History Main / BodyOfBodies

* The phenomenon of "rat kings". Rarely, a group of rats will get their tails stuck together by the various kinds of filth they live in, forced to move as a single unit. Highly disgusting and disturbing for anything that encounters one. A similar thing has also been seen to happen with squirrels.

* ''Franchise/DeadSpace'': Boss Necromorphs, in addition to the [[EliteMook Brutes]].

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%%* ''Franchise/DeadSpace'': Boss Necromorphs, in addition to the [[EliteMook Brutes]].

* In ''ComicBook/AdventureTimeMarcelineGoneAdrift'', the magnetised Cinnamon Bun becomes a horrific giant mass of trapped Candy People.

* In ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', villain Terminus once created a body for himself by fusing hundreds of the Mole Man's Moloid servants into a single body. Reed Richards even compared Terminus' new form to the giants from Creator/CliveBarker's "In The Hills, The Cities" (see Literature, below).
* In the IDW crossover ''Infestation'', the Elder God... thing from another dimension is a skull face made of human bodies.

* In ''[[ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures PK2]]'', the minidroids seen in Issue 10 can assemble themselves to form a body proportional to the number of minidroids employed, ranging from rats to dogs to a whole person.
* In an Creator/AlanMoore ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' story, the disembodied title character lands on the planet J586 and grows a vegetable body as per usual. However, all plant life in this world is sapient, and the resultant fusion of multiple minds within his own drives the Swamp Thing insane, until the planet's Franchise/GreenLantern manages to disassemble him. Meanwhile, the experience of having their consciousnesses fused together permanently changes the outlook of many on J586, for better or worse.
* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersOngoing'', the Decepticons and Sweeps were forcibly combined into the massive "Deceptigod" creature. Only Megatron and Shockwave were successful at resisting the merger, the former due to his considerable willpower and the latter due to his emotionless nature.
* One issue of ''ComicBook/XMen'' contained a Morlock with a power to increase his size and strength by forcibly fusing touched people into his body. His victims could be seen all over his body, melting into him and each other, still screaming and struggling. In the end Jean Grey had to shut down his brain to save his victims from ''permanent'' assimilation.
* In the second ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' volume, Master Pandemonium resurfaces with a scheme the fact that his limbs have been replaced with demons. Having many civilians possessed by demons, he melds them all into a giant-sized, anatomically accurate replica of his own body, with him sequestered in the head. This is a plot point as Otto has to team up with Doctor Strange, whose medical expertise coupled with a borrowed spider-harness allows him to perform a surgical extraction of Pandemonium.

* ''Manga/ApocalypseNoToride'': This is what makes the Bokor so terrifying. Using his voice, he's able to make the normally slow and mindless zombies contort themselves into a gigantic rock-solid mass capable of moving at disturbing speeds that can trample or tear apart enemies.

** The Corpse Gatherer, which is basically animated graveyard, bodies, dirt and all. The corpse gatherer seeks to become bigger and more powerful by adding more corpses to its body, even if it has to make the corpses from the living.
** The page image is of the Charnel Hound, which is, unsurprisingly, a huge hound made out of corpses. This creature kills living creatures and adds them to its body.

** Module X2 ''TabletopGame/CastleAmber''. While the {{PC}}s are in Averoigne they must defeat a hundred foot tall zombie colossus created out of hundreds of dead bodies. The creature [[ShoutOut was directly based]] on "The Colossus of Ylournge" by Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith (see the Literature section above).
** The ''TabletopGame/EpicLevelHandbook'' reimagines the hecatoncheires of Myth/ClassicalMythology as [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ahaPoyH_5oo/S9bSC9Y3cuI/AAAAAAAAASk/KDgC580YbLI/s1600/The%20Hundred%20Handed%20One.jpg something]] very evocative of this trope.

** ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has [[spoiler:Masayoshi Shido]] riding atop a golden mass of bodies during the initial phases of their boss battle. For each phase, the bodies take on the form of a giant lion, griphon, and pyramid, that the party has to defeat before they can damage the boss. The bodies represent the useless, lethargic masses that prefer to not think, and will gladly ignore all flaws to [[spoiler:elect Shido as the new Prime Minister]].

* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': The artificial god created in the quest Nomad's Elegy, "Gielinor",resembles a grotesque version of Guthix, a deceased god, formed from countless souls with their faces and limbs visible emerging from its body.

Sometimes related to BlobMonster, often is the result of AppendageAssimilation. See also BodyHorror, TheWormThatWalks and UndeadAbomination. SuperTrope of FleshGolem and WalkingOssuary.

** The Falling Devil's EstablishingCharacterMoment is performing PsychicAssistedSuicide on an entire apartment complex, and forming a body for herself out of the female corpses that's [[MissFanservice mostly humanoid]], but with hands for feet, a pointed tendril covering the groin, and multiple sets of arms jutting from her back with one pair [[LosingYourHead holding her decapitated head in place]].

* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': The Darkness Devil appears as several dead bodies on top of each other : two of them serving as legs, that are attached where the shoulders should be with a single head on top, and three others make up the torso with their heads aligned in the middle, and a bone formation somewhat resembling a goat skull serving as the devil's actual head.

* In ''Fanfic/TouhouIbunshu'', Mokou is able to produce undead monstrosities called the Kashoyo from regular fairies. The undeath these things is so awful that after Patchouli tears apart a swarm with a spellcard invoking the power of an assault rifle, the leftover gore [[PullingThemselvesTogether pulls itself into a single humanoid mass]] and would have still advanced on Patchouli and Koakuma had Remilia not seen it and targeted with a more powerful spellcard that damaged it to the point it was unable to repeat the trick due to material capacity restrictions. The abomination ''was still alive'' until Mokou's defeat.

* In ''Fanfic/TouhouIbunshu'', Mokou is able to produce undead monstrosities called the Kashoyo from regular fairies. The undeath these things is so awful that after Patchouli tears apart a swarm with a spellcard invoking the power of an assault rifle, the leftover gore [[PullingThemselvesTogether pulls itself into a single mass]] and would have still advanced on Patchouli and Koakuma had Remilia not seen it and targeted with a more powerful spellcard that damaged it to the point it was unable to repeat the trick due to material capacity restrictions. The abomination ''was still alive'' until Mokou's defeat.