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Alternately, this might ''actually'' be a [[Soulless Shell]] whose sociopathic tendencies are due to the conscious mind reacting violently to becoming [[The Soulless|Soulless]]. Or maybe [[Demonic Possession]]. These unhappy Lazarenes are probably [[Stepford Smiler|Stepford Smilers]], [[Mad Artist|Mad Artists]], or [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]]. Compare [[Resurrection Sickness]], where the soul is fine, and side-effects are due to "jet lag".

 

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Inuyasha]]'', once the resurrected Kikyou regains part of her soul, she goes from an [[Empty Shell]] to consumed by the rage and bitterness with which she'd died. Her first act is to blast Urasue, who'd resurrected her, into oblivion, and she spends quite a while afterwards trying to kill Inuyasha, Kagome, or both together. She actually regained all of her soul initially, but most of it was returned to her reincarnation, Kagome. Which was why in all her later appearances Kikyou had to take the souls of recently deceased women to survive. Whether she destroyed those souls in the process or merely borrowed them temporarily is never made clear, but aside from the soul-eating bit she ''eventually'' focuses her attention on destroying the [[Big Bad]], who should have been the target of her anger in the first place.