History Main / TheGhost

For actual ghosts and spirits, see OurGhostsAreDifferent. Not to be confused with TheSpook, or ''Film/Ghost1990''.

** All adults, the cat next door who hates Snoopy... and that little red-haired girl. The TV specials adapt the fact that adult dialogue is never presented as speech bubbles in the comic by making the adults TheUnintelligible (Waa Waa wa Wa wa wa Waa).
** The Little Red-Haired Girl was seen in full in both ''It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown'' and ''WesternAnimation/HappyNewYearCharlieBrown'' (which also claimed her name was Heather). However, despite the fact that [[WordOfGod Charles Schulz]] wrote the scripts for both specials, he claimed both were non-canonical. She appears again in ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'', although her face is never seen in detail or close-up until [[spoiler:Charlie Brown gets a chance to talk to her]].

* Creator/VictoriaWood had a routine that started with her character telling the audience "I'm lookin' for me friend. Kimberly. Have you seen her?" After her death, a flash mob event in celebration of her had the hashtag [=#WeAreKimberly=].

* Victoria Wood had a routine that started with her character telling the audience "I'm lookin' for me friend. Kimberly. Have you seen her?" After her death, a flash mob event in celebration of her had the hashtag [=#WeAreKimberly=].

* Film/ErnestPWorrell, an advertising icon who later starred in a television show called ''Hey Vern, It's Ernest!'' and a series of films, often addressed someone named Vern who was (presumably) behind the camera and never spoke or was seen on screen. In fact, Ernest was famous for the CatchPhrase "Knowhutimean, Vern?" This would be one of the cases where TheWatson is simultaneously invoked.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': The title character himself, ironically; Sigmar is the defacto BigGood and is thus spoken of quite frequently, but he has no official in-game model (unlike several other Order-aligned gods like Allarielle and Teclis) and only very rarely appears in Black Library novels. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] largely ''because'' he's the BigGood; he used to lead his armies from the frontlines, but after losing the war to Chaos, he believes he's better served acting as the general and monarch directing wars from Azyr, rather than leading them personally. Since Azyr is the ''one'' place in the Mortal Realms that's unlikely to have anything go wrong there, there's rarely a reason to set stories there, leaving Sigmar as TheGhost in a setting named after him.

Compare and contrast with TheFaceless where a character's face is never visible. For a character who is frequently mentioned but never seen because they died before the story began, see PosthumousCharacter and DeathByOriginStory. If the character eventually appears, see UnseenNoMore. For a character whose existence can only be inferred see UnknownCharacter. For a character who isn't seen because he's been created out of whole cloth by the other characters, see InventedIndividual and TheRealRemingtonSteele.

'''Kramer:''' They wanna know why they never see ''you''!

** ''Series/FraggleRockRockOn'' has Doc's landlady, Mrs [[MythologyGag Shimmelfinney]].

-> ''For works that use the name, see {{Ghost}}''

* During the Wrestling/{{TNA}} Wrestling/AcesAndEights angle, Wrestling/DLoBrown and [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Bully Ray]] would make frequent reference to other chapters of the group. For obvious reasons(Aces And Eights being a real motor cycle gang) these were never shown.

** Chiaki Koizumi, the author of [[ShowWithinAShow Black Wings: Kaminari]], never makes an onscreen appearance in the comic and is only mentioned by other characters. Rain was about to meet her at a convention until she ditched the line to talk to Emily. Chiaki makes her first appearance in the prequel comic, ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate''.

* ''Webcomic/Rain2010'':

* Sir Harold Dixon in season one of ''Radio/AbsolutePower'', who has employed Prentice [=McCabe=] for unspecified reasons which Martin has studiously avoided doing anything about, and who he therefore refuses to take phone calls from. In the last episode of the season, Sandy briefly works for Sir Harold, but he still never actually appears.