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Might overlap with [[Artifact of Doom]]. Can have [[It Won't Turn Off]] as a side-effect.
 
Has naught to do with [[Ghost in Thethe Machine]] or [[Ghost in Thethe Shell]]. Not necessarily connected to [[Digitized Hacker]], though the potential is there. Nothing to do with standardized testing either.
 
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Film/Ghost In The Machine|Ghost In The Machine]]'', while a serial killer is undergoing a CAT scan at the hospital, a surge of lightning courses through the building, and his soul is transformed into electrical energy. He then uses the electrical grid and computer networks to continue his killing spree.
* ''[[The Exorcist (Film)|The Exorcist]]'' had a variation - as one transcript puts it, ''a huge machine, two pieces on either side of Regan's head and a piece above''
* ''[[The Broken]]''
* The mentally ill girl in ''[[Dark Floors]]'' (the [[Lordi]] monster film) is put into a CT machine and shortly thereafter begins to freak out. {{spoiler|It's also where she starts when the monsters make the night start over again, something only she can remember.}}
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Inverted in ''[[Scrubs]]'' where Elliot claims she uses a broken MRI machine as her "own little coccoon" when she's feeling stressed.
* In ''[[The X -Files]]'' episode "Theef", the poor doctor's {{spoiler|poor wife is literally grilled in one of those}}.
* One of the challenges in ''Gaki no Tsukai'' involves a MRI scan. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyoo2jMbbj4 And has the contestants terrified.]
 
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