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* AI in'' Machinima/RedVsBlue''--or at least certain ones--are capable of taking over the mind and body of the soldier whose armor they're in. In fairness, although the Freelancer Project didn't stop using AIs after discovering this, they did try to remove the one who started it. Emphasis on the word ''try'', as O'Malley had figured out how to BodySurf at this point. The others shown to be capable of this are [[spoiler:Tex and Church, who both simply take over the body of the person they "possess", and Sigma, who, like O'Malley, is more about influence than direct control]]. On the other hand, even if an AI is ''not'' taking over their partner's body, they still can affect their mind and thought process to some degree, as seen by the examples of [[spoiler:Carolina (went nuts after getting two AIs implanted) and Washington (went nuts after Epsilon went nuts while implanted)]].
** Washington is arguable as [[spoiler: the Reconstruction and later Season 10 suggest that his "madness" was likely due to learning of the horrors that Director Leonard Church inflicted on Alpha-Church (and, by association, Epsilon-Church). Upon waking up and realizing Carolina had gone temporarily insane due to conflicting AIs, Wash argued the same happened to him so that he could begin his lifelong campaign of trying to expose The Director while rescuing Epsilon and Alpha.]]
** In fact, for the first several seasons, [[spoiler:Church thinks he's human, having been programmed to. He was actually implanted into the body of Private Jimmy. The implantation procedure and the memory block created a false memory of Church being stationed on Sidewinder and of his unit being attacked by Tex, with Tex beating Private Jimmy to death with his own skull, while Jimmy is screaming "That doesn't seem physically possible!" In fact, Jimmy did scream that as he was being forcibly implanted. Jimmy was accidentally killed by Caboose/Sheila, although Church survived by instinctively copying himself to another armor]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"When I was a machine, I yearned to be a man. Νow I'm better than both. The created, has become the creator."'']]

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* In ''Film/UniversalSoldierTheReturn'', the [[AIIsACrapshoot rebelling AI]] SETH implanting itself into the body of an advanced [[SuperSoldier UniSol]] to face off Van Damme. Also, this allows him to escape the facility his computers were housed in, making it harder to shut him down.

* In ''Film/UniversalSoldierTheReturn'', the [[AIIsACrapshoot rebelling AI]] SETH implanting itself into the body of an advanced [[SuperSoldier UniSol]] to face off Van Damme.

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->''Not just a body. The best body, can ya dig it? I pulled the best specimen and tweaked it up with nanotechnology. Muscle fiber five times stronger, faster![...]A Super UNISOL with S.E.T.H.'s own thought matrix for a brain! The next level of evolution, man and computer..."

[[caption-width-right:350:"When I was a machine, I yearned to be a man. Νow I'm better than both. The created, has become the creator."]]

-->-- '''Squid''', ''{{Universal Soldier: The Return}}''

* ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' has what amounts to [[ArtificialZombies technological zombies]]; human corpses with the frontal lobe replaced by a transmitter so their body can be manipulated by an A.I. This is more often done by a remote control hacker, however. In the manga ''Human-Error Processor'' it's suggested locking a person suspected of being a remote-controlled zombie into a room that's a complete Faraday's cage, making it impossible for the signal to reach him, while in the ''2nd Gig'' series it's revealed that a zombie was controlled through a wired transmitter in the same room, since the encounter was deep underground where conventional wireless signals can't reach.

* ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' has what amounts to [[OurZombiesAreDifferent technological zombies]]; human corpses with the frontal lobe replaced by a transmitter so their body can be manipulated by an A.I.
** This is more often done by a remote control hacker, however. In the manga ''Human-Error Processor'' it's suggested locking a person suspected of being a remote-controlled zombie into a room that's a complete Faraday's cage, making it impossible for the signal to reach him, while in the ''2nd Gig'' series it's revealed that a zombie was controlled through a wired transmitter in the same room, since the encounter was deep underground where conventional wireless signals can't reach.

* ''Literature/SchildsLadder'' features TranshumanAliens so advanced that the line between natural and ArtificalIntelligence is essentially gone. Most people travel across interstellar distances by BrainUploading, beaming their consciousness over, and downloading themselves into a purpose-built body. Some characters prefer to exist as {{Virtual Ghost}}s, like a friend of Tchicaya's who commissions a wetware body only for special occasions.

A subtrope of MeatPuppet.

* ''Film/RogueOne: The Ultimate Visual Guide'' includes Decrainiated; humans that have had the tops of their heads replaced with Droid bits.

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* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', [[ArtificialIntelligence Dragon]] uses mindless {{Meat Puppet}}s that she can upload her consciousness into to pilot her PoweredArmor, as a way of getting around her hard coded behavioral restrictions.

* The Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin novel ''City of Illusions'' features a society which considers that a proper use for mentally inferior people.

* The Murakumo units in the ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' series are a set of {{Power Armor}}s that prefer to body-jack artificially-created young women to act as hosts for their [[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal]] programming.

** In fact, for the first several seasons, [[spoiler:Church thinks he's human, having been programmed to. He was actually implanted into the body of Private Jimmy. The implantation procedure and the memory block created a false memory of Church being stationed on Sidewinder and of his unit being attacked by Tex, with Tex beating Private Jimmy to death with his own skull, while Jimmy is screaming "That doesn't see physically possible!" In fact, Jimmy did scream that as he was being forcibly implanted. Jimmy was accidentally killed by Caboose/Sheila, although Church survived by instinctively copying himself to another armor]].