History Main / InhumanHuman

!!'''As a DeathTrope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

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* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', it's possible to bring the dead back into the world of the living using the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique kinjitsu]] "Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation." However, this can only bring the deceased's ''soul'' back, not their body. A living human [[SacrificialRevivalSpell must be sacrificed]] to perform the ritual, in which the sacrifice's body is reshaped like clay to resemble the returning soul that will possess it. Upon death, the body will revert to the form of its previous owner. [[BigBad Orochimaru]] used this ritual in combination with a mind control jutsu to bring back two of the most powerful ninjas to have ever lived and force them to fight for him.
** Ironically enough, it turns out one of the ninjas he resurrected was the guy who ''invented'' this technique.
** Yakushi Kabuto can now use this same technique, only on a massive scale, and his versions are able to retain their original personality and style of fighting. They're still very unsettling, as they have very hollow looking eyes, are wired directly to Kabuto's control, and are essentially immortal zombies.
*** Tempered by the fact that he seems intent on matching them up against people they knew in life (he claims for psychological damage to the enemy), but so far this has worked out against him almost every time, since the "resurrected" ninja starts trying to fight back against his control either directly or even just by giving their former comrades tips on how to beat them.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Brook, vice-captain of the Rumbar Pirates, ate the Yomi Yomi fruit, which gave him the ability to come back to life after he died. Problem is, he died in a very foggy region of sea, and it took him an entire year for his soul to find his body again. By this time, all that was left of it was a skeleton and a massive afro.
* Although they enter the stage already reanimated, the [=EVAs=] from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' are really, in effect, their very own variant of an Inhuman Human.

* In ''Franchise/GreenLantern'', when Kyle Rayner's mother dies, he reaches her death bed a minute too late and uses his powers as Ion to bring her back. She tells him that he knows it's wrong and dies again.
* Jay Garrick, the original [[Franchise/TheFlash Flash]], tried to save the dying Thinker, a reformed supervillain from the 1940s. The Thinker once had a special helmet that amplified brainwaves, resulting in making him a supergenius, but had lost it. Garrick was certain that if he found it Thinker could devise a cure for his disease. After searching for the entire issue, he finally locates it and returns just in time to learn that Thinker has died. Knowing that the brain remains active for a short time after death, Flash puts the helmet on him and he "wakes up". However, Thinker has accepted his death with grace and after saying goodbye, simply removes the helmet and re-dies.
* Todd [=McFarlane=]'s masterpiece character ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' is this; his soul is as human as it always was (albeit in life he was enough of a {{Jerkass}} to be damned to hell), but his body is [[BodyHorror an undead horror from the depths of the pit]].

* In the Fox animation ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', Rasputin gets this treatment again, coming back as a zombified DeadpanSnarker. When his sidekick states, "You're alive!", he simply replies, "In a manner of speaking".

* ''Film/DeathBecomesHer''. It features a potion that grants eternal life and youth, unless the drinker suffers fatal damage, at which point the body loses the ability to heal and renew itself. This eventually leads to BodyHorror.
* At the beginning of ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'', Grigori Rasputin gets killed and sucked into the Void. Sixty years later, Ilsa Haupstein and Karl Ruprect Kroenen summon him back to Earth. Rasputin is fine, except he's missing his eyes, and he's got a [[EldritchAbomination tentacled monster]] in his gut. Extra BodyHorror comes from the fact that he's come back from the dead like this more than once, and each time he brings an extra piece of his god with him.
* In ''Film/HellraiserDeader'' the Deaders retain whatever injuries caused their death (slit wrists, bullet holes, etc.) but for the most part seem fine. The exception is Marla, who's all corpsy, her lack of faith in resurrectionist Winter having apparently botched the resurrection slightly.

* In ''Film/EventHorizon,'' Dr Weir is resurrected by the ship minutes after being hurled into space: however, his body is carved with bloody runes, and if his newfound telepathic power is any evidence, he's even less human than before. Ironically, his [[EyeScream lost eyes]] have been replaced.
* A rare, non-death example happens in both ''Film/TheFly1958'' and ''Film/TheFly1986'', as the protagonist of both films is testing a teleporter he created, and eventually decides to go through himself. [[ItWasHisSled You should really know what happens next.]]

* The SF short story "Heal the Sick, Raise the Dead" by Steve Perry also features a form of resurrection that will reliably restore consciousness to a dead body -- for about five minutes. The chemicals that make the process possible jump start a dead nervous system at the cost of rapidly burning it out; almost everyone comes back blind. But hey, if all you want is one last chance to say goodbye...
* In the ''Literature/MortalEngines'' series, it's possible to create cyborg soldiers called Stalkers -- no, [[StalkerWithACrush not that kind]]. They are robotic components and a robot brain in a human body, but two of them (Stalker Shrike and the Anna version of Stalker Fang's second incarnation) are closer to Inhuman Humans. Shrike is capable of genuine emotion and love, treating Hester Shaw like a daughter and deeply mourning her death, going into a coma for several thousand years -- though he is [[BodyHorror nowhere near a physical human being]]. Stalker-Anna doesn't even inhabit the UncannyValley, and even when her death-mask is wrenched off, she does not have a lot of BodyHorror. Of course, she's younger than Shrike, to the tune of about a thousand years, but she actually approaches CuteMonsterGirl territory once or twice, and is almost the same as the real Anna Fang. The only difference is that she's... dead.
* In ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'', Mr. Des Tiny routinely resurrects the souls of the dead to serve him as his "Little People". They have short, inhumanly strong, stitched-together bodies with grey skin and no hair. They have no sense of smell or taste, and they can't talk unless Tiny specifically blesses them with that ability. A large group of them travel with the circus that Darren is a member of in the first few books, ostensibly to protect the troupe. When Darren and his mentor leave to go to Vampire Mountain, a Little Person who Darren has recognized by his limp is ordered by Tiny to go with them as a guard. It turns out he can speak. His name is Harkat, he doesn't remember who he was before he died, and he goes on to become Darren's closest friend. Then in book 10, his identity is revealed in one of the series' greatest twists.
* Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'s monster may fall under this type. In ''Film/MaryShelleysFrankenstein'' the monster kills Frankenstein's wife after he refuses to create a monster bride. Frankenstein uses his science to bring her back, but the monster decides that she is rightfully ''his'' bride now. They both try to win her over, resulting in a heart-wrenching dance that ends when she sees her reflection in a mirror and immediately kills herself in horror.

* Creator/HPLovecraft:
** In "Literature/CoolAir", a [[MadScientist supremely talented Spanish physician]] had revived himself after being dead, but unless he "lives" at low temperature, below 56 °F (13 °C), his body [[BodyHorror would decompose itself]] like a corpse, and even during this "life" there is something repugnant in his appearance. He eventually dies a second death when his refrigeration system breaks down, but for many months before his appearance had already become scary to people and his mind drifted.
** In "Literature/TheThingOnTheDoorstep", the dead villainess going by the name of Asenath Waite switches minds with her asylum-imprisoned husband and killer... who rises from the grave in the [[BodyHorror decomposing and liquefying body]] of his wife to give a last call for aid to a friend. (The situation is rather more complicated than that, but that's the bit that's relevant to this trope.)
** In "Literature/HerbertWestReanimator", Dr. Herbert West's attempts to bring people back from the dead at first resulted in examples of DamagedSoul, but in the end he succeeds in perfecting his methods, resulting in some actually intelligent zombies that revolt against their condition and lead a horde of mindless ones to kill him.
* "Literature/TheMonkeysPaw": The paw allowed someone to make three wishes, but they [[JackassGenie would all be answered in a way]] that brought misfortune on the wisher. So, when the mom wants to [[{{Necromantic}} resurrect the son]] who died because of the [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor first wish]] by being [[DeathByDisfigurement caught in an industrial machine]], she wishes the [[BackFromTheDead son back to life]]. A few creepy paragraphs later the disfigured abomination that is their son is pounding on the door, with the mother desperately wanting to embrace it emphasis on the IT. Finally, the dad wishes his son to have peace, with the mother opening the door to a cold, empty street. Needless to say, it sucks for her.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': It is possible for some priests of R'hllor to bring back the dead[[note]]after magic began to return -- one priest discovered it when he did a standard R'hllorite funeral rite and suddenly the corpse got back up[[/note]], and usually it's a pretty smooth and painless process (with ''some'' DamagedSoul elements -- in the case seen, Beric Dondarrion mentioned his memories were fading, but that was after being brought back ''several'' times). At the very end of the third book, this method is used to revive Catelyn Stark--but she'd been a corpse too long and the manner of her death left her not only with a horribly disfigured and mutilated body, but filled her with a terrible sense of [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge vengeance]] as well.

* All of the dead Ned brings back to life in ''Series/PushingDaisies'' fall under this trope -- they're alive and act like their normal selves, but their bodies remain how they were when they died, often with cartoonishly macabre results. In a few cases where the people have been dead for a long time, the characters all react with horror when they see the corpse talking like a normal person.
* In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Je Souhaite", the stoner who found the genie wishes for invisibility and is promptly run over by a truck. His best friend uses his wishes to reanimate him. The end result? A screaming yellow zombie who quickly decides to kill his friend and re-kill himself when he opens up the gas and lights a match. Though it may not have been a purposeful attempt at murder/suicide, given that said zombie (when he finally stopped screaming) shivered uncontrollably and said he couldn't feel his blood. Turning on the gas may have been an attempt to warm himself up, and he simply fumbled the matches for too long.

** In the episode "Forest of the Dead", Miss Evangelista is one of several people "saved" to a massive virtual reality scenario following death: unfortunately, due to data corruption, her face is horribly deformed.
** The Master, in "The End of Time". His resurrection is sabotaged by Lucy Saxon's HeroicSacrifice: instead of thwarting it altogether, however, he becomes incredibly fast and able to leap tremendous distances, develops a HorrorHunger that frequently strays into killing AND eating humans and [[ShockAndAwe can focus his life energy into powerful lightning bolts]]. And his face keeps dissolving into a skull and back.
** This turns out to be at the core of "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances." The Chula warship turns out to be an ambulance loaded with nano-bots; when it landed, it killed a four-year-old boy trying to hide from the bombing, and only had a corpse was a gas mask to go on for a template for the human race. Hence why the boy goes around constantly asking for his mommy and "fixing" anyone he gets too close to.
* In ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', Owen Harper dies. He's brought back, but is still rather dead. Most of his body functions--his circulatory system, digestive system, respiratory system, and so forth--have shut down. He isn't decomposing, and some of his brain's functions work, but that's about it.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' pilot (reused in the two-part episode "The Menagerie"), {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s save a dying woman who crash lands on their planet, but she was in very bad shape and ends up a horrific mess due to [[AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing their unfamiliarity with what humans are supposed to look like]]. Luckily, to make it up to her, their mental powers allow her to see herself as much more attractive than she actually was.

* The SteamPunk [[FilkSong filk group]] Clockwork Quartet tells the dreadfully disturbing yet darkly catchy story of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBFtWyvRMOk Doctor's Wife]] and the Doctor who will do anything ([[MadScientist anything]]) to save her. She winds up a still-comatose {{cyborg}}, more machine than woman, while her husband obsessively watches her for signs of consciousness.

* The Harrowed from ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' aren't usually this trope--though they do zigzag being a MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil, since they're made undead instead of dead-dead thanks to sharing their bodies with an evil spirit out to cause mayhem, fear and suffering--and instead normally look alive, albeit with a "death scar" and a faint odor of decay that can be covered by perfume or alcohol, but can be this way if they take a Harrowed-unique flaw called Degeneration at character generation. In this case, the Manitou didn't reanimate the body until ''after'' it had started rotting, and this affects the Harrowed pretty badly. There's five levels of the flaw, and each is worse than the other; starting at Pallid (grey skin, cloudy eyes, stronger stink), moving on to Slimy (skin oozes slime, eyes are milky, stink is overpowering), from there to Bloated (guts are swollen with rot, noxious fluids oozing out of every hole), on to Tattered (flesh is sloughing off the bone) and finishing at Desiccated (nothing but dried skin over bone).

* At the end of ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', the villain Grunty is knocked off the top of her lair and crushed by a boulder. In the sequel ''Banjo-Tooie'', when her sisters get the boulder off her, she's still alive, but her body rotted away while she was under the boulder, making her a living skeleton.
* In ''[[VideoGame/TwistedMetal Twisted Metal: Head On]]'', Miranda Watts uses her wish to resurrect her dead twin sister Amanda (the original driver of Twister, who died in her ''Twisted Metal 2'' ending). Given that Calypso is a JerkassGenie of the highest magnitude, Miranda gets a zombie, as Amanda had died millions of years ago after her car passed light speed and traveled back in time.
* In ''VideoGame/TheSims'', if you don't pay Death enough for a good resurrection, you get a zombie, and the zombie is not happy about being brought back all messed up. Also, if you pay only a little less than the money required, you may get someone who has all their personality traits reversed. In both instances, the Sim hates the other person who brought them back.

** Their leader, Sylvanas Windrunner, is notably unhappy with her undead state--but considering she's the one who organized the Royal Apothecary Society and set them to work on creating a new Undead Plague that will wipe out all life (''and'' the undead Scourge that the Forsaken oppose) on Azeroth, she's not much interested in finding a cure.
* The vampire Melchiah of ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain: Soul Reaver'' was the last to be resurrected by Kain, and inherited the least of his power. As such, despite being immortal, Melchiah is still decomposing, and has to incorporate the hides of his victims into himself to replace lost tissues--a practice that degenerates into absorbing entire ''bodies'' into his flesh. Needless to say, after several millennia, he's pure horror. And come to think of it, Raziel is another example: after being cast into the Lake of the Dead for a millennium, nearly all of his flesh is burnt off, his lower jaw is missing, and he can only exist as a wraith. Somewhat telling is that when Raziel kills Melchiah by crushing him into pulp with a large metal grinder, his last word is "Release!"
* In ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'', souls of the dead are forced to wander aimlessly and get sucked into any corpse they happen upon, becoming zombies until they're killed again (rinse, repeat). One villain, Grissom, gets killed by the main hero halfway through the game... until his soul accidentally animates his ''own'' mutilated corpse. He tries to stay sane once he realizes what has happened, but he doesn't last long.
* ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'': [=LeChuck=] comes back as a rotting corpse. This doesn't seem to particularly bother him though, but he's still one evil SOB. Same thing applies to Guybrush when he comes back as a slightly rotting corpse (for a while anyway) in ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 5: Rise of the Pirate God''.
* In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', DeadlyDoctor Vahzilok has sought a way to to cheat death through medical science. Most of his creations are little better than cyborg zombies, save for the Eidolons--they are people who had their brains transplanted into a body (or combination of bodies) from an unwilling donor. They have full intelligence, but their bodies continue to decay, requiring regular transplants from ''more'' involuntary donors.
* The tomb-colonists of ''{{VideoGame/Fallen London}}'' are (generally) people who've died many times over; they wrap themselves head to toe in bandages to hide their disfigurement, and seem to be susceptible to rot. One is left to infer that after doing it a lot, the results of a resurrection start to turn out like this. The only mental effect from it all is the jadedness that comes both from their age (they can live for outright ''centuries'' in this state) and the fact by the time you've died ''that'' much there's very little that can surprise you.
* ''VideoGame/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaPortable'': [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica The anime]] establishes that {{Magical Girl}}s themselves are essentially [[OurLichesAreDifferent liches]], with their soul gems acting as phylacteries and their bodies turned into extraneous hardware that they can [[HealingFactor endlessly repair]], though they fall unconscious when the soul gem gets too far from their body. The game explores what happens when they're separated from their gem for too long. Not only does their body shut down, it starts ''decomposing.'' In Sayaka's bad end, when Kyoko manages to get her gem back after two days, she wakes up and is still mentally herself. Unfortunately, since she FeelsNoPain, she isn't aware of what's happened and just assumes she's tired. It isn't until runs into her crush Kyosuke that she finds out. The results are...[[BodyHorror not pleasant]].
* John Marston becomes this at the end of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare'' - after John ends the zombie apocalypse (initially caused by [[DrunkWithPower Abraham]] [[AmbitionIsEvil Reyes]] stealing an Aztec mask) by returning the mask, [[ILoveTheDead Seth]] causes it to come back by stealing it again. By the time Seth does this John has met his [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption canonical]] [[MultipleGunshotDeath fate]] and been buried by his family. He [[RiseFromYourGrave comes]] [[RaisedHandOfSurvival back]] [[BackFromTheDead from the dead]] with the body of a zombie but the soul and mind of a man, due to being buried with a flask of [[HolyWater holy water]]. He's thus still able to use weapons, help survivors and won't be attacked by zombies unless he aggravates them.

* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Ben Franklin creates a drug that was meant to give him immortality --instead it causes him to come back as a Headless Horseman, as well as every body within a certain radius of him to rise as a zombie. As it turns out, the secret ingredient of the drug had been given to Ben by {{Dracula}}, and the Headless Horseman[=/=]ZombieApocalypse nonsense was [[ThePlan all part of Drac's plan]].
* The webcomic ''[[http://www.daisyisdead.net/ Daisy Is Dead]]'' is about a woman who dies and comes back as a zombie. Her mind is all there, but her body needs regular stitching up. And BRAAAAIIINNNSSSSS!!!!
* In [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/11/10/episode-622-now-shut-up/ this episode]] of ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', White Mage attempts to bring Black Belt back by de-petrifying his stone doppelgänger (it makes sense in context). However, due to the statue missing part of its head, Black Belt also comes back missing part of his head. He promptly dies again, [[BloodyHilarious spewing blood over everything within a 50-foot radius]]. Brian Clevinger, ''8-Bit Theater'''s creator, created this strip out of annoyance at [[HesJustHiding the refusal of fans to accept that Black Belt was dead]], and titled it "Now shut up."

-->AARGHH! Every second of existence is like a thousand excruciating deaths!
* In this ''[[http://www.plasticbrickautomaton.com/?id=71 Plastic Brick Auromaton]]'' comic humans killed and partly [[ToServeMan eaten by the Bugs]] have their remaining parts dumped in a pool of black jelly, which resurrects them and [[ShapeshifterBaggage regenerates the lost parts]] so that they can be eaten again the next day. However, for every time a victim is resurrected, they [[TheCorruption mutate]] very slightly: the oldest captives don't even resemble human beings anymore, and neither does the protagonist by the end of the story.
* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'''s [[GentlemanWizard Duane]]'s sanity remains basically intact, despite his [[BodyHorror extensively decayed]] form (except for the part where his consciousness fades every night and his body turns into a feral zombie). He works hard to preserve what he has left, but it's a losing battle -- he's already had to replace one of his legs with someone else's after his original broke hard, and his "face" is a {{glamour}} projected over his true, rotting visage.

* In ''Webcomic/RomanticallyApocalyptic'', after getting killed by a brainwashed [[spoiler:Pilot]] and being revived by [[EldritchAbomination the Biomatrix]], Snippy is mentally the same. Unfortunately, he soon finds out that, thanks to the Biomatrix's lackluster knowledge on human anatomy, he's been turned into an undead HumanoidAbomination and that [[BodyHorror his mask and clothes have been fused to his skin.]] He also gains the ability to do MentalTimeTravel, which the Biomatrix forces him to do repeatedly to try and change history, [[BlessedWithSuck which causes him to lose memories and doesn't have the best affect on his mental state.]]

* Happens in the climax ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'' season 4. The BigBad attempts to have Dracula resurrected by forcing a human to yank his and his wife's souls from the afterlife and jam them into a rebis body, essentially a misshapen BodyHorror construct. Said BigBad hopes that the pain of being resurrected in such a bad shape on top of having his wife suffer the same will drive Dracula insane and causes him to KillAllHumans, something the BigBad wants.

* The tomb-colonists of ''{{VideoGame/Fallen London}}'' are (generally) people who've died many times over; they wrap themselves head to toe in bandages to hide their disfigurement, and seem to be susceptible to rot. One is left to infer that after doing it a lot, the results of a resurrection start to turn out like this.

* [[http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=1316 One of the story arcs]] of ''Webcomic/{{Jack}}'' has a woman brought back from the dead. At first she appears to be completely fine in mind and body--but, as she didn't return to the mortal world willingly, she desperately wants to get back to Heaven and kills herself.

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* A rather common result of the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' spell ''Reincarnate'', especially with HouseRules or the rules from the earlier editions, although thankfully and surprisingly this doesn't involve shambling undead. The spell returns characters, with their original knowledge and abilities, into the adult body of a random species. That's often not a problem, until your Warrior comes back as a wren, or your Wizard as a badger.

** In "Literature/CoolAir", a [[MadScientist supremely talented Spanish physician]] had revived himself after being dead, but unless he "lives" at low temperature, below 56 °F (13 °C), his body [[BodyHorror would decompose itself]] like a corpse, and even during this "life" there is [[UncannyValley something repugnant in his appearance]]. He eventually dies a second death when his refrigeration system breaks down, but for many months before his appearance had already become scary to people and his mind drifted.

* A rare, non-death example happens in both the original and remake of ''Film/TheFly'', as the protagonist of both films is testing a teleporter he created, and eventually decides to go through himself. [[ItWasHisSled You should really know what happens next.]]

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-> '''Bartok''': Master! You're alive?
-> '''Rasputin''': Yeah! In a manner of ''(eyeball pops out)'' speaking.

* The SF short story "Heal the Sick, Raise the Dead" by Steve Perry also features a form of resurrection that will reliably restore consciousness to a dead body- for about five minutes. The chemicals that make the process possible jump start a dead nervous system at the cost of rapidly burning it out; almost everyone comes back blind. But hey, if all you want is one last chance to say goodbye...

** In "Cool Air", a [[MadScientist supremely talented Spanish physician]] had revived himself after being dead, but unless he "lives" at low temperature, below 56 °F (13 °C), his body [[BodyHorror would decompose itself]] like a corpse, and even during this "life" there is [[UncannyValley something repugnant in his appearance]]. He eventually dies a second death when his refrigeration system breaks down, but for many months before his appearance had already become scary to people and his mind drifted.

* In ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'', Mr. Des Tiny routinely resurrects the souls of the dead to serve him as his "Little People". They have short, inhumanly strong, stitched-together bodies with grey skin and no hair. They have no sense of smell or taste, and they can't talk unless Tiny specifically blesses them with that ability. A large group of them travel with the circus that Darren is a member of in the first few books, ostensibly to protect the troupe. When Darren and his mentor leave to go to VampireMountain, a Little Person who Darren has recognized by his limp is ordered by Tiny to go with them as a guard. It turns out he can speak. His name is Harkat, he doesn't remember who he was before he died, and he goes on to become Darren's closest friend. Then in book 10, his identity is revealed in one of the series' greatest twists.

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* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', it's possible to bring the dead back into the world of the living using the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique kinjitsu]] "Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation." However, this can only bring the deceased's ''soul'' back, not their body. A living human [[SacrificialRevivalSpell must be sacrificed]] to perform the ritual, in which the sacrifice's body is reshaped like clay to resemble the returning soul that will posses it. Upon death, the body will revert to the form of its previous owner. [[BigBad Orochimaru]] used this ritual in combination with a mind control jutsu to bring back two of the most powerful ninjas to have ever lived and force them to fight for him.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Brook, vice captain of the Rumbar Pirates, ate the Yomi Yomi fruit, which gave him the ability to come back to life after he died. Problem is, he died in a very foggy region of sea, and it took him an entire year for his soul to find his body again. By this time, all that was left of it was a skeleton and a massive afro.

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': After trying to resurrect their mother, Al's body was sucked into the gate. Ed was able to bring his soul back, but only by attaching it to a suit of armor to serve as a surrogate body. Technically, this was the ''second'' time Al's soul ended up an a inhuman body, as first it went into their botched recreation of Trisha's body, which was almost immediately rejected.

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* Todd [=McFarlane=]'s masterpiece character ''Comicbook/{{Spawn}}'' is this; his soul is as human as it always was (albeit in life he was enough of a JerkAss to be damned to hell), but his body is [[BodyHorror an undead horror from the depths of the pit]].

* In ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist'', Jesus brings Lazarus back from the dead. At first he's a rotted corpse, but as Jesus completes the resurrection, he becomes a somewhat normal man, though still gray-skinned and slow to move and speak. He's soon re-killed by Saul, later to become the apostle Paul, who's acting on orders to get rid of all evidence of Jesus's supernatural nature.

* A rare, non death example happens in both the original and remake of ''Film/TheFly'', as the protagonist of both films is testing a teleporter he created, and eventually decides to go through himself. [[ItWasHisSled You should really know what happens next.]]

* In the ''Literature/MortalEngines'' series, it's possible to create cyborg soldiers called Stalkers--no, [[StalkerWithACrush not that kind]]. They are robotic components and a robot brain in a human body, but two of them (Stalker Shrike and the Anna version of Stalker Fang's second incarnation) are closer to Inhuman Humans. Shrike is capable of genuine emotion and love, treating Hester Shaw like a daughter and deeply mourning her death, going into a coma for several thousand years–though he is [[BodyHorror nowhere nea ra physical human being.]] Stalker-Anna doesn't even inhabit the UncannyValley, and even when her death-mask is wrenched off, she does not have a lot of BodyHorror. Of course, she's younger than Shrike, to the tune of about a thousand years, but she actually approaches CuteMonsterGirl territory once or twice, and is almost the same as the real Anna Fang. The only difference is that she's...dead.

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_West--Reanimator "Herbert West-- Reanimator"]]. Dr. Herbert West's attempts to bring people back from the dead at first resulted in examples of DamagedSoul, but in the end he succeeds in perfecting his methods, resulting in some actually intelligent zombies that revolt against their condition and lead a horde of mindless ones to kill him.
* The short story the "Monkey's Paw". The paw allowed someone to make three wishes, but they [[JackassGenie would all be answered in a way]] that brought misfortune on the wisher. So, when the Mom wants to [[{{Necromantic}} resurrect the son]] who died because of the [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor first wish]] by being [[DeathByDisfigurement caught in an industrial machine]], she wishes the [[BackFromTheDead son back to life]]. A few creepy paragraphs later the disfigured abomination that is their son is pounding on the door, with the mother desperately wanting to embrace it emphasis on the IT. Finally, the Dad wishes his son to have peace, with the mother opening the door to a cold, empty street. Needless to say, [[TearJerker it sucks for her.]]

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* Happens in the climax ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'' season 4. The BigBad attempts to have Dracula resurrected by fprcing a human to yank his and his wife's souls from the afterlife and jam them into a rebis body, essentially a misshapen BodyHorror construct. Said BigBad hopes that the pain of being resurrected in such a bad shape on top of having his wife suffer the same will drive Dracula insane and causes him to KillAllHumans, something the BigBad wants.

* [[http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=1316 One of the story arcs]] of ''Jack'' has a woman brought back from the dead. At first she appears to be completely fine in mind and body--but, as she didn't return to the mortal world willingly, she desperately wants to get back to Heaven and kills herself.

* ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'': Once the girls have been "woken up". They're their normal selves mentally, they just have to deal with being rotting zombies now.

* John Marston becomes this at the end of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare'' - after John ends the zombie apocalypse (caused by Abraham Reyes stealin an Aztec mask) by returning the mask, Seth causes it to come back by stealing it again. By the time Seth does this John has met his [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption canonical]] [[MultipleGunshotDeath fate]] and been buried by his family. He comes back from the dead with the body of a zombie but the soul of a man, due to being buried with a flask of holy water.

* John Marston becomes this at the end of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare'' - after John ends the zombie apocalypse (caused by Abraham Reyes stealin an Aztec mask) by returning the mask, Seth causes it to come back by stealing it again. By the time Seth does this John has met [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption his canonical fate]] and been buried by his family. He comes back from the dead with the body of a zombie but the soul of a man, due to being buried with a flask of holy water.

* John Marston becomes this at the end of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare'' - after John ends the zombie apocalypse by returning the Aztec mask, Seth causes it to begin again by stealing it again. By the time Seth does this John has met [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption his canonical fate]] and been buried by his family. He comes back with the body of a zombie but the soul of a man, due to being buried with a flask of holy water.

* In ''Webcomic/RomanticallyApocalyptic'', after getting killed by a brainwashed [[spoiler:Pilot]] and being revived by [[EldritchAbomination the Biomatrix]], Snippy is mentally the same. Unfortunately, he soon finds out that, thanks to the Biomatrix's lackluster knowledge on human anatomy, he's been turned into an undead HumanoidAbomination and that [[BodyHorror his mask and clothes have been fused to his skin.]] He also gains the ability to do MentalTimeTravel, which the Biomatrix forces him to do repeatedly to try and change history, [[BlessedWithSuck which doesn't have the best affect on his mental state.]

* In the ''Literature/MortalEngines'' series, it's possible to create cyborg soldiers called Stalkers--no, [[StalkerWithACrush not that kind]]. They are robotic components and a robot brain in a human body, but two of them (Stalker Shrike and the Anna version of Stalker Fang's second incarnation) are closer to Inhuman Humans. Shrike is capable of genuine emotion and love, treating Hester Shaw like a daughter and deeply mourning her death, going into a coma for several thousand years–though he is [[BodyHorror nowhere]] [[UncannyValley near]] [[HumanoidAbomination a physical]] [[BackFromTheDead human being.]] Stalker-Anna doesn't even inhabit the UncannyValley, and even when her death-mask is wrenched off, she does not have a lot of BodyHorror. Of course, she's younger than Shrike, to the tune of about a thousand years, but she actually approaches CuteMonsterGirl territory once or twice, and is almost the same as the real Anna Fang. The only difference is that she's...dead.

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_West--Reanimator "Herbert West, the Reanimator"]]. Dr. Herbert West's attempts to bring people back from the dead at first resulted in examples of DamagedSoul, but in the end he succeeds in perfecting his methods, resulting in some actually intelligent zombies that revolt against their condition and lead a horde of mindless ones to kill him.

* [[http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=1316 One of the story arcs of Jack]] has a woman brought back from the dead. At first she appears to be completely fine in mind and body--but, as she didn't return to the mortal world willingly, she desperately wants to get back to Heaven and kills herself.

-> '''Rasputin''': Yeah! In a manner of (eyeball pops out) speaking.

* ''VideoGame/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaPortable'': [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica The anime]] establishes that MagicalGirls themselves are essentially [[OurLichesAreDifferent liches]], with their soul gems acting as phylacteries and their bodies turned into extraneous hardware that they can [[HealingFactor endlessly repair]], though they fall unconscious when the soul gem gets too far from their body. The game explores what happens when they're separated from their gem for too long. Not only does their body shut down, it starts ''decomposing.'' In Sayaka's bad end, when Kyoko manages to get her gem back after two days, she wakes up and is still mentally herself. Unfortunately, since she FeelsNoPain, she isn't aware of what's happened and just assumes she's tired. It isn't until runs into her crush Kyosuke that she finds out. The results are...[[BodyHorror not pleasant]].

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': The Dark Eldar have mastered the process of resurrection, both for themselves [[FateWorseThanDeath and their slaves]]. Urien Rakarth, the greatest of the Haemonculi, has died so often that he's discovered the process actually breaks down after repeated use, and that every time he's brought back his body comes back just slightly wrong (extra digits, limbs, spinal columns...). Being of a scientific turn of mind and batshit insane, he looks forward to each new resurrection so he can catalog the latest changes to his body.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': It is possible for some priests of R'hllor to bring back the dead[[note]]after magic began to return -- one priest discovered it when he did a standard R'hllorite funeral rite and suddenly the corpse got back up[[/note]], and usually it's a pretty smooth and painless process (with ''some'' DamagedSoul elements -- in the case seen, [[spoiler: Beric Dondarrion]] mentioned his memories were fading, but that was after being brought back ''several'' times). At the very end of the third book, this method is used to revive Catelyn Stark--but she'd been a corpse too long and the manner of her death left her not only with a horribly disfigured and mutilated body, but filled her with a terrible sense of [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge vengeance]] as well.

** This turns out to be at the core of "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances." [[spoiler: The Chula warship turns out to be an ambulance loaded with nano-bots; when it landed, it killed a four-year-old boy trying to hide from the bombing, and only had a corpse was a gas mask to go on for a template for the human race. Hence why the boy goes around constantly asking for his mommy and "fixing" anyone he gets too close to.]]