Tropescilloscope: Demonic Possession

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

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