Beat Still, My Heart: The Jerkass teacher from the third film suffers this.Though admittedly, the phones themselves aren't sentient.
Attack of the Killer Whatever: Cell phones. Happens in the remake, when Ellie's mother just happens to leave her shut in her room. Enforced in the original, when Mimiko's mother knew she was having an asthma attack and removed her inhaler because she found out Mimiko had abused her younger sister. It turns out to be Mimiko/Ellie's inhaler. Invoked in the sound that every victim hears before they die. 
Azusa, Teruya, and anyone else who bullied Emiri and Asuka also fit the bill. Later on, the death message is then forwarded to Takehiro by Shinichi, as revenge for the death of Akaike. When the death message is forwarded to Akaike, Takehiro and his friends lock the poor boy in a closet, preventing him from reaching his phone and thus killing him. You almost spectate for Mimiko when a student is lucky enough to hide her phone and text him, inciting a horrific case of Beat Still, My Heart. He confiscates all of the students' phones, just to protect himself from being texted against. Asshole Victim: Kibe, the male teacher from the third film. This fueled Takako's decision to become a detective and be able to end the curse. When they were children, her twin sister answered the death call and died just days later. Angsty Surviving Twin: Takako in One Missed Call 2, as part of her Dark and Troubled Past. The ending, which is quite different from the original's, breaks the established rules of the film and curse in more ways than one and quite blatantly (whereas the original only sort of "stretched" them). Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: The remake. Their mother is physically and emotionally abusive (they freaking put their cigarette on their daughter's hand) and is implied to have a hand in forcing their father/husband to commit suicide. Marie discovered the abuse just before she and Mimiko/Ellie died. Actually subverted - it was an abusive sister. Abusive Parents: In both versions - social services suspected this to be the case with Marie. In the remake it's not only abandoned, but also burnt out after a deadly fire. Abandoned Hospital: Featured in the original and the remake, as a key location where the protagonist goes to try and find the origin of the curse. Manga adaptations and a pachinko video game were also produced. A ten-episode TV Spinoff series was made in 2005. It was later followed by two sequels - One Missed Call 2 and One Missed Call: Final - and an American remake.
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