Demonic Possession: Difference between revisions

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{{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 (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'''''}}

* The alien threat in [[John Carpenter]]'s ''[[Ghosts of Mars]]'' operate in this method.

* The premise of the [[Evil Dead]] movies. The people possessed by the "spirits of the [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|book]]" can even appear to change back into their former selves, only to lure their former friends into reach.

* Annabelle in ''St. Trinian's: The Legend Of Fritton's Gold'' gets possessed by her ancestor Captain Fritton. There is no real point to this scene, other then having the other girls scream, making the Emo do an exorcism, damaging Annabelle's self-esteem, and getting the second half of the clue.

* Dan Aykroyd LOVES this trope. ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' I and II feature possession, with Dana and Louis getting it in GBI; and Oscar (sort of), Janohz and Ray in GB II by the ''same'' entity. It also forms a prevalent part of the game. {{spoiler|1=There are even specific mooks who quite happily invade the bodies of NPCs, including the Busters. The most obvious example of this is, of course, Ray, who gets possessed after playing the hero -- "they'll have to go through me first!" Nice going, Doc. The Xbox version of the game has him get possessed again later on his way to the security office at the museum, with him babbling incoherently over the walkie-talkies. Then, of course, there's Illysa and Peck, both of whom get possessed at the museum. And the Mayor, who gets possessed by Ivo Shandor.}} So yes, this Troper thinks it's fairly safe to say that Mr. Aykroyd appears to be fond of this trope.

* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' and its sequel have [[Eldritch Abomination|Reapers]] do this once they decide their [[You Have Failed Me|mooks have failed]], or the fight is important enough to require personal intervention.

** The final fight of the first game has {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Sovereign]] ''melt'' the flesh off [[The Dragon|Saren's]] corpse to fight Commander Shepard with Saren's cybernetic implants}}.

* In ''[[Fire Emblem]]: The Sacred Stones'', {{spoiler|Lyon}} has either type two or type four depending on which sibling's path you choose.

** In ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Seisen No Keifu (Genealogy of the Holy War)''... upon reading the [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]], Prince Yurius ends up as an avatar of a Dark God. Irredeemably so, at that through a combination of Type 2 and 3-- and this was all set up by the [[Complete Monster]] of a head of the game's [[Religion of Evil]] as to unseal the [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]... right down to Yurius's birth.