LEGO Body Parts



Say Alice and Bob teleport together but suddenly a random teleporting accident happens and Bob ends up with Alice's body, and Alice with Bob's.

LEGO Body Parts is when someone switches any body part(s) between two or more people. Making this an appendage equivalent to a Freaky Friday Flip. Mind you, this trope is not just limited to teleporting accidents. Meatgrinder Surgery is another way this can happen; also, just simply interchanging body parts, which is by far most common.

Advertising

 * Happens in a Bristol ad.
 * This trope happens multiple times in a commercial about Cefalex.
 * Happens in a commercial for BubbaPops Twice where a Cartoon Cat and a Teenage Boy switch heads after having the Bubbapop candy.
 * 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 here.
 * Happens in this advert for Renault Cars where 3 drivers swap heads.
 * Played Straight in this commercial for DJ Hero 2.

Anime and Manga

 * In One Piece, Trafalgar Law's 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 a bomb where your head used to be.

Films

 * Ninja Wars has this happen as a plot point for two girls who have their heads constantly switched around to each other's bodies.
 * Looney Tunes: Back in Action has an assortment of all four heroes' and the primary villain's body parts switched around when they are teleported to Acme industry with a Teleportation Accident result.
 * The Fireys from Labyrinth can swap heads.
 * Natalie and her dog switch heads in Mars Attacks (Film).
 * Mombi from Return to Oz Subverts this due to the people she took the head from not getting any head in return.
 * This scene in the Bollywood movie Jai Maa Durga Shakti.

Literature

 * in Artemis Fowl: 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 resuling difference in size.
 * The novel Retief's War by Keith Laumer 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.
 * Ozma of Oz has Princess Langwidere who switches heads like clothing putting on a different head every day.

Live Action TV

 * Happens a lot in Eurotrash, where one guy constantly switches heads with girls.
 * Days of Our Lives 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.
 * One of the gimmicks of Galidor was that characters were able to "Glinch", that is, swap various body parts and gain the abilities they provide.

Newspaper Comics

 * In Jon's Dream Sequence 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.

Toys

 * Though construction toy brand LEGO is the Trope Namer, 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. LEGO Themes featuring larger constructed humanoid entities like Bionicle and Hero Factory play it straight with ease, and in many pre-Travellers Tales 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 Excuse Plot.
 * Mr. Potato Head.

Webcomics

 * 8-Bit Theater has Black Mage and Thief have their heads swap in here and here where both their heads get placed back to their original bodies.

Web Original

 * Zubs and Coach B from Homestar Runner.
 * The SCP Foundation has SCP-291, which is an anomalous machine specifically designed to do this.

Western Animation

 * It... May have happened in the "With My X-Ray Eyes Song" in Phineas and Ferb episode "No More Bunny Buisness". Starting at 0:08 and ending at 0:10.
 * Played as a plot point in the Movie within a Show of the episode "Invasion of the Ferb Snatchers" where People's heads get switched with an alien and the person's head is placed in a jar.
 * Happens in the Canadian show called Hoze Houndz where Squirt and Fontaine switch heads in a Teleportation Accident.
 * Back at the Barnyard has Peck and Freddie switch mouths in the episode "A Catfish Called Eddie" after chewing defective Pizza Gum, which explodes.
 * Otis and Pig switch heads in episode "Snotty and Snottier" after getting beaten up by "Phlegmy Boy".
 * In the Cat Dog episode "Dopes on Slopes" Dog and Rancid Rabbit switched heads under the Rule of Funny.
 * Cosmo and Wanda from Fairly Oddparents swap body parts (pictured above) in the episode "You-Doo".
 * Futurama has this happen once where Robot Devil trades his musician's hands with Fry.
 * Ren and Stimpy 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.
 * Johnny Bravo switched heads with a boy in one episode.

Real Life

 * Transplants of any body part subvert this trope because the donor gets nothing in return.
 * In stage magic, some variations of the Saw a Woman In Half trick play on this.