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== Anime and Manga ==
* While the [[Kill Sat|Saint's Cradle]] took control of her body to defend itself, {{spoiler|Vivio}} of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikersStrikerS]]'' was still able to speak to Nanoha and beg her to leave her to die since she's just an [[Person of Mass Destruction|artificially created weapon]]. [[The Messiah|Nanoha]], naturally, disagreed with her statement.
* In ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'', people being controlled by Doflamingo and that one guy from the second TV-special are still talking, apologizing, shouting out warnings, cursing or begging for mercy. Both villains seems to consider that last bit especially funny.
* In ''[[Zero Seven 07-Ghost]]'', Teito's best friend Mikage gets half his soul destroyed and his body possessed by Ayanami who then tries to capture Teito. Though Ayanami seems to be in complete control, Mikage still manages to shed a few tears as he attacks his friend.
* In [[Naruto]] the Nara Clan's Shadow Possession Jutsu forces the victim to mimic the pose the caster is in, as well as all movements, but victims can still talk, usually expressing surprise about getting caught in it..
 
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== Film -- Animated ==
* In ''[[The Incredibles]]'', Syndrome's "Zero Point Energy" can freeze a person in place, but they can still look around. Same thing with the [[Human Popsicle|cop put on ice]] by Frozone.
* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', Genies can't disobey their Master's orders as long it doesn't violate certain rules, but it doesn't mean they have to like it.
 
== Film -- Live Action ==
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{{quote| '''Arnold:''' And why... why can't I move, there, there must be some logical reason for all this?<br />
'''Creedence:''' Shut up! }}
* In ''Danger: Diabolik'', [[Gentleman Thief|Diabolik]] was encased in solid gold, but he could still move his eyes in order to show the audience that he was [[Not Quite Dead]]. He even winks at the audience. <ref>In the [[MST3KMystery Science Theater 3000]] version of the movie, Mike laughs at the idea that the movie wants us to believe Diabolik somehow came out on top. Seriously, how the Hell does he expect to get out of that gold?</ref>
* ''[[Iron Man (Filmfilm)|Iron Man 2]]'' had this when Vanko hacked into the [[War Machine (Comic Book)|War Machine]] suit with Rhodey inside.
{{quote| '''Rhodey:''' Whoa, whoa, whoa... ''(aims his minigun at Tony)''<br />
'''Tony:''' Is that you?<br />
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Pvt Jenkins, in the ''Halo'' novel ''The Flood'', retains his consciousness when infected by the flood due to some biological quirk. He retains only minimal control over his body.
* In the ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' series, infestation by [[Brain Slug|Yeerks]] sometimes works this way: strong-willed or desperate hosts can rebel against their Yeerks (especially when the Yeerk is under duress itself), often leading to arguing with and/or hitting oneself. In a more literal example, Visser One describes a game she used to play with one of her hosts where she would relinquish control of one body part and see how long it took the host to find out; in one case, the body part the host could move was her eye. {{spoiler|The host nearly kills them both by closing the one eye on the freeway, thus denying Visser One depth perception.}}
* The short story ''[http://www.asstr.org/files/Collections/Alt.Sex.Stories.Moderated/Year2001/28871 Great Gift of Sleep]'' by Shon Richards has a woman on a spaceship arrange for one of the other women to be partially awoken from [[Suspended Animation]] for the purposes of sex, leaving her unable to move (though very much able to feel) from the neck down.
* In [[Iain M Banks]]' SF novel ''[[The Culture/The Player of Games|The Culture]]'', as a bizarre punishment one incidental character is locked into a robotic exoskeleton which prevents him eating anything other than bread and water, makes sure that he's in bed and up by certain times, and totally prevents him enjoying any pleasures of the flesh, but otherwise allows him the freedom to work at his job. At one point the exoskeleton takes complete control of its occupant as he frantically tries to prevent it performing its programming.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* This happens from time to time on ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]''. It's amazing how many alien races have paralysis weapons.
* ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'':
** The episode "Angels and Demons" had Lister warning his crew that he was being controlled to attack them, and actively helping them defeat him. Gives the quote "Look out, I'm trying to kill you!"
** In "Psirens", when Kryten is ordered to destroy himself, his body obeys, but his head protests all the way.
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** In the TV special "[[Doctor Who/20th AS the Five Doctors/Recap|The Five Doctors]]", this is what happens to those {{spoiler|who wish to be immortal in Rassilon's presence}}.
* Norman Balthus, in the second season of ''[[Carnivale]]'', is afflicted with this when he {{spoiler|is kept in a state of complete paralysis by his newly-evil Antichrist of an adopted son, Justin, after suffering a stroke}}. Made into [[Nightmare Fuel]] in the episode where {{spoiler|Justin uses his mind to pull one of Norman's teeth after Norman got pissed and spit applesauce at him}}.
* In Volume 3 of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', this is inflicted upon Angela Petrelli by {{spoiler|her husband, Arthur}}.
* ''[[CSI: NY]]'' The pilot, 'Blink'. See the locked-in syndrome entry in [[Real Life]].
 
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* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', when Genie {{spoiler|is forced to do Jafar's bidding via lamp}}, he will shout 'Look out!' or 'Get out of the way!' before attacking.
* ''[[System Shock]] 2'': The zombies speak coherently, apologizing while aiming a shotgun for your head or swinging a lead pipe for your face.
* When the Collector Swarms of ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]'' bite a human, it reduces them to this, [all the easier to carry them away and do horrible things to them. [[Wham! Episode|Horizon]] is full of these people.
* In ''[[Tales of Vesperia (Video Game)|Tales of Vesperia]]'', {{spoiler|Estelle gets this treatment after being repeatedly [[Mind Rape|Mind Raped]] by Alexei. She gets better, thankfully.}}
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' episode "The Puppetmaster" has a possessed Aang and Sokka apologizing as they attack Katara.
* Anyone locked in stasis cuffs in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' can still speak and move their heads, but can't move their limbs or use weapons.
** And when Dirtboss decides to cerebro-shell Bulkhead, he ends up attacking his friends and apologizing while he does so.
* Any trap or superpower in the old ''[[Super FriendsSuperfriends]]'' cartoon which could immobilize the heroes would leave them free to look around or converse.
* An episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'' features a gas that paralyses people in this manner. It's used on a room full of police officers attending a dinner for Commissioner Gordon.
* One episode of ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' had Uncle and Daolon Wong fire petrification spells at one another. They both hit at the same time, and so neither could do anything but move their eyes.
* In Disney's ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]'' the animated series when King Midas turns one of his men to gold he can still blink and shift his eyes.
* ''[[Yellow Submarine (Animation)|Yellow Submarine]]'': The frozen citizens of Pepperland are still conscious and can slightly move their heads. They can also weep.
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[wikipedia:Locked in syndrome|locked-in syndrome]], or ALS.
** Which was used explicitly in the first episode of ''[[CSI: NY]]'', by an insane doctor that kept killing his guinea pigs accidentally until he successfully locked a victim in this state.
** And in a 5th season episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. The first half of the episode is shown by the POV of the [[Patient of the Week]].
** And on ''[[Law and& Order (TV)|Law and Order]]'' once, though they called it "frozen."
* [[wikipedia:Botulism|Botulism]] can not only result in the loss of voluntary muscles, it can also result in the loss of breathing and parts of the nervous system.
* At the NSFW hypnosis website ''Hypno Girls'', women are sometimes ordered to "freeze". Most of the time, they are still able to move from the neck up.
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