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* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': Robotman notably had his brain destroyed by the Candlemaker near the end of Creator/GrantMorrison's run and survived by having his consciousness transferred to a computer system, with Rachel Pollack's run later backpedaling his being completely robotic by giving him a new organic brain to store his memories in. The issue on whether he's still Cliff Steele wasn't addressed until the 2023 Halloween anthology ''DC's Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun'', where his story has him haunted by the ghosts of deceased Doom Patrol members and one of the ghosts is of ''himself'', his death cited as occurring when the Candemaker destroyed his original brain.

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* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': Robotman notably had his brain destroyed by the Candlemaker near the end of Creator/GrantMorrison's run and survived by having his consciousness transferred to a computer system, with Rachel Pollack's run later backpedaling his being completely robotic by giving him a new organic brain to store his memories in. The issue on whether he's still Cliff Steele wasn't addressed until the 2023 Halloween anthology ''DC's Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun'', where his story has him haunted by the ghosts of deceased Doom Patrol members and one of the ghosts is of ''himself'', his death cited as occurring when the Candemaker Candlemaker destroyed his original brain.
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* Invoked but defied in ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' [[spoiler:after the android Red Ranger Mack is 'killed' in the final battle; Mack's overall body still appears intact, so there should be nothing to stop Hartford (his creator/father) using his body and reactivating a new consciousness, but Hartford makes it clear that anything he recreated that way wouldn't be Mack, but just "something that looked like him"]].

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* Invoked but defied in ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' [[spoiler:after the android Red Ranger Mack is 'killed' in the final battle; battle. Mack's overall body still appears intact, so there should be nothing to stop Hartford (his creator/father) using his body and reactivating a new consciousness, but Hartford makes it clear to the rest of the team that anything he recreated activated that way wouldn't be Mack, but just "something that looked like him"]].him", the Rangers' grief making it clear that they only want the true Mack back rather than just trying to turn his body back on]].
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* In the Franchise/DoctorWho short story collection ''Twelve Angels Weeping'', the story "Ghost in the Machine" concerns a Cyberman, 9.9P-VIV, who inexplicably sees a human girl in the middle of a battle between the Cybermen and a race of huge spider aliens. It continues to see the girl in further battles, even though diagnostics are run on it several times and no fault can be detected. Gradually its parts are upgraded and replaced, until it is no longer the same Cyberman, and yet it still sees the girl. It is so inexplicable that the Cyberman actually seems to grow frustrated [[spoiler:and fires at the girl (who turns out to be Peri) so unceasingly that its cannon overheats and destroys it]].

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* In the Franchise/DoctorWho short story collection ''Twelve Angels Weeping'', the story "Ghost in the Machine" concerns a Cyberman, 9.9P-VIV, who inexplicably sees a human girl in the middle of a battle between the Cybermen and a race of huge spider aliens. It continues to see the girl in further battles, even though diagnostics are run on it several times and no fault can be detected. Gradually its parts are upgraded and replaced, until it is essentially no longer the same Cyberman, and yet it still sees the girl. It is so inexplicable baffling that the Cyberman actually seems to grow frustrated [[spoiler:and fires at the girl (who turns out to be Peri) so unceasingly that its cannon overheats and destroys it]].
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* In the Franchise/DoctorWho short story collection ''Twelve Angels Weeping'', the story "Ghost in the Machine" concerns a Cyberman, 9.9P-VIV, who inexplicably sees a human girl in the middle of a battle between the Cybermen and a race of huge spider aliens. It continues to see the girl in further battles, even though diagnostics are run on it several times and no fault can be detected. Gradually its parts are upgraded and replaced, until it is no longer the same Cyberman, and yet it still sees the girl. It is so inexplicable that the Cyberman actually seems to grow frustrated [[spoiler:and fires at the girl (who turns out to be Peri) so unceasingly that its cannon overheats and destroys it]].
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* James A. Janisse [[DiscussedTrope discusses]] this in his episode of ''WebVideo/TheKillCount'' covering ''Film/ChildsPlay2'' during Chucky's repair and reconstruction with the same underlying endoskeleton. Though he refers to it as "Abe Lincoln's hatchet" instead of Theseus' ship while using the broom metaphor of replacing the handle and later the head.
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* In Stanley Holloway's "Beefeater" monologue, when visiting the Tower of London, they are told that the axe on display "has 'ad a new handle, and perhaps a new 'ead, but it's the old, original axe".

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* In Stanley Holloway's Creator/StanleyHolloway's "Beefeater" monologue, when visiting the Tower of London, they are told that the axe on display "has 'ad a new handle, and perhaps a new 'ead, but it's the old, original axe".

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