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{{quote|''"Sometimes, dead is better."''|The [[Central Theme]] of '''[[Pet Sematary]]'''}}
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== Anime ==
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', attempts at reviving dead people with alchemy creates a badly-constructed human body made from chemical elements. This body, which has no soul or consciousness and only the most rudimentary of biological functions, inevitably expires within moments of its 'birth'.
** In [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|the 2003 anime version]], however, attempts at reviving dead people with alchemy create homunculi. Homonculi are beings with the same chemical makeup and appearance as the human that was supposed to be resurrected, but they have [[The Soulless|no souls]] or [[The Sociopath|conscience]]. As a result of having no soul they cannot perform alchemy, but instead have a single alchemy-related super power. Many of the homonculi are [[Beta Test Baddie
* The priestess Kikyo from [[Inuyasha]] is brought back in a clay body, but the body itself is soulless. Kagome's soul, being a reincarnation, was needed to complete the ritual, but it was interrupted so the only thing Kikyo was able to gain was the anger and hatred for Inuyasha. She then needs to feed on the souls of the dead in order to stay "alive."
* [[Yandere (disambiguation)|Yuno]] of ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'' realizes this during the first time loop. She and Yukiteru, who are in a relationship, decide on a lover's suicide. However, Yuno doesn't swallow her pills purposefully, so that she can become God and resurrect Yuki. However, when she does, [[Deus Ex Machina|Deus]] tells her that it is impossible to resurrect a soul.
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{{quote|'''Gillian:''' That's OK! Jimmy was already dark and unnatural!}}
* Ripley in ''[[Alien|Alien Resurrection]]''. Ripley 8 is the most successful clone, though she's meaner than the original and has a disturbing affinity with xenomorphs. [[Body Horror|Ripley 1 through 7, on the other hand...]]
* {{spoiler|Subverted}} in ''[[Black Death (film)|Black Death]]''. Osmund's lover Averill was {{spoiler|injured, but still alive, and drugged into a death-like state so that when the drugs wore off she would be "resurrected" and the woman who drugged her would be worshiped as a miracle-worker.}} [[It Got Worse|Unfortunately]], when Osmund finds her {{spoiler|the drugs have yet to wear off completely, turning her into [[The Ophelia]] and making it seem like a case of
* The Necro-Overs (NEVER for short) from ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]: A to Z The Gaia Memories of Fate''. Katsumi was previously a very good person and not all that evil, in fact he loved his mother dearly. Then she used the Necro-Over project to bring him back after his accidental death. However, when he was brought back, instead of the kind, caring son she once had, he's a [[Complete Monster]] who wants everyone to be turned into 'monsters' like he is. When he's finally destroyed, he laughs at how it feels to die. It's unknown why, but he may have just been glad to be dead again.
** [[Retcon]]'d in his spin-off movie. Apparently, he was still normal when he was revived, as were the others. However, during a mission involving Foundation X, a girl he only knew for a day died along with a bunch of other psychics, and this apparently drove Daido to insanity and thus lead into the events of the above movie.
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** During ''The End of Time'', Lucy sabotages the Master's resurrection, leaving him bleeding energy and eating anything he can get his hands on, including people. On the upside, he gets quite a few super-powers out of the deal, even if they're part of the [[Cast From Hit Points|bleeding life-force]] deal.
** While they don't really die in the process, Timelords in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' have the ability to regenerate, whereby they lose their former personality and looks, but get a new lifespan and heal any wounds, poisonings, etc. It is, strictly speaking, not coming back, but being reborn. Still, close enough for a mention.
* This trope is the impetus for ''[[Torchwood]]'': after being killed by Daleks in ''Doctor Who'', Jack
* Just about any dead thing brought back (or not completely dead/outliving its normal life/becoming immortal) in the ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' Universe: ghosts, demons, zombies... Dean even lampshades it when {{spoiler|Bobby's wife returns from the dead apparently normal. Dean being [[Genre Savvy]] and not clouded by emotions, proves to be right.}}
** Also pointed out by Yellow Eyes after Dean makes a deal to bring Sam back to life- he asks Dean if he thinks that maybe the deal sounds too good to be true and if Sam's been brought back different.
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* In [[Mortasheen]] this is a bit weird. For, you see, zombies here can regenerate from any injury with few lethal effects, given that they have a ridiculously powerful [[Healing Factor]] and a consciousness distributed all over their body. But, sometimes as they're regenerating, they may accidentally get the organic tissue of some other lifeform stuck in theirs, like say that of a snail or a tree. And then things go [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/escarghoul.htm a bit] [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/wormroot.htm awry]...
* In ''[[Ars Magica]]'', a game where one of the [[Magic A Is Magic A|hard and fast rules]] of [[Functional Magic|Hermetic Magic]] is that it can't bring back the dead, there ''is'' a spell that can bring back the dead... sort of. But you have to roll on a table to see what goes wrong (not ''if'' something goes
* The [[Dungeons and Dragons]] 3.5 edition spell Reincarnation had a good chance of bringing the reincarnated character back as something other than what they were before. The consequences of bringing an elf back as a dwarf (or vice versa) would be quite silly, though.
** Earlier editions had a fair number of animals on the list. The elf might come back as a badger. The old [[Planescape]] setting actually had a group whose special abilities included having Reincarnation guaranteed to at least give you a player character race.
** [[Pathfinder]] has the same spell, though a more player friendly version of it. This is unsurprising, as Pathfinder has the [[Fan Nickname]] of D&D 3.75, and over time each edition of D&D after AD&D has been less cruel to the player characters.
** This has also been used to create horror, such as when the elf is reincarnated as an orc or a bugbear or something else which is simply terrifying to them.
** [[Ravenloft]] exploits
** [[Eberron]], due to the orbital movements of the planes, sets the reliability of any spell that brings back the dead by the proximity of the plane of death. When Dolurrh is furthest from Eberron those spells don't work at all, at it's closest point the resurrectee has a chance of being brought back with someone else's soul or possessed by a demon, or accompanied by a horde of ghosts.
* In a mix of 4 and 5, the Black Savants of ''[[Talislanta]]'' were once living necromancers in Khazad, before the Great Disaster. Their people chose to die temporarily to avoid the predicted catastrophe, expecting they'd be returned to life once things had calmed down. But the spells to resurrect them failed, and the majority of Khazad's souls were lost in extraplanar realms of demons and ghosts. The few who ''did'' revive, did so in mute, undead bodies. Now, these Black Savants work endlessly to locate the lost souls of their people and bring Khazad back from the dead. Oh, and creep the hell out of other Talislantans.
* In ''The World Of Darkness'', particularly in [[New World of Darkness|more recent game-lines]], there are a number of different ways to bring a recently deceased person back from the dead. ''None'' of them result in a mentally- or spiritually-sound being. Here's a quick run: you can make a Revenant out of them, but that gives you a zombie with a supercharged case of OCD. You can try [[Vampire: The Requiem|Embracing]] them, but now they're a vampire and, since you Embraced them ''after'' death, their reflection/shadow has come loose and become a separate being that hates them. Making a [[Promethean: The Created|Promethean]] out of them opens the door to a laundry list of problems.<ref>(Not the least of which is that the "resurrectee" is [[That Man Is Dead|actually a whole different person]]. The previous occupant / soul is gone, the Promethean is a wholly new being)</ref>
** In the [[Old World of Darkness]], there was at least one method that would return the deceased, no matter how long they were dead, with no side effects. The catch? The ritual to do so requires fighting the avatar of the literal [[The Grim Reaper|God of Death]]. Guess what happens if you lose.
*** Another option was to have a soul-shard happen across the recently deceased and make a deal. This one got them brought back better than before, as one of [[Mummy: The Resurrection|the Amenti]], the Reborn. No matter how often they died again, they could resurrect without a hitch (well, barring the waiting period). The OWOD was a bit kinder on this front than the NWOD.
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* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', the [[Big Bad]] plans to revive his [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Big Sister]] by turning people into empty shells while they're ''still alive'', so that he can basically download her soul into them. There's also Tabatha, a [[Robot Girl|living doll]] who's a mechanical body that looks and sounds just like his sister, but who apparently wasn't actually able to house her soul. By the end of the game, it's shown that Tabatha is capable of it after all, suggesting that Martel simply refused to enter her body the first time. In the one case where the soul transfer ''does'' work with a living body, she is shown to be horrified by her brother's efforts, and gives the body back to its original owner shortly after.
* In ''[[Alan Wake]]'', Thomas Zane tried to bring back his love Barbara through the [[Rewriting Reality]] powers the [[Eldritch Abomination|Dark Presence]] in Cauldron Lake gave writers. Unfortunately, he left a [[Plot Hole]] by not giving a reason for how she came back, leaving the Dark Presence to [[Humanoid Abomination|create its own reason]]...
** Even if he did have a reason, it would have to be a reason ''internally consistent with the narrative''
* In [[Shin Megami Tensei]], {{spoiler|[[Alice in Wonderland|Alice]] }} is a recurrent character. The problem is, how did {{spoiler|she}} die in the first place? And exactly how deep is the damage? There's this fella in [[Strange Journey]], and he provides a very comprehensive answer to why a character once known for deep love for all things came back as an unrepentant, undead sorcerous sadist... and it ain't pretty.
** Also in ''[[Strange Journey]]'', {{spoiler|Commander Gore is killed shortly into the mission, but restored as an "Ubergestalt" by the "Mothers" of the Schwarzwelt. It seems like it's this trope all over, what with his mindless gaze, otherwordly presence, and obvious manipulation by the goddesses... until you break him loose from the mind control and not only does he regain his humanity, but he gains supernatural brilliance over the Schwarzwelt and mankind's future}}.
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* The Boss in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]: Peace Walker'' is revived as a computer facsimile of her mind. Her ability to express humanity is somewhat stunted and it's strongly suggested she is suicidal.
** In the original ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', Gray Fox, Snake's [[Tragic Bromance|best friend]], is returned to life as a highly-unstable, experimental, insane cyborg alternating between [[Death Seeker|craving death]], [[Omnicidal Maniac|craving the death of everyone else]], and [[Stalker with a Crush|trying to get Snake to fight him to the death so he can find peace]].
* Death knights in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' clearly
** ''Cataclysm'' gives us the Rotbrain, which are the new villains of Deathknell. One priest sadly notes that they seem human outside, but are sick within. They eventually rally and plan to take over the town, and must be killed.
{{quote|'''[[Elite Mook|Marshal Redpath]]:''' I'm a monster, don't look at me!}}
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