History Main / KillTheHostBody

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. The people targeting the inhabitant may also try to trick them into taking a body they're more willing to kill. If there were better alternatives available at the time, it overlaps with MurderIsTheBestSolution. May overlap with DrivenToSuicide if the host body and the individual doing the killing are one and the same.

See PossessionBurnout where a possessed host dies automatically after a certain amount of time.

* In ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'', Egon Spengler ends up doing this on [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice himself]] do deny the Terror Dogs a host needed to summon Gozer back into the world]].
* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', Agents operate by possessing anyone who hasn't been "unplugged", and killing them kills the host body. Unfortunately, all the Agent has to do is possess someone else in order to come right back after you. This is best shown when 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 oncoming train. The victory is short-lived 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, has no choice but to beat feet out of the station.

* Near the climax, of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'', [[spoiler:Zelda needs to come to terms with the fact that it might not be possible to kill Malladus without killing her body as well. However, [[https://kaialone.tumblr.com/post/619019802072301568/spirit-tracks-translation-comparison-the-bow-of this is less clear in the American English translation]]. Fortunately, she gets better.]]

** Invoked and averted in "48 Hours" when the Gou'uld possessed Adrian Conrad tells O'Neill that if O'Neill shoots him, he would kill the host. Jack tells him that Conrad kidnapped Carter to perform medical experiments on her, nearly killing her and doesn't care a whit about the host, but does find another way to get the information he was looking for.

* Near the climax, of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks, [[spoiler:Zelda needs to come to terms with the fact that it might not be possible to kill Malladus without killing her body as well. However, [[https://kaialone.tumblr.com/post/619019802072301568/spirit-tracks-translation-comparison-the-bow-of this is less clear in the American English translation]]. Fortunately, she gets better.]]

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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 …"''
-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}''', ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow''

** 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.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'': ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} takes over ComicBook/LexLuthor's body, but Lex is still able to ask a super-empowered ComicBook/LanaLang to [[DyingAsYourself kill him]]. After Lana [[MercyKill reluctantly complies]], Braniac is able to survive temporarily until rigor mortis sets in. Once Luthor’s body is unusable, Brainiac dies almost immediately afterwards.
** In ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} cannot seem to get rid of the symbiotic parasite who is taking over her body. Knowing that Worldkiller-1 intends to use her powers to spark off an universe-wide genocide, she decides to kill herself by removing her [[GreenLanternRing Red Lantern Ring]] (which is an automatic death sentence for ComicBook/RedLanterns, since their Rings provide life support after rendering their hearts useless). Fortunately, [[spoiler:she was near from the Sun, and the sudden influx of solar energy restarts her heart]].

* ''Fanfic/AllAssortedAnimorphsAUs'': Besides all the instances of this from canon, Alloran is shot in the head in several chapters in order to kill Visser Three along with him. In "What if Marco was the one split in half in #32?", [[spoiler:Robot Marco kills Tom, Eva, and many other human-controllers as well]]; in "What if Tom was infested by a member of the Yeerk Peace Movement?", [[spoiler:Rachel shoots Eva through the chest just before Visser One can tell everyone that the "Andalite bandits" are human]]; and in "What if Eva was never a Controller?", [[spoiler:Marco kills Allison Kim and Visser One together without hesitation.]]

** As soon as Tom is freed, he tells Jake and Rachel that he was okay with them killing him in the original timeline, relieving some of Jake's immense guilt.

* In ''Fanfic/WhatTomorrowBrings'', the Ellimist warns the Animorphs that if they kill three specific Yeerks -- Edriss 562 (Visser One), Esplin 9466-Prime (Visser Three), and [[NamedByTheAdaptation Feriss 512]] (Tom's second) -- then Crayak will become aware of the splinter universe and bring over their counterparts from the original timeline. They come up with a plan to contain these Yeerks to avoid this. [[spoiler:Later, Cassie accidentally kills Visser Three while he's in Alloran's morphed body, so the Drode is able to bring the original timeline's Alloran over as well. Then the newly-transplanted Visser Three blows up a Nova ship, and Edriss-in-Eva along with it. Oops.]]

* In ''Fanfic/WhatTomorrowBrings'', the Ellimist warns the Animorphs that if they kill three specific Yeerks -- Edriss 562 (Visser One), Esplin 9466-Prime (Visser Three), and [[NamedByTheAdaptation Feriss 512]] (Tom's second) -- then Crayak will become aware of the splinter universe and bring over their counterparts from the original timeline. They come up with a plan to contain these Yeerks so they can avoid killing them. [[spoiler:Later, Cassie accidentally kills Visser Three while he's in Alloran's morphed body, so the Drode is able to bring the original timeline's Alloran over as well.]]

* In ''Fanfic/WhatTomorrowBrings'', [[spoiler:Cassie kills Visser Three while he's in a morphed Alloran's body, allowing the Drode to bring the original timeline's Alloran over along with the Visser.]]

* The ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' don't seem to have any qualm with killing their opponents, even though most of them have been enslaved by the Yeerks to serve as their hosts. Cassie eventually notes this during her TenMinuteRetirement. At the climax of the series, [[spoiler:Jake is left with no choice but to [[KillTheOnesYouLove order Tom's execution]] to kill [[TheStarscream his Yeerk]].]]

* The ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' don't seem to have any qualm with killing their opponents, even though most of them have been enslaved by the Yeerks to serve as their hosts. Cassie eventually notes this during her TenMinuteRetirement. The most important characters this happens to are [[spoiler:[[KillTheOnesYouLove Tom]] and his [[NoNameGiven Yeerk]].]]

* The ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' don't seem to have any qualm with killing their opponents, even though most of them have been enslaved by the Yeerks to serve as their hosts. Cassie eventually notes this during her TenMinuteRetirement.

** Defied in season 10 when [[TheRemnant Ba'al]] possesses [[DarkMessiah Adria]] with one of his clones. While it does give the heroes the opportunity to kill both of the BigBadEnsemble in one fell swoop, Adria's forces are ''not'' a KeystoneArmy and would simply continue fighting to the bitter end in spite of her. The whole point of the mission to capture her, before Ba'al interfered, was to negotiate and/or turn her over to their side.

* ''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.

* The ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' don't seem to have any qualm with killing their opponents, even though most of them have been enslaved by the Yeerks to serve as their hosts.