History Main / WetwareBody

->''"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..."''

* Link, evil A.I. of ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'' can possess the body of specific (from the same family, autistic) and specially trained woman, wiping out her personality in process. Creepy part starts when it starts speaking in A.I. voice...
* In ''Literature/AncillaryJustice'', Radchaai warships have AIs linked to many such bodies (the titular ancillaries, also called "corpse soldiers", made mainly from prisoners taken during Radchaai planetary conquests) in a HiveMind. The protagonist, formerly the warship ''Justice of Toren'', is one such AI that has been reduced to a single remaining body.

* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Entity", an alien computer intelligence that had previously taken over the base's computer system jumps to and takes over Samantha Carter's body in order to communicate its intentions.
* In the Season 7 episode of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' entitled "Body & Soul", the Doctor has to hide from a race who doesn't allow photonics. He downloads his program into Seven of Nine's consciousness and takes temporary control of her body, using it to indulge himself in way he wouldn't normally be able to do. Primarily by overeating and getting intoxicated. HilarityEnsues.

* Occurs in the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Bodyswap" where Rimmer and Lister switch bodies, since by that point Rimmer is in fact a hologram created from a digital copy of his formerly organic (and alive) self. Since Rimmer hadn't been alive for well over three million years, HilarityEnsues.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "The Grid", a cognitive computer known as a neural network processor was designed by the US government and a private company to communicate electromagnetically with the human brain so that messages could be sent directly to soldiers in the field. The small town of Halford, Washington was used a testing ground and dozens of antenna towers were installed for that purpose. Over the course of several years, the computer was able to take over the minds of almost everyone in town. When Scott Bowman visits Halford after the death of his brother Peter, he discovers what the computer is doing and it communicates with him by speaking through several townspeople.
* The second episode of the 2010/2012 Series/DirkGently television series features an artificial intelligence [[spoiler:downloading itself into the mind of a braindead girl.]]

* ''Film/DeadlyFriend'': The [[ArtificialZombie combination]] of {{Robot|Buddy}} PoisonousFriend B.B.'s CPU and recently dead girlfriend Sam.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

* {{Nanomachines}} in ''VideoGame/ThirteenSentinelsAegisRim'' can allow AI to [[SharingABody inhabit]] biologically human bodies as "simulated personalities", which can [[SplitPersonalityTakeover override the original]] with proper preparations--or the body can be [[ArtificialHuman constructed]] ''for'' the AI without having an original personality. The same setting also has BrainUploading, effectively letting people transfer their minds into the bodies of others.

* The ending of ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'' reveals that [[spoiler: SHODAN had possessed Rebecca Siddons' body through an implant she found earlier in the game.]]

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A subtrope of MeatPuppet. See also MeatSackRobot.

Note: Becoming a Wetware Body means '''you are the host''', not the possessor. For the other way around, see {{Wetware CPU}}. Do not confuse with WetSariScene.

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* In ''Literature/AncillaryJustice'', Radchaai warships have AIs linked to many such bodies (the titular ancillaries) in a HiveMind. The protagonist is one such AI that has been reduced to a single remaining body.

A subtrope of MeatPuppet. See Also, MeatSackRobot.

* "Bioshells" in the world of the ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' setting ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'' are [[ArtificialHuman "bioroids"]] (or more rarely, reconstructed corpses, known as "necromorphs") whose brains have been replaced by electronic hardware so they can be used as a body by an AI or a "ghost" {{Brain Upload}}ing. [=AIs=] occupying biological bodies are regarded as a MechanicalAbomination in many places, due to fears about digital intelligences impersonating and seeking to replace humanity. The only standard exception to this prohibition is granted to ghosts, who may occupy a shell based on a clone of their former body.

* Bioshells from the TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} setting ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'' are [[ArtificialHuman bioroids]] (or more rarely, reconstructed corpses) whose brains have been replaced with hardware so they can be used as a shell for an AI or [[BrainUploading Ghost]].

* The Defenders features Ruby Thursday a villain with a malleable plastic computer replacing her head in complementing the other members of The Headmen who have odd heads as their theme.

* This turns out to be the goal of [[spoiler: [=AI=] Junko]], the BigBad of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', who [[spoiler: hijacked the virtual reality therapy program]] in order to [[spoiler: force the students into a killing game, where their avatars would be deleted and she could take over their bodies and wreak havoc on the world. And it turns out ''[[CultOfPersonality they]]'' were the ones who set up the plan themselves, before their memories were erased.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' stars an antagonist A.I. named XANA, who later into the series gains the ability to possess living creatures, its logo usually illuminates and appears in a person's eyes or forehead [[GlamourFailure to reveal this]].

* The servitors in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' are either former humans or purpose-grown bodies with their brains lobotomized and largely replaced by machinery, and are used as a plentiful source of manual labor.

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

* In ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', Smith escapes into the real world through Bane's body.