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.

Absence of the human in daily transactions - having been replaced by soulless rituals of technocracy, institutions, and state security.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.

Then you saw evil - soulless, malevolent evil.

To the soulless insurance companies, this was just another entry in their profits and losses.

The soulless, impersonal State had reared him since then, putting him through higher education and choosing his career for him.

Two soulless black eyes from out of the crowd by the barrier were pinned to her face.

The fault lay not with Alison but with her surroundings, soulless and uninviting.

It was what Bill Erlich, the bachelor, was used to, clean and soulless.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English soulless soul‧less / ˈsəʊl-ləs $ ˈsoʊl- / adjective UNPLEASANT lacking the attractive qualities that make people happy a soulless city of grey concrete - soullessly adverb - soullessness noun Examples from the Corpus soulless

Soulless people