History Main / Cyborg

** Also a possible aversion as the Jedi at least generally experience a ''decrease'' in power due to cybernetics. Well power in the Force at least, Anakin apparently lost the ability to use Force Lightning whatsoever, as well as losing a lot of his lightsaber combat effectiveness. Grievous is the exception (playing the trope straight), his remake only seemed to enhance his capabilities. However, possible {{Fridge Brillance}} as to why Anakin didn't get a {{Hollywood Cyborg}}body like Grievous': while the mechanical body allowed full speed and agility, this came at the expense of protection. Anakin's suit was built for protection (especially for his remaining body - torso mainly) and thus couldn't be as effective in combat.

* ''StarWars'', particularly Anakin (both legs and both arms) and Luke (right hand) Skywalker, Lobot (Lando Calrissian's assistant, direct brain-link to the city mainframe), and General Grievous (entire body except brain, heart and lungs).

* NaokoTakeuchi [[WhatCouldHaveBeen once planned]] to make [[ShyBlueHairedGirl Ami Mizuno]] a cyborg, to justify her [[TeenGenius incredible intelligence]]. She was even planned to have PinocchioSyndrome and to make a HeroicSacrifice since she "wasn't human anyways", but instead the cyborg elements were incorporated into Hotaru instead.

* ''Cyborg'' by MartinCaidin originated the term, if not the concept. Later made into ''TheSixMillionDollarMan.''

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** After the [[spoiler:two year time skip]], we find that Franky [[spoiler:has "upgraded" himself even more robotic-looking. His shoulders are massive and spherical, and his forearms are cubes attatched with giant screws (to list the two most obvious differences).]] Everyone else just finds it cool, though.

*** The "New Paradigm" Daleks introduced in ''Victory of the Daleks'' have an organic eye visible at the end of their eyestalks. Apparently this is the eye of the internal creature, with its optic nerve extruded down a metal pipe. This troper doesn't know whether that makes them more or less cyborgs, but it certainly makes them creepy.

* Edward Elrich of Full Metal Alchemist has 2 cybernetic limbs, and I don't know if this counts but his brother Alphonse has a suit of armer as his body

* In the manga series ''Change Hifumi'' (aka ''Change 123''), the character Col. Ralph Austin (an American soldier) lost his left arm and had it replaced with an advanced prosthetic.

** In one [[{{Discontinuity}} problematic]] episode of [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Original Series]], Spock's brain was stored in a jar and replaced by a remote control receiver.

** Kat, from the upcoming ''Halo: Reach'', has a robotic right arm.

* ''DragonBall'' and ''DragonballZ'' have Dr. Gero's creations, which are all under the blanket term "androids." However, two of the main four (Nos. 17 and 18; #16 is an android, as is, apparently, #8) in Dragonball Z are cyborgs, and it is implied that many of the previous ones were cyborgs as well. It is not revealed exactly how they were modified, only that it was enough for them to forget their previous lives. Eventually, Dr. Gero transplants his brain in a robotic body, becoming a cyborg as well. This is something of a case of LostInTranslation, as the original word would be closer to "ArtificialHuman" (thus it includes Cell who is wholly organic).
** In the French version of the manga they are called Cyborgs, which makes sense for #17 and #18, but it makes less sense for #16 who is explicitly artificial.

* ''GhostInTheShell'' features "full-body replacement" cyborgs as primary characters, who have been modified to the point where the only thing that's human about them is their brain.
** Funnily enough, one of the Tachikomas (insect-like, sentient mecha) successfully passes the Turing Test by claiming to be a full-body replacement when questioned.
*** The main character occasionally angsts about whether the military may have replaced her brain without telling her, presumably uploading her into a robot. As later events show, this is a valid possibility.
** The RequiredSecondaryPowers for cybernetics are addressed in a side-note in the manga, saying that an organic human frame puts limits on how much ability enhancement cybernetics can impart, and thus a fully cybernetic body has much greater capabilities than a person with a largely original organic body and more limited cybernetics. This is further addressed in GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex - Solid State Society where one character with limited cybernetics recently added more cybernetics. Another character tells him to be careful, since the increasing cybernetics means his organic body will be put under further strain by this. It is a good thing this setting does not feature CyberneticsEatYourSoul (though it does have characters explore that question), because the slope to becoming a full cyborg is slippery indeed...
** Likewise ''{{Appleseed}}'', also has cybernetics anywhere from a replacement finger to a full-body conversion. Both series being from ShirowMasamune, he goes into detailed explanations as to the limitations of such enhancements, such as how simply having a cybernetic arm doesn't mean that arm would have super-strength, unless it was heavily tied in and firmly attached to the body.
*** It should be noted that in ''Appleseed'' at least, Full-body Cyborgs usually get to keep their reproductive systems too, or get new ones. Not so much in GhostInTheShell, especially in the first movie where Motoko states she is incapable of birth due to her completely artificial body.
*** In the ''Appleseed'' manga, this is made very clear since Deunan Knute (a human) and Briareos Hetanochires (a full-body replacement) are known to have a physical as well as romantic relationship.
* ''BattleAngelAlita'' also goes the full-conversion route.
** Extreme spoilers: Toyed-with somewhat in the [[spoiler:final stages of the original manga, the residents of Tiphares/Zalem]], all of whom thought they were [[spoiler:wholly human (distinguishing them from the mongrel cybernetic hordes living below)]], discover that the [[spoiler:network governing Tipharean society routinely takes all citizens upon their reaching maturity, downloads the knowledge from their brains onto small black chips, steals their brains, and leaves them with the chip as a replacement.]] While (almost) every cyborg in the Scrapyard, no matter how modified, has [[spoiler:a human brain the Tiphareans]] can claim no such thing. [[BrownNote This comes as something of a shock.]]

* After he got run over by the Sea Train, Franky of ''OnePiece'' saved himself by replacing just about all his body parts in the front with mechanical parts from his old warships. It should also be noted that Franky built himself [[IronMan on a dock, from a box of scraps]].
** Then there's [[spoiler:Bartholemew Kuma of the Shichibukai]]. Unlike Franky he wasn't built from scraps, and it shows. At this point, it's not clear how much of him is still human, or if he's the equivalent of the {{Terminator}} now.
*** As of chapter 560 [[spoiler:the Pacifista transformation process (which was done gradually over time) was recently completed, leaving him a mute emotionless machine.]]

** IronMan is a cyborg, but not from his titular suit of armor. His heart is kept going with cybernetic parts.
*** Now he's a more traditional cyborg with hollow bones full of nanites and the ability to control technology with his mind.
** Pepper Potts is also now a cyborg.

* [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog]] has [[PunnyName Bunnie Rabbot]] (now Bunnie D'Coolette), a Mobian that got partly roboticized leaving her with two robotic limbs. She eventually gets these parts upgraded, meaning the process could never be undone. As shown by [[{{Spinoff}} Sonic Universe's]] "30 Years Later" storyline, her and Antoine's children, Jacque and Belle D'Coolette, have inherited this trait.
** Inherited... robotic... [[YouFailBiologyForever wha?!]]
** There's also the Dark Legion, whose AveMachina lifestyle dictates that ''all'' their members become this. Trademarks include one robotic dreadlock and a chip implanted into their brain ''at birth'' that allows them to [[EasyAmnesia wipe their own memory]], in case of capture or defection.
*** Particularly disturbing as it has been recently revealed that instead of executing prisoners, they forcibly "Legionize" them into cyborg soldiers in public.
** Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't she robotomized from waist down? [[{{Squick}} Yes, that too...]]
** Bunnie has robot parts from the waist down and one robotic arm.

** You forgot Anakin's lungs and whatnot. Inhaling hot ash when he lost control after losing 3 limbs didn't do his innards any favours.

* Inverted in ''StarTrek: [[StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]'' where Data, an android, has organic parts grafted on, to a [[NightmareFuel rather disturbing effect]].
** And, of course, played straight in the series with the Borg, as well as Geordi [=LaForge=]'s VISOR and, later, cybernetic replacement eyes, plus Picard's artificial heart.
** In one [[{{Discontinuity}} forgettable]] episode of [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Original Series]], Spock's brain was stored in a jar and replaced by a remote control receiver.
** And, in ''DeepSpaceNine,'' Vedek Bareil is injured in a shuttlecraft accident and, against Dr. Bashir's advice, has parts of his brain replaced by positronic synapses. They [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul don't work as well as the original]].

* Possibly the earliest example of a full-body-replacement cyborg in modern literature is the Tin Woodsman from ''{{The Wonderful Wizard of Oz}}'' -- once a perfectly ordinary human being, he had progressively more parts of his body replaced with tin prosthetics as they were chopped off by a cursed axe -- until essentially all that was left was a mind (brain?) in a tin shell.
** Not quite. You're applying common sense to it. The Tin Woodsman did not have a brain, or anything inside his tin shell. When he lost his head, he just got a prosthetic, and the tinsmith kept the old one in a closet, where, due to the no-death nature of Oz, it remained sentient, desiring nothing to do with the Tin Man when he returned to retrieve it. How? MAGIC.
* In "SoonIWillBeInvincible," by Austin Grossman, the heroine Fatale agrees to have her legs - and right arm - replaced after an accident. The scientists have to modify most of the rest of her body in order to make those parts work. After the experiment she weighs hundreds of pounds because of all of her cybernetic parts. The corporation that funded her reconstruction promptly vanishes, leaving her to pay for the regiment of antibiotics necessary to prevent infection caused by her new parts.

** Footage and descriptions by other characters imply that the Daleks are most likely somewhere between Mechas and cyborgs. The creature proper could exist outside the mechanical shell, but is very small and weak and must be augmented by the mechanical components. In their introduction, Ian Chesterton was able to "drive" a Dalek shell after discarding the creature.
*** The expanded universe indicates that the Dalek creatures are so biologically degenerate that they have no functional digestive system, no vocal cords and even have difficulty breathing on their own; being implanted in their casings is vital for them to survive for any great length of time, and their nervous and circulatory systems are tied directly into the casing's systems. The Dalek voice is harsh and grating because it is entirely artificial.

* The Borg from ''StarTrek'', whose name is shortened from Cyborg to Borg. Seven of Nine from ''StarTrekVoyager'' who, though she supposedly had most of her Borg implants removed, always had enough left to solve or create the Crisis of the Week.

** No 40K entry on cyborgs is complete without at least one mention of the Adeptus Mechanicus, whose techpriests believe in the ideal perfection of the machine and willingly have their "impure" biological bits replaced with robotic cybernetics.
*** they alsomake extensive use of servitors - criminals and heretics who have their personality and higher reasoning wiped and turned into cybernetic slaves.
*** {{Space marine}}s also have some servitors, but criminals are unworthy of serving them - they prefer space marines who sinned or trainees whose mind broke.
** The {{space marine}}s have Dreadnoughts, armored, two-legged war coffins for half-dead Marines that could not be healed with normal methods.

* DeadLands: Hell On Earth subverts, inverts, reverts, and blipverts the trope. Basically, in the universe it's almost impossible to combine the cybernetics with a living tissue. Demonically powered mad science inventions are possible to be combined with undead one.

** See also Dr. Tokentäkker in the sideshow spoof (and unfortunately still unreleased on a home console) CarnEvil, who is Curien in a pun-filled circus of mayhem. You'd think someone on the HOTD team would have thought to buy the rights to distribute and plunked it as download content or a limited edition disc with some of the HOTD games.
* In ''{{Resistance}}: Fall Of Man'', all alien troops (whatever the name of those aliens are) have mechanical devices grafted to their backs to monitor and enhance their adrenaline at the expense of their lifespan.
** They're stated to primarily act as a ''heat sink'' to keep the Chimera (who might not be aliens) from cooking themselves in the middle of battle. This is why the Chimera [[spoiler:change London's weather to freezing winter]] in the first game. The Grey Jack enemies are stock Hybrids who have lived so long their units have broken down, and their bodies are breaking down because of it.

* In ''TeamFortress2'' Engineer Update, one of the unlockable weapons reveals what's under [[FashionableAsymmetry his lone rubber glove, a robotic hand known as The Gunslinger. It shocks and dices; a melee weapon that can deploy mini sentry guns!

* Pacemakers. Cochlear implants. Hearing aids. Bionic eyes. Artifical arms. Dentures. Memory chips (FlatWhat). The age of cyborgs is already upon us! Repent!
* [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17195_5-technologies-that-turn-handicaps-into-super-powers.html 5 Technologies that Turn Handicaps into Super Powers.]] It starts with those leaf spring leg prosthetics that let people run super fast (but nothing else, really). It concludes with a woman that had her legs amputated as a kid, so she asked Peter Jackson's FX company to build her a prosthetic mermaid tail ''that actually functions.'' The future is here.
** Those leaf spring prosthetics do not let a person with bilateral below-the-knee amputations run faster than a person who has flesh legs. The guy just is a world-class sprinter and there is just a very sharp division between sports disabled people do and sports currently not-disabled people do. The trope about turning... handicaps... into super powers is about as common as {{EvilCripple}} and it's just as harmful.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrot This abomination.]] Now that's good biology. [[NoIndoorVoice ALL PRAISE]] [[{{Warhammer40000}} OMNISSIAH!!!]]

* NaokoTakeuchi [[WhatCouldHaveBeen once planned]] to make [[ShyBlueHairedGirl Ami Mizuno]] a cyborg, to justify her [[TeenGenius incredible intelligence]]. She was even planned to have PinnochioSyndrome and to make a HeroicSacrifice since she "wasn't human anyways", but instead the cyborg elements were incorporated into Hotaru instead.

* In the early '90s OVA EightManAfter, there are two different types of cyborgs, both of whom rely on stimulants to keep their brains' motor functions from conflicting with the cybernetics. Eight Man himself is a total body replacement with a human brain, while the cyborgs he fights, Cyber Junkies, are street punks who cut off and replace limbs with high-powered weapons and abilities. Unfortunately, the Cyber Junkies rely on a crude version of the stimulant that eventually turns their brains to mush and makes them psychotically violent.

* ArchieComics' short-lived comic based on the ManTech toy franchise was based around this trope, with heroic cyborgs fighting evil robots. The three dying heroes were made into cyborgs to save their lives, their whole bodies being replaced with boxy robotic bits, gaining superpowers in the process. Aquatech hates what has happened to him, Solartech accepts it as a necessity, and Lasertech loves it.

* ''{{Robocop}}''s body is almost completely mechanical -- even his head appears to be heavily reinforced with metal parts.
** Actually it was specified that the only organic part of Murphy was his brain and part of the spinal cord, the face was recovered and place upon a layer of synthetic support as a sort of posthumous honor.
* The {{Terminator}}s keep calling themselves cybernetic organisms, though they can survive without the organic parts.
** Cameron has said his initial concept had the Terminator depending on its organic parts to function, to reflect on how society needs machines and blah blah. That didn't make it into the movies of course, but the cyborg terminology stuck anyway.

* There's a rather nice example of a more...realistic (?) cyborg in "Segregationist", a short story by {{Asimov}}. It involves a doctor replacing the heart of his patient. He tries to persuade the patient that an organic prosthetic is the way to go, only for the patient to decide that he doesn't trust it and wants to go with a mechanical heart. We discover at the end that the doctor is [[spoiler:actually a robot]], one of the few who has not chosen to [[spoiler:become more human by surgery]] while the [[spoiler:humans have all been becoming more and more robotic.]] The implication is that eventually, they'll all slowly [[spoiler:morph into one cyborg species.]]

* In DanielKeysMoran's ''Tales of the Continuing Time'', the Peaceforcer Elites are cyborged {{super soldier}}s. Gi'Suei'Obodi'Sedon, a purely organic Super Soldier, considers the Elites to be horribly maimed (not to mention, not all that elite).

* The sci-fi short story "DiamondDogs" has the main character being slowly, ''voluntarily'' being turned from a human into a cybernetic dog like creature with a skull full of computer bits. Unfortunately the doctor who did this took himself apart so he wouldn't have to undo his 'greatest work'.

* {{Anne McCaffrey}}'s "Brainships" in the ''Brainship'' series are cybernetics carried about as far as possible, with human brains implanted into and in complete control of entire space ships and space stations. It's implied that the human body is still there, but only as a life-support system for the brain.
* [[StreetSamurai Molly Millions]] in ''{{Neuromancer}}'' has retractable razors beneath her fingernails and can see the time by pressing her tongue against a tooth. Most impressively, though, her eyes have been replaced with mirrors and her tear ducts rerouted to her mouth so that, when she cries, she spits.
** The mirror-lenses seal her eye sockets, but she still has her original eyes underneath them (and they still work). In ''Neuromancer'', one of her lenses is smashed. Presumably there was some method built into the implant of cleaning the skin and removing eye gunk etc while it was in place.

* JonathanCoulton's "The Future Soon" is a song about a jilted schoolkid who daydreams of becoming, among other things, a cyberneticist and then "engineering away" things about him that make him "weak and strange".
** Another song of his, "Better", is about a man breaking up with his girlfriend because he can't cope with her extensive robotic enhancements.

** ''Cyberspace'' (Iron Crown Enterprises), ''Cyberhero'' (HeroSystem), ''{{GURPS}} Cyberpunk'', ''Cyborg Commando'' (New Infinities Productions), ''Amazing Engine: Kromosome'' ({{TSR}})...

* ''Mage: The Ascension'' from the old WorldOfDarkness included Iteration X, "mages" who could do impossible things with cybernetics and robotics. Besides generally being cyborgs themselves, they frequently made use of [[{{Terminator}} HIT Marks]] against their enemies. Occasionally other science-focused mages, even in the Traditions, also created cyborgs. The degree to which [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul Cybernetics Ate Your Soul]] varied with the amount of replacement and the manner in which your storyteller enforced the Resonance and Paradox rules.
** The game also has a nod to reality: for people to have cybernetic enhancements of ''any'' kind, [[RequiredSecondaryPowers they have to get full-body reinforcement by default]].

* In TeamFortress2, in the [[{{Understatement}} long-awaited]] Engineer Update, [[spoiler:one of the unlockable weapons reveals what's under [[FashionableAsymmetry his lone rubber glove]], a robotic hand known as The Gunslinger. For some reason, it's the only melee weapon that can deploy mini-SGs.]]

* In DeusEx, Gunther and Anna are the classic mechanical cyborgs, showing all the nifty dermal plates and robotic appendages that come with the territory. JC Denton and his brother Paul appear to be a highly advanced model based on a nanotech platform with fluid upgrade capabilities and ability to pass completely for human, except that their eyes glow.

** ''WildArms4'' had the [[ChainsawGood chainsaw-wielding]] Balgaine, [[MightyGlacier which explains his immense strength]] as well as his weakness to Jude's Short Circuit technique.

** In ''MassEffect2'', Commander Shepard is [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready brought back from the dead]], and is not entirely human anymore. While Shepard could've been brought back wholly human, that process would have taken more time than Cerberus had. As a result, the Commander is ''mostly'' human, albeit with a number of modifications, usually beneficial ones (the ability to surive a poisoning that would have killed anyone else, for example).

* The Irkens in ''InvaderZim'' takes this one step further; they are implanted with back-mounted devices known as 'paks' immediately following decanting. The pak contains the actual mind of the Irken; their body is essentially only meat used by the pak to interact with its surroundings (a good analogy would be to compare the pak with the hard drive of a computer; the irken's brain is the processor).
** We also have the more classical mechanical-limbs-and-eye Sergeant Hobo in the Hobo 13 episode, and the Irken Tak, who also sports a cable implanted in her head (which may be the source of her [[MindControl neural suggestion power]].

* Related: the ''{{Transformers}} Generation 1'' episode "Autobot Spike" had Spike's mind being transferred to a mechanical body while his human body underwent risky surgery. Also, nearly every Transformer from the Beast era, which were the opposites of the typical cyborg, being robots who had living tissue grafted onto them.

* The future was there in ''[[OlderThanTheyThink 1504]]'', but then it was lost, and now it's back. Leave it to those [[StupidJetpackHitler automaton-loving Germans]] to have made the first attempt. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Götz_von_Berlichingen Götz von Berlichingen]] lost his arm nearly up to his elbow in combat to a stray shot, and commissioned an unknown inventor to build him one of iron. Despite being entirely metal and leather, and early Renaissance, it worked just as well as his original. He wrote just as well with a quill pen as with his original hand, and fought largely in the same fashion, but now with a permanent 'gauntlet.' Shame that such a thing was astronomically expensive for its time, the inventor deserves to be found and recognized for this achievement in engineering history. The hand has to be seen to be believed.
** No, it actually was nowhere near that good. He had to adjust it with his other had and it used a series of ratchets and straps to stay in position. Still pretty good for that day, but it was not a working replacment for his hand by any stretch of the imagination. Unfortunately, the real world is not clockwork punk.
** Furthermore, an iron prosthetic, even a hollow one is far too heavy for normal, everyday use. It's highly improbable that it had all the properties claimed above, or that the man ever used it outside formal situations or battle.
** So [[{{Berserk}} Guts]]'s hand is actually not anachronistic?
*** Not really. It's still somewhat unrealistic. Particularly as it also contains a friggin' [[ArmCannon CANNON]]. [[WordOfGod Kentaro Miura]] states that he hadn't even heard of Mr. von Berlichengen when he was designing his Black Swordsman.
** Nor, for that matter, does "automail" from ''FullmetalAlchemist'' seem quite as unbelievable anymore.
** Götz's ''other'' CrowningMomentOfAwesome lies in that he was the man who invented the phrase "kiss my ass".

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-->''A handsome young Cyborg named Ace''
-->''Wooed women at every base''
--->''But once ladies glanced at''
--->''His special [[PainfulRhyme enhancement]]''
-->''They vanished with nary a trace.''
--> --''Barracks graffiti, Sparta Command'', ''[[SidMeiersAlphaCentauri Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]''

There's also the matter of how one starts off. Cyborgs can include biological humans with parts replaced with machinery, or machines with biological parts added, or sometimes both are put together from scratch. Whether or not this detracts from them being a person [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman depends on the series.]] Sometimes as long as the brain is organic makes the difference. Sometimes not even then.

In the original definition of "cybernetics", it was the study of constructing machines by mimicking real organisms, i.e. building insect robots that process sensory and motion information like insects do. Thus, "cybernetic organism" can refer to such a pure machine. The "super-prosthetic" part came later, but it has overshadowed the earlier definition. "Bionics" is an older term from the design field, where it meant mimicking nature in order to get an elegant, functional product (see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Papanek Victor Papanek]]'s seminal book, ''[[http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/01/victor_papanek.php Design For The Real World]]'' for multiple examples). It was used much in this manner by MartinCaidin's early 1970s novel ''Cyborg'', to describe mechanical prosthetics designed to look and act like real limbs, but in the [[AdaptationDecay transformation]] of ''Cyborg'' into ''TheSixMillionDollarMan'', the "elements of nature" aspect was lost and it became a generic term for the enhancement of people with mechanical parts. Fortunately for those who use it for its original meaning, this definition is seldom seen anymore.

Common things used in Cybernetics include the RestrainingBolt, the Arm Cannon and ArtificialLimbs. On the highest level of tech we have {{Nanomachines}} infusing biological beings. Just be careful not to overdo it, if you're in a setting where CyberneticsEatYourSoul. Often cybernetics is [[WeCanRebuildHim used as an excuse]] to bring someone BackFromTheDead, even if the brain has been dead a while. One can certainly expect some questions about WhatMeasureIsANonHuman, and an attempt to take over or "replace" mundane humanity is not out of the question.

[[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]

* GaoGaiGar's Shishioh Guy is 90% machine, having been caught up in a space accident involving his shuttle, Galeon, and EI-01 - it's actually Galeon who brings him back safe, and Galeon's technology that's used in rebuilding him. First describes himself as "The greatest cyborg in history", and has a valid claim towards it - but subverts it by collapsing after his first battle, as becoming GaoGaiGar puts a lot of strain on him, even without using Hell and Heaven. It turns out that it takes upwards of a week for his body's immune system to adjust to replacement parts, and if not for Mamoru's abilities with G-Stones, he would not have been able to fight in the second episode, nor survive certain events afterwards. [[spoiler: After the end of the series, he (and Mikoto) become "Evoluders", something that isn't entirely explained, other than the effect that he can still use the [=GaoMachines=] just fine, but looks like a normal human.]]

** The RequiredSecondaryPowers for cybernetics are addressed in a side-note in the manga, saying that an organic human frame puts limits on how much ability enhancement cybernetics can impart, and thus a fully cybernetic body has much greater capabilities than a person with a largely original organic body and more limited cybernetics. This is further addressed in GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex - Solid State Society where one character with limited cybernetics recently added more cybernetics. Another character tells him to be careful, since the increasing cybernetics means his organic body will be put under further strain by this. It is a good thing this setting does not feature CyberneticsEatYourSoul (though it does have characters explore that question,) because the slope to becoming a full cyborg is slippery indeed...

* After he got run over by the Sea Train, Franky of ''OnePiece'' saved himself by replacing just about all his body parts in the front with mechanical parts from his old warships. It should also be noted that Franky built himself [[IronMan on a dock, from a box of scraps.]]
** Then there's [[spoiler: Bartholemew Kuma of the Shichibukai]]. Unlike Franky he wasn't built from scraps, and it shows. At this point, it's not clear how much of him is still human, or if he's the equivalent of TheTerminator now.
*** As of chapter 560 [[spoiler: the Pacifista transformation process (which was done gradually over time) was recently completed, leaving him a mute emotionless machine.]]

** No, most importantly, [[RuleOfCool he looks freaking awesome!]] [[{{EnsembleDarkhorse}} Not to mention he]] [[{{TookALevelInBadass}} becomes more awesome, too...]]
* Vash the Stampede from ''{{Trigun}}''. Besides the replacement arm, other parts of his body have apparently been "repaired" with non-organic material.
* In GunslingerGirl, the girls are cyberized, and [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul the cybernetics will kill them eventually.]]

* In the manga series ''Change Hifumi'' (aka ''Change 123''), the character Col. Ralph Austin (an American soldier) lost his left arm and had it replaced with an advanced prosthetic.

** RomSpaceknight. Though he [[HeroicSacrifice volunteered to be made a cyborg,]] he loathed it and longed to end his war with the Dire Wraiths and regain his humanity. Eventually, [[spoiler: he did! Good for him!]]
** Wolverine's adamantium-bonded skeleton may count (which would also include Sabertooth and Bullseye). He definitely counted prior to having his admantium removed, because his claws were explicitly cybernetic implants in mechanical housings. They were later [[RetCon retconned]] into being a natural part of his skeletal structure, extended and retracted through muscular action.

* Warren Ellis' ''{{Global Frequency}}'' deconstructed and subverted this, pointing out the extensive and conspicuous modifications it would take to make a real cyborg. It was so hard, in fact, that most people who underwent the procedure had psychotic breaks, and were intended more as non-nuclear [[LaserGuidedTykebomb WMDs]] than foot soldiers.

* ''StarWars'', particularly Anakin (both legs and both arms) and Luke (hand) Skywalker, Lobot (Lando Calrissian's assistant, direct brain-link to the city mainframe), and General Grievous (entire body except brain, heart and lungs).

* ''{{Robocop}}''s body is almost completely mechanical - even his head appears to be heavily reinforced with metal parts.
** Actually it was specified that the only organic part of Murphy was his brain and part of the spinal cord, the face was recovered and place upon a layer of synthetic support as a sort of postumous honor

** In one [[DisContinuity forgettable]] episode of [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Original Series]], Spock's brain was stored in a jar and replaced by a remote control receiver.
** And, in ''DeepSpaceNine,'' Vedek Bareil is injured in a shuttlecraft accident and, against Dr. Bashir's advice, has parts of his brain replaced by positronic synapses. They [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul don't work as well as the original.]]
* In ''ArmyOfDarkness,'' Ash builts a fully functional artificial hand out of springs and a metal gauntlet. Why? Because he's Ash.

* In DanielKeysMoran's ''Tales of the Continuing Time'', the Peaceforcer Elites are cyborged {{SuperSoldier}}s. Gi'Suei'Obodi'Sedon, a purely organic Super Soldier, considers the Elites to be horribly maimed (not to mention, not all that elite).

* The sci-fi short story "DiamondDogs" has the main character being slowly, ''voluntarily'' being turned from a human into a cybernetic dog like creature with a skull full of computer bits. Unfortunately the doctor who did this took himself apart so he wouldn't have to undo his 'greatest work'.
* Possibly the earliest example of a full-body-replacement cyborg in modern literature is the Tin Woodsman from ''TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' -- once a perfectly ordinary human being, he had progressively more parts of his body replaced with tin prosthetics as they were chopped off by a cursed axe -- until essentially all that was left was a mind (brain?) in a tin shell.

* {{Anne McCaffrey}}'s "Brainships" in the ''Brainship'' series are cybernetics carried about as far as possible, with human brains implanted into and in complete control of entire space ships and space stations. It's implied that the human body is still there, but only as a life-support system for the brain.

* The {{StarTrek}} Next Generation novel ''Q Squared'' featured an inversion of the usual form of this trope. An alternate universe version of Data consisted of a positronic brain in a cloned human body.

* ''{{Rifts}}'' splits them into several classifications: Cybernetics are basically mechanical prosthetics (which come in fully mechanial or organic Bio-Systems), while Bionics actually augment the user to combat-capable levels, and include weapons. Cyborgs come in three levels: Minor cybernetic/bionic enhancements, Partial Conversion (all limbs and some torso reinforcement) and Full Conversion (Entire body except for the brain and spinal column).

*** Space Marines also have some servitors, but criminals are unworthy of serving them - they prefer space marines who sinned or trainees whose mind broke.
** The Space Marines have Dreadnoughts, armored, two-legged war coffins for half-dead Marines that could not be healed with normal methods.

** The game also has a nod to reality: for people to have cybernetic enhancements of ''any'' kind, [[RequiredSecondaryPowers they have to get full-body reinforcement by default]].
* In ''{{Paranoia}}'', humans in the robot-loving Corpore Metal secret society often get cybernetic replacements. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by Corporganic, whose robotic members sometimes get organic replacements ("orgcybing").

* The Master Chief and the rest of the SPARTAN-II super soldiers in the {{Halo}} universe have a neural interface implanted in their brains to allow them to properly control their {{powered armor}}, as well as reinforced skeletons. The rank-and-file members of the human military also receive neural implants, but they're not as advanced as the SPARTAN's.
** Kat, from the upcoming Halo: Reach, has a robotic right arm.
* Raiden started out in {{Metal Gear Solid}} as a human but in {{Metal Gear Solid 4}}, he showed up as a cyborg ninja. Gray Fox also became a cyborg ninja in MGS.
* In the CommandAndConquer series the Brotherhood of Nod make extensive uses of cybernetic in some of their elite forces, having deployed fully operational cyborgs during the events of CommandAndConquer Renegade and the Second Tiberian War, although the cyborgs disappear temporally during the Third Tiberium War they make a reapareance in the expansion Kane's Wrath under the name of the Marked of Kane, this time instead of living humans with cybernetic enhacements they are made of the corpses of those who have fallen fighting for Nod, being resurrected and linked to Kane's AI L.E.G.I.O.N. so they will become the ultimate warriors, free of emotions, free will and loyal only to Kane's will. The soviets also featured during the Great Second World War a cyborg commando named Volkov and his cybernetic dog Chitzkoi, the first one being capable to take down even allied cruisers and the second one to jump long distances to slay infantry.
* Dr. Curien's most powerful experiments in ''HouseOfTheDead'' (the video games, not the [[VideoGameMoviesSuck movie]]; curse you, UweBoll!) involve using electronics as well as scientific necromancy. Note The Magician and The Wheel of Fate.

* The Terrans in ''{{Starcraft}}'' do so slightly for their Marines, and heavily for their Ghosts, [[RestrainingBolt who not only have inhibitors]], but also other enhancements to increase their effectiveness including ocular implants. The Protoss, on the other hand, have Dragoons, which are fallen comrades brought back in robotic bodies. Dragoons are especially revered among their people for their dedication and bravery. ''Starcraft II'' will feature the Dark Templar equivalent, Warp Stalkers, as well as the new breed of Dragoon, the Immortals.
* In TeamFortress2, in the [[{{Understatement}} long-awaited]] Engineer Update, [[spoiler: one of the unlockable weapons reveals what's under [[FashionableAsymmetry his lone rubber glove]], a robotic hand known as The Gunslinger. For some reason, it's the only melee weapon that can deploy mini-SGs.]]
* A common costume part in ''CityOfHeroes'' and ''CityOfVillains''. All Freakshow have metal parts replacing some or all of their limbs, as have many Arachnos troopers. [[spoiler: Nemesis, and the Malta Titans, are essentially brains in robotic bodies.]] One interesting version is the Vahzilok, cyborgized zombies.
* Ziggy in ''{{Xenosaga}}'' was revived and turned into a cyborg roughly one hundred years after [[spoiler: committing suicide.]] Interestingly, cyborgs are actually considered obsolete by the time the series takes place. Also, T-elos, a cyborg created from the (surprisingly well-preserved) corpse of [[TheBible Mary Magdalene]].

* In ''QuakeIV'', your character gets "Stroggified" and rescued literally the moment before he gets brainwashed. Before that, his legs were cut off and replacements stuck on, and something was done to his hands and chest, and he got a [[TranslatorMicrobes Translator Chip]] stuck in his head. See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3clVvh5gbGE&feature=related here!]] Result? He runs and jumps faster and understands Strogg. Of course, other humans are distrustful of him, but [[HeroicMime he never protests.]]

* The titular protagonist of ''{{Iji}}'', as well as every single alien, is augmented with {{Nanomachines}} that make her stronger, sturdier, and allow her to command her [[MorphWeapon Nanogun]].

* Also seen in the technorganic Blackarachnia, [[spoiler: Waspinator]] and [[spoiler: Sari Sumdac]] in ''TransformersAnimated''.

* Daisy Archanis from ''LastRes0rt'' has a potent [[ArtificialLimbs Prostethic Leg]]... that's detachable (presumably for upgrades). It helps her about as often as it hurts her.

** No, it actually was nowhere near that good. He had to adjust it with his other had and it used a series of ratchets and straps to stay in position. Still pretty good for that day, but it was not a working replacment for his hand by any stretch of the imagination. Unfortunately, the real world is not clockwork punk.
** Furthermore, an iron prosthetic, even a hollow one is far too heavy for normal, everyday use. It's highly improbable that it had all the properties claimed above, or that the man ever used it outside formal situations or battle.

* Lila Amanda Black, the protagonist in Justina Robson's ''Quantum Gravity'' series begins as a fairly standard (if fusion-powered) cyborg of the {{WeCanRebuildHim}} variety. It all eventually gets subverted and the experimental prototype first-of-your-kind thing gets pulled to tiny little bits.

** The mirror-lenses seal her eye sockets, but she still has her original eyes underneath them (and they still work). In _Neuromancer_, one of her lenses is smashed. Presumably there was some method built into the implant of cleaning the skin and removing eye gunk etc while it was in place.

* In TeamFortress2, in the [[{{Understatement}} long-awaited]] Engineer Update, [[spoiler: one of the unlockable weapons reveals what's under [[FashionableAsymmetry his lone rubber glove]], revealing it to be the robotic hand known as The Gunslinger.]]

*The main characters in ''Cyborg009'' are all cyborgs.