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Ghost Force is a French computer-animated children's television series created by Jeremy Zag and produced by Zagtoon (of Miraculous Ladybug fame) and animated by SAMG.

Andy, Liv and Mike are three teenagers with a secret — they’re also the Ghost Force, superheroes whose specialty is taking down the many ghosts terrorizing New York City. Operating out of a secret underground laboratory built by their mentor Miss Jones, it’s their duty to hunt down and capture the ghosts before they can do too much damage, all while keeping their status as the city’s premiere ghost catchers a secret.

Production began mid-May 2018, and after several delays and retools, the series was finally released in Fall 2021 on Disney Channel throughout the globe.

Season two is currently under production and is scheduled to be released some time in 2026.

Tropes in this series include:

• All-CGI Cartoon: Like its fellow series produced by Zagtoon.
• Applied Phlebotinum: Boo Energy; it's used to power the heroes' suits and Glowboo, Miss Jones' right arm and hair are made of it, and it's what ghosts gather in order to enter their Booster Mode.
• Big Brother Instinct: Andy and Liv both have this for Mike and Andy very vividly demonstrates this trope towards Liv; Liv, for her part, has a pretty big Little Sister Instinct and is fiercely protective of Andy.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Many ghosts have been shown to have mind control powers, but Piraniak in particular brainwashes Liv/Myst into turning against her team.
• Brother–Sister Team: Andy and Liv are siblings and work in the same team.
• Color-Coded Characters: Andy/Fury is green, Liv/Myst is pink, Mike/Krush is blue, and Glowboo is orange.
• Color-Coded Secret Identity: Andy, Liv and Mike all dress in color schemes that are heavily reminiscent of their hero costumes.
• Cross-Cast Role: invoked In "Xhypno", Andy tries to get the role of a Damsel in Distress in a film his parents are making when the actress who originally got the role doesn't show up. His parents choose Stacy to play the role instead.
• Familiar: Each hero has a personal ghost that they can release to use their respective finishing moves. Fury has the dragon-like Dragoyle, Krush has the ice golem Growmax, and Myst has the self-explanatory Octocat.
• Hour of Power: The team each has a finite amount of "Boo Energy" when transformed that's used up quicker the more they use their powers. When their reserves are depleted, all of their powers shut down, including flight, often leaving them dropping out of the sky and requiring rescue by another teammate. In one episode, Miss Jones manages to rig a battery for a field recharge, but says it's only viable because they're currently shrunken enough for it to be effective.
• In Medias Res: The series opens with Ghost Force already openly operating as well-known heroes, with no indication of how they got there.
• Magitek: The robotic Glowboo and the heroes' high-tech suits are all powered by Boo Energy, which is mystical in origin.
• No Ontological Inertia: After a ghost is captured, whatever effects it was causing immediately cease, be it a blizzard, heatwave, hypnosis spells, or webs made of gum that were keeping people suspended in the air.
• Not What It Looks Like: In "Sharkoak", Marlo sticks a bouquet of flowers in Liv's locker, leaving her flustered because she has no idea how to handle it. She's even more confused when she sees that Marlo took the bouquet back. She learns later that the flowers were for his mom and he meant to stick them in his locker (but accidentally put them in Liv's) because he was concerned about being seen with flowers, as it didn't fit with his "cool guy" image.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: One of the male co-leads, Mike, has electric blue highlights on his outfit, while the female co-lead Liv has pink ones instead. Andy also leans towards the blue part of the spectrum with the green highlights of his power suit.
• Power-Up Food: Certain ghosts enter Booster Mode from bonding with foods they've eaten. The freezing ghost in "Bananice" becomes a banana monster from eating the titular ice cream pop, and the ghost in "Arakgum" becomes a gum-based giant spider from eating a wad of gum.
• Real-Place Background: Just as Miraculous Ladybug is set in Paris and uses real areas from the city, Ghost Force is set in Manhattan. While there's obviously landmarks like Central Park and the Times Square, there are also streets like Lexington Avenue.
• Redundant Romance Attempt: Andy does this twice.
  • First, he tries to become more bookish and reflective to impress Carla (and so he can be taken more seriously in general). This not only ends up weirding out his friends, but it becomes an active hindrance when they have to fight the episode's ghost. Thankfully, he's back to normal by the end of the episode.
  • Second, he tries to get Mike to do this when he goes on his first real date with Charlie; when Mike gets so anxious he asks Andy for help, Andy has him change their planned museum visit to a picnic and has Mike wear formal clothes. All this ends up accomplishing is confusing Charlie, and the picnic ends up being a disaster. Ultimately, Charlie unknowingly tells Mike (as Krush) that she prefers his usual self, and the episode ends with Andy apologizing to Mike and the original museum date going as planned.
• Running Gag: Andy and Liv's parents shooting their upcoming movie, "Solar Man: The Movie".
• Shared Universe: This show resides in one with Miraculous Ladybug, with a crossover between the two being planned.
• Shout-Out: In one episode, Andy is ashamed that he can't swim and covers it up with a lie about loving the sea, swimming very well and being friends with a white dolphin and able to ride on his back. This is a reference to Zoom The White Dolphin (Oum le dauphin blanc in the original), another French animated series also broadcasted by TF1.
• Sleep-Mode Size: Ghosts start off in tiny, cute but impish forms. When they gather enough Boo Energy, they enter "Booster Mode", which transforms them into a much stronger form capable of projecting their powers on a larger scale.
• Superheroes Wear Capes: Zigzagged with the trio, whose built-in jetpacks create capes made of light when they fly.
• Superman Stays Out of Gotham: The fact that this show shares a universe with Miraculous Ladybug means that the United Heroez likely still operate in New York, yet they’re never seen whenever a ghost attack happens.
• Teachers Out of School: In "Artiflame", when the main characters happen upon Professor Pascal when he’s making fireworks for Central Park's Fourth of July celebration, Andy expresses surprise that teachers have lives out of school.
• Technicolor Science: In one episode, Miss Jones is seen mixing beakers that she claims contain water and sulfur trioxide, only one glows green while the other glows bright blue.
• Tempting Fate: In "Artiflame", when the main characters go to Central Park to celebrate the Fourth of July, Andy is in the middle of commenting on how the best part of summer vacation is not having to endure Professor Pascal's lessons when he notices Professor Pascal is there as well.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Almost every episode begins with a character — from one of the heroes to complete background characters to the heroes' classmates — unwittingly breaking, reactivating or shaking an old object, which ends up awakening and freeing a dormant ghost stuck in said object. The freed ghosts immediately begin wreaking havoc, gathering energy to go into Booster Mode.
• Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World: Our main trio attend Central High, while moonlighting as ghost-powered superheroes fighting other evil ghosts.
• X-Ray Sparks: The opening sequence shown in the trailers has the sparks reveal Andy's nerves and organs as they run down his body when he suits up.
• You Can't Thwart Stage One: When left alone for too long, ghosts can boost to a more powerful form, which is why it's recommended for the Ghost Force to capture them before that happens. Don't count on them managing to do that though. Lampshaded in "Piraniak" when Glowboo asks if they were supposed to capture the ghost before it boosts and Myst comments on how it never works.