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[[File:Ed_Cool_Arm.jpg|link=Fullmetal Alchemist (Animeanime)|frame|[[Rule of Cool|Definitely]].]]
 
 
{{quote|''A [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]] can [[An Arm and Aa 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 Aa 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.
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** 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 ''[[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]]).
* ''[[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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** In the final chapter of the manga {{spoiler|he returns with a prosthetic body from the chest down after getting ''[[Back From the Dead|killed]]'' by Lucy}}.
*** 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 (Light Novel)|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 (Mangamanga)|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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** 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 Thethe Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'', and its source material, carry the concept forward. Instead of passé clunky mechanical limbs, the sufficiently wealthy or connected can have their whole body replaced with a [[Cursed Withwith Awesome|super-realistic and super-strong artificial construct]]. One's brain is removed, and placed in a life-supporting enclosure, and swaps from body to body are possible even in non-sterile environments. Two of the series' main characters, the Major and Batou (anime only), are such full cyborgs.
** 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 ''[[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 noKarano 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.
* ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'': Franky, {{spoiler|He's a cola powered cyborg, having rebuilt his limbs and much of his body from the wrecks of his old battlships aka [[Battle Frankys]]}}
** 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 Seven|Samurai77]]'' has an artificial arm with a grapple.
* 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 ''[[Xxx Holic (Manga)|Xxx HolicXxxHolic]]''. 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.
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5 Ds5D's]]: {{spoiler|The Godwin brothers both have robotic left arms. Rex lost his while escaping from Satellite, and Rudger cut off his own arm, with the Dragon Head Mark, to give to Rex.}}
* {{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.
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== 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 (Animationanimation)|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 (Comic Book)|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 (Comic Bookcomics)|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 (Comic Book)|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!
* [[Superman|Lex Luthor]] sported an artificial hand after his Kryptonite signet ring [[Hoist Byby 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.
* The crime boss Johnny Woo Woo from the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] "Body Count" arc had metal hands.
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** 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 ''[[All Fall Down (Comic Book)|All Fall Down]]'', {{spoiler|the now-paraplegeic speedster, Pronto, resorts to this in order to regain his super speed.}}
* Several examples in ''[[Invincible (Comic Book)|Invincible]]'': Rex Splode gets a robotic hand after having one bitten off by a Lizard Man, Bulletproof apparantley gets one too, to repalce the one he lost while fighting an evil Invincible Doppleganger, Oliver gets a prosthetic arm and jaw bone.Angstrom Levy has a robotic hand replace one that was torn off by Invincible, Conquest has a robotic arm, and an unnamed Viltrumite has a robotic eye.
 
 
== 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 Withwith the Glasses Inin Space]]'' has these or are complete cyborgs by the time the story starts.
 
 
== Film ==
* [[Robo CopRoboCop]] performs the ultimate version: in the words of OCP's project manager, "total body prosthesis". They even mention how useless the reverse situation would be: when one of the doctors notes they were able to save one of Murphy's arms, the project manager promptly orders it thrown out and the originally planned robotic arm installed in its place.
* Kushana from ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of Thethe Wind]]'' has multiple prosthetic limbs, and according to her (at least in the 2005 English Dub), whoever becomes her husband will see ''worse''. Think about that.
* ''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 (Filmfilm)|I Robot]]'' retains a spray-painted cybernetic left arm and two ribs, given to him in [[Backstory]] by the roboticist whose death he is investigating in the film.
* [[Mad Scientist]] C. A. Rotwang from the classic ''[[Metropolis (Film)|Metropolis]]'' had an artificial right hand.
** 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.
* ''[[Young Frankenstein (Film)|Young Frankenstein]]'': Inspector Kemp's wooden arm.
** A spoof of Inspector Krogh's wooden arm in ''[[Son of Frankenstein (Film)|Son of Frankenstein]].''
* Interestingly enough, the [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek TNG]] movie ''[[Star Trek: First Contact (Film)|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 (Film)|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 (Filmfilm)|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.
* 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 (Filmfilm)|StarshipTroopers]]''.
* Gobber from [[How to Train Your Dragon (Filmanimation)|How to Train Your Dragon]] has an artificial arm and leg, the arm which he exchanges for a hammer, axe, tankard for his booze, etc. Toothless has an artificial half tail fin and {{spoiler|Hiccup gets an artificial leg after fighting Green Death.}}
* Silver from ''[[Treasure Planet]]'', who has an artifical leg and arm ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|and]] [[Electronic Eyes|eye]]). Although his leg seems to give him a bit of gyp at times {{spoiler|(especially after Jim stabs it)}}, his arm has [[Swiss Army Appendage|a lot of things in it]], including a cutlass, a gun, several different tools for cooking, and part of an [[Arm Cannon]] (with the other part being stored in his leg).
* {{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 [[Artificial Limbs]] because of a [[Life or Limb Decision]].
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** 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 (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]]'', Peter "Wormtail" Pettigrew is forced to cut off his own hand in the ritual to recreate Voldemort's body. As Voldemort returns to full power, he gives Wormtail a gift for his efforts, a hand made of silver which functions just as well as his old hand. {{spoiler|Except for the fact that the hand was eternally devoted to Voldemort and ended up choking Wormtail when he hesitated to attack Harry in the seventh book.}}
** Mad Eye Moody.
* Spoofed by [[Terry Pratchett (Creator)|Terry Pratchett]] in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'' with Goldeneyes Silverhand Dactylos, who is such a great architect his employers all tend to try and maim him so he can never make anything more beautiful than the work he's done for them. As he exposits to his current employer, his first employer gave him piles of gold and blinded him (he learned to work by touch, smell and hearing), his second loaded him with silver and then cut off his left hand (he built a mechanical replacement from silver using his knowledge of levers), and his third employer gave him mounds of silk before hamstringing and imprisoning him (he built a hang glider to escape). He winds up by reminding his employer of his promise to let him go free and unharmed now his work is complete, at which his employer says '[[I Lied]]' and promptly has him shot. Dactylos comments on the shoddy quality of the arrowhead before he dies.
* 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 electronic work with the built-in tools.
* [[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 intruments''.
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*** 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 ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Literature)|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]''. For those who don't know his [[Secret Origin]], his axe was cursed by a witch, and one by one, he chopped off his own limbs. Every time he lost one, he had it replaced with a prosthetic made by a local tinsmith -- up to and including ''his head and torso''... but not, alas, his heart.
** For an extra dose of [[Mind Screw]], [[Land of Oz (Literature)|a sequel]] reveals someone later reassembled and ''reanimated'' the discarded body parts with use of some magic glue... creating a whole new character.
*** [[Fridge Logic|Why didn't he dump the stupid axe?]]
*** The witch ''kept'' cursing the axe while he was working.
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* 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 HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy]]'', Zaphod Beeblebrox has a third, artificial arm fitted to improve his ski-boxing. As is often the case with the franchise, the reason changes in the TV series/computer game/movie - in the radio series, he claims he grew the arm "for Trillian".
** [[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]].
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* 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 (Literature)|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...
* 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.
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** 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 (Literaturenovel)|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.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''In [[The DevilsDevil'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.
* Every [[Resistance Is Futile|Borg]] drone on ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' has at least one artificial limb, and they all have [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|glowing red camera-eyes]].
* In the last season of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV)|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'', Nog loses a leg in battle and has it replaced with an artificial one. (For those who are concerned about his baseball ability "afterward," the baseball episode takes place several episodes ''before'' Nog loses his leg.)
* Subverted, natch, in ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'': Lister loses an arm in one episode and is fitted with a robot arm. Being Red Dwarf, it's a very cheap and basic robot arm and requires a full minute worth of extremely strenuous concentration to pick up a ball. In an additional subversion, turning up the sensitivity simply causes him to punch Kryten in the face [[Running Gag|repeatedly]] - it's being controlled by his subconscious, and he's angry at Kryten for amputating his arm.
* 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 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story "Revelation of the Daleks", [[Evilutionary Biologist]] arch-villain Davros gets his right hand (his only unparalysed limb) shot off. In the following story, he's only seen from the neck up due to heavily upgrading his wheelchair, but when he returns in "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" he has a rather Freddy Krueger-esque metal hand with clawed fingertips. He has the talent to make something more realistic, so one can only assume he thinks it looks cool.
* In ''[[All the Small Things (TV)|All the Small Things]]'', {{spoiler|Olive has an artificial leg}}.
* Subverted in ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]''. Felix Gaeta is shot in the leg by a twitchy crewmate, and doesn't get to medical care in time to save the limb. He is given a prosthetic leg not long after the amputation; however, the prosthetic is the wrong length, doesn't fit correctly, and aggravates his healing surgical scars, making them more susceptible to infection. The series also shows Gaeta becoming more accustomed to the prosthetic and less dependent on crutches gradually, over the course of several episodes.
** 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."}}
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* 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.
 
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* ''[[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 ''[[Feng Shui (Tabletop Game)|Feng Shui]]'' have the option of starting with one or more Robot Limbs. They are not true cybernetic hardtech, but are instead examples of [[Magitek|arcanowave technology]]. Given the dangerous nature of such technology, most Robot Limbs can be found on Abominations, the altered demons that the Buro uses to fight its wars. If you have the Jammer supplement "Gorilla Warfare," you can instead start off with a set of regular hardtech Robotic Limbs as a Hardware schtick, which is favored by many Jammers who won't have any truck with arcanowave gear.
* ''[[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 Aa Can|ghost rock]], a fuel source made of damned souls.}} Or the trapped energy of a Harrowed's Manitou co-pilot. Only Harrowed ''can'' "survive" full-on cybernetics outside the odd limb or the like.
* The ''[[Battle TechBattleTech]]'' RPG ''[[Mechwarrior]]'' has rules for characters getting prosthetics, ranked in four tiers, from crude hooks and pegs to full cybernetics sheathed in synthetic skin, as well as eye and ear replacements. However, there's no real advantage to them - at their best (and most expensive), they only allow a character to perform as well as they would with the original parts.
** 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 and Dragons]]'' has their own. [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|Half-golems]] are humans with replacement limbs crafted from iron, clay, or stone (or someone else's flesh...). [[Eberron|Warforged limbs]] are [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]. There are ''hundreds'' of grafts available for various editions, including demonic claws and ''skeleton hands on fire''.
** 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.
* ''[[Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game)|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: theThe 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\]
 
== 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 ''[[Bionic Commando (Video Game)|Bionic Commando]]'' series has the protagonist, Nathan "Rad" Spencer with a bionic arm. It has incredible grip and can grab everything. It's used as a gameplay mechanic as it replaces jumping with swinging.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'': Barret Wallace lost his arm to multiple bullet wounds. Later, his original artificial arm was replaced by a machine gun, and later upgraded in the ''Advent Children'' spinoff movie with the ability to morph into a (relatively) normal looking hand.
* 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 Thethe Machine]].
* Joe from ''[[Mega Man Legends (Video Game)|Mega Man Legends]] 2'' has a Reaverbot arm, mostly longer than his natural arm. In fact, this seems rather common in the Legends era. The only major male character who doesn't seem to have mechanical prosthesis, at one time or another, is Werner von Bluecher.
* 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...
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** Eli Vance's leg [[wikipedia:File:Wtcrun-001.jpg|is]] [[Truth in Television]], although the springy metal strip type is usually used by [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aimee_mullins_on_running.html athletes], because it's hard to stand still on one.
*** [[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 (Video Game)|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 Arms 5 (Video Game)|Wild Arms 5]]'' had Kartikeya, a.k.a., the man with a [[A Mech Byby Any Other Name|Golem]] arm.
* {{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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* 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 (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|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.
*** 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?
* [[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]] has [[Depraved Dentist|Dr. Loboto]], who has a clawed hand with a pepper grinder built in.
* Jack of ''[[Mad WorldMadWorld]]'' has a mechanical arm. [[Rule of Cool|With a built-in]] [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw.]]
* 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: theThe Next Generation|the Borg]], the entire species has replaced their right arms, legs, and eyes with cyborg equivalents.
* The Gunslinger, one of the weapons for the Engineer in ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'', is a mechanical hand designed by his grandfather Radigan. It was implied in the official blog that the Engineer willingly sawed off his original right hand to accommodate the replacement, though some theories exist that the hand under the glove was always artificial.
* In ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'', protagonist JC Denton has experimental nanobots implanted into his body. Towards the end of the game, should the player choose to install them, Denton can have implants in his head, arms, eyes and legs, among others. These nanobots are also present in Denton's brother Paul, Walter Simons and Robert Page. Furthermore, traditional mechanical implants are found in UNATCO agents Anna Nevarre and Gunther Hermann. {{spoiler|Conveniently, both Nevarre and Hermann are installed with a killphrase which, when said, causes them to violently explode.}}
** 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]] ''[[Twenty Twenty Seven|2027]]'' features these, as nanoaugmentation is still on the drawing boards. In terms of gameplay, they still function like nano augs in the original game, except augs like the leg prothesis make a whirring sound when used.
* Adam Jensen, the protagonist of ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game)|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'' gets both of his arms replaced with advanced prosthetics, and most of his body is "enhanced" with cybernetic implants, after surviving an attack on a corporate research facility by a group of anti-bionics extremists. Throughout the game, the player is able to upgrade Adam's limbs with various enhancements, including [[Blade Below the Shoulder|retractable blades.]] One of the antagonists, [[Shout-Out|a mercenary]] [[Final Fantasy VII|named Barrett,]] has [[Arm Cannon|a minigun built into one of his cyberarms.]]
** 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 ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' got his right arm chopped off when he was a kid. His new right arm {{spoiler|is made of the remains of the Black Beast}}. At the end of ''Continuum Shift'', {{spoiler|he loses his left arm. That gets replaced by Kokonoe with materials from Lambda-11's rejuvenation tank}}. Iron Tager, being a cyborg, has Artificial ''Everything''.
* The Nobleman from ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'' has an artificial left arm ending in a claw.
* [[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.
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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 [[Artificial Limbs|artificial arm]]. Maybe not so surprisingly, the route it happens in is {{spoiler|Yoshine's. After all, artificial arms can be rather expensive, so if you're not rich yourself, you do kinda need a [[Ojou|rich girl]] who likes you enough to pay for it herself.}}
* In [[Fate/stay Stay Night (Visual Novel)night|Fate Stay Night]]'s final arc, Heaven's Feel {{spoiler|Shirou gets a replacement arm from Archer, but as that's organic it doesn't really count. However, in the good ending, he gets a replacement body doll which becomes a normal body as long as he possesses it. He needed it due to having died destroying the true Grail and being resurrected as a spirit by Ilya's sacrifice.}}
* 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.
 
 
== Webcomics ==
* 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 ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' inverts this, by giving Robot S13 a replacement arm made of magic wood. While Ysengrin's arms appear to fall under this trope, [[Word of God|Word Of Tom]] says (and later shows) that they're actually [[Powered Armor]].
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' has [[Action Girl]] Ellen Foxworthy ("Elf") lose her legs due to an antimatter explosion going off under her. She spends two weeks real-time (A few hours comic time) being carried, then gets a set of '''massive''' prosthetic legs cannibalized from power armor.
** 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.
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* 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 ''[[Girl Genius (Webcomic)|Girl Genius]]'' has recently picked one up to replace his missing right hand.
* Daisy Archanis in ''[[Last Res 0 rtRes0rt]]'' 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 (Webcomic)|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 (Webcomic)|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.
** 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 [[Stubble Trouble (Webcomic)|Stubble Trouble]] has a prosthetic leg to replace her original leg which was severely damaged in a car crash.
 
 
== [[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 Aa 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 [[AutotuneAuto-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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* 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 -Heroes (AnimationTV series)|Legion of Super Heroes]]'' cartoon, the episode "Chained Lightning" sees Lightning Lad loses an arm to an attack by Imperiex; Brainiac 5 gives him a new cybernetic arm. He can still channel his powers through the arm and it comes with some cool other features, but the whole thing is a bit unnerving for a couple of reasons. First off, Lightning Lad was knocked unconscious by the attack, and Brainiac 5 just started working on him without, you know, asking if he wanted a cybernetic arm in the first place. Second, Lightning Lad doesn't even spare a second lamenting the loss of his freaking arm; he says "Cool" and hops out of bed to go fight the bad guys. Sorry, but [[Angst? What Angst?|losing a freaking limb isn't the slightest bit traumatic?]]
** 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 ''[[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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* {{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 (Animation)|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 theSat Hedgehog (TV)AM|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' cartoon because he accidentally roboticized his arm.
* In the [[Bump in Thethe 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 ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (Animation)|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]'' has one that turns into a Scythe.
 
 
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** 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 summer Olympics, one competitor of the woman's free swim had a prosthetic leg with a "flipper" on it.
** 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 (Video Game)|Splash Woman]]!
* 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]]''.
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