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[[The Parody|Parodied]] and [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] like crazy these days, but the mystery abounds as to why this isn't a [[Dead Horse Trope]] yet. A [[Sub Trope]] of [[I Was Just Joking]].
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** Rather more obvious as the Tanith First-and-Only are ''called'' the Ghosts due to their preturnatural ability to simply disappear, especially the scouts. {{spoiler|Eszrah}} even calls Mkoll sidthe, which means... ghost.
* [[Valdemar|The ghost of Herald-Mage Vanyel]] says this very cheerfully in ''Winds of Fury'' after interfering with a teleport (which was supposedly impossible) to bring the main characters to the Forest of Sorrows instead of where they wanted to go. Vanyel has been dead for about 600 years at this point.
* Played with in [[Arthur C. Clarke (Creator)]]'s story "Breaking Strain", in describing one astronaut's reaction to discovering that a meteor has punctured their reserve tank, leaving [[Cold Equation|insufficient oxygen to reach their destination]]:
{{quote| McNeil was just standing in the doorway, looking as if he had seen a ghost. The trite metaphor frashed into Grant's mind instantly. He did not know for a moment how near the truth it was. In a sense McNeil ''had'' seen a ghost -- the most terrifying of all ghosts -- his own.}}
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