Pulling Themselves Together: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''Mr. Potato Head:''' Where's my nose?

'''Mr. Potato Head:''' Here's your arm.

'''Mrs. Potato Head:''' Gimme that.

 

 

 

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]].

 

Not to be confused with the other kind of [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|pulling yourself together]].

 

== 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.

== Films -- 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.}}

* [[Butt Monkey|Mr.]] and [[Housewife|Mrs. Potato Head]] in the ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' [[film]]s. For Mr. Potato Head, it becomes something of a [[Running Gag]].

 

* 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]]''

* 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 & 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.

* Necrons in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' are known to do this, sometimes even reforming after being reduced to molten slag.

 

 

=== Tabletop RPG ===

* 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 Stalfos in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]''

** The skeleton in ''[[Prince of Persia]]''.

* Trailers for ''[[Portal 2]]'' have shown [[GLaDOS]]'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 Hunter, a recurring boss from ''[[Dead Space (video game)|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]] 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].

 

== Web Comics ==

== 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.

 

== Western Animation ==

* 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)''