Talk:Body swap appearances in media

Pencilmation Article
I arrived at this article searching for Pencilmation, it's one of the few places mentioning its name. Pencilmation the biggest animated channel on YouTube, how is this possible? Someone really needs to start that! Legobiscuits (talk) 14:10, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Possible candidates
The following are possible candidates for addition to this list, based on their inclusion in the now-deleted Category:Body switching movies (see CFD):


 * Source Code
 * The Skin I Live In
 * Vice Versa (1948 film)

-- Black Falcon (talk) 00:17, 1 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Source Code is more like an avatar or one-way swap as the target's soul is explained where it goes. For The Skin I Live In, that is more a face/body transplant, also one-way. Vice Versa is in the list. -AngusWOOF (talk) 16:54, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

The Flash/Arrow
Is this worthy to mention? In a recent crossover between the CW shows The Flash, Arrow and Supergirl. The characters Barry Allen aka The Flash and Oliver Queen aka the Green Arrow switch bodies and assume each other's physical appearance and identities as well as supernatural powers.

https://tv.avclub.com/the-flash-swaps-bodies-with-green-arrow-as-the-elsewor-1830917340 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lildrewzy (talk • contribs) 22:52, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * They don't switch bodies, they switch identities. Slightly distinct, related but doesn't really belong.Frond Dishlock (talk) 01:25, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Drop Dead Diva
I know it's a series and not just an episode, but that seems like all the more reason to include it somehow. 68.98.42.168 (talk) 10:47, 20 September 2012 (UTC)


 * This is more an incarnation or possession than a swap, as one of the characters is dead. -AngusWOOF (talk) 05:20, 4 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Later episodes in the season affirm that Jane, who was body swapped at the beginning of the series, is able to come back by swapping with a new person, so this can go back on the list. -AngusWOOF (talk) 20:11, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Body jumping
The following were removed from the list as it involves more Spirit possession, one-sided transfers (target does not swap back to source, or is already dead), incarnation or avatar rather than a true swap:


 * Possessions
 * As The World Turns:"Episode #1.13644 (11 Jan. 2010)" - a ghost possesses his friend
 * Doctor Who: "New Earth"-Lady Cassandra occupies the bodies of The Doctor, Rose, and Chip at various points.
 * Danny Phantom: "Splitting Images" — ghost nerd Sidney Poindexter possesses Danny and kicks him out into his section of the Ghost Zone.
 * Big Wolf on Campus — a body jumper named Alice switches bodies with Lori, then the face-eater that Merton had on his public-access television show.
 * Big Wolf on Campus - a boy jumper named "The Pleasantville Strangler" can possess anybody through touch. He possesses a Security Guard, then a little kid, the little kid's mom, a skater kid, a jock kid, a girl, to a nerd, back to a girl, back and fourth with two fat guys, and then the Security Guard again.
 * Fullmetal Alchemist — Dante has lived for hundreds of years by continually switching bodies with others.
 * Being Human: Season 2, Episode 2 — "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?"; Season 2, Episode 4 — ("I Loathe You") "For Sentimental Reasons"; Season 2, Episode 5 — "Addicted to Love".
 * Stargate Atlantis: "Duet" — Rodney and Lt Laura Cadman share Rodney's body after they are released from a crashed Wraith Dart.
 * Lost Girl - "Original Skin" (Season 2, Episode 9) - Bo, Dyson, Kenzi, Hale, Ciara, Lauren, a Dark Fae bounty hunter and a psychotic escaped prisoner, also a Dark Fae with an ability to take over others' bodies, all switched bodies when the latter caused chaos at The Dal.
 * Transmigration by J. T. McIntosh ; 1970 novel ; jumps to nearest body when his host body dies
 * Naruto - Ino Yamanaka can possess and manipulate a target's body.


 * One-way transfers
 * Memory Run (aka Synapse) (1995 film) - an arms dealer's mind is transferred to the body of a murder victim.
 * The Hit Girl - placed in new body
 * Day Watch - body hopping
 * Power Rangers Samurai: "Trading Places" — Not really a body swap. A Nighlok named Switchbeast uses his powers to transfer people's souls into various objects. But when he gets Jayden, Mia, Kevin, and Antonio. Mike and Emily try to figure out how to stop him. - added to list. The character assumes the inanimate object's likeness such as the statue gnome's pose
 * Mantra (comics) Lukasz a warrior man for centuries is put in the body of a woman Eden Blake.
 * Self/less and Advantageous - the new body is a clone-grown one.
 * The Mephisto Waltz (1971): Satanic ritual moves soul to new body, but nothing is said about the target's soul. The original body is then left for dead.
 * Heaven Can Wait (1978 film) – The main character moves soul to a new body, but nothing is said about the target's soul. The original body is cremated.
 * All of Me – Two spirits share one body, each controlling a half. per the Pajiba article "She’s able to control his right side leading to all manner of comedic shenanigans, but her body is an empty shell devoid of both life and Martin."
 * Dragon Ball Super – Goku Black kills his target after the swap; there is no storyline where the characters are actively participating as their swapped bodies.
 * Nine Lives (2016 film) || France || Barry Sonnenfield || 2016 || Tom Brand and Mr. Fuzzypants || Accident || Tom's body is left in a coma the entire time.
 * Altered Carbon – Memories are implanted into bodies.


 * Transformations
 * The Almighty Johnsons: Season 2, Episode 5 — "A Damn Fine Woman" - transformation
 * Seventeen Again (2000 film) - With the help of magic soap, two siblings magically turn their separated grandparents into their seventeen-year-old selves. transformation like the Big movie
 * The Hitchhiker: "Petty Thieves" - Mickey and Pearl have sex and "become like one guy". After Pearl dies, Mickey discovers he is transforming into her.


 * Quantum leap style body hopping / role-playing
 * Quantum Leap — Sam Beckett jumps into random people in history, leaping to various points in time to change the course of their lives (Although various episodes suggest that he retains his body in these leaps and merely generates an 'aura' that causes those around him to perceive him as the person he has replaced)
 * The Jersey - A jersey enables a teen to live from the perspective of that NFL player
 * Cupid (Купидон): Episode 30 — Victoria and Arina switched bodies by Cupid (Quantum Leap style transformation).
 * The Dead Zone: Season 3, Episode 10 — "Instinct"; Season 5, Episode 7 — "Symmetry"; Season 2, Episode 5 — "Precipitate" : Quantum Leap style transformations of Johnn Smith.
 * A Walk in My shoes - Car accident puts teacher is placed in body of troubled student's mother, does not say what happens to the mother during this time.
 * Me Again (2012 film) - pastor views his life from the perspectives of his friends and family
 * SpongeBob SquarePants: "The Algae's Always Greener" — Plankton and Mr. Krabs switch lives, to see what it's like from each other's point of view and part of Plankton's evil plan. - they don't really swap bodies, just their life situation


 * Incarnations / Avatars
 * Mr Ya Miss - reincarnation


 * Brain transplants
 * I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein ;  1970 novel ; brain transplant
 * Out of Jimmy's Head - TV series, one-sided, target is dead
 * The Ghost of Frankenstein
 * Get Out (film), one-sided, target is dead


 * Disguises
 * Under the Skin - body disguise

Shows to be confirmed
These shows need further detailing and episode specified before considering them back on the main list:
 * Los Protegidos
 * R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
 * Camelot
 * The Mutants: Pathways of the Heart also known as Os Mutantes: Caminhos do Coração
 * Robotboy (separate episodes) — Robotboy and Gus; Robotboy and Protoboy; Gus and a pigeon.
 * Stargate SG-1 — At least four episodes to date have dealt with body swapping. Two among these are "Fragile Balance" (not a body swap, just an age transformation) and "Holiday." ✅
 * 2 Stupid Dogs — both the dogs might have switched their bodies or their personalities.
 * Wingin' It: Porter tries to switch with Carl so that he can help him talk to Jane, but Dennis interrupts and then switches with Carl. Later, Porter switches Dr. Cassabi,Carl, and Denise.
 * The Emperor's New School: Yzma and Kronk
 * Rolie Polie Olie: big babies/olie switches with spot and the babies switches with the parents.
 * The Dark Side of the Moon (Обратная сторона Луны)
 * In the Wrong Skin or A Bit Out of Mind (Немного не в себе)
 * Please Come Back, Soon-Ae (돌아와요_순애씨)
 * The Initiation of Sarah

Category:Body swapping in fiction
I think this would be a good category; however I'm not sure how Quantum Leap would be classified; given Quantum Leap style is its own section of body swaps. Perhaps possession in fiction and brain transplant in fiction would be sub categories of this? CensoredScribe (talk) 15:21, 16 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I would suggest "Body hopping in fiction" for a more encompassing category which would include possessions and transmigrations and body swaps. If body swap is a more appropriate title then we'd need to include a new section for the one-ways and temporary sharing ones. -AngusWOOF (talk) 15:41, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

TV episodes with body swaps
I have a question to ask one of the admins, should I have the Power Rangers series in alphabetical order or series order? -User:72.74.142.35 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.74.142.35 (talk) 16:09, 5 July 2015 (UTC)


 * If it's among the different series (1st column) then alpha order is fine. I liked that the second column uses episode order in case they bring in to show some continuity, like ah there they pull that gimmick again, just in a different way. If it's a minor storyline as with Buffy (e.g. they get body swapped but then they get it fixed an episode or two later), it can be combined into one entry. If one of the major characters (Klaus in American Dad) swaps or it's a series that's about body swapping / being body swapped (Turnabout) then it goes on the top list. Hope that makes sense. AngusWOOF ( bark  •  sniff ) 16:27, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Fix My Mistake on The TV Episodes With Body Swaps Section. Get Rid of Most of The Extra Gray Space. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.49.73.83 (talk) 17:51, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Why are there two articles?
Why is there a Wikipedia article titled "Body swap" which includes a list of body-swap uses in media and also a different Wikipedia article titled "Body swap appearances in media"? What determines whether a particular body-swap story goes into the one list, the other, neither, or both lists?2604:2000:C682:B600:ACAC:C7A:13ED:B560 (talk) 14:30, 14 July 2016 (UTC)Christopher L. Simpson


 * This one is supposed to be the list, while the other one is more of a brief set of examples. Feel free to remove ones that are not notable. 17:01, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

More candidates
Stargate: SG-1 is mentioned with one episode but in the last two seasons they discover a mind-swapping device that is used several times, not just for SG-1 (when Daniel and Vala are transfered to the Ori galaxy) but also in Stargate Universe (as a mere means for communications between galaxies). SGU might even be a candidate for "Shows with body swaps" rather than "Episodes with body swaps".

And then there are the movies self/less and Transfer (2010 film) where old or dying people "buy" bodies to switch into. While in self/less the former personality is supposed to be suppressed completely (it is not a clone as mentioned above but a "donored" body), in Transfer the original owner of the body (a refugee) is allowed to use it a few hours at night. Are these body switch movies?

Oh, and Face/Off seems to be missing, too! That should fit into this page. &mdash; Tauriel-1 ( ☎ ) 11:47, 13 April 2017 (UTC)


 * BTW, I don't quite understand why the Lost Girl episode is not a candidate for this page. If I remember correctly no mind was "deleted" and everybody got back into their own bodies eventually. The only difference to other body swap movies is that there were more than two people involved. &mdash; Tauriel-1 ( ☎ ) 11:58, 13 April 2017 (UTC)


 * , the SG-1 ones might be okay but when Daniel goes to Ori galaxy, someone from Ori galaxy needs to SWAP BACK to Daniel's galaxy and hang out there to do things. Otherwise it's just avatar / traveling and not a swap.  "Holiday" episode is on the list.  If SGU has swaps like "Holiday" on a regular basis, then yes, add it there.  self/less looks is more a body hopping / transfer, as it comes from a cloned body with no soul to swap back to the original body. Not sure about Transfer 2010 film, it sounds like body sharing than a swap as the donored person doesn't move to the other body at all or is in sleep or statis, so that's more of a one-sided transfer.  Face/Off isn't there because it's only the FACE that is changed so it is more a role-swap than an actual complete body swap. Lost Girl some of those are body hopping, they jump from one body to another like possession. Swap needs to involve two people who change bodies and then act in those swapped bodies. Yes it can be more than two people as with the live-action Scooby Doo movie. See also the Body jumping section above in the talk page as many of the examples you brought up are already listed there. AngusWOOF  ( bark  •  sniff ) 17:32, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

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Power Rangers
Can someone please put Power Rangers Samurai and Megaforce back in their proper sections. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.76.182.141 (talk) 15:46, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Dexter's Laboratory - Changes
Should the Dexter's Laboratory episode Changes be added? It's the pilot episode of said series, so is it going to count? If it does could someone please add it? User: — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.184.204.202 (talk) 19:59, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Question
Does this count as a body swap? I'm asking because they're wearing wigs and costumes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyN_j0tbq8o 16:26, 18 February 2020 (UTC) User: — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.184.204.202 (talk)

The Villain and Nobody's Perfect
Re these two on the film list. For the Villain I can't see any reference to body swapping in the plots at any of the provided links which seems strange. Is there anything reference that supports its inclusion? On the second, I see it states the method to be 'statue', but the Chinese article linked as a reference states they change bodies as a result of being electrocuted in an elevator that has malfunctioned.Frond Dishlock (talk) 01:29, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Stargate Question
Should "Stargate SG-1" be before or after "Stargate Atlantis"? If the other way, could someone flip them around? Thanks. 96.233.101.193 (talk) 15:21, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Voice swap
People, I don't wanna sound like an admin, but I would like it if you could stop mixing up a voice swap with a body swap. Voice swap is something very very different from body swap!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.149.47.182 (talk) 20:29, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Quantum Leap
Quantum Leap was removed from this list back in 2014, justifying the removal by calling it "spirit possession instead of body swap". Reading the article for spirit possession, it's defined by a supernatural being taking control of a body by means of repressing or supressing the body's actual soul that's still present inside the body. And that's *SO MUCH NOT* what happen in QL. First off, scientist Sam Beckett is not a supernatural being. And second, the mind or soul or consciousness of the person he leaps into is not still present in the same body, as it's an actual body switch, where the leapee's mind ends up in Sam Beckett's body.

Thus, I'm hereby requesting that QL be put back into the list. --2003:EF:1704:7254:7DC9:BAE4:78D8:C97A (talk) 06:33, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Strange_New_Worlds Episode 5 Spock and his GF do a "mind meld" type thing but accidentally get trapped in the wrong bodies and circumstances then force them to fake being the other to serve their respective missions.

From Wikipedia: 5	"Spock Amok"	Rachel Leiterman	Henry Alonso Myers & Robin Wasserman	June 2, 2022 As the Enterprise undergoes repairs at Starbase 1, the crew go on shore leave. Number One and Noonien-Singh apprehend two ensigns conducting an unauthorized spacewalk, as part of a game popular among lower-ranked crew called "Enterprise Bingo", and discover their own reputations as fun-killers. They try the game out themselves and succeed. Spock finds himself frustrated in furthering his relationship with T'Pring. They undertake a special mind meld ceremony, but accidentally swap each other's katras. Spock attempts to carry out T'Pring's job convincing lapsed Vulcans to return to logic, only to resort to subduing one of them. Admiral April calls Pike and T'Pring (in Spock's body) to negotiate a treaty with the R'ongovians, a race known for their radical empathy, who are considering allying with the Federation, but also with either the Klingons or Romulans. Pike figures out the R'ongovians' motives and bluntly explains them, convincing the R'ongovians to sign the treaty. M'Benga and Chapel use medical technology to help Spock and T'Pring return each other's katras to their proper bodies. The two Vulcans consummate their relationship. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.156.255.250 (talk) 03:11, 12 June 2022 (UTC)