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An enemy is beaten, blown to pieces, or else [[Literally Shattered Lives|frozen/petrified then shattered]]. But wait! The pieces are combining! It's reassembling itself! Time to [[PunA Worldwide Punomenon|leg]] it...
 
This Subtropesubtrope of [[Nigh Invulnerability]] may be greeted with shock, horror and cries of "[[Why Won't You Die?]]!" Not to be confused with [[From a Single Cell]], where a monster/character regrows itself from a single part instead of reassembling itself from the already existing parts that were blown off. CanThis can be seen as a specific form of [[Healing Factor]], that manages to avoid the [[Shape ShifterShapeshifter Baggage]] otherwise involved. It's also something you may expect from a [[Self-Constructed Being]].
 
See also [[Helping Hands]], [[Losing Your Head]], [[Who Needs Their Whole Body?]], [[Appendage Assimilation]] and [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]. For [[Dem Bones]], this is a [[Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration|way for them to "heal" from damage]].
 
For the intentional combat/utility version see [[Detachment Combat]].
 
Not to be confused with the other kind of [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|pulling yourself together]].
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== Advertising ==
* Happens to a minivan in a Liberty Mutual auto insurance ad, after a collision causes the (unoccupied) car to fly apart into dozens of components.
 
== Anime &and Manga ==▼
 
* In ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]'':▼
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* In ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]'':
** Sasori does this after being punched to pieces by Sakura, because {{spoiler|his body is just a shell that he can reassemble and his heart is the only important part.}}
** Hidan and Kakuzu are capable of this as well. As in, Hidan can survive being torn into pieces and Kakuzu can put him back together, but is otherwise pretty screwed.
** Orochimaru can do this because apparently his whole body is ''[[The Worm That Walks|made]]'' of snakes.
** Any physical damage suffered by those brought back to life with Impure World Resurrection is reversed by the pieces coming together like an object made of ash crumbling in reverse. Hence the term "[[Fan Nickname|Confetti Zombies]]"
* In ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano!]]'', after immortal characters are injured, their blood, flesh, internal organs and bones will start flowing back to their body, ultimately leaving them with no physical damage at all. This works even if the person is on a speeding train and the parts are left smeared on the tracks (eventually). [[Squick|Yikes.]]
* The specialty of Majin Buu in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', who even manages to reform himself from a cloud of smoke after his remains were vaporized.
* ''[[Claymore (Manga)|Claymore]]''
** Clare, and presumably others of her kind that cannot regenerate limbs outright, have a limited ability to do this if the wound is fresh, the limb is intact, and she has a bit of time to concentrate on making them knit together solidly.
** A better, more recent example is the nigh indestructible {{spoiler|Abyssal Eaters.}}
* ''[[Hellsing (Animeanime)|Hellsing]]: Alucard. He's started battles by being shot to pieces, just to freak people out more when his blood runs back into his body.
* ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]''
** Buggy the Clown ate a devil fruit that allows him to separate any part of him and levitate it, but also to reasemblereassemble himself after doing it or be cut.
** The Logia users can do this too, turning their body into their element and moving it back into them. Aokiji (and Crocodile and Kizaru to a lesser extent) seems to be the best examples of this, as most other logia users just let attacks pass through them without effect rather than actively "pulling themselves together".
** After the Timeskip, {{spoiler|it is revealed that Brook can put his bones back together if they are knocked apart.}}
* [[Mecha -Mooks]] Decoe and Bocoe claimed to have done this in Episode 48 of 4Kids's ''[[Sonic X (Anime)|Sonic X]]''. The original Japanese version says Chuck Thorndyke repaired them.
* Chevaliers from ''[[Blood Plus (Anime)|Blood Plus+]]'' have been shown to be able to reattach severed limbs and use them normally within a short timespan.
* Nosferatu Zodd from ''[[Berserk (Manga)|Berserk]]'' can reattach his own severed limbs on the rare occasions someone is able to deal that much damage to him.
* Akasha Bloodriver from ''[[Rosario to Vampire (Manga)|Rosario to+ Vampire]]'' has this ability, as apparently do all Shinso vampires. Even better, if her body parts are completely destroyed, she's implied to be able to regenerate on a [[From a Single Cell]] level.
* Comes to bite Shibugarasu in the ass in ''[[Inuyasha (Manga)|Inuyasha]]''. After having stolen an artifact that makes demons impossible strong and allows them to reassemble their bodies when being killed, it loses a foot while trying to flee from Kagome and Inuyasha. Even though Kagome is not a good archer and the demon is already way out of reach, she ties the foot to a magic arrow and shots in the general direction. With the foot trying to reattach itself to the body, the shot is an instant hit.
* Arcueid Brunestud was able to assemble pieces of her body back together after being killed and torn apart by Shiki in ''[[Tsukihime (Visual Novel)|Tsukihime]]''. This process happened off-screen, though.
* Members of the [[Winged Humanoid|Fly]][[Dem Bones|bone]] Tribe from ''[[Kyo Kara Maoh!]]'' can do this -- at least as long as they're still put together enough to ''move'' anyway. Otherwise, they require assistance. Being a [[Naive Newcomer]], Yuuri didn't know this at first, and [[Poor Communication Kills]] might've struck had Conrad not stopped him before he could accidentally doom the flybone that saved him. It got smashed protecting him, and he was trying to give it a proper burial when Conrad appeared on the scene. [[Played for Laughs]] when the misunderstanding was cleared up.
 
 
== Card Games ==▼
* This trope is invoked in ''[[Magic the Gathering (Tabletop Game)|Magic the Gathering]]'' with [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=205066 Reassembling Skeleton].▼
 
 
== Comic Books ==
* In ''Spidercide Clone Saga'', Spidercide gains this ability after fully awakening his shapeshifting powers.
* In ''[[Watchmen (Comic Bookcomics)|Watchmen]]'', Dr. Manhattan did this after being disintegrated by a lab accident in his origin story. He does it again towards the end.
* ''X-Men 2099'' villain Junkpile does a variation. Though he doesn't heal himself with his own body parts, he repairs damage to his body by pulling metal objects to him telekinetically and using them for raw materials to replace broken or damaged body parts.
* [[Man-Thing]] goes through this about once an issue.
* In ''[[The Savage Dragon (Comic Book)|The Savage Dragon]]'', there was a villain named Abner Cadaver who was a mystic zombie who could sew body parts onto himself. One of his last appearances showed him sewing the body parts of various superhuman in order to do battle with the titular character.
* [[Nightmare Fuel|Brutally Subverted]] in the Obsidian Age story arc of ''[[Justice League of America]]''. [[Plastic Man]] is frozen and shattered into thousands of pieces which lay scattered on the ocean floor far in the past. He is completely aware, yet '''unable''' to pull himself together, and survives in this manner for 3000 years before he is collected and reconstituted by the league in the present time.
* ''[[ROM Spaceknight]]'': The mutant [[Half -Human Hybrid|human/Dire Wraith hybrid]] Jimmy Marks can use his considerable [[Psychic Powers]] to reconstitute himself after being reduced to ''molecules''.
* The [[Silver Surfer]] is capable of doing this, [[Nigh Invulnerable|provided there's something capable of cutting him to pieces]].
* In a [[Mad (Magazine)|Don Martin]] ''Captain Klutz'' story, the Captain gets ripped to comedic shreds by an enemy. Told literally to "pull himself together", he yanks at one of the wings on his hat and his various pieces all slither back together and reconnect.
* In ''[[Cattivik]]'' he'll usually do this to himself after being tore apart or destroyed. In a particular episode this happens twice to some mummies. In both cases, the results of their efforts were laughable to say the least.
 
 
== Fan Works ==
* [[Snarky Non -Human Sidekick|Jack]] from ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series (Fanfic)|Calvin and Hobbes The Series]]'' has this. [[Exploited Trope|Exploited]] by Calvin at one point, taking him apart to make him fit in his backpack.
 
 
== Films -- Animation ==
* [[The Iron Giant (Animation)|The Iron Giant]] can do this to an amazing degree when {{spoiler|the ending reveals that even after [[Heroic Sacrifice|being blown up in the atmosphere]] by a ''nuclear explosion'', his countless paperweight-sized pieces can be seen migrating to an unknown location so he can reassemble himself.}}
* Pictured above, Sally the ragdoll from ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas (Animation)|The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'': Sally the ragdoll, whose detachable limbs often fall off at the slightest physical provocation. She carries a sewing kit with her for that exact purpose.
* [[Butt Monkey|Mr.]] and [[Housewife|Mrs. Potato Head]] in the ''[[Toy Story (Animationfranchise)|Toy Story]]'' [[Film|filmsfilm]]s. For Mr. Potato Head, it becomes something of a [[Running Gag]].
 
 
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* The T-1000 from ''[[Terminator (Filmfranchise)|Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]''. At one point, it gets a piece of an arm shot off; said piece just liquefies and flows back into its foot. The major example is when, after being [[Kill It Withwith Ice|frozen with liquid nitrogen]] and [[Literally Shattered Lives|shattered by a bullet]], the hundreds of pieces liquefy and it completely reforms. Bonus points for the fact it wasn't in perfect order after reforming, losing control of its shape on occasions. This is made more clear in the extended version.
* Saddam Hussein does that in ''[[Hot Shots (Film)|Hot Shots]] Part Deux'', in an obvious homage to ''T2'' {{spoiler|and ''[[The Fly (Film)|The Fly]]''}}.
* In ''[[Hellboy II]]: The Golden Army'', the titular army can do this after being smashed to pieces.
* [[Walt Disney]]'s ''[[Bedknobs and Broomsticks]]'': An animated suit of armor is blown apart by a grenade, quickly re-assembles itself and continues attacking. On YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtgcJBXD4sA here, starting at 6:45].
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* [[Wolf Man]] pulls himself back together after being blown apart with dynamite in ''[[The Monster Squad]]'' to show that, yes, ''only'' a silver bullet will do the trick.
* In the movie ''[[Just Visiting]]'', a medieval knight and his sidekick are accidentally sent to the present time by a cocky/kooky wizard, who goes in after them. In one scene, the wizard's potion goes awry and explodes, tearing him apart (in a non-gory fashion). Just when it seems there is no hope for the displaced knight, behold! -- pieces of the wizard (whose body parts have turned into metal for some reason) crawl towards each other and the wizard puts himself back together!
* In ''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men in Black]] II'', the villainess has captured the damsel and apparently killed her guardians, the worms. J and K find them lying in pieces in their apartment -- thenapartment—then they wake up, start grumbling, and drag themselves over to their lower halves to reattach them.
* In ''[[Ghost Rider (Filmfilm)|Ghost Rider]]'', Johnny blasts {{spoiler|Legion}} apart with a Hell-powered shotgun. He just pulls himself back together like nothing happened.
* Hector does this in ''Saturn 3''.
 
 
== Literature ==
* Ted Hughes' ''The Iron Man'' (on which the ''The Iron Giant'' is loosely based) starts this way. The Iron Man walks out of nowhere and falls over a cliff. One hand scuttles about blindly until it finds an eye, then picks up an arm and reassembles the whole body from there.
* ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]''
** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]'', the golem Meshugah can do this.
** A vampire photographer in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Truth|The Truth]]'' carries a glass vial of emergency blood on a string around his neck. If he's reduced to dust by the bright light of his camera's flash, the vial falls and breaks, and contact with the blood causes the pile of dust to re-form into a solid body.
** At one point in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Soul Music (novel)|Soul Music]]'', [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] does this. And it's awesome.
* Stephen King's ''[[Christine]]'': Both the novel and movie adaptation involves a murderous vintage automobile that can heal itself from ANY damage, via a sort of time reverse power. Even after being crunched under the car crusher, Dennis still has nightmares four years later of Christine finally repairing herself and coming after him for revenge. Just look at the impressive visuals in this clip from the movie on 8:54 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yTcspRQHXo&feature=related
* In ''[[Jonathan Strange and& Mr. Norrell]]'' the [[The Fair Folk|Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair]] keeps trying to put his body back after it's been ground to powder, but the pressure keeps up and he eventually dies.
* [[Colt Regan|Nihil]] tend to do this unless [[Kill It Withwith Fire|severely discouraged from doing so]].
* In ''[[Skulduggery Pleasant (Literature)|Skulduggery Pleasant]]'', the title living skeleton occasionally loses limbs in combat, and simply pops them back into the joint and carries on. In fact, he had to reassemble himself entirely after his original death/resurrection. Apparently, he's even capable of replacing missing parts with other people's bones, as his current skull is [[Losing Your Head|not his own]]. He does need medical attention if any of the bones are broken or cut, though.
* ''[[The Dresden Files (Literature)|The Dresden Files]]''
** The [[Fallen Angel|Denarian]] Tessa's alternate warrior-form body can rebuild itself if badly damaged by transforming into thousands of tiny mantis-like insects that reform together into the original body.
** In ''White Night'', the blood and ichor from the uberghouls do the same thing.
* Referenced as a joke in one of the ''[[Nightside]]'' novels, in which Alex books an act by "Mr. Explodo" to entertain his bar patrons. Mr. Explodo [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|explodes on stage]], then invokes this trope.
* The vampires in Stephenie Meyer's ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]] Saga'' can do this if they aren't incinerated after dismemberment. This process is only alluded to in the main novels, but is prominently featured in the novella ''The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner''.
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s ''[[The Scarlet Citadel (Literature)|The Scarlet Citadel]]'', Tsotha-lanti tells [[Conan the Barbarian]] that "''if you hack me in pieces, the bits of flesh and bone will reunite and haunt you to your doom!'' The next moment, Conan [[Losing Your Head|cuts off his head]]. [[Nightmare Fuel|The head remained alive, and the body attempted to recover it]]. Fortunately, at that moment, a friendly sorcerer took away the head, the body ran after him, and the king was rid of the need to find a solution.
 
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* The Replicators from ''[[Stargate SG-1 (TV)|Stargate SG-1]]'', as long as they have enough intact blocks remaining.
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'': {{spoiler|[[An Ice Person|Tracy Strauss]]}} does this at the very beginning of Volume 5.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Dracula in the episode "Buffy vs. Dracula". Even after she dusts him, the dust pulls itself back together to reconstitute him. Also subverted as Buffy isn't the least bit startled and just restabs him.
{{quote| ''(Buffy stakes Dracula after he's reforming)''<br />
'''Buffy:''' You think I don't watch your movies? You always come back...<br />
''(Dracula's dust starts to reform)''<br />
'''Buffy:''' I'm standing right here! }}
* ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' reapers can reattach fingers fairly easily.
* This happens to the earth elemental in "The Accidental Occidental Conception", the second episode of ''[[The Middleman (TV)|The Middleman]]''.
* In an episode of ''[[Bewitched (TV)|Bewitched]]'' Samantha's Father turns Darren into a statue and smashes him. Reluctantly he later puts him back together.
* ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]''
** "I Fall to Pieces" had a psycho stalker doctor who could disassemble and reassemble himself.
** "The Trial" had a lizard warrior that would come back together every time he got chopped up. Angel eventually cut him in half, then chained up the pieces on opposite sides of the room, before moving on.
* In one episode of ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine (TV)|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', odo transforms into a glass, which is then [[Literally Shattered Lives|dropped and shattered]]. In classic Terminator manner, the shards transform into liquid and melt together to Odo.
* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (TV)|Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]''
** One of the more memorable [[Monster of the Week]] types was Hatchasaurus, a very strong dino-bird thing who could reassemble himself no matter how thoroughly trashed, because [[Soul Jar|the important part was elsewhere]].
** An even more memorable monster was Bones, who is pretty much Hatchasaurus, except that his [[Soul Jar]] is his head.
** Also, Eyeguy, who was made of eyes, but could pull them together so long as his central main-eye was intact.
* ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'': On the [[Darker and Edgier]] side of the Toku coin, the Clay Doll Dopant's ability, asides from shooting large blasts, is to reassemble herself after she's been crushed to a billion pieces. In fact, [[Kamen Rider Double/Recap/E13 E14 The Radio Q|an arc]] from Double shows this power in action. It's [[Darker and Edgier]] because {{spoiler|you don't know it's going to happen the first time, and it ''looks'' like a sympathetic character just got completely crushed. You don't learn the truth [[To Be Continued|until next week]]}}.
* The Djieiene spider in the ''[[Lost Girl (TV)|Lost Girl]]'' episode "Arachno Faebia" can do this as long as its heart is safe in its [[Soul Jar]].
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''
** A battered Cyberman from the episode "The Pandorica Opens".
** Much earlier in the series, gargoyle creature Bok reforms himself after being blown apart by a bazooka in the serial ''The Daemons.''
* ''[[The Young Ones (TV)|The Young Ones]]'': The episode "Bambi" reveals that Vyvyan is apparently capable of this, despite it not being explicitly shown.
 
== Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends ==
* From [[Egytpian Mythology]], the sorcerer Nefrekeptah had to face a serpent both [[Anti -Magic|immune to magic]] and who had this ability as the [[Final Boss]] guarding the [[MacGuffin|Book of Thoth]]. When standard freezing spells didn't work, Nefrekeptah went for the direct approach and cut of the serpent's head, and threw it far into the river. However, the head came back almost instantly and blocked his path again. Nefrekeptah again cut off its head, threw it into the river, and this time put sand on the neck before the head could come back. The head couldn't reattach, and though the serpent couldn't die, it just lay there, helpless.▼
 
== MythsTabletop & ReligionGames ==
=== Board Games ===
▲* From [[Egytpian Mythology]], the sorcerer Nefrekeptah had to face a serpent both [[Anti Magic|immune to magic]] and who had this ability as the [[Final Boss]] guarding the [[MacGuffin|Book of Thoth]]. When standard freezing spells didn't work, Nefrekeptah went for the direct approach and cut of the serpent's head, and threw it far into the river. However, the head came back almost instantly and blocked his path again. Nefrekeptah again cut off its head, threw it into the river, and this time put sand on the neck before the head could come back. The head couldn't reattach, and though the serpent couldn't die, it just lay there, helpless.
* Necrons in ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' are known to do this, sometimes even reforming after being reduced to molten slag.▼
 
▲=== Card Games ===
▲* This trope is invoked in ''[[Magic: the Gathering (Tabletop Game)|Magic theThe Gathering]]'' with [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=205066 Reassembling Skeleton].
 
=== Tabletop GamesRPG ===
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and& Dragons]]''▼
▲* Necrons in ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 40000]]'' are known to do this, sometimes even reforming after being reduced to molten slag.
▲* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and Dragons]]''
** Trolls, and anything with regeneration, can reattach body parts, including heads if they have a spare.
** Lebendtod from [[Ravenloft (Tabletop Game)|Ravenloft]] don't regenerate, but these undead can remove and re-attach their heads or limbs at will. An anecdote in their 3E monster description tells how a necromancer sent several boxes of loose body parts to a rival's home; [[Trojan Horse|once inside]], the parts re-assembled themselves and the lebendtod attacked.
** Some skeletal undead have been depicted with the ability to reassemble themselves, in various D&D editions and ''Dragon'' articles. One type of skeleton, once several are knocked to pieces, even combine their bits into a bigger, more dangerous monster.
 
 
== Toys ==
* [[The Worm That Walks|Zaktan]] is able to do this in ''[[Bionicle (Franchise)|Bionicle]]''. {{spoiler|Which makes his recent "death" somewhat questionable...}} Really, almost ''any'' character is capable of doing this if their pieces are still intact and they know the secret of how to rebuild themselves. One of the most memorable instances is in the teaser for the planned game that never made it out, showing Onua spill out of his canister in pieces and assemble himself. Had the game been finished we would have gotten to see such a sequence for each of the original six Toa.
 
 
== Video Games ==
* ''Mach Rider'', of NES fame.
* The protagonist of the freeware game ''[[And Yet It Moves (Video Game)|And Yet It Moves]]''.
* The zombie robots from the game ''[[Metal Arms]]: Glitch in the System''. Using the tether to bodyjack an enemy robot causes Glitch to have to do this afterwards. {{spoiler|One [[Boss Fight]] also requires you to do this to yourself to escape an impossible situation.}}
* It seems a ''lot'' of [[Dem Bones|skeletal enemies]] do this trick when defeated:
** The Dry Bones in ''[[Super Mario Bros (Franchisefranchise)|Super Mario Bros]].''
** The Stalfos in ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|The Legend of Zelda]]''
** The skeleton in ''[[Prince of Persia (Video Game)|Prince of Persia]]''.
** The red skeletons and red armors from ''[[Castlevania (Video Game)|Castlevania]]''.
** The Recapitator enemies in ''[[Wario Land (Video Game)|Wario Land]] Shake It''. Lucky, considering they throw their head as a boomerang to attack.
** ''[[Ultima (Video Game)|Ultima]] VIII'' skeletons are incredibly fast and powerful, and if you somehow manage to put one down... you've not got long before it's back on its feet at full strength. Options are to throw it in a lake first, or just use a necromantic spell to put it down for good. ''IX'''s much weaker skeletons will also pull themselves together shortly after defeat, though you can prevent this by picking up one of the parts, such as the skull (preventing it from rejoining the group). For added fun, collect a full skeleton then drop the bones in a populated city.
* With high enough Marksman skill, the Skeletons in ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion (Video Game)|The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]'' will shatter, only to come back together as if nothing had happened; in this case it's a (possibly unintentional) side effect of the game using the same animation for paralysis and death.
* Some ''[[World of Warcraft (Video Game)|World of Warcraft]]'' bosses do this, most notably the [[Bonus Boss]] Viscidus from Ahn'Qiraj and the water elemental boss from Violet Hold. In both cases, they are [[Nigh Invulnerable]] while in their normal form -- theform—the objective is to shatter them and then kill the pieces.
* Trailers for ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'' have shown [[G La DOSGLaDOS]]'s mainframe and the entire Enrichment Center itself repairing and reassembling themselves, presumably years or decades after they were destroyed and overgrown with plantlife.
* For a player example, some of the hazards and enemies in ''[[Loco Roco]]'' can split Locoroco up into several pieces. However, a bit of "Noi! Cheburatta roi!" and they're back together in no time.
* The upcoming{{when}} game, ''[[Never Dead]]'' ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt9z2lOoe4Y&feature=related, video]) is about an immortal man stuck during a demonic invasion. The game supposedly allows for the complete dismemberment of the hero, only for them to literally put themselves back together.{{verify}}
* The Hunter, a recurring boss from ''[[Dead Space (Videovideo Gamegame)|Dead Space]]'' is capable of both of this and regenerating its limbs. It's not as perfect as some of the other examples, though, but the only ways to stop it are {{spoiler|freezing it solid and burning to a crisp with a rocket engine.}}
* In ''[[Space Quest (Video Game)|Space Quest]] 6'', the endodroid can pull the same stunt as the T-1000. Just [http://tmd.alienharmony.com/rw/sq6/1/e.htm don't let it happen around Roger].
* Ms. Fortune from ''[[Skullgirls]]'' actually paraphrases the Trope name in one of her introductions, as she [[Losing Your Head|can't seem to keep her head on her shoulders all the time...]]
* Ms. Fortune from ''[[Skullgirls (Video Game)|Skullgirls]]''.
 
 
== Web Comics ==
* Nova does that in one ''[[Keychain of Creation (Webcomic)|Keychain of Creation]]'' strip.
* Schlock of ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'', being a Carboscilicate Amorph, can "pull himself together" if he gets blown apart or if someone steps on him. Which is [[Good Thing You Can Heal|fortunate]], since it happens a lot given that he's incapable of wearing armor for protection. He has to be a bit careful with this trick, though. Difficult to pull oneself together when one is split up, then carefully picked up and put in sixty separate plastic bags....
* ''[[Looking for Group (Webcomic)|Looking for Group]]'' has a [[Town Withwith a Dark Secret]] where [http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/248 all the villagers have this ability.] [[Good Thing You Can Heal|Good thing, too, once you realize who the mayor is.]]
* The demon K'Z'K from ''[[Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic)|Sluggy Freelance]]'' pulls this trick after Bun-Bun [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/990217 runs him through a meat grinder].
* ''[[Elijah and Azuu (Webcomic)|Elijah and Azuu]]'' has Legion, which repairs damage done to their possessed host simply by tying wounds closed with the host's own veins and sinew.
 
 
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Loading Ready Run]]'' plays with this in the video [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/227/Pull-Yourself-Together Pull Yourself Together]. The main character has accidentally been leaving different aspects of his personality at his friends' houses.
* Salem from ''[[RWBY]]'' seems to have a combination of this ''and'' [[From a Single Cell]]; she can be vaporized and still regenerate.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* Durge from ''[[Star Wars Clone Wars (Animation)|Star Wars: Clone Wars]]''. He does it several more times in the Expanded Universe.
* Happened to Tom of ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'' at least once.{{context}}
* Also happened in ''[[Looney Tunes (Animation)|Looney Tunes]]''.{{context}}
* The Dummies of the CGI animated short [[The Incredible Crash Dummies]] regularly had limbs knocked off with no problems.
{{quote| ''(Slick and Spin crash a motorcycle)''<br />
'''Slick:''' That was beautiful, Spin -- I just went to pieces!<br />
'''Spin:''' Really? Did the camera get it?<br />
'''Slick:''' I forgot to take the lens-cap off.<br />
'''Spin:''' Get me my leg so I can run away! }}
* ''[[Gadget and The Gadgetinis (Animation)|Gadget and Thethe Gadgetinis]]'': Penny built Digit and Fidget with "Rebuilding Systems".
* ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' / ''[[Transformers Animated (Animation)|Transformers Animated]]''. One word: Waspinator.
* ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'': Bender can do this as well. In "I Second That Emotion", he dismantles himself so that he could flush himself down the toilet bit by bit, and is next seen in the sewer with his arms and legs all mixed up, regretting the fact that he threw out his own assembly instructions. In the pilot, Bender is seen putting both his arms back in their sockets one after another... [[Mind Screw|somehow.]] That is, first, he uses his left arm to reattach his right arm, then his right arm grabs his left arm and also puts it back in. Fry, who is standing right next to him, is dumbfounded.
{{quote| '''Fry:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|I don't know how you did that!]]}}
* The characters of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' have been known to fall apart and reattach themselves on a regular basis. In one instance we see that Plankton has his left and right legs marked, suggesting that he has lost them before.
* ''[[Bonkers (Animation)|Bonkers]]'' features a character named Fall-Apart Rabbit, whose schtick is to literally fall to pieces and then reattach himself again, usually with the parts on all the wrong places.
* Robin finally manages to freeze and shatter Madame Rouge in ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]''. He barely has enough time to disable the trap before Rouge reforms and captures him.
* In ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', J'onn gets torn in half by the Annihilator, but turns intangible and reforms himself.
* ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (Animation)|The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius]]'': When Jimmy Neutron commands his robotic dog Goddard to play dead, rather than falling over, the dog ''explodes'' -- then—then the pieces fly back together, unharmed.
* ''[[Ugly Americans (Animation)|Ugly Americans]]'' has an episode where Mark's nightmares started coming true (as one of three trials). In one scene where he runs through a door, only to wind up in outer space, falling back to earth. When he landed on the ground, he instantly liquified into a puddle of blood. (skydiving from space without a parachute hurts, kids) Mark's coworker Leonard was not impressed as Mark was late for an important event, so cue Mark's skeleton pulling itself out of the puddle, with the rest of the body reforming as he stood up.
* On ''[[Jimmy Two -Shoes (Animation)|Jimmy Two Shoes]]'', Lucius VI is constantly losing body parts. It might have something to do with how old he is.
 
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