'''Basic Trope''': A piece of technology that is cursed or haunted.
* '''Straight''': Alice's [=MP3=] player only plays a demonic anthem and displays a pentagram on its screen. [[ClingyMacGuffin It always seems to appear with her, even if she forgets it or throws it away.]]
* '''Exaggerated''': The [=MP3=] player hops after Alice and tries to strangle her with its earbud cords.
* '''Downplayed''': The [=MP3=] sometimes plays creepy ''bzzzz'' sound and the screen sometimes turns red. It's always in Alice's pocket.
* '''Justified''': Alice's [=MP3=] is a can for SealedEvilInACan.
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice's [=MP3=] player plays Gregorian choirs and by listening to it people can be healed from DemonicPossession.
** Complex technology is the only thing that is completely immune to curses and haunting.
** Alice's [=MP3=] player has [[BanishingRitual a recording of the Aria of Exile]] on it. Not only can it be played for the obvious effect but it also [[HolyBurnsEvil prevents any ethereal being from even touching it indirectly through a possessed vessel]].
** A haunted electronics workshop produces [=MP3=] players and is mostly harmless, just producing the usual pollution byproducts and being unsettling to witness in action.
* '''Subverted''': It is actually a program that causes it to do that, installed by the retailer as a prank.
* '''Double Subverted''': After Alice removes the program, it keeps doing it.
* '''Parodied''':
** It displays a pentagram and only plays "Baby" by Music/JustinBieber. Alice reacts as if she had seen TheDevil itself.
** Alice's [=MP3=] says her mother does various things in Hell and pukes constantly. [[TakeThat Alice, along with everyone else, show mild annoyance with this latest software update.]]
* '''Zig-Zagged''':
** Some [=MP3=] players are haunted, others are not.
** Alice's [=MP3=] player goes from acting demonically to beatifically to neutrally with no apparent rhyme or reason.
* '''Averted''': Alice's [=MP3=] player functions normally.
* '''Enforced''': Producer wants to show that technology is evil -- and he does it literally.
* '''Lampshaded''': "There's a devil in my [=MP3=] player!"
* '''Invoked''':
** The ReligionOfEvil who runs the [=MP3=] manufacturers specifically designs all the [=MP3s=] to be the vessels for their GodOfEvil.
** The GodOfEvil can find vessels for itself; it just finds [=MP3s=] and devices that can play them to be suitable.
** An android is created for the explicit purpose of being haunted so that the ghost can interact with the world.
* '''Exploited''': Alice uses the [=MP3s=] to pass as a demon and infiltrate hell.
* '''Defied''': Alice has an exorcism done to remove the offending curse.
* '''Discussed''': "What if it's possessed?"
* '''Conversed''':
** "Somebody said that in a TV show -- an innovation that requires devices that can capture and record audio and video. CluelessAesop, anyone?"
** "Thanks, now you've worried the viewer next to me."
* '''Implied''': Alice is complaining to POV character, Bob, about her [=MP3=] player acting weird and creepy.
* '''Played for Laughs''': The haunted piece of technology was a complete flop, like a Betamax tape, and winds up completely unused. The haunting entity regrets its decision as it ends up trapped.
* '''Deconstructed''': The device in question is necessary for Alice's lifestyle.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Alice gets a replacement that is not haunted.
** Alice and the phantom in her device reach an understanding that it won't interfere with her -- though she didn't say her friends and family weren't fair game...
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