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** It's made more clear in the book, but Kryten is basically in denial that they are dead so that he can continue to perform his programming and serve them, as he has no idea what to do once he can't do that anymore.

{{quote|'''Rimmer''': Terrific! Our first contact with intelligent life, and it's the android equivalent of [[Psycho|Norman Bates]]!}}

* In the ''[[Homicide: Life On the Street]]'' episode "The Documentary", a mortuary worker 'borrows' corpses, dresses them up and has dinner parties with them because he's so lonely. It's not made clear whether he has sex with them, however.

* In the ''[[Homicide: Life on the Street]]'' episode "The Documentary", a mortuary worker 'borrows' corpses, dresses them up and has dinner parties with them because he's so lonely. It's not made clear whether he has sex with them, however.

** On another episode, an elderly woman died in her living room and her husband went a little...off, and convinced himself she was still alive. Again, no intimation of any sex involved.

* J.D., from ''[[Scrubs]]'', does-slash-subverts this with his dead, stuffed dog, Rowdy. The other characters just think J.D. has a hard time letting go of a beloved childhood pet—until Turk reveals that they got him from a garage sale when they were roommates in college. After that, pretty much every character spends some time playing with Rowdy, with Carla both thanking him for "finding" Turk's bandana and informing him he'll leave after she and Turk move in, at different occasions.

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== Video Games ==

* The vampire Brauner in ''[[Castlevania]]: [[Portrait of Ruin]]'' turned Eric Lecarde's daughters into vampires because he was under the delusional belief that they were the reincarnations of his own daughters (whom he had lost in World War One). Upon being told that they've been cured, he simply says he'll "make those two [his] daughters once again".

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]: [[Fire Emblem ~~the~~ Sacred Stones|The Sacred Stones]]'' has {{spoiler|Orson, who [[Love Makes You Evil|betrays his kingdom so he can be (alive) with his wife, Monica]]. Since she was a recently deceased [[Ill Girl]], the [[Big Bad]] promises to resurrect her, but can only bring people back as mindless zombies. Orson is so crazy at this rate that he doesn't notice this. We only ever see her map sprite (a standard female civilian), but from Erika, Ephraim and Seth's horrified reactions, that's probably for the best. Ephraim himself puts her out of her "misery".}}

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]: [[Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones|The Sacred Stones]]'' has {{spoiler|Orson, who [[Love Makes You Evil|betrays his kingdom so he can be (alive) with his wife, Monica]]. Since she was a recently deceased [[Ill Girl]], the [[Big Bad]] promises to resurrect her, but can only bring people back as mindless zombies. Orson is so crazy at this rate that he doesn't notice this. We only ever see her map sprite (a standard female civilian), but from Erika, Ephraim and Seth's horrified reactions, that's probably for the best. Ephraim himself puts her out of her "misery".}}

** Ah, but we do HEAR her. {{spoiler|Poor Monica just keeps repeating the word "darling" over and over again. Meanwhile, in the scene before he dies Orson is seen having a lengthy one sided conversation with her about her birthday before he's interrupted by news of your arrival.}}

* After his real family died, the mad priest Bassilus in the game ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' managed to form a fair-sized surrogate family... by killing people and [[Necromantic|raising them as zombies and skeletons]]. Then he spots you and decides you would make a good parent...

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* A sketch on ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' that combined ''[[The Smurfs]]'' with the movie ''Seven'' ends with Papa Smurf waltzing with Smurfette's beheaded corpse. Yeah, it's a weird show.

* In ''[[Stickin' Around]]'' the character Polly, despite being spectacularly well informed and articulate for her young age, cannot accept that her pet dog Pepperoni is dead.

* Played with in Season 4 of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', when {{spoiler|Number 21 is shown to have one-sided conversations with the skull of the deceased Number 24. We later see it from Number 21's perspective, and he is apparently talking to a ghost only he can see. In a subversion, 21 [[Took a Level In Badass]], and we're shown that 24's ghost has been feeding 21 information (i.e. warning him if people nearby are carrying concealed weapons) to improve his reputation. This leads to a bit of a [[Mind Screw]] when 24's ghost suggests he himself may be an imaginary [[Magic Feather]], and that 21 really is awesome but hallucinates 24 due to an inferiority complex.}}

* Played with in Season 4 of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', when {{spoiler|Number 21 is shown to have one-sided conversations with the skull of the deceased Number 24. We later see it from Number 21's perspective, and he is apparently talking to a ghost only he can see. In a subversion, 21 [[Took a Level in Badass]], and we're shown that 24's ghost has been feeding 21 information (i.e. warning him if people nearby are carrying concealed weapons) to improve his reputation. This leads to a bit of a [[Mind Screw]] when 24's ghost suggests he himself may be an imaginary [[Magic Feather]], and that 21 really is awesome but hallucinates 24 due to an inferiority complex.}}

** The season finale seems to confirm that {{spoiler|he's just a delusion of 21's. Not only did one of the fellow "ghosts" 24 introduced him to never exist, but Dr. Orpheus (a professional necromancer) couldn't see 24, and he communicates with the dead all the time}}.

* Played for laughs in ''[[Family Guy]]'', when Brian goes to visit his mother and discovers that she's passed away; her owners had her stuffed and made into a table. Brian's horrified, while Stewie thinks it's hilarious.

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