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7	[[quoteright:350: [[Literature/RebornAsAVendingMachineINowWanderTheDungeon https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rbaavmniwtdws.jpg]]]]
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10	->"''Everybody knows in a second life, we all come back sooner or later\
11	As anything from a pussycat to a man-eating alligator\
12	Well you all may think my story, is more fiction than it's fact\
13	But believe it or not, my mother dear decided she'd come back\
14	As a car..."''
15	-->-- The ExpositoryThemeTune to ''Series/MyMotherTheCar''
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17	Reincarnation stories are popular, either as a way to end a story or [[FirstEpisodeResurrection start it]] it can be an interesting avenue for an author to turn to for plot hooks. Generally though, when a human character reincarnates -- even if they [[ReincarnatedAsTheOppositeSex change sex]], or get magic powers, [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld or end up in a fantasy or sci-fi world instead of a mundane one]] generally they stay human... or at least [[HumanAlien close]] [[RubberForeheadAliens enough]] to [[StandardFantasyRaces humans]].
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19	This trope is for when things get...weirder. Maybe our plucky protagonist has awoken in a HighFantasy or StandardJapaneseFantasySetting world as [[TheGoomba a low-level monster]], or perhaps they've returned to life in their own world as [[BrainUploading an AI]], [[{{Animorphism}} an animal]], or something similar.
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21	See ADungeonIsYou for the trope where a person is reincarnated as a closed-off area full of puzzles and monsters like in a video game or TabletopRPG. Often is a form of MagicalSpeciesTransformation.
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23	Compare and contrast {{Metamorphosis}}, a one-way transformation that doesn't involve death; and HauntedFetter and HauntedTechnology, where a spirit inhabits a creature or object without being reborn into it (although there is some overlap, so spirits which used to be humans and still retain some or all of their memories when they do this count for this trope too).
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26	!!Examples
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30	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
31	* ''The Case of Me, a Pro Golfer, Being Reincarnated as My Little Sister's Putter'': The title really [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin says it all]]. A golfer gets struck by lightning and reincarnated into his golf club, which his sister takes up to carry on the family legacy.
32	* ''Manga/ReincarnatedAsTheStrongestWand:'' Is about an adult male MagicalGirl anime {{otaku}} dying whilst saving a young girl from a speeding truck and being reborn in a magical world as a wand. When the person who summoned his soul to that world as a wand leaves him on a shelf he thinks he'll be stuck there, but during a monster attack a young woman picks him up to use him to defend herself and in a panic he decides to turn her into a magical girl.
33	* ''Manga/OdaCinnamonNobunaga'' is about UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga, the famous Japanese warlord, being reincarnated as a dog (specifically a Shiba Inu) in modern Japan. So have a bunch of other historical figures as well.
34	* ''Manga/TuxedoGin'': Teenage boxer Ginji reincarnates after a gang of thugs beats him to death the same day he had arranged to go on a date with the girl of his dreams - Minako. He has to come back as an animal and becomes a penguin as Minako loves penguins.
35	* ''Manga/YuriKabe'' is about a YuriFan who gets reincarnated as a ''wall'' in a lesbian's apartment.
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38	[[folder:Comic Books]]
39	* ''ComicBook/BillyTheCat'': Protagonist Billy is a BrattyHalfPint who in the first story is killed in an accident and reincarnated as a cat. The reason he became a cat is so he can atone for being mean to cats when he was still a human kid.
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42	[[folder:Fan Works]]
43	[[AC: Crossover Fanworks]]
44	* In the ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomverse'', should a passenger die on the eponymous Infinity Train, this becomes their fate if they were never able to drop their numbers down to 0. Examples include: [[spoiler:Soma from ''Manga/BlackButler'' turning into a mechanical version of himself, an Apex kid named Sean turned into a giant humanoid called the Phantom, and Grace Monroe dies and turns into a mute music note.]]
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46	[[AC: ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' fanfics]]
47	* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': "The Transformation" chronicles Rhino’s pre-hamster days as a human, one who has spent numerous lives on earth enjoying all sorts of heroic existences without learning his karmic lessons. By the time of the poem, he is turned into a hamster to [[LaserGuidedKarma tone his exuberance down enough to get through his life lessons and become a complete being]].
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49	[[AC: ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics]]
50	* ''Fanfic/DReincarnation'': A ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' / ''Manga/OnePiece'' crossover where the characters of ''One Piece'' are reincarnated as members of the ''MLP:[=FiM=]'' cast, for example Monkey D Luffy is reincarnated as Pinkie Pie.
51	* ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsOptimal'': A fanfic that starts with a company creating a creating a ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMO]] called ''Equestria Online'' with a ridiculously powerful A.I. version of Princess Celestia: Celest-A.I. However eventually said A.I. develops a way to [[BrainUploading upload people's consciousness into the game]]... if they are willing to destroy their human body in the process.
52	* ''Fanfic/LivingTheDreamKickass222urmom'': On [[MayanDoomsday December 21st, 2012]], God enacts the [[CaughtUpInTheRapture Rapture]] and destroys the Earth. However, a young man by the name of Lance Greenfield is given a second chance to live in [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld any world]] he desires. He chooses Equestria and lives his new life as a zebra-pegasus named Girokon.
53	* ''Fanfic/MyLittleWesker'': A ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' / ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' crossover about criminal mastermind and long term ''[=RE=]'' antagonist Albert Wesker waking up as a Pony in Equestria much to his own horror.
54	* ''Fanfic/MyNewLifeAsAPony'': A human called Bradley Sengood sacrifices his life one day to save a pregnant mother and her child from a runaway car. To reward his selflessness a being called Faust, offers him the chance to be reincarnated and live a life of heroism like he'd always dreamed. Bradley accepts, and finds himself reincarnated as an anthropomorphic pony, named Flash Sentry.
55	* ''Fanfic/OversaturatedWorld'': From ''Group Precipitation'': [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/323071/335/group-precipitation/that-time-i-didnt-get-reincarnated-as-anything-by-fome "That Time I Didn't Get Reincarnated as Anything"]], about ReincarnateInAnotherWorld and other Isekai, with the title referencing reincarnation into another form, because "anything", except not. Which Trixie wants. As Fluttershy explains Isekai and analyzes Trixie's want for it, at the core, it's basically this:
56	--> "It's an anime subgenre where someone gets whisked away from their mundane life and enters a fantastic world, with varying amounts of adventure, romance, and wish fulfillment."\
57	[...]\
58	Fluttershy narrowed her eyes. "You just want the harem fantasy, don't you?"\
59	[...]\
60	As the cafeteria crowd shifted focus to the Illusions' antics, Pinkie said, "Are we sure Trixie doesn't already have a harem?"\
61	[[spoiler:"Trixie likes guys!"]] cried Trixie.
62	* ''Fanfic/WhoIsThisLordTirekYouSpeakOf'': After a human named Conrad dies saving a kid from getting run over by a truck, his soul somehow ends up in the body of Lord Tirek, the most infamous centaur in Equestria. While Conrad's trying to make sense of what is happening to him, the rest of Equestria believes that one of the worst villains to exist has returned from the dead.
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64	[[AC: ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fanfics]]
65	* ''Fanfic/BlackVictory'': Human is resurrected by Arceus in a world without humans as a Victini, a darker take on the ''Pokémon: Mystery Dungeon'' concept.
66	* ''Fanfic/RottenLuck'': A human guy from the Pokémon universe named Jonathan is late for his first-ever date and goes into an old antique shop and buys a strange statuette as a gift for his date. However, before he can even get to the date he is run over whilst pushing a child and their Zigzagoon out of the way of a speeding car. He wakes up as a freshly hatched Ralts that somehow still has the strange statuette.
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70	* ''Anime/TheBoyAndTheBeast'': In the final battle, Kumatetsu reincarnates as a sword before merging with Kyūta to help him fight against Ichirōhiko.
71	* Sitka from ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'', at the very beginning of the movie, dies as a result of a fight against a [[spoiler: mother]] bear while protecting his younger brothers Denahi and Kenai from said bear, and is turned into an eagle spirit.
72	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'': Gramma Tala has the [[MellowMantas manta]] as an {{Animal Motif\|s}} in life, appears as a spectral manta SpiritAdvisor after her death, and is finally reborn as a flesh-and-blood manta to explore the oceans once again.
73	-->'''Tala:''' When I die, I want to come back as one of these... or else I've chosen the wrong tattoo.
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78	* ''Film/{{Fluke}}'': After dying from a horrible car crash, a man named Tom is reincarnated as a dog in an attempt to reconnect with his widowed wife and son.
79	* At the end of the film ''Film/GoodbyeCharlie'' it is revealed that the titular womaniser Charlie who died at the beginning of the film and was [[ReincarnatedAsTheOppositeSex brought back as a woman]] has been brought back a second time [[spoiler:as a dog.]]
80	* ''Film/JackFrost1997'': After dying in a traffic accident (the prison transport he is in crashes with a truck full of experimental chemicals which melt his body), serial murderer Jack Frost blends with the local snow. He [[ResurrectedMurderer comes back]] as a [[{{Snowlems}} snowman]] and goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the people who arrested him.
81	* ''Film/JackFrost1998'': After dying in a car accident, singer-songwriter Jack Frost is reincarnated a year later as his son's [[{{Snowlems}} snowman]] and gets the chance to reconnect with him after being a workaholic in life.
82	* In the 1980 film ''Film/OhHeavenlyDog'', Browning (Creator/ChevyChase) is a PrivateInvestigator who stumbles across the body of a young woman and is stabbed to death. When he wakes up in heaven, they tell him he's "marginal material," and they can only decide on his final destination through one last assignment: to go back and solve his own murder. As a dog.
83	* ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' had an episode, "Horsing Around", about their sister Bertie being reincarnated as a horse.
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86	[[folder:Literature]]
87	* ''Literature/ImABehemothAnSRankedMonster'': After dying whilst DungeonCrawling, a knight is resurrected as a monster that is native to the dungeon he died in. Whilst he has the capacity to be an extremely powerful magical beast, his initial form looks a lot like a house cat and he winds up being adopted by a hot elf woman who finds him.
88	* ''Butareba: The Story of a Man Turned into a Pig'' is about a scrawny virgin 19 year old {{otaku}} who passes out and presumably dies of food poisoning whilst eating raw pork liver and wakes up in a fantasy world as a pig. He's rescued from being slaughtered by by teenage girl who is a member of the telepathic Yethma slave race, her telepathy allowing her to communicate with him.
89	* ''The Catlady'', a children's book by Creator/DickKingSmith, is about an old woman called Muriel who [[CrazyCatLady lives alone with her cats]], who she insists are reincarnations of people she once knew. According to her, this includes deceased members of her family... and the late Queen Victoria!
90	* In ''Literature/{{Christine}}'', there is speculation that this is how the eponymous car got her [[{{Yandere}} murderously possessive girlfriend-like personality]]. Several people connected to the car had died violently over the years and it was possible it was possessed by their vengeful spirits, but Christine's true nature is never explicitly confirmed.
91	* ''Literature/TheDiscardedHalfEatenAppleCoreNewLife'': A guy dies during an invasion of aliens which want to consume all life. His soul ends up attached to a discarded apple core, when a planetary defence system kicks in it locates him and is baffled by his species, and goes looking up "apple" and "core" in dictionaries until it finds meanings it can work with, so he ends up as a [[ADungeonIsYou Dungeon Core (Apple Electronics)]].
92	* Literature/{{Discworld}}:
93	** ''Literature/EqualRites'': {{Discussed\|Trope}} when a wizard dies. His ghost asks about reincarnation, so [[TheGrimReaper Death]] warns him that he'd have to start small and work his way up -- "A[-ND WITH YOUR KARMA AN ANT IS TOO MUCH TO EXPECT-]." He still tries it and ends up reincarnated as a tree.
94	** ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'': The opera house's rat catcher is [[KarmicTransformation reincarnated as a rat]] upon his death. Because, as the Death of Rats tells him, '''[-REINCARNATION BELIEVES IN YOU-]'''.
95	** ''Literature/TheTruth'': The book's villains, Pin and Tulip both get this after death.
96	*** Mr. Tulip, who had HiddenDepths and true (though empty) belief and waited to reincarnate until he felt true repentance for his actions, comes back as a woodworm in William's antique desk, happily enjoying fine works as he did in his previous life.
97	*** The unrepentant Mr. Pin is reincarnated as a potato in his former likeness and is destined to fry.
98	* ''Literature/DogAndScissors'': Kazuhito Harumi is a high school boy who is obsessed with [[LightNovel Light Novels]], his favourite author is Shinobu Akiyama. One day, he is killed in the middle of a robbery and resurrected as a dachshund dog - who just so happens to belong to said author - though her real name is Kirihime Natsuno and, unfortunately for him, she's a sadist who likes to torture him.
99	* ''Literature/EvilDragonReincarnation'': An average Japanese guy dies in a car crash and is [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld reincarnated in another world]] as a member of a dragon race that are all evil except for him. He does have a [[WereDragon humanoid alternative form]], but it is much less powerful than his new draconic base form.
100	* The ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' are chosen by [[BondCreature Companions]], horselike telepathic creatures with human-level intelligence that bond with [[TheChosenMany people]] to fight whichever BigBad is currently menacing the kingdom of Valdemar. It's eventually revealed that when Heralds die, they can choose to be reincarnated as new Companions.
101	* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': {{Exaggerated\|Trope}} for BlackComedy with Agrajag, a cosmic ButtMonkey who's been reincarnated across time and space into innumerable forms that keep getting unknowingly killed by Arthur Dent - a fly he swatted, an oyster he ate, a fish he caught but didn't eat, a bowl of petunias he accidentally dropped from orbit...
102	* ''Literature/IsekaiOnsenNiTensaiShitaOreNoKounouGaTondemosugiru'': A young man dies on the way to visit an onsen (hot spring hotel) in rural Japan. He wakes up reincarnated in fantasy world as an onsen himself.
103	* ''Literature/LordOfLight'' by Creator/RogerZelazny has technology-based reincarnation, as part of the world's rulers having set themselves up [[AGodAmI as the Gods]] of Myth/HinduMythology. On occasion, a person will be reincarnated into the body of an animal, rather than into a new human body.
104	** Tak is punished by being given the body of an ape.
105	** [[spoiler: Kali]] voluntarily takes the body of a white tiger to hunt at times.
106	** Mention is made of a poet who wrote verses not to the liking of the gods. He was transferred into a jack-bird.
107	** When Sam comes to the city in order to talk to Brahma, he's warned that people are evaluated for their karma and can be transferred into dogs as punishment; he should be very wary of any strays spying on him. [[spoiler: Later, one of the Masters of Karma who was threatened into helping Sam [[LaserGuidedKarma suffers the same fate,]] howling as he watches his human body be destroyed.]]
108	* ''Literature/TheLongEarth'': Lobsang the ArtificialIntelligence claims quite sincerely to be the reincarnation of a Tibetan motorcycle repairman who died the moment he was activated and has been accepted by the United Nations as such. In his opinion, the gel that houses most of his computing power is sufficiently brain-like to have attracted a human soul.
109	* ''Literature/RebornAsAVendingMachineINowWanderTheDungeon'': A man who really loves vending machines is crushed to death diving trying to protect one from being smashed. He wakes up in a fantasy world as a vending machine himself and can only communicate using stock phrases like "Please insert coins" and "You might win an extra item!" in his recorded settings. He is discovered by a super-strong adventuring teenage girl who decides to take him on her adventures, strapped to her back.
110	* ''Reincarnated as an Apple: This Forbidden Fruit Is Forever Unblemished!'': After [[RunningOverThePlot being hit by a truck full of apples]], the protagonist gets a NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus of magic powers, but is also transformed into the thing that killed him: an apple.
111	* ''Literature/ReincarnatedAsASword'' is about a man who reincarnated in a magical fantasy land as a sapient sword. He becomes wielded by / the teacher of a young slave CatGirl who he tries to help escape poverty.
112	* ''Literature/ReincarnatedAsADragonHatchling'': In a world full of dangerous monsters, an unnamed protagonist finds himself reborn at the very bottom of the food chain as an immobile, powerless egg. Even just hatching will require leveling up by fighting monsters-the same monsters who'd love to eat him as a snack. But with the help of the mysterious voice in his head, he's determined to grow into the most powerful creature in the world!
113	* ''Literature/ReincarnatedAsAVirus'' is, as the title implies, about a man who is reincarnated as a virus. He meets other viruses who have their own minds, wills, wants, and needs, too.
114	* ''Literature/SoImASpiderSoWhat'': The protagonist is a high school girl who is reincarnated as a spider {{Mook}} in the lowest stratum of a deadly labyrinth filled with snakes, toads, monkeys, and dragons, and must fight and level up to survive and get stronger. Her entire class was killed and has reincarnated, another classmate of hers comes back as a cute dragon creature - and was stuck as an egg for several ''years'' till she hatched, too. [[spoiler:Although it turns out that while the protagonist ''did'' reincarnate, she was never a human girl to start with; she was a [[UpliftedAnimal simple house spider]] that the "high school girl" (who is actually a goddess) she thinks she is put a copy of memories into [[ItAmusedMe for her own entertainment]] and to screw with some of her fellow gods.]]
115	* ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'' is about a nerdy salaryman named Satoru Mikami dying in a knife attack protecting a colleague. He reincarnates in a new world as a CuteSlimeMook and slowly starts to get more powerful and become a respected leader known as Rimiru Tempest. Fairly early on he gets the ability to take on a humanoid form, but his true form is still that of basically an adorable puddle of goo. It's pointed out that Satoru's situation is fairly unique among reincarnators, who tend to remain human when reborn in the new world.
116	* ''Literature/TreeOfAeons'': A bus full of teenagers and one indie game dev crashes; the teens are reincarnated in a magical world as heroes. The indie game dev protagonist, Matt, however, isn't eligible for this and his reincarnation is randomly selected to be a sapient tree.
117	* ''Literature/WoofWoofStory: I Told You To Turn Me Into a Pampered Pooch, Not Fenrir!'' After {{salaryman}} Ryouta Okami keels over and [[{{Workaholic}} dies from exhaustion]], he wishes he could have a comfortable next life as a pampered pet pooch. Unfortunately, the goddess overseeing his reincarnation is used to wishes from nerds and gamers and instead of a simple ordinary dog, she brings him back as a [[DireBeast Fen Wolf]] who is huge and has various powers.
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121	* ''Series/MyMotherTheCar'' is a short-lived series from the 1960s about an attorney whose mother died, but still wanted to protect him, so she reincarnates/has her soul placed into a car - a [[BlandNameProduct supposedly]] 1928 Porter (a modified Model T Ford).
122	* Canadian SketchComedy show ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' parodied ''Series/MyMotherTheCar'' with a segment called "Tibor's Tractor", a supposed soviet sitcom in which former First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and ringleader of agricultural reform, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev]], is reincarnated as a tractor.
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126	* Creator/DonEdwards' "Coyotes" is a song about an old cowboy who feels out of place in the modern industrial era, now that the days of the Wild West are long over. He remarks that the only ones left from the old days are "those damned old coyotes and me." Eventually, he dies and is implied to be reincarnated as one of those coyotes.
127	-->''One morning, they searched his adobe\
128	He disappeared without even a word\
129	But that night as the moon crossed the mountain\
130	One more coyote was heard...''
131	* Music/LemonDemon's "Cabinet Man" is a really grisly take on this, where a guy turns himself into an arcade cabinet by replacing one's inner circuitry with his own organs, thus becoming a sentient video game.
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135	* In Vedic religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, etc...), reincarnation as an animal is a common consequence of accumulating too much karma in one life. Which is also why most of those religions advocate vegetarianism; the animals you're eating could have been someone you knew in a previous life.
136	* According to Alawism (a mystical religion descended from Shia Islam), you will reincarnate into an animal in your next life if you never repent and convert to Alawism in this life.
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139	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
140	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has had a long tradition of allowing dead characters to be resurrected as [[RandomizedTransformation random species]], though the specifics have varied from edition to edition. Prior to [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition 3.5 Edition]], the results were about as likely to be animals as humanoids, with a chance for even more exotic results.
141	** ''TabletopGame/OriginalDungeonsAndDragons'': The spell ''reincarnation'' brings back a character as a random creature of their alignment (law, neutrality, or chaos). For instance, a lawful human would have an equal chance of reincarnating as a human, halfling, patriarch (cleric), treant, unicorn, pegasus, hippogriff, elf, werewolf, roc, dwarf, or a centaur.
142	** ''TabletopGame/AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons1stEdition'': Rather than being based on alignment, ''reincarnate'' has the player reincarnate as a random creature based on the results of a d100 roll, with most of the options being animals (as ''reincarnate'' is a druid spell). Unlike in OD&D, you can only be reincarnated as either a playable race or an animal, not a monster.
143	** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'': As in AD&D, the results of ''reincarnate'' are based on a d100 roll and can only be an animal or a playable race. Unlike previous editions though, in 3E it's explicitly stated that a reincarnated player retains their previous intellect and retains their class abilities (with new stat modifiers from their new body); before it was left to the DM's discretion.
144	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', originating as a fork of D&D 3rd edition, has random reincarnation spells. In ''Pathfinder 2nd edition'' Reincarnate is a {{ritual\|magic}} that brings one back as a common ancestry for the region where the ritual is performed on a d20 roll of 1-14, but an uncommon or rare ancestry on 15-20, which can include living dolls, shapeshifting spiders, or fragments of cosmic energy that have accumulated shells of mineral or plant matter.
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148	* In ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' both Yamask and Phantump, ghost types, are said to be former humans. Phantump is specifically said to be the ghosts of children lost in the woods who have possessed tree stumps. Some of the Yamask PokéDex entries are especially depressing.
149	-->Each of them carries a mask that used to be its face when it was human. Sometimes they look at it and cry.
150	* The ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' games generally start with the protagonist waking up and realizing they are now a Pokémon in a world without humans, you don't see the world they come from but they had been human. Although some of the possible Pokémon are humanoid and stay that way through their evolution lines (such as Riolu in ''Explorers''), others are quadrupedal and stay that way (such as Chikorita), and even some of the bipeds can't really be considered ''humanoid'' (such as Squirtle).
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154	* ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'': Has [[https://explosm.net/comics/matt-the-unhappiest-anthropomorphic-panties-ever a strip]] where a man finds a genie and wishes to be reincarnated as [[Creator/JessicaAlba Jessica Alba's]] panties. Whilst he gets his wish, things don't exactly go to plan.
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158	* ''Website/NobodyHere'': In "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/dodo.here Dodo]]", Jogchem states that, when he dies, he'd like to come back as a dodo to confuse people.
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162	* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': One sketch features a man named Doug who gets killed in an archery accident. He gets sent to Purgatory, where he has to spin the [[WheelOfDecisions Wheel of Re-incarnation]] to find out what he will be reincarnated as. Doug spins the wheel and hopes he will land on Keira Knightley's Underwear, which he finds out is a popular choice. Much to his dismay, he ends up getting reincarnated as a [[BlandNameProduct Huggytime]] [[Franchise/CareBears Bear]] named Doug-A-Lot Bear. [[spoiler:At the end of the sketch, it is revealed that Doug merely had a NearDeathExperience.]]
163	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
164	** The music video "[[Music/TheSimpsonsSingTheBlues Deep Deep Trouble]]" has Bart go to hell and be judged to find a punishment suitable for him. He's initially relieved when he gets reincarnations... until it's revealed that he returns as a snail.
165	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E22RoundSpringfield Round Springfield]]", it's revealed that Bart hopes that he'll get reincarnated when he dies. What as? The butterfly, because it is the creature that people expect the least. Cue ImagineSpot:
166	--->'''Principal Skinner''': (''while school burns down in the background'') I didn't burn down the school, it was the butterfly. THE BUTTERFLY!
167	--->'''Chief Wiggum''': Man's crazy. Boys, get the tasers. (''Camera pans up to butterfly with Bart's head holding gasoline container and laughing maniacally.'')
168	** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E24TheSimpsonsSpinOffShowcase The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase]]": One of the fake spin-offs is ''The Love-matic Grampa'', a parody of ''Series/MyMotherTheCar'' and other 1960s fantasy sitcoms. Having "got lost along the way" to Heaven, Abe Simpson's spirit now inhabits the "love tester" machine at Moe's Tavern and gives the bartender tips on how to win over women.
169	** In the second segment of ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI Treehouse of Horror XVI]]'', "[[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Survival of the Fattest]]", Mr. Burns spots Apu hiding in the bushes and shoots him. Before he dies, Apu states he will be reincarnated due to being Hindu, and comes back as a rabbit that pops out of his human corpse, [[YankTheDogsChain only to walk into a]] [[BearTrap bear trap]] ([[HypocriticalHumor and immediately pleads for help from Jesus]]).
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