Artificial Limbs: Difference between revisions

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* [[Unusual User Interface]] -- A built in LAN or WiFi connection.

== Anime and Manga ==

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** 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 ''[[Clover (Manga)|Clover]]'' has his famous [[Fan Nickname|roboclaw]].

* ''[[Combattler V (Anime)|Combattler V]]'': Hyoma Aoi -[[The Hero]] of the [[Five Man Band]]- got replacement arms after [[The Dragon]] Garuda {{spoiler|shot his original arms off.}} Unlike from other examples of this trope, they did not grant him super-strength and they did not work perfectly at all. Several times they stopped working momentarily in ''very'' inopportune moments (such like when he was driving his car or fighting in his [[Humongous Mecha]]).

* ''[[Combattler V (Anime)|Combattler V]]'': Hyoma Aoi -[[The Hero]] of the [[Five-Man Band]]- got replacement arms after [[The Dragon]] Garuda {{spoiler|shot his original arms off.}} Unlike from other examples of this trope, they did not grant him super-strength and they did not work perfectly at all. Several times they stopped working momentarily in ''very'' inopportune moments (such like when he was driving his car or fighting in his [[Humongous Mecha]]).

* ''[[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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* ''[[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 ''[[Jo ~~Jos~~ Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'', he gets a replacement made by his Nazi buddies. Did I mention that this takes place in 1939? And that one of the aforementioned Nazi buddies is a cyborg with a gun in his chest?

* When Joseph Joestar gets his arm sliced off by Cars in ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'', he gets a replacement made by his Nazi buddies. Did I mention that this takes place in 1939? And that one of the aforementioned Nazi buddies is a cyborg with a gun in his chest?

* {{spoiler|Ryogi Shiki}} from ''[[Kara no Kyoukai (Literature)|Kara no Kyoukai]]'' has an artificial left arm, as her original was torn apart in a fight. It's a magic arm, to boot.

* Squalo from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn (Manga)|Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' has a fake left hand. He cut off his real hand to better understand the previous Sword Emperor.

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* British sci-fi comics love this one.

** ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' himself has bionic eyes, and a popular foe, Mean Machine Angel, has one arm that's been replaced by a giant mechanical claw-thing (he's also got a bionic eye, a metal-plated skull, and a brain implant that means he's only got four emotions: Surly, Mean, Vicious and Brutal).

** Axel Pressbutton, "the psychotic cyborg" had both legs, his left arm and most of his torso replaced after three-quarters of him was eaten by a [[Man Eating Plant]].

** Axel Pressbutton, "the psychotic cyborg" had both legs, his left arm and most of his torso replaced after three-quarters of him was eaten by a [[Man-Eating Plant]].

** Aimee Nixon is only one of many secondary characters in 2000 AD and its spinoffs to qualify, in her case a bionic arm.

* 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.)

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* 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 [[~~Sixteen Thirty Two~~|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''

* 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 (Literature)|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}}

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** 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.

** [[Warhammer]] had the Chaos Dwarf army and one of its special characters was a Chaos Dwarf slowly [[Taken for Granite|turning to stone]] so he kept moving using [[Steampunk]] armour. [[What Do You Mean ~~Its~~ Not Awesome|Awesome]]. [[Family Guy|Yeah]].

** [[Warhammer]] had the Chaos Dwarf army and one of its special characters was a Chaos Dwarf slowly [[Taken for Granite|turning to stone]] so he kept moving using [[Steampunk]] armour. [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Awesome]]. [[Family Guy|Yeah]].

** 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.

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== [[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 [[~~Brainina~~ Jar]] with a total body replacement).

* 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 A Jar]] with a total body replacement).

* 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 ''[[The Motley Two (Fanfic)|The Motley Two]]'', has a robotic arm and leg, replacements she had to get after a [[Noodle Incident]]. The arm grants her [[Super Strength]], enough to tear down a wall. Also, she's got a vocal implant that allows her to [[Autotune]] while singing.

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** 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 Man]],'' Curt Connors has an impressive robotic prosthetic arm, while Doctor Octopus is [[Hollywood Cyborg|fused]] [[Unusual User Interface|at the spinal cord]] to a harness with [[Multi Armed and Dangerous|four]] [[Super Strength|superstrong]] [[Combat Tentacles|robotic arms]]. Doc Ock uses these as extra arms and feet, and to batter and throw opponents. The three claws at each end can rotate like miniature buzz-saws.

* In ''[[The Spectacular Spider Man]],'' Curt Connors has an impressive robotic prosthetic arm, while Doctor Octopus is [[Hollywood Cyborg|fused]] [[Unusual User Interface|at the spinal cord]] to a harness with [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous|four]] [[Super Strength|superstrong]] [[Combat Tentacles|robotic arms]]. Doc Ock uses these as extra arms and feet, and to batter and throw opponents. The three claws at each end can rotate like miniature buzz-saws.

* 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.

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* Dr. Robotnik had a robotic arm in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (TV)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' cartoon because he accidentally roboticized his arm.

* In the [[Bump in The Night]] episode "Farewell, 2 Arms," while Molly's left arm is detached and under repair, she finds a stronger replacement and feels the need to replace her right arm too. Over the course of the episode, she has her '''entire body''' replaced, creating a completely new entity. {{spoiler|She comes back after Squishy puts all her original parts back together.}}

* Grim Reaper in ''[[Avengers ~~Earths~~ Mightiest Heroes (Animation)|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]'' has one that turns into a Scythe.

* Grim Reaper in ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (Animation)|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]'' has one that turns into a Scythe.