Sometimes confused with "Mind Control", Possession is a term used to describe the ability of some characters to take physical and mental control over another living being. Commonly, this power is employed by supernatural entities such as ghosts or demons. Unlike Mind Control, a person with this power displaces their own consciousness into a target body. The affected individual's actual consciousness is subsumed in favor of the more dominant mind or spirit.
Possession can also include characters that can possess inanimate objects in order to use them for themselves. Such as ghosts open drawers and doors. In these cases a consciousness cannot be transferred only extended.
Some examples of possession include:
- Lord of Order Nabu permanently displaced his consciousness into the body of Kent Nelson (the original Doctor Fate) after Nelson had died and continued to function through him for several months.[1]
- The Mage John Constantine has performed several exorcisms throughout his controversial career, not all of which have met with success. One exorcism in particular resulted in the loss of John's sanity whereupon he was committed to the Ravenscar Secure Hospital for a period of two years.[2]
- During the Sinestro Corps War, it took the combined willpower of Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner to free Kyle from the dominating influence of Parallax.[3]
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- K'hym J'onzz (DCAU)
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- K'hym J'onzz (Prime Earth)
- K'hym J'onzz (Smallville)
- K'hym J'onzz (The Brave and the Bold)
- K'hymm J'onzz (Crisis on Two Earths)
- Kaala (Prime Earth)
- Kaiyo (Prime Earth)
- Karen Clancy (Earth-One)
- Karkull (DCAU)
- Katherine Karlo (Prime Earth)
- Keith Everet (New Earth)
- Kha-Ef-Re (Prime Earth)
- Kihito Aramiya (Batman and the Justice League)
- Komand'r (Titans TV Series)
- Krasue
- Krona (New Earth)
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- M'comm M'orzz (Earth-16)
- M'gann M'orzz (Arrowverse: Earth-38)
- M'gann M'orzz (DC Legends)
- M'gann M'orzz (DC Super Hero Girls)
- M'gann M'orzz (DCAU)
- M'gann M'orzz (Earth-16)
- M'gann M'orzz (Lego Batman)
- M'gann M'orzz (New Earth)
- M'gann M'orzz (Prime Earth)
- M'gann M'orzz (Smallville)
- M'gann M'orzz (The New Order)
- M'gann M'orzz (Tiny Titans)
- M'gann M'orzz (Titans Tomorrow)
- M'ree M'orzz (Earth-16)
- M'yri'ah (Crisis on Two Earths)
- M'yri'ah (Dark Knights of Steel)
- M'yri'ah (DCAU)
- M'yri'ah (The Brave and the Bold)
- M'yri'ah J'onzz (Arrowverse: Earth-38)
- M'yri'ah J'onzz (DC Legends)
- M'yri'ah J'onzz (New Earth)
- M'yri'ah J'onzz (Prime Earth)
- M'yri'ah J'onzz (Smallville)
- M'yrnn J'onzz (Arrowverse: Earth-38)
- M'yrnn J'onzz (New Earth)
- Ma'alefa'ak (Prime Earth)
- Ma'alefa'ak (The Brave and the Bold)
- Ma'alefa'ak J'onzz (Arrowverse: Earth-38)
- Ma'alefa'ak J'onzz (Doom)
- Ma'alefa'ak J'onzz (New Earth)
- Malice (Arrowverse)
- Mammon (Constantine Movie)
- Manchester Black (Prime Earth)
- Manhunter (Earth 10)
- Many Angled Ones (New Earth)
- Marcello Panetti (Arrowverse)
- Margaret Thoreaux (Smallville)
- Marshal (Earth-One)
- May Bennett (Titans TV Series)
- Mazikeen (Lucifer TV Series)
- Megan Boyer (Prime Earth)
- Mica'kel (New Earth)
- Michael Cray (Prime Earth)
- Mickey Mxyzptlk (Prime Earth)
- Mister Mind (New Earth)
- Mister Mxyzptlk (Earth-One)
- Mister Mxyzptlk (New Earth)
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- Mnemoth (New Earth)
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- Mordru (New Earth)
- Mordru (Post-Zero Hour)
- Mordru (Pre-Zero Hour)
- Mordru (Prime Earth)
- Morgan Wilde (New Earth)
- Mother Machine (Prime Earth)
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- Pantagones (New Earth)
- Parallax (New Earth)
- Parallax (Tomorrowverse)
- Pazuzu (Arrowverse)
- Pedro, Ghost Patrol (New Earth)
- Peregrine (New Earth)
- Phantom (Smallville)
- Phantom Stranger (Prime Earth)
- Phobos (Warbringer)
- Primaid (New Earth)
- Primal Entity (New Earth)
- Priscilla Kitaen (Wildstorm Universe)
- Protex (Dark Knights of Steel)
- Protex (Future State)
- Protex (New Earth)
- Pyra (Earth-AD)
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- S'yraa S'mitt (Earth-16)
- Sabbac (Prime Earth)
- Samuel Yates (New Earth)
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- Savitar (Arrowverse)
- Scrambler (Prime Earth)
- Sea Wolf II (New Earth)
- Sebastian Faust (Prime Earth)
- Servillius (Prime Earth)
- Seven Deadly Sins (Prime Earth)
- Sha'sheen J'onzz (New Earth)
- Shat-Ru (New Earth)
- Shattered God (New Earth)
- Shawna Sunderland (Swamp Thing 2019 TV Series)
- She-Demon (New Earth)
- Silver Horn King (Prime Earth)
- Siobhan McDougal (DC Super Hero Girls TV Series)
- Siobhan McDougal (New Earth)
- Siobhan McDougal (Smallville)
- Slim, Ghost Patrol (New Earth)
- Slim, Ghost Patrol (Scooby-Doo Team-Up)
- Slyxx (Wildstorm Universe)
- Soul-Self
- Stanley Baumgarten (New Earth)
- Succubi
- Succubus (New Earth)
- Suge (Prime Earth)
- Suit (New Earth)
- Susan Dearbon (New Earth)
- Swamp Thing (New Earth)
- Sweeney Todd (New Earth)
- Sword of Gotham (Futures End)
- Sy'rann (New Earth)
- Symbio (Prime Earth)
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- Tala (New Earth)
- Tamaraneans
- Telok'telar (New Earth)
- Tenebrus (DC Bombshells)
- Tengu II (New Earth)
- Tezcatlipoca (New Earth)
- Thaddeus Sivana (DC Extended Universe)
- The Dark (New Earth)
- Thomas Morita (New Earth)
- Till'all (Arrowverse: Earth-38)
- Till'all (New Earth)
- Todd Rice (New Earth)
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