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Unfortunately, something [[Go Horribly Wrong|goes horribly awry]], causing them to [[Came Back Wrong|come back wrong]].

 

 

These former humans are probably going to become a [[Our Zombies Are Different|shambling, bloodthirsty, soulless monster]] or [[Eldritch Abomination]].

'''As a [[Death Trope]], all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

 

 

== [[Anime]] And [[Manga]] ==

*** The hair just happened to be black. It could have been any color because they didn't bring anyone back, they made someone new. Al was only in it for a moment, mostly because the [[Jerkass|Gate is a jerk]].

* In ''[[D Gray Man]]'', when a person dies and a loved one grieves over their death, there's a chance the Millennium Earl will appear, and offer the loved one a chance to resurrect the dead person. He gives them a metal body and asks them to wish the dead's soul into the metal body. What happens after this is that the dead one is resurrected as an Akuma- a tortured soul bound to a metal body- and the first thing they do after being resurrected is curse the loved one for damning them, then the Earl takes control and they murder the one who resurrected them and steal their body. In fact, Akuma are a combination of [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]] and [[Damaged Soul]]. With each stage an Akuma reaches, the body becomes more humanoid in appearance but the soul heavily deteriorates.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In an issue of ''[[Justice League of America]]'' following [[Metamorpho (Comic Book)|Metamorpho]]'s death, his son Joey wishes for his father back [[Exact Words|(not "alive")]], without knowing a [[Jackass Genie]] is listening. He and his mother are confronted by an [[Eldritch Abomination]] with Metamorpho's powers, and apparently no consciousness whatsoever. But just before he gets wished back to oblivion, he says "Joey..." (This being comics, he later came [[Back From the Dead]] for real.)

* This is apparently how the [[Blackest Night|Black Lanterns]] work. The ring reanimates a dead person's body and gives it a personality close to the one they had in life -- except the Black Lantern version is also a bloodthirsty monster that wants to eat people and rip out hearts for power. The soul apparently has nothing to do with it; when a ring took control of Boston Brand aka Deadman's (a superhero ghost) corpse, Deadman tried to take back control of his body, but the ring drove him out. This means that a Black Lantern is simply a corpse controlled by the ring (making them technically a [[Soulless Shell]] as well) that mimics just enough of their old personality to make them completely unnerving to those who knew them in life. Add to that any powers and abilities the person had in life, the standard power ring protective aura and energy constructs, an incredibly powerful [[Healing Factor]], and immunity to magic makes for one ''terrifying'' example of this trope.

 

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', vampires are all like this. The original soul is gone, and a demon inhabits the body, remembering the original person's life, and apparently believing themselves to be the same person. Some of their personality retains intact, but other aspects tend to warp somewhat, and they lose all conscience. When Angel got his soul back, the demon Angelus became an [[Enemy Within]], constantly frustrated at the amount of fun Angel's heroics were costing him.

** It was strongly implied that Dawn's attempt to resurrect Joyce in Season Five was an example of [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]] (we never see the resurrected Joyce, but the juddery-POV cam we get as she approaches the house bodes... poorly). Not to mention the fact that Spike, who at this point did NOT have his soul back and thus was still evil, is visibly unnerved and a bit [[Squick|squicked]] by the thought of what was going to come back when he learns about what Dawn is planning.

* The ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' episode "Dead Man Walking" gives us Owen slowly becoming a kind of one of these after being shot and brought back with the second resurrection glove- when he came back, not only was he still a corpse (albeit conscious and mobile, he had no heartbeat, no reflexes, etc.), ''[[The Grim Reaper|Death]] came with him'', and would walk the Earth forever killing people if it could get its hands on thirteen victims. This was an unusual variant, in that once Death had fully manifested, it left Owen's body, restoring his free will, and he was ultimately able to defeat it (it couldn't kill him since he was already dead).

* ''Trilogy Of Terror II''. The last story featured a woman doing a dark ritual to restore her son to life, "whose life was taken by accident." The son comes back, but quickly becomes a monstrous stalker who plays hide and seek with the mother. When the mother is cornered, the son tells her that she was wrong; the son died not by accident, but because he took his own life to get away from this mother's abuse. The son sent a demon in his own form to return to the mother instead. Then the son transforms into a demon form; lots of KISS-like makeup, and kills the mother.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Sam and Max]]'' Season 2 has a bizarre [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]]: the ''DeSoto'' inexplicably "died" between the events of the fourth and fifth episodes, and when you resurrect it by ''freeing its soul from hell'', it comes back as a demon car. Curt the voice synthesizer even says the potential trope title: "It came back... processing...''wrong.''"

** Although this probably wasn't caused by him coming back from the dead (resurrecting people happens in canon, with no ill effects. It's just a lot harder to pull off than it's ingame), but by being revived with [[The Corruption|demonic magic]].

** Death Knights have Raise Ally, which ''intentionally'' brings the target back wrong, for about 4 minutes. When used on another player's corpse it allows them to control the ghoul, and can be used in combat, unlike most other resurrection spells (which bring the target back ''right'').

* In ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] V'', Queen Isabel's attempt to resurrect her husband Nicolai turns him into a genocidal vampire. It probably wasn't the smartest idea to ask a ''necromancer'' for help, after all. The plot of HOMM3 featured a similar [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]] resurrection that - while at least intentional - still didn't quite go as planned.

* In the game ''[[Evil Genius (Video Game)|Evil Genius]],'' the player can resurrect dead henchmen by dumping them in the [[Elaborate Underground Base|base laboratory's]] biochemical tanks. However, the reborn minions that emerge are little more than [[Dumb Muscle|cataclysmically retarded blobs of muscle]] that exist only to kill your enemies on sight: since you're an [[Evil Genius]], this isn't much of a problem. Well, given that they tend to kill people in front of witnesses, which raises your heat and brings more enemies to the island, it ''can'' be a bit of a problem, but in red alert scenarios, they're very useful.

* Liu Kang from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' Deception, who was turned into a zombie by the corrupted god, Raiden after being murdered in ''Deadly Alliance'' by Shang Tsung.

* In [[Final Fantasy Tactics]], Zalbaag becomes a [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]] [[Came Back Wrong]] after being killed by Dycedarg/Adrammelech. He is revived by the Lucavi in the next series of battles, and retains full consciousness, but he is turned into a vampiric zombie without any control over his actions, constantly suffering. He begs Ramza to kill him, knowing there's no hope for him and not wanting to hurt his brother.

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