Tropescilloscope: Demonic Possession

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

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