History YMMV / Ghostwriter

*** In the book "Steer Clear of Haunted Hill", Alex and Leni's reactions to their loved ones (Gabby and Max respectively) having disappeared is positively heartbreaking. The disappearance of Rob isn't better.

*** In the book "Steer Clear of Haunted Hill", Alex and Leni's reactions to their loved ones (Gabby and Max respectively) is positively heartbreaking.
*** In the book where Alex gets kidnapped in the middle of a magic show, Gabby tearfully blames herself, in part because she and Alex had been bickering incessantly before the incident.

** How badly Jamal and Rob take the possibility of [[TrueCompanions the Ghostwriter Team]] breaking up in the "Get the Message" arc. Particularly Rob since it's heavily implied that the Team are [[IJustWantToHaveFriends his first friends in a while]]. Then Rob gets hit ''again'' when his dad [[PutOnABus transfers the family to Australia.]]

** Alex's friend Kevin selling his deceased grandfather's basketball trophy (his prized possession) to pay for his drug habit.

** Alex even mocks to Calvin afterwards:

* {{Tearjerker}}: Calvin was a {{Jerkass}} but his devastation at losing his beloved parrot is pretty sad, especially for people who have also experienced the death of a pet.

* Tearjerker: Calvin was a {{Jerkass}} but his devastation at losing his beloved parrot is pretty sad, especially for people who have also experienced the death of a pet.

* NightmareFuel: Gooey Gus.

** In "Lost in Brooklyn, Part 1" Tina meets Safira, visiting from Mozambique. Ostensibly, she's interesting because she's foreign. Everyone does rush to see who it is coming to school in a limo, but Tina's the only one who takes one look and says "Oh, ''wow!''" By the time they get into the classroom, everyone else has long gotten over it all, but we have Tina looking around the room until Safira is introduced by the teacher, whereupon Tina ''instantly'' stops moving and gets this big, goofy, ear-to-ear smile, and watches Safira's every movement with said smile until she sits down next to her. Meanwhile, everyone else is acting like your average bored schoolkids. When she gets to say more than hi, she talks fast and rambly, and at one point talks about trying talking to her (a second pitch at being in her video, actually) with lines that sounded ''very'' much like someone trying to ask out a crush. The entire first part is driven by her ''need'' to get this girl to be friends with her, and there's master plans and talk of "destiny" that she wound up sitting next to her and on and on and it ''doesn't'' end up having to do with the video. There ends up being a picnic in the woods on a blanket, and a DeathGlare at Safira's dad until he leaves. The mystery of the arc is introduced only in the closing moments of part one; the rest is ''entirely'' Tina positively drooling over this girl and stopping at nothing to get her attention. (Well, that and a few minutes Hector's introduction, setting up [[PutOnABus Rob's replacement]].)

* HoYay: Hector has a pretty blatant crush on Avatar, the male makeup artist when the team appears in Lenni's music video.

** Alex even says to Calvin afterwards:

* Alex even says to Calvin afterwards:

Alex even says to Calvin afterwards:

* JerkassWoobie: Many of the villains are so pathetic that it's pretty easy to feel sorry for them. A good example is Manny Gite from "Into the Comics". He was an awkward twentysomething who lived with his aunt and desperately wanted to be a cartoonish. In a attempt to acheive this, he enters a contest for kids (in which the prize was getting to be in a comic book) disguised as his cartoon character Stoopdude and tries to sabatoge the other contestants.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Gooey Gus. ''Oh dear God'', '''Gooey Gus'''!
* HilariousInHindsight: There actually is a show called ''Galaxy Girl'' (well, ''Galaxy Girls'') in development by LaurenFaust.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Gooey Gus. ''Oh dear God'', '''Gooey Gus'''!

* EarWorm: The main there: "''Ghoooostwritaaaah! '''Word!'''''"

* NightmareFuel: Gooey Gus. ''Oh dear God'', '''Gooey Gus'''!

* {{Narm}} "Dis-gwise...dis-gweeze...what kind of crazy word is this?"
* NightmareFuel: Gooey Gus. ''Oh dear God'', '''Gooey Gus'''!
** This troper has only ever seen one mystery from this show--Gooey Gus. Twelve years later, I still have at least one nightmare a year based on that episode.
** This troper seconds, I used to love the show as a kid until I saw the first episode of the Gooey Gus ark. Never watched it again.
** Coming from a troper who watched this as a preschool/kindergarten kid--THIS THING HAUNTED EVERY NIGHTMARE OF MY CHILDHOOD. The one thing I remember about this series? A glowing light and this monstrous purple eldritch abomination. In fact, I wasn't scared of the dark--I was scared of the ''light''. Because I ''didn't want to see the monster come out at me''. I hid behind the sofa whenever my older brother was watching the show so I could make sure it wasn't ''that'' episode.
** No TroperTales for this article, but in my grade school the Gooey Gus arc was shown in class to teach creative writing. Also really young kids can find Ghostwriter scary for being a ball of fog that follows people around.

** Coming from a troper who watched this as a preschool/kindergarten kid--THIS THING HAUNTED EVERY NIGHTMARE OF MY CHILDHOOD. The one thing I remember about this series? A glowing light and this monstrous purple eldritch abomination. In fact, I wasn't scared of the dark--I was scared of the ''light''. Because I ''didn't want to see the monster come out at me''. I hid behind the sofa whenever my older brother was watching the show so I could make sure it wasn't ''that'' episode.

** This troper seconds, I used to love the show as a kid until I saw the first episode of the Gooey Gus ark. Never watched it again.