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Having a corporeal form is pretty nifty, [[Mundane Utility|letting you
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* Talpa of ''[[Ronin Warriors]]''
* Cell from ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]] for [[From a Single Cell]], so naturally this applies.
* During the first two seasons of ''[[Monster Rancher (anime)|Monster Rancher]]''
* In ''[[Inuyasha]]
* The Godhand from ''[[Berserk]]''. Since they are not part of the physical plane and therefore have no physical bodies, they have to manifest through some material in order to make a presence in the physical world. But every 1000 years, they have the opportunity to reincarnate themselves into the physical world with a corporeal body.
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* ''[[Hardware (film)|Hardware]]'':
* ''[[Hellraiser]]'': Frank Cotton built his body from a single drop of blood (and a few bystanders).
* In ''[[Virus]]''
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* ''[[Journey to the West]]'': The monkey king started as a rock.
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* In the ''[[Star Trek Expanded Universe]]'' book of fan-submitted short stories, ''Strange New Worlds V'', {{spoiler|Commander Riker falls victim to a seed of Armus, which has been growing inside him for years and tries to pull a [[Grand Theft Me]].}}
* In the ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' series, the good guys are trying to stop Kronos from rebuilding his body (which was torn to pieces long ago) and returning to the world.
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* In the in-universe dwarven myths of ''[[Discworld]]'', their creator Tak wrote himself before he could write the world and the laws.
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* The Master in the new ''[[Doctor Who]]'' "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/E17 E18 The End of Time|The End of Time]]".
* In ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', the heroes discovered that Skynet was sending Terminators back in time [[Stable Time Loop|to ensure Skynet's creation]].
* In ''[[Kamen Rider ZO]],'' Doras was initially seen as a small sphere who absorbed various metal objects around him in order to take on his monster form.
** In ''[[Kamen Rider Double]],'' the T-Rex Dopant is a head with legs until pulling in all manner of objects to form into a massive dinosaur.
* ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]
** ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]:'' Though gaining a new body wasn't her ''main'' goal, Queen Bansheera was still sealed away and when brought into this world, her body was incomplete because the ceremony was interrupted. She spent much of the series as a face in a barely mobile chunk of rock until she {{spoiler|absorbed one of her generals to complete her transformation. Just ''one'' of many [[Bad Boss]] moves that would lead to Diabolico's [[Heel Face Turn|defection.]]}}
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* In the ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)|Call of Cthulhu]]'' ''Dreamlands'' supplement, the adventure "Pickman's Student"
* In ''[[Exalted]]'', [[The Fair Folk]]—eldritch maelstroms of passions from outside reality—must take an Assumption to enter Creation, lest they
* In the [[D20 System|d20 sourcebook]] ''[[Dragonmech]]'', one of the character classes is a self-modified steampunk cyborg who eventually replaces all of their human parts save their head with metal robotic parts... with no mention of any sort of anesthetic.
** ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' 3.5 edition's ''[[Eberron]]'' makes this an Artificer feat named "Self-forged". As in a Warforged that ''"forged" itself''. The Artificer keeps their original race for a while, but eventually becomes almost entirely [[Magitek]].
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* ''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link]]''
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* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', Petey is this to the evil [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Ob'enn]]. He went from a backup copy of the AI of a destroyed ship to being the [[Super Weight|nigh-omnipotent]] [[Hive Mind|Fleetmind]].
* Xykon regrows his body as he rebuilds his army in ''[[The
* ''[[Kid Radd]]'': {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|The Seer]] wanted to build a body in the real world so he could survive the destruction of the Internet and go on to [[Omnicidal Maniac|destroy everything in the universe]]. He was defeated before this could happen.}}
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*In ''[[Swat Kats]]''
* [[Big Bad|Shendu]]'s goal during ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]''
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* Megatron spends the first season of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' as a head attempting to build a new body.
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
** [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series)|The 1987 cartoon]] has Krang, a small pink squid-like alien who is obsessed with getting his robot body working properly.
* ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'', {{spoiler|Apocalypse}}.▼
** In [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2011 series)|the 2011 series]] [[Two-Part Episode|two part Season 5 episode]] "When Worlds Collide", {{spoiler|K'Vathrak AKA the Newtralizer}} manages to reconstruct himself, as hinted at in [[The Stinger]] of his previous appearance ({{spoiler|"Newtralized", where he was seemingly fried by a malfunctioning teleporter}}). {{spoiler|[[Came Back Strong|He ends up developing]] [[Psycho Electro|electric powers]] and becomes [[The Dragon]] to Lord Dregg, proving to be [[Took a Level In Badass|an even greater menace]] to the Turtles during their battle and ''[[Hero-Killer|seemingly killing Michelangelo]]''. Fortunately, Mikey reconstructs himself as well and takes the fight to the with powers of his own. He's destroyed when Salcommander smashes him off a cliff and into the core of Dregg's ship, which disintegrates him and his master for good.}}
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