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[[File:ExorcistBeforeAndAfter 758.jpg|link=The Exorcist|frame|[[Army of Darkness|"Honey, you got ''real'' ugly."]]]]
{{quote|''As the humble spirit you now see before you, I am free to cross over and possess any human I wish, enabling me to undo the sacred spells that keep you here. If you so deem it.''|'''Shendu''', '''''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'''''}}
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A spirit, usually [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a demon]], [[Our Ghosts Are Different|a ghost]], an [[Our Angels Are Different|angel]] or another supernatural being [[Grand Theft Me|takes control over someone's body]] and uses it as their own, forcing the host to act like the spirit wants. They may use it either as a spying tactic, or [[Immortality Immorality|to be immortal]] (often by possessing a body and passing into other when the first gets old), or to use the host's powers (if has). Anyway, the spirit usually will do this in order to promote their own agenda.
What happens with the host's mind/soul may vary. They may be unconscious and [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|not remember nothing when the spirit gets out]], or they could be conscious and be a spectator from their own body, but [[And I Must Scream|being unable to do anything for their own will]]. Or the former owner's soul is now out of the body. Regardless, the possession may be visible by [[Mind Control Eyes]] or not.
Sometimes, the possessed character will get free after [[Fighting From the Inside]], via [[Heroic Willpower]] or [[Hollywood Exorcism]]. Yet, some characters [[Won't Work On Me|can't be possessed]]. It may be because they're [[Insanity Immunity|too crazy]], have a [[Psychic Block Defense]], use magic, or because [[A Wizard Did It]]. Then, spirits that might possess people won't be able to [[Invoked Trope|invoke this trope]] on ''these people''.
Compare [[Mind Control Device]], [[Hypnotic Eyes]] and [[Mind Control Eyes]] (that do this from outside), [[Grand Theft Me]] (when who does this is a human), [[Puppeteer Parasite]] and [[The Virus]] (when what does it is a parasite, often an alien), and [[People Puppets]] (when the person moves are controled by a [[Living Doll Collector]] but the "puppet" usually knows what happens).
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Why hello there! [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Kelvek the Seducer]] welcomes you to her den of decadence. What? Of course [[Third-Person Seductress|Kelvek the Seducer]] is a woman! Are these [[Femme Fatalons]] not proof enough? The male body she [[Body Snatcher|currently inhabits]] is but a [[Call a Human a Meatbag|meat-dress]] for her demonic essence.
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Hmm, you aren't bad looking yourself. Would you mind terribly if I "[[Trouble Entendre|change clothes]]"...?
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** Ghosts in some editions could do this, and it's the signature trick of the odem, a type of disembodied evil spirit from the [[Ravenloft]] setting.
** The ''magic jar'' spell, which has been part of the game since the first edition and allows even humans to play the part of demonic-possessor-from-the-soul-jar.
* The yikaria (or yak-folk) from the [[Forgotten Realms|Kara-Tir]] setting can do this via a magical ability called "skin crawling"; this is unusual, seeing as yikaria are living, mortal, corporeal beings. Still, given the other atrocities they're known to commit, [[Bad Powers, Bad People| it seems fitting.]]
* ''[[GURPS]]: Creatures of the Night'' has a... thing that uses some sort of cosmic power to possess entire buildings.
* ''[[Shadowrun]]'': Certain extraplanar spirits are unable to remain in Earth's astral space without weakening unless they can anchor themselves to a human host. Bugs Spirits and Shedim, for example.
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** The Miko leader gets possessed by a Big Boo and turns into the boss of World 3. Luigi frees the Miko, and Luigi receives a "reward" for rescuing her.
** King Dedede gets possessed by Dark Matter in the boss fight for DDDark Castle. He even coughs up tiny Dark Matters for the second phase of the fight.
* In ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue]]'' (and adaptations, like ''[[Pokémon Let's Go]]'', many of the trainers you meet in Lavender Town's Pokémon Tower (one of the creepiest locations in the franchise, bar none) are possessed, possibly by their own Pokémon, requiring you to exorcise them by defeating them in battle. This is oddly the only time in the game franchise where this phenominon occurs; Ghost Pokémon do not do this in any other game.
** Of course, it happens [[Pokémon (anime)|in the anime]] all the time.
== Webcomics ==
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[[Category:Demonic Possession]]
[[Category:Mind Manipulation Tropes]]
[[Category:Body Snatcher]]
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