History Main / InhumanHuman

** Something similar happened when Jay Garrick, the original 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.

* The Forsaken from ''{{Warcraft}}'' series are Inhuman Humans, although some veer into DamagedSoul territory. Most tend to undergo some changes in their personality, although this is more psychological than direct result of being raised from the dead. Some remain mostly the same as they were before death, but some become consumed with hatred for all living. Their leader, Sylvanas, is notably unhappy with her undead state and aims to find a cure, and heavily supports Alchemy research to that end. The extremists researching into killing anyone else are most likely a reaction to the fact that most living beings on the continent meet them with open hostility, not willing to accept the difference between an independent Forsaken and a servant of the Lich King.

* In ''[[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) and gets a zombie, as Amanda had died millions of years ago, as her car traveled back in time after passing light speed. That or Calypso was just being an asshole. Given the nature of most of Calypso's "gifts", the latter seems more likely. Only Sweet Tooth ever really seems to get what he wants...and that because he confounds the hell out of Calypso.
* 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.

* In ''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.

* The Harrowed from ''{{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, albeitwith a "death scar" and a faint odour 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).

* The Harrowed from ''{{Deadlands}}'' are this if they are lucky (if not, they are [[MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil monsters from beyond the veil]]). This setting has a gradual transition between the two, depending on how much Dominion does the animating demon have. If the hero's Dominion is high and manitou's low, the resulting undead is this trope - a stinking, often partly decayed body with the wound that killed the hero never healing. If the demon wins, [[MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil he gets in control]].

-->-- ''{{Anastasia}}''

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* Yet another one: the movie ''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.

* In the Fox animation ''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".

* In ''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 ''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.]]

-> '''Bartoc''': Master! You're alive?

*** I don't recall him missing his eyes.
*** A deleted scene in the subway tunnels shows Ilya giving him a set of glass eyes to put in. In his earlier appearances he was wearing sunglasses, so it was impossible to tell if he had eyes or not.

Unfortunately, something [[GoHorriblyWrong goes horribly awry]], causing them to [[CameBackWrong come back wrong]].

Villains who plan to come back from the dead as a OneWingedAngel may vacillate between a MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil and an InhumanHuman, depending on their sanity. Regardless, this particular type of resurrection is the most likely to [[CursedWithAwesome curse the resurrectee with powers.]] These unlucky souls will likely become a VampireRefugee, ReluctantMonster or BodyHorror that CantStayNormal.

* Although they enter stage already reanimated, the [=EVAs=] from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' are really, in effect, their very own variant of an InhumanHuman.

* While Todd [=McFarlane=]'s masterpiece character ''Comicbook/{{Spawn}}'' is pretty much a SoullessShell mixed with a little MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil, he is most completely an InhumanHuman. In addition, he's also a ReluctantMonster with extra BodyHorror.

* Shadow's wife Laura from ''Literature/AmericanGods'' is an InhumanHuman. Her chemically preserved body slowly decomposes, but she still loves her husband and behaves like a normal human (aside from a certain flatness of affect, and her unnerving willingness to kill anyone who poses a threat to Shadow).

** Fourth Edition did away with ''Reincarnate'': with ''Raise Dead'' (a type of resurrection that averts all versions of this trope) available to 8th level characters as a ''[[HermeticMagic ritual]]'' now, there's no reason (at least from a gameplay perspective) to bring back ''Reincarnation,'' which was always the poor man's ''Raise Dead''. However, there ''is'' the [[RevenueEnhancingDevices subscriber-only]] ''Revenant'' race in ''DragonMagazine'' that often is the result of being brought back in the manner of an InhumanHuman.

* The Forsaken from ''{{Warcraft}}'' series are {{Inhuman Human}}s, although some veer into DamagedSoul territory. Most tend to undergo some changes in their personality, although this is more psychological than direct result of being raised from the dead. Some remain mostly the same as they were before death, but some become consumed with hatred for all living. Their leader, Sylvanas, is notably unhappy with her undead state and aims to find a cure, and heavily supports Alchemy research to that end. The extremists researching into killing anyone else are most likely a reaction to the fact that most living beings on the continent meet them with open hostility, not willing to accept the difference between an independent Forsaken and a servant of the Lich King.

* {{Unsounded}}'s [[GentlemanWizard Duane]]'s sanity remains basically intact, if slightly addled due to body horror, despite his [[ourzombiesaredifferent badly decayed]] form.

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': Ed's brother Al would be considered an InhumanHuman. After trying to resurrect their mother, his 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.

* [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Ed's]] brother Al would be considered an InhumanHuman. After trying to resurrect their mother, his 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.

* 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 [[TheNecromantic 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 [[NightmareFuel 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.]]

* The SteamPunk [[FilkSong filk group]] Clockwork Quartet tells the [[NightmareFuel dreadfully disturbing]] yet [[EarWorm darkly catchy]] story of the [[http://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 vampire Melchiah of ''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 practise that degenerates into absorbing entire ''bodies'' into his flesh. Needless to say, after several millennia, he's pure NightmareFuel. 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.

* In Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Playback", aliens capture a mental recording of a human pilot as his ship explodes, and offer to reconstruct a body for him. Unfortunately, something goes wrong with the playback, and the protagonist's self-description becomes increasingly confused and quickly degrades into incoherent babble.

* [[FullmetalAlchemist Ed's]] brother Al would be considered an InhumanHuman. After trying to resurrect their mother, his 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.

* In the series ''MortalEngines'', cyborg soldiers called "Stalkers" (no, [[StalkerWithACrush not that kind]]) can be made. They are essentially 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.]] [[sStalker-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 [[spoiler:Anna Fang]]. The only difference is that she's... [[CaptainObvious dead]].

** In "The Thing on the Doorstep", dead villainness Asenath Waite switches minds with her asylum-imprisoned husband and killer... who raises from the grave in the [[BodyHorror decomposing and liquefying body]] of his wife to give a last call for aid to a friend. [[spoiler:Or rather, that's how it looks on the surface. Poor Asenath was innocent, and was kicked out of her own body years ago and into her dying father's, so he could take her healthy young body for himself. The Asenath of the story is really her father impersonating his daughter in her own skin- but since he's no GenderBender deep down, Old Waite is desperate for a male body to possess instead...]]

** [[spoiler:Same thing applies to Guybrush when he comes back as a slightly rotting corpse (for a while anyway) in ''TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 5: Rise of the Pirate God''.]]

-->-- {{Anastasia}}

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

* In 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. Fortunately for him, he's charismatic enough that he remains more CrazyAwesome than anything.

* In the Fox animation 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".

* In ''Film/EventHorizon,'' Dr Weir is ressurected 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 the original and remake of 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.]]

* 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 series MortalEngines, cyborg soldiers called "Stalkers" (no, [[StalkerWithACrush not that kind]]) can be made. They are essentially robotic components and a robot brain in a human body, but two of them (Stalker Shrike and [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler: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.]] [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler:Anna Fang]]. The only difference is that she's...[[CaptainObvious dead]].

** Did we mention [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_West--Reanimator ''Herbert West, the Reanimator'']]?

* ''ASongOfIceAndFire'': It is possible for some priests of R'hllor to bring back the dead, and usually it's a pretty smooth and painless process. At the very end of the third book, this method is used to revive [[spoiler: 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.

** 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.
* In the original ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' pilot (reused in the two part episode "The Menagerie"), SufficientlyAdvancedAliens 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 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 [[NightmareFuel dreadfully disturbing]] yet [[EarWorm darkly catchy]] story of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBFtWyvRMOk Doctor's Wife]] and the Doctor who will do anything ([[MadScientist anything]]) to save her. [[spoiler:She winds up a still-comatose {{cyborg}}, more machine than woman, while her husband obsessively watches her for signs of consciousness.]]

* The Harrowed from {{Deadlands}} are this if they are lucky (if not, they are [[MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil monsters from beyond the veil]]). This setting has a gradual transition between the two, depending on how much Dominion does the animating demon have. If the hero's Dominion is high and manitou's low, the resulting undead is this trope - a stinking, often partly decayed body with the wound that killed the hero never healing. If the demon wins, [[MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil he gets in control]].

** Her SECOND death...DamagedSoul at the LEAST.
* The vampire Melchiah of ''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 practise that degenerates into absorbing entire ''bodies'' into his flesh. Needless to say, after several millennia, he's pure NightmareFuel. And come to think of it, Raziel is another example: after being cast into the Lake of the Dead for a millenium, nearly all of his flesh is burnt off, his lower jaw is missing, and he can only exist as a wraith.

* 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 doppelganger (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."

* 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.

* The SteamPunk [[FilkSong filk group]] Clockwork Quartet tells the [[NightmareFuel dreadfully disturbing]] yet [[EarWorm darkly catchy]] story of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBFtWyvRMOk Doctor's Wife]] and the Doctor who will do anything ([[MadScientist anything]]) to save her.

** In "The Thing on the Doorstep", dead villainness Asenath Waite switches minds with her asylum-imprisoned husband and killer... who raises from the grave in the [[BodyHorror decomposing and liquefying body]] of his wife to give a last call for aid to a friend.

** Almost a MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil. As the Trope definition puts it, it would depend on his sanity, but regarding that he already got utterly crazy ''before'' dying and [[CameBackWrong came back]] [[ItGotWorse even worse]]...

* In ''EventHorizon,'' Dr Weir is ressurected 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.

* Although they enter stage already reanimated, the [=EVAs=] from Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion are really, in effect, their very own variant of an InhumanHuman.

* While Todd [=McFarlane=]'s masterpiece character ''{{Spawn}}'' is pretty much a SoullessShell mixed with a little MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil, he is most completely an InhumanHuman. In addition, he's also a ReluctantMonster with extra BodyHorror.

** Almost a MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil.