As his Meaningful Name would suggest, Felix has a bad habit of making Deals With the Devil that leave him worse off in the long run. The (kind of) silver lining for Sebastian is that the demon Nebiros screwed over Felix by granting Sebastian the power instead.He seems to get along fine without it, though he did feel relieved to get it back during a Crisis Crossover - only to have to lose it in order to set things right. His dad bartered away his own soul for power, but when he needed more and the demon wouldn't renegotiate the first deal, he sold Sebastian's soul. Also from DC Comics is Sebastian Faust, the son of sorcerous bad guy Felix Faust.In order to get his soul back, he had to abolish all war in his homeworld and slay the supreme deity. Stalker, a short lived Sword and Sorcery title from DC Comics, was about a warrior that sold his soul for immortality.This being Dragon Ball GT, it's just another continuity error. In Dragon Ball GT, #19 was one of the many enemies that came back to the world of the living when they escaped from Hell.But due to their nature, they lack souls and cannot go to the after life or be revived by the Dragon Balls, making their deaths permanent. #19 was deeply afraid of death, and #16 was a pacifist and a Friend to All Living Things. Played with in Dragon Ball: The killing machines #19 and #16 were 100% mechanical and literal androids, yet they were shown to have human emotions.The Undertaker, however, discovered that by attaching an endless continuation to the Cinematic Record, the body is tricked into thinking itself to be still alive, thus becoming animated again. For a human not under Faustian Contract to truly die, a Shinigami must collect their soul and cut their Cinematic Record. Black Butler: The Bizarre Dolls from the Ship Voyage Arc.Without said soul (or a fragment of someone else's soul), that being was devoid of any personality or morals, and single-mindedly pursued its main objective in a manner not unlike the Terminator. magical clones do not count as 'alive' in this series) gaining a soul anyway. Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- has an instance of something that is not technically alive ( a clone of the protagonist.

While this isn't exactly true, there's a reason why Beatrice has this view. In Umineko: When They Cry, according to Beatrice, furniture is like this, including Shannon, Kanon, and Genji.Even if both of these traits are independent of the soul and don't suffer in its absence, most Soulless characters have a change in worldview that does erode their good nature.

While a soulless character doesn't necessarily become a soulless killing machine, sanity and morality don't fare very well without one. A Nice Guy will break fingers, The Cutie will just break, and even the Friend to All Living Things will rampage through a petting zoo if it brings them closer to their goal. Much like the ' Damaged Soul' variety of Came Back Wrong, problems arise because the character is no longer bound by ethical (and sometimes natural) laws and demonstrates a disturbing Lack of Empathy (and sometimes a lack of survival instincts). Any old soul will do, but frequently they want their own soul back for sentimental reasons. The Soulless are often motivated by one thing only: getting a soul. The Soulless, however, are active, rational, and still recognizably human in almost every sense - they just lack a soul. When a character loses their soul, they normally become a listless Empty Shell, transform into The Heartless or simply die. In fiction, some characters really are soulless, and often act like monsters because of it. note Well, a literal as opposed to a figurative one, anyway.

When people use the phrase 'soulless monster', they usually mean the person they're referring to isn't acting like a (decent) human being, not that they actually lack a soul and are a monster.

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