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7	[[caption-width-right:350:"Take me now, subcreature!"]]
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9	What do you do when you're a [[DemonicPossession demon possessing]] an [[MeatPuppet innocent body]], and want show off how powerful you are?
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11	Simple, begin using [[PowersViaPossession supernatural powers]]!
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13	Whether it's making your Host [[NighInvulnerability invulnerable]], [[{{Invisibility}} become invisible]], [[SuperStrength obtain godly strength]], or [[WalkingWasteland destroy everything they touch]], you can always count on [[UnwittingPawn them]] to show how powerful and scary you are!
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15	These are all cool tactics, but there's something different about [[PowerFloats levitation]], that makes it so popular among possessive demons.
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17	To characters witnessing a human being floating while [[BlackSpeech babbling some weird ancient language]] with [[ProphetEyes white eyes]], it'd be clear that they've been taken over by some other being, and that said being is clearly not benevolent.
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19	Expect the "Guest" (i.e. the thing/demon possessing the character) to be as dramatic and eerie as possible.
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21	Many a time this will happen during an [[HollywoodExorcism exorcism]], with the priest and other attendees horrified, or by FightingFromTheInside: [[HeroicWillpower the Host is working very hard from within to get rid of the Guest]], but the Guest is also working very hard to stay, and with both beings being so powerful, [[PowerFloats this creates some supernatural occurrences]].
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23	Perchance to the sadness of the Host, after the Guest has been banished they will lose [[{{Flight}} this cool power]]...
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25	Sub-trope to PowerFloats and PowersViaPossession. Usually overlaps with DemonicPossession. May overlap with MarionetteMotion if the demon is being extra weird that day. Contrast GhostlyGlide, where levitation is similarly used to eerie effects, but where it is more low-key, and the character can usually float by themselves.
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28	!!Examples:
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32	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
33	* ''Franchise/EvilDead'':
34	** ''Film/{{The Evil Dead\|1981}}'': Sheryl gets possessed by a Kandarian demon and floats as she threatens everyone in the cabin.
35	** ''Film/EvilDead2'': Ed gets possessed and floats in the cabin. He boasts about killing the humans and that the demons shall live again.
36	** ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'': Ash fights off a woman who got possessed by a demon in S-Mart. While he is shooting her, she floats in the air.
37	** ''Film/EvilDeadRise'': In the beginning of the movie, a woman gets possessed by a demon and starts floating above a lake.
38	* ''Film/TheExorcist'': After being possessed by Pazuzu, the Mesopotamian demon, 12-year old Regan begins to float off her mattress during the exorcism conducted by Karras and Merrin. They successfully subdue her.
39	* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters\|1984}}'': During her possession by Zuul, Dana becomes very sexually aggressive and attempts to seduce Peter. After he rejects her advances she becomes angry and begins to levitate above her bed, and she even does a full mid-air rotation. Peter later sedates her.
40	* ''Film/OverHerDeadBody'': Invoked. When trying to scare Ashley off from dating her former fiancé Henry, [[PsychoExGirlfriend Kate]] takes advantage of the fact that as a psychic Ashley is still able to [[TrueSight perceive her despite being a ghost]]. Thus she poses as a client and pretends to be possessed to deliver a message warning Ashley of a horrible fate if she continues "falsely speaking for the dead", climaxing in her levitating into the air as the icing on the cake.
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43	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
44	* ''Series/PennyDreadful'': After a date night with Dorian Gray, Vanessa returns home possessed by a demon. Malcolm discovers her in the salon levitating and spinning in the air with her head turned upward.
45	* ''Series/SleepyHollow'': In "[[Recap/SleepyHollowS1E11TheVessel The Vessel]]" at the climax, after playing subtle throughout the episode, when [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils Ancitif]] reveals himself as having possessed Captain Irving's daughter Macy, he causes her to levitate into the air whilst speaking in an unholy voice and then kills the kindly priest who tries to save her.
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48	[[folder:Video Games]]
49	* ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'': The possessor ghosts take over the guests' bodies during a gala in the New York Museum of History and float around the room along with the possessed Walter Peck.
50	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
51	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': Malladus has Zelda float while possessing her body.
52	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Zelda's body floats while she's possessed by [[spoiler:Ganondorf.]]
53	* ''VideoGame/PinkPantherHokusPokusPink'': Violet floats when possessed by Echidna.
54	* ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'': When Calyrex uses its psychic powers to take control of Peony in order to speak to the protagonist, his body floats the whole time. Unlike a lot of examples of the trope, however, Calyrex is a benevolent rather than malevolent being.
55	* ''VideoGame/ThereIsNoGameWrongDimension'': Mr. Willhelm floats because of Mr. Glitch being stuck to him.
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58	[[folder:Web Animation]]
59	* ''WebAnimation/{{Eddsworld}}'': In "Hammer and Fail 2", the boys find a demonic entity inside [[spoiler:Matt's]] room. The entity then takes control of [[spoiler:Matt]], making him levitate above their house.
60	* ''WebAnimation/SpookyMonth'': After possessing Dexter, the demon Moloch floats off the ground in Dexter's body as he chases Lila.
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63	[[folder:Western Animation]]
64	* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': In "[[Recap/CourageTheCowardlyDogS1E4TheDemonInTheMattressFreakyFred The Demon in the Mattress]]", after Muriel got possessed by a demon living in her new bed mattress by going up her nose, her body floats as she's sleeping.
65	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E5TheInconveniencing The Inconveniencing]]", Mabel floats off the ground when the convenience store ghosts possess her. PlayedForLaughs when, after Dipper confesses he isn't a teenager (teens are the ghosts' BerserkButton), the ghosts of the sweet-looking elderly couple appear, holding Mabel up by her hair before dropping her into a pile of snacks.
66	* ''WesternAnimation/ScaredShrekless'': During the segment parodying ''Film/TheExorcist'', Pinocchio (in the role of the possessed) levitates thanks to his marionette strings. Shrek solves this by just cutting the strings.
67	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E24LegsFromHereToHomeworld "Legs From Here to Homeworld"]], [[spoiler:White Diamond's Pearl]] glides about everywhere on the tips of her toes. In fact, the only part of her body that moves individually is her mouth. The whole effect makes her rather eerie. It eventually turns out that [[spoiler:she used to move more normally before White Diamond turned her into a MeatPuppet]].
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