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Villains who plan to come back from the dead as a [[One-Winged Angel]] may vacillate between a [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]] and an [[Inhuman Human]], depending on their sanity. Regardless, this particular type of resurrection is the most likely to [[Cursed With Awesome|curse the resurrectee with powers.]] These unlucky souls will likely become a [[Vampire Refugee]], [[Reluctant Monster]] or [[Body Horror]] that [[Can't Stay Normal]].

* At the beginning of the ''[[Hellboy (Film)|Hellboy]]'' film, Grigori Rasputin gets killed and sucked into the Void. Sixty years later, Ilsa Haupstein and Karl Ruprect Kroenen summon him back to Earth. Rasputin is fine, except he's missing his eyes, and he's got a [[Eldritch Abomination|tentacled monster]] in his gut.

* In the series [[Mortal Engines]], cyborg soldiers called "Stalkers" (no, [[Stalker With a Crush|not that kind]]) can be made. They are essentially robotic components and a robot brain in a human body, but two of them (Stalker Shrike and {{spoiler|the Anna version of Stalker Fang's second incarnation}}) are closer to Inhuman Humans. Shrike is capable of genuine emotion and love, treating Hester Shaw like a daughter and {{spoiler|deeply mourning her death, going into a coma for several thousand years}}–though he is [[Body Horror|nowhere]] [[Uncanny Valley|near]] [[Humanoid Abomination|a physical]] [[Back From the Dead|human being.]] {{spoiler|Stalker-Anna}} doesn't even inhabit the [[Uncanny Valley]], and even when her death-mask is wrenched off, she does not have a lot of [[Body Horror]]. Of course, she's younger than Shrike, to the tune of about a thousand years, but she actually approaches [[Cute Monster Girl]] territory once or twice, and is almost the same as the real {{spoiler|Anna Fang}}. The only difference is that she's...[[Captain Obvious|dead]].

* Shadow's wife Laura from ''[[American Gods (Literature)|American Gods]]'' is an [[Inhuman Human]]. Her chemically preserved body slowly decomposes, but she still loves her husband and behaves like a normal human (aside from a certain flatness of affect, and her unnerving willingness to kill anyone who poses a threat to Shadow).

* One of the favorite tropes of [[HP Lovecraft]].

* The short story the "Monkey's Paw". The paw allowed someone to make three wishes, but they would all be answered in a way that brought misfortune on the wisher. So, when the Mom wants to [[The Necromantic|resurrect the son]] who died because of the [[Be Careful What You Wish For|first wish]] by being [[Death By Disfigurement|caught in an industrial machine]], she wishes the [[Back From the Dead|son back to life]]. A few creepy paragraphs later the disfigured abomination that is their son is [[Nightmare Fuel|pounding on the door, with the mother desperately wanting to embrace it]] emphasis on the IT. Finally, the Dad wishes his son to have peace, with the mother opening the door to a cold, empty street. Needless to say, [[Tear Jerker|it sucks for her.]]

* In the ''[[The X Files]]'' episode "Je Souhaite", the stoner who found the genie wishes for invisibility and is promptly run over by a truck. His best friend uses his wishes to reanimate him and then give him a voice. The end result? A screaming yellow zombie who quickly decides to kill his friend and re-kill himself when he opens up the gas and lights a match.

* In the original ''[[Star Trek the Original Series]]'' pilot (reused in the two part episode "The Menagerie"), [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] save a dying woman who crash lands on their planet, but she was in very bad shape and ends up a horrific mess due to their unfamiliarity with what humans are supposed to look like. Luckily, to make it up to her, their mental powers allow her to see herself as much more attractive than she actually was.

** Fourth Edition did away with ''Reincarnate'': with ''Raise Dead'' (a type of resurrection that averts all versions of this trope) available to 8th level characters as a ''[[Hermetic Magic|ritual]]'' now, there's no reason (at least from a gameplay perspective) to bring back ''Reincarnation,'' which was always the poor man's ''Raise Dead''. However, there ''is'' the [[Revenue Enhancing Devices|subscriber-only]] ''Revenant'' race in ''[[Dragon Magazine]]'' that often is the result of being brought back in the manner of an [[Inhuman Human]].

** YMMV, but ''Raise Dead'' is a quick way of [[Status Quo Is God|getting back to status quo]], while ''Reincarnate'' actually averts [[Death Is a Slap On The Wrist]] without [[Killed Off for Real|killing the character off entirely]] (even if the character is [[Demoted to Extra|no longer suitable for play]], the difference can be [[Rule of Empathy|significant]] to the player. It's all about what kind of setting you want.

* The Forsaken from ''[[War Craft]]'' series are [[Inhuman Human|Inhuman Humans]], although some veer into [[Damaged Soul]] territory. Most tend to undergo some changes in their personality, although this is more psychological than direct result of being raised from the dead. Some remain mostly the same as they were before death, but some become consumed with hatred for all living. Their leader, Sylvanas, is notably unhappy with her undead state and aims to find a cure, and heavily supports Alchemy research to that end. The extremists researching into killing anyone else are most likely a reaction to the fact that most living beings on the continent meet them with open hostility, not willing to accept the difference between an independent Forsaken and a servant of the Lich King.

* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', Ben Franklin creates a drug that was meant to give him immortality --instead it causes him to come back as a Headless Horseman, as well as every body within a certain radius of him to rise as a zombie. As it turns out, the secret ingredient of the drug had been given to Ben by [[Dracula]], and the Headless Horseman/[[Zombie Apocalypse]] nonsense was [[The Plan|all part of Drac's plan]].