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A living being made of living beings.

 

 

If this creature is even vaguely human-like, it may look like a nightmare version of conjoined twins, or it is a hulking abomination made of various parts of human flesh, sometimes skinless, often possessing extra limbs, organs and heads where they really shouldn't belong. Unlike Frankie expies, which tend to be of human-like intelligence or slightly below average, Flesh Golems don't usually have any intelligence to speak of - despite being made of human beings they are essentially robots only capable of obeying simple commands.

 

Can also be a [[Hybrid Monster]] if its parts belong to living beings of different species. See also [[The Worm That Walks]] for creatures made of live insects. See also [[Biological Mashup]], [[Mix-and-Match Man]] and [[Biopunk]].

 

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* ''[[Franken Fran]]'' mostly features plain Frankenstein's monsters (including the main characters) and [[Mix-and-Match Critters]], but various flavours of Flesh Golems appear as well.

* {{spoiler|Envy}}'s true form in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' is all of the bodies of the people whose souls were used to make it, fused together.

 

* Harvest, a monstrous amalgamation of the bodies of past experiments of Poison Ivy, that came after Ivy in the [[Batman]] comics, sending her begging to the Dark Knight for protection.

 

* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' some of the members of the [[Flying Dutchman]]'s crew don't fuse to each other as much as they all fuse into the ship, but the concept is similar.

* ''[[The Human Centipede]]'', in a way.

* ''[[Basket Case]] 2'' ends with Duane sewing Belial to his side.

 

* The Absorbaloff from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' is made up of the people it absorbs.

 

* Various flesh golems of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. Some of them, like a walking cemetery that goes around collecting corpses to add to itself, as well as illithid-made ''brain'' golems, were featured at the top list of stupidest D&D monsters ever for failing to convey horror. Others... [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|don't fail to do so]].

** A Zombie Golem is a variant from the [[Ravenloft]] setting; the body parts used to build one must have previously been animated zombies.

* ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' gives us the Vozhdt, a T-rex sized mountain of ghouls all merged into a single, horrifying creature with the power of [[Body Horror|vissicitude]]. The Tzimisce use them as siege weapons against the Camarilla, and the mere sight of one is said to be able to drive its victims mad with fear.

 

* ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]:'' [[Expansion Pack|''Hordes of the Underdark'']], being D&D-bssed, featured a Frankenstein-like flesh golem. Further into the Underdark, the Golem Master subquest featured an island-scale war between loyal flesh golems and rebelling metal golems. The leader of flesh golem faction is made of ''daemonic'' flesh.

* ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' I & II has Flesh Golems, particularly II.

* Brigade from ''[[Marvel Nemesis]]''.

* ''[[Clive Barker's Jericho]]'' features two forms of flesh golems. While the "Sumerian Puppet" is almost certainly non-sentient and (as the name implies) only moves according to Enlil pulling its strings, the "Corpses Behemoth" consist of hundreds of humans merged together into one giant monstrosity with a single mind.

 

* ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]'' features the lustful mass of bodies in a way of the Valley of Lust, as well as a creature that is, essentially, a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|humongous spiked dickzilla made of fused furries]].

 

* In ''[[South Park]]'' there is a creature who haunts the mountain called Scuzzlebutt, which has Patrick Duffy for a leg.

* Alpha from ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]'' somehow fused himself with a number of still-living alien monsters.

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Though conjoined twins are an obvious inspiration for variations of this trope, they are completely natural and therefore hardly a "golem" per se.

 

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