Tropescilloscope: Demonic Possession

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

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