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* The first bull to be cloned, known as Second Chance after his donor, Chance, a celebrity bull who died at the age of 19, at first appeared to be a reincarnation of his dead predecessor, lying in the same spots, eating in the same fashion, even appearing to recognise his closest friends. But whereas Chance had been passive, friendly and popular with kids, Second Chance very deliberately gored his owner when he attempted to lead him by the nose, resulting in 80 stitches. He would go on to put his owner in hospital again before dying at the age of eight.
** However, the owners speculated that the original Chance may have been just as violent as Second Chance as a young bull; they only got him when he was 7. Unfortunately, Second Chance didn't live long enough to confirm or deny this either way.
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* ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': When [[WorldsStrongestMan Milim Nava]] was younger, she had a pet dragon that was given to her by her father [[spoiler:[[TopGod Veldanava]]]]. That dragon was killed by a nation that tried to control Milim, and she in a fit of UnstoppableRage [[CivilizationDestroyer razed that civilization to the ground]] and nearly did the same to the rest of the world before she was calmed down by the combined efforts of [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Guy Crimson]] and [[TheFairFolk Ramiris]]. In the process of this, however, Milim ended up transforming into a True Demon Lord, and [[HopeSpot she ended up inadvertently resurrecting the dragon]]...but due to a combination of the fact that the dragon's soul was both partially decayed due to the week it spent dead and it was infected by Milim's original rage, it was reborn as the Chaos Dragon, a DraconicAbomination that would have finished Milim's world-destroying rampage had Milim not fought it and [[SealedEvilInACan sealed it away]], unable to bring herself to kill her friend again. [[spoiler:However, because the Chaos Dragon ''still is'' that dragon deep down, when it's unsealed Milim with [[TheHero Rimuru's]] aid is able to preserve and repair its soul while destroying its physical body in order to let it be reborn free of corruption.]]

** ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'': In [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsFourthEdition 3.5e]], when the connection between the living world and the afterlife realm of Dolurrh is at its strongest, there is a 50% chance for resurrection magic to go awry in some way - either calling additional souls of similar strength which manifest as hostile ghosts, placing the wrong soul in the body and turning the original into a ghost, causing the risen character to become [[DemonicPossession possessed by a nalfeshnee demon]], or in rare cases causing the body to rise as an SoullessShell animated entirely by a nalfeshnee. Conversely, at times when Dolurrh is unusually distant it's impossible to revive the dead except [[RescuedFromTheUnderworld direct physical retrieval]]... but creating undead is still possible.

** In [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsFourthEdition 3.5e]] the ''Heroes of Horror'' supplement provides rules for resurrection magic going wrong. Similarly in the ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' setting, when the connection between the living world and the afterlife realm of Dolurrh is at its strongest, there is a 50% chance for resurrection magic to go awry in some way - either calling additional souls of similar strength which manifest as hostile ghosts, placing the wrong soul in the body and turning the original into a ghost, causing the risen character to become [[DemonicPossession possessed by a nalfeshnee demon]], or in rare cases causing the body to rise as an EmptyShell animated entirely by a nalfeshnee.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 4th edition provides, in ''Open Grave'', the Unrisen. Basically, they're what happens when a Raise Dead ritual goes horribly, horribly wrong; family pets turning into psychotic monsters, for example.
** Also, the 3.5e supplement Heroes of Horror provided similar examples, including rules for player characters brought back wrong.

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* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': When the boys fake Butters' death using the body of a pig, his father takes the remains to a cursed Indian burial ground in order to invoke this trope. Then when Butters returns to his house to tell his parents about the fake death, they react as if he was some unspeakable mutated horror, lock him in the basement, and kidnap people for him to eat. Butters is understandably confused about the situation.

* In ''Haunted Legends 9: Faulty Creatures'' Alfred uses 19th-century scientific equipment and the help of the villain to reanimate his sister Louise, who promptly kills their brother Charles' fiance and stuffs their parents into the chimney.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons, Treehouse of Horror IV''
-->'''Lisa:''' "Mom! Dad! Mr. Burns is a vampire! And he has Bart!"\\
'''Burns:''' "Why, Bart is right ''here.''"\\
'''Bart:''' [[CreepyMonotone "Hello, Mother. Hello, Father. I missed you during my uneventful absence."]]

* ''Trilogy Of Terror II''. The last story featured a woman doing a dark ritual to resurrect her son, "whose life was taken by accident." The son comes back, but quickly becomes a monstrous stalker who plays cat-and-mouse with the mother. When she's finally cornered, he tells her that she was wrong; he didn't die by accident, but took his own life to get away from his mother's abuse. The son sent a demon in his own form to return to her instead. Then the demon reveals its true form--lots of KISS-like makeup is involved--and kills the mother.

* The first real case of ''LightNovel/RentalMagica'' is concerning this and exactly happened as described above in the description, but replace "hero" with "client".

* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': When [[WorldsStrongestMan Milim Nava]] was younger, she had a pet dragon that was given to her by her father [[spoiler:[[TopGod Veldanava]]]]. That dragon was killed by a nation that tried to control Milim, and she in a fit of UnstoppableRage [[CivilizationDestroyer razed that civilization to the ground]] and nearly did the same to the rest of the world before she was calmed down by the combined efforts of [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Guy Crimson]] and [[TheFairFolk Ramiris]]. In the process of this, however, Milim ended up transforming into a True Demon Lord, and [[HopeSpot she ended up inadvertently resurrecting the dragon]]...but due to a combination of the fact that the dragon's soul was both partially decayed due to the week it spent dead and it was infected by Milim's original rage, it was reborn as the Chaos Dragon, a DraconicAbomination that would have finished Milim's world-destroying rampage had Milim not fought it and [[SealedEvilInACan sealed it away]], unable to bring herself to kill her friend again. [[spoiler:However, because the Chaos Dragon ''still is'' that dragon deep down, when it's unsealed Milim with [[TheHero Rimuru's]] aid is able to preserve and repair its soul while destroying its physical body in order to let it be reborn free of corruption.]]

* The first real case of ''LightNovel/RentalMagica'' is concerning this.

** And in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', several of the characters who were killed in [[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 the last game]] are brought back as "revenants": evil, undead servants of necromancer Quan Chi and fallen Elder God [[BigBad Shinnok]]. Granted, some are eventually [[BackFromTheDead restored to life]], but most remain bound to their masters.

** In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the anime]], the [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent homunculi]] originated from such creations. Feeding them incomplete {{Philosophers Stone}}s makes them look nearly the same as they were in life. All of the ones we see are villains to some extent, but it's essentially shown [[InhumanHuman they aren't inherently evil or dangerous]], the series BigBad just managed to manipulate all of them into her service.

* Not ''quite'' a resurrection, but the act of creating a new Promethean in ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated'' requires the creator to be of sound balance, both of mind and Azoth. If they do it wrong, then the process gets tainted by Flux, and the body ''tears itself apart''. These parts then animate and become Pandorans, mindless (if you're lucky) fiends intent on cannibalizing other Prometheans for their Azoth. Even when created without problems, Prometheans themselves are an example of {{Soulless Shell}}s. They are a walking no-man's-land with no soul. True, [[PinocchioSyndrome they aim to get one]], but odds are against them and in favor of them doing some rather horrifying things along the way.

* In ''Manga/{{MAR}}'', it turns out [[spoiler:Ginta's father who died in the previous War Game is the King of the Chess Pieces. He tries to pull a WeCanRuleTogether on Ginta but he doesnt fall for it. Turns out his corpse is being possessed by the Caldean Orb, an entity made of the pure evil of humans in Ginta's world. Ginta forces it out of his father's body, but then it reveals it's true monstrous form.]]

* ''Anime/{{Nightwalker}}'' features a nightmare scenario in which Riho, a newly turned vampire, discovers that her deceased parents have returned from the grave as monsters. Shido, the progatonist and Riho's sire, re-kills the monster-parents in front of her, kicking off Riho's StartOfDarkness. The concequences are tragic and bloody...until the reveal that it's AllADream.
* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': When [[WorldsStrongestMan Milim Nava]] was younger, she had a pet dragon that was given to her by her father [[spoiler:[[TopGod Veldanava]]]]. That dragon was killed by a nation that tried to control Milim, and she in a fit of UnstoppableRage [[CivilizationDestroyer razed that civilization to the ground]] and nearly did the same to the rest of the world before she was calmed down by the combined efforts of [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Guy Crimson]] and [[TheFairFolk Ramiris]]. In the process of this, however, Milim ended up transforming into a True Demon Lord, and [[HopeSpot she ended up inadvertedly resurrecting the dragon]]...but due to a combination of the fact that the dragon's soul was both partially decayed due to the week it spent dead and it was infected by Milim's original rage, it was reborn as the Chaos Dragon, a DraconicAbomination that would have finished Milim's world-destroying rampage had Milim not fought it and [[SealedEvilInACan sealed it away]], unable to bring herself to kill her friend again. [[spoiler:However, because the Chaos Dragon ''still is'' that dragon deep down, when it's unsealed Milim with [[TheHero Rimuru's]] aid is able to preserve and repair its soul while destroying its physical body in order to let it be reborn free of corruption.]]

[[caption-width-right:275: Of course I’m still the same ComicBook/{{Firestorm|DCComics}}… just one that craves hearts.]]

* In ''Manga/{{MAR}}'', it turns out [[spoiler: Ginta's father who died in the previous War Game is the King of the Chess Pieces. He tries to pull a WeCanRuleTogether on Ginta but he doesnt fall for it. Turns out his corpse is being possessed by the Caldean Orb, an entity made of the pure evil of humans in Ginta's world. Ginta forces it out of his father's body, but then it reveals it's true monstrous form.]]

* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn'', [[spoiler: Full Frontal is a cyber-newtype made from copy-pasting Char's resonant memories from the Sazabi onto someone physically similar. The result is a somewhat Buddhist take on this: Char's second coming is ''utterly'' consumed by his desire to perpetuate the cycle of conflict which claimed his previous incarnation (Not to mention [[PhlebotinumGirl Lalah Sune]]). ]]

* Hinted to be the origin of The Tall Man from ''Film/{{Phantasm}}''. Kindly old scientist Jebediah Morningside steps through his newly created dimensional portal. The thing that comes back through looks like Jebediah. But it isn't him. It wears his form as a costume.[[spoiler: And it has a lot of spare ones.]]

* The 1902 short horror story ''Literature/TheMonkeysPaw'' by W. W. Jacobs may be the TropeCodifier. A man wishes on a mummified monkey's paw for £200 to buy a house. He gets the money- after insurance coughs up for his son dying on the job. His wife then wishes for his son to be returned to them, and soon hears a knock at the door. But the father, fearing that his son has returned as he had died, in ragged shreds, burns the paw before his wife can open the door; by the time she does, there is no one there.

* In the ''Literature/ExHeroes'' setting, this is what [[spoiler: STARTED the ZombieApocalypse. The hero Regenerator, whose powers allows him to instantly heal wounds and wipe out diseases, overextends his abilities in an attempt to resurrect his wife. The result is the first zombie - and worse, he can't bring himself to put her back down again.]] Inevitably, she escapes... and the rest is history!

* ''Literature/{{Perelandra}}'': Played with: Weston didn't actually die [[spoiler: until Ransom killed him--seemingly twice]], but during a brief reprieve from his [[spoiler: DemonicPossession]], he spoke as if he'd been dead the whole time, and while that didn't make him hostile to Ransom, it made him insane, unreasonable, and pitiable. It's implied that the kinds of things that happened to the damned really did happen to him during that time.

** Arguably, [[spoiler: Reverend Grimmes]], Servitor of Famine, counts as one, given that he is a demon who took the form of a dead human man [[spoiler: Reverend Grimmes, after his starvation-maddened flock murdered and ate him,]] and feigns being returned from the dead in order to corrupt and mislead people.

* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'' ends with [[spoiler: Celebrimbor abandoning Talion after the latter realizes the former is no better than Sauron; to survive, Talion grabs the nearest ring of power, which belonged to a ringwraith he {{mercy kill}}ed minutes ago. By doing this, Talion takes his place, but uses his remaining time to slow Sauron down by opposing his armies around Middle-Earth, until he too succumbs and becomes one of the Nazgúl.]]

* Creator/WesCraven employed this trope twice, once in the TV movie ''Chiller'' (in which a man in cryonic suspension is revived but has no soul) and once in ''Film/DeadlyFriend'', in which a dead girlfriend is revived with a microchip.

* In ''Film/{{Savaged}}'', MagicalNativeAmerican attempts to bring Zoe back from the dead. He succeeds, but she returns with a passenger: the angry Ghost of the Apache chief Mangas Coloradas. The ghost sends her on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against both the men who raped and killed her, and the descendants of the general who murdered him under a flag of truce.

The first bull to be cloned, known as Second Chance after his donor, Chance, a celebrity bull who died at the age of 19, at first appeared to be a reincarnation of his dead predecessor, lying in the same spots, eating in the same fashion, even appearing to recognise his closest friends. But whereas Chance had been passive, friendly and popular with kids, Second Chance very deliberately gored his owner when he attempted to lead him by the nose, resulting in 80 stitches. He would go on to put his owner in hospital again before dying at the age of eight.