History ComicBook / AnyasGhost

* BrokenPedestal: Anya is deeply infatuated with Sean and envies his girlfriend, until she finds out that [[spoiler:Sean is a BastardBoyfriend who takes advantage of his girlfriend’s insecurities to get her find girls for him to cheat on her with]].

* NotSoSimilar: After Anya leaves the party upon learning [[spoiler: Sean is a creep, Emily tries to convince her to stay. At one point during the heated discussion, Emily tries to argue that she's just trying to keep Emily from ever being alone, as it was previously mentioned she lost her fiancé decades ago (even though this turns out to be false). To this, Anya has to spell it out to Emily that Sean is ''hardly'' comparable to her war-hero fiancé. One is only unreachable by sleeping six feet under, and the other is [[ExactWords unattainable]] by sleeping with his best friend's girlfriend.]]

* WhamShot: The newspaper article that Anya comes across as she researches Emily's murder, [[spoiler:which shows that ''Emily'' was a ''murderer'', not a victim. The subsequent pages show her ''burning a couple alive'' before she falls down the well and is killed.]]

** Anya's last name is Borzakovskaya.

* NotGoodWithRejection: UpToEleven with [[spoiler:Emily. The guy she loved rejected her and called her ugly...so she [[DisproportionateRetribution murdered him and the girl he turned her away for]].]]

** Even if other people have it better than you do, hurting them won't make your own life better. All you can do is try to improve yourself and your situation.

* CreepyGymCoach: Anya hates doing the bleep test because she thinks the gym coach "just likes seeing [the girls] run around in those stupid skirts."

** Sometimes it seems like other people have it better than you do, but hating them or trying to make them suffer won't make your own life better. All you can do is try to improve yourself and your situation.

** Sometimes it seems like other people have it better than you do, but hating them or trying to make them suffer won't make your own life better.

* AnAesop: Everyone has problems. Even the person or couple you envy for being "perfect", [[BeneathTheMask could in reality have bigger issues than you have.]]

* NotSoDifferent: In the end, we even get an explicit You're Just Like Me speech from [[spoiler:Emily - and Anya partially concedes the point, stating that she is enough like her to at least understand her.]]

* NotGoodWithRejection: UpToEleven with [[spoiler:Emily. The guy she loved rejected her and called her ugly...so she [[DisportioncateRetrubution murdered him and the girl he turned her away for]].]]

In 2013, the film rights were bought by [[Creator/AndresMuschietti Andre]] [[{{Film/Mama}} and Barbara Muschietti]]. However, the latest news of the film's development comes from 2018, with the announcement of Creator/EmmaRoberts being slated to play Emily, so the current status of its production is unknown.

In 2013, the film rights were bought by [[Creator/AndresMuschietti Andre]] [[Film/Mama and Barbara Muschietti]]. However, the latest news of the film's development comes from 2018, with the announcement of Creator/EmmaRoberts being slated to play Emily, so the current status of its production is unknown.

* ZettaiRyouiki: In her school uniform, Anya's stockings are between Grade B and Grade A.

* CuteGhostGirl: Emily's more of a [[{{Adorkable}} mousy, spindly kind of cute]], but still distinctly adorable. [[spoiler:Until her true colors start to shine through, and she becomes more scary than cute.]]

* {{Adorkable}}:
** Dima, a kind and very smart, but subsequently very nerdy, little Russian boy who hasn't quite managed to get the hang of English yet.
** Emily as well, as she's small and mousy with hair like a dandelion, and though she means well she comes off a bit dorky in her excitement to learn more about the present. [[spoiler: This goes away as she begins showing her crueler nature, with even her appearance changing to make her look less mousy.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Little Sasha's obsession with dinosaur bones, of all things, [[spoiler:turns out to be useful when he finds [[SoulJar Emily's finger bone]] and stores it in a box, enabling Anya to end her rampage by taking it, and her, out of the house and back to the well.]]