History Series / Ghostwriter

%%**Gabby.
** While not exactly a younger sibling, Gabby sometimes treats Hector this way. The book "Disappearing Act" has her mentally comment that because [[HeroWorship Hector thinks so highly of Alex]], she's always arguing with two people instead of one.

* BigNo: Gabby, in "Four Days of the Cockatoo", after hearing that Audubon Poulet and Honey Hawke about to perform taxidermy on her palm cockatoo, Calypso.

%%* BlackAndNerdy: Jamal.
* BondVillainStupidity: Spoofed in one episode.

* ChekhovsGun: In the book "Steer Clear of Haunted Hill", the book is set up so that half is a diary written by Alex and the other by Gabby. You must read both of them to solve the mystery so naturally there are examples of this trope. The stand-outs are [[spoiler: a pamphlet detailing the ''3'' chambers in the cave, allowing the Team to find the missing Max, Max eating ''plain'' potato chips while another character was eating sour cream and onion, revealing him to be behind a false trail and a set of maps (an old one Alex got from Max and a newer one Gabby received) holding the key to the missing Rob's location: an old treehouse listed on Alex's map but not Gabby's.]]

* FiveTokenBand: Justified. The story takes place in Brooklyn, New York, where the population is diverse.

* FiveManBand: Ghostwriter's the whole reason the team exists. Jamal is the first person to see Ghostwriter and the de facto leader of the Ghostwriter Team. Often the OnlySaneMan who makes decisions for the group. Lenni is the second person to see Ghostwriter and Jamal's implied NumberTwo. She's headstrong and outspoken, while he's more grounded and practical. Alex is a jock who puts himself at risk the most, as shown in "Ghost Story" and "Over a Barrel". After his growth spurt, he towers over the others. Gaby seems to be the emotional center of the group, especially when she saves Ghostwriter with [[spoiler:ThePowerOfLove]].

* TheTeam:
** BigGood: Ghostwriter: He's the whole reason the team exists.
** TheHero / TheLeader: Jamal. First person to see Ghostwriter and the de facto leader of the Ghostwriter Team. Often the OnlySaneMan who makes decisions for the group.
** TheLancer: Lenni. The second person to see Ghostwriter and Jamal's implied NumberTwo. She's headstrong and outspoken, while he's more grounded and practical.
** TheBigGuy: Alex. A jock who puts himself at risk the most, as shown in "Ghost Story" and "Over a Barrel". After his growth spurt, he towers over the others.
** TheHeart: Gaby. She seems to be the emotional center of the group, especially when she saves Ghostwriter with [[spoiler:ThePowerOfLove]].
** TheSmartGuy: All the team members are smart, but mainly Jamal (the best with science and computers), Alex (the expert on all things related to detective work), and Tina (she thinks outside the box the most).
** SixthRanger: Tina, Rob, Hector, and Casey. They all join the team later, in episodes 8, 17, 50, and 58 respectively.
** TagalongKid: Casey, the youngest team member. Gaby was this at first but [[CharacterDevelopment grows out of it.]]
** GuestStarPartyMember: Craig in "Who Burned Mr. Brinker's Store?", Frank, Catherine, and Lucy in "Just in Time", Becky and Sam in "A Crime of Two Cities". They're all technically members because they can see Ghostwriter and have helped solve cases, but they all only appear for one mystery arc.

--> Tina: (with a giggle) [[JustForPun "It's all relative."]]

** The ''Franchise/XMen'' franchise, whose popularity was peaking around the time the show was airing, got a few scattered nods, seemingly thanks to a similar arrangement that had Spider-Man appearing on ''Series/TheElectricCompany''. [[VideoGame/XMen1992 The arcade game]] shows up in at least the first story arc, and a rally call shows up on the cover of an issue of the comic book once.

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* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Rob gets treated like this during his introduction, becoming a suspect for the Ghostwriter team for not much more than being unsociable and writing fiction (Granted, they didn't know it was fiction at the time). Ghostwriter helps clear his name by communicating with him, and he later joins the team.

** Specifically IntangibleTimeTravel and WriteBackToTheFuture: Ghost Writer is the one doing the {{TimeTravel}}ing, and he carries messages back and forth. He ends up having to take TheSlowPath when he finally gets too weak to return to 1993.

* SoapboxSadie: Lenni is a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed version]] of this. She never tries to force anyone else to think her way, thus avoiding the usual BrokenAesop about that comes with the trope, but she often speaks out about her beliefs, especially through her music.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Alex to Gaby. Although they have a bit of a SiblingRivalry, he's protective of her. When she accidentally gets exposed to toxic waste, he can't stop worrying about her health. And when she's framed for the theft of a model spaceship, he's the only one who believes that she didn't do it, even when the rest of the team are willing to consider her a suspect when all clues point to her.

* BreakingBadNewsGently: When a new kid first sees Ghostwriter, The team's first reaction is usually to tell the new person to sit down before beginning to explain Ghostwriter's situation.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Alex to Gaby. Although they have a bit of a SiblingRivalry, he's protective of her. When she accidentally gets exposed to toxic waste, he can't stop worrying about her health.

* BrotherChuck: Craig. The second episode (which was Craig's first, and only, appearance) was actually the pilot of the show; producers would later shoot a new premiere episode to better explain the origins of Ghostwriter.

* TheyFightCrime

* PoisonousFriend: Calvin Ferguson to Jeffrey Baxter. More than once, Calvin ropes Jeffrey into his schemes to cause trouble for the Ghostwriter Team. However, "What's Up With Alex?" implies that Calvin is also the CloudcuckoolandersMinder. When we finally see Jeffrey without Calvin around to tell him what to do, he causes problems for Jamal in other ways.

* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Rob gets treated like this during his introduction, becoming a suspect for the Ghostwriter team for not much more than being unsociable and writing fiction (Granted, they didn't know it was fiction at the time). Ghostwriter help sclear his name by communicating with him, and he later joins the team.

If you're looking for the trope that could have gone here, see PlayingCyrano. Not to be confused with a ''literary'' {{Ghostwriter}}, defined by Wiki/ThatOtherWiki as "a writer who writes books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person" (which frequently overlaps with ExtrudedBookProduct). Also not to be confused with the film ''Film/TheGhostWriter''.