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{{trope}}
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A number of heroes and villains in video games, anime and science fiction either start off with or receive an artificial limb over the course of the story, usually to offset the [[Scars Are Forever|poignant loss of an appendage]]. This can either be due to [[An Arm and
▲{{quote|''A [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]] can [[An Arm and A Leg|remove a limb]], <br />
▲or [[Evil Dead|act as a replacement]].''|'''Showbread''', "Dead By Dawn"}}
▲A number of heroes and villains in video games, anime and science fiction either start off with or receive an artificial limb over the course of the story, usually to offset the [[Scars Are Forever|poignant loss of an appendage]]. This can either be due to [[An Arm and A Leg|an injury]], or in rare cases [[Life or Limb Decision|intentional mutilation]]. Said prosthetics [[Hollywood Cyborg|will almost always function perfectly]], as if the character had [[Reset Button|never lost the limb to begin with]], save for malfunctions that relate to the story.
Artificial limbs will often grant [[Super Strength|superhuman strength,]] frequently overlooking the fact that even if your ''arm'' has the strength to lift a tanker truck, doing so would very probably crush your spine [[Required Secondary Powers|unless it were similarly reinforced.]] Or, the arm will bend, but follow the path of least resistance, and simply rip itself out of the shoulder joint.
If you're in an era where cybernetics are not just in the future but ridiculously so, never fear: the [[Rule of Cool]] allows you to get [[Steampunk]] limbs instead.
Quite fortunately, this is also a case of [[Truth in Television]]. While they can't give you superhuman powers, prosthetic limbs are becoming more and more advanced, allowing people who've lost a limb a chance to live more normal lives. As a real-life example of artificial limbs being better in some ways than biological ones, the International Association of Athletics Federations has banned certain artificial limbs in competitions it governs, including the Olympics, due to [
The darker the setting, the more likely cyber-bits are to cause [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|loss of humanity of some sort]]
See also [[Unusual User Interface]] for characters getting "jacks" implanted to connect to computers via cable (or even LAN!), and [[Swiss Army Appendage]] for characters who hot-swap their
Specific types of Artificial Limbs include:
* [[Anatomy Arsenal]]
* [[Hook Hand]]
* [[Spider Limbs]]
* [[Super Senses]]
* [[Swiss Army Appendage]]: Multiple functions for multiple needs
* [[Unusual User Interface]]
{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Basquash]]!'', Iceman Hotty has some made by Thousant after getting his left arm and leg cut off by Price.
* In ''[[Berserk]]'', the main character, Guts, loses his left forearm to a monster {{spoiler|during the hellish ordeal where his friends in the Band of the Hawk are sacrificed so that their band's former leader, Griffith, can become one of the evil Godhand}}. His forearm is replaced by a ''[[Steampunk]]'' prosthetic which quadruples as a [[Arm Cannon|gunpowder cannon]], a [[Automatic Crossbow|repeating crossbow mount]], and [[Power Fist|improvised club.]]
** Although the aforementioned hand's microcannon is reassuringly fictional in medieval history, the hand itself is more real than you might expect. Although the author of ''[[Berserk]]'' claims the resemblance to be purely coincidental, a German mercenary named [[
** Also, the hand's only function is to look more human, and act as a cover for the cannon. The arm was lost right below the elbow, so he can still bend it, but the fingers don't do shit. There is a magnet in the palm, to help Guts hold his BFS. Oddly enough, possibly for convenience's sake, the fingers do still bend and function like living fingers sometimes. Following the acquisition of the Berserker Armor, however, the hand has begun acting like a live human hand, most likely due to the armor's supernatural influence.
* ''[[Bleach]]''
** Kukaku Shiba has a [[Bamboo Technology]] wooden prosthetic arm. However, in the manga, she has no such replacement.
** Gigai are prosthetic bodies to allow shinigami to interact with mortals and (mod) soul pills that act as prosthetic '''minds''' to control gigai or bodies while their normal occupants are performing shinigami business.
* Kazuhiko from ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'':
** Jet Black has a cybernetic arm replacing one he lost in a police investigation gone wrong, although he became old-fashionedly defensive at Faye's recommendation that the current tech made organic limb replacements fairly easy. Jet chooses to keep the arm as a reminder of his mistake. Surprisingly Jet's arm is depicted as synthetic, but made of soft yielding materials almost leathery in nature. It's also nowhere near bulletproof and doesn't grant him any kind of superhuman strength.
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* Subverted in ''[[Cynthia the Mission]]''. Minor villain Bridget has a prosthetic arm that LOOKS real, but it turns out it's just camouflaged to look like a real one, while underneath it's a similiar to modern day prosthetic arm with a lot of grip power. Just before she is killed, its replaced by a much more advanced model.
* Bandou of ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' gets cybernetic eyes and a cybernetic arm. The arm can stand anything short of a Desert Eagle's recoil.
** In the final chapter of the manga {{spoiler|he returns with a prosthetic body from the chest down after getting ''[[Back
*** How can it be that we don't talk about Nana here? The poor thing gets completely pruned, and has prosthetics for limbs that she moves with four of her six vectors. Distracting her can lead to some watered-down [[Nightmare Fuel]].
* In the ''[[
* As a result of a human transmutation experiment [[Gone Horribly Wrong]], Edward Elric from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
** There's also {{spoiler|Lan Fan, who gets an automail limb to replace the one she [[Life or Limb Decision|cut off so she and Ling Yao could escape from Bradley]], and recuperates in six months}}, also her automail has a blade on it.
** Paninya and [[Chainsaw Good|Buccanneer]] also have automail.
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** Additionally, there have been several occasions where it's been a problem how much a metal limb conducts heat. While in Briggs, Ed almost suffered major frostbite, while Buccanneer has his made from a less conductive metal and uses the exhaust from the motor in his to keep it warm. Ed also has the opposite problem in deserts, when the metal in his automail limbs gets uncomfortably hot.
** There's also mention of automail needing maintenance, in the form of oiling and such to prevent rust, and has to be adjusted slightly when Ed grows.
* ''[[Ghost in
** In the manga a page is also devoted to explaining the fact that most people have their entire bodies replaced, due to the exact problem of the arm falling off the body if too much pressure is exerted. Most people in their line of work prefer to have the added insurance. The whole conversation is in reference to a rogue army leader who only had his arm and his leg replaced.
*** The Manga implies, but does not state outright, that the Major became a full-body replacement cyborg unexpectedly at a relatively young age, perhaps due to an accident.
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* ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'': Several of [[Gunsmith Cats|Rally Vincent's]] most implacable opponents all use prosthetic hands, thumbs or legs... mostly because Rally ''shot off'' their original hands, thumbs, or legs.
* In the ''[[Houshin Engi]]'' manga, Taikoubou loses an arm in a battle and he's given an artificial one to replace it. It features a number of abilities including stretching (to work as a [[Grappling Hook Pistol]]), a squirt gun, and a [[Rocket Punch]].
* When Joseph Joestar gets his arm sliced off by Cars in ''[[
* {{spoiler|Ryogi Shiki}} from ''[[Kara no Kyoukai
* Squalo from ''[[
* ''[[
** From the same series we also have {{spoiler|Barthlowmew Kuma, who also a cybrog albeit much more advanced}}. Crocodile who has a hook for a right hand (which is covering a poisonous hook undernearth that. And if ''that's'' broken, a knife pops up to replace it). And lastly Movie 10 villan Shiki, who cut off his legs to escape from prison and replaced them with swords!
* Harry MacDougall in ''[[Outlaw Star]]'' got an artificial arm after a nasty run-in with Gene Starwind. Unfortunately, he goes [[Ax Crazy]] at one point, rips it off, and beats on the door of the ''Outlaw Star'' with it. Later on, he gets an artificial body. Earlier in the series, we see that Hilda has an artificial arm too.
* Shichiroji of ''[[Samurai
* Prosthetic limbs are an important plot point in the anime series ''[[Texhnolyze]]''.
* ''[[Trigun]]'': Vash's left arm was shot off by his twin brother, forcing him to get a replacement. It converts to a gun when he wants it to.
* In ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'', [[The Dragon]] [[Aloof Big Brother|Folken]] has a pretty nifty-looking right arm given to him by the [[Big Bad]] to replace the one that got eaten by a dragon.
* Kurogane of ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' has, in the manga, recently required a prosthetic arm from the technologically advanced world of Piffle after he sacrificed his own arm to save Fai. Despite being a rush-job and therefore not covered in synthetic skin, it appears to work just as well as his organic arm. However, he has recently admitted {{spoiler|that the arm does not fit him right and causes him pain. Hard to conceal bleeding when your boyfriend is a vampire.}}
** In ''[[
* Ginkotsu of the Band of Seven in [[Inuyasha]] starts out with a heavily prosthetically amplified body and ends up as torso attached to a Feudal style tank.
** Arguably, the Band of Seven and Kikyou have prosthetic bodies which store their souls. Ditto for Akago/Mouryoumaru, kinda.
* {{spoiler|Aramusha}} gets a prosthetic arm and eye due to injuries in the Empty Earth arc of ''Mythic Quest''. They're pretty common already in the futuristic world, though this particular set doesn't have any synthetic skin and has many extra [[Unusual User Interface|jack-ins]] for enhanced computer-interfacing powers.
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh!
* {{spoiler|Louise}} from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' gets one of these in season two as {{spoiler|her}} lost arm cannot be regenerated [[Toxic Phlebotinum|due to the particles in the beam rifle shot that blew it off]] inhibiting cellular mitosis. The replacement looks and handles like the original one and doesn't appear to have any special features aside from above normal physical strength and a circuitry-like line where it's attached to {{spoiler|her}} forearm stump.
* In ''[[Tokyo Crazy Paradise]]'', {{spoiler|Asago gets a prostheses after having her right arm cut off in a fight; she chooses to get an artificial limb instead of reattaching her arm to cut down on rehabilitation time}}.
* A number appear in ''[[Karakuri Circus]]'', including Arlequin's weapon of choice.
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', Chiyo's right arm is artificial and controlled through her puppet jutsu. She can use it to create a chakra shield similar to the puppets in the likeness of her son and daughter-in-law, but it's also vulnerable to getting clogged.
* Karl and {{spoiler|James}} of ''[[Blood
* ''[[Yami no Aegis]]'': Tate has a metal arm with which he can deflect bullets. It's also his primary weapon.
== Comic Books ==
* Subverted in ''[[Global Frequency]]'', in which a woman with a cybernetic arm talks about how she can feel metal grinding against her bones and how she had to have her shoulders and spine reinforced to stop her arm from ripping itself out of her body. A fully-converted cyborg has an even worse time of things.
* In the original ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|New Teen Titans]]'', much like a traditional cyborg, only a portion of Cyborg's body was composed of military cybernetic limbs given to him by his father. In the ''[[Teen Titans (
* Arsenal, formerly Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy, had his right arm ripped off in a fight with Prometheus. He now has a cybernetic replacement, however it isn't "permanent" as Roy's arm is still infected with flesh-eating bacteria from Prometheus' blade. The attachment works "around" Roy's nerve endings and actually enhances the pain he already feels. It hinders his ability as an archer to the point that he's stopped using a bow, he can't wear normal clothes over it, and it's a complete eyesore.
* In the ''[[
* Bunnie Rabbot in the Archie Comics' ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (
** Additionally, in this comic's universe, the echidna are presented as an advanced people that embrace progress while not forgetting nature and spiritualism. To this end, they shunned over-reliance on technology, something not every echidna agreed with. This caused the expected infighting and social divide, culminating in the formation of the Dark Legion, whose purpose in life was to antagonize their hippie, tree-hugging brethren and to demonstrate their complete embrace of technology... by implanting ALL of their members with bionics, sometimes an eye, sometimes a limb or two, or sometimes their entire body. Talk about hardcore.
* Lightning Lad of the original ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (
* In the [[Marvel Universe]], Misty Knight was a cop until she lost her arm in a bombing; [[Iron Man]] then designed a new bionic one for her.
* British sci-fi comics love this one.
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* What's that? The Silver Age Aquaman isn't "grim and gritty" enough for the 1990s? I know, let's have piranhas chew his left hand off! Keen! We can give him a [[Swiss Army Appendage|cool retractable hook]], and he can grow a beard while he's at it. (Whether Aquaman growing a beard was, in fact, Aquaman [[Growing the Beard]] is a question this editor leaves as an exercise for the reader.)
** Alternatively, in the [[DCAU]] [[Justice League]], {{spoiler|he gets to [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|cut off his own hand]] as the only way to reach his son and save his life.}} And with a beard, too!
* [[Spider
** One story had him developing artificial limbs for amputees among the general public alongside another villain. Villain being the key word as the limbs contained parts of the same tech Ock used to mentally control his limbs, letting him control whatever unlucky sot that had gotten one of said replacement parts.
* One of the more recent{{when}} ''[[She-Hulk]]'' series had
* [[Superman|Lex Luthor]] sported an artificial hand after his Kryptonite signet ring [[Hoist
* [[
* The crime boss Johnny Woo Woo from the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] "Body Count" arc had metal hands.
* Former [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]] sidekick [[Bucky Barnes]] has a cybernetic left arm to replace the one he lost at the end of [[World War
* The [[X-Men|X-
** The younger mutant Hellion later gains metal prosthetics that he animates with his telekinesis after his hands are blasted off by a sentinel.
* [[Scud the Disposable Assassin]] inverts this trope - he's a robot whose model was discontinued, and when he loses his arm he gets a human one as a loaner until his replacement parts can be ordered in. The problems with his meat arm {{spoiler|which once belonged to a werewolf}} fuel a whole story arc.
* In ''[[
* Several examples in ''[[
== Fan Fiction ==▼
* The main character of [[Christian Humber Reloaded (Fanfic)|Christian Humber Reloaded]] loses an arm fighting his corrupted self, and gets a robotic arm as a replacement.▼
* It's safe to say that every character in ''[[That Guy With the Glasses In Space]]'' has these or are complete cyborgs by the time the story starts.▼
▲* The main character of ''[[
▲* It's safe to say that every character in ''[[That Guy
* ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'' [[Continuation]] Fic, ''[[Final Stand of Death]]'' , [[KISS| Gene Simmons]] has these replacing his lost limbs, which he doesn't seem to be bothered. He considers them an improvement thanks to the abilities he can pull-off, such as creating [[Projected Man| projecting ghosts]].
** In Episode 10, {{Spoiler|Spice Girls}} received them as well.
== Film ==
* ''[[
* Kushana from ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of
* ''Reach For The Sky'' is the dramatisation of the story of Douglas Bader, a double amputee who stil proved a better fighter pilot than many Germans. After Bader's capture by the Luftwaffe, an unprecedented local truce was concluded so that a British pilot could courier Bader's best set of false legs to German-occupied France...
* ''[[Star Wars]]'': Both Anakin and Luke lose limbs to lightsaber injuries, showing off their [[Not So Different]] natures. Star Wars tech being what it is, they have replacements within 10 minutes of screen time.
* In the Spaghetti Western ''Vamos A Matar, Companeros'', John the "Wooden Hand" is named precisely for having an artificial right hand, the result of the protagonist having betrayed him in the past.
* In ''[[Grindhouse|Planet Terror]]'', dancer Cherry Darling's leg is replaced with a wooden table leg after it's eaten by zombies. Later, she trades that in for an M-4 Carbine (with underslung grenade launcher). And at the end of the movie, she trades THAT in for a [[Gatling Good|minigun]].
* The robot-hating protagonist of 2005 ''[[I, Robot (
* [[Mad Scientist]] C. A. Rotwang from the classic ''[[
** Which was apparently the inspiration for ''[[Doctor Strangelove]]'' and his rebellious black-clad hand.
* In ''[[Evil Dead 2]]'', Ash must cut off a demon-possessed hand, and replaces it with the chainsaw he cut it off with. In the sequel, ''Army of Darkness'', it gets replaced with a [[Steampunk]] artificial hand.
* ''[[
** A spoof of Inspector Krogh's wooden arm in ''[[
* Interestingly enough, the [[Star Trek:
* Dr. No from the first Bond movie ''[[
** The henchman Tee Hee from ''[[Live and Let Die (
* [[Lindsay Lohan]] gets two in ''[[I Know Who Killed Me]]''. Granted, the movie's a thriller, so they're the more realistic version, which
* In Enki Bilal's ''Immortal'' (in both the comic and the film) [[Physical God|Horus]] forges a new leg for Nikopol out of a subway rail. It still needs Horus' power to function.
* In ''[[Repo Men]]'', one of the past-due artiforg recipients whom Remy and his partner chase down on the cargo ship has a robotic arm, and uses it to put up quite a fight.
* [[Michael Ironside]] gets fitted with one in ''[[Starship Troopers (
* Gobber from ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (
* Silver from ''[[Treasure Planet]]'', who has an
* {{spoiler|Dr. Gordon}} has one after {{spoiler|he escapes from the bathroom}} in ''[[Saw]]''. It is of the realistic variety, with {{spoiler|Dr. Gordon}} needing a cane to walk with the prosthetic foot. Also, {{spoiler|the woman who survives the opening trap from ''[[Saw|Saw VI]]''}} has a prosthetic arm and complains of needing to use handicapped parking because of it. Because this is ''[[Saw]]'', both of these characters have these
* Probably the most common type of [[Cyborg]] visible throughout the 2019 film ''[[Alita: Battle Angel]]'' is people with a single limb replaced, like Doc Ido's nurse and some of his patients.
== Literature ==
* ''[[Quantum Gravity]]'' books ''Lila Black'' Become cyborg after an accident.
* [[Martin Caidin]]'s 1972 novel ''Cyborg'' introduced Colonel Steve Austin to the world. This novel was later adapted into ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]''.
* In ''[[Neuromancer]]'', Ratz, the German bartender at the Chatsubo in Chiba City, has an old Russian military cyberarm, "a seven-function force-feedback manipulator cased in grubby pink plastic." At one point, he uses the arm to crush a hard plastic ashtray to make a point about the bar's strict "no-fighting" rule.
** In the short story ''Burning Chrome'', set in the same universe, the narrator, Automatic Jack, has a seemingly more advanced prosthetic, which he is implied to have received after being injured in a military operation gone wrong.
* The Ultranauts in [[Alastair Reynolds]]' ''Revelation Space'' trilogy replace their body parts as they age and fail. [[The Captain|Captain John Brannigan]] is almost ''entirely'' robotic at the start of Revelation Space; he can last for hours in total vacuum. [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|He's very old]]
* In ''[[Harry Potter (
** Mad Eye Moody.
* Spoofed by [[
* Manuel Garcia O'Kelly Davis from the ''[[Robert A. Heinlein]]'' book ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]'' had a variety of artificial arms that allowed him to
* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|The Yuuzhan Vong]] of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] ritually chop off their own limbs to show their devotion to the gods, then get them replaced with a [[Organic Technology|Biotech]] appendage. Warriors get limbs from the various predatory animals of their homeworld, while the [[Mad Scientist|Shapers]] replace their fingers with ''surgical
** This actually has some weird connotations. Close to the finale, the Yuuzhan Vong leader has a Rancor's arm attached. Considering
*** That depends. Did they specify that it was a ''full-grown'' rancor's arm?
*** If the above is about Tsavong Lah, it wasn't a rancor arm, it was a radank (a creature from the Vong's galaxy) arm.
* Nick Chopper, the Tin Woodsman from ''[[
** For an extra dose of [[Mind Screw]], [[Land of Oz
*** [[Fridge Logic|Why didn't he dump the stupid axe?]]
*** The witch ''kept'' cursing the axe while he was working.
* Fatale, in ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'', is a cyborg who has only a small portion of organic matter left in her. She often bemoans her added weight, but has a full complement of high-tech gadgets to compensate.
* Progress in this field is noted in [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s ''[[The Ship Who...]] Searched''.
** In her book ''Dragon's Dawn'' one of the characters has a couple of prosthetic fingers.
* In the book of ''[[The
** [[The Movie]] features handkerchief-cultist Humma Kavula, who uses a "platform" of dozens of tiny metal legs... and one gimpy one.
* The ''[[X Wing Series]]'' enjoys this trope. Nawara Ven's cybernetic replacement leg synched up relatively (95%) poorly with his body, so he switched careers from [[Ace Pilot]] to executive officer. Ton Phanan had an ever-increasing percentage of himself [[Emergency Transformation|replaced]] since he was allergic to bacta, and [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|cybernetics ate his future.]] Krennel, a villain, had an extremely obvious prosthetic hand that [[Red Right Hand|glowed red]].
** When the team infiltrated Empire-controlled Coruscant as part of a covert operation, getting Wedge through security posed a problem, since he was a well known rebel hero. He disguised himself as an imperial officer with a bulky cybernetic arm and metal plating on his face and throat, apparently on his way to a specialized hospital to receive more sophisticated implants. People who saw him looked more at the prosthetics than the remaining flesh, and remembered him more for that than anything else. He was counting on that; many Imperials [[Fantastic Racism|are uneasy around cyborgs]]. Wedge took this guise again in ''Isard's Revenge'', this time in smoother-looking prosthetics.
** [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Derek_Klivian Hobbie Klivian], being [[Captain Crash|prone to crashes]], has an artificial left arm, an artificial right leg, and an artificial left leg, probably more. ''Darklighter'' also had a scene where Biggs hinted that the same fight that took Hobbie's arm also left him needing artificial genitalia.
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* The ghost story "The Golden Arm" features a woman with just that, whose husband is very greedy. His greed causes her to starve to death ("Meat and cheese cost more each day./ I will not pay and pay and pay,/ And so throw all my wealth away./ Not one penny will you get today."). Her only request is to be buried with her arm, which the husband does... until he digs it up the next night and [[Chekhov's Gun|leaves it under his pillow]]. The wife's spirit is not pleased about this....
* ''The Fault In Our Stars'' gives us Augustus Waters and this beautiful sentence: "Excellent! You'll find my leg under the coffee table."
* In the ''Abhorsen'' series, {{spoiler|Lirael}} loses a hand in the final battle against the big bad. It's mentioned in the epilogue that Prince Sameth later crafts her a new one, earning her the title {{spoiler|Lirael Goldenhand}}.
▲* In the ''Abhorsen'' series, {{spoiler|Lirael}} loses a hand in the final battle against the big bad. It's mentioned in the epilogue that Prince Sameth later crafts her a new one, earning her the title {{spoiler|Lirael Goldenhand}}.
* The 1952 [[Science Fiction]] novel "Limbo" by Bernard Wolfe is all about a [[Cold War]] world changed by the new science of cybernetics.
* ''[[
* In Roger Zelazny's ''[[Book of Amber]]'', Benedict has a mechanical arm. It is a temporary replacement because Amberites regenerate limbs. However, it takes months or years. This arm has a role in the novel "the Hand of Oberon". In fact, it is "the hand" because the arm moved of its own accord and helped Corwin and Benedict, who implied Oberon was behind. It was true.
* Hertzer Herrick in John Ringo's ''[[Council Wars]]'' series lost a hand in the first book and received a very trick [[Steampunk]] replacement. He'd still rather have a real hand, though.
* In one "Bill the Intergalactic Hero" story, the titular character has a Swiss Army Foot.
* In ''[[Circle of Magic]]'', Daja, with some help from her foster siblings, creates an artificial leg for her friend Polyam. She also has apparently made a living metal eye.
** However, her own hand, though coated in living metal, is still just her own hand. It simply produces more of her metal.
* Jack West in [[Matthew Reilly]]'s ''Seven Ancient Wonders'' trilogy sacrificed his left arm to escape from a trap... after he was promised one of these. Luckily for him, this was in the backstory, 10 years before the first novel started so he had time to adjust to his new arm before everything went to hell.
** Mother in his ''Scarecrow'' series looses her leg to a Orca in ''[[Ice Station]]'', an unpleasant surprise to a shark in a later novel
* John Simpson, in the [[1632|1632 series]], has a prosthetic replacing a lower leg lost in an ambush, in his service during the [[Vietnam War]], first mentioned in the short story "In the Navy", by [[David Weber]]. Eddie Cantrell later gets one after losing his leg during the engagement at Wismar, in ''1633''
* The ''[[Wing Commander (
* In Stephen Lawheads second Song of Albion book "The Silver hand" Llew gets a new hand and his Bard gets new eyes in a magical lake {{spoiler|the villains gets dissolved}}
* A plot point in [[Star Trek: Klingon Empire]] - Klag, who lost an arm in a previous conflict, could be fitted with an artificial replacement. He refuses, though, insisting that he's a Klingon, not a Borg. It's one of the [[Honor Before Reason]] issues Doctor B'Oraq has to deal with. Eventually, Klag accepts a biological graft - his dead father's arm to replace his own. It's not as effective but it's a compromise.
* ''[[The Forever War]]''. Mandella loses an arm and thinks he's getting a prosthesis. He's unaware of the technological advances that have been made over the thousands of years that have elapsed due to time dilation. Turns out they're actually growing him a new flesh-and-blood arm.
** Later in the book, he meets a fellow officer who lost [[Half the Man He Used To Be|the entirety of his body below the waist]] and recieved metal and plastic replacements, rendering him asexual.
* In Max Barry's ''Machine Man'', the protagonist Dr. Charles Neumann accidentally crushes one of his legs in an industrial accident. Being an engineer, he designs a better replacement. Then he realizes he wants his legs to match...
* In Clive Cussler's ''Oregon Files'' series, the protagonist Juan Cabrillo has an advanced prosthetic leg that conceals a small pistol, a block of C4, a throwing knife, and a [[Arm Cannon|built-in single-shot leg cannon that can
* In [[The Chronicles of Professor Jack Baling]], a character is described as having blade-like prosthetic legs. Probably something similar to Oscar Pistorius’s. [
* ''In [[The
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* ''In [[The Devils Whore]]'', Sexby gets his arm lopped off while fighting in Ireland. He returns with a badass metal arm and is not afraid to use it.
* ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]'', based on Martin Caidin's 1972 novel ''Cyborg'', embodies this one, as does its spinoff ''[[The Bionic Woman]]''.
** Parodied by ''[[Family Guy]]'': "Gentlemen! We can rebuild him! We have the technology! But we don't want to spend a lot of money." Cue a cyborg Peter with a bucket for a leg, a TV for a head and... yeah.
* Every [[Resistance Is Futile|Borg]] drone on ''[[
* In the last season of ''[[Star Trek
* Subverted, natch, in ''[[
* The prosthetic arm of Francois Chau's variably-named character on ''[[Lost]]'' is the subject of much speculation. The character is only seen in Dharma films/tapes. In some he has both arms, but in some he has a prosthetic. In the latest video, {{spoiler|he refers to having information about the future, then looks sadly at his still-real arm.}}
* In the ''[[
* In ''[[
* Subverted in the remake of ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** In another startlingly realistic touch, his stump itches. He can't find a suitable lotion; the itch may be partly psychosomatic. Just before the end of the series, {{spoiler|after he commits mutiny with Tom Zarak, Adama's forces retake the Galactica. When Zarak and Gaeta are standing in front of the firing squad, he smiles and says, "It stopped."}}
* ''[[Highlander the
** Also series regular Joe Dawson had two prosthetic legs, having had his own blown off in Vietnam. This is because Jim Brynes who played Joe lost both his legs in a car accident as a teenager. [[Handicapped Badass|This has never stopped either of them from being completely badass.]]
* In [[The X-Files]], Krycek loses his arm in Season 4 and in all subsequent appearances has a prosthetic. This ultimately is his undoing, as he is unable to grab his gun when his other arm is injured.
* The [[Kamen Rider]] franchise in the Showa era is all about this. [[Kamen Rider Stronger|One of them]] has electric coils for hands and [[Rider Man|another]] has a prosthetic [[Swiss Army Weapon|arm/hook/grappling hook/machine gun/drill/mini-laboratory/etc]]. The rest of them do not show outward signs of being cyborgs. They are still pure, undiluted [[
* Nina Sharp on ''[[Fringe]]'' has a bionic arm that replaces the one she lost due to cancer. {{spoiler|[[Portal Cut|Which she actually lost in an interdimensional portal]], but you don't tell that to everyone you meet.}}
* [[Truth in Television]] example: Dr. Albert "Al" Robbins of ''CSI'' lost both legs in a childhood accident, so uses prosthetic legs and crutches to move about. This mirrors a [[Real Life]] accident which Robert David Hall, the actor who plays Dr. Robbins, suffered as a grown man.
* In ''[[JAG]]'', Lt. Bud Roberts lost his leg to a landmine in Afghanistan. Much of that season was devoted to his learning to use a prosthetic leg and regaining his strength so he could remain a JAG officer.
* The ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'' features occasional appearances by the K'Chain Che'Malle. Considered the native demons of the Malazan world, they were sapient dinosaur analogues. The exact details of why or how are unknown, but the warrior caste replaced both lower arms with [[Anatomy Arsenal|massive blades]].
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'': George Sr. enlists his friend, J. Walter Weatherman, to use his prosthetic limb to teach his kids lessons by creating excessively dramatic arm-removals. The trope is used again later in the show when {{spoiler|Buster}} loses his hand.
* ''[[Ninja Sentai Kakuranger]]'': One of the Youkai, Amikiri, lost her arm to the Blue Ranger's ancestor and had it replaced with a claw weapon. Some other youkai who fell in early episodes were revived with artificial limbs by the efforts of Tengu and Prof. Yugami.
== Mythology ==
* [[Older Than Print]] [[Celtic Mythology]] examples:
** Nuada, king of the Tuatha D'anann, lost an arm in combat, but received a functional replacement crafted of silver later.
** The same tale is ascribed to Lugh Llaw Ereint in the Welsh mythological cycle '' Y Mabinogion'' and may spring from the same Ur-Root.
* Similarly, the [[Aztec Mythology|Aztec god Tezcatlipoca]] lost a foot fighting a gigantic earth monster; depending on which version of the story you hear, he either replaced it with a snake or a smoking mirror with magical properties.
* The Brothers Grimm tale [https://web.archive.org/web/20131020110357/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/armlessmaiden/index.html The Armless Maiden] features a girl whose hands are replaced with silver after her father chops them off to appease the devil.
* There is a variation of a Norse myth involving Sigurd and his battle with the dragon Fafnir. During the fight his hand is bitten off, but he afterwards receives a fully
== Radio ==
* Sergeant McGurk in ''[[Revolting People]]'' has a wooden leg and a metal arm. The arm has a whisky flask built into it (and in sillier episodes will also dispense soda water and ice).
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''
* The Space Marines of ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' often make use of artificial replacement limbs. Most notably the Iron Hands chapter, who are often seen sporting several bionic limbs and favor them over flesh and blood. This belief leads the Iron Hands marines to replace their right hand with a mechanical one upon initiation via religious ceremony.▼
** '''Everybody''' use bionic prostheses in 40K, if they have the money or influence to afford it (or serve someone who does and is willing to sponsor). It's a ''voluntary'' replacements and additions that turn
▲** The Space Marines
** Also, considering the partially poor understanding of technology, implants may work somewhere between
** Curiously for such an otherwise over-the-top setting, in [[
** The [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orks]]. Their doctors are born with instinctive knowledge of the Ork anatomy, so they are always experimenting. The most famous, Mad Doc Grotsnik, gave several Orks ''exploding heads'' and regularly cuts off his own limbs and replaces them with 'cybork' parts or 'donations' from customers out cold on the slab.
** The Iron Warriors Traitor Legion. While many Chaos Space Marines welcome mutations as gifts from the Chaos Gods, the Iron Warriors just chop off the offending limb and replace it with bionics.
** The Classic Dwarf entry, Burlok Damminson - who has a [[Steampunk]] power claw.
* The [[Tabletop RPG]] ''[[Rifts]]'' makes a number of distinctions between cybernetics: Limbs and implants designed for civilian uses are simply called cybernetics, while armored limbs and weapons are called ''Bionics.'' Most characters, expect for Psionics, Mages, and supernatural creatures can get cybernetics, or go for Partial (all limbs replaced, plus some torso or head implants) or Full (Everything but the central nervous system) Bionic Conversion. Full Conversion 'Borgs can take a number of shapes, such as the Dragon-shaped 'Borgs found in Japan.
* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' has quite a few of these too. The game's sourcebooks do explicitly mention that the rest of the body needs reinforcing for this to work, though. Plus, there's game mechanics that prevent you from replacing everything. (At least, with off-the-shelf stuff.)
* The ''[[Cyberpunk]] 2.0.2.0.'' game has this as well. Its chapter on replacement parts? Named 'Putting the Cyber in the Punk'.
* Several character archetypes from the 2056 juncture of ''[[
* ''[[Deadlands]]'' has loads of fun with artificial limbs, starting with [[Steampunk]] limbs for living and undead [who take the advantage of the fact that most of their intestines can be removed (since, as undead, they no longer need it)], and their cyberpunk equivalents, again, for both living and undead. Having steam- or cyber-ware installed still [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|lowers a character's Spirit attribute.]] Though that's probably justified in this case given that {{spoiler|the limbs run on [[Sealed Evil in
* The ''[[
** It's worth noting, though, that the ''novels'' feature two prominent characters who have weapon-grade lasers built into their artificial forearms, and a third whose prosthesis includes a hidden short-range communications device that allows him to safely exchange information with his contact under the guise of an innocuous meeting. There are also the Jihad-era Manei Domini (the Word of Blake's combat elite), who appear to be routinely equipped with various cybernetic enhancements.
* The "Fudge 10th Anniversary Edition" book for "Fudge" contains rules for all sorts of implants, and by default there is no reason other than money not to have them. That said it also notes that just having arms and legs won't let you have super-strength because the human body can't support it, right before presenting a body frame that does let you do this.
* Being fairly [[Trope Overdosed]], ''[[Dungeons
** In 3.x [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|Half-golems]] are humans with replacement limbs crafted from iron, clay, or stone (or someone else's flesh...).
** ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' had some mechanical limbs from elven (and even more so dark elven) artificers mentioned in a few sourcebooks. This didn't go further since at this time anything robot themed was generally [http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10427&whichpage=35#220460 mechanical/robotic/android/bionic elements were suppressed by design directives] to support their current [[vaporware]] specializing on this area.
** ''[[Eberron]]'' has "Warforged limbs" are [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
** There's also a third-party Dungeons & Dragons setting which has fantasy meet steampunk, with giant clanky ponderous mechs being used to fight sometimes. One of the classes is the Steamborg, who gets a small steam engine attached to himself, and slowly can change out limbs for mechanical replacements which give bonuses.
* ''[[
* ''[[GURPS]]'' has a few. ''Ultra-Tech'' features artificial replacements or improvements for everything. One issue of ''Pyramid'' listed all sorts of crazy magical replacement arms including one with no physical substance.
* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|It just wouldn't be]] ''[[Exalted]]'' if you couldn't get powerful cyberlimbs made of the magical materials. The Alchemicals stand out in this regard, though, as their Charms are "installed" and the more obvious ones take on the appearance of cybernetic augmentation.
* The shard of Esper in [[Magic:
* ''[[Pathfinder]]'' features different types of artificial limbs, the most basic being magical clockwork prosthetics, whose main perks are tougher limbs (if you use the called shots rules or the like) and better carrying or lifting capacity, and in the case of arms unarmed strikes that deal lethal damage by default and can be enhanced like magic weapons, and for a more high-tech setting, cybertech limbs that can significantly improve a charcter's abilities are available.
== Video Games ==
* Space Siege : you play security officer ''Seth Reynolds'' you have the option during the game to upgrade yourself with cybernetic upgrades. This also enables the option to use heavier weapons. {{spoiler|In the end you have the option to go with the ship AI ‘’Pilot’’ and turn all into cyborgs or to kill the AI}}
* The ''[[
* ''[[
* Yoshimitsu from ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' is a bizarre case, as he lives in the late 16th century. His missing arm is replaced by a strange wooden contraption, which still serves him well enough to sword fight with the best of them. His 20th-century counterpart from ''[[Tekken]]'' may or may not have a mechanical arm; it's hard to tell in most of his costumes (PROTIP: one hand is usually spinning at the wrist).
** In the ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' IV Character Creation, it's seen that his left arm, face and both legs are also prosthetic, making him a possible [[Man in
* Joe from ''[[
* Perhaps the most extreme example is Sydney Losstarot from ''[[Vagrant Story]]''. He sacrificed all four of his limbs to the goddess of his religion, Mullenkamp, and had all four replaced by creepy [[Steampunk]]-ish prosthetics.
* Subverted: Raidies F. von Branstein of ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' fame has a prosthetic hand. It apparently doesn't look realistic despite its functionality, so he wears a glove over it. He also never shows any kind of increased strength or anything. In fact, he likes to pretend it doesn't exist...
* Dr. Eli Vance in [[Half Life]] 2 has an artificial right leg, although it is crude and amounts to a curved, springy metal strip. His original leg was eaten by an alien animal.
** Eli Vance's leg [
*** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Not only would the Seven Hour War have limited his choices for a replacement, but one that allows the user to run would be very useful for a rebel.
* Kanon from ''[[
** ''[[Wild
* {{spoiler|Ocelot's}} artificial arm in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4'' doesn't provide absurd amounts of [[Super Strength]], but it still ''really hurts'' when he manages to punch you with it. Total-conversion cyborgs such as Grey Fox and {{spoiler|Raiden}} do have inhuman strength and reflexes, as well as [[Implausible Fencing Powers]].
* ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'' is set in a world where everyone is born with "[[Winged Humanoid|wings of the heart]]", which appear on the body at
* Major Jackson Briggs a.k.a. "Jax" in [[Mortal Kombat]] has ''bionic implants'' covering his arms that give him enhanced strength. Unlike most cybernetic arms, these can be removed, and he retains his natural arms underneath.
** [[Fridge Logic|Wouldn't that make them ''explants''?]]
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* The Agents in ''Syndicate'' are kidnapped humans that go a conversion process by the Syndicate organizations They are being installed with mind controlle chip as you earn money you can upgrade their bodies by various cybernetic parts, which make them considerably more effective - unenhanced agents are okay for relatively puny weapons such as shotguns and uzis, by the end of the game each agent is carrying several miniguns and a rocket launcher or two.
* In ''[[Metroid Prime]] 3'', the cyborg Ghor only has 6% of his original body left, having replaced most of it with mechanical appendages.
** He also gets a severe case of [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]] in that when he hops into his big ass combat suit, lowering the proportion of organic body, he flips out, becoming a loud, charging berzerker.
* ''[[
** Weil's humanity was absent long before losing his fleshy bits.
* ''[[
** {{spoiler|Fassad and Claus}} are better examples.
* Kat in [[Halo|Halo: Reach]] has a mechanical right arm. Which is a bit odd in that there seems to be no other reason to put it into a much thinner and more skeletal casing than the other arm of the body armor, but to make it obviously visible.
** Well, there is the fact that each suit costs about as much as a... well, I'll get back to you on that, and see if anything is comparable in price, but that can be explained as cost management.
*** More likely it's rule of cool mixed with averting informed ability; after all, if you didn't show it, how would anyone know she had a mechanical arm under the armor?
* [[
* Jack of ''[[
* In ''[[No More Heroes]]'', Holly Summers has an artificial leg. In addition, Shinobu gets a mechanical replacement for the hand Travis chops off at the end of her fight with him.
** In Japan, due to [[Bowdlerization]], Shinobu doesn't get her hand cut off at the end of the fight, which led to some confusion about whether or not her losing the hand was canon. This was settled in ''Desperate Struggle'', which confirmed she has a mechanical hand.
* The Grox of ''[[Spore]]''. Being an [[Affectionate Parody]] of [[Star Trek:
* The Gunslinger, one of the weapons for the Engineer in ''[[
* In ''[[
** The Denton Brothers are actually an aversion; unlike mech-augs, which are mottled patchworks of meat and metal, nano-augmentation is a true merging of man and machine on a cellular level. All of JC's body is his own (nano-aug'd) flesh. Gunther, Anna, and the other mech-augs are straighter examples.
*** Fan-made prequel and [[Game Mod]] ''[[
* Adam Jensen, the protagonist of ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution
** Artificial arms are the rage in 2027, it seems - Jensen's boss, David Sarif and Tong Si Hung, Shanghai bartender/mafioso, sport them too.
* Lieutenant Commander Catherine-B320, Captain Ponder, Eddie Underwood and an officer overseeing The SPARTAN-III Alpha Company's Augmentation procedure named De Guzman in the ''[[Halo]]'' universe have robotic limbs, with Kat, Ponder and Eddie having artificial arms, while De Guzman has a synthetic left leg.
* Ragna the Bloodedge from ''[[
* The Nobleman from ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
* [[Knights of the Old Republic|Bao-Dur]] has an artificial arm he designed and built himself. He tries to joke about it, but turns out it's a "souvenir" from the horrors of Malachor V. It has the ability to disable force fields, but somehow restricts the kinds of armor he can wear.
* Wild Dog of [[Time Crisis]] gets one with a built-in chain gun after his defeat in the first game.
* [[
** Swann also has one, from when he lost an arm when he and his miners rebelled against the Kel-Morian Combine.
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'': While never mentioned in-universe, a Geth arm was grafted onto Saren's body to replace his left arm.
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== Visual Novels ==
* For a [[Visual Novel]] that deals with the protagonist losing an arm, suprisingly only one of the four routes in ''[[Brass Restoration]]'' has Ryo get an
* In [[Fate/stay
* Emi of ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' has these, probably not surprisingly. Having lost her legs below the knee in a car accident, she uses prosthetics. This does not impede her ability to [[Crash Into Hello|run in the hallways]] in the slightest.
== Web Comics ==
* Crustaceo from [[The Incredible and Awe Inspiring Serial Adventure of The Amazing Plasma
▲* Crustaceo from [[The Incredible and Awe Inspiring Serial Adventure of The Amazing Plasma Man]] has a bionic crab claw in place of his right arm.
* [http://www.commanderkitty.com/index.php?strip_id=30/ Nin Wah], the red panda in [http://www.commanderkitty.com/ Commander Kitty] has a ''cybertronic'' right arm.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
** And then there's Lieutenant Der Trihs, who essentially has a prosthetic ''head''. He has been reduced to a head in a jar no less than three times, his survival courtesy of the universe's well-nigh-indestructible material. He's gone through one prosthetic arm, a prosthetic ''whisk'', and a robot body connected to his jar. The chef now wears his "hand-me-down" limbs.
** Both characters eventually had their bodies regenerated properly. At least three times in Der Trihs' case: the last time it turned out that he had his skull reinforced specifically so he could survive being blown up again.
* [[Dominic Deegan]] has an artificial leg. He lost the original leg in an explosion set off by his [[Evil Counterpart]]. Unusually, it's a standard prosthetic limb with no special powers.
* Characters ''Drowtales'' have 2 options - golem limbs (see ''Magitek'') or demon limbs. The latter is rare and seen only in a private section (at least so far). A notable example is Nihi'Liir [https://web.archive.org/web/20100815000203/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=596 here] after she lost it [https://web.archive.org/web/20100815032459/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=455 here]
* Shogun in [[Harkovast]] has a mechanical hand (and forearm) which is strong enough to crush the blades of [https://web.archive.org/web/20100822094351/http://www.drunkduck.com/Harkovast/index.php?p=478164 swords]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120526221422/http://dresdencodak.com/wp-content/gallery/doodles/cyborg_big.jpg Kimiko Ross] in [[Dresden Codak]] [http://dresdencodak.com/2008/10/22/the-end/ replaced her ''own'' arm, legs and eye] shortly after losing the originals in a battle with time-traveling luddites (lucky for her she was already a transhumanist) and that's ''after'' she [http://dresdencodak.com/2008/10/02/epilogue-2/ escaped from the hospital using thermite, a parachute, and the one arm she had left.]
* [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=119656 Mecha-Nicole] of [[Everyday Heroes]] was a former mad scientist who gave herself an artificial ''head''.
* Jason in ''[[The Ends]]'' gets a cyborg arm to replace one that was torn off by a monster.
* Clubber in ''[[City of Reality]]'' has an artificial arm that incorporates a variety of useful tools, including an [[Arm Cannon]].
* In [[SSDD]], CORE marines have a certain saying. "If you still have all your limbs... you're not trying hard enough!"
* Maxim in ''[[
* Daisy Archanis in ''[[Last
* Jordan from ''[[Exploitation Now]]'' lost her left arm in a car accident when she was little. And replaced it with a mechanical one armed with all sort of gadgets.
* In ''[[Homestuck
* Lord Tedd from ''[[
** Later shown to be a [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-10-07 glove], not a cybernetic arm
* Lothar from ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'' had both his legs and his right arm replaced with bionic limbs by the time he joined Eastwood and Virus.
* Ally from [[
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Pretty commonplace in [[Nexus Gate]].
* The ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', featured several cybernetic characters, including Indian hero Naja (his legs have been replaced with a long cybernetic "tail", and he has envenomed "fangs" in his wrists), Koushik (his right arm has been replaced and gives him super-strong punches), Halftrack (the lower half of his body has been replaced by a tracked, tank-like machine with attached heavy weaponry), Daemon (cranial implants let him jack into computers, and other implants increase his strength, durability, and speed), Deadlock (cranial implants allow him to "jack in" new skillsets as needed), Overdrive (arms, legs, and spine have been reinforced, giving her [[Super Speed]]), and Robotman (who is a [[Brain In
* There is a whole group of side-character students like this in the webfiction ''[[Whateley Universe]]'' at the Whateley Academy. She-Bot was born a thalidomide baby, and took to robotic limbs far better than anyone could have expected. Because she's a mutant. She's upgraded her own limbs several times. Rack is a dwarf who has built himself a normal-sized super-suit. Techno-Devil, the son of the notorious supervillain Dr. Diabolik, has replaced one of his own eyes with a glaring red cyber-implant, and has cybernetic input jacks on both side of his skull. There are characters who have deliberately done even more disturbing cyber-things to their bodies.
* Kaogin, from ''[[
* [[Equestria Chronicles]] has Nova Storm. Interestingly, she was born with three legs and had to get a fourth in order to join the guard.
* [[MSF High Forum]]: Israfel has a legion made wooden false arm since Seram keeps his real arm, Fable was given an artificial arm by Yosah on her first day.
* ''[[RWBY]]'': At the end of Volume 3, it's revealed that General Ironheart is a cyborg, and one arm and both legs are cybernetic. (Along with most of his torso.)
** {{spoiler|Yang loses her right arm during the fall of Beacon at the end of volume 3, and gets a similar cyber arm from Ironheart to replace it in volume 4.}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Modo from ''[[Biker Mice From Mars]]'' has a cybernetic arm to replace the one he lost on Mars to the Plutarkians.
* Just like in the post-Zero Hour comics above, in the ''[[Legion of Super
** It's... possible... that in the far future the loss and replacement of limbs is relatively common. See the Futurama example below.
* Angry Archer in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' has a robotic arm, although it might just be a gauntlet rather than a replacement limb.
* In ''[[The Spectacular Spider
* In ''[[Justice League]],'' Aquaman cuts off his own hand to save his son. It is later replaced with a hook that resembles a harpoon.
* ''[[Inspector Gadget]]''. What bits of him are real in the original cartoons? [[The Movie]] makes it clear that the only thing still real about Gadget is his brain.
* Done for laughs with Fry of ''[[Futurama]]''. In one episode he feeds a T-Rex at a sort of petting zoo, and the T-Rex bites off his hands. A quick stop at [[Expy|Hands Crafters]] and he's as good as new.
** Another episode features Fry winning the Robot Devil's hands. When the Robot Devil stalls for time, Fry impatiently says, "Stop being such a baby and cut off my hands."
* {{spoiler|The Scotsman had dangerous leg}}, later someone at Grind House watched [[Samurai Jack]] and decided to repeat this in live action.
* In ''[[Mummies Alive]]'' one of the characters has a prosthetic arm that's only usable in his powered up form.
* [[Made of Explodium|Combustion Man]] from [[
* Dr. Robotnik had a robotic arm in the ''[[Sonic
* In the [[Bump in
* Grim Reaper in ''[[The Avengers: Earth's
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Royal Air Force pilot Douglas Bader lost both legs in an ill-advised bit of stunt-flying a year or two before [[
* And for [[Steampunk]] lovers, may we humbly present [[
▲* Royal Air Force pilot Douglas Bader lost both legs in an ill-advised bit of stunt-flying a year or two before [[WW 2]] broke out. He fought his way out of an invalidity discharge and proved himself capable of being a fighter pilot, knocking down several Germans in the Battle of Britain. Captured in 1942 he made a series of escape attempts, despite the obvious handicap, and was eventually sent to the special camp for persistent escapers, Colditz. He still begged for a place on the emergency escape glider prisoners built secretly in 1945....
* Regardless of other drawbacks, a number of prototype prostheses have 360 degree freedom of rotation at the wrist - something that humans have yet to evolve.▼
▲* And for [[Steampunk]] lovers, may we humbly present [[Gotz Von Berlichingen]], who had a [[Fullmetal Alchemist|strangely]] [[Berserk|familiar]] prosthetic hand.
* [
▲* Regardless of other drawbacks, a number of prototype prostheses have 360 degree freedom of rotation at the wrist- something that humans have yet to evolve.
▲* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pistorius Oscar Pistorius], runner, was prevented from competing in the Olympics because this prosthetic legs turned out to be more effective than biological ones.
** There's at least one runner who was barred from competing not due to unfair competition but because his foot blades could endanger other runners.
* In the 2008
** The woman with a full-on ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDajDkWGW4c mermaid tail]''. Get her a laser-shooting trident and she can cosplay [[Mega Man 9
* After miniature sculptor Michael Perry lost his right hand in an accident, he not only learned to sculpt left-handed but had a prosthesis specially built to aid in his sculpting.
* What about the mountain climber whose arm was pinned by a boulder, and he had to saw it off to escape? He had it replaced by an ''[[An Axe to Grind|ice axe]]''.
** [http://www.abc.net.au/wa/stories/Aron_Ralst_m974502.jpg Aron Ralston]
* Minor case: Athlete and model [
** A great many people make themselves taller by putting shoes on. Granted, Ms. Mullins does have some very ''pretty'' prostheses.
* Similar to the above, the Finnish cartoonist and politician [
* Canadian Harold Russell lost both hands in a [[WWII]] training exercise - he was outfitted with articulated hooks and, while working in a training film, was chosen by director William Wyler to co-star in "The Best Years of Our Lives" about three returning servicemen's difficult adjustments to home life.
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