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Body swap appearances in media
...Body swaps, first popularized in Western Anglophone culture by the personal identity chapter of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding,[1] have been a common storytelling device in fiction media. Novels such as Vice Versa (1882)[2] and Freaky Friday (1972)[3] have inspired numerous film adaptations and retellings, as well as television series and episodes, many with titles derived from "Freaky Friday". In 2013, Disney Channel held a Freaky Freakend with seven shows that featured body-swapping episodes.[a] This list features exchanges between two beings, and thus excludes similar phenomena of body hopping, spirit possession, transmigration,[5] and avatars, unless the target being's mind is conversely placed in the source's body.[6][7] It also excludes age transformations that are sometimes reviewed or promoted as body swaps, as in the movies Big and 17 Again;[6][8][9] identity/role swaps, typically between clones, look-alikes, or doppelgängers;[10] and characters with multiple personalities.[6]
Books
| Title | Author | Year | Characters | Method / notes | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Du bist ich und ich bin du (転校生!おれがあいつであいつがおれで) | Hisashi Yamanaka | 1980 | A boy and girl switch bodies | Magic | [11] |
| Agent Cormac book series | Neal Asher | 2001–2008 | Cormac, Mika, Aiden, Stanton, Dragon, Crane | Artificial intelligence transfers to different bodies; downloads of human minds into artificial carriers and cyborg bodies | [12] |
| Airhead book series | Meg Cabot | 2008 | Emerson Watts (tomboy) and Nikki Howard (teenage supermodel) | Brain transplant[b] | [13] |
| The Anubis Gates | Tim Powers | 1983 | Doyle and Dog-Face Joe | OCLC 10259963 | |
| The Barking Ghost | R. L. Stine | 1995 | Cooper, Margaret and two dogs | spell / Goosebumps series #32 | OCLC 32441922 |
| Body Swap | Sylvia McNicoll | 2018 | Hallie (age 15), Susan (age 82) | Characters swap souls after a car accident | OCLC 1013167479 |
| Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy Parts 1 and 2 | Dav Pilkey | 2003 | Melvin and Mr. Krupp | Combine-O-Tron 2000 | |
| Curse the Dawn | Karen Chance | 2009 | Cassandra and Pritkin | Cassandra Palmer series | OCLC 233548351 |
| Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold | Jack Chalker | 1982 | various characters | Warden powers to swap minds of two sleeping participants | OCLC 277005501 |
| Dragon Princess | S. Andrew Swann | 2014 | Thief, princess, dragon and wizard | Wizard's spell | [14] |
| An Exchange of Souls | Barry Pain | 1911 | [15] | ||
| Flip | Martyn Bedford | 2011 | Teenager and another boy | OCLC 639518192 | |
| Fox Eyes | Mordicai Gerstein | 2001 | Martin and a fox | Staring at fox's eyes | OCLC 44750632 |
| Freaky Monday | Mary Rodgers and Heather Hach | 2009 | Teenage girl and teacher she dislikes | Thematic sequel to Freaky Friday | [16] |
| Freaky Friday | Mary Rodgers | 1972 | Teenage Annabel Andrews and her mother | ||
| Gender Blender | Blake Nelson | 2006 | Emma and Tom | OCLC 60590030 | |
| Graveyard School Book #11 |
Tom B Stone | 1996 | Maria and Dr. Morthouse | ||
| Help! I'm Trapped... book series | Todd Strasser | 1993–2011 | Multiple characters | Mind-swapping machine | [17] |
| The Identity Matrix | Jack L. Chalker | 1982 | Victor Gonser swaps with various women | Alien powers | [18] |
| Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo series | Nancy E. Krulik | 2002–2010 | Katie Kazoo and various characters[c] | Magic wind (originally wish from a falling star) | [19][20] |
| Laughing Gas | P. G. Wodehouse | 1936 | Reggie and Joey | Laughing gas | [21] |
| The Master Mind of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1928 | multiple people | Brain transplant | [22] |
| Me and My Cat? | Satoshi Kitamura | 1999 | Nicholas (young boy) and Leonardo (his pet cat) | Witch's spell | [23] |
| Mindswap | Robert Sheckley | 1966 | Marvin Flynn and various alien people | Mind-swapping technology | OCLC 18565280 |
| Prelude to a Kiss (play) | Craig Lucas | 1988 | Old man and bride | Kiss | [24] |
| Rascal Does Not Dream of Siscon Idol | Hajime Kamoshida | 2015 | Nodoka Toyohama and Mai Sakurajima | Adolescent syndrome | [25][26] |
| The Stolen | Alex Shearer | 2003 | Young girl and elderly witch | Magic potion | [27] |
| Summer Switch | Mary Rodgers | 1982 | Preteen Ben Andrews and his father | Freaky Friday stories, book 3 | [28][better source needed] |
| Switched | R. L. Stine | 1995 | Nicole and Lucy | Fear Street series #31 | OCLC 32331235 |
| The Dosadi Experiment | Frank Herbert | 1982 | McKee and woman | Whipping Star series #2 | OCLC 32331235 |
| The Tale of the Body Thief | Anne Rice | 1992 | Lestat de Lioncourt and Raglan James | [29] | |
| The Toilet of Doom | Michael Lawrence | 2001 | Jiggy McCue and Angie | Magic toilet | OCLC 50802367 |
| Tiffany Twisted | Alison Tyler | 2006 | Tiffany and Kurt | OCLC 64554840 | |
| Turnabout | Thorne Smith | 1931 | Tim and Sally Willows | [30][31] | |
| Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers | F. Anstey | 1882 | Paul and Dick Bultitude (father and son) | Wish from magic stone | [32] |
| The Victorian Chaise-Longue | Marghanita Laski | 1953 | Modern woman wakes to find herself in the body of a Victorian woman | ||
| Why I'm Afraid Of Bees | R. L. Stine | 1994 | Gary and a bee | Goosebumps series #17 | OCLC 29815540 |
| Strange Journey | Maud Cairnes | 1935 | Lady Elizabeth and Polly Wilkinson | [33] |
Short stories and operas
| Title | Author | Year | Characters | Method / notes | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avatar | Théophile Gautier | 1856 | Magic | ||
| New Bodies for Old | Jack Vance | 1950 | collected 1982 as "Chateau d'If" | [34] | |
| The Great Keinplatz Experiment | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1885 | mesmerism | [34][35][36][better source needed] | |
| Icchapuran, Ichchhapuran (Fulfilling the wish) | Rabindranath Tagore | 1895 | |||
| Lejana (The Distances) | Julio Cortázar | 1949 | Woman and beggar | Hug | [37][38] |
| Mefisto in Onyx | Harlan Ellison | 1993 | [39][better source needed] | ||
| The Shadow Out of Time | H. P. Lovecraft | 1936 (cut) 1939 (restored) |
Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee | Psychic temporal transfer | [34][40][better source needed] |
| The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham | H. G. Wells | 1896 | [34][41][better source needed] | ||
| The Thing on the Doorstep | H. P. Lovecraft | 1937 | Edward Derby / Asenath Waite | Magic | [34][42][better source needed] |
| The Gentleman in Black (opera) | Frederic Clay and W. S. Gilbert |
1870 | Magic | ||
| Happy Arcadia (opera) | Frederic Clay and W. S. Gilbert |
1872 | Magic | ||
| Somerset, the Scientific Monkey | Donald Bern (Alfred Bernstein) | 1942 | Scientist and monkey | Machine | [43][44][better source needed] |
| Transformation | Mary Shelley | 1830 | Young man and dwarf | Supernatural ritual | [45][46][better source needed] |
Films
| Title | Country | Director | Year | Characters | Method / notes | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Again! | United States | Paul Andrew Flaherty | 1988 | Grandfather and grandson[c] | Car accident | [8][24][47] |
| Alison's Birthday | Australia | Ian Coughlan | 1981 | Young girl and old crone | Demonic ritual | [48] |
| All of Me | United States | Carl Reiner | 1984 | An attorney and his female client | Mystic with soul transfer ability | [5][8][24] |
| All Screwed Up | United States | Neil Stephens | 2012 | A nerdy teenage girl and a jock | Magic beetle bite | |
| Body Swap | United States | Timothy Morton | 2019 | An unemployed slacker and a workaholic woman | Electric shock | |
| Chinna Vathiyar | India | Singeetam Srinivasa Rao | 1995 | Professor and student | Researching mantras that enable soul to move out of body / Same actor portrays both characters | [49] |
| The Change-Up | United States | David Dobkin | 2011 | A lawyer and family man switches with his best friend who is an adult video actor. | Urinating at a magic fountain | [7][24][50] |
| Dame tu cuerpo (Give Me Your Body) | Mexico | Rafael Montero | 2003 | A guy's fiancée and best friend, who is a soccer coach | Wish during planetary alignment | [51][52] |
| Dating the Enemy | Australia | Megan Simpson Huberman | 1996 | Boyfriend and girlfriend | Wish during full moon | [53][54] |
| Detention | United States | Joseph Kahn | 2011 | Daughter in 2010 and mother in 1992 | Rays from an alien spaceship | [55] |
| The Heckler | Australia | Ben Plazzer | 2015 | Steve (comedian) and Mike (heckler) | Toilet in comedy club plus hypnotism / Steve is a spirit when swapped | [56][57] |
| Daddy You, Daughter Me | South Korea | Kang Hyo-jin | 2017 | Won Sang-tae and Won Do-yeon | ||
| Les Dissociés | France | Suricate | 2015 | People members of the "Suricate" group | [58] | |
| Dream a Little Dream | United States | Marc Rocco | 1989 | Teenager and older man[c] | Meditation experiment and collision | [24][59] |
| The Dude in Me | South Korea | Kang Hyo-jin | 2019 | Kim Dong-hyun and Jang Pan-soo | ||
| Eine Frau namens Harry (A Woman Named Harry) Harry ou Harriet (Harry and Harriet) |
Germany | Cyril Frankel | 1990 | Woman and Man | A wish for the devil | [60] |
| Eine wie keiner (One Like No Other) | Germany | Marco Petry | 2008 | Boyfriend and girlfriend | [61] | |
| The Eye of Envy | United States | Harrish Ingraham | 1917 | Young blacksmith ("Ambition") and greedy old man ("Avarice") | Tree spirit called The Dream-Maker | |
| Family Switch | United States | McG | 2023 | Mother and daughter, Father and son and Baby and dog | an astrological reader | [62] |
| Freaky | United States | Christopher Landon | 2020 | Teenage girl and serial killer | Magical dagger | |
| Freaky Friday | United States | Gary Nelson | 1976 | Mother and daughter | Wish | [63] |
| Freaky Friday | United States | Melanie Joy Mayron | 1995 | Mother and daughter | Magical amulets | [64] |
| Freaky Friday | United States | Mark Stephen Waters | 2003 | Mother and daughter | Fortune cookies | [8][24] |
| Freaky Friday | United States | Steve Carr | 2018 | Mother and daughter | Magical hourglass | [65] |
| The Greeneyed Elephant | Denmark | Peer Guldbrandsen | 1960 | Sally and Lisa | Aztec elephant sculpture | [66] |
| Here Comes the Bride | Philippines | Chris Martinez | 2010 | Five different people | An accident on a magnetic hill during solar eclipse | [67] |
| Here Comes the Groom | Philippines | Chris Martinez | 2023 | Various people | An accident on a magnetic hill during solar eclipse | [68] |
| Hero in the Family | United States | Mel Damski | 1986 | Human astronaut and chimpanzee | Space crystal | [69] |
| Hilda and the Mountain King | United Kingdom
Canada United States |
Andy Coyle | 2021 | Hilda and troll | Magic | |
| Hilfe, ich bin ein Junge (Help, I'm a boy!) | Germany | Oliver Dommenget | 2002 | Boy and girl | Magic spellbook | [70] |
| Holiday Wishes | Canada | David Weaver | 2006 | Teenagers Britney (rich girl) and Rachel (foster kid) | Christmas wish | [71] |
| The Hot Chick | United States | Tom Brady | 2002 | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Body_swap_appearances_in_media