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* In the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book "The Ghost Next Door", the main character suspects that her neighbor is a ghost, due to the fact that he's lived next door for a while and yet she and her family don't remember anybody moving into that house, the fact that they've both been going to the same school for a while and are in the same grade yet neither knows any of the others friends and the fact that the neighbor seems to keep randomly disappearing. While he does cause trouble when he's around his friends (who pretty much coerce him into causing trouble), he is a generally good kid. But at the end, it turns out that [[spoiler:he's not a ghost, [[DeadAllAlong but the main character is]], [[LockedOutOfTheLoop having been unaware that she and her family had been dead for awhile]], and they are rather friendly for ghosts.]]

* ''There's a Ghost Behind That Gal!'' is about Hikari, an average high school girl who finds her GyaruGirl classmate Yuina is being followed around by [[DarkIsNotEvil a spooky-looking but ultimately harmless]] CuteGhostGirl who answers to "Reiko".

* ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi'' has A-Qing, a somewhat VengefulGhost who stuck around to protect unsuspecting visitors from the SerialKiller who murdered her, her ParentalSubstitute, and his best friend, and to make sure he was brought to justice. While she's rather unsettling in appearance (especially when she reveals the TongueTrauma that prevents her from verbal communication), she [[spoiler:uses her ghostly knocking to scare people out of the GhostCity where the killer resides, and later uses it to aid his pursuers in locating and defeating him]].

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Subtrope of OurGhostsAreDifferent. Compare ChummyMummy, FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire, FriendlySkeleton, FriendlyZombie, DontFearTheReaper, GuardianEntity, SillySpook, and CuteGhostGirl. Contrast GhastlyGhost.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMeetsTheBooBrothers'' has the eponymous Boo Brothers, a trio of friendly ghosts who provide most of the comic relief, and help out Shaggy and Scooby several times.

* Carrie in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is "Emo" (although she's really more of a goth) but she's still one of the more friendly characters.
* Beetlejuice becomes this in the animated adaptation ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'', in contrast to his villainous movie self. Here, instead of terrorizing the Deetzes, he's Lydia's best friend, and while he's mischievous and likes to play tricks on her family, he also protects them from any real danger.

* ''WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'' has this trope as its premise: Where the other ghosts are spooky and really mischievous, Casper just want friends, and is very polite and kind. Somewhat deconstructed (comically) in that most people are still terrified at a mere sight of ghosts like him even if he tried his darnedest not to be frightening, and so he only makes a few friends, but they all love Casper very much.

** Hell, Danny Phantom himself qualifies. Although he possesses the power to become a ghost (which tend to be the source of most misfortune in the Danny Phantom universe), he is generally a pretty outgoing, BookDumb kid who can be a bit of a ButtMonkey. Being a growing up teenager, though, he still can sometimes be a prankster.

* Jonathan "Mudsy" Muddlemore from ''WesternAnimation/TheFunkyPhantom'' by Creator/HannaBarbera died a coward while hiding in a standing clock from British soldiers during the American Revolution. Augie, Skip and April awaken Mudsy's ghost from the clock when they cause it to chime. Mudsy is still cowardly, but affable and polite while visible.

Subtrope of OurGhostsAreDifferent. Compare FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire, FriendlySkeleton, FriendlyZombie, DontFearTheReaper, GuardianEntity, SillySpook, and CuteGhostGirl. Contrast GhastlyGhost.

* In Season 4, the Winchesters briefly become ghosts themselves and are assisted in how to move objects by the ghost of a twelve-year-old boy.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural]]'': Most of the ghosts on the show are malevolent, given the heroes are ghost hunters. That said, they do meet some friendly ghosts.

* Sayo, the CuteGhostGirl from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''. She's treated just like another student in Negi's class.

* The first ghost-types to appear on ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' turned out to be pretty friendly to Ash and Pikachu.

* Ghosts in ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' and ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' can be made friends with like any other Sim, and made playable. They can even have [[GRatedSex WooHoo]] with normal Sims, and in VideoGame/TheSims3, produce "ghost babies", which look like ghosts and have some special abilities.
* [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Super Mario Bros. franchise]]
** [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Super Mario series]]

** [[VideoGame/PaperMario64 Paper Mario series]]

** [[VideoGame/LuigisMansion Luigi's Mansion series]]

The [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] is WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost, who is also the TropeCodifier.

* The staircase ghost from ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'' as well as the other ghosts who break glass, bend utensils like forks and spoons and stack chairs.

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* In ''ComicBook/{{Silverblade}}'', the ghost of Brian Vane joins the group to assist them in unravelling the supernatural events that are happening. An old friend to most of the group before he died, he continues to act that way towards them. At the end of the story, he works with Bobby Milestone on writing a book about their accumulated knowledge on the supernatural and metaphysics.

* In the ''[[Literature/DeptfordMice Deptford Mouselets]]'' book ''Fleabee's Fortune'', the ghost of a [[TokenHeroicOrc Token Pacifist Rat]] named 'Orace Baldmony appears to Fleabee to give her hope that she doesn't have to become an evil rat and serve [[BigBad Jupiter]].

* Khushi in ''Film/GolmaalAgain''. She was the childhood friend of the main characters who is revealed to be DeadAllAlong, but is still nice and friendly to the group. She was killed by her boyfriend when she witnessed him murder someone and he wanted to destroy the orphanage to build a construction site. The group decides to stop him and get justice for their friend.