Pulling Themselves Together: Difference between revisions

== 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 ==

* Arcueid Brunestud was able to assemble pieces of her body back together after being killed and torn apart by Shiki in ''[[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.

== Comic Books ==

* In a [[Mad|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|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 ==

* In ''[[Ghost Rider (film)|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 ==

* The vampires in Stephenie Meyer's ''[[Twilight (novel)|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]]'', 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 Young Ones]]'': The episode "Bambi" reveals that Vyvyan is apparently capable of this, despite it not being explicitly shown.

* 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.

== Tabletop Games ==

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

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''

** Trolls, and anything with regeneration, can reattach body parts, including heads if they have a spare.

** Lebendtod from [[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]]''. {{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 ==

* 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].

* Ms. Fortune from ''[[Skullgirls]]''.

== Web Comics ==

* The demon K'Z'K from ''[[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]]'' 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.

== Western Animation ==

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