Tropescilloscope: Demonic Possession

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

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