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The science of grafting mechanical/electronic enhancements on organic creatures, oftentimes by replacing limbs with robotic parts, such as an [[Arm Cannon]], for instance, though often it's only called cybernetics if it's a
As [[Hollywood Science]], cybernetics in fiction often involves replacing an entire body except half a face/chest with mechanical parts and can go as advanced as having a [[Brain In a Jar|lone brain reside inside a machine]], while cybernetics in [[Real Life]] presently peaks at ocular implants with low frame-rate and gray-scale vision. If your generic [[Mad Scientist]] has a specialty in robotics, or even dabbles in it, you should expect this trope to come up relatively soon.
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== Anime
* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' and ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' have Dr. Gero's creations, which are all under the blanket term "androids." However, two of the main four (Nos. 17 and 18; #16 is an android, as is, apparently, #8) in Dragonball Z are cyborgs, and it is implied that many of the previous ones were cyborgs as well. It is not revealed exactly how they were modified, only that it was enough for them to forget their previous lives. (#18 is at least human enough to bear a child, as she and Krillin have a daughter in the sequel series.) Eventually, Dr. Gero transplants his brain in a robotic body, becoming a cyborg as well. This is something of a case of [[Lost in Translation]], as the original word would be closer to "[[Artificial Human]]" (thus it includes Cell who is wholly organic).<ref>In the French version of the manga they are called Cyborgs, which makes sense for #17 and #18, but it makes less sense for #16 who is explicitly artificial.</ref>▼
▲* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' and ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' have Dr. Gero's creations, which are all under the blanket term "androids." However, two of the main four (Nos. 17 and 18; #16 is an android, as is, apparently, #8) in Dragonball Z are cyborgs, and it is implied that many of the previous ones were cyborgs as well. It is not revealed exactly how they were modified, only that it was enough for them to forget their previous lives. Eventually, Dr. Gero transplants his brain in a robotic body, becoming a cyborg as well. This is something of a case of [[Lost in Translation]], as the original word would be closer to "[[Artificial Human]]" (thus it includes Cell who is wholly organic).<ref>In the French version of the manga they are called Cyborgs, which makes sense for #17 and #18, but it makes less sense for #16 who is explicitly artificial.</ref>
** Frieza also becomes a cyborg after being defeated by Goku on Namek. Oddly enough, in Hell he isn't allowed to keep his cyborg body while Dr. Gero is.
** Perhaps it was because he was reverted back to how he was before he suffered the massive body mutilation in his fight with Goku. Gero was revived with a new humanoid body after escaping Hell- which was altered from the human flesh once again.
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** It turns out later that [[Market-Based Title|Tiphares/Jeru]] is basically a {{spoiler|one giant farm for [[Wetware CPU]]s utilized in Ketheres/Zalem computers}}, and Tiphares citizens are considered second class at best in the Solar System at large. There's also [[The Empire|Jupiter]] whose population is 100% cyborgs of [[Up to Eleven|even fuller conversion]] than the norm elsewhere. Venus avoids this, though, concentrating on [[Organic Technology]], and most of their citizens choose a genetically engineered [[Gonk|Humpty-Dumpty-like body]].
* The main characters in ''[[Cyborg 009]]'' are all cyborgs.
* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'': All villains -except [[Big Bad]] Dr. Hell- were cyborgs: Baron Ashura, Count Brocken, their [[Mook]]s... All of them -except by Archduke Gorgon- were created by Hell himself. Usually he fabricated his cyborgs by modifying corpses, replacing damaged parts with artificial limbs or organs and implanting cybernetic components in their brains to create obedient, brainwashed slaves (and there was at least one scene in one of the manga versions where Baron Ashura killed many people off, as gloating they would be transformed into cyborgs and turned into his/her slaves. Now you know what happened to all people who died when a Mechanical Beast attacked). It looked like [http://www.mangareader.net/735-34819-156/mazinger-z/chapter-1.html this]. However, in at least one instance he saved the life of the subject -Count Brocken- by turning him into a cyborg. Other cyborg characters were {{spoiler|Kenzo Kabuto}} and in the [[Gosaku Ota]] manga {{spoiler|[[The Hero|Kouji Kabuto]]}} himself was turned into one by the end of the series.
** ''[[Great Mazinger]]'': {{spoiler|Prof. Kenzo Kabuto}} and Archduke Gorgon. And if you keep in mind the [[Robeast|Warrior Monsters]] were bio-mechanical [[Humongous Mecha]] were controlled by the brain of a Mykene soldier grafted into it, then you have to that series' [[Robeast]]s were giant cyborgs.
* [[Naoko Takeuchi]] [[What Could Have Been|once planned]] to make Ami Mizuno of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' a cyborg, to justify her [[Teen Genius|incredible intelligence]]. She was even planned to have [[Pinocchio Syndrome]] and to make a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] since she "wasn't human anyways", but instead the cyborg elements were incorporated into Hotaru instead.
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''
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* Sasori from ''[[Naruto]]'' turned himself into this, using magic puppetry instead of hard robotics. His gran did the same thing, but only to one arm.
* Parodied in ''[[Astro Fighter Sunred]]'' when Florsheim decide to create a horrible cyborg monster to defeat Sunred by... Fusing a moth monster with a piece of lead pipe. Yeah, they replaced his right forearm with the lead pipe. Sunred is unimpressed.
== Comic Books ==
* [[Marvel Comics]], particularly Spider-Man's Alistair Smythe and Dr. Octopus.
** [[Iron Man]] is a cyborg, but not from his titular suit of armor. His heart is kept going with cybernetic parts. Later on in the series he becomes a more traditional cyborg with hollow bones full of nanites and the ability to control technology with his mind. Pepper Potts is also now a cyborg.
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* ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' has several of them, known as Mandroids. Most notable are Judge Guthrie and Nate Slaughterhouse.
== Fan
* This is clearly a maturing technology in [[The Teraverse]], with cyborged animals and humans frequently encountered in the various stories.
== Film ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]'', particularly Anakin (both legs and both arms) and Luke (right hand) Skywalker, Lobot (Lando Calrissian's assistant, direct brain-link to the city mainframe), and General Grievous (entire body except brain, heart and lungs).
** Also a possible aversion as the Jedi at least generally experience a ''decrease'' in power due to cybernetics. Anakin loses the ability to use Force Lightning, as well as a lot of his lightsaber combat effectiveness. Grievous is the exception (playing the trope straight) as his remaking only seems to enhance his capabilities, [[Badass Normal|but he was never Force-sensitive to begin with]]. It could also be one of the reasons that if the player cross-classes Bao-Dur in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'', he becomes the class with the lowest amount of Force abilities and Force Points.
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** Whether or not cybernetics interfere with the Force [[Depending on the Writer|Depends On The Writer]], another possible explanation for it is that the loss in Force power is directly tied to the Body Horror aspect of the cybernetics. A simple hand or limb replacement that you can easily accept? Probably not too bad. Being turned into a metal-shelled, horridly scarred monstrosity? That's got to cause some mental issues, which will definitely interfere with Force use. Or it simply creates physical handicaps that even the Force can't fully overcome.
*** What ''is'' (mostly) consistent though is that Darth Vader can't use Force Lightning because it would fry the electronics in his armor.
* [[RoboCop
* [[Terminator]]s are termed cybernetic organisms, though they can survive without the organic parts. Cameron has said his initial concept had the Terminator would depend on its organic parts, to reflect on how society needs machines. That metaphor didn't make it into the movies. The cyborg terminology is correct in this sense: the flesh is a useful part of the whole stealthed weapon system.
** The organic parts did, though. While the first three films had Terminators that seemingly lacked any organic part aside from the skin, the fourth one had the infiltration Terminator prototype having substantial wetware including a fully organic heart and a mostly-organic brain.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'':
** ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'' Data, an android, has organic parts grafted on, to a [[Nightmare Fuel|rather disturbing effect]].
** The Borg, whose name is shortened from "Cyborg
** Geordi LaForge's VISOR and, later, cybernetic replacement eyes.
** Picard's artificial heart.
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* In ''[[Army of Darkness]],'' Ash builds a fully functional artificial hand out of springs and a metal gauntlet. Why? Because he's Ash.
* Long John Silver is changed from the "one legged man" of ''[[Treasure Island]]'' to a cyborg in ''[[Treasure Planet]]'', with the cybernetic equivalents of an [[Electronic Eyes|eyepatch]], [[Swiss Army Appendage|hook hand]] and [[Artificial Limbs|peg leg]].
* Thanks to being blown apart and a [[Contrived Coincidence]] or two, Jason Voorhees becomes a cyborg in ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13th]]''.
* Alice in ''[[Resident Evil (film)|Resident Evil]]'' appears to be this, post-''[[Resident Evil:
* Literally most of the characters seen on-screen in ''[[Alita: Battle Angel]]'', the 2019 [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[Gunnm]]''.
== Literature ==
* ''Spare Parts'' by Australian Author, Sally Rogers Davison, is about a girl selling her young healthy human body so she can be implanted in a "cyberform".
* There's a rather nice example of a more realistic cyborg in ''Segregationist'', a short story by [[Isaac Asimov]]. It involves a doctor replacing the heart of his patient. He tries to persuade the patient that an organic prosthetic is the way to go, only for the patient to decide that he doesn't trust it and wants to go with a mechanical heart. We discover at the end that the doctor is {{spoiler|actually a robot}}, one of the few who has not chosen to {{spoiler|become more human by surgery}} while the {{spoiler|humans have all been becoming more and more robotic.}} The implication is that eventually, they'll all slowly {{spoiler|morph into one cyborg species.}}
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* In the classic short story "[[Scanners Live in Vain]]" by [[Cordwainer Smith]], humans are unable to cope with the "[[Space Madness|Great Pain of Space]]" and rely on [[Human Popsicle|cold sleep]] ships crewed by ''habermans'' whose brain has been severed from all sensory input except the eyes, and whose body therefore has to be regulated by implanted instruments.
* [[Alastair Reynolds]]' is in love with this trope. The ''Revelation Space'' universe has the Ultranauts, which are the crews of the slower-than-light interstellar freighters, who use extreme cybernetic replacements to counter the effects of age and help with ship maintenance. Revelation Space novella ''Diamond Dogs'' has the main character being slowly, ''voluntarily'' being turned from a human into a cybernetic dog like creature with a skull full of computer bits. Unfortunately the doctor who did this took himself apart so he wouldn't have to undo his 'greatest work'. There's also a cyborg in the [[Steampunk]] area of his novel ''Terminal World'', a man whose lungs were crippled in a war; he's linked up to a furnace which powers a pump that replaces most of his chest.
* Possibly the earliest example of a full-body-replacement cyborg in modern literature is the Tin Woodsman from ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]''—once a perfectly ordinary human being named Nick Chopper, he had progressively more parts of his body replaced with tin prosthetics as they were chopped off by a cursed axe—until essentially all that was left was a mind in a tin shell. Given that it's too primitive to have life support for his actual fleshy brain, one must assume his mind/soul has somehow been moved into the tin body.<ref>The tinsmith kept his old head in a closet, where, due to the no-death nature of Oz, it remained sentient, desiring nothing to do with the Tin Man when he returned to retrieve it.</ref>
** This is precisely what happened according to [[Philip José Farmer]]'s ''[[A Barnstormer in Oz]]'', although the Woodsman didn't wait until most of his body had been replaced first, so as to spare himself the continuing effects of the curse which caused him to accidentally chop off pieces of his own body.
* In ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'', by Austin Grossman, the heroine Fatale agrees to have her legs - and right arm - replaced after an accident. The scientists have to modify most of the rest of her body in order to make those parts work. After the experiment she weighs hundreds of pounds because of all of her cybernetic parts. The corporation that funded her reconstruction promptly vanishes, leaving her to pay for the regiment of antibiotics necessary to prevent infection caused by her new parts.▼
** In a later book - ''The Tin Woodsman of Oz'' - he meets a soldier named Captain Fyter, another victim of the curse who was rebuilt the same way.
▲* In ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'', by Austin Grossman, the heroine Fatale agrees to have her legs - and right arm - replaced after an accident. The scientists have to modify most of the rest of her body in order to make those parts work. After the experiment she weighs hundreds of pounds because of all of her cybernetic parts. The corporation that funded her reconstruction promptly vanishes, leaving her to pay for the
* Non-humanoid example: The Rat Things in ''[[Snow Crash]]'' are basically cyborg dogs.
* ''Cyborg'' by [[Martin Caidin]]. Later made into ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]].''
* [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s Brainships in the ''[[Brainship]]'' series are cybernetics carried about as far as possible, with human brains implanted into and in complete control of entire space ships and space stations. It's implied that the human body is still there, but only as a life-support system for the brain.
* [[Street Samurai|Molly Millions]] in ''[[Neuromancer]]'' has retractable razors beneath her fingernails and can see the time by pressing her tongue against a tooth. Most impressively, though, her eyes sockets have been [[Awesome but Impractical|sealed with mirrors]] and her tear ducts rerouted to her mouth so that, when she cries, she spits.
* The ''[[
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'': Mad-Eye Moody could be a "magical cyborg" given that he replaced a lost eye with a magical one that gives him enhanced abilities. He also has a prosthetic leg, but this isn't described as giving him any extra abilities and is more often than not a hindrance.
* Lila Amanda Black, the protagonist in Justina Robson's ''[[Quantum Gravity]]'' series begins as a fairly standard (if fusion-powered) cyborg of the [[We Can Rebuild Him]] variety. It all eventually gets subverted and the experimental prototype first-of-your-kind thing gets pulled to tiny little bits.
** Subverted hard in the first book, as the cybernetic parts are actually more physically powerful than her body can withstand. Her [[Super Mode]] simply involves turning off the governor units that prevent this and flooding her body with painkillers. The first time this is shown in the book, she manages to ''break her own spine''. {{spoiler|Fortunately for her, she's back at base when this happens, and spends a while in a regeneration tank instead of a body bag.}}
* The ''[[The Cobra Trilogy|Cobra]]'' books by [[Timothy Zahn]] feature as their protagonists members of the elite Cobra guerrilla commandos, who receive surgically-implanted skeletal laminations (to make their bones effectively unbreakable), servomotors (to give them superhuman strength), hidden weapons (two small antipersonnel lasers in their fingers, one anti-armor laser in the calf and foot of one leg, an "arc thrower" that shoots an electric current down the ionized trail of one of the finger lasers to fry electronics, sonic projectors, and an emergency
** That said, there are major side effects, including early-onset arthritis.
* Max Barry's ''Machine Man'' has Dr. Charles Neumann spend time as an exceptionally powerful one
* ''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'': the Fourth Imperium used "biotechnic" enhancement to give
* ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]'':
** The advanced technology of Academy City allows many injured characters to regain function through cybernetics. After brain damage that leaves him unable to walk, talk or use his power, Accelerator receives an electronic choker that lets him borrow the brainpower of others. Shizuri receives a cybernetic arm and leg after losing the originals in a fight.
** Salome is an unusual example - not being from Academy City, she made her cybernetics out of everyday objects. Most of her body is cybernetic except for her brain, giving her superhuman strength, speed and durability. However, it's noted that her haphazard construction makes her vulnerable to contaminants such as dust.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The Cybermen in ''[[Doctor Who]]''. The extent to which they're cybernetic varies from story to story; in earlier stories, the Cybermen's biological hands are visible, while in the revived series they're simply human brains transplanted into robot bodies.
** Similarly we have the Daleks, who are usually assumed at first glance to be robots of some kind, but in actuality the Dalek itself is a small, squidlike creature piloting the famous mechanical exterior. It's not quite clear how integrated Daleks are into their "suits", so whether they're true cyborgs or simply machine operators is up for debate.
** Footage and descriptions by other characters imply that the Daleks are most likely somewhere between Mechas and cyborgs. The creature proper could exist outside the mechanical shell, but is very small and weak and must be augmented by the mechanical components. In their introduction, Ian Chesterton was able to "drive" a Dalek shell after discarding the creature. The expanded universe indicates that the Dalek creatures are so biologically degenerate that they have no functional digestive system, no vocal cords and even have difficulty breathing on their own; being implanted in their casings is vital for them to survive for any great length of time, and their nervous and circulatory systems are tied directly into the casing's systems. The Dalek voice is harsh and grating because it is entirely artificial.
*** The "New Paradigm" Daleks introduced in
** Davros. Right from his first appearance it's apparent that his chair is also a life support system and he will die within minutes without it. Since the chair can move without Davros needing to use a joystick or other controls it's safe to say it's tied into his nervous system in some way, and of course Davros also has an artificial eye embedded in his forehead. By "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End", his one functioning hand had been replaced with a mechanical one capable of shooting electricity from its fingertips.
* ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]'' and his [[Distaff Counterpart]] ''[[The Bionic Woman]]''.
* Adam in Season 4 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' takes this to the next level - he is part human, part machine, and part ''demon''.
* Most if not all Cylons in
* Mr. Sellars in [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Otherland]]'' novels is a moderate version; he implanted computer hardware into his own body in order to allow him to connect to the [[Metaverse|Net]] without his captors noticing; by the time of the main story he's practically half computer. Treated fairly realistically in that it doesn't make him any stronger; quite the opposite, in fact.
* ''[[Kamen Rider]].'' It's been a while since this was anything like standard, but the old-school Riders were either (a) kidnapped by bad guys and put through [[Unwilling Roboticisation]] to serve them, escaped brainwashing, and kicked [[Monster of the Week]] butt (literally. [[Finishing Move|RIDER]] [[Calling Your Attacks|KIIIIIICK]]!) or (b) were upgraded by good guys to fight the rising evil organization, usually after losing a friend or family member (or several!) to the bad guys. If ''[[Kamen Rider G]]'' doesn't count, the last such Rider was Kotaro Minami of ''[[Kamen Rider Black]]'' and ''[[Kamen Rider Black RX]],'' in 1988-89.
== Manhwa ==
* Namu of ''[[Dorothy of Oz (manhwa)|Dorothy of Oz]]'' initially believes he is an android (a robot that merely looks human), but it turns out he's actually a cyborg and thus half human. This turns out to be the reason behind his unwillingness to let anyone get killed while he's in the vicinity, which is, of course, a good thing for everyone involved.
== Music ==
* [[Jonathan Coulton]]:
** ''The Future Soon'' is a song about a jilted schoolkid who daydreams of becoming, among other things, a cyberneticist and then "engineering away" things about him that make him "weak and strange".
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== Tabletop Games ==
* [[Cyberpunk]] [[Tabletop Games|gaming]] is also rife with heavily cybered characters, such as the Street Samurai from ''[[Shadowrun]]'' and the Solos from ''Cyberpunk 2020''.
** ''Cyberspace'' (Iron Crown Enterprises), ''Cyberhero'' ([[Hero System]]), ''[[GURPS]] Cyberpunk'', ''Cyborg Commando'' (New Infinities Productions), ''Amazing Engine: Kromosome'' (TSR)...
* ''[[Rifts]]'' splits them into several classifications: Cybernetics are basically mechanical prosthetics (which come in fully mechanial or organic Bio-Systems), while Bionics actually augment the user to combat-capable levels, and include weapons. Cyborgs come in three levels: Minor cybernetic/bionic enhancements, Partial Conversion (all limbs and some torso reinforcement) and Full Conversion (Entire body except for the brain and spinal column).
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''. Extensively modified cyborgs, especially Necrons and servitors, seem to be a substitute for undead in 40K. Though one can be mixed with the other - some hereteks have devices raising nearby bodies as zombies (known, but proscribed) as implants.
** Cybernetic prosthetics and improvements are widely available in the Imperium, except low-tech worlds. Even a lowly adept may turn out to have data-port on the neck and scribe-tines instead of a hand, a run-of-the-mill pilot may control the shuttle via standard vehicle interface, and so on. Every series of ''WH40k'' RPG from ''[[Dark Heresy]]'' on introduced more possible implants.
** Servitors - sometimes criminals and heretics who have their personality and higher reasoning wiped and turned into cybernetic slaves, and often bodies vat-grown for this specific purpose, without any higher brain functions that would just be removed as soon as they're done growing. The applications range from servo skulls (which already cover most single functions that can be done in a small weak package, be it a flying lamp, semi-autonomous first aid station or light gun drone) to gladiator-warriors and walking heavy weapon platforms. After the [[Robot War]] ended Humanity's golden age tens of thousands years in the past, there's taboo on A.I. (which stands for "Abominable Intelligence") - the Imperium, including Mechanicum, considers full AI heresy of the highest order, and requires all robotic lackeys of sophistication beyond that of an automatic
*** [[Space Marine|Space marines]] also have some servitors, but common criminals are unworthy of serving them - they prefer space marines who sinned or trainees whose minds have broken.
** [[Super Soldier|Space Marines]] are cyborgs themselves, although not full-conversion. The Black Carapace implant that is an inalienable part of any fully qualified battle brother is a neural interface to his [[Powered Armor]], making them in effect a single organism. They also have a lot of other nifty implants, though they are generally [[Organic Technology|organic]] (created by the Emperor himself from modified samples of his own clones).
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** Eldar wraith technology is somewhat similar to the Necron example in that once-living souls are [[Soul Jar|stored]] and grafted into completely artificial bodies.
** Orks make extensive use of cybernetics. Due to their extremely tough physiology they can survive having extremely crude cybernetics added (and in one instance, replacing a large portion brain).
** The Rak'Gol are typically augmented, often extensively so, and their Techno-Shamans have implanted devices making them sort of Psykers. Those are artifacts of Yu'Vath, who were the
* The denizens of Phyrexia in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''. Upon birth, they are immediately gutted with most of their body parts replaced with mechanical ones. Even the robots they build themselves are borderline cybernetic. Someone dissecting one of their artifact creatures pointed out: "its as though someone started out with a living thing, and then replaced bits piecemeal until there was nothing of the original left."
** Similarly, the denizens of the Esper shard of the Alara plane use a [[Unobtainium|metallic substance with numerous useful properties called etherium]] in making themselves human/mechanical hybrids.
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* ''[[Deadlands|Dead Lands: Hell On Earth]]'' subverts, inverts, reverts, and blipverts the trope. Basically, in the universe it's impossible to make enough room in a human body to insert any relevant cybernetics. There is plenty of room in an undead body, though, with the added bonus that, with a bit of demonically influenced [[Mad Science]], you can run the machine parts on the spiritual energies used to create the undead.
* ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'' from the [[Old World of Darkness]] included Iteration X, "mages" who could do impossible things with cybernetics and robotics. Besides generally being cyborgs themselves, they frequently made use of [[Terminator|HIT Marks]] against their enemies. Occasionally other science-focused mages, even in the Traditions, also created cyborgs. The degree to which [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|Cybernetics Ate Your Soul]] varied with the amount of replacement and the manner in which your storyteller enforced the Resonance and Paradox rules. As a nice nod to reality, people with any kind of cybernetic enhancements have to get a [[Required Secondary Powers|full-body reinforcement]].
* In ''[[Paranoia]]'', humans in the robot-loving Corpore Metal secret society often get cybernetic replacements. [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] by Corporganic, whose robotic members sometimes get organic replacements ("orgcybing").
* ''[[Exalted]]'' has these in the Alchemicals sourcebook. Any Alchemical with an Obvious charm qualifies, as well as many that don't.
* [[New Horizon]] has the Prometheans.
** Oddly, the cybernetic enhancements are stated to be tailor-made to an individual's biochemistry, preventing both interchangeable prosthetics and cybernetic enhancement to the genetically altered Medeans. [[Technology Marches On|Hmm.]]
* The ''[[d20 Modern]]'' supplement ''d20 Future'' has some coverage of this topic and ''Cyberscape'' expands on it.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''; the Xixchil are a race of mantis-people related to the thri-kreen whose "hat" is body-modifying surgery. As a result, many Xixchil and many of their patients have mechanical limbs and/or organs. Often more than necessary, as they ''really'' love their jobs...
== Video Games ==
* The Master Chief and the rest of the SPARTAN-II [[Super Soldier]]s in the ''[[Halo]]'' universe have a neural interface implanted in their brains to allow them to properly control their [[Powered Armor]], as well as reinforced skeletons. The rank-and-file members of the human military also receive neural implants, but they're not as advanced as the SPARTAN's.
** Kat, from ''Halo: Reach'', has a mechanical right arm.
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*** Jensen also has the ability to unlock new features in his existing augmentations (justified as a process of naturalization: the longer he spends with his augmentations, the more he gets used to them, and the more his brain can naturally reach the many features to "turn them on"). These include the ability to run silently, jump higher, see through walls, ''fall from any height without injury'', and '''launch explosive ball-bearing sized munitions from his arms in a 360 degree arc'''.
*** Jensen's sleeker cyborg appearance is justified as being due to Sarif Industries investing a ''lot'' in augmenting him during the operation {{spoiler|at the behest of David Sarif himself, which is further helped by his genetic makeup being the holy grail for making augmentation available for everyone}}. The aug parts used by many cyborgs in the game are shown generally looking roughly on par with Anna and Gunther, if not much more bulky as is the case of Tai Yong Medical's cheap versions.
* In ''[[Quake 4
* The main character of ''[[Bionic Commando]]'' is an early example of this.
** The [http://www.giantbomb.com/bionic-commando/61-7860/all-images/52-177007/bionic_commando/51-209413/ box cover art] suggests otherwise.
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* Many of the monsters in ''[[Parasite Eve]] 2'' have some sort of cybernetic implant on their bodies. Most are implied to be some sort of life support. There are also the Golems, [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|twelve-foot tall ape-man cyborgs]] armed with everything from grenade launchers to flaming machetes. No.9 in particular makes [[Star Wars|Vader-esque]] ventilator noises when he breathes.
* [[X Com]]: the Floater in both versions of the game falls in into this catagory-his core organs have been removed and replaced with a cybernetic life support system including a flight unit (in either antigravity or jetpack flavors, depending on version). The Lobsterman in Terror From The Deep either qualifies or is a combat android with some [[Organic Technology|organic]] [[Wetware CPU|components]].
== Web Comics ==
* Daisy Archanis from ''[[Last Res0rt]]'' has a potent [[Artificial Limbs|prosthetic leg]]... that's detachable (presumably for upgrades). It helps her about as often as it hurts her.
* Shows up as part of a [[Star Trek|Borg]] parody in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. Riff and Torg actually become cyborgs for a couple strips, but have all their cybernetic implants taken away when they [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth|get kicked out of the Collective]].
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* After Tavros from ''[[Homestuck]]'' was confined to a wheelchair due to [[Killer Game Master]] Vriska, Kanaya [[Chainsaw Good|sawed off his legs while he was sleeping]] so Equius could fit him with newly-built robot legs instead.
** Vriska gets a robotic arm (also made by Equius) after her original one gets blown off. Aradia may be an additional case, as she spents a good part of the plot as a ghost-sprite inhabiting a realistic robot (again, made by Equius).
* In ''[[Impure Blood]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130608195127/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter001/ib004.html one of Roan's opponents] in the [[Gladiator Games]].
* Several characters in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''. Or most named characters, if you count subtle augmentations such as "blood-[[Nanobots|nannies]]" and "[[Super Soldier|Soldier Boost]]" implants. Generally, every tissue can be reconstructed, so there are few augmentations except the above, several interfaces and [[Implanted Armor]], and fewer prosthetics.
** Said interfaces include implanted voice communication (actually ''acoustic'' and as such detectable - easily installed if the patient doesn't mind holding still and suffering a headache, but now becoming obsolete), decryption device and transmitter on the optical nerve, and lately also RED/REO (backs up the brain into storage elsewhere in the body and possibly [[Brain Uploading|off-site]], to recover in case of damage) and its extensions, such as REDphone.
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== Web Original ==
* The Kung from ''[[Pay Me, Bug!]]'' are "known for three things: their skill at robotics, their enthusiastic embrace of slavery as a commercial venture, and their tendency to replace parts of their body with machinery."
* Several of the heroes and villains in the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' qualify in one way or another. Robotman is a [[Brain In a Jar]], while La Constructeuse gets her powers from various mechanical and electronic implants.▼
* Present in ''[[Orion's Arm]]'', and very diverse, ranging all over the scale of biology-vs-technology.▼
* There are plenty of them in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''. At the Whateley Academy there's [[Mary Sue|She-Bot]]. One of the Powers Lab teachers has a couple robotic limbs, probably from when he used to be a superhero (although that's just guessed by one of the protagonists). And the dreaded supervillain Deathlist is all robot except for his brain and his face.▼
* Cybernetics is a growing industry in ''[[Nexus Gate]]''.▼
* ''[[Quirky Misadventures of Soldine the Cyborg]]''▼
** The titular protagonist.▼
** His [[Evil Knockoff]], [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Robosol]].▼
* Most members of the Church of the Broken God, from the ''[[SCP Foundation]]'', and they show a lot of variety in cybernetics, including [[Clock Punk]] themes, [[Steampunk]], and far more modern. They believe their god sundered himself to imprison the evil god Yaldaboath (now the god worshipped by their enemies, the [[Blood Magic]]-using the Sarkites, and are trying to find and reassemble his parts. Should they succeed, they believe he will transform humanity into a race of living machines, which they believe is perfection.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Gargoyles]]'' has two recurring villains, Jackal and Hyena, become cyborgs in order to gain new, more deadly abilities. Coldstone is a cyborg as well: a character for whom robotic parts (and magic) were used to join three fragmented Gargoyle corpses (and minds).
* The Irkens in ''[[Invader Zim]]'' takes this one step further; they are implanted with back-mounted devices known as 'paks' immediately following decanting. The pak contains the actual mind of the Irken; their body is essentially only meat used by the pak to interact with its surroundings (a good analogy would be to compare the pak with the hard drive of a computer; the irken's brain is the processor). We also have the more classical mechanical-limbs-and-eye Sergeant Hobo in the Hobo 13 episode, and the Irken Tak, who also sports a cable implanted in her head (which may be the source of her [[Mind Control|neural suggestion power]].
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* [[Big Bad|Doc Terror]] and Hacker from ''[[Centurions]]'', as well as some of their [[Evil Minions]].
* Technically, all of the lead characters in ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'', as they have an experimental cybernetic implant that acts as an [[Amplifier Artifact]]. Team [[Leader]] Zachary Foxx is a more extreme case, having undergone an [[Emergency Transformation]] after being gunned down in the pilot episode. Over half his body is replaced by cyberware, including having an [[Arm Cannon]] installed.
* The Platyborg from ''[[Phineas and Ferb]] [[Phineas And Ferb The Movie Across The Second
* In ''[[Rick and Morty]]'', this is sometimes the case with Rick. And the "sometimes" part id ''not'' a case of [[Depending on the Writer]]. His current body is not the original one, and he has often avoided death by using technology to clone himself or steal the body of an alternate Rick. Thus, in " "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy" he clearly has a few cybernetic enhancements, and this would explain his unnatural strength in "The Rickshank Redemption", but in "The ABCs of Beth", he seems fully human again.
** In Season 5 he clearly has more cybernetic enhancements; in the season finale, he even claims "I'm basically [[Inspector Gadget]]."
* Professor Honeycutt (aka the Fugitoid) from most versions of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' is a brilliant scientist who, via some accident, had his mind transferred to the body of his robot assistant.
▲* Several of the heroes and villains in the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' qualify in one way or another. Robotman is a [[Brain In a Jar]], while La Constructeuse gets her powers from various mechanical and electronic implants.
* [https://knd.fandom.com/wiki/Bradley Bradley the Skunk] in ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]''; in his second appearance ("Operation: H.O.S.P.I.T.A.L.") he was run over by a car, and then healed via cybernetic implants, turning him into R.O.B.O.B.R.A.D.L.E.Y.! [[Fun with Acronyms|(Robotic Operative's Ballistic Odor Blasting Rocket Armed Derriere Launches Extreme Yuckiness.)]]
▲* Present in ''[[Orion's Arm]]'', and very diverse, ranging all over the scale of biology-vs-technology.
▲* There are plenty of them in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''. At the Whateley Academy there's [[Mary Sue|She-Bot]]. One of the Powers Lab teachers has a couple robotic limbs, probably from when he used to be a superhero (although that's just guessed by one of the protagonists). And the dreaded supervillain Deathlist is all robot except for his brain and his face.
▲* The protagonist of [[Robo Girl]].
▲* Cybernetics is a growing industry in [[Nexus Gate]].
▲* ''[[Quirky Misadventures of Soldine the Cyborg]]''
▲** The titular protagonist.
▲** His [[Evil Knockoff]], [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Robosol]].
== Real Life ==
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** Glasses/Corrective lenses and contacts lenses
* [[wikipedia:Hybrot|The Hybrot]]: one thousand rat neurons on a circuitboard remotely controlling a small robot. Now that's good biology. ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' here we come.
* [[Stephen Hawking]] and Kevin Warwick. The former
* Meet Rob Spence, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnjAnvIjCUk&feature=player_embedded The Eyeborg]. after an accident with a shotgun that resulted in his right eye being completely destroyed, he had said eye replaced with a camera that can actually track his vision and transmit video to a handheld receiver. He was actually hired by Square Enix to host [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW78wbN-WuU&feature=player_embedded a promotional documentary] for ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution]]'', showcasing several real-life people with advanced prosthetics, as well as talking about their future development.
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