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*** Unknown why the hair was black, but it turns out that it was ''Al'' in that body, and it was only pure luck that he wasn't trapped in that body permanently.
*** 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
* This, combined with [[Empty Shell]] and/or [[Our Zombies Are Different]], ''might'' be what's happening in ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In an issue of ''[[Justice League of America]]'' following [[
* In the ''[[
* 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.
== [[Literature]] ==
* A [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]] shows up in ''[[
* In the third book of ''[[The Death Gate Cycle]]'', [[Witch Species|Sartan]] necromancer Jonathon attempts to resurrect his wife, who was just murdered in front of his eyes. Because he does not wait the requisite three days for her soul to depart, however (which would have resulted in a [[Soulless Shell]]), she comes back as a ''lazar'', an undead entity whose soul has only partially separated from its body, leaving it in total spiritual agony and quite, ''quite'' [[Ax Crazy|insane]]. The ''lazar's'' first act is to immediately begin creating an army of its kind to overwhelm the living and force them to share in its torment. Jonathon, previously a rather lighthearted [[Genius Ditz]], is horrified by what he's unleashed and becomes [[The Atoner]] for the remainder of the series.
* The [[Big Bad]] of James Byron Huggins' ''Cain'' is a [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]]. [[Government Conspiracy|The military]] took it into their heads to take the dead body of one of their finest killers, named [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Cain]], and [[Super Soldier|rebuild him into a nigh-unkillable vampire assassin]]. The problem? Cain woke up on the slab, possessed by ''[[The Devil]].''
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[
** 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.
** Aside from the [[Soulless Shell]] that [[Frankenstein's Monster|Ad]][[Cyborg|am]] made of Professor Walsh and the lackey scientist, he made a [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]] of Forrest, a turtle demon, and [[Magitek|some spare electronics]], and planned to do so with Riley and every other demon and soldier in the Initiative. However, it's possible that he was actually just a [[Inhuman Human]], and more susceptible to the control chip than other characters we'd seen. Adam himself is ''[[Off the Rails|definitely]]'' a [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]].
* The ''[[
* ''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.
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** There are several kinds of mojo (inherently magical places, magic items, etc) in ''[[Deadlands]]'' that make returning from the grave as Harrowed more probable. Most of them give the nasty spirit an extra buff of Dominion, and some automatically make the demon in charge of the body (that is, a pure [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]]).
** This trope is so common in Deadlands that when the developers of ''Doomtown'' (the Deadlands [[Collectible Card Game]]) announced that the prize for a tournament would be the resurrection of a character chosen by the winner, they had to make it absolutely clear that this trope would not be invoked, but would be an honest-to-God resurrection. (Indeed, the only way you can get this in ''Deadlands'' is with a literal Divine Intervention.)
* Not ''quite'' a resurrection, but the act of creating a new Promethean in ''[[Promethean: The
* A likely result of resurrection magic in the world of [[GURPS]] Fantasy II: Adventures in the Mad Lands - in fact, even regular ''healing'' spells can have this effect, due to magic being inherently chaotic and dangerous in the Mad Lands. Furthermore, the land is so suffused with wild magic that dead people often come back as monsters even without any conscious attempt to revive them being made.
* [[
** Also, the 3.5e supplement Heroes of Horror provided similar examples, including rules for player characters brought back wrong.
* ''[[
** Then again, as the SAS module ''[http://dc335.4shared.com/doc/VtAYxDXs/preview.html Dem Bones]'' shows, sometimes a geist just won't listen; the eponymous geist is obsessed with reanimating bodies and has kept on singing the same fragment of the song that gives it its name, constantly, for months, to the point that its host has resorted to ''repeated suicide attempts'' to get something resembling peace and quiet.
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*** Averted after the spell was reworked into a typical in-combat resurrection spell(alongside the Druids's Rebirth). It still places a debuff on targets that it resurrects, but the debuff has no real effect, visual or otherwise.
* 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 (
* In the first [[Drakengard]], Furiae is brought back with a "Seed of Resurrection", only as a [[One-Winged Angel|horrible monster]] which brings about the end of the world by being cloned a million times over.
* 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.
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