History Main / ArtificialZombie

* Similarly, the creatures of ''Zombie Holocaust'' (1980) are created when a MadScientist transplants the brains of the living into the bodies of the dead. The movie itself is a mashup of zombie movie and CannibalFilm (the title being a nod to ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'').

* The "Little Ones" from AudioPlay/WereAlive may have been "grown" in [[FanNickname Ink's]] TortureCellar.

Subtrope of OurZombiesAreDifferent. Compare FrankensteinsMonster. See also SkeleBot9000.

[[caption-width-right:320:Call them [[NotUsingTheZWord "Husks"]], if you want to, we all know they're actually [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyber-zombies]].[[note]]They ''are'' [[AvertedTrope called Zombies]] in the game's [[DubNameChange french version]], though.[[/note]] At least they [[BrainFood don't want to snack on your processor.]]]]

-->--'''Adam''', ''Film/IFrankenstein''

An Artificial Zombie is what happens when you try to reanimate someone with science (and usually also ForScience), causing them to [[CameBackWrong Come Back Wrong]]. The good news is that if they go berserk and start [[FleshEatingZombie consuming human flesh]] (and they probably will - zombies will be zombies, after all), they have an almost zero percent chance of spreading zombification and creating a ZombieApocalypse.

* Sid Barett from ''Manga/SoulEater'', who was brought back to life by [[MadScientist Stein's]] experiments`. It's PlayedForLaughs, as the only difference between now and when he was alive is that his skin is blue, his eyes are all-white, and "That's the kind of man I was" became his CatchPhrase.

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', the MadDoctor Qyburn is involved in so far [[NothingIsScarier un described]] experimentation on the dying [[TheBrute Gregor Clegane]] and a bunch of other poor suckers he was given permission to make use of. The end result is one of these, an unstoppable creature that gets named Ser Robert Strong.

** In "[[ The Doctor Dances]]", the gas mask zombie child Jamie is revealed to be this. The Doctor speculates the [[{{Nanomachines}} nanogenes]] found his dead body wearing a gas mask and exhibiting the collapsed chest cavity, crushed skull, scar on the left hand, etc. that all the gas mask zombies develop on turning; but because the nanogenes had no idea what a healthy, living human being is supposed to look like, they brought Jamie back wrong and...

* Sid Barett from ''Manga/SoulEater'', who was brought back to life by [[MadScientist Stein's]] experiments`. It's PlayedForLaughs, as the only difference between now and when he was alive is that his skin is blue, his eyes are all-white, and "That's the kind of man I was" became his CatchPhrase.
* Zombies are the main antagonist's {{Mooks}} in the ''Manga/OnePiece'' Thriller Bark arc. They're corpses modified by [[MadScientist Dr. Hogback]] and then reanimated with people's [[AnatomyOfTheSoul shadows]] by [[BigBad Gekko Moria.]]
* Unfortunately, cyborg zombiedom sometimes ''is'' contagious. ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' has DG Cells, a nanobot zombie plague spawning from the robotic abomination that is the Devil Gundam. It would be bad enough if DG Cells merely affected people, but the disease's nanobot nature means it can make its way into the Mobile Trace System and infect HumongousMecha as well, which means only one thing: [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Giant zombie robots.]]
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' has the Mariage, {{Magitek}} constructs created from human corpses.
* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex 2nd Gig'' has a few brain-dead cyborgs remotely operated or by AI after death, even acting like they were still alive.

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* Similarly, the creatures of ''Zombie Holocaust'' (1980) are created when a MadScientist transplants the brains of the living into the bodies of the dead. The movie itself is a mashup of zombie movie and CannibalFilm (the title being a nod to ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'').

* The ''Film/ReAnimator'' series, loosely based on the Creator/HPLovecraft story, possibly the classic film appearance of this type, are created by a mad scientist's serum.

* The second combat sequence in ''Film/SuckerPunch'' featured WWI German soldiers revived with "clockwork and steam". That's right, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot steampunk zombies]].

* In ''Film/FrankensteinIsland'', Sheila Frankenstein has created a HenchmenRace of artificial zombies by experimenting on the shipwrecked sailors stranded on the island. It is repeatedly stated that they have no blood and are reanimated by psychic energy provided by the spirit of her dead great-grandfather. Supposedly they cannot be stopped by anything short of being cut in half with a machine gun.

* Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/HerbertWestReanimator'' serial involves the titular scientist making several attempts to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin reanimate the dead.]] His first few tries all result in {{Flesh Eating Zombie}}s (he blames brain damage) but eventually he [[spoiler:makes one that is smart enough to make more walking corpses. It then orders the new zombies to tear Dr. West limb from limb (and they took his head when they ran off)]]. The most terrifying fact was that all of them were ''fast zombies'' -- they retained the full physical strength they had in life, the quickness of a fit living human, lacked any sort of fear and never gave up unless killed (again) for good.
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', the MadDoctor Qyburn is involved in so far [[NothingIsScarier un described]] experimentation on the dying [[TheBrute Gregor Clegane]] and a bunch of other poor suckers he was given permission to make use of. The end result is one of these, an unstoppable creature that gets named Ser Robert Strong.

* A man attempts this in the ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' episode "Marionette". Using a serum he invented which dramatically slows decomposition, he preserves a girl's corpse, transplants her donated organs back into her body, and restarts her system with a jolt of electricity. However, he gives up when it becomes clear that though he's reanimated her body, her mind is still gone.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In the Series 8's GrandFinale ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater Dark Water]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven Death in Heaven]]"), Missy [[spoiler: aka TheMaster]] revealed her true self and her plans by using the dead (the recent ones as well using a whole cemetery) by converting the corpses into Cybermen and so she can TakeOverTheWorld.

* Every [[GoneHorriblyWrong Experiment]] in ''TabletopGame/BleakWorld'' (except [[SuperSoldier the Super Soldier]]) is this. The Patchwork is a FrankensteinsMonster and BodyOfBodies, [[SecondLawMyAss the Android]] is created by adding technology to a corpse, [[VoiceOfTheLegion Legions]] were corpses who had [[ForScience Demons and ghosts added to them]], and finally the Radio Zombie who are corpses brought back to life [[FateWorseThanDeath (and repeatedly killed by)]] nuclear radiation.

* The zombies from the ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'' series of video games are creations assembled/reanimated by sinister baddies, usually in massive numbers. Standard grunts are just reanimated corpses, while the bosses are creatures that have been genetically altered to get a brand new lifeform. One of the few modern examples where the zombies don't spread their undead status to the living; the HOTD zombies just plain murder people.
** However, ''VideoGame/TheHouseOfTheDeadOverkill'' does feature plague-bearing zombies (or [[NotUsingTheZWord 'mutants' as G insists on calling them]]) that follow your standard "Bite - Infect - Multiply" pattern, which turns the entire region of Bayou City into a realm of living dead.
** The primary exceptions being the two main characters of ''House of the Dead EX'', but that game isn't really connected to the main series.

* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': The champion Urgot's body was so severely damaged he couldn't be reanimated by conventional means (being however they reanimated Sion), so a mad scientist went and stole another mad scientist's cybernetics research and patched Urgot's corpse up so it wasn't too damaged for reanimation anymore.

* Vincent Valentine of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' was killed and revived by science. Effectively a zombie with the power of shapeshifting, he nevertheless retains his personality and will of his own, giving him shades of a revenant.
* In the first ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' game, the manual's explanation for the Choking Hands and a later level in the game (a ''Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}''-style MadScientistLaboratory opening the fourth episode) imply that the zombies are artificial; Axe Zombies are the successful creations, while Choking Hands are all they can do with the most mutilated corpses.
* Most zombies in ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' are magically reanimated. However, as befits the [[SteamPunk SCIENCE!]] tone of the technology in the game, there is also a technological device that reanimates zombies.
* ''VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery'' features steel zombies, which are implied to be a steampunk version of this trope. The alternate flavor text, however, states that they're regular zombies given plate mail and maces to act as EliteMooks by a necromancer
* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':
** While some of the HostileAnimatronics in the series are implied to be stuffed with corpses, they have normal endoskeletons with no trace of human remains inside. [[HairRaisingHare Springtrap]], however, ''does'' have a rotten corpse inside him, owing to his origin as an animatronic that could be worn as a costume. Said feature was dangerous, and the suit was locked away. [[spoiler:William Afton, meanwhile, used it to lure five children to their deaths, and years later [[KarmicDeath got crushed when the suit's springlocks failed on him]].]]
** In the canon ending of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'', [[spoiler:protagonist Michael Afton]] becomes one thanks to the work of [[MindHive Ennard]]. [[VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator The next game]] elaborates on this -- the Insanity Ending shows plans for [[spoiler:the Scooper used to disembowl him]], and reveals it also injects a substance called "remnant", which is implied to be capable of keeping dead spirits alive.
* The Possessed, the zombies ''du jour'' from ''VideoGame/{{Doom 2016}}'', are of this variety, created by exposure to Lazarus Waves. As per the name, they're actually being possessed by demons from Hell.
* Initiates from ''VideoGame/AbominationTheNemesisProject'' are 'decomposing amalgams of men and women -- or, more accurately, the remains of them -- fitted with cybernetic parts'.

* The Marked of Kane is a Nod subfaction from the expansion pack for ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer3TiberiumWars'' comprised entirely of these, based on the C.A.B.A.L. supercomputer's cybernetic experiments in [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun the previous game.]] Regular Nod has the ability to deploy a Support Power that turns corpses into Awakened.
* Automatons from ''VideoGame/TotalAnnihilationKingdoms'' are stated to be this; and that Creon take the length of a Tour of Duty ''very'' seriously. One Engineering unit has the ability to turn any corpse it encounters into an Automaton as well.

* A common character type in ''VideoGame/MetalGear''.
** The [[CyberNinja Cyborg Ninja]] in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' is an artificially revived version of Frank Jaeger, Snake's WorthyOpponent from the previous game, ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake''. He's repeatedly compared to a 'ghost'.
** Vamp 'dies' when shot in the head by Raiden in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' but remains as a living corpse with a noticeably paler skin tone. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', it's stated his immortality is due to Naomi's nanomachine technology. [[spoiler: Naomi also used the same technology on herself, and instantly dies after deactivating her nanomachines.]]
** Raiden in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' got mutilated and returned as a creepy corpse version of himself in a robot suit.
** Nanomachine zombies are also briefly encountered in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', and parasite zombies are more common in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''.
** A weird variation is the Basilisk from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' - a quadrupedal walking tank containing an AI modelled after The Boss. Its battle animation contains a lurching bipedal walk clearly modelled after a zombie.
* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' had the Vahzilok, a group of mad scientists and their undead servants animated by machines and chemicals, who kidnap people off the streets and turn them into mindless, stitched up zombies. Mastermind players can also choose this option with Necromancy powers of a science or tech origin.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManX6'' sees BigBad Sigma brought back from the dead after his defeat in the previous game. The revival is incomplete and he returns as a husk of his former self. [[CatharsisFactor Many players note how satisfying it feels to see him in such a tattered, pathetic state after all the damage he wrought in the previous 5 games in the series.]]

* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': Y-17 trauma override harnesses in Old World Blues. Due to a malfunction, the robotic suits used by the Big Mountain crew eventually took control over the wearers, leaving them trapped inside, until they died of starvation. 200 years after their death, their skeletons are still animated by the harnesses, they can be found wandering around the facility, armed with lasers or plasma weapons.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', there are the Cluster Gems. Created by Homeworld taking shards of broken Crystal Gems and forcibly fusing them, they manifest in horrific forms that look like multiple limbs rammed together. They are barely alive, driven by what little of their original selves remains; the most independent activity they show is moving towards the nearest whole Gem in the vicinity. It's theorized that this is out of a desperate attempt to restore themselves.

* In ''Series/StevenUniverse'', there are the Cluster Gems. Created by Homeworld taking shards of broken Crystal Gems and forcibly fusing them, they manifest in horrific forms that look like multiple limbs rammed together. They are barely alive, driven by what little of their original selves remains; the most independent activity they show is moving towards the nearest whole Gem in the vicinity. It's theorized that this is out of a desperate attempt to restore themselves.

[[caption-width-right:320:Call them [[NotUsingTheZWord "Husks"]], if you want to, we all know they're actually [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyber-zombies]]. At least they [[BrainFood don't want to snack on your processor.]]]]

* The Creature in ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' was pieced together from dead tissue by some (poorly-defined) means and given life.

* In the plane of [[GothicPunk Innistrad]] in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', special zombies called "Skaabs" are the result of biological experiments to discover the nature of death, and are animated through technology rather than good ol' necromancy.
* Cyberzombies are what happens in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' when you pack so much tech into someone that their soul is eaten away entirely but you keep them alive with {{Magitek}}.

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', the various chimeras are basically this type of zombie as the pain incapacitates them yet separating them kills both. This is especially true when animals and humans are combined. The "Doll Soldiers" are also this, the result of ripping out people's souls and placing them in one-eyed artificial bodies. They also definitely fit the flesh-eating type.
** In the [[Anime/{{Fullmetal Alchemist}} 2003 anime]], the homunculi are this, as they are beings revived through alchemy with parts of their original body as the base. With the exception of Gluttony, none of them consume human flesh, and they of course cannot turn someone else into a homunculus through any means.
* In ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', Touhou Fuhai uses an unexplained method to revive his great-great-granddaughter Ling-Ling, who died in an accident. This being a [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism relatively idealistic series]], she completely retains her free will and sanity (though she's not without quirks). She can survive dismemberment as long as her pieces remain intact, which she not only uses for a combat advantage, but also as a [[PlayedForLaughs party trick]].
* ''Zombie Romanticism'' has these.

* Literature/ZombiesVsUnicorns story ''Children of the Revolution'' has zombies most like this, though with a bit of P thrown in as they can infect others.
* In Blaylock's ''Homunculus'', the eponymous creature can re-animate the dead, including animal carcasses or body parts, by will alone. So can Narbando, though his creations must be fed regular meals of blood pudding to stay animate. Blaylock's zombies are sluggish and mute, but not animalistic, being capable of menial labor in factories or (if undecayed) of begging and handing out flyers in the street.
* As noted above, zombies in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' are reanimated by BlackMagic, but more strongly fit the construct type than the voodoo type. The zombies are explicitly compared to the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', being fast, tough, and [[SuperStrength super strong]]. Zombies also require the necromancer who has raised them to keep up a drumbeat to control them, as the magic involved in controlling them involves making the zombie think the orders being given to them are coming from inside of them, and the drumbeat is a stand-in for their heartbeat; as long as the zombie thinks its heart is beating, and the orders are tied to the heartbeat, the zombie ''thinks'' it wants to do what the necromancer wants it to do. And since it bears mentioning at least one more time: [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Polka Powered Zombie Tyrannosaurus Rex]].

* The Lifeless of Literature/{{Warbreaker}} are corpses (human or anything else) animated by Breath magic, and magically bound to obey the orders of anyone who knows their command phrase.

* Flesh golems, cadaver golems, and especially blasphemes in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' Vampire Counts have the Corpse Cart, which is literally a bunch of corpses assembled onto a ramshackle cart with a wraith-like driver. It attacks with its many reanimated corpses reaching out and can also infect others with the zombie plague. The Tomb Kings also have two Skeleton Variants: a Bone Giant made up of bone and other materials, and the Giant Scorpion, which contains the still conscious, but mummified corpse of a Lich Priest.

** The Egyptian-inspired plane of Amonkhet brings two types of artificial zombies (albeit more in the sense of being modified corpses, since ''anything'' on Amonkhet comes back to life as a zombie). There's the more typical [[{{Mummy}} mummies]], carefully embalmed (by other mummies programmed to do such, no less) and turned into docile servants that keep the city running. And there's the [[spoiler:eternalized]], [[spoiler: the corpses of those that win the trials, encased within a mystical substance known as lazotep that preserves their skills in life, making them the ideal army]].

* Most [=RPGs=] that involve dungeon-crawling will have some sort of zombies as a monster, usually found in the creepy Dark Temple/haunted house/graveyard setting. They may induce status effects, but are treated like any other monster in this case.
* [[http://www.wowwiki.com/Abomination Abominations]] from ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' and ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' differ from the rest of the plague in that they are pieced together from different corpses, much like Frankenstein's Monster himself.

* ''VideoGame/TheSims''
** ''VideoGame/TheSims1'' had zombies included in the first expansion pack. When a sim died and you pleaded with TheGrimReaper, you had a 25% chance of keeping that sim, only as a zombie with no personality points, and a green tint to their skin and clothing.
** ''VideoGame/TheSims2: University'', as a result of a cheap resurrection. The good news is, teen zombies get an Undead Scholarship for university.
** The fifth expansion pack, "Unleashed," included an NPC who could "revivify" zombie sims, for a fee of course. Their personalities never returned, however.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' has a variety of zombie monsters (including a headless (sub)version), along with necromancers and vampires who share their quarters with corpses, both animated and not. Spells can also be purchased that allow the player to summon a zombie, and the Mages Guild focuses on the extermination of necromancy, culminating in the acquisition of a staff that reanimates the bodies of the recently deceased.
** ''The Shivering Isles'' expansion pack introduces new enemies, which includes "flesh atronachs" of varying degrees, and skinned hounds. A "summon flesh atronach" spell can be obtained, and a skinned hound is the reward for one of the random quests. Furthermore, the player can spend quite a lot of time fighting the living impaired (including corpses that only reanimate when approached), and can even assist a charming woman in the parts selection (and subsequent rebuilding ritual) of a very large opponent.
** The zombies also carry disease which the player can catch if they fight the zombie. But none of the disease will turn the user into a zombie, they're just normal diseases, since, you know, a rotting corpse isn't exactly the most hygienic thing in the world to be around.
** Flesh atronach were introduced in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'' (and were probably closer to undead in that game, since from ''Morrowind'' onward atronach meant a variety of Daedra rather than a golem-like construct). Zombies are in ''every'' game in the series, though their appearance varies, and they aren't called that in ''Morrowind'' (as they aren't called that in the ''province'' of Morrowind).

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' also has the Vahzilok, a group of doctors that kidnap people off the streets and turn them into mindless, stitched up zombies.

* In Lake Yantar and Red Forest in ''VideoGame/{{Stalker}}'' you will often come upon Stalkers who had their brains fried by the [[HypnoRay Brain Scorchers]] and aimlessly stumble through the wilderness mumbling incomprehensible things to themselves and attacking anyone who gets to close.
** Another example would be Snorks, who have degenerated into a primitive and feral state from unknown causes and are very similar to fast zombies, except that they crawl instead of running upright.
* Sion, a champion in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', was a berzerker from the nation of Noxus who was captured and beheaded by their enemy Dramacia. His corpse was stole and reanimated as an undead golem, enhancing his already fearsome strength with various magical abilities.
** Not to mention Urgot, whose body was so severely damaged he couldn't be reanimated by conventional means (being however they reanimated Sion) so a mad scientist went and stole another mad scientist's cybernetics research and patched Urgot's corpse up so it wasn't too damaged for reanimation anymore.

* Zombies in the first ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' game are implied to be artificial; Axe Zombies are the successful creations, while Choking Hands are all they can do with the most mutilated corpses.

* Initiates from ''VideoGame/AbominationTheNemesisProject'' are 'decomposing amalgams of men and women-or, more accurately, the remains of them-fitted with cybernetic parts'.

* The Marked of Kane is a Nod subfaction from the expansion pack for ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer3TiberiumWars'' comprised entirely of these, based on the C.A.B.A.L. supercomputer's cybernetic experiments in [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun the previous game.]] Regular Nod has the ability to deploy a Support Power that turns corpses into Awakened.
* Automatons from ''VideoGame/TotalAnnihilationKingdoms'' are stated to be this; and that Creon take the length of a Tour of Duty *very* seriously. One Engineering unit has the ability to turn any corpse it encounters into an Automaton as well.
* In ''VideoGame/TooHuman'', a cyberpunk take on Norse Mythology, the cyborg goddess Hel uses Nidhogg nanomachines to convert the dead into regenerating monsters. On the "heroic" side the AESIR corporation has valkyries pick up fallen soldiers so they can be [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt]] into Einherjar, including the player character Balder.

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' had the Vahzilok, a group of mad scientists and their undead servants animated by machines and chemicals. Mastermind players can also choose this option with Necromancy powers of a science or tech origin.
* [[VideoGame/MegaManX6 Mega Man X6]] sees BigBad Sigma brought back from the dead after his defeat in the previous game. The revival is incomplete and he returns as a husk of his former self. [[CatharsisFactor Many players note how satisfying it feels to see him in such a tattered, pathetic state after all the damage he wrought in the previous 5 games in the series.]]

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' reanimation is a pretty common occurrence given the gaslamp fantasy setting ruled by Mad Scientists.

* [[VideoGame/MegaManX6 Mega Man x6]] sees BigBad Sigma brought back from the dead after his defeat in the previous game. The revival is incomplete and he returns as a husk of his former self. [[CatharsisFactor Many players note how satisfying it feels to see him in such a tattered, pathetic state after all the damage he wrought in the previous 5 games in the series.]]

* ''Mega Man X6'' sees ''BigBad'' Sigma brought back from the dead after his defeat in the previous game. The revival is incomplete and he returns as a husk of his former self. [[CatharsisFactor Many players note how satisfying it feels to see him in such a tattered, pathetic state after all the damage he wrought in the previous 5 games in the series.]]

* ''VideoGame/Mega Man X6'' sees ''BigBad'' Sigma brought back from the dead after his defeat in the previous game. The revival is incomplete and he returns as a husk of his former self. [[CatharsisFactor Many players note how satisfying it feels to see him in such a tattered, pathetic state after all the damage he wrought in the previous 5 games in the series.]]

* ''Mega Man X6'' sees ''BigBad'' Sigma brought back from the dead after his defeat in the previous game. The revival is incomplete and he returns as a husk of his former self. [[CatharsisFactor Many players note how satisfying it feels to see him in such a tattered, pathetic state after all the damage he wrought in the previous 5 games in the series.]]

* Every [[GoneHorriblyWrong Experiment]] in ''TabletopGame/BleakWorld'' is this (except [[SuperSoldier the Super Soldier]]) is this. The Patchwork is a FrankensteinsMonster and BodyOfBodies, [[SecondLawMyAss the Android]] is created by adding technology to a corpse, [[VoiceOfTheLegion Legions]] were corpses who had [[ForScience Demons and ghosts added to them]], and finally the Radio Zombie who are corpses brought back to life [[FateWorseThanDeath (and repeatedly killed by)]] nuclear radiation.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' has a variety of zombie monsters (including a headless [sub]version), along with necromancers and vampires who share their quarters with corpses, both animated and not. Spells can also be purchased that allow the player to summon a zombie, and the Mages Guild focuses on the extermination of necromancy, culminating in the acquisition of a staff that reanimates the bodies of the recently deceased.

** Not to mention Urgot, whose body was so severely damaged he couldn't be reanimated by conventional means (being however they reanimated Sion) so a mad scientist went and stole another mad scientist's cybernetics research and patched Urgot's corpse up with so it wasn't too damaged for reanimation anymore.

** Vamp 'dies' when shot in the head by Raiden in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' but remains as a living corpse with a noticeably paler skin tone. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriotsl'', it's stated his immortality is due to Naomi's nanomachine technology. [[spoiler: Naomi also used the same technology on herself, and instantly dies after deactivating her nanomachines.]]

** The [[CyberNinja Cyborg Ninja]] in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' is an artificially revived version of Frank Jaeger, Snake's WorthyOpponent from the previous game. He's repeatedly compared to a 'ghost'.
** Vamp 'dies' when shot in the head by Raiden in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' but remains as a living corpse with a noticeably paler skin tone. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', it's stated his immortality is due to Naomi's nanomachine technology. [[spoiler: Naomi also used the same technology on herself, and instantly dies after deactivating her nanomachines.]]
** Raiden in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' got mutilated and returned as a creepy corpse version of himself in a robot suit.
** Nanomachine zombies are also briefly encountered in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', and parasite zombies are more common in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV''.

* The ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' sci-fi AU [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/7026787/chapters/15988369 Prosthenisis]] puts a DarkerAndEdgier take on the Night Howlers by making them dead cyborgs whose ArtificialLimbs were hacked and remotely controlled, usually they were killed by their own prosthetics as well.

* In ''Film/FRankensteinIsland'', Sheila Frankenstein has created a HenchmenRace of artificial zombies by experimenting on the shipwrecked sailors stranded on the island. It is repeatedly stated that they have no blood and are reanimated by psychic energy provided by the spirit of her dead great-grandfather. Supposedly they cannot be stopped by anything short of being cut in half with a machine gun.

* Literature/ZombiesVsUnicorns story ''Children of the Revolution'' has zombies most like this, though with a bit of P thrown in as they can infect others..

* ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':