History Main / AppendageAssimilation

* From MarvelComics, the Terror assimilates all sorts of body parts. In the "League of Losers" storyline, he even gets Arana's arm after she dies. And yes, the parts do start to smell after a while.

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As has been mentioned ad nauseam (pun intended), this power is not pretty to look at. Disturbingly, this can be taken even further though by having foreign limbs assimilate imperfectly. The skin won't match, the "seams" will look like burn wounds, mismatched limbs sizes are common and if the character had to make do with two left feet, well he can write off any dance competitions for a long while.The result of all this reattaching will be they look like a gooey FrankensteinsMonster, though some have enough healing factor that they can make new limbs look like they're natural... err, that is to say, natural to their body. Others might decide to forgo using human limbs and graft whatever is 'handy', eventually resulting in a ShapeShifterMashup.

To really freak out viewers and their enemies, they might be ''picky'' about whose limb(s) they use, or even use another character's ''face'' this way. Expect them to do a bit of ShowingOffTheNewBody just to rub it in. Compare PartialTransformation.

** A DarkSun adventure from ''Dungeon'' featured the last troll on Athas, who'd salvaged the severed limbs and heads of his necromantically-slain fellows and grafted them onto himself. The issue's cover art resembles a troll version of a Vedic deity.

* The Makuta does this- absorbing [[BrainsAndBrawn Nidhiki, Krekka]] and [[GiantFlyer Nihvawk]] in order to become a giant ShapeshifterMashup/OneWingedAngel form in ''{{Bionicle}}:Legends of Metru Nui''.

* {{Star Trek: Voyager}} have the Vidiians, a race that suffers 'the phage', an inccurable degenerative disease. They survive by stealing bodyparts from other alien races and replacing their failing organs and other tissues. Their medical sciences are far in advance of federation standards as a natural result.

* ''{{Star Trek: Voyager}}'' have the Vidiians, a race that suffers 'the phage', an inccurable degenerative disease. They survive by stealing bodyparts from other alien races and replacing their failing organs and other tissues. Their medical sciences are far in advance of federation standards as a natural result.

* As plants lack any immune system, grafting parts of different plants (even of different species) is a standard horticultural practice. Ornamental roses or cacti are commonly assembled this way, with hardy rootstock attached to a more-fragile upper stalk. Certain fruits such as avocados are propagated ''entirely'' from high-quality branches grafted onto less-marketable, but healthier, trees.

* As plants lack any immune system, grafting parts of different plants (even different species) is standard horticultural practice. Ornamental roses or cacti are commonly assembled this way, with hardy rootstock attached to a more-fragile upper stalk.

* Orks in the fluff of ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' can assimilate pretty much any orkish body part as long as they have some means of attaching it (duct tape, staples, welding apparatus, etc). They can even regenerate from having their head cut off and sewed/stitched/stapled/welded/taped back on.

A character who has Appendage Assimilation can regenerate from just about any wound but with one caveat: he has to attach a working limb to that stump or [[HealthFood consume an equal amount of bio-mass]] for the HealingFactor to work. So you'll have this character get [[OnlyAFleshWound torn]] and [[MadeOfPlasticine rent]] to [[LudicrousGibs pieces]], then [[PullingThemselvesTogether pull themselves together]] and keep fighting (and/or bantering) [[GoodThingYouCanHeal as if nothing had happened.]] Usually they [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank never die to blood loss]] (in fact, they tend to bleed very little even without HighPressureBlood skewing the standard), and any lost limbs ([[LosingYourHead head included]]) will still function and be reattachable, if not [[OrganAutonomy autonomous]] and [[DetachmentCombat capable of fighting.]]

* Orks in the fluff of ''{{Warhammer 40000}}''. They can even regenerate from having their head cut off and stitched back on, but they must have a body part to stitch. Even if it's not neccessarily their own.

*** I wholeheartedly concur. Jeez Louise.

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* The manga ''BladeOfTheImmortal'' has Manji, the titular immortal. There's a whole story arc devoted to this trope, including a mad scientist that's trying to copy Manji's immortality onto other people by switching his limbs with others. Frequent occurances of BodyHorror and TheydCutYouUp ensue.

To really freak out viewers and their enemies, they might be ''picky'' about whose limb(s) they use, or even use another character's ''face'' this way. Expect them to do a bit of ShowingOffTheNewBody just to rub it in.