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The loved one returns, but they are not as pretty as they used to be. Actually, they are a [[BodyHorror hideous]], horrifying, [[EldritchAbomination insane monstrosity]], and the first thing they are probably going to do with their new life is brutally murder the hero. Which, of course, [[ItsUpToYou leaves it up to the hero's friends]] (and the hero, once they come out of their 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 their actions]], often begging the heroes to [[ICannotSelfTerminate kill them]] before they hurt more people.

* Alice in ''ShinMegamiTensei'' series used to be a human girl who got two powerful demons so smitten with her that they gave her some of their power as a gift. That 'gift' killed her, and revived her as the cute friend-seeking fiend she is today.

* [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Nagash]], the Great Necromancer managed to turn ''himself'' into one of these. Granted he was already an evil, blood-drinking immortal, but he still appeared human and had [[TakeOverTheWorld human interests]]. After his first death he reasserted control over his body by sheer force of will and used GreenRocks to power his form, mutating it into a [[OurLichesAreDifferent meters-tall skeletal monstrosity]] with [[KillAllHumans zero regard for human life]]. At this point he scares ''gods''.

* In an issue of ''JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' following ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}}'s death, his son Joey wishes for his father back [[ExactWords (not "alive")]], without knowing a JackassGenie is listening. He and his mother are confronted by an EldritchAbomination with Metamorpho's powers, and apparently no consciousness whatsoever. But just before he gets wished back to oblivion, he says "Joey..." (This being comics, he later came BackFromTheDead for real.)

* Happens in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''. Though the first time it's Subverted, as a UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper style serial killer is murdering young women to create a mishmash body as a vessel to resurrect his dead wife, which you prevent. The second time, in the Dragonborn expansion, a scientist was experimenting with a way to revive and restore corpses to exactly as they were before they died. Falx Carius [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind (Yes THAT Falx Carius)]] was restored, but lost his mind in the process, becoming extremely violent and delusional/irrational, commanding an army of Ash Spawn to lay siege on Raven Rock.

* Used in the sequel to the American remake of TheRing as the explanation of the true nature of Samara.

* 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, the true King and BiggerBad of the series, 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.]]

->'''Optimus Prime''': Arcee, what did you see?
->'''Arcee''': Not Cliff. At least... Not any more.

* In the ''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!

** And on the Decepticon side, there's Breakdown, though he was fused with a dying human instead of Dark Energon. Knock Out isn't pleased. Silas himself may count, since the first thing he does upon resurrection is gun down his men who brought him back in the first place.

* 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.

'''Arcee:''' "Not Cliff. At least... Not any more."

* The 1902 short horror story ''TheMonkeysPaw'' by W. W. Jacobs may the 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.

** It was strongly implied that Dawn's attempt to resurrect Joyce in Season Five was an example of Monster From Beyond The Veil (as with ''TheMonkeysPaw'', which this episode is probably homaging, 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 [[EvenEvilHasStandards visibly unnerved]] and a bit {{squick}}ed by the thought of what was going to come back when he learns about what Dawn is planning.

* In the second ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' game, ''Curse of the Crimson Elixir'', you find out that the BigBad raised his lover, Elma, as a golem and that's the blue-skinned monster woman that keeps attacking the brothers due to occasionally losing her sanity to blood lust. Crowley himself is eventually revealed to be a monstrous golem as well, although he never loses control, although one could argue that this is because he was pretty insanely obsessed to begin with.

* ''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 MercyKilled 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.]]

** Given how far the stick in [[spoiler:John Snow]]'s ass was when he was resurrected, probably the first one.

* With their Ultimate Intrigue sourcebook, ''TabletopGame/Pathfinder'' now lets evil spellcasters create these on purpose via "False Resurrection", which returns a dead body to health but possessed by a fiend.

** This is also apparently how vampirism works in this comic. Durkon Thundershield was killed by a vampire and then raised as a vampire himself, but it isn't Durkon who's in charge anymore, it's a spirit servitor of the goddess Hel that inhabits his body. Durkon still exists, but is powerless to do anything about the situation other than exchange mental witty banter with the High Priest of Hel.

* The 1902 short horror story ''TheMonkeysPaw'' by W. W. Jacobs may the 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.

* A Monster From Beyond The Veil shows up in ''Literature/SomethingWickedThisWayComes'' by Ray Bradbury as well. There's an electro-mechanical chair in the story that can bring a dead body back to a horrify mockery of life just long enough for magic to be used to heal the person.

The loved one returns, but they are not as pretty as they used to be. Actually, they are a [[BodyHorror hideous]], horrifying, [[EldritchAbomination insane monstrosity]], and the first thing they are probably going to do with their new life is brutally murder the hero. Which, of course, [[ItsUpToYou leaves it up to the hero's friends]] (and the hero, once they come out of their 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 their actions]], often begging the heroes to [[ICannotSelfTerminate kill them]] before they hurt more people.

-->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."]]

-->Optimus Prime: "Arcee, what did you see?"
-->Arcee: "Not Cliff. At least... Not any more."

* In ''ComicBook/DeathVigil'', Maria is a {{Necromantic}} who wants to revive her daughter Alicia by using the Reaper's scythe. Unfortunately, Alicia's 'ghost' is actually a hallucination induced by the Enemy, who is manipulating her to bring an EldritchAbomination from beyond the Veil.