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* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': In "A Change of Heart", Lumpy steals a heart from Handy's dead body as a transplant for Disco Bear. He ends up smushing it and has to resort to stealing a ''whale's'' heart instead.

* Halfway through ''Fanfic/SpiderNinja'', [[spoiler: Raphael is unconscious in SHIELD's medical bay. Dr. Connors, believing that the Turtles' mutated DNA might hold a clue to genetic alteration, steals some of Raph's blood to further his experiments and possibly grow his arm back. [[LaserGuidedKarma This comes back to bite him]], as the serum he makes with the mutagen [[DoomedByCanon turns him into a giant lizard]].]]

* At the end of ''Fanfic/SpiderNinja'', [[spoiler: Raphael is unconscious in SHIELD's medical bay. Dr. Connors, believing that the Turtles' mutated DNA might hold a clue to genetic alteration, steals some of Raph's blood to further his experiments and possibly grow his arm back. [[LaserGuidedKarma This comes back to bite him]], as the serum he makes with the mutagen [[DoomedByCanon turns him into a giant lizard]].]]

* At the end of ''Fanfic/SpiderNinja'', [[spoiler: Raphael is unconscious in SHIELD's medical bay. Dr. Connors, believing that the Turtles' mutated DNA might hold a clue to genetic alteration, steals some of Raph's blood to further his experiments and possibly grow his arm back. [[LaserGuidedThis comes back to bite him]], as the serum he makes with the mutagen [[DoomedByCanon turns him into a giant lizard]].]]

* At the end of ''Fanfic/SpiderNinja'', [[spoiler: Raphael is unconscious in SHIELD's medical bay. Dr. Connors, believing that the Turtles' mutated DNA might hold a clue to genetic alteration, steals some of Raph's blood to further his experiments and possibly grow his arm back.]]

* At the end of ''Fanfic/SpiderNinja'', [[spoiler: Raphael is unconscious in SHIELD's medical bay. Dr. Connors, believing that the Turtles' mutated DNA might hold a clue to genetic alteration, steals some of Raph's blood to further his experiments and possibly grow his arm back. Considering how the fic implies that the mutagen will be what turns him into the Lizard, [[LaserGuidedKarma this will probably come back to bite him.]]]]

* ''Eveless Eden'' by Marianne Wiggins. An IntrepidReporter discovers that the [[EvilIsSexy Romanian diplomat his girlfriend ran off with]] runs a company involved in selling blood products (everything from plasma to skin cream, as well as blood itself) taken from Ceausescu's hellish orphanage system. Thanks to the incompetent way the orphanages are run, HIV-tainted blood has long ago entered the system.

* ''VideoGame/RimWorld'' allows player to harvest organs like kidneys or hearts from prisoners and your fellow colonists. Organs can be used for replacing unhealthy organs, or making money by selling them.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' used the kidney theft variant in the episode "Dia De Los Dangerous." Better justified than many examples, since we know it was being done by a relatively poor doctor that Dr. Venture was going out of his way to be an ass toward. [[JerkAss Yes, even more than usual]].
-->'''Dr. Venture:''' "[[OhNoNotAgain Oh, for the love of- not again]]! ... wait a minute. One... [[OhCrap Two. This is serious]]."

* One issue of Zenescope's ''Grimm Tales of Terror'' features as its VillainProtagonist a woman who is part of an organ theft ring, acting as a HoneyTrap at hotel bars to lure her targets up to a room where she gives them [[SlippingAMickey drugged drinks]]; once they unconscious, she removes the organs she's been paid to collect and then leaves her victim in a bathtub full of ice. [[spoiler: In the obligatory KarmicTwistEnding, she falls victim to this herself, as her latest mark is actually another organ thief, who drugs her and leaves her to wake up in an ice bath [[AnArmAndALeg minus all her limbs]], which are then delivered to a CorruptCorporateExecutive for his fetish collection.]]

* ''Film/{{Awake}}'': Clay and his mother joke about this as a solution to having to wait for his turn on the heart transplant list.

* At the end of ''Fanfic/{{Spider-Ninja}}'', [[spoiler: Raphael is unconscious in SHIELD's medical bay. Dr. Connors, believing that the Turtles' mutated DNA might hold a clue to genetic alteration, steals some of Raph's blood to further his experiments and possibly grow his arm back. Considering how the fic implies that the mutagen will be what turns him into the Lizard, [[LaserGuidedKarma this will probably come back to bite him.]]]]

* In a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' ValentinesDayEpisode, Meg's date turns out to be a black market dealer who takes her kidney. After spending the day together, they kiss and he gives the kidney back to her in a jar.

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'': One of the Police side missions ends up uncovering an organ harvesting ring preying on members of the Sun On Yee Triad, being run by their rivals, the [=18K=] Triads. Sun On Yee foot soldiers are kidnapped off the streets and delivered to a surgeon on [=18K=]'s payroll, who harvests their organs and transplants them into [=18K=]'s paying customers, while the abducted gangster's corpse is dumped into the harbour. The [=18K=] make a tidy profit while literally killing off their competition in the process, and since the victims are exclusively triad footsoldiers, the cops' apathy over the deaths of a few gangsters and thugs ensures the operation stays under the radar.

* In ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendsForever'' #25, three thieves steal Rainbow Dash's wings with magic and attempt to use them to turn themselves into [[WingedUnicorn Alicorns]]. If the transfer could not be reversed in time, Dash would have lost her wings permanently. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids You know, for kids!]]

* {{Discussed|Trope}} [[PlayedForLaughs for Laughs]] in LetsPlay/{{Technoblade}}'s only [=TikTok=] video [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5ssVkfBLXQQ (also reuploaded onto YouTube)]], where he assumes that someone allegedly impersonating him on the site is trying to trick his viewer-base and steal their organs, which he claims "just isn't right".

** "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS8E4GodComplex God Complex]]" comes closest to the Urban Legend described in the trope (in ''Criminal Minds'' classic, at least), only it's not internal organs the unsub is stealing -- it's ''legs.'' The first victim is left in a motel with his leg stolen, but no ice bath or note. The second victim gets a note, but is dropped off just outside the ER. ''He's'' the one who dies, because the [=UnSub=] amputated his leg, sewed the wound closed (poorly), then opened it back up to ''attach the first victim's stolen leg.'' The [=UnSub=] at least has a sterile(-ish) facility to perform the... operations.

* Largely averted in reality, as stealing organs from unwilling sources is a great way to infect your intended recipients with HIV, hepatitis, or other ailments. Illegal and/or for-profit kidney sales do happen in reality, but generally with the donors' willing participation (see ''Film/DirtyPrettyThings'', above).

* ''Series/CSICyber'': In "Fit-and-Run," the motivation for a series of kidnappings and murder turns out to be a father and a husband desperate to find a replacement kidney for a dying woman.

* In ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', the leader of the Decepticon Justice Division, a team of psychopaths (even by Decepticon standards) who hunt down Decepticons who betrayed the cause, Tarn is addicted to transformation. He made a deal with [[spoiler:Pharma]] to provide him new T-cogs which are taken from other Transformers every time he burns out his own. He's gone through a ''lot'' of T-cogs.

Needless to say, this trope is a potent source of NightmareFuel, RuleOfScary and FridgeLogic (why not steal multiple organs and kill the victim instead of leaving a witness?). SubTrope of HumanResources. SuperTrope of BrainTheft.

Needless to say, this trope is a potent source of NightmareFuel, RuleOfScary and FridgeLogic (why not steal multiple organs and kill the victim instead of leaving a witness?). SubTrope of HumanResources. SuperTrope of BrainTheft. This trope might occur if the person who loses their organ had it happen because of [[TheyWouldCutYouUp someone experimenting on them.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheGreatRedPandaRescue'', Mei is kidnapped and gets her appendix harvested for experimentation.

* At the end of ''Fanfic/{{Spider-Ninja}}'', [[spoiler: Raphael is unconscious in SHIELD's medical bay. Dr. Connors, believing that the turtles' mutated DNA might hold a clue to genetic alteration, steals some of Raph's blood to further his experiments and possibly grow his arm back. Considering how the fic implies that the mutagen will be what turns him into the Lizard, [[LaserGuidedKarma this will probably come back to bite him.]]]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': Organ Theft among MechanicalLifeforms is pretty common. How else can you explain Lockdown? He's [[WorkingForABodyUpgrade in it for the upgrades]], and [[CreepySouvenir seems especially fond of parts that come from another Transformer's body]].

** MECH has also gone to the point of using an ''entire Decepticon robot cadaver'' as a life-support system for their critically wounded leader, and it's every bit as horrible as it sounds. Megatron [[EveryoneHasStandards reacts with horror and revulsion when he sees what's happened to his former soldier, and Knockout repeatedly asks for permission to kill and dissect Cylas]] (which [[ThrowTheDogABone Megatron eventually grants]]).