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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.

 

 

# First, by taking over an [[Empty Shell]] or once a mortal's [[Deal With the Devil]] is up and his [[Soul]] is yours. Once you own the "landlord," so to speak, the house is yours.

# Secondly you can always forcibly take over anyone foolish enough not to realize [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]. The [[Religion of Evil]] and other [[Religious Horror|foul]] [[Cult|Cults]] are usually nice enough to pick pretty sacrifices for us to inhabit, as well as those who work [[Black Magic]]. A plus in this method is that you get a wonderful, echoing [[Voice of the Legion]]. The strong willed may need to be worn down first though, otherwise they might try [[Fighting From the Inside]]. I prefer making them [[Hearing Voices|Hear Voices]].

# The third way is popular among [[Mummy|mummies]] and [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]; any [[Artifact of Doom]] that is a [[Soul Jar]], when held, lets the sealed spirit take over the possessed.

 

[[Puppeteer Parasite]] can do this with science, but it lacks a certain ''je ne sais quoi.'' [[The Virus]] on the other hand simply cores out the host's mind like an apple, effectively "[[Loss of Identity|killing]]" the original personality and soul of the host immediately. And the [[Living Doll Collector]] uses [[People Puppets]], how ingenious! What amazes Kelvek the Seducer is that you humans [[Grand Theft Me|do it]] to [[Astral Projection|each other]], not that it isn't [[Evil Is Sexy|deliciously kinky]]. Also, though it shames Kelvek the Seducer to admit it, this trope is not solely restricted to demons. Angelic Possession works in precisely the same way, except that those feathery hypocrites don't know how to have ''fun'' with it.

 

Hmm, you aren't bad looking yourself. Would you mind terribly if I "[[Trouble Entendre|change clothes]]"...?

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* Demonic possession is more or less what Take Over magic amounts to in [[Fairy Tail]]. However, the caster is in complete control... unless they ''aren't,'' in which case they are a rampaging monster. Just ask Elfman, Mirajane or {{spoiler|Lisanna}}.

* The [[Soul Jar]] variant occurs in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' as Ryou Bakura winds up possessed by the spirit of Zorc Necrophades by putting on the [[Clingy MacGuffin|Millenium Ring.]]

* One episode of [[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]] towards the end of the Battle Frontier arc ("Battling The Enemy Within") has Ash being possessed by an ancient king bent on getting back at the Legendary Pokémon Ho-oh and eventually taking over the world.

* A more benevolent version happens in ''[[After War Gundam X (Anime)|Gundam X]]'', where [[The Captain|Jamil]]'s former commander Lucille, now [[Sealed Good In A Jar|in a stasis pod]], uses her [[Psychic Powers]] to temporarily take control of [[Mysterious Waif|Tifa]]'s body to provide him with critical information (and closure). After her job is done, she willingly leaves, with no harm done to Tifa.

** And Nemissa did it before either in ''[[Soul Hackers]]''. Kinda subverted in that she leaves when she realizes it's necessary. And the possessee still has pretty much control over herself, limiting how much damage Nemissa can do. Later, {{spoiler|Spooky}} is taken over by Satanael, who later decides to take on the party... by ''blowing his way out of the victim's body''. '''''And he doesn't make it all the way out.'''''

** Before [[Devil Survivor (Video Game)|Devil Survivor]] but after Nocturne, the [[Light Is Not Good|Four Seraphs]] and [[Knight Templar|Metatron]] joined in, converting five poor saps into their physical bodies through the Demon Virus and obliterating their memories and personalities, making it a horrific combo between Type 1 and 2.

* [[Sonic Unleashed]]: you can converse with the townsfolk in the hub worlds, and some of them at night become possessed by Dark Gaia monsters, who make them either depressed, apathetic, or weirdly for some normally serious characters, laid-back and happy. As side missions, you can perform 'exorcisms' on them by flashing them with a camera and then defeating their "demons."

* ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' has a [[Shout Out]] to [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]] in Zappa, (yes, [[Musical Theme Naming|named after]] [[Frank Zappa|THAT Zappa]]) who is possessed by five (or rather, seven - one is a set of triplets) separate ghosts. [[Confusion Fu|You have no say in which one comes out, and they all fight differently]] (the only guaranteed emergence is if you summon with eight "eyes", in which case the strongest gets out). They're led by a [[Stringy Haired Ghost Girl]] named S-Ko.

** Poked fun at wonderfully [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKCREMr7WV0 here].

* in ''[[Transformers Prime (Animation)|Transformers Prime]]'', Megatron exposes himself to Dark Energon, the blood of [[God of Evil|Unicron]], which {{spoiler|allows Unicron to possess him in the first season finale. It's a testament to the strength of this Megatron's will, though, that Unicron had to knock him out before he could take total control}}.

* In ''[[Wakfu (Animation)|Wakfu]]'' there exist Shushus, which are demons [[Sealed Evil in A Can|trapped inside of objects]]. However, they can possess people through their weakness or even their own volition, and [[Idiot Hero|Shushu guardian Sadlygrove]] has this happen more than once.