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* What's seems to be a Poltergeist (and mentioned as such by name) affects the MIB headquarters in the HalloweenEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack''. As the show is sci-fi it turns out the Poltergeist was caused by an interdimensional alien life form.

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* What's seems to be a Poltergeist (and mentioned as such by name) affects the MIB headquarters in the HalloweenEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack''.''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries''. As the show is sci-fi it turns out the Poltergeist was caused by an interdimensional alien life form.
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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/{{Ghosts}}''. [[SleazyPolitician Julian Fawcett MP]] is the only one of the ghosts who can interact with the physical world, but he can only move small objects by nudging them with his finger and with great effort, literally screaming with the strain of it.

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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/{{Ghosts}}''.''Series/GhostsUK''. [[SleazyPolitician Julian Fawcett MP]] is the only one of the ghosts who can interact with the physical world, but he can only move small objects by nudging them with his finger and with great effort, literally screaming with the strain of it.
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* In ''Series/BeingHuman'', Annie becomes a poltergeist after turning down a door into the afterlife.

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* In ''Series/BeingHuman'', ''Series/BeingHumanUK'', Annie becomes a poltergeist after turning down a door into the afterlife.
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* In ''Series/BeingHuman'', Annie becomes a poltergeist after turning down a door into the afterlife.


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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/{{Ghosts}}''. [[SleazyPolitician Julian Fawcett MP]] is the only one of the ghosts who can interact with the physical world, but he can only move small objects by nudging them with his finger and with great effort, literally screaming with the strain of it.
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* In the first ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}'' game, a poltergeist boss attempts to drop a chandelier on your head.

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* In the first ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}'' game, the second boss is a poltergeist boss who shakes an entire room violently. It attacks by tossing a variety of household objects at you, including knives and a chair, and then attempts to drop a chandelier on your head.
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* ''Fanfic/NotTheIntendedUseZantetsukenReverse'': "Chapter 24: The Belmonts" has a ghost noting that he ''can't'' move objects:
--> "But if I could move things, I'd haunt Stanley for that arrow. There's got to be something easily breakable in that house."
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* ''Film/HauntedMansion2023'': A candlestick is seen floating through the air, presumably being carried by an invisible ghost, of which there are many in the film.
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For the movies of the same name, go to ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}''.

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For the movies of the same name, go to ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}''.
''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}''.
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** The protagonists, along with a [[TeethClenchedTeamwork Fittes team]] are trapped in a department store by a poltergeist at one point, and it's revealed that [[spoiler:Holly Munro]] lost her entire team to a poltergeist attack before the series.

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** The protagonists, along with a [[TeethClenchedTeamwork Fittes team]] team]], are trapped in a department store by a poltergeist at one point, and it's revealed that [[spoiler:Holly Munro]] lost her entire team to a poltergeist attack before the series.
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** The protagonists, along with a [[TeethClenchedTeamwork Fittes team]] are trapped in a department store by a poltergeist at one point, and it's revealed that [[spoiler:Holly Munro]] lost her entire team to a poltergeist attack before the series.
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* The title character of ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'', most likely.

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* In ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof'', Sachi Enoki, a ghost who has haunted the protagonist's high school for 80 years, can make objects shake. She uses this ability to attract Seina Maki's attention and help her discover an area where she and her [[SenpaiKohai sempai]] Miki Aihara can relax away from people who would make requests of the latter.

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* In ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof'', Sachi Enoki, a ghost who has haunted the protagonist's high school for 80 years, can make objects shake. She uses this ability to attract Seina Maki's attention and help her discover an area where she and her [[SenpaiKohai sempai]] sempai Miki Aihara can relax away from people who would make requests of the latter.
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* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei''
** Poltergeists appear as small demons, usually depicted lifting a chair bigger than their bodies.
** Between the events of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' and ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', [[BreakTheHaughty Navarre]] died and came back as a poltergeist. Fittingly, he can't attack himself, and has to throw items from Nanashi's inventory at enemies.
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* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', many of the attacks the Ghoul boss in the Train Graveyard Control Room uses are this. You spend the battle trapped in a small room filled with debris, which it won't hesitate to toss at you. On the flipside, however, it has other attacks such as hitting the party with energy blasts or screaming at them, some of which can be blocked by hiding behind debris.

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