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== Comic Books ==
* In the British comic ''Rogue Trooper'' (a 2000AD stablemate to [[Judge Dredd]]), three of the protagonist's squadmates were uploaded to chips on their death and integrated into his equipment.
* In ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'':
** For a while, the Vision, a member of the Avengers, has the downloaded personality of Wonder Man to make him more "human". However, this is later undone and a new personality is substituted in.
** Ultron, psycho [[Killer Robot]] and Avengers enemy, attempts to upload the entire mind of his 'mother', the Wasp, into a female bot that he's created (aptly named Jocasta) for companionship, having brainwashed his "father"
** Ultron himself is [[
* In the Marvel/Epic comic ''Dreadstar'', one of the themes is that the main heroes fight against a tyrannical government, only to {{spoiler|find out [[Meet the New Boss|the new government isn't much better]]}}. Willow, one of the main characters, {{spoiler|uploads herself to take over the new government's main computer}}.
* In the original ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage]]'' series, this accidentally occurs to Professor Honeycutt; while testing out his Menta-wave helmet (which granted its user psychic and telekinetic abilities) a bolt of lightning caused his consciousness to be transferred to the body of his robot SAL
* In ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'', people can destructively vacate their bodies, using their chemical energy to bootstrap a cloud of [[Nanomachines]] that then houses their consciousness. This being ''Transmet'', they've formed their own weird subculture.
* Adam Warren's version of the ''[[Dirty Pair]]'' had this as a common technology, which played a role in several of the plots—such as when a rogue agent uses an emergency backup of Yuri's mind and DNA to grow his own [[Evil Twin]] to send at the originals.
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** The stand-alone comic book ''Hypervelocity'' is entirely about Tony Stark 2.0, a digital version of himself that occupies his suit. As the comic progresses, he slowly gets corrupted by a rogue virus girl program.
* The [[Ultimate Universe]] [[Continuity Reboot]] of [[Paperinik New Adventures]] had this trope when {{spoiler|Lyonard [[Punny Name|D'Aq]] uploaded his brain as a side result of him exploring a virtual world}}. Then this trope became a [[Chekhov's Gun]] when {{spoiler|after Lyonard got [[Killed Off for Real]] (or, more precisely, got [[One-Winged Angel|devolved into the monstrous Lyozard]] ''and then'' got killed off) [[Back from the Dead|and Uno downloaded the data version of his brain into a (superpowered, of course) bionic body]].}}
* This happened to Cliff Steele (Robotman) in [[Grant Morrison]]'s ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' after the Candlemaker crushed his brain. Fortunately, he was hooked up to the Chief's computer at the time, and his intelligence was downloaded on a disk. Once he figured out what happened, he was able to return to his body, though he was pretty freaked out by the entire process.
* The ''Battlestar Galactica'' comic ''The Final Five'' has this as the origin of the Thirteenth Tribe. Originally, they were members of the other twelve tribes but after uploading their consciousnesses into new cybernetic bodies were treated as a new group. This includes the idea that the Thirteenth Tribe have committed some kind of "sin", apparently borne out by the intervention of supernatural/sufficiently advanced beings.
* ''[[Savage Dragon]]'' featured a number of characters with [[Power Armor]] who had previously downloaded their brainwaves into the suit, allowing them to continue fighting long after death.
== Fan Works ==
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