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Line 4: See that guy, [[Only Mostly Dead]] after a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]? He will do. A quick brainwashing, a new name and clothes and while you are putting his damaged body back together you can always make some improvements. If no half-dead hero is available, you can always use the remains of the previous season [[Big Bad]], or even some of your past victims. What is important is that they are not just [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] . The new minion must be customized for your needs. So turning dead heroes undead does not count by itself, but creating a death knight will. May coincide with [[That Man Is Dead]] and obviously [[We Can Rebuild Him]]. Sometimes involves a [[Deal ~~With~~with the Devil]]. [[Evil Costume Switch]] is pretty much mandatory. If the change is dramatic, it may also be a case of [[Was Once a Man]]. As mentioned, this trope requires the victim to be custom-modified. Also it must be someone either important (a powerful wizard, a king) or plot -relevant (the hero's childhood friend) prior to the transformation and important for the villain's plans after. Compare [[The Corrupter]]. If the subject has [[Heroic Willpower]], may result in a [[Phlebotinum Rebel]]. ~~A type of [[Face Monster Turn]].~~ {{examples}}▼ A type of [[Face Monster Turn]]. == [[Anime]] ==▼ * In ''[[One Piece (Manga)\|One Piece]]'': "The Tyrant Kuma is dead."▼ ▲{{examples}} * In ''[[Afro Samurai (Anime)\|Afro Samurai]]'', this is Kuma's backstory. After nearly being killed when Afro first got the Number 2 Headband back, he's brought back from the brink of death by Dharman and the Empty 7 after being turned into a cyborg-samurai.▼ ▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == ▲* In ''[[~~One Piece (Manga)\|~~One Piece]]'': "The Tyrant Kuma is dead." ▲* In ''[[~~Afro Samurai (Anime)\|~~Afro Samurai]]'', this is Kuma's backstory. After nearly being killed when Afro first got the Number 2 Headband back, he's brought back from the brink of death by Dharman and the Empty 7 after being turned into a cyborg-samurai. * The Four Generals in the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' manga were [[The Wise Prince\|Endymion]]'s Generals before everyone was sent into the future to be reborn and fight [[Big Bad\|Queen Beryl]] in the future. Present day however, they've been brainwashed and now serve her as the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]. * Happened in ''[[Slayers]]: NEXT'', though this was reversed. Line 25 ⟶ 27: * Psylocke was long thought to be this after she returned from Japan transformed into a psychic ninja assassin. The truth turned out to be a bit more complicated. * All of the heralds of Galactus are this. * ''[[~~The~~ Incredible Hulk ~~(Comic Book)~~\|The Incredible Hulk]]'': Back in [[The Nineties]] the Leader used the dead body and mostly dead brain of Thunderbolt Ross to power the Redeemer armor. * This is the M.O. of supervillain Deathmonger in ''[[~~Empowered (Comic Book)\|~~Empowered]]''. == [[~~Fanfic~~Fan Works]] == * This is the SOP of ''all'' the Succubae in ''[[The Return (~~Fanfic~~fanfic)\|The Return]]'', both the protagonists and the antagonists. The worst offender in it is [[Complete Monster\|Alexia]] though. [[Even Evil Has Standards\|Even the other demons]] thinks she's excessively evil about it. Sailor Dark {{spoiler\|Mercury}} has a similar stance towards recruitment. == [[Film]] == * Koopa turns Toad into a Goomba in the ''[[Super Mario Bros. (~~Film~~film)\|Super Mario Bros]]'' movie. * ''[[Tron ~~Legacy (Film)\|Tron~~: Legacy]]'': There's a ''reason'' Rinzler never takes off the mask, speaks in a distorted stutter, and... {{spoiler\|stops fighting Sam once he realizes that Sam is a User.}} == [[Literature]] == Line 40 ⟶ 42: * The Taken in ''[[The Black Company]]'' are powerful wizards, defeated in battle and remade into powerful servants. the transformation seems to involve death and the victim remains human in shape only at best. == [[Live -Action TV]] == * In the second season of ''[[Dark Angel]]'' the formerly dead Zack returns as a cyborg. Sort of like Robocop, only less well-intentioned. == [[Video Games]] == * Death knights in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' are a borderline example - they are [[Elite Mooks]] but the people to be transformed are hand-picked to ensure quality. * ''[[~~Mother 3 (Video Game)\|~~Mother 3]]'': {{spoiler\|Porky uses the body of Claus, your brother who goes missing at the end of Chapter 1, for creating his cyborg [[The Dragon\|henchman]].}} * Sarah Kerrigan is corrupted to serve the Zerg Overmind in the original ''[[~~Starcraft~~StarCraft]]'' (and that she [[Dragon Ascendant\|eventually emerges on top]]). * ''[[Seiken Densetsu 3]]'' eventually reveals that this happened in the [[Black Knight\|Darkshine Knight's]] backstory (assuming you picked Duran as your main character, anyways) - namely, {{spoiler\|the [[Big Bad\|Dragon Emperor]] used his magic to [[Came Back Wrong\|revive]] the knight Loki ([[Name's the Same\|no, not]] [[Norse Mythology\|that one]]) after the two of them dropped into a bottomless pit during a struggle, and [[Never Found the Body\|neither was ever found]]}}. * While it's technically more of an [[Unwitting Pawn]], in ''[[Overlord]]'' {{spoiler\|the [[Player Character]]}} is really one of the heroes who defeated the previous Overlord after being recovered after a [[No One Could Have Survived That]]. * Mu-12's origin in ''[[~~Blaz Blue~~BlazBlue]]''. {{spoiler\|More specifically, she's Noel Vermillion .<ref>Who it turns out was an [[Artificial Human]] who was created for the purpose. There are roughly 10 identical copies of her (who were "failures"), plus Lambda-11 and Nu-13 who were successfully completed.</ref>. Terumi/Hazama mind raped her into [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds\|nihilism]], finished the process of turning her into a cyborg killing machine and [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight\|sicked her on Ragna]]. All just as a brief distraction so he could kill a god.}} This far from the only time Relius and Hazama invoke this trope, either; The ending of the second game also implies that Hazama and Relious Clover did this to {{spoiler\|Ragna and Jin's apparently [[Dead Little Sister]] Saya}} to use as some sort of pupper ruler/vessel for a higher power. The Extended edition also all but says that Hazama's minion "Phantom" is {{spoiler\|Konoe A. Mercury AKA Nine, one of the six heroes.}} ** In "Phase 1" {{spoiler\|the protagonist Kazuma Kval}} merges with {{spoiler\|Terumi (essentially just being a physical body for him) to create Hazama.}} * ''[[~~Bulletstorm (Video Game)\|~~Bulletstorm]]'': {{spoiler\|Ishi's fate, if you stayed after the credits. Although the screen remains black, the dialogue is implies that the Big Bad not only survived, but managed to patch up Ishi after his heroic sacrifice, and cranked his soulless AI to 11.}} * Subverted in ''[[Quake IV4]]''. Halfway through the game, protagonist Matthew Kane is captured by the [[Cyborg\|Stroggs]] and turned into one of them. However, Kane's fellow EDF soldiers come and rescue him before the Stroggs can indoctrinate him. * ''[[Jade Empire]]'': Not only is Death's Hand ''not'' the [[Big Bad]], or even close to it, it turns out that he's the {{spoiler\|spirit of the Emperor and Sun Li's youngest brother, mortally wounded at Dirge and magically bound to Sun Li's armor}}. * The Dark Side ending to [[Star Wars: ~~the~~The Force Unleashed]] has the mortally wounded Starkiller turned into something even ''worse'' than Vader and sent out as an assassin, with Palpatine making it clear that as soon as he has outlived his usefulness, then he will die...but not before. * In ''[[Xenoblade Chronicles]]'', {{spoiler\|all of the Faces are examples of this trope, most notably Mumkhar, Fiora, and Gadolt. They're cybernetically altered Homs who pilot giant robots, rather than autonomous Mechon. This renders them immune to the Monado, but susceptible to any and all [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]-related tropes.}} * This will happen to some of the characters in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', namely {{spoiler\|Jack, Legion and Morinth}} == [[Web Comics]] == * Subverted in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', where it seems Tsukiko is going to turn to {{spoiler\|Miko}} into a Death Knight, but [[Half the Man He Used To Be\|certain mitigating factors]] make her change her mind. * In ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'', when Karnak takes over in hell, he transforms the damned knight {{spoiler\|Siegfrid}} to serve him as [[The Dragon]]. This bites him in the ass when his new servant regains his free will through a freak magical accident and goes on to overthrow him. == [[Web Original]] == * Late in volume 8 of ''[[RWBY]]'', Ruby and Yang discover that Salem has been capturing humans with silver eyes (and the anti-Grimm empowerment that goes with them) and turning them into Grimm "hounds" she uses to pursue her targets. They fear that this was the likely fate of their long-[[Missing Mom]] who, like Ruby, had those same silver eyes. == [[Western Animation]] == * F.O.W.L. attempted to do to Taurus Bulba on ''[[Darkwing Duck]]''. * In the ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)\|Aladdin]]'' cartoon series, Mozenrath turned the evil wizard who trained him into one of his [[Our Zombies Are Different\|Mamluk]] minions. * Galvatron in ''[[The Transformers (~~Animation~~animation)\|The Transformers]]'' is pretty much a literal example. * In ''[[Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker]]'', Joker Junior. * In the sequel series to ''[[~~Beast Wars (Animation)\|~~Beast Wars]]'', ''Beast Machines'', Megatron has turned tons of garden-variety transformers into mindless mooks, and two out of the three members of his [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] are ex-heroes who have been reforged into new bodies/personalities. * Graft in ''[[~~Phantom 2040 (Animation)\|~~Phantom 2040]]''. * In the movie ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across ~~The~~the ~~Second~~2nd Dimension]]'', in the other dimension {{spoiler\|Perry the Platypus}} is captured and turned into {{spoiler\|Perry the Platyborg}}, general of Doofenshmirtz's army. * The Psychocrypt in ''[[Galaxy Rangers]]''. The victim has his [[Life Energy]] removed, placed in a [[Soul Jar]], and the "jar" used to power a high-level [[Mook]] through which [[God Save Us From the Queen\|Her Travesty]] has a [[Psychic Link]]. ''Anything'' the poor bastard might have known is free for her to rummage through and use as a weapon, while they're conscious and unable to do anything about it. {{reflist}} ~~[[Category:Heel Face Index]]~~ [[Category:Face Monster Turn]] [[Category:AReforged ~~Slave~~Into toa ~~The Index~~Minion]] [[Category:~~Reforged~~A ~~Into~~Slave Ato the ~~Minion~~Index]] [[Category:~~Trope~~Corruption Tropes]]