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6	Say Alice and Bob teleport together but suddenly a [[TeleporterAccident random teleporting accident happens]] and Bob ends up with Alice's body, and Alice with Bob's.
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8	LEGO Body Parts is when someone switches any body part(s) between two or more people. Making this an [[AnatomyTropes appendage equivalent]] to a FreakyFridayFlip. Mind you, this trope is not just limited to teleporting accidents. MeatGrinderSurgery is another way this can happen; also, just simply interchanging body parts, which is by far most common.
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10	Compare EasilyDetachableRobotParts. A subtrope of PhysicalAttributeSwap.
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13	!!Examples:
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17	[[folder:Advertising]]
18	* Happens in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr8Jjiw6w2Q Bristol ad.]]
19	* This trope happens multiple times in a commercial about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijE_-oFmjqg Cefalex.]]
20	* Happens in a commercial for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPXGcqd0Mog&feature=channel_video_title BubbaPops]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcabZwoPmV0&feature=related Twice]] where a Cartoon Cat and a Teenage Boy switch heads after having the Bubbapop candy.
21	* Two people actually go as far as to switch heads despite one being in somewhere in North or Central America while the other is in Japan the commercial can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_qwd3_EAPU&feature=channel_video_title here.]]
22	* Happens in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BRWkpIhURo&feature=channel_video_title this advert for Renault Cars]] where 3 drivers swap heads.
23	* Played Straight in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjbII5xqG8s this commercial]] [[VideoGame/DJHero for DJ Hero 2]]. [[spoiler: Especially in the End where the White and Black DJ swap heads.]]
24	* Subverted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBqS3MYLhUQ&feature=plcp this commercial for Vivedent Cube]] where its played similar to the above Cefalex commercial only the heads detach and attach like a toy, the voice and mind come from the bodies, and the reason for being subverted is due to the other heads and the bodies getting nothing in return.
25	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jzdIc0MeU4 This halloween commercial for New Yorkers]] has a man manually replace body parts to become a woman.
26	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6ez_QlAUx0 This variation]] of the Levi's Twisted to Fit Ad features one of the guys and the woman primarily featured switching head for her to enter the Men's Restroom.
27	* There are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS5JeDo1L0E many different]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc8twEfpGog commercials]] about online banking that involves people of two separate people of different generations having their [[LosingYourHead heads detached from their bodies]] by a claw machine and then placed on the other person's body and usually have their body switched back at the end.
28	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azbxt9oWRDw This commercial]] for Old Spice has an employee switch heads with his notably older boss in a [[RetractableAppendages very]] [[LosingYourHead unusual]] [[BodyHorror way]].
29	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OwcR40Iews This commercial]] for the game H.E.D.Z has a guy who appears to play sports [[LosingYourHead take off his head]] and then place the heads of various characters in the game on his body, though it is somewhat subverted due to the guy's head being left detached instead of being placed on another body. Also the commercial is somewhat misleading due to the game itself being more about aliens wearing masks that [[WasOnceAMan were once people/animals]] than actual head swapping.
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32	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
33	* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Trafalgar Law's [[SuperpowerLottery Devil Fruit power]] enables him to change around other people's limbs without killing them. If he's feeling nice, he'll replace them with other people's body parts. if he isn't, you might end up with [[BodyHorror a bomb where your head used to be]].
34	* In ''Manga/{{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.]]
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37	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
38	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': At the end of episode 3, Big M. and Little M. accidentally land themselves in a circus act where they're placed in boxes that get cut into smaller segments and scrambled between the two. The experience ultimately leaves their heads swapped.
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41	[[folder:Comic Books]]
42	* In one issue of ''ComicBook/TheFlash'', 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.
43	* One [[MediaNotes/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.
44	* Creator/ECComics' ''The Vault of Fear'' ran a story called "Horror We? How's Bayou?" about a man named Sidney who finds victims for his [[SerialKiller homicidal maniac]] brother Everett, whom he keeps locked in a remote [[SwampsAreEvil swamp]] cabin. Eventually the dead bodies of Everett's victims arise-- and having been decapitated by Everett, they don't match up their heads with their bodies. They take revenge [[spoiler: on Sidney, not Everett]] in a very appropriate way, completely dismembering him and sticking the limbs randomly on his torso.
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47	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
48	* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': In Jon's DreamSequence,(pictured above) 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.
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51	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
52	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi9Uj3ZQxvw This scene]] in the UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} movie ''Jai Maa Durga Shakti''.
53	* The Fireys from ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' can swap heads.
54	* ''Film/LittleMonsters'' has [[TheDragon Snik]] replaces a [[TheFairFolk monster]] kid named [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Arnold]]'s head with [[NonHumanHead what seems to be a ball with a face]] after [[LosingYourHead tearing his head off]].
55	* ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' has an assortment of all four heroes' and the primary villain's body parts switched around when they are [[TeleFrag teleported to Acme industry with a Teleportation Accident result]].
56	* Natalie and her dog switch heads in ''Film/MarsAttacks''.
57	* ''Film/NinjaWars'' has this happen as a plot point for two girls who have their heads constantly switched around to each other's bodies.
58	* Mombi from ''Film/ReturnToOz'' subverts this due to the people she took the head from not getting any head in return.
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61	[[folder:Literature]]
62	* in ''Literature/ArtemisFowl: The Lost Colony'', one of Artemis' eyes is swapped with one of Holly's eyes after they travel in time magically. Holly uses magic to adjust for resulting difference in size.
63	* Happens at one point in the Yasunari Kawabata's novel ''One Arm'' where the protagonist switches his girlfriend's detached right arm with his own and then switches back to his own arm later.
64	* ''Literature/OzmaOfOz'' 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.
65	* In ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'', the narrative mentions [[TeleporterAccident how uneasy people are with teleporters]], and goes so far as to print a short comic song on the subject:
66	-->''I teleported home one night, with Ron and Sid and Meg.\
67	Ron stole Megan's heart away, and I got Sidney's leg.''
68	* ''[[Literature/{{Retief}} Retief's War]]'' 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.
69	* ''Literature/RevelationSpaceSeries'': In ''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.
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72	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
73	* Happens a lot in ''Eurotrash'', where one guy constantly switches heads with girls.
74	* ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'' subverts this when Sami fantasizes of Kate, Roman and Marlena being mannequins, and her removing Marlena's head, then removing Kate's head and placing Kate's head on Marlena's body, but subverted because both Marlena's head and Kate's body get nothing.
75	* ''Series/FutureMan'': Three people using a [[TeleporterAccident time machine with an unstable fuel supply]] end up swapping scars... and dicks.
76	* One of the gimmicks of ''Series/{{Galidor}}'' was that characters were able to "Glinch", that is, swap various body parts and gain the abilities they provide.
77	* The [=UnSub=] in the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS8E4GodComplex God Complex]]" is a skilled surgeon who thinks he can do this by cutting two people's legs and switching them with the other. It doesn't really work as much as he likes to believe it does, as none of them can really move with it.
78	* ''Series/{{Passions}}'' has this happen to Norma and Edna Wallace after Kay accidentally used a spell that [[LosingYourHead separated everyone in the areas' heads from their bodies]] and then used another spell to [[PullingThemselvesTogether reattach all their heads to their bodies]] which resulted in their heads landing in the wrong bodies.
79	* Subverted with ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' 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.
80	* In the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS3E13Spoiled Spoiled]]", two adulterers say they want the other's 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.
81	* ''Franchise/UltraSeries'': A few fusion monsters fall into this category:
82	** ''Series/UltramanAce'': Jumbo King, the series' final Choju, has many of its components' body parts mish-mashed together.
83	** ''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]].
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86	[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
87	* This is the origin of Ganesha's elephant head in Myth/HinduMythology. One day, Parvati went to take a bath and asked her son to guard the entrance. When Shiva arrived and demanded to see Parvati, Ganesha refused to let him in, and [[DisproportionateRetribution in response]] Shiva fought with him and [[OffWithHisHead cut off his head]]. Parvati [[MamaBear went mad]], and she chew out Shiva for killing the boy, whom he didn't know was his son (Parvati [[CreatingLife created him with clay]]). Feeling sorry, Shiva revived the boy and asked his men to get the head of the first animal they could find. They brought an elephant.
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90	[[folder:Toys]]
91	* Though construction toy brand Franchise/{{LEGO}} is the TropeNamer, [[RealityIsUnrealistic it's actually not all that easy]] to rearrange parts of LEGO minifigures - aside from their legs and hat, they're intended to be pretty difficult to dismantle without really trying. Of course it can still be done, more so nowadays since they started packaging heads separate from bodies, but it's not as easy to accomplish as you'd think. Toys/LEGOThemes featuring larger constructed humanoid entities like ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'' and ''Toys/HeroFactory'' play it straight with ease, and in many pre-Creator/TravellersTales LEGO video games this is exactly how designing playable minifigure characters tends to work. Also, it's rare that this trope in its conventional meaning comes into play in any LEGO theme's ExcusePlot.
92	* Toys/MrPotatoHead has swappable body parts like this.
93	* The Marvel Super Hero Mashers line is based around this trope, having swappable body parts to mix and match your heroes and villains.
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96	[[folder:Theatre]]
97	* Theatre/CrissAngelBelieve has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5gK2MxGR0M this.]]
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100	[[folder:Video Games]]
101	* ''VideoGame/Rayman1'' has the BigBad Mr. Dark flee in the middle of his final battle, and Rayman instead fights fusions of previous bosses that are pretty much parts of certain bosses picked apart and put together. One fusion takes parts from Mr. Skops and Mr. Stone, another takes parts from Moskito and Space Mama, and the last one takes parts from Moskito, Mr. Sax, and Space Mama.
102	* The titular group of ''[[VideoGame/{{Skylanders}} Skylanders: SWAP Force]]''.
103	* In ''VideoGame/StreetFighterOnlineMouseGeneration'', a player can mix Zangief's head, with a squid hat, Shin's arms, Chun-Li's legs in her ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' uniform Teiran's chest in a cheerleader uniform if they want to. Also, each part has a different trait, heads for the character's voice, arms for arm-based command and special attacks, legs for leg-based command and special attacks, and chests for different Super Combos.
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106	[[folder:Web Animation]]
107	* Zubs and Coach B from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''. One of them (it's never made clear which is which) is Bubs with Coach Z's body from the neck down, while the other is simply the reverse.
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110	[[folder:Webcomics]]
111	* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' has Black Mage and Thief have their heads swap in [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/10/21/episode-344-face-off/ here]] and [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/10/28/episode-347-they-switched-heads-not-bodies/ here]] where both their heads get "placed back"(via illusion) to their original bodies.
112	* Happens to ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'' after a TeleporterAccident. His head, arms, legs, and torso are scattered around the room, but his tail is swapped with Fluffy's.
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115	[[folder:Web Original]]
116	* The Website/SCPFoundation has [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-291 SCP-291,]] which is an anomalous machine specifically designed to do this.
117	* The Pinies from the Blog/AskPinyTwilight blog can detach their body parts, though some of them [[FloatingLimbs don't seem connected in the first place]].
118	* In ''Literature/VoidDomain'', body parts from demons can replace any missing human pieces: they bond naturally to the body and resize to fit their new host. [[spoiler:Eva Spenser]] gets new eyes and limbs, while [[spoiler:Devon]] replaces a lost arm with a {{Combat Tentacle\|s}}. [[spoiler:Then the MadScientist necromancer Sawyer starts getting creative with custom minion design.]]
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121	[[folder:Western Animation]]
122	* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
123	** It... May have happened in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJYP5Bh7uQU "With My X-Ray Eyes" song]] in episode "No More Bunny Business". Starting at 0:08 and ending at 0:10.
124	** Played as a plot point in the [[ShowWithinAShow movie within a show]] of the episode "Invasion of the Ferb Snatchers" where people's heads get switched with an alien and the [[LosingYourHead person's head is placed in a jar]].
125	* Happens in the Canadian show ''WesternAnimation/HozeHoundz'' where Squirt and Fontaine switch heads in a Teleportation Accident.
126	* ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'':
127	** Peck and Freddie switch mouths in the episode "A Catfish Called Eddie" after chewing defective Pizza Gum, which explodes.
128	** Otis and Pig switch heads in episode "Snotty and Snottier" after getting beaten up by "Phlegmy Boy".
129	* In the ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' episode "Dopes on Slopes" Dog and Rancid Rabbit switched heads under the RuleOfFunny.
130	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
131	** In the episode "You-Doo", a fight with magical [[VoodooDoll You-Doo dolls]] scrambles Cosmo and Wanda to piece and they have to put themselves back together, with results such as their heads being on each other's bodies, having each other's hair, and being attached to each other [=CatDog=]-style.
132	-->'''Cosmo:''' How do we go to the bathroom?
133	** In "Fly Boy", while trying to see a movie called 'I Was A Teenage Blowfly' ([[ButtMonkey being the only the one in Dimmsdale not allowed to watch it]]), Timmy wishes for the body of a fly so he can be a fly on the wall. Unfortunately, Poof ends up taking a cue from the movie and ends up switching Timmy's head with that of an actual fly.
134	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has this happen in the season 4 finale "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", where Robot Devil trades his musically-talented hands with Fry.
135	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' has this happen in the episode "Prehistoric Stimpy", where Ren saws off both his and Stimpy's heads and places them on each other's bodies.
136	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ChipAndDaleRescueRangers'', Prof. Nimnul invents a device that allows him to travel via phone lines. When Zipper lands on him as he's about to travel, they wind up with their heads on each other's bodies. Later, the same thing happens with Chip & Monterey Jack, and Dale with Gadget. In the end, they manage to get themselves back to normal, then Zipper uses Nimnul's device to send him to the police.
137	* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'':
138	** Johnny switched heads with a boy who has supernatural powers in one episode.
139	** In another, Johnny switched heads with a ''fly''.
140	* Eustace, Muriel, and Courage accidentally swap heads in the ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "Windmill Vandals."
141	* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "The Great Bird Man", Xergiok is shown to be able to swap his limbs, first doing so to a bird whose leg was crushed by a rock, then switching the damaged leg with Jake's leg when he almost becomes a heel again.
142	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' Gumball and Darwin make occasional use of this, such as in "The Pony" where they switch legs and "The Storm" where Gumball's head gets switched with Alan's body (Alan being a balloon).
143	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', [[BigBad Megatron]] and [[AxCrazy Inferno]] collide so hard with each other that their heads temporarily trade bodies. Megatron is furious, but [[TheHyena Inferno seems to find it hilarious.]] ''How'' it actually happens is anyone's guess (outside RuleOfFunny).
144	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', an experiment of Jimmy's accidentally causes him to switch heads with that of Carl's pet hamster, Mr. Wuggles.
145	* In one ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' cartoon, Garfield and Jon dream about switching places, with Garfield being the owner and Jon being the cat, with them switching bodies but keeping heads.
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148	[[folder:Real Life]]
149	* Transplants of any body part subvert this trope because the donor gets nothing in return. There are plans, along with excessive preparations and research, to transplant the head of a terminally ill man onto the body of a (then recently) deceased man to save the first man's life. This would be a historical first and, if successful, a major breakthrough in transplant science/medicine.
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