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== Video Games == |
== Video Games == |
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* Both ''[[Fallout 2]]'' and ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' offer this as an inplant. In ''Fallout 2'' the player must complete a sidequest to find the details for the procedure, find a suit of combat armor (which is a bit harder than it sounds as the game has many variants of the armor and only the most basic of of them works) and, if two layers are added, the surgical scars will permanently lower the player's charisma. In ''New Vegas'' the implant can simply be purchased with no negatives aside from taking an implant slot. |
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== Web Animation == |
== Web Animation == |
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The protection that will always be with you. Truly last-chance armor.
May be an obvious carapace, may be subdermal - of course, in the latter case, rather than being prevented, an injury only becomes superficial, and the beneficiary presumably still feels it. Usually it can't be too solid, so as not to restrict the movement too much, but it's better than nothing. Likely to be differentiated (as all practical armor for as long as there is armor) - sometimes limited to vital organs only.
Examples of Implanted Armor include:
Advertising
Anime and Manga
Comic Books
Fan Works
Film
Literature
Live-Action Television
Music
Myths and Legends
- Mahabharata, of all books. Karna has magical armor as a gift from his real father (the Sun god). As such, when he finally chose to remove it, he had to cut it out.
Newspaper Comics
Oral Tradition
Pinball
Podcasts
Professional Wrestling
Puppet Shows
Radio
Tabletop Games
- Warhammer 40,000: some cyborgized humans have this; warriors of Mechanicus have integrated carapaces; Orks sometimes bolt armor plating to their bodies (they are tough like this).
- Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay has both Cranial and Subskin Armour as separate implants. Also, thorough augmentation represented by Machine(X) trait adds Armour Points. Cybernetic constructs have a significant amount of the latter, and often also integral armoured plating on top. Also, the Rak'Gol (at least, those encountered by humans) commonly have implanted plates.
- Among the many cybermods available in Shadowrun are Dermal Plating, Dermal Sheathing, Orthoskin, and other varieties of implanted armor.
Theater
Video Games
- Both Fallout 2 and Fallout: New Vegas offer this as an inplant. In Fallout 2 the player must complete a sidequest to find the details for the procedure, find a suit of combat armor (which is a bit harder than it sounds as the game has many variants of the armor and only the most basic of of them works) and, if two layers are added, the surgical scars will permanently lower the player's charisma. In New Vegas the implant can simply be purchased with no negatives aside from taking an implant slot.
Web Animation
Web Comics
- Schlock Mercenary has it as uncommon, but less than exotic augmentation, used in military (obviously) and some professional sports. Usually limited to the brain-case, since medical nanomachines can reconstruct the rest of one's body later. Presumably, various "soldier boosts" include a lesser version of this, since other bones are significantly reinforced; Laz-R-Us boosts include "runt Super Soldier" mode, which includes visible armor plating of the body. Of the named characters, John Der Trihs was reduced to head in a jar many times, but survived - thanks to the whole skull being replaced with armor. Among the non-humans, Ezraene Venombrook (she introduces herself as "Daggermother, Urtheep Industries Hot Mess Response Team", so it's professional too) has heavily reinforced skull.