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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Franky, [[spoiler:He's a cola powered cyborg, having rebuilt his limbs and much of his body from the wrecks of his old battlships aka Battle Frankys]].

* In ''Anime/{{Basquash}}!'', Iceman Hotty has some made by Thousant after getting his left arm and leg cut off by Price.

A number of heroes and villains in video games, anime and science fiction either start off with or receive an artificial limb over the course of the story, usually to offset the [[ScarsAreForever poignant loss of an appendage]]. This can either be due to [[AnArmAndAleg an injury]], or in rare cases [[LifeOrLimbDecision intentional mutilation]]. Said prosthetics [[HollywoodCyborg will almost always function perfectly]], as if the character had [[ResetButton never lost the limb to begin with]], save for [[FakeArmDisarm malfunctions]] that relate to the story.

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* Gobber from Film/HowToTrainYourDragon has an artificial arm and leg, the arm which he exchanges for a hammer, axe, tankard for his booze, etc. Toothless has an artificial half tail fin and [[spoiler:Hiccup gets an artificial leg after fighting Green Death.]]
* Silver from ''TreasurePlanet'', who has an artifical leg and arm ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and]] [[ElectronicEyes eye]]). Although his leg seems to give him problems at times [[spoiler:(especially after Jim stabs it)]], his arm has [[SwissArmyAppendage a lot of things in it]], including a cutlass, a gun, several different tools for cooking, and part of an ArmCannon (with the other part being stored in his leg).

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** Aimee Nixon is only one of many secondary characters in ''[[Comicbook/TwoThousandAD 2000 AD]]'' and its spinoffs to qualify, in her case a bionic arm.
* What's that? The Silver Age Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} isn't "grim and gritty" enough for [[TheDarkAgeofComicBooks the 1990s]]? I know, let's have piranhas chew his left hand off! Keen! We can give him a [[SwissArmyAppendage cool retractable hook]], and he can grow a beard while he's at it. (Whether Aquaman growing a beard was, in fact, Aquaman GrowingTheBeard is a question this editor leaves as an exercise for the reader.)
** Alternatively, in the {{DCAU}} WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague, [[spoiler: he gets to [[CrowningMomentofAwesome cut off his own hand]] as the only way to reach his son and save his life.]] And with a beard, too!

* Kat in ''[[VideoGame/{{Halo}} Halo: Reach]]'' has a mechanical right arm. Which is a bit odd in that there seems to be no other reason to put it into a much thinner and more skeletal casing than the other arm of the body armor, but to make it obviously visible.

* Jack of ''MadWorld'' has a mechanical arm. [[RuleOfCool With a built-in]] [[ChainsawGood chainsaw.]]

* In ''Franchise/{{Bionicle}}'', [[KnifeNut Lariska]] has one completely mechanical arm (as opposed to being biomechanical, like everything else), as her original arm was removed as a punishment by [[TheAdjectiveOne the Shadowed One]].

* Space Siege : you play security officer ''Seth Reynolds'' you have the option during the game to upgrade yourself with cybernetic upgrades. This also enables the option to use heavier weapons. [[spoiler:In the end you have the option to go with the ship AI ‘’Pilot’’ and turn all into cyborgs or to kill the AI]]

** In the ''SoulCalibur IV'' Character Creation, it's seen that his left arm, face and both legs are also prosthetic, making him a possible ManInTheMachine.

* Dr. Eli Vance in ''Videogame/{{Half-Life2}}'' has an artificial right leg, although it is crude and amounts to a curved, springy metal strip. His original leg was eaten by an alien animal.

** As of VideoGame/MortalKombat (2011) [[spoiler:Jax's arms are brutally removed by Ermac and replaced with cybernetic implants, making them 100% artificial arms]]

* In ''MetroidPrime 3'', the cyborg Ghor only has 6% of his original body left, having replaced most of it with mechanical appendages.

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* In ''{{Bionicle}}'', [[KnifeNut Lariska]] has one completely mechanical arm (as opposed to being biomechanical, like everything else), as her original arm was removed as a punishment by [[TheAdjectiveOne the Shadowed One]].
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* In the original ''[[Comicbook/TeenTitans New Teen Titans]]'', much like a traditional cyborg, only a portion of Cyborg's body was composed of military cybernetic limbs given to him by his father. In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' cartoon however, as a result of the series' humorous MadeOfIron characteristics, it would appear that his thought process is the only thing human about him. [[BigEater Well, that and his appetite]].

* Modo from ''BikerMiceFromMars'' has a cybernetic arm to replace the one he lost on Mars to the Plutarkians.

* Angry Archer in ''TransformersAnimated'' has a robotic arm, although it might just be a gauntlet rather than a replacement limb.
* In ''TheSpectacularSpiderMan,'' Curt Connors has an impressive robotic prosthetic arm, while Doctor Octopus is [[HollywoodCyborg fused]] [[UnusualUserInterface at the spinal cord]] to a harness with [[MultiArmedAndDangerous four]] [[SuperStrength superstrong]] [[CombatTentacles robotic arms]]. Doc Ock uses these as extra arms and feet, and to batter and throw opponents. The three claws at each end can rotate like miniature buzz-saws.
* In ''JusticeLeague,'' Aquaman cuts off his own hand to save his son. It is later replaced with a hook that resembles a harpoon.
* ''InspectorGadget''. What bits of him are real in the original cartoons? TheMovie makes it clear that the only thing still real about Gadget is his brain.

* In ''MummiesAlive'' [[TheBigGuy Armon]] has a prosthetic arm that's only usable in his powered up form.
* [[MadeOfExplodium Combustion Man]] from WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender has a prosthetic right forearm and lower leg, purportedly from injuries sustained when still learning to control his technique. [[CuteBruiser Toph]] can detect his approach via her [[DisabilitySuperpower Seismic Sense]] and describes it sounding like a "metal man".
* Dr. Robotnik had a robotic arm in the ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'' cartoon because he accidentally roboticized his arm.

* Grim Reaper in ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' has one that turns into a Scythe.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', there have been three alternate versions of Finn to have an artificial arm. It is quite possibly {{foreshadowing}} of [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids things to come.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', Helena Pierce has an artificial arm. We find out why in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'': [[spoiler:she was attacked by Skags because of a ring her husband gave her.]] T.K. Baha also has an artificial leg, which he lost to a skag.
** The second game also has Sir Hammerlock who has a mechanical right arm and leg ([[spoiler:ripped out by a thresher]]) and Gaige who has a mechanical left arm ([[spoiler:who built it herself after ''deliberately cutting her own arm off so she could summon her robot''.]]).

* Hertzer Herrick in John Ringo's ''CouncilWars'' series lost a hand in the first book and received a very trick SteamPunk replacement. He'd still rather have a real hand, though.

* In the MegaCrossover Fanfic/CrossoverChaos, [[BeetleBailey Killer]] gets his right upper arm replaced with one of these after losing it to Project Omnicron/[[spoiler:Beetle]].

* ''/Webcomic/FootLoose'': Iordan becomes a cyborg after the desperate healing magic required to save him after his HeroicSacrifice converts the mecha battlesuit he's wearing into a bionic left arm that unfortunately has two minds of its own.

* [[spoiler: The Scotsman had dangerous leg]], later someone at Grind House watched SamuraiJack and decided to repeat this in live action.

* In ''Thundercats2011'', Panthro gets a double lower-arm set after kicking Grune's tail.
* In ''AdventureTime'', there have been three alternate versions of Finn to have an artificial arm. It is quite possibly {{foreshadowing}} of [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids things to come.]]

* In Creator/DataEast's ''Sly Spy'', the boss of the third level is a GiantMook with two metal arms.

* Garrett in ''{{Thief}}'' has his [[EyeScream eye plucked out partway through the first game]]. In the epilogue, it's shown that he's gotten a mechanical replacement, which he keeps for the rest of the series. It grants him a few neat tricks like telescopic vision and (very limited) remote camera input. The second game reveals that the eye was given to him by the Hammerites, perhaps out of gratitude for his actions at the end of the first game.

* ''MassEffect'': While never mentioned in-universe, a Geth arm was grafted onto Saren's body to replace his left arm.
** In ''MassEffect2'', it's mentioned that the means in which Shepard was [[WeCanRebuildHim resurrected]] was "bio-synthetic fusion", meaning most of their body was artificially created in some fashion or another. In addition to a reinforced skeletal structure and cybernetic implants, it's implied that their eyes and skin were replaced using cloned grafts.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': Bao-Dur has an artificial arm he designed and built himself. He tries to joke about it, but turns out it's a "souvenir" from the horrors of Malachor V. It has the ability to disable force fields, but somehow restricts the kinds of armor he can wear.

* Clinton from ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' has a robotic right hand, which he got following a fireworks accident as a child. Instead of angsting over the loss, he genuinely prefers his robotic hand, leading his sibling to note the [[BrokenAesop unfortunate moral]] of the story seems to be "playing with fireworks gets you cool robot limbs".

* Clinton from ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' has a robotic right hand, which he got following a fireworks accident.