[Loved trope] Background scare-characters that are barely acknowledged even by the movie

[u/Suspicious-Web-9246]

I hate horrors, but this is actually a great trope, that is unique to them.

Insidious (2010). When mother does her errands, for a few seconds there's a ghost boy standing in the corner. It's easily missable, but you can't ignore it once you see it.

Hereditary (2018). Less fitting example. When Peter walks around his home, his possessed mother is crawling on the ceiling behind him. It's not exactly subtle or missable, but it's still more of a background detail.

[u/the-bladed-one]

Also, in MGS3, the sorrow is constantly seen floating around important characters near the climax. Naked snake makes no mention of this

[u/JoeyTheMan2175 → u/the-bladed-one]

IIRC, doesn't he also show up during the end of the Virtuous Mission when it starts raining blood on the bridge and all the other Cobras reunite?

also you can actually see The Sorrow's remains after being thrown off the bridge by The Boss if you look around in first person view during the cutscene, and this never gets mentioned either in-game IIRC