![]() Keep in mind that in real life, just pulling the brain out of a living person's head and plopping it in a tub of sterile saline would leave you with a starved, dead brain the next morning, so you'd need to hook the blood vessels up to some sort of fluid pump (ala the heart) to keep the brain supplied with oxygen and nutrients. ![]() Expect them to be given mobility by being encased in robotic life support units. Walt Disney (or more likely a No Celebrities Were Harmed Expy of him) is also popular. It seems that in about one in five examples of this trope the brain will be Hitler's. See The Other Wiki's article "brain in a vat" for further discussion of this idea. Occasionally with this trope, the brain is hooked up to a virtual reality so that it thinks it's a regular person with a body, making it a sort of Lotus-Eater Machine. One day, we may find the rest of our bodies superfluous and exist simply as disembodied brains.Īlso frequently falling under this trope is the Poor Man's Substitute of severed heads kept alive in jars or on surfaces that can disguise the fact that the rest of the actor is beneath the table when the head is active, which at least has the advantage of allowing the actor to act in some scenes. Sometimes it is presented as the end result of natural evolutionary processes. Sometimes the spinal cord and/or eyeballs are also there. Occasionally, an underachiever Mad Scientist may need to keep the whole head alive, not just the brain. Sometimes this is benevolent, but usually it's nefarious (it may count as a Dark Lord on Life Support, or be the first step towards Unwilling Roboticisation). The Wonders of Science can keep a human brain alive in a plastic fishbowl with a few wires and doo-dads running into it. Flavor Text for the Bioenhancement Center facility, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
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