History Main / InhumanHuman

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' pilot (reused in the two-part episode "The Menagerie"), {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s 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.

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': Ed's brother Al would be considered this. 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.
** This happens to Al ''twice''. It was his soul that was put into the botched recreation of Trisha's body, which was almost immediately rejected. Ed bound Al's soul into the suit of armor soon after that.

* In ''Manga/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.

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'''s [[GentlemanWizard Duane]]'s sanity remains basically intact, if slightly addled, despite his [[BodyHorror extensively decayed]] form.

* The SteamPunk [[FilkSong filk group]] Clockwork Quartet tells the dreadfully disturbing yet [[EarWorm darkly catchy]] story of the [[https://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.

* At the beginning of ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'', Grigori Rasputin gets killed and sucked into the Void. Sixty years later, Ilsa Haupstein and Karl Ruprect Kroenen summon him back to Earth. Rasputin is fine, except he's missing his eyes, and he's got a [[EldritchAbomination tentacled monster]] in his gut. Extra BodyHorror comes from the fact that he's come back from the dead like this more than once, and each time he brings an extra piece of his god with him.

-> '''Rasputin''': In a manner of (eyeball pops out) speaking.

* In the ''Literature/MortalEngines'' series, it's possible to create cyborg soldiers called Stalkers--no, [[StalkerWithACrush not that kind]]. They are 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.]] 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 Anna Fang. The only difference is that she's... [[CaptainObvious dead]].

* ''Literature/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 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.

* One of the favorite tropes of Creator/HPLovecraft.

** In "Literature/TheThingOnTheDoorstep", dead villainess Asenath Waite switches minds with her asylum-imprisoned husband and killer... who rises from the grave in the [[BodyHorror decomposing and liquefying body]] of his wife to give a last call for aid to a friend. 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...
** And there's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_West--Reanimator "Herbert West, the Reanimator"]]. Dr. Herbert West's (the titular reanimator) attempts to bring people back from the dead at first resulted with either the subject coming back to life for a few seconds, letting out a terrifying scream and dying again, or in the Damaged Soul, becoming insane cannibalistic zombies. Dr. West believed this to be because the brain gets damaged even during brief periods of death (or, as he explains after one of his test subjects breaks loose "Damn it! It was not ''quite'' fresh enough!"). In the end he succeeds in perfecting his methods, resulting in a SoullessShell as well as some actually intelligent zombies that eventually lead a horde of mindless ones to kill him.

** Fourth Edition did away with ''Reincarnate'' (Fifth brought it back): 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 Inhuman Human.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', it's possible to bring the dead back into the world of the living using the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique kinjitsu]] "Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation." However, this can only bring the deceased's ''soul'' back, not their body. A living human [[SacrificialRevivalSpell must be sacrificed]] to perform the ritual, in which the sacrifice's body is reshaped like clay to resemble the returning soul that will posses it. Upon death, the body will revert to the form of its previous owner. [[BigBad Orochimaru]] used this ritual in combination with a mind control jutsu to bring back two of the most powerful ninja to have ever lived and force them to fight for him.

** 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 Inhuman Human.

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* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', BigBad Orochimaru can bring the dead back into the world of the living - but he can only bring their soul back, not their body. He has to sacrifice a living human to perform the ritual, and the corpse is reshaped like clay to resemble the returning soul possessing it (which returns to its original form upon the resurrected dying). He used this ritual in combination with a mind control jutsu to bring back two of the most powerful ninja to have ever lived and force them to fight for him.

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

** This happens to Al ''twice''. Turns out that his soul got put into the botched Trisha resurrection, but was almost immediately rejected, before Ed put Al into the armor.

* In the series ''Literature/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.]] 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 Anna Fang. The only difference is that she's... [[CaptainObvious dead]].

** And there's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_West--Reanimator "Herbert West, the Reanimator"]]. * Dr. Herbert West's (the titular reanimator) attempts to bring people back from the dead at first resulted with either the subject coming back to life for a few seconds, letting out a terrifying scream and dying again, or in the Damaged Soul, becoming insane cannibalistic zombies. Dr. West believed this to be because the brain gets damaged even during brief periods of death (or, as he explains after one of his test subjects breaks loose "Damn it! It was not ''quite'' fresh enough!"). In the end he succeeds in perfecting his methods, resulting in a SoullessShell as well as some actually intelligent zombies that eventually lead a horde of mindless ones to kill him.

* ''Literature/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 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.

* In ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', Owen Harper dies. He's brought back, but is still rather dead. Most of his body functions - his circulatory system, digestive system, respiratory system, and so forth - have shut down. He isn't decomposing, and some of his brain's functions work - but that's about it.

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* The Harrowed from ''TabletopGame/{{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, albeit with 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 Forsaken from ''VideoGame/{{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 others become consumed with hatred for all living beings. 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. Her SECOND death... DamagedSoul at the LEAST.
* The vampire Melchiah of ''VideoGame/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 horror. 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. Somewhat telling is that when Raziel kills Melchiah by crushing him into pulp with a large metal grinder, his last word is "Release!"

* In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', DeadlyDoctor Vahzilok's "Eidolon" followers are like this - dead humans who've been reanimated with their brains intact. They have full intelligence, but their bodies continue to decay, requiring regular transplants from involuntary donors.

* [[http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=1316 One of the story arcs of Jack]] has a woman brought back from the dead. Unexpectedly, she is revived completely normal in mind and body-- but, in the Jack universe, Heaven exists, and she was there. She commits suicide in an attempt to return to Heaven.

[[DeathIsDramatic The great love of the hero's life has died,]] and the hero simply [[LoveMakesYouCrazy cannot take the grief]]. Desperate to have his significant other returned to him, the character [[{{Necromantic}} delves into things better left unlearned]] and discovers a way to bring the loved one back.

* Osiris from EgyptianMythology might count, as he's often portrayed as a mummy after his resurrection. He's still able to impregnate Isis, though.

* DependingOnTheWriter, Ganesha from HinduMythology was resurrected after being decapitated, but with an elephant head in place of his lost head.

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

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

The {{inver|tedTrope}}se of a DamagedSoul, in this case the soul is absolutely fine... it's the body that's a complete mess. Much like an EmergencyTransformation, the resurrected character is brought back as something they probably dislike, or would rather not be, and may wonder "WhatHaveIBecome?". This is the most "livable" of the various botched resurrections, though suicidal tendencies here are still high.

The [[InvertedTrope inverse]] of a DamagedSoul, in this case the soul is absolutely fine... it's the body that's a complete mess. Much like an EmergencyTransformation, the resurrected character is brought back as something they probably dislike, or would rather not be, and may wonder "WhatHaveIBecome?". This is the most "livable" of the various botched resurrections, though suicidal tendencies here are still high.

* 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 ''GreenLantern'', when Kyle Rayner's mother dies, he reaches her death bed a minute too late and uses his powers as Ion to bring her back. She tells him that he knows it's wrong and dies again.
* 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.

* In the Fox animation ''WesternAnimation/{{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".

* At the beginning of the ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' film, Grigori Rasputin gets killed and sucked into the Void. Sixty years later, Ilsa Haupstein and Karl Ruprect Kroenen summon him back to Earth. Rasputin is fine, except he's missing his eyes, and he's got a [[EldritchAbomination tentacled monster]] in his gut. Extra BodyHorror comes from the fact that he's come back from the dead like this more than once, and each time he brings an extra piece of his god with him.

* 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.]] 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 Anna Fang. The only difference is that she's... [[CaptainObvious dead]].
* Frankenstein's monster may fall under this type. In the movie ''Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'' the monster kills Frankenstein's wife after he refuses to create a monster bride. Frankenstein uses his science to bring her back, but the monster decides that she is rightfully ''his'' bride now. They both try to win her over, resulting in a heart-wrenching dance that ends when she sees her reflection in a mirror and immediately kills herself in horror.

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

* 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 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.]]
* ''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 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.

* All of the dead Ned brings back to life in ''PushingDaisies'' fall under this trope -- they're alive and act like their normal selves, but their bodies remain how they were when they died, often with cartoonishly macabre results. In a few cases where the people have been dead for a long time, the characters all react with horror when they see the corpse talking like a normal person.
* In the ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Je Souhaite", the stoner who found the genie wishes for invisibility and is promptly run over by a truck. His best friend uses his wishes to reanimate him. The end result? A screaming yellow zombie who quickly decides to kill his friend and re-kill himself when he opens up the gas and lights a match. Though it may not have been a purposeful attempt at murder/suicide, given that said zombie (when he finally stopped screaming) shivered uncontrollably and said he couldn't feel his blood. Turning on the gas may have been an attempt to warm himself up, and he simply fumbled the matches for too long.

* 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.

* A rather common result of the ''DungeonsAndDragons'' spell ''Reincarnate'', especially with HouseRules or the rules from the earlier editions, although thankfully and surprisingly this doesn't involve shambling undead. The spell returns characters, with their original knowledge and abilities, into the adult body of a random species. That's often not a problem, until your Warrior comes back as a wren, or your Wizard as a badger.

* The Harrowed from ''TabletopGame/{{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).

* In the end of the ''{{Banjo-Kazooie}}'', the villain Grunty is knocked off the top of her lair and crushed by a boulder. In the sequel ''Banjo-Tooie'', when her sisters get the boulder off her, she's still alive, but her body rotted away while she was under the boulder, making her a living skeleton.
* 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). Given that Calypso is a JerkassGenie of the highest magnitude, Miranda gets a zombie, as Amanda had died millions of years ago after her car passed light speed and traveled back in time.

* In the ''MightAndMagic'' games, if you try to resurrect your party members in an Evil Temple you usually end up with a reanimated zombie. It is unsure whether they have memories or not, but considering you can control them mostly normally, it seems like they do.
* 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 others become consumed with hatred for all living beings. 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.
** 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 horror. 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.
** Somewhat telling is that when Raziel kills Melchiah by crushing him into pulp with a large metal grinder, his last word is "Release!"
* In ''VagrantStory'', souls of the dead are forced to wander aimlessly and get sucked into any corpse they happen upon, becoming zombies until they're killed again (rinse, repeat). One villain, Grissom, gets killed by the main hero halfway through the game... until his soul accidentally animates his ''own'' mutilated corpse. He tries to stay sane once he realizes what has happened, but he doesn't last long.
* ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland 2: [=LeChuck=]'s Revenge'': [=LeChuck=] comes back as a rotting corpse. This doesn't seem to particularly bother him though, but he's still one evil SOB.
** 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''.
* In ''CityOfHeroes'', DeadlyDoctor Vahzilok's "Eidolon" followers are like this - dead humans who've been reanimated with their brains intact. They have full intelligence, but their bodies continue to decay, requiring regular transplants from involuntary donors.

* {{Unsounded}}'s [[GentlemanWizard Duane]]'s sanity remains basically intact, if slightly addled, despite his [[BodyHorror extensively decayed]] form.

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* In the ''TheXFiles'' episode "Je Souhaite", the stoner who found the genie wishes for invisibility and is promptly run over by a truck. His best friend uses his wishes to reanimate him and then give him a voice. The end result? A screaming yellow zombie who quickly decides to kill his friend and re-kill himself when he opens up the gas and lights a match.
** Though it may not have been a purposeful attempt at murder/suicide, given that said zombie (when he finally stopped screaming) shivered uncontrollably and said he couldn't feel his blood. Turning on the gas may have been an attempt to warm himself up, and he simply fumbled the matches for too long.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Forest of the Dead", Miss Evangelista is one of several people "saved" to a massive virtual reality scenario following death: unfortunately, due to data corruption, her face is horribly deformed.

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

* 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 attempt to describe what his body is supposed to look like becomes increasingly confused and quickly degrades into incoherent babble.

** 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]] even worse...

* At the beginning of the ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' film, Grigori Rasputin gets killed and sucked into the Void. Sixty years later, Ilsa Haupstein and Karl Ruprect Kroenen summon him back to Earth. Rasputin is fine, except he's missing his eyes, and he's got a [[EldritchAbomination tentacled monster]] in his gut.
** Extra BodyHorror comes from the fact that he's come back from the dead like this more than once, and each time he brings an extra piece of his god with him.