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* ''Film/{{Grace}}'' is ''made'' of this trope, being about a single mother who gave birth to a zombified baby and resorting to various unorthodox methods to keep her child alive, including murder.
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* In ''Film/EbolaZombie'', the PatientZero's husband turns out to be raising his [[UndeadChild zombified daughter]] while searching for a cure using his wife's corpse, and trying to prevent the ZombieApocalypse from going full swing. It goes wrong in all the worst ways.
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* The ''Literature/BoneChillers'' book, ''Why I Quit the Baby-Sitter's Club''. A girl desperate for cash took on a babysitting / house-sitting gig introduced by her oblivious friend, where the baby in question spends its entire time sleeping in its nursery while the parents are out every night. [[spoiler:The "baby" turns out to be a deceased dachshund and pet to a MadScientist couple, who died some time in the 60s - it's owner has been sustaining it with roadkill they collect every night, stitching various body parts to it turning the dachshund into a Frankenstein-like monster who occasionally likes the taste of babysitters]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': Sy Borgman's sister Mirielle was turned into monstrous octopus thanks to his bid to have her engineer an animal sidekick for himself. He's kept her down in the sewers for decades, out of guilt for needling her into doing the experiment that got her mutated. Dr. Psycho is able to translate her shrieks into English, revealing that she minds being abandoned in the sewer more than being a tentacle monster. The two of them make up and Sy sets her free... at which point she goes on a rampage across the surface, messily killing dozens of people.
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* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "One Flu Over the Loud House", where the Louds are ''not'' turning into monsters, they're just getting the flu, but the healthy kids are treating it like a zombie apocalypse. Leni, however, thinks they should help them.
* One ''The Simpsons WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' episode reveals that Bart has a monstrous, murderous EvilTwin who the family keeps chained in the attic and feeds fish heads. But then he escapes...
* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''--for plot-related reasons, the other boys make Butters [[FakingTheDead fake his death]]. His father tries to resurrect him a la ''Literature/PetSematary,'' and when the real Butters returns home, they chain him in the basement and deliver injured people for him to eat. Butters takes this in stride, possibly because [[AbusiveParents this is the closest that they've ever come to decent parenting]].
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* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''--for plot-related reasons, the other boys make Butters [[FakingTheDead fake his death]]. His father tries to resurrect him a la ''Literature/PetSematary,'' and when the real Butters returns home, they chain him in the basement and deliver injured people for him to eat. Butters takes this in stride, possibly because [[AbusiveParents this is the closest that they've ever come to decent parenting]].
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* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "One "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS1E25ThePriceOfAdmissionOneFluOverTheLoudHouse One Flu Over the Loud House", where House]]", in which the Louds are ''not'' turning into monsters, they're just getting the flu, but the healthy kids are treating it like a zombie apocalypse. Leni, however, thinks they should help them.
*One ''The Simpsons WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' episode reveals that ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E1TreehouseOfHorrorVII Treehouse of Horror VII]]", Bart has a monstrous, murderous EvilTwin who the family keeps chained in the attic and feeds fish heads. But then he escapes...
* PlayedForLaughs in''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''--for the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS9E9Marjorine Marjorine]]" -- for plot-related reasons, the other boys make Butters [[FakingTheDead fake his death]]. His father tries to resurrect him a la ''Literature/PetSematary,'' ''Literature/PetSematary'', and when the real Butters returns home, they chain him in the basement and deliver injured people for him to eat. Butters takes this in stride, possibly because [[AbusiveParents this is the closest that they've ever come to decent parenting]].
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* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', the Nijimura brothers are left to care for their immortal mutated, formerly abusive father. They spend years using the [[SuperEmpowering Arrow]] on a bunch of Morioh residents in hopes of creating a Stand-user who could provide a solution to their father's situation. The younger hopes for a power to return him to his human form while the older simply wants [[MercyKill a power that could finally kill him]].
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* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', the Nijimura brothers are left to care for their immortal mutated, formerly abusive father. They spend years using the [[SuperEmpowering Arrow]] on a bunch of Morioh residents in hopes of creating a Stand-user who could provide a solution to their father's situation. The younger hopes for a power to return him to his human form while the older simply wants [[MercyKill a power that could finally kill him]].
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* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', the Nijimura brothers are left to care for their immortal mutated, formerly abusive father. They spend years using the [[SuperEmpowering Arrow]] on a bunch of Morioh residents in hopes of creating a Stand-user who could provide a solution to their father's situation. The younger hopes for a power to return him to his human form while the older simply wants a power that could finally kill him.
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* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', the Nijimura brothers are left to care for their immortal mutated, formerly abusive father. They spend years using the [[SuperEmpowering Arrow]] on a bunch of Morioh residents in hopes of creating a Stand-user who could provide a solution to their father's situation. The younger hopes for a power to return him to his human form while the older simply wants [[MercyKill a power that could finally kill him.him]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse'': Mr. Nebbercracker spends 45 years protecting the spirit of his deceased wife, which has turned their house into a literal monster that eats a whole car at one point... and prevents her from doing the same to the neighborhood children, because he had fallen in love with her at first sight in their youth and the feeling endured through time.
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* In the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode ''[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E4Cyberwoman Cyberwomen]]'', Ianto Jones keeps his partially [[UnwillingRoboticisation cyber-converted]] girlfriend Lisa Hallett alive in the Hub's basement.
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* In the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode ''[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E4Cyberwoman Cyberwomen]]'', "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E4Cyberwoman Cyberwomen]]", Ianto Jones keeps his partially [[UnwillingRoboticisation cyber-converted]] girlfriend Lisa Hallett alive in the Hub's basement.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In the episode "The Man Trap", the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent salt-sucking vampire]] kills the Federation scientist's wife, then takes her shape; subverted in that the creature is not actually the scientist's wife, but he is willing to continue feeding it salt tablets, in exchange for the illusion that his wife is still alive.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In the episode "The "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E1TheManTrap The Man Trap", Trap]]", the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent salt-sucking vampire]] kills the Federation scientist's wife, then takes her shape; subverted in that the creature is not actually the scientist's wife, but he is willing to continue feeding it salt tablets, in exchange for the illusion that his wife is still alive.
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* The villain in ''ComicBook/HackSlash Meets ComicBook/ZombiesVsCheerleaders'' is the school's football coach, who has been abducting students and chopping them up for his zombie son. This is also the big twist of “My First Maniac”, [[spoiler:Sarah]] turns out to be enabling the slasher Grinface [[spoiler:who had been her boyfriend before he died]]; she felt guilty about killing him in the first place and she’s deluded herself into thinking there’s some potential to “cure” him by gradually introducing elements from his past life.
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* The villain in ''ComicBook/HackSlash Meets ComicBook/ZombiesVsCheerleaders'' is the school's football coach, who has been abducting students and chopping them up for his zombie son. This is also the big twist of “My First Maniac”, [[spoiler:Sarah]] turns out to be enabling the slasher Grinface [[spoiler:who had been her boyfriend before he died]]; she died]]. She felt guilty about killing him in the first place and she’s deluded herself into thinking there’s some potential to “cure” him by luring victims to him while gradually introducing elements from his past life.
