History Main / BadassTransplant

* You mean after his 'everything' is replaced

* [[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution Adam Jensen]] is much more {{Badass}} after having his arms replaced with bionic ones, among other things.

* [[HunterTheVigil The Cheiron group's]] specialty. What do you want? Demonic eyes that can see into the very depths of a man's soul? Trivial. A personal defence swarm of angry magical insects embedded into your arm? Child's play. A rotten human hand that can shoot fire, and hypnotize those that look at it? Why the hell not?

* [[DeusExHumanRevolution Adam Jensen]] is much more {{Badass}} after having his arms replaced with bionic ones, among other things.

* [[TheMessiah Shepard's]] implants in MassEffect2 make him/her much, much cooler than normal humans.

* Guts of ''{{Berserk}}'' replaces his forearm with a ''crossbow.'' With a built-in '''cannon'''.

* In ''Witchblade'' manga a youing man was rather shocked to discover that the new skin on his arm is transplanted from his girlfriend. Then that she's already regenerated it. Then that she's a [[spoiler:half-demon]]. It has some interesting effects, including changes on the rest of his arm. But probably worse than it would be if this wasn't the hand with which he wields his magical demon-slaying sword. ''Oops''.

* "Meet the Medic" shows us that the Ubercharge in ''TeamFortress2'' is initiated by implanting the heart of a Mega Baboon with an implant attached in place of the trooper's normal heart (which tends to ''explode'' when exposed to the implant's charge).

* Used similarly by Spooner in ''IRobot'' to kill the BigBad. Also served as both TheReveal and an IAmNotLeftHanded moment in an earlier fight with a robot.

* [[HunterTheVigil The Cheiron group's]] speciality. What do you want? Demonic eyes that can see into the very depths of a man's soul? Trivial. A personal defence swarm of angry magical insects embedded into your arm? Child's play. A rotten human hand that can shoot fire, and hypnotize those that look at it? Why the hell not?

* ''[[PlanescapeTorment Planescape: Torment]]'' has eyes that act as equipment for the Nameless One. He equips them by ripping out his old one and sticking the new one in its socket.

** [[spoiler:And his second transplant. Though not quite to the EldritchAbomination levels of the Azure Grimore, he recives an arm made from whats left of Lambda 11's regeneration tank.]]

* [[TheMessiah Shepard's]] implants in MassEffect2 make him much, much cooler than normal humans.

* Among the artifact-level magic items available in ''DungeonsAndDragons'' are the Hand of Vecna and the Eye of Vecna, which were formerly body parts of a powerful lich. To use one of these items, a character must first remove the appropriate part from his or her ''own'' body. Rumors of an artifact called the "Head of Vecna" should probably be disregarded as the invention of a sadistic DM with a sick sense of humor.

* Among the artifact-level magic items available in ''DungeonsAndDragons'' are the Hand of Vecna and the Eye of Vecna, which were formerly body parts of a powerful lich. To use one of these items, a character must first remove the appropriate part from his or her ''own'' body. Rumors of a "Head of Vecna" should probably be discarded as the invention of a sadistic DM.

* Among the artifact-level magic items available in ''DungeonsAndDragons'' are the Hand of Vecna and the Eye of Vecna, which were formerly body parts of a powerful lich. To use one of these items, a character must first remove the appropriate part from his or her ''own'' body.

The BadassTransplant is when a character's awesome abilities aren't innate, but equipped. The hallmark of a BadassTransplant is that the part transplanted is significantly more badass than the rest of him, or even the source of his abilities entirely, and not something he obtained naturally. It might be [[ArtificialLimbs mechanical,]] magical, or even possessed. If the transplant is from a particularly powerful entity, it might result in a DeadlyUpgrade, a SuperpoweredEvilSide, or [[EvilHand turn on its' wielder.]] Frequent overlaps with ArtificialLimbs and ArmCannon.