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== Tabletop Games ==
* [[A Mech by Any Other Name|Dreadnoughts]] in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' is much the same - veteran [[Space Marine]]s who have been mortally injured in battle, now kept in their heavily-armored chassis. Fortunately, since the darkness of the far future has only war, there's never a shortage of... materials. Also, since they are fanatic [[Warrior Monk|warrior monks]], they have (slightly) less mental problems than most other people.
** Dreadnaughts are less 'we can rebuild him', more 'we don't wanna lose him, so we'll keep what's left of him alive and have him pilot a mech'. Augmetics, on the other hand, play this one totally straight. Pretty much all the species of 40K have various versions of this trope - there are even entire [[Space Marine]] chapters who do this prophylactically. Except the Tyranids
*** For the Necrons
** Worthy of mention are the Iron Hands chapter of Space Marines. Their particular [[Planet of Hats|hat]] is a belief that the machine is strong, the flesh is weak. Ergo, Iron Hands Space Marines actually ''look forward'' to serious injuries that necessitate the rebuilding of limbs and the replacement of organs with bionic perfection. Notably, their Techmarines and Chaplains are one and the same, "Iron Fathers", while those interred within Dreadnoughts are revered even more highly that those of other Chapters.
** ''[[Dark Heresy]]'' has "Cybernetic Resurrection" Elite Advancement Package. It happens if a character by all rights should be dead, but was deemed useful for the Imperium enough to be worth efforts and expenses on restoration to full functionality. Naturally, the character now owes a big one to the Cult Mechanicus. The lesser version is "Cyber-Rebuild", which is just reanimation and bionic replacements of everything that was destroyed - it's not good for sanity, but otherwise no different from having the same implants added one by one without hurry in a hospital. "Full Resurrection", however, is a whole new cyborg body (usually with meaty parts taken from a [[Human Resources|servitor]] or vat-grown) that has some characteristics generated from scratch; it's rare because few Magos are that skilled in the first place, they won't do this simply for money, and those who survive the process at all tend to end up noticeably less mentally stable.
* Most sci-fi games feature [[Transhuman]] cybertech of some stripe, but there's usually some limiting factor as to the degree to which one can be rebuilt. However, ''[[Shadowrun]]'' goes whole hog with cyberzombies. Apparently, Aztechnology ''can'' completely rebuild a person... but he'll live a miserable shell of an existence and likely be dead within a year.
* Many fantasy games (particularly D&D) have necromancy provide the same effect, with villains and heroes coming back faster, stronger and deader, only the answer to the humanity question is a rather obvious No.
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* In one one-page comic from ''[[Freefall]]'', Helix is kidnapped, and his kidnappers mail Sam and Florence Helix's body parts, [[What an Idiot!|forgetting that Helix, being a robot, can be reassembled.]] Even ''Sam'' says that these guys aren't criminal masterminds.
* During Hob, happens offscreen to [[Dresden Codak|Kimiko]], {{spoiler|then she gets ripped apart, and rebuilt ''again''}}. She's had her [[Artificial Limbs]] ever since, despite the comic's ambiguous continuity.
* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'' one formerly walking AI backup reminds Agatha that since it's a machine, it cannot "die" - move the mind to its original chassis, then repair the mechanical body at leisure, transfer ''its'' original mind from where it is stored, and everything will be in order.
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