Transhuman: Difference between revisions

* [[Superhero]]: For those that gain their powers. [[Badass Normal|If they have them]].

* [[Super Human Trafficking]]: Abuse of transhumans via slavery, organ trafficking, and other means.

* [[Super Soldier]]: This one usually relies on the physical aspect of transhumanism for war.

* [[The Singularity]]: A hypothetical scenario where we become transhumans due to acceleration of progress.

* [[The Incredible Hulk|Hulk]] villain the Leader seems preoccupied with creating more Gamma-powered mutates like himself.

* The short-lived [[DC Comics]] series ''The New Guardians'' (unrelated to the current ''[[Green Lantern]]'' spinoff) involved a [[Xanatos Roulette]] by the [[Green Lantern|Guardians of the Universe]] to turn humanity into a race of transhumans. Unfortunately, the series' execution was... somewhat lacking, and it's been forgotten, with reason. The method for spreading super-genes through the population was to, well, [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex|have sex with as many people as possible;]] by picking people up in singles bars; despite one member of the team being an apparently sterile cyborg and another being gay. Oh, and they were all wince-inducing [[Ethnic Scrappy|Ethnic Scrappies,]] to boot.

* The [[Marvel Comics|Inhumans, Eternals, and Deviants]] are humans genetically modified by aliens.

* Almost everyone in ''[[Duumvirate]]'' is either born transhuman, becomes transhuman, or desperately wants to be transhuman. When your regeneratively immortal friends can play [[Bullet Hell]] games at maximum difficulty without breaking a sweat, and [[Dodge the Bullet|dodge actual bullets]] for that matter, you tend to get a deep appreciation for genetic superiority.

* In Nietzsche's [[Thus Spake Zarathustra]], Zarathustra preaches that mankind's future lies into the [[Ubermensch]]. A form of spiritual/mental transcendence into godhood.

* ''[[Neuromancer]]''

* ''[[Schismatrix]]''

* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' has mechanicum [[Cyborg|Cyborgs]], [[Bio Augmentation|augmented]] [[Super Soldier]] [[Space Marines]], as well as their [[Psychic Powers|psychic]], [[The Corruption|Chaotically]] powered, and [[Cyborg]] versions, [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|genetically engineered]] [[Super Soldier]] [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orks]] who also come with crude cyborknetic and psychic versions, and [[The Undead|undead]] full-body [[Cyborg]] conversions that come in [[Our Elves Are Better|Eldar]] and [[Terminator]] rip-off versions. There are undoubtedly countless more examples, [[Everything Trying to Kill You|all of them trying to kill you]].

* ''[[Eclipse Phase]]'', due to ubiquitous [[Brain Uploading]] technology most people jump from one genetically enhanced or synthetic "morph" to another [[Body Surf|fairly regularly]].

* The ''[[Exalted]]'' were basically [[Puny Earthlings]] (who can at best be [[Badass Normal|Badass Normals]] with [[Charles Atlas Superpower]], with the rare case of slight [[Enlightenment Superpower]]) that [[Title Drop|Exalted]], thus becoming enhanced to the point of surpassing the [[Physical God|gods]] in ability. However, going too far into transhuman paradigms generally leads to [[The Dark Side]] in some form or another.

** Several Exalted types are quite literally transhuman. The Alchemicals start as cyborgs with human souls, and eventually turn into giant robots and even living cities as their permanent Essence rating increases. The Infernals have the ability to become like their [[Our Titans Are Different|Yozi]] patrons, the many-souled, world-like beings that first made the world. You've even got cases among the other Exalted, like the First Age Solar Queen Ktula, who experimented with her body so much that a bunch of her Charms shut down because her Exaltation no longer recognized her as human.

** To clarify, any human who volunteers to join the Overwatch is brainwashed, gutted, dismembered, and rebuilt as a cyborg. [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|The augmentations make them entirely dependent on the Combine.]]

* ''[[Bioshock]]''

* ''[[Eve Online]]'', just watch the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jfFKSIqkvM intro movie].

* Alice Margatroid from [[Touhou]] used to be human, but transformed into a magician as a species.

* The Spartans in ''Halo'', although in the games it's portrayed more as soldiers wearing power armor. The EU goes a great deal further into explaining that they biologically and cybernetically enhanced the bejeezus out of them before putting them into their really fancy armored suits.

* Albert Wesker in the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' games and ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]''.

* In ''[[Crysis]]'', this is the ultimate goal of Jacob Hargreave. He has been working for {{spoiler|[[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|more than a century]]}} to prepare mankind for war with the [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|Ceph]], using [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum|their own stolen technology]] to enhance human technology, and it culminates in the Nanosuits, which are hyper-advanced [[Powered Armor]] designed to turn their wearers into "post-human warriors." They go so far as to {{spoiler|literally replace entire organs, co-opt brain functions, and generally turn their wearers into full-on nanotech cyborg supersoldiers}}, and are capable of {{spoiler|sustaining a person even after death}}, and on top of that, they contain internal machinery and advanced computers that can sample, analyze, and adapt to Ceph environmental weapons.