Tropescilloscope: Demonic Possession

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

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