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Sin Invites Possession
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Most people are aware that Evil Is Not a Toy, but there are a few that will go through the elaborate Summoning Ritual anyway and end up becoming a host for some demon or other, but in a few settings, making a deliberate Deal with the Devil isn't necessary for the demon to take control. The demon only needs a victim with the right (or wrong) mindset. More specifically, this is the idea that being an evil person leaves you vulnerable to the influence of evil beings. There may be specific types of demons who seek out hosts who are guilty of specific crimes, or it's simply that people who are evil like themselves are less able or willing to resist the possession. This trope can also be used as a metaphor for crossing the Moral Event Horizon, where the author is basically saying "people who do these things are no longer human", in a literal Demonization of the act and those who commit it. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })See also: |
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Breath of Fire II: All the servants of the Big Bad were normal, relatively speaking, people that went to become an embodiment of one of the Seven Deadly Sins, allowing the villain to transform them into demons. For example the first servant, Augus the manager of the Coliseum Tournaments in Coursair, symbolized Lust, specifically Bloodlust. He rigged the match between Ryu and Kat with the objective of making Ryu torture and kill the Cat Girl in front of a live audience as a sacrifice to his God. | |
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In The Divine Comedy, the second-to-last section of the innermost circle of Hell is home to those who betrayed their guests. Those who commit this sin get sent to Hell immediately upon committing it as their soul is displaced from their body by a demon. | |
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Subverted in Grandia II: At first, it seems the people possessed by the pieces of Valmar are guilty of some vice, such as the wealthy trade magnate who becomes a gluttonous blob while his employees starve. Gradually, it comes to light that Valmar can possess anyone who possesses strong desire, such as a young girl's desire to make the people of her village happy, and can as easily infect the innocent and good as the false and wicked. | |
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Undertale: taking the No Mercy path and deliberately killing everyone possible leads Chara, now a demonic entity, to possess you. This leads to a couple of cutscenes where they move you on their own as well as the bad ending, where you have to agree to sell your soul to them if you want to play the game again. (Unless you manually reset it yourself.) | |
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In The Bible, Matthew 12 43:45 suggests that a demon, once expelled, may return to the person it possessed: Theologians and Christian thinkers have extrapolated from this that being the mere passive recipient of an exorcism is not enough: the subject needs, metaphorically, to install better locks on doors and windows and an adequate burglar alarm system. (i.e. to accept the Christian message and actively reform their life so as to prevent re-occupation by demonic forces). |
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Chapters 36 and 37 of the Touhou Project supplementary manga Forbidden Scrollery feature an umatsuki, a type of Youkai that takes the form a horse who can detach its head to possess its victims, and targets those who have mistreated their horses. | |
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In The Second Coming, what makes people vulnerable to demonic possession is Despair. (Utter despair is considered a sin in some versions of Christianity, because it's incompatible with believing that God can and will help even the most miserable.) | |
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In Until Dawn, people who commit cannibalism on the mountain are possessed by the spirit of the Wendigo, and transformed into monsters. When Hannah is forced to eat her dead twin sister to attempt to survive lost in a mine, she is possessed by Makkapitew, the strongest and most powerful Wendigo ever. | |
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A truth in the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 universes. In fact, in the latter, rampant sin in the Eldar empire resulted in the birth of a new Chaos god: Slaanesh. In Warhammer Fantasy setting, eating the flesh of the dead will twist the cannibal into a ghoul. Using Dark Magic is only "safe" in tiny amounts, or on very sparing occasions. Any living thing using it regularly will be driven insane - the only question is "when". There is no "if". An additional danger is that many texts of Dark Magic are of shoddy quality due to poor preservation and being written by madmen. And in the Warhammer World, you do not want to miscast your spell because of this trope. Witches are hunted for a reason. |
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Played for laughs in the film Idle Hands, which takes the phrase "Idle hands are the Devil's playthings" literally and causes the hand of a boy who never does anything to become possessed. | |
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In A Hat Full of Sky, apprentice witch Tiffany Aching makes an error based on inexperience and a certain vanity. Untutored as to the pitfalls, she treats astral travel and going out of body as unremarkable and neglects to take safety precautions to prevent anything else from getting in while the back door is open and unlocked. She pops out of her body to check herself out, as if she is looking at herself in a full-length mirror; whilst checking her appearance, the possessing spirit called the Hiver takes occupation of her body. | |
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In Jennifer's Body, her not being a virgin when being ritually sacrificed by Low Shoulder causes Jennifer Check to become demonically possessed. | |
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