Tropescilloscope: Demonic Possession

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

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