Tropescilloscope: Demonic Possession

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

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