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** It could be argued that Martin Caidin's version of Steve Austin from the novels falls into this trope.
* [[Cyborg]]
* [[Dead Guy on Display]]: This happened behind the scenes. When a "hanged man" prop at a funhouse was being moved for filming, its arm came off -- revealing that this was an ''actual corpse'' -- specifically, that of the late outlaw [[wikipedia:Elmer McCurdy|Elmer McCurdy]]. The owners of the funhouse had no idea that their prop had been anything but.
* [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]]: Austin makes a few clumsy mistakes in the early episodes, such as hitting a golf ball too far in "Wine, Women and War" and throwing a heavy door open too fast in "The Rescue of Athena One".
* [[Flowers for Algernon Syndrome]]: Steve Austin never lost his bionic capabilities, but the "bionic boy" who appeared in one of the early episodes<ref>no relation to Steve Austin's long lost son in one of the later TV movies, who also got bionic parts</ref> lost his bionic legs again by the end of the episode.
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*** Also, we should note that the technology ''didn't always work right''. In the case of Steve Austin, it worked spectacularly, his body adapted superbly, ''and so did his mind''. He was able to control his power and his temper, he continued to think of himself as a 'normal man' for most purposes, etc. He was the exception. Jaime Sommers was able to handle the power all right, but her body kept trying to reject the bionics and this brought her close to death on several occasions. The previous bionic man had not been able to handle the temptations of power, and some of the other instances of bionic implementation also went wrong in various ways. Steve Austin was both lucky and an exceptional man before he was made bionic.
* [[Required Secondary Powers]]: As noted above, the non-bionic parts of his body would have trouble handling the forces created by his bionic limbs. He's also subject to the [[Super Strength]] issues of this trope.
** [[Retcon]]ned in one of the "reunion" TV movies with a throwaway line about reinforcing a new bionic man's skeleton against the stress "like we did for you".
* [[Spin-Off]]
* [[Stock Footage]]:
* [[Stock Sound Effects]]: The Venus probe sounds suspiciously like your Kenmore washing machine....
* [[Superhero]]
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* [[Theme Tune]]: recognizable even today, as well as its SFX sounds.
* [[There Is Another]]: For the first season, Steve Austin thought he was the only Bionic man ever made. Then he came across OSI's little skeleton in the closet, Barney Miller/Hiller, whom it turned out had been given Bionic limbs before Steve.
* [[We Can Rebuild Him]]:
* [[Wrote the Book]]: In "The Return of Bigfoot":
{{quote|'''Steve''': I don't know. It's... it's like there's something there. I can almost remember, but not quite... it's frustrating.
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