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''And even when I'm right with you I'm so far away''}}

* Papa Roach's ''Singular Indestructible Droid'' is this trope.

* ''The Soul Doctors'' from Fireaxe's 4-hour [[Food for the Gods]].

 

 

* Decisively averted in ''[[Eclipse Phase]]''. Your mind is software and can be "resleeved" into anything from another human form to an uplifted octopus or even a futuristic tank. If for some reason you want to keep your old body, you can still deck out it with an array of cybernetic and biological modifications, without any limitations whatsoever.

** The closest thing being some temporary stress when re-sleeving (especially when the character remembers dying).

* ''[[Stars Without Number]]'' got the usual cyberpunk version downplayed. Implants inflict permanent System Strain, and some also temporary on activation; only one point for things like remote drone interface, more for those with large affected area or actively messing with neural system or metabolism. Strain is capped by Constitution score, thus cyberware leaves less "room" for taking Strain from other sources, such as healing, stimulants (more so for powerful nanobot pharmaceuticals and [[Magitek|psitech stuff]]) and body altering psychic powers (both healing and augmentations) — each point is a step closer to "oops, the stim that would fix you enough to walk on your own just failed".

 

* The [[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh]] cards "[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Giga_Gagagigo Giga Gagagigo]" and "[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gogiga_Gagagigo Gogiga Gagagigo]" show the character [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gagagigo Gagagigo] after being cybernetically reconstructed. The flavor text on the first mentions that the cybernetics caused him to [[Face Heel Turn|lose]] his [[Heel Face Turn|heart and redemption]], and the second's says that his soul has long since collapsed, and that his body continues recklessly in a quest for more power.

** Even more Gagagigo is the evolved form of [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gigobyte Gigobyte], a very cute mon.

*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140411124821/https://www.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg%2Fdaily%2Fstf%2F137 Much worse].

** Ashnod's Transmogrant.

 

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** Also [[Averted Trope|averted]] with the cyborg Coldstone; Goliath seems to ''think'' this at first, but his mental instability is really due to anger at first, and then later from the circumstances of having three souls (one of whom was evil) sharing one body. The closest he ever really came to this trope was when Xanatos used a computer program to brainwash him for a while; it messed with his mind, but his "soul" remained fine.

* The unproduced ''[[Invader Zim]]'' episode "10 Minutes To Doom" implies that the Irkens physical bodies are just shells for the cybernetic Paks on their backs.

 

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