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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]].

 

 

'''As a [[Death Trope]], all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

** In "Cool Air", a [[Mad Scientist|supremely talented Spanish physician]] had revived himself after being dead, but unless he "lives" at low temperature, below 56 °F (13 °C), his body [[Body Horror|would decompose itself]] like a corpse, and even during this "life" there is [[Uncanny Valley|something repugnant in his appearance]]. He eventually dies a second death when his refrigeration system breaks down, but for many months before his appearance had already become scary to people and his mind drifted.

** In "The Thing on the Doorstep", dead villainness Asenath Waite switches minds with her asylum-imprisoned husband and killer... who raises from the grave in the [[Body Horror|decomposing and liquefying body]] of his wife to give a last call for aid to a friend.

* 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.]]

* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'': It is possible for some priests of R'hllor to bring back the dead, and usually it's a pretty smooth and painless process. At the very end of the third book, this method is used to revive {{spoiler|Catelyn Stark}} - but she'd been a corpse too long and the manner of her death left her not only with a horribly disfigured and mutilated body, but filled her with a terrible sense of [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|vengeance]] as well.

* 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.

** Though it may not have been a purposeful attempt at murder/suicide, given that said zombie (when he finally stopped screaming) shivered uncontrollably and said he couldn't feel his blood. Turning on the gas may have been an attempt to warm himself up, and he simply fumbled the matches for too long.

** The Master, in ''The End of Time''. His resurrection is sabotaged by Lucy Saxon's [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: instead of thwarting it altogether, however, [[Locked Into Strangeness|his hair turns white,]] he becomes incredibly fast and able to leap tremendous distances, develops a [[Horror Hunger]] that frequently strays into killing AND eating humans and [[Shock and Awe|can focus his life energy into powerful lightning bolts]]. And his face keeps dissolving into a skull and back.

* 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.

** Similarly, a [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/05/21/e3-05-white-magic-for-dummies/ guest comic] featured Black Mage attempting to impress White Mage by gathering together all the [[Ludicrous Gibs|putrescent chunks of Black Belt]] splattered across the walls of Gurgu volcano and trying to resurrect them. Due to decomposition and Black Mage's terrible white magic, the results were not pretty:

{{quote| AARGHH! Every second of existence is like a thousand excruciating deaths!}}

* [http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=1316 One of the story arcs of Jack] has a woman brought back from the dead. Unexpectedly, she is revived completely normal in mind and body-- but, in the Jack universe, Heaven exists, and she was there. She commits suicide in an attempt to return to Heaven.

 

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