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* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'': The Tzimisce {{vampire variety|Pack}} are fond of using their signature "Vicissitude" power to reshape humans into furniture and architectural features, often [[AndIMustScream while still self-aware]].

-->'''Takashi''': The surgeons have permanent brain damage. The patients have been remade into a... a cathedral. A place to worship wounds and the inside of the human body. No one's coming back from this one, Aleph.

-->'''[[spoiler:Bootstrap Bill Turner]]''': Part of the crew, part of the ship.

* The universe of ''Franchise/TheDCU'' is surrounded on all sides by the Source Wall, separating the physical universe from the cosmic forces on the other side. As a defense mechanism against anyone trying to break through, anyone who touches the Source Wall becomes part of the wall, petrified and still conscious all the while. The wall is "decorated" with the countless bodies of lifeforms across creation.
* Issue #9 of ''ComicBook/GlobalFrequency'' features drug-addled surgeons at an experimental medical facility constructing stem cell augmented flesh altars out of patients who are ''still alive'', with dozens of bodies fused together across the site. One of the first officers on the scene went mad and killed themselves after seeing the carnage. When "Global Frequency" operative Takashi is sent in to examine the site, victims who still have mouths and vocal cords beg him to kill them.

* The plot of ''ComicBook/HellNebraska'' involves an AntiHero with RealityWarper abilities who condemns criminals to imprisonment in the City of the Damned, which is made from the prisoners' blood and flesh.

* ''ComicBook/Transformers2019'' features a rare non-horror variant of this trope. Cybertronians who decide that they've tired of life will sometimes go find a spot on the planet where they'll just stay until their body starts merging with the terrain. The process apparently takes an extremely long time, possibly centuries, but it's painless and is treated as a respected means of ending one's life. The Cybertronians who do it maintain consciousness to some degree for a considerable part of the process, allowing younger Cybertronians to speak with them, and they might even answer if they deem it important enough.

* The ''Literature/XeeleeSequence'' has this in multitudes. From a sub-planetoid made up of human skin, to a colony ship decorated with the remains of eaten infants, to posthumans evolving to live through an ocean of their own shit and piss. [[CosmicHorrorGenre Given the genre of the Sequence]], is anyone surprise?

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* ''Film/{{Bright}}'': As Ward and Jakoby are investigating the hideout of suspected magic-users, they encounter the "remains" of Larika, an elf woman whose torso, head, and arms have fused to a crater in the wall — the rest of her body having disintegrated in the magical blast that caused the crater. Her ribs and vertebrae have transformed into spindly, glowing struts that protrude from her torso to anchor it in place. Larika is later revealed to be alive in this state (albeit not for long). Her condition was cause by [[spoiler:a rogue blast of magic from the wand she tried to use to assassinate Tikka]].

* ''Literature/TheMiracleCurlOfAmpara'': At the climax, the protagonist uses his newly-awakened superpowers to send two terrorists who threatened his friend [[DestinationDefenestration flying through a window]]... except that as a side effect of his powers, the windows ''don't break'' and the terrorists instead get fused with the glass half-way, still fully conscious and otherwise perfectly healthy. Despite the far future setting of the novel, the medics are as flabbergasted by this as one would expect.
* ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'': Sinister Albion is an {{Elseworld}} where Merlin accepted his role as TheAntichrist and corrupted King Arthur. Camelot is extensively decorated with [[AndIMustScream undying human remains]] — {{impaled|WithExtremePrejudice}}, splayed out over the walls, or simply immured — to [[HopeCrusher drive the locals to despair]] and to [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming satisfy Merlin's love of screaming]].

* The ''Literature/XeeleeSequence'' has this in multitudes. From a sub-planetoid made up of human skin, to a colony ship decorated with the remains of eaten infants, to posthumans evolving to live through an ocean of their own shit and piss. [[Main/CosmicHorror Given the genre of the Sequence,]] is anyone surprise?

** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters Love & Monsters]]", a woman called Ursula is absorbed by an alien, which leaves her face sticking out of the alien's skin. After the alien is defeated it is absorbed by the earth, taking Ursula with it. Ursula's face floats briefly on a paving slab and says some last words before disappearing. The Doctor grants her a semblance of continued life as an animated lump of concrete, causing her face to reappear on the paving slab (alive and conscious)… [[UnreliableNarrator maybe]].

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': A variation occurs when [[spoiler:the JerkAss Interon archaeologist Vella is murdered with a Serax excavating device — not only is she TakenForGranite, but her body is partially embedded in the wall behind her]].

** In the ''AD&D'' supplement ''Oriental Adventures'', high CharacterLevel ninjas had the ability to walk through walls for up to one minute. If time runs out before they get through the wall, they end up merged with the wall — and die as a result.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'' notes that this was the fate of many of the citizens of Praag, in the northern kingdom of Kislev, as a result of its conquest by the forces of Chaos.

* The architecture of Hell in the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' series, in addition to its green marble and red brick structures, is often composed of walls of skulls and screaming faces.

* ''VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions'': The entire Carnage level. Carnage is an [[ToServeMan alien symbiote with a taste for human blood]], which was held by SHIELD until they noticed that it and the resident [[MacGuffin mystical artifact]] had an interesting reaction, and [[JustThinkOfThePotential decided to keep testing]]. What they got was the entire Triskelion - SHIELD's headquarters - being covered with pulsating veins running through the walls and the doors, all made from the blood drained by every single human present.
* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': As in the [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade tabletop game]], Tzimisce vampires have the power to reshape flesh. Andrei the Tzimisce elder uses it to wallpaper his California mansion with still-bleeding human skin and decorate it with living flesh-and-bone furniture, but mentions that it's a pale echo of his homeland's estates.

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* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': "Trolls" are the mutated, nigh-mindless undead remains of humans who contracted an illness known as the "Rash." Some trolls have the misfortune to fuse with the architecture of wherever it is that they died of the Rash. One gruesome example can be found in [[http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=255 Chapter 5]], where the body of a victim of the Rash can be seen strapped to a gurney. Its limbs are grossly distorted and frozen as if in a spasm of agony. The neck has grown several feet and rooted to the ceiling overhead, and the face is still stretched in a mummified grimace of pain 90 years after death.

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* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1046 SCP-1046 ("A House Without a Bedroom").]] A man's body is spread out over an entire house in pieces and embedded into the walls, furniture, and appliances, but the scattered parts of him are still alive (and visibly distressed).
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* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': The ruins of the elven city of Molaesmyr are described in Campaign 3 as being strewn with the bodies of those who could not escape the sudden surge of magical corruption that caused the destruction of the city. The party encounters trees growing in the shape of twisted faces and reaching hands (implied to be the stretched and transmogrified corpses of unfortunate individuals). In several places the skeletons of both people and animals are propped up by the cursed greenery or firmly affixed to the walls with magically blighted vines.
--> '''Matt Mercer:''' ...the branches extend. You can see where they extend, there's bits of bone protruding in places and the branches almost form a hand. You can see as it pulls up, this elongated, stretched mouth and these eye sockets that wind upward into where the canopy extends. It is mimicking a corpse or it may have once been.
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* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': The ruins of the elven city of Molaesmyr are described in Campaign 3 as being strewn with the bodies of those who could not escape the sudden surge of magical corruption that caused the destruction of the city. The party encounters trees growing in the shape of twisted faces and reaching hands (implied to be the stretched and transmogrified corpses of unfortunate individuals); as described by DM Matthew Mercer "...the branches extend. You can see where they extend, there's bits of bone protruding in places and the branches almost form a hand. You can see as it pulls up, this elongated, stretched mouth and these eye sockets that wind upward into where the canopy extends. It is mimicking a corpse or it may have once been." In several places the skeletons of both people and animals are propped up by the cursed greenery or firmly affixed to the walls with magically blighted vines.

* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': The ruins of the elven city of Molaesmyr are described in Campaign 3 as being strewn with the bodies of those who could not escape the sudden magical corruption and destruction of the city. There are "thick and winding bramble clusters and heavy vines with large spikes and thorns that protrude from them, bones"; trees grown in the shape of twisted faces and reaching hands (implied to be the stretched and transmogrified corpses of unfortunate individuals); and the skeletons of both people and animals propped up by greenery or affixed to walls with blighted vines.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Music/PinkFloyd All in all, you're just another brick in the wall...]]]]