Tropescilloscope: Demonic Possession

Someone or something is possessed by a demon/ghost. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Those Two Guys I Want My Beloved to Be Happy As the Good Book Says... Closed Circle Noodle Incident Moment Killer Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Attempted Rape Captain Obvious Thriller Beta Couple Major Injury Underreaction Evil Counterpart Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Dwindling Party Villain Ball Adaptation Expansion Military and Warfare Films Almost Kiss Children Are Innocent Five-Man Band Arc Words "Awesome McCool" Name Eiffel Tower Effect Tempting Fate Our Zombies Are Different Camera Abuse Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Punch-Clock Villain Evil Brit Laughing Mad Developing Doomed Characters Mythology Gag Butt-Monkey Video Credits Fate Worse than Death Gorn Mexican Standoff Humiliation Conga Not So Different Adult Fear Black Dude Dies First Spiteful Spit Ambiguous Ending Cat Scare Motor Mouth Blackmail Break the Haughty Works Set in World War II Knife Nut Antagonist Title Scary Black Man Unresolved Sexual Tension Apocalypse How The Reveal Running Gag Historical Hero Upgrade Berserk Button Sequel Hook Frame-Up Morality Pet Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Adaptation Name Change Have a Gay Old Time Rape as Drama Fan Disservice Abusive Parents Biopic The Ace Enemy Mine Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Hong Kong Films You Have Failed Me One-Word Title Ambiguous Disorder Red Herring Beauty Is Never Tarnished Babies Ever After Word of God Love Triangle Demoted to Extra Artistic License – Military Broken Bird Hero of Another Story No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Adaptational Badass Rousing Speech Chekhov's Gunman Deal with the Devil Evil-Detecting Dog Anti-Hero Body Horror Stealth Hi/Bye Only a Flesh Wound An Arm and a Leg The '70s Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Storming the Castle What the Hell, Hero? Foregone Conclusion Fanservice Extremely Short Timespan Not What It Looks Like Drugs Are Bad Vampire Fiction Fatal Flaw Expository Hairstyle Change Smoking Is Cool Bi the Way Take That! Mystery and Detective Films Small Name, Big Ego Italian Films Non-Indicative Name Once More, with Clarity! Cool Car Evil Sounds Deep Logo Joke Advertised Extra Truth in Television Bilingual Bonus Every Car Is a Pinto Vacation Films He Knows Too Much Ship Tease The Film of the Book Manchild Does Not Like Shoes Bad Boss Insane Troll Logic The Great Depression Neck Lift Establishing Character Moment I Have Your Wife No-Sell Anguished Declaration of Love Obviously Evil Handicapped Badass Fake Shemp Eagleland Real Life Writes the Plot Ironic Echo Romantic Comedy A God Am I Pragmatic Villainy Darkest Hour Artistic License – Physics Cold-Blooded Torture MacGuffin As Himself Leitmotif Obstructive Bureaucrat Belligerent Sexual Tension Jerk Jock Driven to Suicide Mugging the Monster Male Gaze Villain Protagonist Wicked Cultured What Happened to the Mouse? Leave the Camera Running Fanservice Extra Dressing as the Enemy Hope Spot Framing Device Would Hit a Girl Heroic BSoD "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Pyrrhic Victory French Films Genre Savvy Ascended Extra Not Using the "Z" Word Index of Film Westerns The Dog Bites Back Big Brother Instinct Unspoken Plan Guarantee Informed Ability Science Fiction Films Hero Antagonist Malevolent Masked Men Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Canadian Movies Covers Always Lie Accidental Misnaming Straight Gay Intrepid Reporter The Smart Guy And the Adventure Continues Self-Deprecation Heroes Want Redheads Never Trust a Trailer Back from the Dead Chekhov's Skill Decoy Protagonist The X of Y Bolivian Army Ending Deadpan Snarker Make It Look Like an Accident All Just a Dream Depraved Bisexual Bland-Name Product All for Nothing The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Maybe Ever After Freudian Excuse Parental Incest Determinator Outrun the Fireball Hollywood Law Hypocritical Humor The Alleged Car Instant Death Bullet Even Evil Has Standards Comically Missing the Point Blatant Lies The Stinger Really Gets Around Big Fancy House Historical In-Joke Call-Forward Fainting Red Eyes, Take Warning Canon Foreigner Important Haircut Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Alcoholic Shoot the Shaggy Dog Adaptational Villainy Cool Shades Humans Are Bastards Superhero Deus ex Machina Shower Scene Double-Meaning Title Freeze-Frame Bonus Femme Fatale I Did What I Had to Do Retcon Book-Ends Curse Cut Short Artistic License – History Break the Cutie Silence Is Golden More Dakka Psycho for Hire Friend to All Children An Aesop Green-Eyed Monster Romantic False Lead Cloudcuckoolander Bar Brawl Spell My Name with an "S" Aluminum Christmas Trees Flashback Made of Iron Shirtless Scene And I Must Scream Gilligan Cut You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Killed Mid-Sentence The Faceless Alas, Poor Villain This Is Gonna Suck Papa Wolf True Companions The Cameo Eyepatch of Power Mind Screw The '60s Names to Run Away from Really Fast Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Took a Level in Badass Dark Reprise Crucified Hero Shot Whole Plot Reference Dramatic Irony Red Right Hand There Is No Kill Like Overkill Groin Attack Plot Hole Cowboy Cop Creative Closing Credits Not Quite Dead A Father to His Men The Smurfette Principle Sir Swears-a-Lot Rule of Three Redemption Equals Death Arranged Marriage "Shaggy Dog" Story Dark Action Girl Take a Third Option Drowning My Sorrows Costume Porn Rule of Funny The Cavalry Badass Normal Television Movie Index Famous Last Words Stepford Smiler No Celebrities Were Harmed Determinator aka: The Determinator Stalker with a Crush It's Personal No OSHA Compliance Department of Redundancy Department It Can Think All Men Are Perverts Deliberate Values Dissonance Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Due to the Dead Cool Old Lady Recycled IN SPACE! Light Is Not Good Didn't Think This Through Your Cheating Heart For Want of a Nail Meet Cute Catapult Nightmare Disguised in Drag Creator Cameo Vitriolic Best Buds Face Death with Dignity Villain with Good Publicity Rule of Cool Demonic Possession Skewed Priorities Big-Bad Ensemble Star-Crossed Lovers Bloodless Carnage Annoying Younger Sibling Left the Background Music On Grey and Gray Morality Big Eater Hell Is That Noise Trailers Always Spoil The Chessmaster Public Domain Feature Films Death of a Child Brick Joke Sci-Fi Horror Too Dumb to Live The '80s Suddenly SHOUTING! Funny Foreigner Naïve Newcomer Parental Substitute Everyone Has Standards Badass Boast The Un-Reveal Peek-a-Boo Corpse Action Girl Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Plucky Comic Relief Evil Is Hammy Adults Are Useless Taking You with Me Destination Defenestration Chuck Cunningham Syndrome B-Movie Accidental Murder Brother–Sister Incest Hollywood Darkness Heroic Sacrifice Deliberately Monochrome Christmas Movies Index Cruel and Unusual Death Diabolus ex Machina Continuity Nod Bound and Gagged Dogged Nice Guy Horror Films Super Strength Bunny-Ears Lawyer Loads and Loads of Characters Wretched Hive Be Careful What You Wish For Gone Horribly Right Age Lift Woman in White Badass in a Nice Suit Dropped a Bridge on Him Dark Is Not Evil Nice Guy The Stoic Air-Vent Passageway Mad Scientist Central Theme Reality Is Unrealistic Bowdlerise Genre Shift Shut Up, Hannibal! Knight Templar 20 Minutes into the Future Adaptation Dye-Job Imagine Spot Took a Level in Jerkass The Mole Badass Longcoat Token Minority My Greatest Failure Jump Scare Pretty Little Headshots Lampshade Hanging Ambiguously Gay Does This Remind You of Anything? Roaring Rampage of Revenge Curb-Stomp Battle Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Adaptation Distillation German Films Henpecked Husband Broken Aesop Never Found the Body No Name Given Creepy Child Hypocrite Victoria's Secret Compartment NO INDOOR VOICE Amoral Attorney "Well Done, Son!" Guy Shown Their Work Conspicuous CG Historical-Domain Character Happily Married Match Cut It's All About Me The Load Catch-Phrase Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Character Development Blood from the Mouth Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Black and Gray Morality Protagonist Title Dark and Troubled Past Disney Villain Death The Atoner Black Comedy Unusually Uninteresting Sight Improvised Weapon Animated Credits Opening Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Only Known by Their Nickname Cluster F-Bomb Australian Movies Mooks Would Hurt a Child Beard of Evil Stealth Pun Bury Your Gays Bond Villain Stupidity As You Know Contrived Coincidence Foil Obfuscating Stupidity Scenery Gorn You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Overprotective Dad Pimped-Out Dress Artistic License – Geography Not Even Bothering with the Accent I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Actually Pretty Funny Pragmatic Adaptation Immune to Bullets Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Chewing the Scenery Cool Guns Those Two Bad Guys The '50s Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Your Head A-Splode A.I. Is a Crapshoot Darker and Edgier Bottomless Magazines I Need a Freaking Drink Downer Ending Aside Glance Police are Useless He Who Fights Monsters Kill It with Fire Last-Name Basis No Ending Kill 'em All Bare Your Midriff Not So Stoic Mr. Exposition Big Applesauce Random Events Plot Vomit Discretion Shot Even Evil Has Loved Ones Face–Heel Turn Older Than They Look Disney Death Card-Carrying Villain Those Wacky Nazis The Lancer May–December Romance No Antagonist Chase Scene Improbable Weapon User From Nobody to Nightmare Reasonable Authority Figure Lighter and Softer Music Stories Shell-Shocked Veteran Mundane Made Awesome Sequel Escalation Grievous Bottley Harm Together in Death No-Holds-Barred Beatdown As Long as It Sounds Foreign Getting Crap Past the Radar Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Black Best Friend Evil Is Petty Crazy-Prepared Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! '80s Hair Death by Sex Fun with Acronyms For the Evulz Crapsack World I'm a Humanitarian Crazy Jealous Guy Rewatch Bonus Death by Irony Suspiciously Specific Denial Serial Killer Evil Laugh Missing Mom Punny Name Agony of the Feet Rich Bitch Time Skip Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Homage Madness Mantra Disappeared Dad Spanner in the Works Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Unusual Euphemism Anachronism Stew Kick the Son of a Bitch Calling the Old Man Out Evil Plan Revenge Dirty Cop Smug Snake After the End Silent Movie Double Entendre Artistic License – Biology Naked People Are Funny Offscreen Moment of Awesome Mighty Whitey Did Not Get the Girl Gratuitous English The Chick Credits Gag Ax-Crazy Sole Survivor Better to Die than Be Killed Jerkass Has a Point Spiritual Successor One-Man Army Action Prologue Corrupt Corporate Executive Room Full of Crazy Parental Abandonment Karmic Death Poor Communication Kills Distracted by the Sexy Race Against the Clock Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Pay Evil unto Evil Mistaken for Gay Bad "Bad Acting" Yandere Empathic Environment N-Word Privileges Manic Pixie Dream Girl The '90s Flipping the Bird Boom, Headshot! The Hero Fingore O.O.C. Is Serious Business Dutch Angle Drill Sergeant Nasty Scare Chord Ripped from the Headlines Here We Go Again! Stuff Blowing Up Leaning on the Fourth Wall Psychopathic Manchild Four-Temperament Ensemble Slap-Slap-Kiss Stock Footage Historical Villain Upgrade Amusing Injuries And Starring Authority Equals Asskicking The Casanova Death by Adaptation Pet the Dog It Will Never Catch On Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Hoist by His Own Petard One Steve Limit Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Remake My Beloved Smother Mr. Fanservice Adaptational Heroism Market-Based Title Soft Glass Ominous Latin Chanting Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Man on Fire Big Damn Heroes The Ditz Fire-Forged Friends Adapted Out BFG Needs Wiki Magic Love Not So Above It All Undying Loyalty Bring My Brown Pants Asshole Victim Celebrity Paradox Big Bad Duumvirate Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Vamp Training Montage Danny Peary Cult Movies List Early Installment Weirdness Fish out of Water Gender Flip You Killed My Father Insistent Terminology Sports Stories Ass Shove Cool Old Guy Real Life Funny Background Event Stylistic Suck Honor Before Reason Gold Digger Artistic License – Law Narrator Domestic Abuse Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Taking the Bullet Very Loosely Based on a True Story Sexy Discretion Shot Film Series She's Got Legs Parental Neglect Adorkable Epic Movie Retirony Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Implacable Man Mood Whiplash Blood Knight Big Bad Get Out! The Starscream Put on a Bus Totally Radical The Quiet One Unwitting Instigator of Doom Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality How We Got Here Film Noir Tap on the Head Corpsing Heel Realization The Musical Based on a True Story Alpha Bitch Daylight Horror Action Survivor Death Seeker Eureka Moment Russian Films Mercy Kill Evil vs. Evil Interrupted Suicide Fiery Redhead Awesome, but Impractical timeperiod "The Reason You Suck" Speech Heterosexual Life-Partners Precision F-Strike Car Fu Deconstruction Daddy's Girl Black Comedy Rape In Medias Res Our Vampires Are Different Damsel in Distress Dirty Coward Meaningful Echo Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Loophole Abuse Retired Badass Film Noir Index Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Guile Hero Country Matters Auto Erotica Despair Event Horizon Failed a Spot Check What You Are in the Dark Affectionate Parody Throwing Your Sword Always Works Wrong Genre Savvy The Sociopath Redshirt Army Fourth Date Marriage Same Language Dub Defiant to the End Combat Pragmatist Married to the Job The Ghost Expy The Big Guy Neck Snap From Bad to Worse Improbable Aiming Skills Off-into-the-Distance Ending Slasher Smile Dumb Blonde Faux Affably Evil Refuge in Audacity Horror Comedy Product Placement Dramatic Gun Cock Fat Bastard The Mafia Jitter Cam War Is Hell Betty and Veronica Beware the Nice Ones The Bad Guy Wins Idiot Ball Twist Ending Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Bittersweet Ending Batman Gambit An Axe to Grind Fantasy Films The End... Or Is It? Dramedy Anachronic Order Sinister Minister Worthy Opponent Drives Like Crazy Sadistic Choice Villain Song Wham Shot Foreshadowing Riddle for the Ages Extreme Doormat Soundtrack Dissonance folderlabel Kubrick Stare Faking the Dead Nice Hat Bavarian Fire Drill Psychological Thriller Ghost Fiction Fantastic Racism Shipper on Deck Only One Name Badass Grandpa Rule of Symbolism Affably Evil Author Avatar Serious Business Only Sane Man The Place Off with His Head! Insult Backfire A Date with Rosie Palms Genre Throwback Japanese Films Line-of-Sight Name Greater-Scope Villain Wounded Gazelle Gambit Heel–Face Turn Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Men Are the Expendable Gender British Films Broken Pedestal Anyone Can Die Jerkass Good Is Not Nice Up to Eleven Adaptational Attractiveness Oh, Crap! Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Kick the Dog The Oner Armor-Piercing Question Sacrificial Lion Chiaroscuro Brainless Beauty Lock and Load Montage Pretty in Mink Slasher Movie Cassandra Truth Actor Allusion Earn Your Happy Ending Author Appeal The Voiceless Chekhov's Gun Hidden Depths Male Frontal Nudity Sanity Slippage Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Alliterative Name Red Oni, Blue Oni Dissonant Serenity Villainous Breakdown Visual Pun Camp Gay Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Bullying a Dragon Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Half the Man He Used to Be Monumental Damage Call-Back Re-Cut Pre-Mortem One-Liner Mama Bear Hair-Trigger Temper Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Zombie Stories Badass Bookworm Manipulative Bastard Bait-and-Switch A Minor Kidroduction Big "NO!" The Hero Dies Brutal Honesty Exact Words Hooker with a Heart of Gold Dual Wielding Woman Scorned The Bully Bald of Evil Laser-Guided Karma Love at First Sight Casting Gag Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Slashed Throat Paper-Thin Disguise Dirty Old Man Dull Surprise Well-Intentioned Extremist All There in the Script Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Say My Name Jerk with a Heart of Gold Animal Motifs Novelization Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Offscreen Teleportation Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Fatal Family Photo Dies Wide Open Final Girl In Name Only Arch-Enemy Facial Horror Animal Title Index Bond One-Liner Politically Incorrect Villain Captain Ersatz Setting Update Villain Opening Scene Overly Long Gag Playing Gertrude Action Genre Meaningful Background Event Coming-of-Age Story Gainax Ending Tagline Wham Line Reality Ensues La Résistance Ungrateful Bastard Sassy Black Woman Death Glare Eldritch Abomination All Girls Want Bad Boys Show Within a Show Title Drop Reality Has No Subtitles Manly Tears Guns Akimbo Easily Forgiven Cain and Abel Dying Moment of Awesome Documentary Sealed Evil in a Can Rasputinian Death Scenery Porn All There in the Manual Defrosting Ice Queen Cat Fight The Dreaded Shout-Out World of Ham Unreliable Narrator Artistic License – Gun Safety Rated M for Manly Properly Paranoid Large Ham Posthumous Character Kids Are Cruel Spared by the Adaptation She Cleans Up Nicely Tranquil Fury The Brute My God, What Have I Done? Award-Bait Song Suspiciously Similar Substitute Made of Explodium Red Shirt Epic Fail Toplessness from the Back Becoming the Mask Police Brutality Only in It for the Money Ms. Fanservice Race Lift The Dragon Bloody Hilarious In the Back Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Stoner Karma Houdini Gory Discretion Shot Never My Fault Nothing Is Scarier Composite Character Eye Scream Early-Bird Cameo Abhorrent Admirer Disproportionate Retribution Martial Arts Movie The Lost Lenore Irony Reckless Gun Usage Translation Convention Let's Get Dangerous! The Power of Love Breaking the Fourth Wall Hate Sink Intergenerational Friendship Meaningful Name Anti-Villain Bloodier and Gorier