Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl/Playing With


 * Basic Trope: A frightening apparition of a female, white-clad ghost who looks rather bedraggled.
 * Played Straight: Alice appears to Bob wearing a white gown, with stringy hair over her face.
 * Exaggerated: Her face is horribly disfigured, and she has some Yandere-ish Ghostly Goals.
 * Justified: Alice was raped and murdered (or died some other such horrible death) while wearing a white nightgown, and has not been able to move onto the afterlife.
 * Gravedirt and rot-juice are murder on your hair.
 * Inverted: Cute Ghost Girl
 * Subverted: Alice is wearing white and looks a little bedraggled, but she's a benevolent spirit.
 * Double Subverted: But she frightens Bob (and anyone else who sees her)
 * Deconstructed: This ghost is usually that of someone who died a horrible death and/or was wronged or rejected by a Love Interest. Not surprisingly, their Ghostly Goals can be troublesome.
 * Reconstructed: Alice comes to terms with her death and moves onto the afterlife.
 * Parodied: Alice is Bob's Yandere ex-girlfriend (or current one)
 * Lampshaded: "And she was a frightening sight! She was dressed in a white gown, and her hair covered her disfigured face..."
 * Averted: Alice looks pretty and does not scare people.
 * Alice is not a ghost.
 * Enforced: Fear of death and what's beyond.
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel
 * Invoked: Alice finds she is unable to move on due to the circumstances surrounding her death.
 * Defied: Alice decides that she's safe now that she's dead and allows herself to go to Heaven
 * Discussed:
 * Conversed:
 * Played For Laughs: See "Parodied"
 * Played For Drama: Almost always is.