History Main / MonsterFromBeyondtheVeil

* In the game ''Evil Genius,'' the player can resurrect dead henchmen by dumping them in the [[ElaborateUndergroundBase base laboratory's]] biochemical tanks. However, the reborn minions that emerge are little more than [[DumbMuscle cataclysmically retarded blobs of muscle]] that exist only to kill your enemies on sight: since you're an EvilGenius, this isn't much of a problem.
** Well, it's a ''little bit'' of a problem, since they tend to kill people in front of witnesses, which raises your heat and brings more enemies to the island. In fact, even allowing a civilian to ''see'' one can cause this if you don't kill them, too.

* TheUndead in ''DragonAge'' are all literally MonstersFromBeyondTheVeil. TheUndead are what happens when Demons from beyond the Veil, seeking mortal hosts, find themselves trapped in corpses instead. Demons don't take to being stuck in rotting corpses and skeletons very well, and more often than not turn AxCrazy. The worst ones, Arcane Horrors and Revenants, can still make use of the power their hosts had in life but are no less AxCrazy. The ''player'' can create one with the AnimateDead spell which works by taking a humanoid corpse, ripping out its skeleton, and binding a demon to it. The result is a "pet" with the basic class of the original person. In ''Awakening'' one of your ''allies'' is technically a MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil. Justice is a Fade Spirit of Justice who was accidentally brought into the physical world and forced into the corpse of a Grey Warden. Initially he's not exactly thrilled about the situation, but earning approval with him will help him see the perks of the physical world. A true resurrection outside of immediate combat is apparently impossible in the ''DragonAge'' setting since even the spirits of the Fade have no idea where souls go after death.

* Another MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil is in {{Koudelka}}'', predecessor to ''ShadowHearts'' with the use of the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Emigre Manuscript]].

* 'Trilogy Of Terror II'. The last story featured a woman doing a dark ritual to restore her son to life, "whose life was taken by accident." The son comes back, but quickly becomes a monstrous stalker who plays hide and seek with the mother. When the mother is cornered, the son tells her that she was wrong; the son died not by accident, but because he took his own life to get away from this mother's abuse. The son sent a demon in his own form to return to the mother instead. Then the son transforms into a demon form; lots of KISS-like makeup, and kills the mother.

* In ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', vampires are all like this. The original soul is gone, and a demon inhabits the body, remembering the original person's life, and apparently believing themselves to be the same person. Some of their personality retains intact, but other aspects tend to warp somewhat, and they lose all conscience.

* Liu Kang from ''MortalKombat'' Deception, who was turned into a zombie by the corrupted god, Raiden.

Unfortunately, something [[GoHorriblyWrong goes horribly awry]], causing her to [[CameBackWrong come back wrong]].

The loved one returns, but she's not as pretty as she used to be. Actually, she's a [[BodyHorror hideous]], [[NightmareFuel horrifying]], [[EldritchAbomination insane monstrosity]], and the first thing she's probably going to do with her new life is brutally murder the hero. Which, of course, [[ItsUpToYou leaves it up to the hero's friends]] (and the hero, once he comes out of his HeroicBSOD) to stop this unnatural abomination. [[TragicMonster For extra tragedy,]] [[IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight some small part of the original's character may remain]], trapped in a monstrous body and [[AndIMustScream unable to control her actions]], often begging the heroes to [[ICannotSelfTerminate kill her]] before she hurts more people.

* Liu Kang from ''MortalKombat'' Deception, who was turned into a zombie by his murderer, Shang Tsung.

* ''[=~Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn~=]'' has a variant in that King Elias, in the hopes of resurrecting or at least speaking to [[{{Necromantic}} his dead wife]], instead came to the attention of the EldritchAbomination [[BigBad Storm King]]. In the end, this chain of events results in the Storm King possessing ''him''.

EDIT & SPOILER: In ''X-Men 3'', Dr. Jean Gray comes back as Phonenix and first thing she does, is kill her former boyfriend.

* It was strongly implied that Dawn's attempt to resurrect Joyce in Season Five was an example of MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil (we never see the resurrected Joyce, but the juddery-POV cam we get as she approaches the house bodes... poorly). Not to mention the fact that Spike, who at this point did NOT have his soul back and thus was still evil, is visibly unnerved and a bit [[{{Squick}} squicked]] by the thought of what was going to come back when he learns about what Dawn is planning.

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* The short story the "Monkey's Paw". The paw allowed someone to make three wishes, but they would all be answered in a way that brought misfortune on the wisher. So, when the Mom wants to [[TheNecromantic resurrect the son]] who died because of the [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor first wish]] by being [[DeathByDisfigurement caught in an industrial machine]], she wishes the [[BackFromTheDead son back to life]]. A few creepy paragraphs later the disfigured abomination that is their son is [[NightmareFuel pounding on the door, with the mother desperately wanting to embrace it]] emphasis on the IT. Finally, the Dad wishes his son to have peace, with the mother opening the door to a cold, empty street. Needless to say, [[TearJerker it sucks for her.]]

* In ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', it was strongly implied that Dawn's attempt to resurrect Joyce in Season Five was an example of MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil (we never see the resurrected Joyce, but the juddery-POV cam we get as she approaches the house bodes... poorly).
** Not to mention the fact that Spike, who at this point did NOT have his soul back and thus was still evil, is visibly unnerved and a bit [[{{Squick}} squicked]] by the thought of what was going to come back when he learns about what Dawn is planning.

* ''{{Torchwood}}'' Season 2 gives us Owen slowly becoming a kind of one of these in episode seven after being shot and brought back with the second resurrection glove- when he came back, not only was he still a corpse (albeit conscious and mobile, he had no heartbeat, no reflexes, etc.), ''Death came with him'', and would walk the earth forever killing people if it could get its hands on thirteen victims.
** An unusual variant, in that once Death had fully manifested, it left Owen's body, restoring his free will, and he was ultimately able to defeat it (it couldn't kill him since he was already dead).

*** Unknown why the hair was black, but it turns out that it was ''Al'' in that body, and it was only [[NightmareFuelUnleaded pure luck that he wasn't trapped in that body permanently.]]

These former humans are probably going to become a [[BodyHorror shambling, bloodthirsty, soulless monster]] or EldritchAbomination.

** Death Knights have Raise Dead/ Raise Ally, which ''brings'' the target back wrong, for about 4 minutes. When used on a player, it allows them to control the ghoul, and can be used in combat, unlike most other resurrection spells (which bring the target back ''right'' ).

* Parodied in '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 an some unspeakable mutated horror, lock him in the basement, and kidnap people for him to eat. Butters is understandable confused about the situation.

** Aside from the SoullessShell that [[FrankensteinsMonster Ad]][[{{Cyborg}} am]] made of Professor Walsh and the lackey scientist, he made a MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil of Jones, a turtle demon, and [[MagiTek some spare electronics]], and planned to do so with Riley and every other demon and soldier in the Initiative. However, it's possible that he was actually just a InhumanHuman, and more susceptible to the control chip than other characters we'd seen. Adam himself is ''[[OffTheRails definitely]]'' a MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil.

* In ''DGrayMan'', when a person dies and a loved one grieves over their death, there's a chance the Millennium Earl will appear, and offer the loved one a chance to resurrect the dead person. He gives them a metal body and asks them to wish the dead's soul into the metal body. What happens after this is that the dead one is resurrected as an Akuma- a tortured soul bound to a metal body- and the first thing they do after being resurrected is curse the loved one for damning them, and the the Earl takes control and they murder the one who resurrected them and steal their body. In fact, Akuma are a combination of MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil and DamagedSoul. With each stage an Akuma reaches, the body becomes more humanoid in appearance but the soul heavily deteriorates.
* Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds Dark Signers are the epitome of this.