Tropescilloscope: Ghost Fiction

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