tropescilloscope: The Ghost

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

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