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{{trope}}
The [[Peek
"Boo!" And then he laughs when they run away. ''This is '''all''' he does.'' Sometimes it's [[Punch Clock Villain|his designated job]]. He probably wouldn't know what to do if someone wasn't frightened of him, which is often [[An Aesop]].
Characters should be careful about what genre they are in, because true horror movie ghosts often pretend to be this to lull their [[Wrong Genre Savvy|so-called "Genre Savvy"]] prey into a false sense of security. Alternately, all it takes is one good scare to trigger a [[Fright Deathtrap]].
Often the foil of the [[Reluctant Monster]]. Compare to the [[Noble Demon]], who is a more serious version of this. Shouldn't be confused with the ''real'' [[Things That Go Bump in the Night|Bogeyman.]] Not to be confused with the actually scary [[Peek-a-Boo Corpse]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* A decidedly adult spin is put on this trope in the ''[[XXXenophile]]'' story "The Monster Under the Bed".
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== [[Film]] ==
* Stuart, Cyrus, and Judge in ''[[The Frighteners]]''.
* This is what the [[The Deaths of Ian Stone|Harvesters]] used to be, with a side order of [[Physical God]] -- [[Emotion Eater]]s by nature, they instilled fear of themselves in humanity so they'd always have a ready supply of food. By the film's beginning, they've mostly abandoned this (having discovered the addictiveness of the fear humans feel in the moments before death), but [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|Gray]] is still at it, keeping his conscience pure.
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The normal species of ghosts that hang from the ceiling in ''[[Luigi's
** [[Money Spider|Blue ghosts]] also act like this; they pop out to scare Luigi, then run.
* Tatara Kogasa from ''[[Touhou]]''. She's a [[Youkai|karakasa]] that [[Emotion Eater|eats surprise]].
* The [http://www.wowhead.com/npc=45704 Lurking Tempest] from the Vortex Pinnacle dungeon in ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* Other ghosts besides ''[[Casper the Friendly Ghost]]'' in any medium he appears in. In fact, scaring is [[Serious Business]].
* This is what ''[[Shrek]]'' was in the beginning of his movie, more as a device to maintain his privacy.
* The monsters of ''[[Aaahh
* The Flying Dutchman of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''.
** ...Sometimes.
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