human vs. spirit theme
A struggle between person and spirit is featured. A spirit, here, means an "immaterial being", "supernatural agent", the "soul of a person", an "invisible entity", or the "soul of a seriously suffering person". Often spirits have an intermediate status between gods and humans, sharing some properties with gods (incorporeality, greater powers) and some with humans (finite, not omniscience).
10 total · 1 choice · 9 major
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: The Blair Witch Project (1999) | choice | While lost in a forest, three young filmmakers were haunted by the ghost of a witch. |
| movie: Ghostbusters (1984) | major | The Ghostbusters' saved the world from the demon Zuul and his ethereal minions. |
| movie: Ghostbusters (2016) | major | The Ghostbusters were working to stop ghosts from running amok in New York City. |
| movie: Ghostbusters II (1989) | major | The Ghostbusters' saved New York City from the ghost of Vigo the Carpathian and his ethereal minions. |
| nightgallery3x07 | major | Tom and Leona Ogilvy moved into a house and were apparently beset upon by one or more spirits that were perhaps attached to a mysterious trunk in the attic. The spirits perpetrated various hoaxes that turned Tom and Leona against each other. |
| tng5x22 | major | Clara had an imaginary friend, Isabella, that turned out to be quite real and had various ghost-like attributes. She could make herself visible or invisible and perpetrated a few mischiefs like a poltergeist. She was later revealed to be a spaceborne alien entity. |
| tng7x14 | major | The antagonist made every appearance of being a ghost and a component of this story was the more scientifically minded protagonists’ reluctance to accept that superstitious notion. In the end, Ronin was revealed to be an “anaphasic lifeform” which needed a corporeal lifeform to take physical form. |
| tos3x18 | major | The antagonists of the story were ghost-like beings that cause eerie light effects and possessed humans, usually killing them in the process. They were later explained to be a once-corporeal alien race known as the Zetarians. |
| tz1959e3x07 | major | Miller worried that the late Pinto Sykes might pull him down into the world of the dead in some sort of posthumous act of vengeance. |
| tz2002e1x43 | major | One gathers that the mysterious events around Scott's house were perpetrated by ghosts. |