History Main / FleshGolem

* The titular character from the italian horror/erotic comic ''Necron'', drawn by Magnus (of ''ComicBook//AlanFord'' fame), is an automaton created by the [[MadScientist Mad]] HotScientist Frieda Boher with parts from several stolen dead bodies.

** The Lizardmen are a particularly unusual version of this trope. Though they have the physical appearance of LizardFolk, they are essentially organic robots, which emerge from seething pools of mysterious alchemical compounds known simply as "spawning pools" at unpredictable intervals. Though made of flesh and blood, lizardmen have no real personalities and few biological drives; they exist to fulfil a preprogrammed role, and this is generally all they concern themselves with doing, though there have been examples who grew beyond this programming, largely limited to the smaller, smarter Skink variety.

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** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'' has a Flesh Golem enemy. Its soul allows Soma to eat harmful food and allow him to restore health instead of damage him.

* Harvest, a monstrous amalgamation of the bodies of past experiments of Poison Ivy, that came after Ivy in the ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' comics, sending her begging to the Dark Knight for protection.

* The ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' baddie Digger was a zombie comprised of thirteen different bodies fused and reanimated by gamma bombs.

* ''Film/BasketCase2'' ends with Duane sewing Belial to his side to make the ConjoinedTwins once more.

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate I'' & II has Flesh Golems, particularly II.

* A recurring boss in the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series is Legion, a tentacled monster that surrounds itself with a round "shell" of zombies.

* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''

* Pudge in ''VideoGame/{{Dota 2}}'' (his [[VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients original]] model is the same as the trope image). Undying has the ultimate ability named exactly Flesh Golem, which transforms him into a buffed up version of himself, but the form he takes on does not fall under this trope.
* The ''Shivering Isles'' expansion to ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' features the Flesh Atronach as a mid-level enemy, which is basically the classic stitched-together-corpses style of Flesh Golem in all but name. It also features an [[KingMook extra-large boss version]] known as the Gatekeeper, which guards the titular Shivering Isles against intruders and has [[BladeBelowTheShoulder a huge sword for an arm]] and [[TreasureChestCavity the gate keys sewn into its skin]]. Notably, while Flesh Atronachs are implied to be a form of [[ElementalEmbodiment elemental-themed]] [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Lesser Daedra]] like all other Atronachs, the Gatekeeper is confirmed to have been artificially created, making it closer to the traditional depiction of Flesh Golems; in fact, after killing it to progress, you later have to track down its creator and help build a ''new'' Gatekeeper to defend against an invasion.

* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain: Soul Reaver'' has Melchiah, a vampire who was resurrected using the very smallest part of his master's soul, leaving him with many of his human vulnerabilities such as bodily decay. To combat this, he would have to absorb his own underlings into him, until you eventually find him in the game as a giant undulating mass of humanoid corpses, using the hands of lesser vampires as fingers.
* Brigade from ''VideoGame/MarvelNemesisRiseOfTheImperfects'' is made up of parts of one-hundred different blacks ops soldiers who died after being accidentally exposed to an experimental nerve agent. The platoon's leader, Rick Landau, is in control most of the time, but occasionally one of the other soldiers' minds tries to take over, which can make Brigade spaz out mid-fight for a few seconds.
* The EliteMooks Scions and Praetorians in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' are composed of three and thirty technologically reanimated dead bodies, respectively. ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' gives us the Cannibals, which are composed of a Batarian and a human corpse grafted together, and the Brutes, who have a turian head attached to a krogan body.

* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights:'' [[ExpansionPack ''Hordes of the Underdark'']], being D&D-based, featured a Frankenstein-like flesh golem. Further into the Underdark, the Golem Master subquest featured an island-scale war between loyal flesh golems and rebelling metal golems. The leader of flesh golem faction is made of ''daemonic'' flesh.

* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has something of an example in the protagonist, Alex Mercer. Despite his [[HumanoidAbomination human appearance]], he's actually just a human-shaped blob of biomass infected with an extremely powerful [[TheVirus bio-engineered virus]]. Most of said biomass is from the [[ImAHumanitarian people he consumes]].

** On ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'', the Twin Victims enemy is the mangled bodies of Billy and Miriam Locane fused into one. They were so young at the time of their death they didn't have enough strength to manifest on their own, forcing them to meld together. Then again, they still were so weak they could only manifest as a regular enemy with half of their body missing and two baby heads.
** On the same game, the Bottom enemy ups the ante by having a third head sprouting out from where their groin should be. They are also twice as aggressive as the Twin Victims.

* Not explained particularly well in ''VideoGame/TheThing2002'', but some of the creatures, particularly the 150-foot tall monstrosity, greatly exceed a human in mass, thus implying they are made of several humans processed into pure biomass and fused together.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}''
** Abominations, pictured above, are behemoths created by the Scourge from the body parts of their enemies. The Forsaken (the playable race in ''World of Warcraft'') had taken to making them as well. In the expansion, they can eat corpses to recover health. They do have '''some''' intelligence, [[DumbMuscle but not much]], as well as three basic emotional states: bored (when not killing anything,) happy (when on the way to kill something,) and ecstatic (when actively in the process of killing things.)

* ''Webcomic/{{Jack|DavidHopkins}}'' features the lustful mass of bodies in a way of the Valley of Lust, as well as a creature that is, essentially, a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot humongous spiked dickzilla made of fused furries]].

* A series called ''Ark Warriors'' by ''WebAnimation/{{Qem95}}'' has season 1 and 2 based about a team trying to stop either an evil king or a ghostly cult from summoning one of these.
** However, the cult is not revealed to be a ghost and instead is a thousandth of the golem he's trying to summon.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' there is a creature who haunts the mountain called Scuzzlebutt, which has Patrick Duffy for a leg.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The episode “[=SquidBob TentaclePants=]” ends with Squidward accidentally fusing himself with all of his friends. It’s then revealed that they were all turned into a giant, hideous mass of flesh.
* The cluster mutants from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' are made from multiple broken [[StarfishAlien gem]] {{Heart Drive}}s merged together. [[SelfConstructedBeing Their projected forms]] are [[BodyOfBodies conjoined masses of limbs and other features]].

* The Ferali from ''Literature/TheNightAngelTrilogy'' fit somewhere between this and being an EldritchAbomination being magically-crafted monsters comprised of the flesh of those sacrificed to create them as well as those they consume with their many feeding mouths. [[spoiler:They're also NightmareFuel as those who are consumed have their personalities remain somewhere within the whole leading to an[AndIMustScream moment and arguably a HeroicSacrifice towards the end of the series.]]