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* ''Comics/Invincible'' has Machine Head, [[Main/DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment whose head is a machine]].

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* ''Comics/Invincible'' ''ComicBook/Invincible'' has Machine Head, [[Main/DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment whose head is a machine]].
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* One of the main antagonists of ''VideoGame/SuperLesbianAnimalRPG'' is Javis, a [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] sorcerer with a VHS tape for a head. He has a single eye in the center of his VHS tape head which is described as being rather soul piercing.
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* ''Series/{{Jigsaw}}'': One episode has a villain by the name of Ray Cathode, with a TV for a head.

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* ''Series/{{Jigsaw}}'': ''Series/{{Jigsaw|1979}}'': One episode has a villain by the name of Ray Cathode, with a TV for a head.
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* In ''Literature/TheLastBattle'', Tash is revealed to have a ([[MultiArmedAndDangerous mostly]]) human body with a bird-like head.

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* ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Vox's head is a giant flat-screen TV.
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
** Keyboard Strong Bad from the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "crazy cartoon" is a version of Strong Bad who, as the name implies, has an electronic keyboard for a head. He appears as a character in [[ShowWithinAShow Strong Bad's "crazy cartoon"]] ''Sweet Cuppin' Cakes''; when he gets angry, his head plays [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQlttlhIY7Q "Unterlanders Heimweh".]]
** One episode of "Marzipan's Answering Machine" has Strong Bad leaving a message claiming to be a guy named "Goat Face", whose explains that he's called that not because he has a face like a goat, or a goat's head, but "my face is an ''entire goat''."
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* ''WebVideo/BedtimeStoriesYoutubeChannel'' has [[HumanoidAbomination creatures]] allegedly created by the SS, with one of these beings apparently having a goat's head attached to it in place of a human head.
* ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Vox's head is a giant flat-screen TV.
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
** Keyboard Strong Bad from the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "crazy cartoon" is a version of Strong Bad who, as the name implies, has an electronic keyboard for a head. He appears as a character in [[ShowWithinAShow Strong Bad's "crazy cartoon"]] ''Sweet Cuppin' Cakes''; when he gets angry, his head plays [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQlttlhIY7Q "Unterlanders Heimweh".]]
** One episode of "Marzipan's Answering Machine" has Strong Bad leaving a message claiming to be a guy named "Goat Face", whose explains that he's called that not because he has a face like a goat, or a goat's head, but "my face is an ''entire goat''."
* "[[https://vimeo.com/2875674 Idiot Box]]" is a short film in a world where everyone has TV sets for heads, though they always display faces.


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* ''WebVideo/BedtimeStoriesYoutubeChannel'' has [[HumanoidAbomination creatures]] allegedly created by the SS, with one of these beings apparently having a goat's head attached to it in place of a human head.
* "[[https://vimeo.com/2875674 Idiot Box]]" is a short film in a world where everyone has TV sets for heads, though they always display faces.

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* Creator/ProZD: Cowboy Cow and Groin Puncher (from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkGXPSavzhg the cow card game]]) have humanlike bodies and cow heads.
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A being, almost always a humanoid with at least human intelligence, with an inanimate object (or, more rarely, an animal) in place of a head. Depictions of these types of creatures go back at least to Myth/EgyptianMythology, where many deities were depicted with animal heads and human bodies to show their divine natures.

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A being, almost always a humanoid with at least human intelligence, with an inanimate object (or, more rarely, or an animal) animal head in place of a human head. Depictions of these types of creatures go back at least to Myth/EgyptianMythology, where many deities were depicted with animal heads and human bodies to show their divine natures.



* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Doc Scratch has a large cue ball for a head; when he dies it cracks open, allowing something far, ''far'' worse to enter the universe through it.

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** After the god-hound Becquerel is prototyped, the heads of all carapacians who wear the Black or White Queen's rings transmute into those of wolf-like hounds with a scar over one eye.
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Doc Scratch has a large cue ball for a head; when he dies it cracks open, allowing something far, ''far'' worse to enter the universe through it.
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** Keyboard Strong Bad from the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "crazy cartoon" is a version of Strong Bad who, as the name implies, has an electronic keyboard for a head. He appears as a character in [[ShowWithinAShow Strong Bad's "crazy cartoon"]] ''Sweet Cuppin' Cakes''; when he gets angry, his head plays "Unterlanders Heimweh".

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** Keyboard Strong Bad from the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "crazy cartoon" is a version of Strong Bad who, as the name implies, has an electronic keyboard for a head. He appears as a character in [[ShowWithinAShow Strong Bad's "crazy cartoon"]] ''Sweet Cuppin' Cakes''; when he gets angry, his head plays [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQlttlhIY7Q "Unterlanders Heimweh".]]
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* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' : During Halloween, these come out in full force. Besides "hats" that replace merc heads with different animals, the Merasmus fight will periodically turn the heads of players on both teams into [[ActionBomb bombs]].
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* ''VideoGame/CloudMaster'' have the shopkeeper you visit in-between levels, where she has a Chinese dumpling in place for her head. [[https://youtu.be/IpVS5MQVs5U?t=226 She can even move the edges of her dumpling hair, somehow]].
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* ''VideoGame/UltraversePrime'' have an ActionBomb mook whose head is literally a CartoonBomb. Which they'll detonate to hurt you.
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* Several cyborgs in ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' are modified humans from the neck up such as Cluster Drones, notably 790 a main character; Moth-breeders play with this concept by not replacing the entire head.

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* ''Webcomic/BenAndWinslow'': A RunningGag involves Winslow replacing his head with random objects, including (but not limited to) a gumball machine, a head-sized apple, and a ''[[UpToEleven live pig]].''

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* ''Webcomic/BenAndWinslow'': A RunningGag involves Winslow replacing his head with random objects, including (but not limited to) a gumball machine, a head-sized apple, and a ''[[UpToEleven live pig]].''live pig.''



* ''[[http://rosel-d.deviantart.com/gallery/53910007/IE-KUN My Senior, IE-kun]]'': The characters are the {{anthropomorphic personification}}s of various internet browsers, and are just as often shown with those browers' logos as they are with human heads.

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* ''[[http://rosel-d.deviantart.com/gallery/53910007/IE-KUN My Senior, IE-kun]]'': The characters are the {{anthropomorphic personification}}s of various internet browsers, and are just as often shown with those browers' browsers' logos as they are with human heads.

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* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': Whenever he transforms, Denji's head turns into a chainsaw, with all the properties it entails. Notably, his head is now made of metal, giving him the ability to resist bullets aimed at his face.



* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion'', Doremifasolati Do is a Rock Human who can move like a tank while his head is entirely made of stone.
* ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': Master Tengen's head has an inhuman appearance closer to that of a cursed spirit's rather than a human, a result of aging 511 years without being able to merge with his proper vessel.



* In the film ''Film/{{Ink}}'' Bad Guys from the monochromatic dreamland carry the teleimage of [[StepfordSmiler smiling faces]] on shoulders.

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* In the film ''Film/{{Ink}}'' Bad Guys ''Film/{{Ink}}'', bad guys from the monochromatic dreamland carry the teleimage of [[StepfordSmiler smiling faces]] on shoulders.



* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In the short story "City of Death", the villain's true form seems to be a (elegantly-dressed) humanoid with the head of a one-eyed, green alien that resembles pasta. (He was worshipped in ancient Egypt as a god.)



* ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'' has an eagle-headed colonel commanding the show's elite Nazi-fighting team. A later episode has a Swiss gangster with a tiger's head challenge Tucker to a duel. [[WidgetSeries No explanation for any of this is given]].

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* ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'' ''Series/Danger5'' has an eagle-headed colonel commanding the show's elite Nazi-fighting team. A later episode has a Swiss gangster with a tiger's head challenge Tucker to a duel. [[WidgetSeries No explanation for any of this is given]].given]].
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In the short story "City of Death", the villain's true form seems to be a (elegantly-dressed) humanoid with the head of a one-eyed, green alien that resembles pasta. (He was worshipped in ancient Egypt as a god.)


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* In ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'', Ann comes across an individual speaking from a manhole cover asking her to [[FetchQuest bring food]]. At a later time, she finds it's a person called Hapi who has an actual sewer cover for a head. There's also Jos van Corn and his brother who have heads of corn.
* ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'': Master Jiggywiggy's head is a Jiggy. The rest of his body, however, appears to be fairly human.


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** ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': [[MrFixIt Malius]] has a giant squeaky toy hammer for a head and Hacker has a mouse cursor for a head, complete with CoolShades.
* In ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'', Horsehead resembles an armored human with, as its name states, a horse's head.


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* ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Vox's head is a giant flat-screen TV.


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* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Celine's head is a moon crescent. May also qualify as HornedHumanoid if the crescent is viewed as a pair of horns.
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* The PlayerCharacter of ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany'', Dante, has what appears to be a burning clock for a head.
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* Creator/MarvelComics have a group of villains called The Headmen who have interchangeable heads and odd bodies. They're mostly joke characters but are every bit as surreal.

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* The Headmen are a team of Creator/MarvelComics have a group of villains called The Headmen supervillains (first appearing in ''ComicBook/TheDefenders'') who have interchangeable "strange heads" as their theme. However, only Ruby Thursday qualifies as this trope, as she has replaced her head with a [[TheBlank featureless]] sphere of red plastic that can change shape. Of the other members, Gorilla-Man and Chondu have [[BeastWithAHumanFace normal heads and odd bodies. They're mostly joke characters but are every bit as surreal.on non-human bodies]], while Shrunken Bones' whole body is deformed (although his head is his most immediately notable feature).



** In [[ComicBook/Prez1973 the original series]], Prez Rickard, teen president of the United States, had a few run-ins with Boss Smiley, the physical embodiment of political corruption, whose head was a bald sphere with BlackBeadEyes, a tiny nose, a broad smiling mouth -- basically, a flesh-toned version of the classic yellow smiley face emblem.

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** In [[ComicBook/Prez1973 the original series]], Prez Rickard, teen president of the United States, had has a few run-ins with Boss Smiley, the physical embodiment of [[CorruptPolitician political corruption, corruption]], whose head was is a bald sphere with BlackBeadEyes, a tiny nose, a broad smiling mouth -- basically, a flesh-toned version of the classic yellow smiley face emblem.HaveANiceDaySmile.



* ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'': There's an entire race of people with televisions for heads.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'': There's an entire race of people with [[TVHeadRobot televisions for heads.heads]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' features a minor villain called Fang who has a spider for a head. No, he doesn't just have the head of a spider, he has ''[[https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/4/46/Fang_Teen_Titans.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110725193605 an actual entire spider]]'' (albeit with only four legs) where his head should be.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' features a minor villain called Fang who has a spider for a head. No, he doesn't just have the head of a spider, he has ''[[https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/4/46/Fang_Teen_Titans.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110725193605 an actual entire spider]]'' (albeit with only four legs) where his head should be.
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** Just like Tokoyami, Chief of Police Kenji Tsuragamae. Has a dog head but a human body. Although compared to Tokoyami his standout a bit more due to being more realistic in design compared to the more stylized bird head.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' Wilkins likes to read comics featuring Supercaptaincoolman, a kind of African {{expy}} of Superman, whose nemesis is Doctor Horsehead, a MadScientist with the body of man in a nicely tailored suit and a horse's head that whinnies when he laughs maniacally. Doctor Horsehead routinely snares TheHero in situations where OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow, which go unresolved, because Curtis gets his comic books confiscated for reading them in class.
* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol''
** Several of [[RealityWarper Dorothy Spinner's]] [[ImaginaryFriend imaginary friends]] and [[ImaginaryEnemy enemies]] take this form. Damn All has a newspaper with multiple eyes and a broad smile, his 'wife' Darling-Come-Home's face is a portrait of a light bulb, and their ghost baby Flying Robert has the head of a balloon.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' Wilkins likes to read comics featuring Supercaptaincoolman, a kind of African {{expy}} of Superman, whose nemesis is Doctor Horsehead, a MadScientist with the body of man in a nicely tailored suit and a horse's head that whinnies when he laughs maniacally. Doctor Horsehead routinely snares TheHero in situations where OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow, which go unresolved, because Curtis gets his comic books confiscated for reading them in class.
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** Several of [[RealityWarper Dorothy Spinner's]] Spinner]]'s [[ImaginaryFriend imaginary friends]] and [[ImaginaryEnemy enemies]] take this form. Damn All has a newspaper with multiple eyes and a broad smile, his 'wife' Darling-Come-Home's face is a portrait of a light bulb, and their ghost baby Flying Robert has the head of a balloon.



** Boss Smiley makes another appearance as his slimy eerie self in ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'': Wilkins likes to read comics featuring Supercaptaincoolman, a kind of African SupermanSubstitute, whose nemesis is Doctor Horsehead, a MadScientist with the body of man in a nicely tailored suit and a horse's head that whinnies when he laughs maniacally. Doctor Horsehead routinely snares TheHero in situations where OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow, which go unresolved, because Curtis gets his comic books confiscated for reading them in class.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'': One of the recurring characters is a Neitherworld television executive named Mr. Monitor, who has four television screens for heads, each with their own face.
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* As the name of the film might suggest, ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' has heads as its [[BodyMotifs Body Motif]]. Henry Spencer and his girlfriend Mary X are [[AdultFear stuck with tending to a disfigured child]] with a horrible, chickenlike head. In a DreamSequence, the baby's head sprouts under Henry's, [[OffWithHisHead beheading him]]. [[BodyHorror The result is a body]] [[SurrealHorror of an adult man with a]] FetusTerrible for a head.

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* As the name of the film might suggest, ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' has heads as its [[BodyMotifs Body Motif]]. Henry Spencer and his girlfriend Mary X are [[AdultFear stuck with tending to a disfigured child]] child with a horrible, chickenlike head. In a DreamSequence, the baby's head sprouts under Henry's, [[OffWithHisHead beheading him]]. [[BodyHorror The result is a body]] [[SurrealHorror of an adult man with a]] FetusTerrible for a head.
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* Brick Whartley, a character created by Website/{{Tumblr}} for AprilFoolsDay 2022, is a suit-wearing businessman with a brick for a head.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Minor villain Potty Mouth appears to have a toilet for a head.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'', Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy has a sandwich for a head. Similarly, his brother Brent has a sub sandwich for a head.

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** Dr. Mizer has a rusty syringe as a head, containing his eyes and expressive bugs.
** BBQ Girll has a grill with a cartoony face for a head. It can even open and close, and has a little meatlet inside.
** Gardenia's head is the shape of a gardening can.
** Urologist Cathy's head is a portable medical urinal full of abnormally thick urine.
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* Flint the Box Head Boy from ''Webcomic/TheDreamwalkerChronicles'' who can open up his box head to pull out flashlights and other useful items, when he eventually loses the box [[spoiler: his true face is identical to Kyle's revealing that he is the spirit of Kyle's dead twin.]] Interestingly, the Box Head Boy in its entirety was the borrowed disguise as the character continues to exist separately and creeps out the human characters when eating bad dreams.


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* ''Webcomic/ImTheGrimReaper'' has an example in a flashback, narrated by [[spoiler:Ana. her parents' heads are replaced by a megaphone and a stapler respectively, and her ex-husband's face is permanently covered by a paper bag. He's referred to as "Paper Bag" as well.]]


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* One of the unexplained screens in the ''Literature/NESGodzillaCreepypasta'' shows a figure in a pinstriped business suit, whose head is a dripping faucet.

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* Subverted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAdH7RhqNMk this Pepsi Max advert.]] Towards the end, the boss sees one of the office workers with a horse's head and assumes that he's hallucinating. But that's just what the workers want him to think; the horse's head is fake and the workers are looking for an excuse to goof off.



* Schoolgirls with winged insects for heads appear in the dream world of ''Anime/WonderEggPriority'' after [[spoiler: the girls "revive" their friends]]. They're the only enemies in the series that remain undefeated, and all of their encounters leave the main characters shaken.



* Several pieces by renowned surrealist painter Salvador Dali show people who have things other than human heads. These include "Printemps Necrophilique", "Three Women With Heads of Flowers Finding the Skin of a Grand Piano on the Beach", "Female Figure With Head of Flowers", and "Woman With a Head of Roses".
* "The Pleasure Principle" by René Magritte is a portrait of a business man with a glowing ball of light in place of his head.



* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol''
** Several of [[RealityWarper Dorothy Spinner's]] [[ImaginaryFriend imaginary friends]] and [[ImaginaryEnemy enemies]] take this form. Damn All has a newspaper with multiple eyes and a broad smile, his 'wife' Darling-Come-Home's face is a portrait of a light bulb, and their ghost baby Flying Robert has the head of a balloon.
** Many agents of the Cult of the Unwritten Book have similar appearances. The Weeping Blades are flayed, beheaded corpses with blades for heads. The assassin group Fear the Sky all have celestial objects as heads.



* Creator/MarvelComics have a group of villains called The Headmen who have interchangeable heads and odd bodies. They're mostly joke characters but are every bit as surreal.
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** In [[ComicBook/Prez1973 the original series]], Prez Rickard, teen president of the United States, had a few run-ins with Boss Smiley, the physical embodiment of political corruption, whose head was a bald sphere with BlackBeadEyes, a tiny nose, a broad smiling mouth -- basically, a flesh-toned version of the classic yellow smiley face emblem.
** Boss Smiley makes another appearance as his slimy eerie self in ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.
** In [[ComicBook/Prez2015 the 21st-century reboot]], the character is given [[CorruptCorporateExecutive a disturbing twist]] where -- due to corporations achieving full personhood under the law -- all [=CEOs=] have become ''de facto'' mascots, disguising their true faces behind holographic "masks" and being referred to by their company names; Smiley, befitting his origins, has established himself as the most powerful simply because, by getting everything to the consumer as quickly and cheaply as possible, he sells the most valuable commodity of all: ''time''.



* In the film ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', when John Malkovich is inside his own head (long story), every other person's head is replaced by his own head, and all they can say is "Malkovich."
* ''Film/DonnieDarko'' has recurring visions of 'Frank', a man with the head of a creepy rabbit, giving him warnings about the future. [[spoiler:Frank turns out to be [[MalevolentMaskedMen a real person wearing a rabbit mask]], whom Donnie has never met before... which doesn't actually explain much.]]
* As the name of the film might suggest, ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' has heads as its [[BodyMotifs Body Motif]]. Henry Spencer and his girlfriend Mary X are [[AdultFear stuck with tending to a disfigured child]] with a horrible, chickenlike head. In a DreamSequence, the baby's head sprouts under Henry's, [[OffWithHisHead beheading him]]. [[BodyHorror The result is a body]] [[SurrealHorror of an adult man with a]] FetusTerrible for a head.



* In the film ''Film/{{Ink}}'' Bad Guys from the monochromatic dreamland carry the teleimage of [[StepfordSmiler smiling faces]] on shoulders.



* In the First Book of ''Literature/{{MARZENA}}'', while in Dr. Sam's Virtual Dream World, Kristen gets attacked by a plumber wielding a circular saw and who has a Model House instead of a head. The monster appears to be linked to some tragedy that happened in Dr. Sam's house.
* Part of the mythos in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' revolves around visions of strange creatures who are humanoid in shape, but have strange symbols for heads. It is revealed in ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'' that these are the Cryptics, essentially the idea of lying given sentience. Despite being creepy, they aren't evil, just strange.



* ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'' has an eagle-headed colonel commanding the show's elite Nazi-fighting team. A later episode has a Swiss gangster with a tiger's head challenge Tucker to a duel. [[WidgetSeries No explanation for any of this is given]].



* The cover of Music/MinorThreat's ''Bottled Violence'' single depicts a man with the top of a beer bottle for a head, who is clad in a leather jacket and Music/SexPistols shirt, and is also holding a beer in one hand and making a raised fist with the other. It MakesSenseInContext because the title song is an OdeToSobriety dealing with those who get drunk as an excuse to pick fights.



* The video for '''Cause I'm a Man'' by Music/TameImpala features an invisible man in a suit. Throughout the video, various objects appear in place of his head.



* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''
** Supplement ''Curse of the Chthonians'', adventure "Thoth's Dagger". One of the Investigators who touches the title magic item will fall under its curse. He sees visions of ancient Egypt that include a guard with the head of a baboon and a priest with the head of an ibis.
** Supplement ''The Fungi from Yuggoth'', adventure "Sands of Time". While the Investigators are trapped in an underground area they have a vision of two men with the heads of crocodiles.
* Creator/{{Chaosium}}'s supplement ''All the Worlds' Monsters''. The wind witch monster has a human body but the head of a crocodile.



* In ''TabletopGame/LamentationsOfTheFlamePrincess'' one possible consequence of resurrecting a character with the ''Electric Grave'' spell is that the resurrectee's head is replaced by "some cosmically appropriate object". Some of the art in the sourcebook the spell comes from features a character whose head has been replaced by a large ornate clock.



* One of the first-person areas in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' contains a mannequin of the Joker, with a television head that plays a message. [[spoiler:Actually, it's the Joker himself.]]



* ''VideoGame/{{DARQ}}'' features a number of bizarre creatures of this kind, unsurprisingly considering its nightmare setting. These include gun-toting humanoids with lampshades for heads, who periodically turn the lightbulbs inside them on and off and shoot you if you step into the pool of light they cast, and a wheelchair-bound creature with what appears to be a tuba for a head which propels itself around backwards by the sheer force of its off-key notes.
* ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'':
** The Keeper has a safe wrapped in barbed wire for a head. Not only that, it can regenerate itself from other safes scattered throughout the game.
** The DLC missions ''The Assignment'' and ''The Consequence'' have Shade/Spotlight, a monster that's just a lumpy torso mounted on a pair of human legs with a searchlight for a head.



* Blade Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'' has a sword for a head and Jupiter from ''VideoGame/MegaManV'' has a bird head with [[EyesDoNotBelongThere his mouth having eyes]].
* ''VideoGame/{{METAGAL}}'': Buster, one of the bosses in the game, resembles a human female soldier with a bomb-launcher for a head. Downplayed since it has a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots ridiculously human]] RobotGirl's face on the front.
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* Blade Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'' has a sword for a head and Jupiter from ''VideoGame/MegaManV'' has a bird head with [[EyesDoNotBelongThere his mouth having eyes]].
* ''VideoGame/{{METAGAL}}'': Buster, one of the bosses in the game, resembles a human female soldier with a bomb-launcher for a head. Downplayed since it has a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots ridiculously human]] RobotGirl's face on the front.
** Averted in her death animation, however. Her bomb launcher head's outer layer gets turned into standard green hair, complete with InstantBandages.
* All the characters in ''VideoGame/MondoMedicals'' have televisions for faces - with a blank screen, simple faces, or [[JumpScare a gnashing mouth]]. ''VideoGame/MondoAgency'' uses the same idea, only now the screens are four-sided and spin!


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* ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'': In the level Hollis' Hot Streak, there are various [=NPCs=] roaming about that have card suits, cartoon skulls or dice for heads. The nurses in the level have a syringe, a speculum and a urine cup for a head.
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