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''[[Anya's Ghost]]'' is a single-issue graphic novel by Vera Brosgol. It features Anya: an [[Ordinary High School Student|insecure, dowdy teenager,]] born of Russian immigrants, who finds herself struggling with the day-to-day trials of
A lovely story about friendship, selfishness and maturity. Try [http://www.verabee.com/ the artist's blog] for more information.
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▲* [[Adorkable]]:
** Dima.
** Arguably also Emily. {{spoiler|Before she snaps}}.
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Emily seems to think so.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]:
** A picture of a girl in a bikini is visible on the inside of Sean's locker when Emily sneaks into it to look up his schedule for Anya.
** Preston tells Anya, "Your boobs look spectacular in that shirt" at Matt's party.
** Avoided with little churchboy Dima.
** Siobhan certainly thinks so.
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'''Anya:''' Yes, he has!
'''Siobhan:''' Are you sure he wasn't just talking to your breasts? }}
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: {{spoiler|[[Averted Trope|Averted]] and [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructed]] with Elizabeth. If you are familiar with high school tropes you'll think she'll be one, however she doesn't have the
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: The other kids picking on Dima. It's only seen for one panel, but it's enough to drive the message home.
* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Sasha.
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* [[Cute Ghost Girl]]: She's more of a [[Adorkable|mousy, spindly kind of cute]], but still distinctly adorable. {{spoiler|Most of the time, anyway...}}
* [[Dead to Begin With]]
* [[Death
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: The entire graphic novel is done in varying shades of black, white, and purple.
* [[Delinquent Hair]]: The boy who rescues Anya from the well has a mohawk.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Anya.
* [[Dream Sequence]] / [[Imagine Spot]]:
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'''Anya:''' ''"Oh Sean, take me away!"'' }}
* [[Everyone Hates Mathematics]]: Siobhan refers to economics class as 'naptime'.
* [[Evil Counterpart]] / [[Not So Different]] - {{spoiler|Emily}} is the evil counterpart to Anya. {{spoiler|She starts out mellowed out pretty well after ninety years sitting in a well to think about what she's done, but when Anya teaches her her own high school lifestyle she reawakens the beast, and the beast turns out to possess exaggerated versions of all of Anya's negative traits: Emily is obsessive over boys (but unlike Anya, she is a [[Yandere]]), sees existing girlfrends of 'mark' boys as not human individuals who deserve respect as such - but just competition (but unlike Anya, she is inclined to murder them), lies and manipulates (but not just about her last name, she lies about her entire past). The mirroring is even physical: she dons Anya's hairdo and starts smoking "ghost sigarettes", presumably a mimicing of Anya's bad habit. In the end, we even get an explicit [[Not So Different|You're Just Like Me speech]] from Emily - and Anya partially concedes the point, stating that she is enough like her to at least understand her.}}
* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: Emily learns to flatten her hair to create a more modern look.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]
* [[Fighting a Shadow]]: {{spoiler|Anya's predicament once Emily turns on her.}}
* [[Fog Feet]]
* [[Foreign Cuss Word]]: "Oy...bleen...my leg!"
* [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|The cover. At first glance it just looks like Anya with the Emily we're first introduced to, but look closer and you'll see Emily's hairstyle is different. It's the hairstyle she gets when she first begins to reveal her true self to Anya.}}
* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Sasha, Anya's little brother. [[Justified Trope|Their family is Russian.]]
* [[Genre Savvy]] - Siobhan: ''"Sean from the basketball team? Dude, he's the kind of guy you're supposed to get a crush on in a bad teen movie".''
* [[Ghostly Goals]]: Emily {{spoiler|claims to be}} a type 1.
* [[Glowing Eyelights of
* {{spoiler|[[Go Into the Light]]}}
* [[Gym Class Hell]]
* [[Hair Decorations]]: Siobhan wears two hair clips.
* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: Invoked: Anya is of average weight, but diets stubbornly and sees herself as obese.
* [[I Am Not Pretty]]: Again, Anya. For a curvy, fresh-faced young girl, she's pretty convinced that she's unattractive.
* [[If I Can't Have You]]: {{spoiler|Emily's}} decision after catching her crush with another girl.
* [[Jacob Marley Apparel]]: Emily explicitly expresses the wish to upgrade he turn-of-the-century jumper, but she's apparently stuck with it. {{spoiler|Played with later as she learns to change her poofy hair into a more modern style, [[Foreshadowing]] her shift out of the 'innocent victim' persona.}}
* [[Kirk Summation]] / [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Anya's last argument with {{spoiler|Emily.}}
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]] / [[Love Makes You Evil]]: {{spoiler|Emily's}} excuse for burning a couple alive.
* [[Love Martyr]]: {{spoiler|Elizabeth. See [[Alpha Bitch]].}}
* [[MacGuffin]]: The finger bone.
* [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative Bitch]]: {{spoiler|Emily's [[Evil All Along]] [[The Reveal|reveal.]] }}
* [[Messy Hair]]: Emily's is described as 'dandelion-like.'
* [[Nice Guy]]: Sean. {{spoiler|[[Your Cheating Heart|Subverted]] at Matt's party.}}
* [[Noodle People]]
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: A mild form of this {{spoiler|at the climax, when Emily hauls her bones up from the well in a last-ditch attempt to kill Anya. She looks like a ghostly silhouette with a tangible skeleton underneath.}}
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Anya, Siobhan and their classmates. {{spoiler|Evidently, Emily wants '''[[Determinator|very badly]]''' to be one.}}
* [[Panty Shot]]: Anya gets one when she trips and falls in the middle of a run in gym class.
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* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Emily convinces Anya to dress up and go to Sean's party. This is the result.
* [[Shown Their Work|Shown her work]] - Vera Brosgol knows how to investigate old newspapers using microfilm, and she will make damn sure you do too when you've read this. With four pages, and a diagram. (Oh, and by the way, Anya's right: it will hurt your eyes. Don't do this for too long wearing contacts).
* [[Shout
** Anya has a Domo-kun plushie in her bedroom. It can be seen on pages 41 and 93.
** A girl who falls down a well and becomes a ghost. [[The Ring|Sounds familiar]]. The reference is made pretty explicit when {{spoiler|at the end, Emily claws her way up the well and crawls out of it, head slumped downwards}}.
* [[Self
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]
* [[Soul Jar]]: Of a sort. Emily can't move very far from her skeleton, so Anya ends up [[Loophole Abuse|carrying a bone from her little finger]] so they can move about together.
* [[Unfinished Business]]
* [[The Unpronounceable]]: Anya's last name is Borzakovskaya.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Siobhan is Anya's best (human) friend... She just has a funny way of showing it.
** Anya's got a funny way of showing it too.
* [[Who Dunnit to Me?]]
* [[Yandere]]: Arguably subverted. {{spoiler|Emily didn't 'help' Anya for her sake, she did it because she wanted to ''make'' Anya live the life she couldn't have.}}
** {{spoiler|Its revealed that Emily also played this trope straight. She [[Kill It
* [[You Can Barely Stand]]: Almost said word-for-word when {{spoiler|Emily crawls out of the well, bones and all, to try and [[Taking You
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: In her school uniform, Anya's stockings are between Grade B and Grade A.
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