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* [[Angst]] and [[Wangst]] are often involved with ghostly hauntings, particularly when love is involved.
* Often (particularly in media intended for children) [[Ghostly Advisor|only a select few can see/hear them]].
* Popping in and disappearing just as fast, leaving those who saw them claiming [[It Was Here, I Swear]].
'''Possible Appearance:'''
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* [[Dead Person Conversation]]
* [[You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost]]
* [[Who You Gonna Call?]]
Haunted places:
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'''Needless to say that as ghosts are the dead, and resolving their issues often reveals details about their death: SPOILER WARNING. Please proceed at your own risk!'''
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* A few variants, usually bought to light by [[Tomato Surprise]], appear in ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]].'' In the series proper is {{spoiler|Souji Mikage}}, who in reality was {{spoiler|Professor Nemuro. He died years and years ago from a fire that he set off after seeing the woman he loved cheat on him and her younger brother, who he held affection for, die. [[Manipulative Bastard|Akio]] finds his "ghost", so to speak, and gives him [[False Memories]] in order to manipulate him to fight [[The Messiah|Utena]], and his sister [[Extreme Doormat|Anthy]] disguises herself as Mamiya in order to prod him forward. This sets off the Black Rose Arc. By the end, Mikage realizes that he was manipulated and passes on, and is eventually forgotten.}} Needless to say, the poor guy could've [[There Are No Therapists|used some therapy...]]
** In the [[Mind Screw|mind-warped]] movie adaptation, {{spoiler|Touga is actually dead, but appears normally until about two-thirds through. It turns out that in this version, he died from drowning. He also loved Utena in the past (and was a more sympathetic character in general in that version).}} Why he's there beforehand is never explained. In the television series and the original manga, he's alive.
** In addition, there is the [[Sega Saturn]] game's antagonist, {{spoiler|Chigusa. She was the spurned lover of the [[Hello, Insert Name Here|player character's]] father because he found her to be cruel, and he settled for the more [[The Ingenue|demure]] woman who would become the player's mother instead. She loses it and grows a rather interesting philosophy about women, in that there are only two types: [[The Ingenue|Snow White, the princess]], and the [[God Save Us From the Queen|evil queen.]] One of the endings reveals that Souji and Mamiya, under Akio's influence, had created her (the game is set between the first and second arcs, so it serves as something of a preview to the latter).}} Destroying a tablet exorcises her.
* [[Cute Ghost Girl|Sayo Aisaka]] of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. Tied to her seat for more than sixty years due to reasons still undisclosed. Can't leave the school grounds until [[School Newspaper Newshound|Asakura]] got a special doll for her to possess. Is absolutely terrible at being a ghost, getting scared of the slightest noise and [[Dojikko|managing to trip on her feet despite lacking feet]]. Also recently gained a robot body with lasers and stuff, comparing herself to Chachamaru before flying off to blow up Negi. The original plan was to make a pactio. She's ''very'' different.
* In ''[[Hikaru no Go]]'', a ghost (Fujiwara-no-Sai) is one of the main characters.
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* This editor isn't sure why the ghost in ''[[The Ghost and Mrs. Muir]]'' stayed around in the movie or the TV show.
** In both the series and the film, it is stated that Captain Gregg the Ghost remained more out of stubbornness than anything else: he had intended to renovate the house, and he was not about to let his unplanned death interfere with what he had decreed would occur! As film/series continues, he realizes how foolish it has been for him to haunt the house over petty mulishness, but by then, he had fallen in love with the widow Mrs. Muir.
* ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' and its related media have hit just about every example on the list, although their ghosts have less limitations than others, like when Stay Puft steps on the church in the first film. They even tackled the odd demon here and there, up to and including [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Cthulhu.]]
** The expanded universe details the nature of ghosts in much greater depth. Ghosts are classified by nature and [[Power Levels|power level]] but to make things confusing the "Class" terminology is used for both. In terms of classification - Class 1 is incomplete manifestations like sounds or lights, Class 2 are partial manifestations like hands or heads, Class 3 are complete humanoid manifestations - but are spirits representing ideas like Christmas or greed rather than deceased humans, Class 4 are full-fledged apparitions and the only class that can be determined a traditional ghost of a deceased human, Class 5 (like Slimer) are non-humanoid extradimensional spirits representing emotions or emotionally-charged events (like Gluttony in Slimer's case), Class 6 are the ghosts of animals, and Class 7 are demons and gods. In Power Levels, they're ranked from Class 1 (able to cause minor lights and move small objects) to Class 11 (essentially a god).
* ''[[Ghost (Film)|Ghost]]'', with Sam Wheat being the ghost in question:
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* ''[[Angels in America]]'' has two separate cases: the first is Prior Walter's two ancestors (also named Prior Walter), who return to announce the coming of The Angel; the second is Ethel Rosenberg, the spy Roy Cohn put every bit of influence he had into sending to death row thirty-two years ago, who returns to haunt Roy as he {{spoiler|slowly dies from AIDS}}.
* ''[[Hamlet]]'s'' dad. Definitely wants revenge.
** And boy, [[Kill
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Alone in The Dark]] 1'' features a ghost woman sitting in front of a fire place, as well as several [[The Dead Can Dance|ghost dancers]] in [[Jacob Marley Apparel]] in the ballroom. If any of these are disturbed by touching them, they will [[Shapeshifting]] into a swirling multicolored mist which proceeds to chase the player. If it makes contact again, it's a [[One
* When a Sim dies in [[The Sims]] 2, the method of its death is visible to the player and affects the game.
** Drowned Sims turn blue and leave puddles and may leave bubbles in bathtubs.
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** Don't forget the ghost of the Zora Queen, or the very chilling ghosts of the guards of Hyrule castle, who silently and desperately point Link to the Princess.
** The very first Zelda game featured ghosts called Ghinis haunting the graveyard in the West of Hyrule. Most games since have featured ghosts of some sort, including friendly ghosts and [[Boss Fight|boss fights]] against ghosts. Also of note: in the first game, Peahats (flowery enemies fluttering around the screen) are described as being the spirits of ''dead plants''.
** Princess Zelda herself is a fairy-like ghost in ''[[Spirit Tracks]]''. So we got a [[Cool Train]] and a [[
* All spirits seem to linger near their bodies after death in ''[[Ghost Trick]]'', but only certain ghosts have special ''ghost tricks' which allow them to move around and affect the world through possessing inanimate objects {{spoiler|or living bodies, or swapping similarly shaped items}}, as well as go back in time four minutes before a recently-deceased person's death. {{spoiler|Only people who die near the Temsik meteorite receive ghost trick power, indicating even in that world it's a very unusual thing.}}
* The ''[[Metroid]]'' series gives us Phantoon, a flying, bulbous, tentacled thing with an eyeball in its mouth. Its powers include [[Invisibility]], levitation, [[Intangible Man|intangibility]], and attacking with flaming blue balls of plasma. Apparently it gets its nutrition by sucking on the electrical current of the wrecked ship it lives in. Also inhabiting the wrecked ship are coverns, ghost-like entities that look like half a dozen rotting human heads rolled together into a ball.
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* ''[[War Craft]] III'' has Banshees, which can possess enemy units.
** ''[[War Craft]]'' and ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' also have other kinds of ghosts, like wraiths, shades, and wisps.
* How to explain [[Touhou|Yuyuko Saigyouji]]... Her body is the [[Sealed Evil in A Can|seal for a demonic cherry tree]], but she doesn't know about that, and in fact her trying to unseal it is the focal point for an entire game in the series (she fails). However, she is quite carefree and playful even in death. As for her power, she has none of the above, instead using the abilities she had in her lifetime: Control of dead spirits and ability to invoke death (the latter of which actually {{spoiler|scared her to the point that she [[Driven to Suicide|killed herself]].}} And then there's Youmu Konpaku, but that's a [[Half
** She also has [[Ghost Amnesia]] and can't even remember being alive because she's been dead for over 1000 years. Incidentally, that's the beginning of some bizarre [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|age inflation]] for the villains of the series.
** There's also the case of the Prismriver sisters, a trio of poltergeists. Technically, they were never alive to begin with, being [[Replacement Goldfish|magically-created phantom copies of existing people]] made by the fourth sister. All four original Prismrivers are long dead now, but the poltergeists "live" on rather normally.
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* [[Silent Hill 3]] says that ghosts who killed themselves or were killed unexpectedly must re-live the moment of their death over and over because they don't know they're dead, and will try to kill other humans because they've grown mad from it. {{spoiler|Needless to say, one tries to kill you.}}
** Also in [[Silent Hill 4]], the ghosts you encounter are all {{spoiler|Walter's Victims.}} They come out of walls leaving blood and goo behind, and just being near them causes Henry to get massive headaches and lose health. They look like mangled versions of their former selves, and in the case of some of them like [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090119220034/silent/images/5/58/Victim17.jpg Jasper], exactly how they looked while dying.
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'': Metronome, the [[Mirror Universe|Praetorian counterpart]] to the [[
** There's also Ghost Widow, one of [[Big Bad]] Lord Recluse's lieutenants, the Ghost Ship, the ghosts haunting [[Thriving Ghost Town]] Croatoa, the Pirate Ghosts in Fort Hades...it has a lot of ghosts, really.
** Also worth a mention: the Ghost of Scrapyard. His character description contains a lampshade:
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Casper the Friendly Ghost]]'' is a complicated case. In [[The Movie]], he was a boy who died of an illness, but in the comic books... it would seem that ghosts in the comicverse are one more Enchanted Forest species, not humans who die. The animated shorts do little to clarify, though one does involve a fox that Casper tried and failed to save becoming a ghost.
** As for abilities, "Ghostly Powers" in the comics are kept [[Magic
*** [[The Simpsons (Animation)|Lisa Simpson]] once theorized that Casper was the unquiet soul of Richie Rich, having despaired of the empty pursuit of wealth and taken his own life.
** The new cartoon ''Casper's Scare School'' has Casper and his uncles back to being ghosts that were never "fleshies".
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*** Vlad Masters has a hunting lodge. Every animal that appears as a trophy on the wall is a ghost animal under Vlad Plasmius' thrall. He also has ghost vultures.
*** Youngblood has a ghost sidekick which could morph into an animal of its choice to fit whatever costume Youngblood was using at the time (Parrot for pirate, Horse for Cowboy).
*** Wulf is a ghost ''werewolf'' who speaks broken ''[[Esperanto, the Universal Language|Esperanto]]''.
*** Every other ghost is made of ectoplasm and doesn't resemble any living or human being.
** Nonhuman Ghosts:
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