Talk:Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

I have a copy of the unabridged A Christmas Carol, and this spirit is named The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, not the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come. Can we agree that this needs to be changed? Canonblack 03:23, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

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can somebody please add a image from one of the various movie adaptions? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.94.255.194 (talk) 20:15, 7 December 2006 (UTC).

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What muppet added the "citations" banner? I've exceptionally left it because it's call for factual references is hilarious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.65.172.183 (talk) 19:02, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * This is an encyclopedia. Scholarly sources are required.  Unsourced material may be removed (and should be); you may want to start by reading Help:Referencing for beginners. Editors who repeatedly insert unsourced material may be banned from editing. Reading the book oneself isn't scholarly WP:NOR.  One could cite a book review by a recognized scholar or critic WP:RS (not a magazine columnist) for example, which is what is usually done.  The whole article generally fails WP:NOTABILITY: we can't have a separate article on every character in every book - those presentations should be merged into the article on the book itself, if the book ITSELF is notable enough to have an article (many aren't). This one probably is, and it does have an article.  I've therefore suggested the text be merged there.Sbalfour (talk) 15:39, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Death)
Shouldn't it be noted (with The annotated Christmas Carol as reference) that the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is clearly Death?--BruceGrubb (talk) 07:08, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Not clearly. Of course, in Scrooge case, he is. He not do his job, if he was realy the death. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.141.154.147 (talk) 10:04, 30 November 2011 (UTC)


 * There is a obscure comic book Christmas story that kind of explains why Death would not claim Scrooge right then. In it there is a Santa whose bell appears to have magical powers.  For most of the story the bell indirectly kills people but a boy asks Santa to save his father and the bell is rung again but this time make a sound like angels.  Santa goes home (to a graveyard) and comments that saving the father gave him a strange feeling; one he normally doesn't have.  He removes his outfit revealing that he is in reality Death and comments that even he can be generous one day of the year as int the end all eventually come to him.   And this was at least a decade before Pratchett's Death took up the mantle of the Hogfather (Santa) and gave a dead matchgirl the greatest gift he could...a future (by restoring her to life).--2606:A000:7D44:100:34EB:E5F7:5E7B:DE92 (talk) 13:23, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

The Spirit's trembling hand
I have added in the mention of the Spirit's trembling hand - I read the book myself, and also observed the hand trembling in the George C Scott film and the 1971 cartoon. Many Christmas Carol film viewers generally consider the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come as an ominous creature devoid of character. Careful readers know that Dickens subtly shows us this is not the case. Even this solemn spirit is moved by Scrooge's case and if you read closely, after Scrooge pleas, the Spirit's kind hand trembles- if ever so slightly. Even Scrooge called him "good spirit". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.16.23.173 (talk) 14:54, 27 November 2014 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.242.88.246 (talk)

Nickname(s): Tegan
What is this? Vanity publishing? Get your name immortalised on Wikipedia by your brainless git of a friend.

It is Deletionsville. Nuttyskin (talk) 12:38, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Merge to and integrate with Character section of A Christmas Carol
To keep this discussion together, please comment on this talk page. MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:17, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

The Ghost of Christmas Future
Referring to this reverted edit, it seems there are a lot of sites (blogs, social, and other unreliable sources) that use the phrase "Ghost of Christmas Future". I don't read those, but if someone came up to me and out of the blue said "Ghost of Christmas Future", I would immediately make that connection. Not sure how this sort of thing would be reliably sourced. signed, Willondon (talk) 23:56, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

This is interesting to me. I haven't edited the article to insert "Ghost of Christmas Future", because I can't come up with any reliable source that supports it. Yet my personal experience is that if someone asked "What are the three ghosts in A Christmas Carol?", I sense many would answer as I would: "Ghost of Christmas Past", "Ghos... Present", "Ghos... Future", by parallel construction even though that does not appear in the novel. Frustrating, but I don't see how I can support its inclusion. signed, Willondon (talk) 23:02, 19 December 2023 (UTC)