They swap the lives of two people in disproportionate situations. The X-Files version of body swapping does something many other versions do not. At last, everything gets restored back to the night Mulder and Scully were caught. Time had begun to “snap back into place like a rubber band,” and in the final race to the finish, the teams originally at the crash find their way back to the desert. Even after a successful caper in stealing and analyzing the data from the flight recorder, there is no way to send the two back to their own bodies.Īdvertisements Both men seem to try to accept their new lives until the next day when Scully discovers that a gas station that had once burned down was now fully restored and the attendant had no knowledge of the event ever taking place. Suspicions fly around causing Morris, Mulder, and Scully to coordinate to try and reverse the process before both lives are ruined. Things go south and it is revealed that there is a leak at Area 51. Meanwhile in Mulder’s body, Morris methodically dismantles Mulder’s work and life bit by bit, even going so far as to have Scully suspended when she tries to investigate. What follows is a comedy of errors so tense and, at times, hard to watch where Mulder bumbles through the daily routine and marriage of a man he knows nothing about. In this two-parter, Mulder’s mind gets inadvertently switched with an Area 51 employee named Morris when an experimental aircraft using alien technology crash lands in the Nevada Desert. Advertisements Why It’s Goodįrom Season 6, Episodes 4 and 5, this fantastic example of body swap fiction is called Dreamland. Back in her own body, Faith flees the scene, and Buffy is left to deal with the bad taste the whole experience brought to her already complicated life. Then, Buffy uses one of the ol’ body swap spells to send their minds back to the right body. Long story short, Buffy and Faith defeat the vampires. Together they move to a church where vampires, emboldened by Adam (big bad of this season), have taken civilians hostage. Terra and Willow get suspicious of Faith and try a ritual to discover the truth.īuffy, in Faith’s body, manages to escape her little side adventure and finds Giles, Terra, and Willow. Then, she meets Buffy’s friend Willow, and also encounters Willow’s girlfriend Terra for the first time. Still in the main slayer’s body, Faith then proceeds to do lots of scandalous and criminal stuff, including a weird pseudo-sexual encounter with Spike. Clearly, she’s not used to someone wholesomely hugging her.
She uses the first few minutes of the episode to establish her awkwardness in Buffy’s body. Faith, the edgier, more hate-filled slayer created by a cosmic loophole in the “slayer laws,” and Buffy switch bodies via a magical device given to Faith by her evil sugar daddy, The Mayor of Sunnydale.įaith, now in Buffy’s body, watches as Buffy, in her old body, gets carted off by the police in a delirious state. Season 4, Episode 16 of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer deals with the aftermath of the previous episode of the series. Watch Our Video Essay on Body Swap Fiction What’s more, these body swaps happen routinely.
The characters in Altered Carbon, especially the rich ones, essentially swap bodies with themselves. That would be an example of Person A embodying a vacant Person A-2. Recent stories like Altered Carbon have used the idea to effectively show reincarnation in recycled or cloned bodies. For example, Quantum Leap or Being John Malkovich. Example: Freaky Friday.Īnother take on the genre is where Person A embodies Person B without Person B going anywhere. The usual circumstance is Person A embodies Person B and vice versa. However, it can occur a number of ways with multiple variations. How Does Body Swapping Work in Fiction?įor those not familiar, a classic case of body swap fiction is the one-to-one exchange of bodies between two people. It’s commonly used to illustrate themes of compassion and understanding or to highlight disparity in social classes or ethnic groups. Advertisements What Is Body Swap Fiction?Ī Body Swap is typically seen in science fiction or fantasy, where one character’s consciousness is swapped for another character’s consciousness, resulting in displacement in one another’s body. While there are many examples of great body swap fiction, or stories that feature body switching/identity switching, there’s definitely a select few that shine brighter than the rest. They can range from the macabre to the quirky or cringe-worthy to brilliant. Just like bodies, no two examples of body swap fiction are exactly the same.
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