The public Bathroom at the mall is haunted, by a ghost woman that no one has seen...
The Bathroom Ghost is a webcomic by Volpe, hosted on Webtoon. The comic can be read here
. The comic is about a ghost haunting a mall bathroom, who no soul has ever seen...because she's really, really bad at actually scaring people.Tropes:
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: One of the main reasons nobody has ever seen the Bathroom Ghost before is because she's so easily distracted that she sometimes forgets to scare, such as in the first episode when a comment from some schoolgirls about how long hair is out of fashion causes her to immediately stop approaching one from behind, wait until the girls leave, break a mirror, and use it to cut her hair short.
- Bedsheet Ghost: Episodes 5.1 and 6 introduce the Ghost of the Cloths, a blue ghost haunting a textile store that takes the form of a veiny human covered by a white sheet except for its feet...which leads to comedy when the customer it tries to sneak up on takes a step back and injures it with her high heels.
- Celestial Bureaucracy: Episode 4 shows that ghosts actually have a bureaucracy, with two of the Bathroom Ghost's managers visiting to deride her for failing to scare humans and suggesting that she return to the realm of the dead to file paperwork if she continues to be a failure.
- Creepy Doll: Episodes 7 and 8 have the Bathroom Ghost's superiors try to motivate her to do a better job by showing off the Ghost of the Toys, who possesses the doll of a girl using the bathroom and speaks through it, scarring the girl...and the Bathroom ghost too, who retaliates by throwing toilet paper rolls.
- Gossipy Hens: Though contracted to help the Bathroom Ghost overcome her Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! habits and scare more people, it turns out in Episode 9 that the Ghost of the Toys is one, stopping their current scare attempt to listen to a woman talk on her phone to her female friend talking about hooking up and mutually falling in love with her ex's new girlfriend.
- Humble Goal:
- Episode 4 reveals at the end that the reason the ghost girl is trying to haunt the living is so she can be transferred to haunting a cat cafe elsewhere in the mall and play with the cats.
- Episode 8 reveals that the Ghost of the Toys agreed to mentor the Bathroom Ghost in order to obtain what they consider to be the perfect vessel: a remote-control car.
- Minion with an F in Evil: On the occasions where the ghost girl isn't too distracted to scare humans, she decides not to do so in order to help them out instead, such as letting an employee cry about their Soul-Sucking Retail Job or helping a janitor with a beautiful singing voice get some attention and become a star.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: The comic is mostly monochromatic with red highlights, and while her morality is certainly good, the ghost girl is completely black and red to highlight her status as a ghost meant to terrify others.
- Soul-Sucking Retail Job: The second episode has the ghost girl about to spook a retail employee on break until the employee breaks down crying and complaining about how much she hates her job, at which point the ghost girl decides not to make her day any worse.
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: The ghost girl has this appearance in the first episode, but cuts her hair shorter after learning it's unfashionable.
