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{{trope|wppage=Head transplant}}
Okay, your body got
Maybe... and maybe not.
▲Okay, your body got screw in a nasty accident, yet your brain is just fine. Now, you'll be looking life as tetraplegia, ie. stuck in a wheelchair... ''and that's if you survive''. Wait... a minute, there's a way to fix that, just get a new body. No need to worry, the doctors have figured out how to the spinal cord, so you can walk and live on again. Neat... right?
Okay, so in real
Despite the name, this trope covers transplantation of the brain alone, as well as the entire head.
This is a classic trope in works featuring a [[Mad Scientist]].
Not to be confused with [[Head Swap]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' has Dio Brando had his head transplanted on the body of Jonathan Joestar.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Marvel]] has [https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Arthur_Nagan_(Earth-616) Arthur Nagan], who had his head transplanted onto a gorilla's body.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the [[Spice Girls]] [[Alternate Universe Fic|AU]] [[Real Person Fic
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Thing with Two Heads]]'' has a plot about a dying white man being
* In ''[[Mars Attacks!]]'', Nathalie Lake and Professor Kessler both find their heads in places where they shouldn't belong, thanks to the Martians -- Nathalie and her dog exchange bodies, and Kessler's head simply goes solo.
* ''[[The Brain That Wouldn't Die]]'' features a scientist keeping his girlfriend's head alive so he can transplant onto another body.
* ''[[Frankenhooker]]'', a grief-stricken former medical student goes on a killing spree to assemble body parts to create one for his fiancee after a freak lawnmower accident decapitates her.
* <s>Froderick Frahnkensteen</s> Frederick Frankenstein sends <s>Eyegor</s> Igor to retrieve a brain of a genius to implant in his creature in ''[[Young Frankenstein]]''. We all know how well ''that'' turned out...
== [[Literature]] ==
* The ''[[Airhead Series]]'' by [[Meg Cabot]] is about a brainy tomboy who suffers a devastating accident which results in her brain being transplanted into the body of a vapid party girl supermodel.
* In ''[[I Will Fear No Evil]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]], an obscenely rich old man has his brain transplanted into a younger body. To be honest, he did it as a fancy form of suicide, never expecting it to work. But it did, and to his horror the compatible donor body was that of a young woman he knew. Complicating things beyond that, she doesn't seem to have ''left'' her body -- either her soul remains in her body and is advising him, or he's suffering an extensive delusion to that effect...
== [[Music]] ==
* In [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_ryNJVreiY "Skullcrusher Mountain"], the point-of-view character recounts how he made a half-pony/half-monkey monster to please the girl he's abducted. It's not explained how it all went together, but presumably the head of one was connected in some way to the body of the other.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* For a while in the 2000s, ''[[Bloom County]]'' had [[Donald Trump]]'s brain transplanted into Bill the Cat.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Wolfenstein|
* ''[[Surgeon Simulator 2013]]'' has brain transplants as part of the game.
* In a [[Halloween Episode|Halloween]] ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' comic, the Medic, with some assistance from the Engineer, transplanted the living brain of a mugger into a jack-o-lantern. The criminal can ''only'' remain alive if his brain isn't removed from the Halloween decoration.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the second ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' "Treehouse of Horror", Mr. Brain has his head attached to Homer's body after a freak accident with a robot.
* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", Fry has his head transplanted to Amy's body after an accident nearly kills him.
* In the classic [[Looney Tunes]] cartoon ''[https://www.b98.tv/video/water-water-every-hare/ Water, Water Every Hare]'', the unnamed [[Mad Scientist]] wants [[Bugs Bunny]]'s brain to complete the creation of a [[Humongous Mecha|giant robot]].
{{quote|"Now be a cooperative little bunny and let me have your brain."}}
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[w:Vladimir Demikhov|Vladimir Demikhov]], a Soviet-era Russian scientist, is known for (among other accomplishments) his [https://web.archive.org/web/20130827165645/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,891156,00.html dog head transplant experiments] in the 1950s.
* Inspired by Demikhov, [[w:Robert J. White|Dr. Robert White]] successfully transplanted the head of one monkey onto the body of another in 1970; although paralyzed from the neck down because of the transplant, the resulting hybrid survived nine days before immune rejection killed it. While it lived, though, the monkey could still hear, smell, taste, eat and follow objects with its eyes. During the 1990s, White planned to perform the same operation on humans and practiced on corpses at a mortuary. It was hoped he could do head transplant surgery on physicist [[Stephen Hawking]] and actor [[Christopher Reeve]]. Although his work has been dismissed as "barbaric", it has led to serious discussion of the feasibility of spinal cord reconstruction and cephalo-spinal linkage in humans as recently as 2014.
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