More Human Than Human: Ghoulia Yelps Character Spo.Review: Clawdeen as Little Dead Riding Wolf and Dr.Happy Phantom: Spectra Vondergeist Character Spotl.Review: Dot Dead Gorgeous Spectra Vondergeist.Black Cat: Toralei Stripe Character Spotlight & Re.The most obvious reference here is to Jacob Marley, the ghost in Charles Dickens classic novel A Christmas Carol, who must wear chains and locks in the afterlife to atone for his sins against the poor during his human life. Vondergeist seems to be a play on the word "poltergeist", an offshoot of the common ghost, who haunts a particular person rather than place. Spectra's primary visual motif is chains. Curiously, in her diary Spectra is written as an antagonist of sorts to the girls, but in the webisodes she admires the girls and becomes their friend. Spectra's first name is a reference to the word "specter", a synonym to the word "ghost". In her diary we learn that she and her family perished under traumatic circumstances it's possible that Spectra has not dealt with this yet. In the webisodes Spectra is constantly seen floating through doors and poking her head through walls and lockers. Sometimes they are depicted as figures who walk, but more often they are represented as beings that float or hover. Ghosts are said to appear as translucent figures, and common lore dictates that they can pass through solid fixtures such as closed doors and walls. This can be for a variety of reasons - they have unfinished business here on Earth, their death was so traumatic they are in shock and unaware of their situation, they simply don't want to move on, etc. ![]() In most Western cultures ghosts are disembodied spirits of the deceased who have not passed on to "the other side". Spectra aligns with the generalized Western views of ghosts.
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