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== Tabletop Games ==
* Various flesh golems of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. Some of them, like a walking cemetery that goes around collecting corpses to add to itself, as well as illithid-made ''brain'' golems, were featured at the top list of stupidest D&D monsters ever for failing to convey horror. Others... [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|don't fail to do so]].
** A Zombie Golem is a variant from the [[Ravenloft]] setting; the body parts used to build one must have previously been animated zombies.
** The Flesh Colossus is the ultimate flesh golem, detailed in ''Epic Level Handbook''. Building one is a complex progress for even an Epic-level necromancer. First, he needs several hundred previously-animated zombies; these corpses must be stripped of their bones, the bones and flesh rendered into paste in separate vats. The bone paste must then be molded into a giant skeleton, and then the melted flesh must be applied to it like clay on a scaffold. After a lot of very powerful, evil spells are cast, the construct can fuction as a giant zombie, but to truly have a Flesh Colossus, the creator must somehow capture a powerful ghost and bind its spirit to the construct, giving him a servant that is nearly unstoppable. Well, unless he's unlucky enough to meet an Epic wizard [[Always a Bigger Fish| with a Stone or Iron Colossus...]]
* Tyranids of ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' fame do act out of hunger, but they don't "eat" as much as process everything organic they encounter into biomass and then make new spawn out of it, thus making it so pretty much every single tyranid is a flesh golem.
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'''s [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=1734 version of] [[Frankenstein's Monster]] is virtually this, since the concept behind the card is that the creature is being stiched together from any number of various creatures from your graveyard, not necessarily humans.
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