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* ''VideoGame/GrimDawn'''s opening cutscene has the player character narrowly escaping this fate: the Aetherial (one of the antagonist faction who invaded the world, made of incorporeal beings with possession powers) possessing them leaves the body just before the character is executed by hanging by TheResistance. Fortunately, the Aetherial leaves the player character's body right before they die, and the execution is stopped. It does bear mentioning that other instances of this are shown to ''not'' kill the Aetherial spirit proper, but it does roll back on any [[TransformationOfThePossessed modifications]] the current host body had and generally puts them out of commission for a while; the one returned Aetherial you find, Warden Krieg, was initially killed as a WakeupCallBoss near the beginning of the base game and is only found again at the very end of ''Ashes of Malmouth''.Malmouth'', and even then had to be provided a pre-mutated body to catch up.
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* ''VideoGame/GrimDawn'' ''VideoGame/GrimDawn'''s opening cutscene has the player character narrowly escaping this fate: the Aetherial (one of the antagonist faction who invaded the world, made of incorporeal beings with possession powers) possessing them leaves the body just before the character is executed by hanging by TheResistance. Fortunately, the Aetherial leaves the player character's body right before they die, and the execution is stopped. It does bear mentioning that other instances of this are shown to ''not'' kill the Aetherial spirit proper, but it does roll back on any [[TransformationOfThePossessed modifications]] the current host body had and generally puts them out of commission for a while; the one returned Aetherial you find, Warden Krieg, was initially killed as a WakeupCallBoss near the beginning of the base game and is only found again at the very end of ''Ashes of Malmouth''.
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* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2'': Subverted. Satan, having his plans foiled by Dracula[=/=]Gabriel and his son Alucard, decides to [[GrandTheftMe possess the latter]] to defeat his old enemy. However, Drac is able to overcome the Prince of Darkness, and [[SadisticChoice is goaded into stabbing Alucard with the Combat Cross to eradicate Satan once and for all]]. In a twist, Gabriel ''does'' attempt to stab his son with the Combat Cross to finish him once and for all; [[spoiler: [[DirtyCoward the mere thought of dying forces Satan out of Alucard's body]] ''milliseconds'' before it reaches him (so that Gabriel would stab Alucard instead), but Gabriel's quick enough (and [[GenreSavvy savvy enough]]) to take advantage of his cowardice and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu run the real Satan through]]]].
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* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2'': Subverted. Satan, having his plans foiled by Dracula[=/=]Gabriel and his son Alucard, decides to [[GrandTheftMe possess the latter]] to defeat his old enemy. However, Drac is able to overcome the Prince of Darkness, and [[SadisticChoice is goaded into stabbing Alucard with the Combat Cross to eradicate Satan once and for all]]. In a twist, Gabriel ''does'' attempt to stab his son with the Combat Cross to finish him once and for all; [[spoiler: [[DirtyCoward the mere thought of dying forces Satan out of Alucard's body]] ''milliseconds'' before it reaches him (so that Gabriel would stab Alucard instead), but Gabriel's quick enough (and [[GenreSavvy savvy enough]]) to take advantage of his cowardice and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu run the real Satan through]]]].
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* ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'': A later episode had Ban's nervous system being hijacked by a jellyfish Alienizer, so Tetsu resorted to [[ShockAndAwe electrocution]] to force the Alienizer out, stopping Ban's heart. However, Tetsu then used the same technique to [[MagicalDefibrillator revive Ban]].
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* ''ComicBook/WhatEverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'': Brainiac takes over Lex Luthor's body, but Lex is still able to ask a super-empowered Lana Lang to [[DyingAsYourself kill him]]. After Lana reluctantly complies, Braniac is able to survive temporarily until rigor mortis sets in. Once Luthor’s body is unusable, Brainiac dies almost immediately afterwards.
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->''“'''Analysis''': Stiffening … of limbs. Difficulty … in movement. '''Assessment''': Onset … of rigor mortis … in host body … imminent. … No! Get … up! Get up … [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Luthor]]! I … will not be betrayed … by your … human weakness …”''
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* ''ComicBook/WhatEverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'': Brainiac takes over Lex Luthor's body, but Lex is still able to ask a super-empowered Lana Lang to [[DyingAsYourself kill him]]. After Lana reluctantly complies, Braniac is able to survive temporarily until rigor mortis sets in. Once Luthor’s body is unusable, Brainiac dies almost immediately afterwards.
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* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' season 5 finale, Giles finishes off Glory by smothering her human host to death.
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* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'': Inazuma dies after Jei is exorcised from her body, giving her a brief moment to die as herself.
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* In ''Literature/DeadBeat'' the Corpsetaker switches bodies with Captain Luccio, upon realizing that Harry Dresden puts a bullet in her head before she can figure out he's on to her. Which leads to a minute of Morgan trying to kill Harry for his "treachery" before the other Wardens discover that Luccio is in the Corpsetaker's previous body.
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* In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' Uratha often don't bother trying to exorcise a spirit from a Claimed who has been possessed longer than a month or two, because the longer one is possessed the more likely it is that the exorcism will kill them anyway. Hosts on the other hand, always kill the humans they [[PossessingADeadBody possess and drive around their corpses]].
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* ''Film/EndOfDays'': Jericho tries to kill the Devil by throwing him in front of a subway train. This proves fatal for the guy he's possessing, but the Devil leaves the body [[spoiler:so he can possess Jericho's instead]].
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* In ''Series/{{Crusade}}'', the crew encounters an energy being that can possess living beings by touch and can divide itself to possess multiple people. Since it needs a host to survive, they trick it into consolidating itself to survive and possessing a crew member who had been rendered a vegetable in a accident, leaving the entity trapped in a paralyzed body. Then they toss the body into space and blow it up.
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MurderIsTheBestSolution. May overlap with DrivenToSuicide if the host body and the individual doing the killing are one and the same.
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* Creator/StephenKing's short story ''I Am The Doorway'' ends with the suicidal version of this trope. The protagonist, an astronaut possessed by an alien EldritchAbomination during a trip to space, plans to kill himself to prevent the entity from controlling him.
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* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', Agent Smith overwrites the body of a bum on a subway platform to fight Neo. After an extended fight where Neo holds his own against him, Neo manages to throw Smith into the path of a on-coming train. The victory serves to be short since Smith possesses one of the train passengers and emerges re-vitalized, full clips of bullets and all. Neo, still hurting and with no ammo, beats feet out of the station.
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* In the cancelled ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'' book ''Invasion'' (the events of which eventually made their way into the released ''BIONICLE Encyclopedia Updated''), Matoro's body becomes possessed by Makuta Teridax while the former is [[AstralProjection using the Kanohi Iden]]. The other Toa Inika force Makuta out by threatening to destroy Matoro's body, showing what lengths they would be willing to go.
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* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2'': Subverted. Satan, having his plans foiled by Dracula[=/=]Gabriel and his son Alucard, decides to [[GrandTheftMe possess the latter]] to defeat his old enemy. However, Drac is able to overcome the Prince of Darkness, and [[SadisticChoice is goaded into stabbing Alucard with the Combat Cross to eradicate Satan once and for all]]. In a twist, Gabriel ''does'' attempt to stab his son with the Combat Cross to finish him once and for all; [[spoiler: [[DirtyCoward the mere thought of dying forces Satan out of Alucard's body]] ''milliseconds'' before it reaches him (so that Gabriel would stab Alucard instead), but Gabriel's quick enough (and [[GenreSavvy savvy enough]]) to take advantage of his cowardice and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu run the real Satan through]]]].
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* ''Film/TheExorcist'': At the end, [[spoiler:Father Karras performs a HeroicSacrifice by inviting the demon Pazuzu into his own body to save the young Regan, before killing himself by jumping out of a window.]]
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* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Okoro, who is an omnic, is nearly hijacked by Anubis, a God Program, but performs a HeroicSacrifice of shooting himself to prevent Aunbis from using him to harm his teammates.
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* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E3ManOfThePeople Man of the People]]," Dr. Crusher injects Deanna with a compound that stops her heart in order to stop Alkar from possessing her, as she can revive her within thirty minutes.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Darken}}'': [[spoiler:The [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Archdevil]] Baal]] possesses [[spoiler:Gort's brother]] to enact his endgame. When his plan is foiled, he tries to force [[spoiler:Gort]] to kill his host, both for the pain it would cause [[spoiler:Gort]] and to dispatch himself back to {{Hell}} to continue his schemes. [[spoiler:{{Defied|Trope}} when Gort and his allies exorcise Baal and [[SealedEvilInACan trap him in a gem]] instead, inflicting a [[AndIMustScream much worse fate]] on him and saving the brother's life]].
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* The ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' doesn't seem to have any qualm with killing their opponents, even when most of them had been enslaved by the Yeerks to serve as their hosts.
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': At first the Winchesters, on the [[VillainPedigree rare occasion that they encountered a demon]] possessing someone, would go through a lengthy ritual to force the demon out of the body and banish it back to hell. Eventually this was dropped when they acquired [[VillainBeatingArtifact a demon-killing gun, and later, a demon-killing blade]]. They never address the sheer number of innocent people they've killed by killing demons in this fashion, showing that they've become more callous to collateral damage the longer they've been fighting the forces of evil.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In [[Recap/StarTrekS2E20ReturnToTomorrow "Return to Tomorrow"]], Kirk resorts to injecting Spock's body with lethal poison to destroy Henoch. Subverted when it turns out that Sargon arranged for them to ''think'' that the hypo was deadly so that Henoch would flee and render himself vulnerable, and that Spock's consciousness was hidden within Nurse Chapel.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In [[Recap/StarTrekS2E20ReturnToTomorrow "Return to Tomorrow"]], Kirk resorts to injecting Spock's body with lethal poison to destroy Henoch. Subverted when it turns out that Sargon arranged for them to ''think'' that the hypo was deadly so that Henoch would flee and render himself vulnerable, and that Spock's consciousness was hidden within Nurse Chapel.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': At first the Winchesters, on the [[VillainPedigree rare occasion that they encountered a demon]] possessing someone, would go through a lengthy ritual to force the demon out of the body and banish it back to hell. Eventually this was dropped when they acquired [[VillainBeatingArtifact a demon-killing gun, and later, a demon-killing blade]]. They never address the sheer number of innocent people they've killed by killing demons in this fashion, showing that they've become more callous to collateral damage the longer they've been fighting the forces of evil.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': At first the Winchesters, on the [[VillainPedigree rare occasion that they encountered a demon]] possessing someone, would go through a lengthy ritual to force the demon out of the body and banish it back to hell. Eventually this was dropped when they acquired [[VillainBeatingArtifact a demon-killing gun, and later, a demon-killing blade]]. They never address the sheer number of innocent people they've killed by killing demons in this fashion, showing that they've become more callous to collateral damage the longer they've been fighting the forces of evil.
* ''VideoGame/GrimDawn'' opening cutscene has the player character narrowly escaping this fate: the Aetherial (one of the antagonist faction who invaded the world, made of incorporeal beings with possession powers) possessing them leaves the body just before the character is executed by hanging by TheResistance. Fortunately, the Aetherial leaves the player character's body right before they die, and the execution is stopped.
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** [[spoiler: Jericho does it again when he regains enough control from Satan to throw himself onto a statue of Michael's sword, denying the Devil a host before the deadline to conceive the Antichrist passes]].
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has the boss Wrexsoul; at the start of battle, it randomly possesses one of your characters, and the only way to force it out and actually defeat it is to kill one of your characters. This is mitigated somewhat by the fact that you have access to [[DeathIsCheap Phoenix Downs and the Raise spell]], [[GoodBadBugs or you can]] cast X-Zone/Banish to [[AnticlimaxBoss end the fight instantly]].
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* Attempted in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2''. [[spoiler:Nooj]] intends on forcing the game's Big Bad out of its current body, getting it to possess ''him'', then blow himself up in a HeroicSacrifice. Yuna, tired of everyone picking the sacrifice option, shoots the idea down.
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* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': Captain Renard is brought back from the dead by his mother. However the spirit of Jack the Ripper comes back with him and starts to take over his body. Nick and Hank find out that Jack can only leave the body willingly. They use tetrodotoxin to poison Renard and then shoot him when that doesn't work. Jack leaves Renard so he won't die with him. Subverted when the poison was a non-lethal dose and they were using rubber bullets to trick Jack.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Geist}}'': Any living being you possess can be killed by somebody or something else. If the host killed is important to a task you need to accomplish, or is the last available host in the area, it's GameOver.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In "Return to Tomorrow", Kirk resorts to injecting Spock's body with lethal poison to destroy Henoch. Subverted when it turns out that Sargon arranged for them to ''think'' that the hypo was deadly so that Henoch would flee and render himself vulnerable, and that Spock's consciousness was hidden within Nurse Chapel.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Twin Dilemma": another Time Lord working for the BigBad is possessed by it. Helpless, the Time Lord dies because he was out of regenerations, killing himself and the BigBad.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Twin Dilemma": another Time Lord working for the BigBad is possessed by it. Helpless, the Time Lord dies because he was out of regenerations, killing himself and the BigBad.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E7TheTwinDilemma "The TwinDilemma": Dilemma"]]: another Time Lord working for the BigBad is possessed by it. Helpless, the Time Lord dies because he was out of regenerations, killing himself and the BigBad.
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A form of ShootTheDog where the characters deal with a BodySnatcher in the simplest and most brutal way they can: by killing the host. While this obviously negates the need for a lengthy and complicated BanishingRitual or surgical procedure, it shows a particular disregard for the life of whatever hapless fool's body was taken over, so this is usually only performed by {{Pragmatic Hero}}es. Sometimes, it doesn't even work as intended, causing the possessing force to [[FightingAShadow "float freely"]] and go on its merry way to finding another body to hijack, perhaps even [[LaserGuidedKarma the people who killed the previous host]].
One common twist to BeatTheCurseOutOfHim is that "he" dies alongside the curse, i.e this trope. Sometimes, if the host is lucid enough to say something with their own mind, [[DyingAsYourself he/she might ask to be killed]] so that the thing possessing them would also die. If there were better alternatives available at the time, it overlaps with MurderIsTheBestSolution.
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' anime, episode #49 "Rukia's Nightmare". Rukia Kuchiki's lieutenant Kaien Shiba is possessed by a Hollow. When Captain Ukitake realizes that he can't save Kaien, he decides to kill his body. However, he starts spitting up blood and can't carry out his decision. The possessed Kaien attacks Rukia and she stabs him through the chest with her zanpakuto, killing him.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'':
** One arc had a demon summoned [[ChestBurster inside a corpse]] and sent to attack a crimelord's house, dragging the corpse behind it. While the demon itself was ImmuneToBullets, one of the {{mooks}} quickly figured out that shooting the corpse damaged the demon.
** One story has John exorcize a little girl by threatening to kill her (specifically, by setting fire to a strand of her hair which would consume her body via SympatheticMagic). The demon leaves and John is punched for his methods, before revealing it was a bluff- he'd gotten the hair from a wig, as even he wouldn't knowingly sacrifice a little girl.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': In the "Necropolis" story, the Sisters of Death are manifesting in Mega City One from another dimension through a psychic host. Judge Dredd severs this connection by blowing up the building where the possessed body is being kept.
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* ''Fanfic/CanterlotDeportationAgency'': It's how Bree exorcises a Wraith from her friend's corpse, by damaging it too much.
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* ''Film/EndOfDays'': Jericho tries to kill the Devil by throwing him in front of a subway train. This proves fatal for the guy he's possessing, but the Devil leaves the body [[spoiler:so he can possess Jericho's instead]].
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* ''Film/{{Fallen}}'': Hobbes' final, desperate plan to stop the demon Azazel is to lure his current host out to a remote location, then killing Azazel's body [[ThanatosGambit and then himself]] to deny him a new body, since Azazel can't survive for long without one. [[spoiler:However, [[CruelTwistEnding it turns out that he can possess animals as well and escapes in a nearby cat]].]]
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* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/{{Chalion}}'' series, this plays out in a number of different ways:
** It is the standard method used by the Roknari. They either ritually bind the demon to the sorcerer-host and then burn the sorcerer, or else toss the sorcerer-host overboard at sea with a leaking cushion and sail away to let the sorcerer eventually drown. One problem is that these methods don't always work.
** In ''Paladin of Souls'', a demon in a ferret is dispatched by killing the ferret in the presence of a dying divine. The demon jumps to the divine, and the divine takes the demon with her when she then dies.
** The animal spirits bound to spirit warriors and shamans cannot be removed at all except by the host's death. A further complication is that the soul of the dead host is BarredFromTheAfterlife unless another shaman releases the animal spirit from the ghost.
** A purely villainous example in ''Penric's Fox'', when the sorceress Learned Magal is murdered. [[spoiler:Her killer wanted vengeance against her demon for actions taken by its previous host, the now-dead Learned Svedra.]]
* Inverted in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfWormwood'', where the evil Pope Jacko possesses Paul Carnovitz (Wormwood's worst enemy), who ends up catatonic. Death would allow Jacko to return to Hell, but Paul is in a clinic where he's guaranteed to be kept alive for a long time.
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': At first the Winchesters, on the [[VillainPedigree rare occasion that they encountered a demon]] possessing someone, would go through a lengthy ritual to force the demon out of the body and banish it back to hell. Eventually this was dropped when they acquired [[VillainBeatingArtifact a demon-killing gun, and later, a demon-killing blade]]. They never address the sheer number of innocent people they've killed by killing demons in this fashion, showing that they've become more callous to collateral damage the longer they've been fighting the forces of evil.
* In ''Series/{{Constantine}}'', this is the only means of defeating a powerful hunger demon. A human vessel must be chosen for the hunger demon to be held captive in, before the hunger demon consumes the host and ends up killing them as well as the demon along with it. After Gary mistakenly exorcises the vessel of the demon, John has Gary take the vessel's place where the demon [[FateWorseThanDeath consumes him over several days]].
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In "Return to Tomorrow", Kirk resorts to injecting Spock's body with lethal poison to destroy Henoch. Subverted when it turns out that Sargon arranged for them to ''think'' that the hypo was deadly so that Henoch would flee and render himself vulnerable, and that Spock's consciousness was hidden within Nurse Chapel.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Twin Dilemma": another Time Lord working for the BigBad is possessed by it. Helpless, the Time Lord dies because he was out of regenerations, killing himself and the BigBad.
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* In ''TabletopGame/DarkHeresy'', if someone manages to kill the possessing daemon component of a daemonhost without killing the host body, the possessed individual can survive, albeit highly traumatized. Given that Daemons are MadeOfIron and tend to possess SquishyWizard Psykers, this is incredibly unlikely. A daemon can briefly survive the death of the host body, but will eventually have to abandon a dead host.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': One of the commissar's duties (other than shooting heretics, cowards and the insufficiently-motivated) is to keep an eye on the psykers as they call on the powers of the Warp, as they are particularly susceptible to being possessed at that moment, and shoot them in the head before they are fully possessed and/or erupt into a portal that will spit out more daemons. Psykers carry "mercy blades" for this exact purpose, but this depends on their still being sane enough to kill themselves.
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* ''Videogame/{{Arcanum}}'': The Whytechurch Murderer is an elf wizard [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan who tried to banish a demon and ended up sharing his body with it]], and is now forced to kill for the demon's amusement. The only way to end his killing spree safely is to [[VillainBeatingArtifact find a specific dagger]] and kill him with it, banishing both him and the demon to hell, and doing so will cause a WhatTheHellHero moment from any good party members who see you kill him, since despite his actions, the wizard is still treated as a "good" character by the game's [[CharacterAlignment alignment system]].
* Discussed in ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''. Ragna's sister, Saya, has the "Goddess of Death" Izanami occupying her body. As Izanami is "death" itself, she can't be really killed, and thus it is suggested that Ragna should kill Saya instead to deny Izanami a body. Later, however, [[spoiler:as the heroes learn the true nature of Izanami - i.e the "other half" of Noel (long story) - the heroes go with a plan of absorbing Izanami into Noel's body to "neutralize" her. This act doesn't kill Izanami, but instead completes Noel into "Saya" with her inheriting Izanami's memories.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Okoro, who is an omnic, is nearly hijacked by Anubis, a God Program, but performs a HeroicSacrifice of shooting himself to prevent Aunbis from using him to harm his teammates.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' the [=McNinjas=] are hired to assassinate a Ghost Wizard, which includes killing the guy it's possessing so they can fight the exposed spirit with holy weapons. [[spoiler: It re-possesses Sean, Dan and Mitzi are fully prepared to kill their own son, but Gordito stops them and shoves a blessed bullet down his throat before it fully takes hold of him instead.]]
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One common twist to BeatTheCurseOutOfHim is that "he" dies alongside the curse, i.e this trope. Sometimes, if the host is lucid enough to say something with their own mind, [[DyingAsYourself he/she might ask to be killed]] so that the thing possessing them would also die. If there were better alternatives available at the time, it overlaps with MurderIsTheBestSolution.
See also ShootTheHostage.
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!!Examples:
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' anime, episode #49 "Rukia's Nightmare". Rukia Kuchiki's lieutenant Kaien Shiba is possessed by a Hollow. When Captain Ukitake realizes that he can't save Kaien, he decides to kill his body. However, he starts spitting up blood and can't carry out his decision. The possessed Kaien attacks Rukia and she stabs him through the chest with her zanpakuto, killing him.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'':
** One arc had a demon summoned [[ChestBurster inside a corpse]] and sent to attack a crimelord's house, dragging the corpse behind it. While the demon itself was ImmuneToBullets, one of the {{mooks}} quickly figured out that shooting the corpse damaged the demon.
** One story has John exorcize a little girl by threatening to kill her (specifically, by setting fire to a strand of her hair which would consume her body via SympatheticMagic). The demon leaves and John is punched for his methods, before revealing it was a bluff- he'd gotten the hair from a wig, as even he wouldn't knowingly sacrifice a little girl.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': In the "Necropolis" story, the Sisters of Death are manifesting in Mega City One from another dimension through a psychic host. Judge Dredd severs this connection by blowing up the building where the possessed body is being kept.
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* ''Fanfic/CanterlotDeportationAgency'': It's how Bree exorcises a Wraith from her friend's corpse, by damaging it too much.
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* ''Film/EndOfDays'': Jericho tries to kill the Devil by throwing him in front of a subway train. This proves fatal for the guy he's possessing, but the Devil leaves the body [[spoiler:so he can possess Jericho's instead]].
-->'''Satan:''' ''Fool! You are but a man, and I AM FOREVER!''
* ''Film/{{Fallen}}'': Hobbes' final, desperate plan to stop the demon Azazel is to lure his current host out to a remote location, then killing Azazel's body [[ThanatosGambit and then himself]] to deny him a new body, since Azazel can't survive for long without one. [[spoiler:However, [[CruelTwistEnding it turns out that he can possess animals as well and escapes in a nearby cat]].]]
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* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/{{Chalion}}'' series, this plays out in a number of different ways:
** It is the standard method used by the Roknari. They either ritually bind the demon to the sorcerer-host and then burn the sorcerer, or else toss the sorcerer-host overboard at sea with a leaking cushion and sail away to let the sorcerer eventually drown. One problem is that these methods don't always work.
** In ''Paladin of Souls'', a demon in a ferret is dispatched by killing the ferret in the presence of a dying divine. The demon jumps to the divine, and the divine takes the demon with her when she then dies.
** The animal spirits bound to spirit warriors and shamans cannot be removed at all except by the host's death. A further complication is that the soul of the dead host is BarredFromTheAfterlife unless another shaman releases the animal spirit from the ghost.
** A purely villainous example in ''Penric's Fox'', when the sorceress Learned Magal is murdered. [[spoiler:Her killer wanted vengeance against her demon for actions taken by its previous host, the now-dead Learned Svedra.]]
* Inverted in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfWormwood'', where the evil Pope Jacko possesses Paul Carnovitz (Wormwood's worst enemy), who ends up catatonic. Death would allow Jacko to return to Hell, but Paul is in a clinic where he's guaranteed to be kept alive for a long time.
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': At first the Winchesters, on the [[VillainPedigree rare occasion that they encountered a demon]] possessing someone, would go through a lengthy ritual to force the demon out of the body and banish it back to hell. Eventually this was dropped when they acquired [[VillainBeatingArtifact a demon-killing gun, and later, a demon-killing blade]]. They never address the sheer number of innocent people they've killed by killing demons in this fashion, showing that they've become more callous to collateral damage the longer they've been fighting the forces of evil.
* In ''Series/{{Constantine}}'', this is the only means of defeating a powerful hunger demon. A human vessel must be chosen for the hunger demon to be held captive in, before the hunger demon consumes the host and ends up killing them as well as the demon along with it. After Gary mistakenly exorcises the vessel of the demon, John has Gary take the vessel's place where the demon [[FateWorseThanDeath consumes him over several days]].
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In "Return to Tomorrow", Kirk resorts to injecting Spock's body with lethal poison to destroy Henoch. Subverted when it turns out that Sargon arranged for them to ''think'' that the hypo was deadly so that Henoch would flee and render himself vulnerable, and that Spock's consciousness was hidden within Nurse Chapel.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Twin Dilemma": another Time Lord working for the BigBad is possessed by it. Helpless, the Time Lord dies because he was out of regenerations, killing himself and the BigBad.
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* In ''TabletopGame/DarkHeresy'', if someone manages to kill the possessing daemon component of a daemonhost without killing the host body, the possessed individual can survive, albeit highly traumatized. Given that Daemons are MadeOfIron and tend to possess SquishyWizard Psykers, this is incredibly unlikely. A daemon can briefly survive the death of the host body, but will eventually have to abandon a dead host.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': One of the commissar's duties (other than shooting heretics, cowards and the insufficiently-motivated) is to keep an eye on the psykers as they call on the powers of the Warp, as they are particularly susceptible to being possessed at that moment, and shoot them in the head before they are fully possessed and/or erupt into a portal that will spit out more daemons. Psykers carry "mercy blades" for this exact purpose, but this depends on their still being sane enough to kill themselves.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''Videogame/{{Arcanum}}'': The Whytechurch Murderer is an elf wizard [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan who tried to banish a demon and ended up sharing his body with it]], and is now forced to kill for the demon's amusement. The only way to end his killing spree safely is to [[VillainBeatingArtifact find a specific dagger]] and kill him with it, banishing both him and the demon to hell, and doing so will cause a WhatTheHellHero moment from any good party members who see you kill him, since despite his actions, the wizard is still treated as a "good" character by the game's [[CharacterAlignment alignment system]].
* Discussed in ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''. Ragna's sister, Saya, has the "Goddess of Death" Izanami occupying her body. As Izanami is "death" itself, she can't be really killed, and thus it is suggested that Ragna should kill Saya instead to deny Izanami a body. Later, however, [[spoiler:as the heroes learn the true nature of Izanami - i.e the "other half" of Noel (long story) - the heroes go with a plan of absorbing Izanami into Noel's body to "neutralize" her. This act doesn't kill Izanami, but instead completes Noel into "Saya" with her inheriting Izanami's memories.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Okoro, who is an omnic, is nearly hijacked by Anubis, a God Program, but performs a HeroicSacrifice of shooting himself to prevent Aunbis from using him to harm his teammates.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' the [=McNinjas=] are hired to assassinate a Ghost Wizard, which includes killing the guy it's possessing so they can fight the exposed spirit with holy weapons. [[spoiler: It re-possesses Sean, Dan and Mitzi are fully prepared to kill their own son, but Gordito stops them and shoves a blessed bullet down his throat before it fully takes hold of him instead.]]
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