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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.

Not to be confused with [[Alien Invasion]], which is one of the more common causes of this trope.

 

 

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

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* 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 the DVD remake of one episode of ''[[Bakemonogatari]]''.

* 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.

* Done constantly to poor Sakura in [[Fate/Zero]] (with ''[[Nightmare Fuel|a pit full of worms]]'') by her [[Complete Monster]] stepfather.

 

* 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 ==

* 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.

* ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]] II'', the [[B-Movie|low-budget sequel]] to the movie, introduced a breed of bugs that entered through the mouth to control the humans (it was also a convenient way to save on the special effects).

** The Centaurian Slugs in the new ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' movie crawl down through the victim's throat. [[Word of God]] says they're a [[Shout-Out]] to the Ceti eels.

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

* After he is blown to bits, Jason Voorhees's heart in ''[[Friday the 13th (film)]]'' evolves into a small creature which does this to take over bodies.

 

== Literature ==

* In Stephen Baxter's ''[[Manifold Space|Space]]'', the hero Malenfant is integrated with an android/computer system. Tendril-probes infiltrate him... essentially everywhere, and there is no attempt at anaesthesia. He is doomed to live for billions of years in this state unless he fails in the task for which he was converted, in which case {{spoiler|a stellar event will occur that will kill every living thing in the galaxy except for archaeobacteria and slime moulds.}}

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

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* 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.

* The creature that inhabits Helen Magnus of [[Sanctuary]] has a parasite exit through her ear canal {{spoiler|after she dies}}. Based on the dialogue, it got in through her pores.

* 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.

*** 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.

** These seem to be based on a creature from one of the [[Dying Earth (novel)|Cugel]] stories by [[Jack Vance]], implanted by a wizard to control the actions of said rogue.

 

== 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.

* The Death Slug from ''[[The Visitor]]'' in it's larva/parasite form does this, allowing itself to be eaten or, [[Ass Shove|taking the back door]] in order to [[Body Horror|absorb and messily kill it's host]]

 

* 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.

* ''[[Sym-Bionic Titan]]'' takes this to a disturbing extreme. Xishi, a squid-like monster about the size of an average human, climbs ''all the way down her victim's throat'' and forces them to speak the truth. What's really creepy about it is that Xishi's face is visible from inside the victim's throat.

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

* The Geonosian Brain Worms from [[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]] enter the victims through the nose, and take control of the body.

** 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 ==