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The head generally possesses the ability to audibly speak despite the lack of lungs. Robots could probably have their entire vocal system in their head, but anything else should only be able to mouth words. May or may not be capable of independent movement by either bouncing, rolling or levitating.
Sometimes the body will still be functional and capable of independent movement, resulting in the head trying to tell it to pick it up and reattach it. The [[Fridge Logic]] that the body has no ears to hear this is rarely
See
Related: [[Head Transplantation]], [[Headless Horseman]], [[Pulling Themselves Together]], [[Appendage Assimilation]], and [[Having a Heart]].▼
▲Related: [[Headless Horseman]], [[Pulling Themselves Together]], [[Appendage Assimilation]], and [[Having a Heart]].
Contrast [[Decapitation Required]].
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* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]'' by [[The Triads and the Tongs|Ling-Ling]], a [[Our Zombies Are Different|zombie]] who can (and frequently does) freely detach and reattach her body parts, most especially her head.
* Literally Celty's character arc in [[Durarara!!]]: She's a dullahan (a Celtic fairy that takes the form of a person carrying their own severed head) whose head has gone missing, and she's looking for it.
* This trope appears in the diamond suit in John Littleboy's ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130528033752/http://www.wopc.co.uk/usa/inky-dinky/bag-of-bones.html Bag of Bones]'' playing cards, published in 2008.▼
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== Live
* JD in ''[[Scrubs]]'' has three odd daydreams of Head and Body Doctor where he imagines life as a floating head with his body doing something else. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw4lajMiMN4\]
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' examples:
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* ''[[Exalted]]'' has an odd version of this from the dangerously powerful Charcoal March of Spiders supernatural martial art. The user delivers a punch so ludicrously hard that the head not only explodes, but the person whose head did explode has several seconds thereafter to think and react because they, and reality itself, haven't caught up to the fact just yet.
* In ''[[GURPS]]'' 3rd Edition, one of the supplements full of fantasy magic spells had a spell called Decapitate, which [[All There in the Manual|did exactly what its name says]]. Not only that, both the head and body were still alive, and since the head was still magically able to speak, if it knew any spells, it could still cast them! Of course, without the head, the body could not eat or drink, and would eventually die of dehydration or starvation. But this was not a problem either! Another spell allowed you to turn everything ''but'' the head into stone... and ''then'' you could decapitate him.
▲* This trope appears in the diamond suit in John Littleboy's ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130528033752/http://www.wopc.co.uk/usa/inky-dinky/bag-of-bones.html Bag of Bones]'' playing cards, published in 2008.
== Theater ==
* In a ''[[Ravenloft]]'' skit performed at GenCon 1999, "One Piece At A Time", a lady surgeon attempts to bring her
* In ''[[Pippin]]'', Pippin has a poignant conversation with the head of a fallen Visigoth soldier. In a later scene, after Pippin has been crowned king, a headless man comes up to him and asks for his head to be reattached.
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* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'': Dean during "Escape to the House of Mummies".
* Absorbing Man after his battle with the Hulk in ''[[The Avengers: Earth's
* ''[[Swat Kats]]'' had this in the episode "Metal Urgency": the Metallikats were reduced to heads scuttling around on spider legs after their bodies were crushed. This doesn't prevent them from driving the Metallikat Express ''or'' operating a pair of gigantic combat robots.
* An episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' featured a gingerbread man that gets eaten within a few seconds of screentime. The consumer spits out the head, who warns Jimmy to stay away.
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