Tropescilloscope: Demonic Possession

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

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