History Main / AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing

* The YuriGenre series ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'''s premise is that the {{Bishonen}} lead character, Hazumu, was accidentally mortally wounded when a UFO crashed on top of him, and the aliens, trying to make amends but unfamiliar with human anatomy, [[GenderBender recreated him with a female body]].

* In Creator/AlanDeanFoster's ''Literature/SentencedToPrism'', the main protagonist, Even Orgell, as well as the person he's searching for, have both been seriously injured and are repaired by the native lifeforms. Which are mostly silicon-based and photovores, rather than carbon-based. Orgell ends up with what's basically a lithium battery in place of his heart, and a chemical fuel cell in place of his stomach; when he finds the woman he's searching for, she's had the long bones of one arm replaced with a laser array and she has shoulder-length glass-fiber hair.

* In the unbroadcast ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' pilot "The Cage", and the two-part story it was expanded and re-edited into "The Menagerie", the apparently beautiful Vina was actually disfigured and disabled by SufficientlyAdvancedAliens who healed her after a starship crash without knowing what they were doing.

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-->What if my bones were in a museum\\

Of ME, to be called, "Evolution's Disaster"!

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** The "gas-mask zombie" plague in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]] was caused by escaped alien medical nanobots who were trying to heal people. The first human they found was a young boy wearing a gas mask who'd recently been killed by a bomb, and they didn't realize that gas masks weren't a normal part of the human anatomy. So when they started "fixing" humans, they gave them all gas masks and the same injuries the boy had, such as a collapsed chest cavity and a scar on the back of the right hand.

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--> '''Dr. Man:''' I'm afraid [the staff] simply wouldn't know one of our flu vaccines from a needle full of mercury. Can't blame them, really; that's precisely what works for a Vogooz or any patient out of the quasi-acoustic zones.

** In the [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV Movie]], the Seventh Doctor falls victim to this after being shot, as he gets brought to the hospital and the doctors, not knowing he's not human, wind up accidentally killing him on the operating table. Due to the anesthetic, he doesn't [[TheNthDoctor regenerate]] into Eight for a few hours, and [[WakeUpInTheMorgue wakes up in the morgue]].

** In the [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV Movie]], the Seventh Doctor falls victim to this after being shot, as he gets brought to the hospital and the doctors, not knowing he's not human, wind up accidentally killing him on the operating table. Due to the anesthetic, he doesn't [[TheNthDoctor regenerate]] into Eight for a few hours, and ends up WakingUpInTheMorgue.

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* In ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' the terrifying entity V'Ger turns out to be a twentieth-century human ''Voyager'' space probe, reconstructed by a culture of [=AIs=] who decided to "help" it in its mission by making it more powerful, leading to it becoming a threat to humanity.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The "gas-mask zombie" plague in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]] was caused by escaped alien medical nanobots who were trying to heal people. The first human they found was a young boy wearing a gas mask who'd recently been killed by a bomb, and they didn't realize that gas masks weren't a normal part of the human anatomy. So when they started "fixing" humans, they gave them all gas masks and the same injuries the boy had, such as a collapsed chest cavity and a scar on the back of the right hand.

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* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': This trope results in a GenderBender in CosmicPlaything Josie Gilman's SuperheroOrigin story: Josh suffers a groin injury, and is healed by the RaisedByWolves NightmareFuelStationAttendant [[AliceAllusion Ecila Mason]], but since she was too young to understand the difference between boys and girls when she left humanity behind, she [[GroinAttack removes the "parasite" between his legs]]. [[spoiler: This later turns out to be a RedHerring, as it is determined that Josh had already begun to transform into Josie even before then.]]

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* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': This trope results in a GenderBender in CosmicPlaything Josie Gilman's SuperheroOrigin story: Josh suffers a groin injury, and is healed by the RaisedByWolves NightmareFuelStationAttendant [[AliceAllusion Ecila Mason]], but since she was too young to understand the difference between boys and girls when she left humanity behind, she [[GroinAttack removes the "parasite" between his legs]]. This later turns out to be a RedHerring, as it is determined that Josh had already begun to transform into Josie even before then.

* Videogame/MegaMan8: The alien robot Duo crash lands on earth and is heavily damaged; Mega Man brings him to Doctor Light for reparation. As he doesn't fully understand Duo's systems, Duo ended up becoming different from what he used to be and somewhat weaker but still phenomenally strong.

* ''Literature/AncillaryJustice'': In the ''Imperial Radch'' books, the alien Presger grew ArtificialHuman "Translators" from human remains to act as intermediaries with the Radch. While their early efforts are [[NothingIsScarier left unseen]], it's mentioned that the Presger had a decent practical understanding of how humans are put together -- mostly from taking them apart for fun -- but didn't quite know "what was important." Through trial and error, they managed to produce Translators that look human (most of the time) and are only ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} mentally]]'' in the UncannyValley.

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* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', never being the sort of series to leave a good excuse for [[GenderBender gender bending]] alone, has an example in [[CosmicPlaything Josie Gilman's]] SuperheroOrigin story: Josh suffers a groin injury, and is healed by the RaisedByWolves NightmareFuelStationAttendant [[AliceAllusion Ecila Mason]], but since she was too young to understand the difference between boys and girls when she left humanity behind, she [[GroinAttack removes the "parasite" between his legs]]. This later turns out to be a RedHerring, as it is determined that Josh had already begun to transform into Josie even before then.

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* The now-defunct ''Discordia'' uses this as an excuse for enforcing the FirstLawOfGenderBending: [[CloudCuckooLander Schism]], a young girl who may or may not be a [[PhysicalGod demigoddess]], has the power to alter other people's bodies, but only into female forms as she has no conception of male anatomy and seems unable to learn about it.

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* Inverted example in the ComicBook/BBCBooksDoctorWhoGraphicNovels installment ''The Dalek Project''; human archaeologists reconstruct a damaged Dalek and mix up all of its different structural parts and appendages, although it's still able to try to kill them.

-->What if my bones where in a museum\\

* In the ''[[Literature/AncillaryJustice Imperial Radch]]'' books, the alien Presger grew ArtificialHuman "Translators" from human remains to act as intermediaries with the Radch. While their early efforts are [[NothingIsScarier left unseen]], it's mentioned that the Presger had a decent practical understanding of how humans are put together -- mostly from taking them apart for fun -- but didn't quite know "what was important." Through trial and error, they managed to produce Translators that look human (most of the time) and are only ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} mentally]]'' in the UncannyValley.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', never being the sort of series to leave a good excuse for [[GenderBender gender bending]] alone, has an example in [[CosmicPlaything Josie Gilman's]] SuperheroOrigin story: Josh suffers a groin injury, and is healed by the RaisedByWolves NightmareFuelStationAttendant [[AliceAllusion Ecila Mason]], but since she was too young to understand the difference between boys and girls when she left humanity behind, she [[GroinAttack removes the 'parasite' between his legs]]. This later turns out to be a RedHerring, as it is determined that Josh had already begun to transform into Josie even before then.

* The "gas-mask zombie" plague in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances" was caused by escaped alien medical nanobots who were trying to heal people and didn't realise that gas masks weren't a normal part of human anatomy.
* A comedic example in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' had Crais and Jool tasked with putting back together an alien capable of surviving its current scattered state. Crais picks up what he believes to be its head, but Jool points out that if it were the case, the alien would be sitting on his head. [[spoiler:Much to their despair, the alien gets killed just as they had managed to get it conscious and capable of talking.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' XR the robot is who he is because the little green men were off their group mind when they rebuilt him.

* The closest real-life equivalent often happens when paleontologists try to reconstruct prehistoric organisms from fragmentary or distorted fossils, leading to incorrect representations. Famously, the first reconstructions of Iguanodons had big horns on their snouts before more complete skeletons were found that showed the spikes served as thumbs.

* The softcore YuriGenre series ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'''s premise is that the {{Bishonen}} lead character, Hazumu, was accidentally mortally wounded when a UFO crashed on top of him, and the aliens, trying to make amends but unfamiliar with human anatomy, [[GenderBender recreated him with a female body]].

* * In the ''[[Literature/AncillaryJustice Imperial Radch]]'' books, the Presger grew ArtificialHuman "Translators" from human remains to act as intermediaries with the Radch. While their early efforts are [[NothingIsScarier left unseen]], it's mentioned that the Presger had a decent practical understanding of how humans are put together -- mostly from taking them apart for fun -- but didn't quite know "what was important." Through trial and error, they managed to produce Translators that look human (most of the time) and are only ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} mentally]]'' in the UncannyValley.

* This was used as the excuse for enforcing the FirstLawOfGenderBending in the now-defunct WebComic ''Discordia': [[CloudCookooLander Schism]], a young girl who may or may not be a [[PhysicalGod demigoddess]], has the power to alter other people's bodies, but only into female forms as she has no conception of male anatomy and seems unable to learn about it.

* RealLife: The closest real-life equivalent often happens when paeleontologists try to reconstruct prehistoric organisms from fragmentary or distorted fossils, leading to incorrect representations by paleontologists (famously, the first reconstructions of Iguanodons had big horns on their snouts before more complete skeletons were found that showed the spikes served as thumbs).

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', never being the sort of series to leave a good excuse for gender bending alone, has an example in [[CosmicPlaything Josie Gilman's]] SuperheroOrigin story: Josh suffers a groin injury, and is healed by the RaisedByWolves NightmareFuelStationAttendant [[AliceAllusion Ecila Mason]], but since she was too young to understand the difference between boys and girls when she left humanity behind, she [[GroinAttack removes the 'parasite' between his legs]]. This later turns out to be a RedHerring, as it is determined that Josh had already begun to transform into Josie even before then.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', never being the sort of series to leave a good excuse for gender bending alone, has an example in [[CosmicPlaything Josie Gilman's]] SuperheroOriginStory: Josh suffers a groin injury, and is healed by the RaisedByWolves NightmareFuelStationAttendant [[AliceAllusion Ecila Mason]], but since she was too young to understand the difference between boys and girls when she left humanity behind, she [[GroinAttack removes the 'parasite' between his legs]]. This later turns out to be a RedHerring, as it is determined that Josh had already begun to transform into Josie even before then.