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* 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]]'' 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.}}

* 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.

* In ''[[Naked Lunch]]'', this happens to a carny worker in one of Benway's most infamous monologues.