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* ''Stone Island''. Harry's transformation into one of the creatures, which starts with him literally puking his guts out and doesn't stop until he's a seven-foot-tall monstrosity with no eyelids, a [[Slasher Smile|permanent grin]] in a distorted face, and hideously lengthened skull.
* ''[[Global Frequency]]'' kicks off with a story about a man who has been engineered into a killing machine. Literally. His body is half gone. His cock has been connected with the parts of his brain that spark up when he kills things. He's still sentient... but just barely.
** In a later story, a Frequency agent investigates a medical facility dealing in top-of-the-line stem cell research that's cut off all communications to the outside world. Turns out the doctors went insane from the gas leak and decided to build a temple to the wonder of the human body. Using all the patients as bricks, and the stem cell technology as mortar. And they're all ''still alive''.
* [[Plastic Man]] veers into this territory sometimes.
* In [[DC Comics]], one ''[[Superman]]'' issue saw him fly to the edge of Creation fighting Darkseid and, lo, they beheld... an infinitely vast wall of living, breathing, '''screaming''' flesh and faces that act as the "wall" between Creation and the nothingness beyond, the Source Wall. Its current form is apparently made of everyone who's ever tried and failed to pass through it and discover the secrets hidden on its other side.
* Oftentimes characters who are effectively immortal or have "healing factors" will venture into this territory. ''The Ultimate X-Men'' version of Wolverine has been subjected to such horrors as regrowing his entire body after being decapitated and having the flesh stripped entirely off his bones but still being alive. Orson Scott Card's "Ultimate Iron Man" gives Tony Stark similar powers (for some reason) and has many creepy scenes of him regrowing his various severed limbs (which he loses so often, it basically becomes a running joke). In a particularly strange example, the Savage Dragon had the mood spoiled during sex when he and his girlfriend are horrified by the sight of his severed arm suddenly and unexpectedly regenerating in a gruesome fashion.
* There was an 80s (90s?) issue of [[Captain America (comics)]] vs Batroc, where the U.S. Agent side-story in the latter part featured a guy who appeared to be undergoing extreme steroid enhancement(to the point that he was paralyzed due to his muscles expanding too much to allow movement).
* Explored in "What If The [[Fantastic Four]] All Had The Power Of The Thing?"
** Speaking of the Fantastic Four, Reed Richards' stretching can cause mild body horror sometimes. Especially if you think about what stretching like that would feel like.
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