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A variation of [[Body Horror]], where a creature basically forces ''all of'' itself into someone else, but through an established opening of the body (as in naturally, not a cut or piercing), even if it's not really an opening ([[The Matrix|like the navel]]). It could be the mouth (do not confuse with [[Force Feeding]]), the nostrils, the ear, or through orifices below the belt. Pores could even count.

Effects on the victim can range from [[Puppeteer Parasite|mind control]] to [[Body Horror|transformation]], and even death.

 

 

[[Ass Shove]] is the trope when ''that'' particular orifice is involved.

 

Contrast [[Orifice Evacuation]], [[Chest Burster]].

 

* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', one of the first acts Super Buu commits after being formed is to turn entirely into pink goo, force himself down the throat of one of the humans that killed Fat Buu's dog and expand, blowing the guy apart from the inside. [[Nightmare Fuel|Brrr...]]

** Later tried again against [[Fusion Dance|Vegeto]], who responded by beating the crap out of Buu ''who was still inside his body''.

** And before she did it to the girl, she did it to a dog.

** She also does this with the snakes she controls instead of herself: if she can get something into an entry point to your body she can send in hundreds of snakes which let her track you wherever you are and can rip you to pieces whenever she tells them to.

* In the manga version of ''[[Ju-on]]'', this is how Kanna meets her end when a bunch of possessed cats enter her mouth {{spoiler|and [[Nightmare Fuel|tear her jaw off]]}}.

* In ''[[Basilisk]]'', one of the ninjas from the Iga clan whose power is to turn into a slug-like thing in the contact with salt kill a ninja from the Kouga clan by jumping in his mouth, inside his throat and breaking his neck.

 

* The image example for this trope comes from ''[[The Piper]] #2'' by Zenescope comics. The woman in question (Sandra) just had a poisonous snake slide into her mouth after putting her lips on a french horn's mouthpiece, {{spoiler|all thanks to the Piper playing his lethal song outside her room. She dies.}}

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* A "bug" in ''[[The Matrix]]'' enters through the bellybutton.

* A monster in ''[[Poltergeist]] II'' disguised itself as a tequila worm to take over the dad. However, the dad overcame this and threw it up.

* The slugs in ''[[Night of the Creeps]]''.

* The slugs in the movie ''[[Slither]]'' enter their hosts through their mouths.

* In ''Sniper'', Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) warns his partner not to urinate as they are wading through a waist-deep river, because small organisms will enter his urethra and dig in with spikes.

* In the short film ''Ghosts'', the Maestro (played by [[Michael Jackson]]) possesses the Mayor (also played by Jackson, believe it or not) this way.

* In ''[[The Island]]'', the diagnostic sensors (which look like a cross between ticks and spiders) crawl into the body via the eyesocket.

* ''[[eXistenZ]]'' is played this way.

* Played for laughs when [[Bill and Ted]]'s ghosts try possessing two men. They squeeze in through the ears.

** "I totally possessed my dad!"

* In ''Scourge'', the titular black silverfish-like parasite enters through the navel.

 

== Literature ==

* The creature in [[Piers Anthony]]'s novel ''Firefly'' does this.

** Also Father in the Ellimist Chronicles, a giant sentient sponge (well, sort of) that sticks tendrils into the body ([[Naughty Tentacles|Not quite that way!]]) to keep its victims alive (or in the case of the dead, keep them from decaying as long as they remain attached) and giving it access to their minds.

* In [[Clive Barker]]'s ''Confessions of a Pornographer's Shroud'', a vengeful sheet-possessing ghost shoves its fabric "arm" down the throat of the gang boss who'd ordered its murder... then ''pulls it out'', along with most of its enemy's alimentary canal.

* In the short story "Motherhood Redeems Women" by D. Douglas Graham, {{spoiler|an aborted fetus decides to return to the womb by the same door he came out}}. [[Squick]] ensues.

* There's a story by [[Tanith Lee]] about a [[Demonic Possession|demon that takes possession]] of humans via their orifices, so to try and prevent being possessed one guy blocks all of his orifices, but {{spoiler|forgets his urethra. Ow.}}

* The biotech of the villainous Yuuzhan Vong in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] often does this. Frequently commented on are the living disguises known as ooglith masquers, which have feeding tendrils that insert themselves into the wearers' pores. Numerous creatures fit the trope more exactly by slithering into ears or eye sockets, or down the mouth.

* [[The Fallen]]. ''Leviathan'' has people having their bodies taken over by making the creatures enter through their mouths.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* One [[Real Life]] example was in ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', where one of the guy woke up partly covered by leeches, and one somehow crawled into his urethra.

* The prehistoric worm parasites in the revived ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' episode "From Within" entered (and later exited as they died) through nostrils, mouths ''and'' ears. One girl actually had a worm go in her right ear (complete with blood) and at the end of the episode have it come out her left ear without leaving her with any ill effects (other than a great deal of pain).

* An episode of ''[[Lexx]]'' had space carrots that take over people's bodies by ramming themselves up their anuses.

* In a bit of a twist, through the mouth is the ''more pleasant'' way for a [[Stargate SG-1|Goa'uld]] symbiote to enter a human host: Goa'uld normally enter through the neck, not wishing to see the expression on their future host's face. Only the Tok'ra, a [[Defector From Decadence|breakaway group]] who only accept voluntary hosts, normally enter through the mouth.

* A classic ''[[Night Gallery]]'' episode has a man hiring someone to do away with a rival by planting an earwig in his ear at night, where it will crawl into his head, constantly eating (see "Real Life" below) -- in a karmic slip-up he gets it planted in himself. In a million-to-one fluke, he survives weeks of agony when it crawls out his other ear. With the boldness of one who's been through Hell he owns up to his deed and claims he'd do it again...{{spoiler|then he finds out the earwig was an egg-laying female.}}

* Hunting for mole lizards in Baja California, the host of ''Weird Creatures'' is told a local [[Urban Legend]] that these worm-like animals will invade the anus of anyone who defecates over their burrows.

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** And then there are hellwasp swarms that can enter a dead body and animate it... or enter a living body and [[Body Horror|force it to do what they want]]...

** And then there's the process of ceremorphosis, which a mind-flayer tadpole is inserted into the ear of a hapless humanoid (usually a captive human, orc or drow), which eventually turns them into a new mind flayer.

** And to crown the collection there's the [[DC 90]] Escape Artist check from the Epic rules. Combined with Enlarge Person...

*** Combined with the Exemplar class, who can among other things do stuff like substitute a Diplomacy skill check with Escape Artist, you can even do this and impress onlookers so much they will adore and admire you.

 

== Video Games ==

* Several of Las Plaguas were inserted at adult size into the mouth of the victims in ''[[Resident Evil]] [[Resident Evil 5|5]]'' for quicker control of the hosts.

** The G-Spawn in ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'' is implanted through the victims' mouth, then [[Chest Burster|explodes from their chest]] ''[[Alien]]'' style.

* And then there are the [[Eternal Darkness|B]][[Paranoia Fuel|o]][[Nightmare Fuel|n]][[And I Must Scream|e]][[Mind Control|t]][[Grand Theft Me|h]][[Body Horror|i]][[Mind Screw|e]][[Press X to Not Die|v]][[Eldritch Abomination|e]][[Personal Space Invader|s]][[Puppeteer Parasite|...]]

* The Mysterious Shadows in [[Deadly Premonition]] sometimes do this.

 

* The...uh...nurses(?) in [[Oglaf]] use a "polyp of cleansing" to cure the unfortunate Ivan of poison. The phrase "open your food tract, mammal" is employed, followed by a very unpleasant-looking panel. Of course, given which webcomic this is, perhaps we should be glad it was his ''mouth''.

 

== Western Animation ==

** In episode "Franz Hopper", instead of possessing one specter tries to clog Jérémie's airways by entering his mouth and nose.

* In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Groundskeeper Willie fills the auditorium with rats in revenge for being humiliated. Bart warns Milhouse not to open his mouth; of course, Milhouse starts to say "What?", at which point half a dozen rats leap in.

* Carrie from [[The Amazing World of Gumball]] can posses someone by flying into their mouth and down their thorat.

** A subversion occurs in Season4, when {{spoiler|Obi-Wan voluntarily swallows a "vocal emulator", a spider-like device that changes his voice, in order to perfect his disguise as Bounty Hunter Rako Hardeen.}}

 

== Real Life ==