History Main / LiteralChangeOfHeart

* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': Both Kazuki and [[spoiler:Victor]] have their hearts replaced with an [[{{Magitek}} alchemical device]] known as a kakugane after their own were damaged beyond repair, allowing Kazuki to become a StockShonenHero [[spoiler:trigering Victor's StartOfDarkness when the [[WalkingWasteland unknown side-effects]] became apparent]].

* In ''Manga/BusoRenkin'', [[spoiler: the villain Victor's StartOfDarkness began when he had his heart replaced by the experimental Black Kakugane.]]

* In ''Manga/BusouRenkin'', [[spoiler: the villain Victor's StartOfDarkness began when he had his heart replaced by the experimental Black Kakugane.]]

* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Captain Picard got in a fight with some surly Naussicans as a youth and got stabbed right through the chest. Now he's got an artificial heart. During a near-death experience in a later episode, he was asked by Q if he would like to change that part of his past that lead up to that (and the subsequent malfunction of the artificial heart years later); however, by doing so, he wound up becoming a person who never developed any guts or took any risks.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel III'', it's revealed that the reason why [[spoiler: Rean has his powers is because his father used his own heart to transplant it to his son. He can survive easily because he is a Divergent being. It's also the reason why survives his assassination back in the first game.]]

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts,'' this is how a GrandTheftMe by BigBad Xehanort is preformed.

* In ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', the Grinch has a change of heart about stealing the Christmas gifts from Who-Ville after he heard the Whos celebrate anyway and his heart grows three times as large as it was before.

* In the MagicTheGathering ''Scar of Mirrodin'' block novel, Venser gave his heart to Karn, whose original Heartstone was full of Phyrexian Glistening Oil. This allowed Karn to leave New Phyrexia and begin work in removing their evil once again.

* A sort of example, Tony Stark from ''Film/IronMan1''; though the heart didn't actually come from someone (or something) else, getting the arc generator put in his chest did symbolically represent his assumption of the role of Iron Man, thus fitting the trope.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel III'', it's revealed that the reason why Rean has his powers is because [[spoiler: his father used his own heart to transplant it to his son. He can survive easily because he is a Divergent being. It's also the reason why survives his assassination back in the first game.]]

* In ''Anime/BlueSubmarineNo6,'' it turns out that [[spoiler: the doctor everyone blamed the world's problems on removed his own heart and used it to power the Earth's destabilizing magnetic field.]] So, in this case, the one who received his heart was [[spoiler: the planet]].

* In ''Literature/Three Fat Man'' by Yuri Olesha, the titular villains demanded from a scientist to replace the heart of their future heir with a heart of iron in order for him to grow up the way they wanted. When the scientist tried to explain it cannot be done, they put him in a cage. A rumor eventually spread among the population that the Fat Men ''did'' replace the boy's heart (a completely false one - the boy was shown as kind, although rather misinformed).

* In ''Three Fat Man'' by Yuri Olesha, the titular villains demanded from a scientist to replace the heart of their future heir with a heart of iron in order for him to grow up the way they wanted. When the scientist tried to explain it cannot be done, they put him in a cage. A rumor eventually spread among the population that the Fat Men ''did'' replace the boy's heart (a completely false one - the boy was shown as kind, although rather misinformed).

* ''The Elder Scrolls'':
** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', Forsworn Briarhearts are warriors who have had their hearts replaced with magical briar seeds. They are the mightiest warriors in the Forsworn's ranks, but the ritual deprives them of free will and makes them of little use as anything other than berserkers or battlemages. [[spoiler:[[DevelopersForesight Also, if you can pickpocket the Briar Heart from them]], [[WeaksauceWeakness it will kill them instantly]].]]
** In the franchise's backstory; Pelinel Whitestrake was said to have a hole in his chest that showed, instead of a heart, he had a red diamond. Whether he was always like this and if it contributed to his berserker rages, though, is unknown. It did imply a connection between him and Lorkhan, the heartless god, but he killed those who suggested it. And probably prompts a fair bit of WMG and EpilepticTrees regarding that diamond and the core gem of the Amulet of Kings.

* ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'': Draco gave half his heart to the prince hoping it might redeem the prince from the ways of his wicked family. [[spoiler: It didn't work]].

* In ''Anime/BlueSubmarineNumberSix,'' it turns out that [[spoiler: the doctor everyone blamed the world's problems on removed his own heart and used it to power the Earth's destabilizing magnetic field.]] So, in this case, the one who received his heart was [[spoiler: the planet]].

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', Forsworn Briarhearts are warriors who have had their hearts replaced with magical briar seeds. They are the mightiest warriors in the Forsworn's ranks, but the ritual deprives them of free will and makes them of little use as anything other than berserkers or battlemages. [[spoiler:[[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything Also, if you can pickpocket the Briar Heart from them]], [[WeaksauceWeakness it will kill them instantly]].]]

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* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts,'' this is how a GrandTheftMe by BigBad Xehanort is preformed.

* During the ''Old World Blues'' DLC for ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', the player has his/her heart (and brain, and spine) removed and replaced by a synthetic one. Later on, you have the choice of keeping your powerful synthetic organs or putting your old ones back in (upgraded with a bit of tech, of course). Getting your original organs back actually gives you better stat bonuses (double the value of the bonuses the artificial ones give), but the artificial ones also grant you special bonuses like total immunity to poison and the inability to have your head and torso crippled.

* During the ''Old World Blues'' DLC for ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', the player has his/her heart (and brain, and spine) removed and replaced by a synthetic one. Later on, you have the choice of keeping your powerful synthetic organs or putting your old ones back in. (Upgraded with a bit of tech, of course)

* In ''BlueSubmarineNumberSix,'' it turns out that [[spoiler: the doctor everyone blamed the world's problems on removed his own heart and used it to power the Earth's destabilizing magnetic field.]] So, in this case, the one who received his heart was [[spoiler: the planet]].

* In ''BusouRenkin'', [[spoiler: the villain Victor's StartOfDarkness began when he had his heart replaced by the experimental Black Kakugane.]]

* In the ''{{Superman}}'' {{Verse}} Metallo has a Kryptonite heart. In various versions he may be a robot, cyborg, or just have an artificial heart.
* In ''CreatureTech'', an alien symbiont knocks Dr. Ong unconscious, rips his heart out of his chest, and attaches itself over the hole, serving as a replacement heart.

* In the movie ''Heart Condition,'' a heart transplant patient ends up stuck with the ghost of the donor, a black man whom the recipient hated because he was racist, and because the recipient a cop and the other guy a lawyer. This of course brings about an emotional change of heart as the movie progresses.

* In the series finale of ''{{Smallville}}'', [[spoiler:Darkseid takes Lionel's heart out and plants it in the Lex clone's body]].

* Played with in an episode of ''TheRickyGervaisShow''. In the episode, Karl talks about a made-up TV show he came up with called "Look What We Can Do With Science" and has him explaining how he thinks human organs can just be either removed or replaced. He then states that they could replace a person's heart with a pacemaker, but Ricky is quick to point out that [[SubvertedTrope they don't really replace the heart with a pacemaker in real life.]]
* Occurs in ''KingdomHospital''. A shady, sleazy, overweight lawyer needs a heart transplant. Otto's dog finds a suitable heart, and Antubis transplants it.

* ''LegacyOfKain'' features the Heart of Darkness, which is heart of the last ancient vampire Janos Audron, ripped [[BeatStillMyHeart still-beating from his chest by Sarafan vampire hunters]] and christened as such. In the first game, the Heart simply acts as a healing item, but eventually it's revealed that the same heart was used by Mortanius the Necromancer to resurrect Kain, and it's also the only thing that can resurrect Janos himself.

* One mission in the Sega ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' game has you stealing a cybernetic heart in order to save the life of one of your brother's friends, because [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul he's installed so much cyberware on his body that his biological heart can't sustain him anymore.]]

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', Forsworn Briarhearts are warriors who have had their hearts replaced with magical briar seeds. They are the mightiest warriors in the Forsworn's ranks, but the ritual deprives them of free will and makes them of little use as anything other than berserkers or battlemages.

Depending on the genre, this may involve actual heart transplants, but it also counts symbolic hearts (in the case of things that do not literally have the organ, or who want to make the transfer without the {{Squick}} involved with a literal heart transplant) or heart-like objects (such as the pneumatic "heart" of a robot). Note that the [[IncrediblyLamePun change of heart]] is not always [[HeelFaceTurn for the better]]. In some cases, the new heart makes you more... [[FaceHeelTurn well, heartless]].