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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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