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** In Marvel's ''Mutopia X'', Agent Popova (after a failed assassination attempt on Daniel Kaufman) was blackmailed into performing favors for Kaufman by having her surgically altered into what many might consider a hideous (or beautiful) mutant appearance.
* Charles Burns' ''Black Hole''. The entire graphic novel centers around teenagers who are tragically mutated and disfigured by a fictional sexually-transmitted disease.
* Played for laughs in several [[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]] ''Treehouse of Horror'' comics. Most notable example is "Sideshow Blob", where criminal Sideshow Bob (who has a bad cold) is injected with the wrong vaccine by Dr Nick Rivera and turns into a rampaging blob monster.
* If you think about it, [[Bee-Bee Gun|Swarm the Nazi-Made-Of-Bees]]. He was a Nazi scientist studying bees who [[I Love Nuclear Power|exposed them to radiation]], only for them to mutate and [[Family-Unfriendly Death|devour him down to his bones.]] These bees apparently had a [[Hive Mind]], which he became, and lived on as a man made of bees, sometimes wrapped around his human skeleton, sometimes not. This has never really been explored, perhaps because of the absurdity of a colony of telepathic bees with Nazi sympathies, but being devoured and becoming a colony of bees sounds like it would be pretty damn traumatic.
** Venom eventually ate the skeleton, but because you can't keep a good Bee-Nazi down, Swarm can now create new bodies by possessing a queen bee and using her hive. He's gone from horrific to pure [[Paranoia Fuel]], a rather impressive feat for a fairly lame villain.
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* We learn something like this happened to Johnny Storm while he was held captive by Annihilus. He is repeatedly killed, only to be brought back to life, often times stitched back by worms... it's not very lovely.
* ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Collapsing New Empires]]'' has Luke's [[Artificial Limbs|prosthetic right hand]] get infected by an "art virus" that makes it [http://images.plurk.com/226a6f3f34ebf812cd4a315d1f0d756c.jpg progressively get larger and more ungainly] until it's a mass as large as his torso and he cuts it off.
* One of the most inept villain teams in Marvel are the Headsmen, four [[Mad Scientist]] types who each have this due to some failed experiment or accident. The current roster is:
** Arthur Nagan, their leader, who once performed cruel vivisection experiments on gorillas in Africa, intending to find a way to use gorilla organs in humans. He was thwarted when the gorillas took revenge, transplanting his head on a gorilla's body. At least that's how ''he'' tells it, leaving out important details like how the gorillas gained the smarts to do such a thing.
** Dr. Jerold Morgan (AKA Shrunken Bones) a scientist who accidentally shank his skeleton (but not the rest of himself) while doing crude experiments with shrinking gas. ([[Ant-Man| Hank Pym]] would perfect this idea a few months later.) As a result, the once-handsome Morgan's skin hangs loosely from his bones.
** Thursday Rubinstein, aka Ruby Thursday. The only member with somewhat useful powers, she somehow managed to replace her own head with a mass of "organic circuitry," a red spherical orb that can mimic all the functions of a human's head and grans her several powers, like energy projection and malleable appendages. Still looks pretty ridiculous.
** Chondu the Mystic, the fourth member, initially had no deformity, but the team loused up their first scheme so badly, he became the worst example of this trope among them. His body - except his head - was destroyed, and Nagan's attempts to build him a new one gave him a monstrous hybrid body with bat wings, clawed feet and eight lampreys for arms; while his head was intact, it now had a forked tongue and a unicorn's horn. Most of the Headmen's schemes from then on centered on obtaining a better body for him, never with any real success.
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