The Possessing a Dead Body trope as used in popular culture. A type of The Undead resulting from a dead body being reanimated by a spiritual or otherwise ...

Custom-Built Host: A host body is specifically designed to be possessed by the guest. Demonic Possession: The "guest" is a demonic or other supernatural entity.

Possessing a Dead Body: An entity takes possession of someone's corpse. Puppeteer Parasite: Body Snatchers who are physical parasites. Body Horror ensues.

Shelvek the Seducer has taken possession of this fragile and handsome body from its rightful owner. How did I do this? Oh, there are so many delectable ways!

When the body your mother gave you has a new landlord there is a nasty tendency for you to be remodeled, and possibly shown off.

When a demon, ghost, or other body stealing/possessing force takes control of a body, it causes the body to rapidly decay and get the wear and tear of a ...

A demon, spirit, or any other entity that is forcefully placed into someone's body (willingly or otherwise) befriends its host, and they form a symbiotic, ...

When one character forcibly and deliberately hijacks another's body, or swaps bodies with the latter against their will.

They're stuck in the host they tried to take possession of. This may be a permanent thing, or it might be a case where they need outside help to get free.

These body snatchers will usually stick to one gender as their targets of possession, though taking any available body regardless of gender is not unheard of.