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* One [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' story involves Flash and Hawkman trying to beam up to the Justice League satellite, only for some nutty alien creature to sneak into the teleport booth with them. The three of them arrive with their parts scrambled, and the alien's (non-speaking) personality more or less dominant across all three. Naturally, the team gets everybody returned to normal by the story's end.

** It... May have happened in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJYP5Bh7uQU "With My X-Ray Eyes" song]] in episode "No More Bunny Buisness". Starting at 0:08 and ending at 0:10.

* In ''Series/CriminalMinds'' the unsub of the week who is a skilled surgeon thinks he can do this by cutting two peoples legs and switching them with the other. It didn't really work as much as he likes to believe it did, as non of them can really move with it.

* In the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "Spoiled," two adulterers says they want each others' body during the throes of passion. When the woman's husband, a doctor who performs transplant surgeries, hears, he is more than happy to oblige.

* One Bronze Age ''Comicbook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' story involved Flash and Hawkman trying to beam up to the Justice League satellite, only for some nutty alien creature to sneak into the teleport booth with them. The three of them arrive with their parts scrambled, and the alien's (non-speaking) personality more or less dominant across all three. Naturally, the team gets everybody returned to normal by the story's end.
* Over at ComicBook/TheFlash's own book, there was an issue where Mirror Master somehow managed to switch Flash's legs with his own, leading to the villain gaining his superspeed powers... and forcing Flash to run with his arms.

* Natalie and her dog switch heads in ''Film/MarsAttacks''

* Mombi from ''Film/ReturnToOz'' Subverts this due to the people she took the head from not getting any head in return.

* The novel ''[[Literature/{{Retief}} Retief's War]]'' by Creator/KeithLaumer has a particularly literal version: the natives of the planet Quopp are all biological robots with interchangeable parts, which they frequently trade with or steal from each other.
* [[Literature/LandOfOz Ozma of Oz]] has Princess Langwidere who switches heads like clothing putting on a different head every day. [[note]]Possibly Subverted like the above Mombi though due to the possibility of the headless body not getting anything in return.[[/note]] It's not quite clear where they came from, though at one point she does offer Dorothy to give her head in exchange for one of Langwidere's.
* Happens at one point in the Yasunari Kawabata's novel "One Arm" where the protagonist switches his [[LivingApart girlfriend's detached right arm]] with his own and then switches back to his own arm later.
* In one of the books of the Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy, the narrative mentions how uneasy people are with teleporters, and goes so far as to print a short comic song on the subject
-->''I teleported home one night, with Ron and Sid and Meg.
-->Ron stole Megan's heart away, and I got Sidney's leg.''
* In ''[[Literature/RevelationSpace Absolution Gap]]'', swapping body segments and appendages was commonplace among the [[BizarreAlienBiology scuttlers]], who colonized Hela and then went extinct. Archaeologists have inferred a social stigma against keeping too many body parts from the same source.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-291 SCP-291,]] which is an anomalous machine specifically designed to do this.

* ''Ninja Wars'' has this happen as a plot point for two girls who have their heads constantly switched around to each other's bodies.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'', an experiment of Timmy's accidentally causes him to switch heads with that of Carl's pet hamster, Mr. Wuggles.

* Zubs and Coach B from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''.

* Happens in the Canadian show ''Hoze Houndz'' where Squirt and Fontaine switch heads in a Teleportation Accident.

* Cosmo and Wanda from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' swap body parts in the episode "You-Doo".

** ''Series/UltramanTaro'': Tyrant is a chimera made of the resentful and angry spirits of deceased foes of the Ultras, it has [[Series/{{Ultraman}} Red King II's legs]], [[Series/UltraSeven Alien Icarus' ears]], [[Series/ReturnOfUltraman Seagorath's]] head, Bemstar's torso]], [[Series/UltramanAce Hanzagiran's back spikes, King Crab's tail and Barabas' arms]].

** ''Series/UltramanTaroo'': Tyrant is a chimera made of the resentful and angry spirits of deceased foes of the Ultras, it has [[Series/{{Ultraman}} Red King II's legs]], [[Series/UltraSeven Alien Icarus' ears]], [[Series/ReturnOfUltraman Seagorath's]] head, Bemstar's torso]], [[Series/UltramanAce Hanzagiran's back spikes, King Crab's tail and Barabas' arms]].

* Subverted with ''[[Series/TheOuterLimits1995 The Outer Limits]]'' episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E2Donor Donor]]" via a [[LosingYourHead Full Body Transplant]] (which is basically a synonym for Head Transplant) because while Dr. Peter Halstead ends up with Timothy Laird's body, his original body remains headless due to having cancer and Timothy Laird's head remains bodiless due to being dead.

* In ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'', there's a device that can swap body parts between two persons. [[BookDumb Nobita]] initially uses it to swap his head with Shizuka, thinking he will inherit her brain and become smarter. It doesn't work, and [[FromBadToWorse it gets even worse]] as everybody [[ButtMonkey starts forcing their unwanted body parts into him.]]

* In stage magic, some variations of the SawAWomanInHalf, Mismade, and other cutting tricks play on this.

* Subverted with ''Series/[[TheOuterLimits1995 The Outer Limits]]'' episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E2Donor Donor]]" via a [[LosingYourHead Full Body Transplant]] (which is basically a synonym for Head Transplant) because while Dr. Peter Halstead ends up with Timothy Laird's body, his original body remains headless due to having cancer and Timothy Laird's head remains bodiless due to being dead.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': In Jon's DreamSequence, many characters' heads get switched around; first his head with Garfield's, then Odie's with a Teddy Bear's, Then Odie's with Garfield's, then Garfield's with the Teddy Bear's, then back to the first one but now with Odie's head switched with the Teddy Bear's and lastly Him, Garfield and Odie's head switched around.

* Cosmo and Wanda from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' swap body parts (pictured above) in the episode "You-Doo".