History Main / LivingShadow

%%* In the ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'' cartoon series, there were some shadow aliens.

* ''WebOriginal/UnwantedHouseguest'': The Shadow Demon takes this form [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9AUFg3v_NI in it's first appearance in the "Long Hallways" music video.]] [[spoiler: In later appearances it becomes a more explicit EvilDoppelganger of the Houseguest.]]

* At the end of the Creator/PatrickSwayze-Creator/DemiMoore film ''Film/Ghost1990'', [[spoiler:living shadows drag Sam Wheat's former friend Carl Bruner and his associate Willy Lopez down to Hell]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Godforsaken}}'': Gorgons are mortals cursed into hideous shapes by gods whom they offended. A gorgon has the upper body of a human of perfect form and physique, and the lower body of a giant serpent, complete with rattling tail. Instead of hair, serpents crown a gorgon's head, snapping and hissing at anyone who draws near. Their gaze can turn any creature to stone.

* In Creator/DeanKoontz's ''Odd Thomas'' series, the main character sees these shadows and calls them "bodachs." It's implied that [[spoiler:they might actually be visitors from the future]].

%%%* The Shadow Sirens in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''.

* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has Zed, whose playstyle revolves around throwing his shadow out to attack from an angle. [[LivingDream Nocturne]] on the other hand ''is'' this.

* Cloak of Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/CloakAndDagger'' can likewise take on shadow characteristics.

* The eponymous entity of Top Cow's ''ComicBook/TheDarkness'' has elements of this. One notable example is when Jackie, paralyzed by holy light, summons tentacles out of the shadow cast by the person projecting said light.

* The ComicBook/DoomPatrol villain Mr. Nobody was one of these [[spoiler: at least until he became "Mr. Somebody"]].

* As mentioned in the WesternAnimation examples below, the Shadow Thief is a ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} foe who can turn into a living shadow using a high-tech belt. When Batgirl defeated him in ComicBook/JokersLastLaugh, she kept his belt for herself, and used it during her time as a member of the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueElite.
* In "The Living Shadow" in ''The Haunt of Fear'' #26 the main character kills his wife so he can marry his mistress and his wife's shadow comes back and kills the mistress, leaving him to be charged with ''her'' murder.
* An old Marvel horror comic has "Joe the Invisible Goon", a creature which obeyed a guy's literal commands (To the point where it caused his girlfriend to have a heart attack when he yelled at her to drop dead), which took the form of his shadow most of the time.
* In the ComicBook/JudgeDredd / Franchise/{{Batman}} crossover ''The Ultimate Riddle'', they face a character actually called "The Living Shadow".
* Creator/SergioAragones "The Shadow Knows" strips for ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' depict people's shadows acting out their secret fantasies.

* In "Shadow of Death" in ''Tales From The Crypt'' #39 a paraplegic newsstand owner's business is being ruined by a rival who sells papers more cheaply. After a few days of this the stand owner's shadow ''picks up the shadow of a sledgehammer'' and ''hits the rival's shadow over the head'', causing the rival to mysteriously drop dead.
* The reptilian ''Shadowjumpers'' from ComicBook/{{Tellos}} are this.

** In a flashback, Father's original form was shown to be a tiny, shadowy ball in a flask that was able to manifest a single eye and mouth. In chapter ninety-seven, [[spoiler:his [[OneWingedAngel true form]] is shown to be a nothing more than an mass of shadows covered in teeth and eyes formed to resemble a human]].

* ''WesternAnimation/OggyandtheCockroaches'' had an episode [[SarcasmMode weirdly]] titled "Oggy's Shadow". Oggy's shadow becomes independent from him and dosen't want to rejoin him, until Oggy has a moment and saves her(?).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' video game ''Shadow Showdown'' has as its main villain the Chamberlain's Shadow.

* In ''LightNovel/TheExecutionerAndHerWayOfLife'', [[spoiler:Manon Libelle]] becomes one after being turned into a demon by Pandaemonium. Though she still appears to have a body, it is just a meat puppet she pilots around, and her true form is her shadow.

* Sorcerers in Creator/DavidEddings' ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' and ''Literature/TheMalloreon'' books can send their shadows away as spies (and occasionally more).

* In P.C. Hodgell's ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'', the Kencyr dead whose remains have not been given to the pyre may remain in this world, but can only be perceived through their shadows. One particular such ghost girl appears in Book 2, ''Dark of the Moon'', and again in book 4, ''To Ride a Rathorn''.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'':

* Eddie in ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' is a living shadow that [[PossessingADeadBody managed to take full control of the corpse of his old host]], Zato-1. Subverted in Xrd, when Zato-1 [[BackFromTheDead is revived]] and takes back control of his body AND Eddie. In gameplay, Zato-1 can summon Eddie to attack for him, allowing the former to play more as a PuppetFighter.