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If a character has this set up to happen ''every'' time they die, it confers a type of [[Immortality]]. If this is the case for everyone in a setting, it causes [[Death Is Cheap]].
If the body is already "occupied" by another consciousness and was not specifically prepared for this, it's [[Body Surf]], instead.
See also [[Brain Uploading]], [[Born as an Adult]], [[Justified Extra Lives]], [[Only One Me Allowed Right Now]], and [[Heart Drive]].
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== Comic Books ==
* Spartan from ''[[Wild CATS]]'' had this ability, being an android and all.
* ''[[T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents|THUNDER Agents]]'': NoMan is a dead scientist whose brain/conciousness resides in a robot body; when he's in danger of being destroyed he can transfer to a new robot. But if his robot body is destroyed while he's still in it, he dies.
* ''[[Alpha Flight]]'': The handicapped Robert Bochs has a robot body called Box which he can transfer into and out of at will. During one story arc when Walter Langkowski (Sasquatch) dies his consciousness is transferred to Box until they can find him a new body. They think they found one out in deep space, but it turns out that it's [[The Hulk]]. Langkowski decides to let his soul dissipate.
* The ''[[Dark Empire]]'' comics had the reborn Emperor as the [[Big Bad]], and it's mentioned that he kept a number of cloned bodies for the purpose of this trope.
* In the [[Marvel Universe]], the original Hate-Monger is what you get if you apply this concept to [[Adolf Hitler]].
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* In ''[[Altered Carbon]]'' everyone is implanted with a cortical stack that essentially acts as a hard drive for the brain and allows people to be [[Brain Uploading|"resleeved"]] in a new body when they die. However most people can't afford to be resleeved more than once and unless they shell out a lot of cash they have to go through the whole aging process again.
* ''[[Skinned]]'':
** The "mechs" are like this. Every night, they have to manually upload the events of that day to a backup hard drive held by the organization that built the mechs, which is then uploaded to a new body should something happen. Note that this is only for mechs who live a conventional life; those off the grid have no means of saving a backup.
** The main character, Lia Kahn, gets into a car accident that does so much damage that the doctors at the hospital downloaded a copy of her personality into an artificial body and her organic body is, for all intents and purposes, dead. Lia is not happy about this because in the setting of the novel, people who have artificial bodies are subjected to [[Fantastic Racism]].
* In the short story ''[[Learning To Be Me]]'', everyone has a Jewel implanted in their brains at birth. Said jewel is a quantum computer that constantly updates itself to think and experience life like the person's brain. Eventually, the brain is removed, and the people live as the jewel.
* Backups are ubiquitous in ''[[The Culture]]'', the Chel religion favors "soulcatcher" implants in their heads that can be recovered and [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|"sublimed"]].
* In the [[Orson Scott Card]] short story ''Fat Farm'', the protagonist, a glutton, has his mind moved to new, svelte cloned bodies on a regular basis. The [[Karmic Twist Ending]] is that the "cast-off bodies," who expect to be coddled, are instead pressed into slave labor. The 'original' is their boss.
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* VitaStations serve a similar function for the protagonists of ''[[Bioshock]]'' and the sequel.
** And in ''[[System Shock]]'', the series to which ''[[Bioshock]]'' is a [[Spiritual Successor]], each level had a machine that would revive you once you've hacked/reset it. (Before that, dying on that level gets you turned into yet another cyborg zombie.)
* Yes Man in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' is the king of this trope. Every time the player character kills him, he is just uploaded in another robot. This could go forever, making him one of the few immortal characters in the game. The same also goes for Victor, at least until you reach Vegas.
* [[Big Bad|Kane]] dies [[Once an Episode|in each game]] of the Tiberium timeline of the ''[[Command
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