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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. Nevermind that this makes little sense in terms of nerves and muscles. A fantasy world may substitute magical prosthetic limbs (based on the magic that produces the [[Golem]]), but this is rare since such worlds can usually use the same magic to regenerate lost 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 [[wikipedia:Oscar Pistorius|a runner who had lost both of his legs having had them replaced with springs that give back more momentum than ankles do]].
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* [[Hook Hand]] -- The old-fashioned version so beloved of [[Pirates]].
* [[Spider Limbs]] -- Spider legs used for mobility.
* [[Super Senses]] -- Artificial eyes, ears, etc.
* [[Swiss Army Appendage]]: Multiple functions for multiple needs
* [[Unusual User Interface]] -- A built in LAN or WiFi connection.
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*** 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 ''[[Dirty Pair]]'' issue "Run from the Future," the titular duo are hunting for several criminals, including the "Planarian Cannibals;" they ceremonially eat their own arms and legs (and replace them with cybernetics) to concentrate their spiritual essence. Oh, and they eat other people too.
* As a result of a human transmutation experiment [[Gone Horribly Wrong]], Edward Elric from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' lost a leg and an arm. His childhood friend Winry was able to manufacture him "[[Steampunk|automail]]" replacements. Notably, the attachments of nerves and muscles is actually mentioned, and mentioned to be extremely painful, taking years to recuperate (it took Ed, as a child 1 year, in defiance of his mechanic's 3-year prediction). Also, the automail frequently breaks under sufficient strain - Winry occasionally asks Ed if he breaks his limbs on purpose just to annoy her.
** 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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* 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 ''[[xxxHolic]]''. it is mentioned that {{spoiler|the gang eventually makes their way back to Piffle to get Kurogane's prosthetic arm fixed up properly}}.
* 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.
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* 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 Plus]]'' receive [[Super Soldier|Schiff]] limbs after being amputated.
* [[Yami no Aegis]]: Tate has a metal arm with which he can deflect bullets. It's also his primary weapon.
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* 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 (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' cartoon however, as a result of the series' humorous [[Made of Iron]] characteristics, it would appear that his thought process is the only thing human about him. [[Big Eater|Well, that and his appetite]].
* 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 ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' comics, Cliff Steele is a racing driver whose brain is salvaged from a horrible crash and inserted into a metal body, causing him some anguish.
* Bunnie Rabbot in the Archie Comics' ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' becomes a type of cyborg when she's halfway tossed into a (''very'' fast-working) "roboticizing" machine. Her legs and one arm are turned into robotic limbs.
** 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 (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' got a bionic arm after losing the original to a [[Space Whale]]; he also had one in the post-Zero Hour reboot, although in that case it was because [[Cain and Abel|his brother]] had blown the arm off. Ouch.
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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-Man|Doctor Otto Octavius]]'s problems started apparently when he added four arms of questionable morality to his spine...
** 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 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!
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* [[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 (comics)]] sidekick [[Bucky Barnes]] has a cybernetic left arm to replace the one he lost at the end of [[World War 2]].
* The [[X-Men|X-man]] Angel has his naturally-occuring wings amputated in some continuities and replaced with razor-edged metallic wings that can shoot blades. As the procedure is {{spoiler|done by an evil mad scientist, there are some [[Face Heel Turn|side effects]].}}
** The younger mutant Hellion later gains metal prosthetics that he animates with his telekinesis after his hands are blasted off by a sentinel.
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* Interestingly enough, the [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek TNG]] movie ''[[Star Trek: First Contact|First Contact]]'' does this ''[[Inverted Trope|backwards]]'' with the [http://www.filmjunk.com/images/weblog/treknobabble12_firstcontact.jpg android Data] {{spoiler|having living flesh grafted onto his body by the Borg queen.}} It doesn't last.
* Dr. No from the first Bond movie ''[[Dr. No]]'' has mechanical hands, having lost his hands in an accident during his research into radioactivity. His mechanical hands could crush stone to powder, but {{spoiler|could not grip a vertical beam well enough for him to lift himself out of the reactor's cooling tank}}.
** The henchman Tee Hee from ''[[Live and Let Die (film)|Live and Let Die]]'' had a mechanical right arm strong enough to break Bond's Walther PPK, but he fell afoul of a simple pair of nail clippers...
* [[Lindsay Lohan]] gets two in ''[[I Know Who Killed Me]]''. Granted, the movie's a thriller, so they're the more realistic version, which is still able to cause some injury.
* 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.
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== 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.
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* ''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}}.
* The 1952 [[Science Fiction]] novel "Limbo" by Bernard Wolfe is all about a [[Cold War]] world changed by the new science of cybernetics.
* ''[[Honor Harrington]]'', as starting off as a Lord Nelson Expy, loses an arm and eye over the series. After an [[Eyepatch of Power]] she gets an artifical eye and arm. Rare in this society because the normal techniques used to regrow limbs doesn't work on her. She has a pulser in the arm and the aiming camera in her eye...
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* 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
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''In [[The Devil's 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.
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* [[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 [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 articulate metal replacement with intricate wiring in place of tendons.
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== 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 ==
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** '''Everybody''' use bionic prostheses in 40K, if they have the money or influence to afford it. It's a ''voluntary'' replacements and additions that turn heads -- cyborgs are not rare or surprising in the Imperium, but generally just aren't much welcomed.
** Also, considering the partially poor understanding of technology, implants may work somewhere between phantastically (cortex implants from several thousand years ago that grant [[Dune]] Mentat-like intelligence), operational (bionic limbs for average soldiers that ''mostly'' work as they should, as long as the Tech-priests observe the necessary rites) and clumsy (bionic eyes that produce grainy and black/white pictures). Finally, there are servitors, lobotomized humans or animals stuffed full with bionics to serve essentially as robots.
** Curiously for such an otherwise over-the-top setting, in [[Dark Heresy]] it's explained that human bionics don't impart superhuman strength, exactly because it would tear the user apart. It's not entirely impossible, though - but the money needed for that kind of expert gear could buy you a much more effective suit of [[Powered Armor]].
** 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 Fantasy Battle]] 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.
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* ''[[Genius: The Transgression]]'' naturally features a lot of options for doing this; any wonder small enough can be grafted on to your body, giving you artificial limbs of every shape, size and purpose in any style imaginable.
* ''[[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: The Gathering]] features Etherium, an alloy infused with pure aether. The Ethersworn have vowed to infuse every living thing on the plane with the substance. This is most readily seen in game as artificial limbs. [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=174912\]
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*** [[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 Arms 2]]'' has had an arm and part of her trunk replaced by cybernetics; she not only has enhanced strength, but also neat gadgets like a hookshot. Considering the generally low-tech or steampunk feel of the game, one wonders how they can function as well as they do.
** ''[[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 will--except for Kalas, the main character, who was born with only a single wing. His foster father made an artificial wing for him as a replacement.
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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.
* ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'s'' [[Big Bad]], Dr. Weil, has Artificial ''everything''. It's hard to figure out what part of him is still human. Not even [[Complete Monster|his]] ''[[Complete Monster|humanity]]'' [[Complete Monster|was left intact]].
** Weil's humanity was absent long before losing his fleshy bits.
* ''[[Mother 3]]'s'' evil organization specializes in this by making mechanical chimeras out of animals.
** {{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.
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* 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 [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=596 here] after she lost it [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 [http://www.drunkduck.com/Harkovast/index.php?p=478164 swords]
* [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.
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* Maxim in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has recently picked one up to replace his missing right hand.
* Daisy Archanis in ''[[Last Res0rt]]'' gets one of these as part of the Backstory just before the show begins, after having her left leg amputated while in Celigo's custody. It's heavily implied that [[Big Bad|Veled]] had it removed to prevent her from being able to teleport.
* 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|Hivebent]]'', robotics expert Equius gave his crush {{spoiler|Aradia (a [[Dead to Begin With]] character) a robotic body}}. His other works have been (in flashbacks) Vriska's robotic arm and replacement eye after she lost both to {{spoiler|Terezi's [[Batman Gambit]], which caused her future-seeing cueball to explode in her face}} and Tavros's legs after having been a wheelchair- then hoverchair-bound paraplegic throughout their game session (since Vriska psychically coerced him to jump off of a cliff).
* Lord Tedd from ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' seems to have an at [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-11-07 least] [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-08-24 partially] [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-08-26 artificial] arm.
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* 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]]'', 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 [[Auto-Tune]] while singing.
* [[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.
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* 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 [[Avatar: The Last Airbender]] has a prosthetic right forearm and lower leg, purportedly from injuries sustained when still learning to control his technique. [[Cute Bruiser|Toph]] can detect his approach via her [[Disability Superpower|Seismic Sense]] and describes it sounding like a "metal man".
* Dr. Robotnik had a robotic arm in the ''[[Sonic Sat AM|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' cartoon because he accidentally roboticized his arm.
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