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* One of the more recent She-Hulk series had [[South Paw]], a 50 pound weakling teenage girl. With a MASSIVE mecha-hand on her left hand which gave her enough strength to crush IronClad from the U-Foes' arm into scrap!

* [[Superman|Lex Luthor]] sported an artificial hand after his Kryptonite signet ring [[Hoist by His Own Petard|gave his hand radiation-induced cancer]].

* [[~~Sgt Rock (Comic Book)|~~Sgt. Rock]] adversary "The Iron Major," had his right hand replaced with one of solid iron.

* [[Sgt. Rock]] adversary "The Iron Major," had his right hand replaced with one of solid iron.

* The crime boss Johnny Woo Woo from the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] "Body Count" arc had metal hands.

* Former [[Captain America]] sidekick [[Bucky Barnes]] has a cybernetic left arm to replace the one he lost at the end of [[World War 2]].

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* The ''[[Wing Commander (novel)|Wing Commander]] IV'' [[Novelization]] states [[Ascended Extra|Jason "Bear" Bondarevski]] lose an arm during the conclusion of the Kilrathi War, and has it replaced with a cybernetic substitute. In ''False Colors'', he's given the opportunity to have it modified to give him an [[Unusual User Interface]], but declines.

* 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.

* 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.