Hilarity Ensues when this new invention gets tested by several patrons in an inn, just for fun.

Iznogoud: In 'Chop and Change', a wizard invents a magic bowl: whenever two people drink consecutively from it, they exchange souls.

GIR himself, meanwhile, doesn't change, and in fact doesn't even seem aware of what's happened. The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body is, for the most part, in full effect - Gaz gains Zim's drive to Take Over the World while Zim becomes apathetic and game-obsessed, and Dib is ultimately rendered insane by the information in GIR's robot brain.

Issue 21 of the Invader Zim (Oni) comic series is built around this trope as an accident involving GIR, pudding, and a mind-swap machine causes Zim to switch bodies with Gaz, and Dib with GIR.

During Fred Hembeck Destroys the Marvel Universe, Crackers (the comic's version of The Grim Reaper) decides to switch the minds of Prince Namor the Submariner and Zzzax the Living Dynamo, resulting in Namor getting zapped to death by a electric outlet and Zzzax diving into a tub of water.

Now they need to figure out how to get home while the characters in the game are running around in their bodies. The development team working on Dungeon Lords 2 ends up swapping personalities with their programmed in-game avatars. The Doctor, not far behind, realizes Destrii isn't dead - she just got caught by the local species, and manages to fetch her and undo the swap. After spending some time as Destrii, Izzy returns to the planet where the swap took place and gets captured by the people Destrii was running from.

During the Eighth Doctor's tenure in Doctor Who Magazine, companion Izzy Sinclair and alien princess Destrii swap places, which becomes a serious problem when Destrii gets herself killed, to Izzy's horror.

There's an issue of Doctor Who Ongoing in which the Eleventh Doctor and Amy swap bodies.Adam Warren's Amerimanga version of the Dirty Pair did this to themselves on purpose during the 'Run from the Future' miniseries.

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