History Main / AnimateBodyParts

[[caption-width-right:350:"I have enough of a spleenache as it is, thank you."]]

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* [[spoiler: Music/MelanieC]]'s left arm comes to live to deliver a punch while helping the narrator with an OffhandBackhand at [[MadScientist Monty]] in ''[[http://fav.me/dd7ow55 Case of the Missing Technology.]]''

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* One episode of ''Series/RedDwarf'' featured Rimmer the hologram 'accidentally' having another dead crewmember's arm uploaded instead of his own. Hilarious fights ensue.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Carla sees Turk's mole talking to her.

--> '''Larynx''' (Dave Coulier doing a spot-on Garry Shandling impression): Hi, Garry!
--> '''Garry:''' Is that my voice? I don't sound like that!
--> '''Larynx:''' Yes you do!

* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'': Thing, a fully animate disembodied hand.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has several undead formed of animat''ed'' body parts, including the Crawling Hand and the Isitoq, an eyeball that uses its tattered optic nerve as wings.

[[folder: Video Games ]]

* ''VideoGame/TheHalloweenHack'': Dearkhart and the Anxiety Attack enemies.

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': Various severed body parts -- including skin and hair -- can be reanimated by Necromancers and clouds of gas in evil biomes. This wasn't initially intentional, but Toady decided to ThrowItIn on the grounds that it didn't actually make any less sense than [[DemBones animated skeletons]].

* ''VideoGame/CultistSimulator'' has [[AlmightyIdiot The Heart Relentless]], who does not permit conclusion. He is the closest thing the setting has to a GodOfGood, as he beats ceaselessly to protect the skin of the world from [[PuppeteerParasite the Worms]] and [[EldritchAbomination the Gods-from-Nowhere]].
* The original ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' game has the penultimate boss, "Doc Duodenum", a sentient self-aware piece of small intestine from a giant alien lifeform. According to the manual, he got bored of his old life and left his host; despite his level "Intestinal Distress" being a WombLevel that resembles the interior of a giant set of digestive organs, it's actually not supposed to be his original boss. He's somewhat obscure in the fandom, as he only appeared in the original Sega versions of the game and was cut from all Nintendo versions, only to finally be restored in the 2010 UpdatedReRelease.

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* Several of the patients in ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'', though they [[http://www.bogleech.com/awfulhospital/472.html prefer]] the term "free-roaming unisystemic vessels:" Thanks to the metaphysics of the setting, an ambulatory stomach can spend its time digesting, even though it's as far removed from any mouth or oesophagus as a human in London might be from the stretch of Amazon rainforest that produced their last lungful of oxygen.

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** In the RupturedAppendix episode "Tickled Pinky", Rocko's appendix (and all his other organs) talk... and even have personalities. It turns out it's AllJustADream, though.
* One particularly strange ''WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}'' short (called "Gone Clayzy") showed Gumby accidentally managing to pop the signature slant on his head off after knocking it into himself after falling off a tower of blocks. Independent of the now unconscious Gumby, the slant comes to life and proceeds to torment Prickle for a while until Prickle manages to reattach it to Gumby's head. And even after that, the slant comes to life one more time to give a brief EvilLaugh, to Gumby's confusion.
* The Disney short ''WesternAnimation/InnerWorkings'' anthropomorphizes a man's organs. The main conflict is between [[EmotionsVsStoicism the carefree, party-loving heart and the serious, risk-avoiding brain]]. Other organs like the lungs, the intestines and [[ToiletHumor the urine bladder]] have minor roles.

* ''{{VideoGame/Terraria}}'' brings us the Eye and Brain of Cthulhu, two early-game bosses. The Eye returns during the FinalBoss as the [[spoiler:True Eye of Cthulhu]], a minion summoned by the [[spoiler:Moon Lord]]. The Twins would qualify for this trope, except for the fact that [[spoiler:they’re robots]].

* An infamous 90s Reebok advert went a bit further than this and showed a disembodied giant hairy belly chasing an athletic man through a city, mostly by gelatinous hopping, and culminating in a motorbike chase, while repeatedly shouting "Belly's gonna get ya!" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHlvKQwZFSI You can view the madness here]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFNKS172tmI This Coke Zero commercial]], where the body parts themselves have decidedly non-human legs. And what kind of person has two tongues and one eye?

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* A vintage Alka-Seltzer ad had a man [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ADRgzUez1E arguing with his stomach]], just as if they were a bickering couple at a marriage counselor. (Note the stomach's voice: it's Gene Wilder.)

* [[spoiler: Music/MelanieC]]'s left arm comes to live to deliver a punch while helping the narrator with an OffhandBackhand at [[MadScientist Monty]] in ''[[http://fav.me/dd7ow55 Case of the Missing Technology]]''.

--> '''Spokesman:''' ...Its blocking power is as powerful as me!

--> '''Spokesman:''' Who said that? (arm grows out of right bicep, pointing at the left bicep) Was that my left bicep? No. It was my...

* ''VideoGame/CultistSimulator'' has [[AlmightIdiot The Heart Relentless]], who does not permit conclusion. He is the closest thing the setting has to a GodOfGood, as he beats ceaselessly to protect the skin of the world from [[PuppeteerParasite the Worms]] and [[EldritchAbomination the Gods-from-Nowhere]].

** Also averted in the same dlc. Several wandering opponents seem to be animated skeletons wearing body armor. They turn out to be Y-17 Trauma Harnesses, devices designed to fight a defensive action while autonomously evacuating the wounded soldiers wearing them. The suits couldn't tell if the wearer survived the wounds, couldn't tell friend from foe, and couldn't identify where they were supposed to take the wounded. The suit is animated (and hostile); the skeletons are just all that's left of the people they were supposed to protect.

** Also averted in the same dlc. Several wandering opponents seem to be animated skeletons wearing body armor. They turn out to be body armor that was designed to fight a defensive action while autonomously evacuating the wounded soldier wearing it. The suits couldn't tell if the wearer survived the wounds, couldn't tell friend from foe, and couldn't identify where they were supposed to take the wounded. The suit is animated (and hostile); the skeleton is just all that's left of the person it was supposed to protect.

** Also averted in the same dlc. Several wandering opponent seem to be animated skeletons wearing body armor. They turn out to be body armor that was designed to fight a defensive action while autonomously evacuating the wounded soldier wearing it. The suits couldn't tell if the wearer survived the wounds, couldn't tell friend from foe, and couldn't identify where they were supposed to take the wounded. The suit is animated (and hostile); the skeleton is just all that's left of the person it was supposed to protect.

* In ''MonsterPulse'', this is practically the entire premise. A mysterious energy somehow "infects" people and brings a randomly-chosen body part or organ to life as a separate, autonomous being. Unlike most of the examples on this page, they don't have human-level intelligence; they can vocalize and understand orders, but are only a little bit smarter than a well-trained animal.

* The internal enemies in ''BowsersInsideStory'' are things like immune cells, which attack with a body check, and neurons, which attack by way of electric shocks.

* A UK advert for an itch relief cream featured a ''talking patch of skin'' that sounded like a falsetto Bill Bailey, and attempted to urge the woman in the advert to give it "just one little scratch", eventually screaming "Aaah! Not Eumavate!" when the cream was applied.
* Dr. Scholls has a wart remover commercial where the wart talks.

* One ad campaign had a boy's stomach barge into his brain, interrupting whatever he happened to be thinking about, and loudly declaring "It's time for this boy to think about his hunger". This resulted in the boy's stomach grumbling (get it?) and him going and getting a pizza poicket.
* A series of ads for Summer's Eve cleanser had ''talking vaginas.''

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': Various severed body parts- including skin and hair -can be reanimated by Necromancers and clouds of gas in evil biomes.