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* [[Doctor Strange]] allowed a tiny fragment of the demonic entity Zom to possess him in ''[[World War Hulk]]''. He quickly discovered that [[Evil Is Not a Toy|this was probably not the wisest choice]].
* During a story arc of ''[[Sturmtruppen]]'', Private Fritz is possessed by the demon infesting the outpost 666 and starts behaving like the one from ''[[The Exorcist]]''. He's eventually defeated and cured when he's slammed on the head with a giant wooden cross.
* [[Sleepwalker]]'s demonic enemy Cobweb had his minions possess innocent humans at different points in the series to do his evil bidding. Sleepwalker was able to expel them from the humans' bodies by zapping them with his [[Eye Beams|warp vision]], which broke the demons' possession and sent them back to their home dimensions.
* [[Deadman (Comic Book)|Deadman]] is a heroic ghost that uses this as his main power. It was granted to him by the Hindu goddess Rama Kushna.
* Both [[Ghost Rider]] characters have this situation.
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* In ''The [[Book of Amber]]'', ty'igas are bodiless demons who can possess people.
* Tak in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Regulators]]'' and ''[[Desperation]]'' (not the same character, the novels are a short of [[Alternate Continuity]] versions of each other).
* From the [[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]], the Ravers are a trio of powerful demons who collectively act as [[The Dragon]] to [[Big Bad]] [[God of Evil|Lord Foul]]. They don't have true bodies of their own, but possess a variety of mortals across the series (they can possess humans without help, but require a power boost before they can possess [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Haruchai]] or [[Our Giants Are Taller|Giants]]). Some main characters get possessed at different points and are able to describe the experience.
* The ''[[Warhammer 40000]] [[Grey Knights]]'' novels, since they are about daemons and those who fight them, naturally has this occur a few times. Some of these daemons can take over machinery, as shown in ''Dark Adeptus''.
* Played with in ''[[Good Omens]]'', which features a case of ''angelic'' posession after {{spoiler|Aziraphale's body gets destroyed.}}
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* In ''[[The Drowning City]]'' by [[Amanda Downum]], there's an interesting twist: a demon (jinn, to be precise) is bound inside a human shell by trickery and restrained and controlled by powerful magical bindings.
* The [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Rivers of London]]'' is the Spirit of Riot and Rebellion {{spoiler|[[Punch and Judy|Mister Punch]]}} who is possessing innocent souls forcing them to commit random acts of murder and violence. At one point manages to possess and entire theatre crowd all at once.
* This is what happens in [[The Nights Dawn Trilogy]] when {{spoiler|the dead return to the living world}} by taking over people's body, usually using torture by already possessed or satanist cults to force their way in.
* In the last book of ''[[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]]'' {{spoiler|an ill-advised magical experiment leads to a number of powerful demons inhabiting most of the higher members of the government. The demons have no ability to possess people, but the magicians summoned them into their own bodies, believing they could control them. Instead they obliterated their minds and set up shop.}}
* '''Things''' in ''[[Septimus Heap]]'' have this as one of their standard abilities. In ''Queste'', this first happens to Hildegarde Pigeon and then to the Toll-Man.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* A old show called ''Everyman'' about real exorcisms on demons.[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh9EAPqM1OA "Everyman-Exorcism"]
* ''[[Angel]]''
** [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] when the gang goes to try and exorcise a demon possessed boy...only for it to turn out the boy is soulless, and has ''trapped'' the now terrified demon inside his body.
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== Religion ==
* [[Truth in Television]] according to the Catholic Church and most other Christian denominations.
* Frequently occurs in [[The Bible]], to the point where it's lumped together with all the other diseases and mental disorders Jesus cures. One notable example: the truly unfortunate man possessed by ''one thousand'' demons that called themselves "Legion". Jesus, being well, [[The Messiah|Jesus]], cured the man but spared the demons by casting them into a herd of pigs instead of outright destroying them.
* This trope is sometimes played straight and inverted in East Asian religion, where humans can be possessed by benevolent or evil spirits. Usually, shamans and the like are called in to exorcise the person under possession.
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* Early on in ''Muramasa: The Demon Blade'', Momohime gets possessed by a demon named Jinkuro, forcing her original soul out of her body. An evil monk then steals the soul to give to a giant demon, and Momohime-Jinkuro has to rush to get it back, because if the original soul is destroyed, then Momohime's body will wither and die, leaving him once again without a vessel.
* [[Tear Jerker|Tragically done]] AND [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|gloriously inverted]] in ''[[Arc the Lad]] II'': {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] manage to take control of Kukuru and "absorb" her, only to discover that Arc's Girlfriend's soul is stronger than his own: she promptly inverts the demonic possession and gives Arc the time to seal him again}}
* ''[[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}}.
** '''''"[[Boss in Mooks Clothing|ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL!!!]]"''''' [[Memetic Mutation|Sound familiar?]] [[BioWare/Memes|It should]].
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* The original ''[[Transformers]]'' series has Starscream become a ghost after he dies, and over the span of two series possesses other transformers (Cyclonis, Scourge in G1 and Waspinator in ''[[Beast Wars]]'').
** Poked fun at wonderfully [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKCREMr7WV0 here].
* in ''[[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}}.
* A heroic example is Raven from ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' who is [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-demon]]. She usually [[Mind Over Manners|limits her use of this power]], on one occasion possessing Robin to help him when he was having a [[Your Mind Makes It Real|very bad trip]], and [[Blob Monster|Plasmus]] twice, in both cases instantly making him [[Your Head Asplode|asplode]].
** Considering she has a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] as one lovely feature of her dual nature, one could argue that on the occasions where it takes control, she's possessed by her ''own'' inner demon.
* In ''[[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.
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