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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'': Wonder Woman, Hawkman, Martian Manhunter, Mera, and Starfire all end up being horribly mutilated by Paradooms and eventually turned into Darkseid's cyborg furies. The majority of their bodies become mostly machine with very little of their original ones left, with Wonder Woman arguably being the least horrifying-looking out of the five.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': After the events of "[[Recap/ArcherS6E4EdiesWedding Edie's Wedding]]", Barry, the show's resident cyborg, is shown to be completely robotic, even his follow-up appearance in the Season 7 episode "Recap/ArcherS7E4MotherlessChild Motherless Child]]" shows him as a robot skeleton.

Compare BrainInAJar, which one of these would be without their body, and ManInTheMachine, who is reliant on cybernetic parts but has more of their body remaining.

** In [[Film/Robocop2014 the reboot]], Murphy is "lucky" enough to keep his whole head, lungs, and (for some reason) his right hand.

** {{Inverted}} with some [=AIs=] later in the series: Corsia has an organic body grown for herself after falling in love with the human captain of the ship her core is installed in. It's stated to be capable of birthing children.

** Bartholomew Kuma was transformed into a cyborg by the World Government. It is unknown what parts of him are still human. Same with the other Pacifistas who were modified to look like Bartholomew Kuma. All that's known for sure is by the time of the Paramount War his brain has been modified; essentially rendering him a soulless machine.
** Franky of the Straw Hat Pirates started out human... until he was hit by a train. This required him to transform himself into a cyborg to survive, with only some of his organs and back remaining unchanged do to his being incapable of reaching it. During the two-year timeskip, Franky further modifies his body.

* ''Manga/{{OnePiece}}'':
** Bartholomew Kuma was transformed into a cyborg by the World Government. It is unknown what parts of him are still human. Same with the other Pacifistas who were modified to look like Bartholomew Kuma.

* ''Manga/{{OnePiece}}'': Bartholomew Kuma was transformed into a cyborg by the World Government. It is unknown what parts of him are still human. Same with the other Pacifistas who were modified to look like Bartholomew Kuma.
** Franky of the Straw Hat Pirates started out human... until he was hit by a train. This required him to transform himself into a cyborg to survive, with only some of his organs and back remaining unchanged do to being incapable of reaching it. During the two-year timeskip, Franky further modified his body.

** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'': Frost willingly turns herself into a cyborg after aligning herself with [[BigBad Kronika]] and willingly betrays Sub-Zero as she felt he didn't appreciate her potential. Not only that, she also forcibly robotizes her ex-Lin Kuei comrades into {{Cyber Ninja}}s out of pettiness. When he notices what she has done, it horrifies Sub-Zero as he didn't like being robotized. Even the other kombatants express their dismay at what Frost has become. During non-story fights, one of Frost's Fatalities involves ripping out the opponent's brain in a classic play on the Spine Rip fatality. The twist is that the brain is placed into a Cyber Lin-Kuei body. While some of the kombatants such as Shao Kahn and Kano are unpleasant to begin with, seeing them turned into robo-ninjas against their will is jarring. It is one of the few Fatalities in the series (along with Shang Tsung's soul-stealing ones in the [[VideoGame/MortalKombatII second]] and [[MortalKombat3 third]] games) that inflicts a FateWorseThanDeath rather than outright killing the victim.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': After the events of "Edie's Wedding", Barry, the show's resident cyborg, is shown to be completely robotic, even his follow-up appearance in the Season 7 episode "Motherless Child" shows him as a robot skeleton.

* ''ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader'': One of the transhumans -- transalien, in his case -- created by Doctor Cylo is Commander Karbin, a mon calamari who, at the end of the Clone Wars, suffered devastating injuries when his ship was destroyed that left him on life support for eighteen years. Cylo dealt with this issue by replacing all of his unsalvageable organic components, leaving Karbin as essentially just his original organic head on a four-armed mechanical body.
** Beilart Valance, in both ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel977 and in the new canon, is revealed to be this. The previous assumption prior to 2018 was that he was simply a cyborg.

In appearance, these cyborgs can vary from essentially just being metallic versions of their previous selves, appearing as a RidiculouslyHumanRobot at first glance, to being so heavily modified, upgraded and loaded with addition limbs, systems and add-ons to barely even be humanoid anymore.

* ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'': Full-body cyborgs are commonplace, with the cybernetically-modified brain (and, at least in the manga, the spinal cord) being the only organic portions remaining. The [[Anime/GhostInTheShell original anime film]]'s opening credits show Motoko Kusanagi's body being created, and one chapter in [[Manga/GhostInTheShell the original manga]] shows a civilian woman going through the entire process, in much greater detail. The practicality of such extensive cyberization is {{discussed|Trope}} in one chapter, as only having ArtificialLimbs limits the amount of work they can do before the stress pulls them off the organic body they're attached to.

* ''Anime/UsagichanDeCue'' has Dekao first appear to fight against Inaba on the school's rooftop when he's 100% human. His rematch happens on a public beach, after Dekao has had an ElectronicEye, rocket fists and shoulder-mounted missiles installed. His third attempt to slay Inaba has Dekao reduced to a head and torso attached to a mechanical horse's body, looking like an armored centaur. His final match at the shopping mall has Dekao reduced to just his head directing a huge war machine on tank treads. He still loses, going 0 for 4.

** ''Film/Robocop2'': When the villain Cain is critically injured and captured, OCP uses the opportunity to convert him to cyborg against his will (temporarily rendering him a BrainInAJar while he goes through drug withdrawal, which doesn't help his mood), banking on using his Nuke addiction to keep him under control. Go fig, it turns out placing a brain with a GodComplex, a sadistic sense of humor and zero empathy into a massive, heavily armed robotic body is a ''bad'' idea, and Cain goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against OCP and the police the second he has a chance.

* ''Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries'': According to the first book, the BenevolentPrecursors progressively replaced their bodies with cyborg implants as they wore outm until the only organic components left to them were their brains. And eventually, BrainUploading made even this obsolete, with the race existing as mechanical minds inhabiting SapientShip bodies -- [[spoiler: until they [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence transcended physical existence altogether]].]]

** Starting with their second appearance in "The Moonbase", the Cybermen became this having all encompassing huge metal bodies and full integrated mechanics. Whilst it was consistently agreed that internally they still retained some organic parts (and that they could convert other humans and humanoids into Cybermen), the exact details were never gone into with them regularly being shown that the majority of them was machine. To the point that they were sometimes mistaken for robots by those unaware of their true nature.

* Music/TheMechanisms: Drumbot Brian has had everything but his heart mechanized. Later live-shows give his performer full-face makeup to match the lore.

* ''TabletopGame/Cyberpunk2020'': Adam Smasher debuted in the RPG Cyberpunk 2020, but he was one of many "full conversion" or "full 'borgs". There was the Gemini that was made to look like a human, several that looked robotic, an aircraft and the fearsome Dragoon. The Dragoon was a 7-8 foot tall killing machine barely controlled by cyberware and drugs, the only organic part was human brain that controlled it. Many "full 'borgs" opted for a BrainInAJar system where they could swap bodies.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'': Full-conversion cyborgs have their entire bodies except for their brain and spinal column replaced with machinery. Many lean into the unsettling aspect of their appearance, opting to have their facial plates sculpted into demonic, skeletal or otherwise monstrous shapes.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' 2nd Edition supplement ''Cybertechnology''. It is possible to replace a person's arms, legs, torso and skull with cybertech, with only their brain remaining from their original body. However, cybermancy magic must be used to allow the recipient to survive the complete loss of all Essence (LifeEnergy).

* ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'': The Handymen retain only a few of their original organs in their massive steampunk bodies, most prominently their heads and hearts -- which can be seen via a porthole in their torsos and [[AttackItsWeakPoint shot by wily players]]. Given the powerful-but-clumsy tech that was used to [[WeCanRebuildHim remake them]], Handymen find this condition ''agonizing.''
* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': Adam Smasher used to be a human, but cared so little for his organic side that in the current day, he's almost entirely robotic (96%, to be specific), his flesh now consisting of nothing more than small amount of skin stretched over a robotic face.

** The Lin Kuei cyborgs such as Cyrax and Sektor appear visibly robotic, but they still retain a human brain and spinal chord to function and maintain their personalities. An ongoing plot with the faction has the leader trying to cyberize the whole Lin Kuei and restrict their memories, turning them into unquestioning soldiers. Cyrax actively rebels against this plot, while Sektor ends up being the one to further push it with the goal of himself becoming the new head of the Lin Kuei.

** A sidequest on Dromund Kaas features the renegade Sith Lord Grathan having captured loyalist Imperial soldiers and had their brains surgically removed and installed in droid bodies as experimental {{Super Soldier}}s. The PlayerCharacter meets one who awoke before he could be fully programmed, and begs them to kill him and his comrades and destroy the research, and to tell his commanding officer what happened to them.

* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' has "ascension perks" that allow empires to embrace the machine. At the first step, this simply involves cybernetic parts -- reflected by the addition of the ''Cyborg'' trait to pops and leaders. The general population become hardier and more productive, whilst leaders become more effective in their general areas and live longer. A second level perk allows empire to transcend their fleshy/vegetal/fungoid/etc. bodies entirely and become true machines... though many other empires will be horrified (as they think CyberneticsEatYourSoul) and try to wipe out the offending transcendents as a result.

* ''VisualNovel/YourTurnToDie'': In chapter 3-1, [[spoiler:the remaining survivors in the DeadlyGame end up meeting with [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots doll versions]] of various deceased characters. One of these is of the real Sou Hiyori, though he ends up taking [[HelloInsertNameHere a new name]] due to his original name being used by one of the Death Game participants, Midori being the default new name. Near the end of the chapter, Midori ends up revealing he isn?t actually dead, but he ended up replacing parts of his body with those of dolls, to the point that even he himself says he?s more machine than human, with his human parts being used on the other dolls. This is done so as to confuse a device that determines whether someone is a human or doll, [[LoopholeAbuse allowing him to cheat in a sub-game that utilises said device]].]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Outsider}}'': The Umiak freely and unsentimentally modify themselves to meet whatever situations arise, and by the present day the vast majority of their population is vat-grown at need and many sport mechanical enhancements of various sorts. The most extreme examples of this are the [[https://www.well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider190.html hardtroops]], highly specialized warriors than consist of little more than a nervous and digestive system inside of a large, powerful mechanical shell, which depending on the "model" can be further modified to sport any number of weapons and modified limbs to turn them into specialized shock troops and living weapons platforms. Notably, because all Umiak are artificially created to serve as living tools anyway, there isn't any great social divide between the hardtroops and their more organic fellow crew members.

* In the universe of ''Webcomic/CassiopeiaQuinn'', full conversion cyborgs co-exist with RidiculouslyHumanRobots, [[https://www.cassiopeiaquinn.com/comic/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep-satellite9-guest-comic with only the presence of limited organic material distinguishing them.]] Minor antagonist Dr. Karla Botz hopes to start a galactic robot uprising to dominate all organics, [[https://www.cassiopeiaquinn.com/comic/robot-domination-part-1 despite only being a cyborg herself.]]

** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'': Frost willingly turns herself into a cyborg after aligning herself with [[BigBad Kronika]] and willingly betrays Sub-Zero as she felt he didn't appreciate her potential. Not only that, she also forcibly robotizes her ex-Lin Kuei comrades into {{Cyber Ninja}}s out of pettiness. When he notices what she has done, it horrifies Sub-Zero as he didn't like being robotized. Even the other kombatants express their dismay at what Frost has become.
*** During non-story fights, one of Frost's Fatalities involves ripping out the opponent's brain in a classic play on the Spine Rip fatality. The twist is that the brain is placed into a Cyber Lin-Kuei body. While some of the kombatants such as Shao Kahn and Kano are unpleasant to begin with, seeing them turned into robo-ninjas against their will is jarring. It is one of the few Fatalities in the series (along with Shang Tsung's soul-stealing ones in the [[VideoGame/MortalKombatII second]] and [[MortalKombat3 third]] games) that inflicts a FateWorseThanDeath rather than outright killing the victim.

* In the universe of ''Webcomic/CassiopeiaQuinn'', full conversion cyborgs co-exist with RidiculouslyHumanRobots, [[https://www.cassiopeiaquinn.com/comic/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep-satellite9-guest-comic with only the presence of limited organic material distinguishing them.]] Minor antagonist Dr. Kara Botz hopes to start a galactic robot uprising to dominate all organics, [[https://www.cassiopeiaquinn.com/comic/robot-domination-part-1 despite only being a cyborg herself.]]

Most fictional {{cyborg}}s are still visibly human. They might have ArtificialLimbs, or an ElectronicEye or two, but they obviously started as a fully organic person, and the organic parts predominate. The Full-Conversion Cyborg is not like that. The Full-Conversion cyborg has had pretty much their whole body replaced with technology, appearing almost like a robot at first glance. Sometimes, only their brain remains; in other cases, a limited cored of organic systems is kept to keep the brain supplied with blood and nutrients.

Frequently the result of UnwillingRoboticization, the Full-Conversion Cyborg tends to have a high chance to show up in CyberneticsEatYourSoul or WhatMeasureIsANonHuman plots, given that, going solely by proportions, they're closer to robots than people.

*** During non-story fights, one of Frost's Fatalities involves ripping out the opponent's brain in a classic play on the Spine Rip fatality. The twist is that the brain is placed into a Cyber Lin-Kuei body. While some of the kombatants such as Shao Kahn and Kano are unpleasant to begin with, seeing them turned into robo-ninjas against their will is jarring. It is the only Fatality in the series that inflicts a FateWorseThanDeath rather than just outright killing the victim.

* ''Anime/GalaxyExpress999''. Humans are able to put their minds in machine bodies, to achieve a form of immortality. It is very much a case of CyberneticsEatYourSoul. Some people, realizing this, or tiring of immortality, can return to their human bodies, which are stored on Pluto in the Graves of Ice.

Most fictional {{cyborg}}s are still visibly human. They might have ArtificialLimbs, or an ElectronicEye or two, but they obviously started as a fully organic person, and the organic parts predominate. The Full-Conversion Cyborg is not like that. The Full-Conversion cyborg has had pretty much their whole body replaced with technology, appearing as a RidiculouslyHumanRobot at first glance. Sometimes, only their brain remains. Frequently the result of UnwillingRoboticization, the Full-Conversion Cyborg tends to have a high chance to show up in CyberneticsEatYourSoul or WhatMeasureIsANonHuman plots, given that, going solely by proportions, they're closer to robots than people.

* In ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'' many cyborgs are little more than a head on a cyborg body, including the titular character. [[spoiler: Citizens of Zalem are often the inverse, their brains replaced with a chip in an otherwise organic body.]]
* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', [[MadScientist Dr Gero]] places his brain in a robot body.
* Alluded to in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', where people mistake Alphonse Elric (a soul in a suit of armor) for someone with a full body [[ArtificialLimbs automail prosthetic]].

* In ''Anime/NeoHumanCasshern'', main character Tetsuya Azuma willingly becomes a full conversion cyborg called Casshern. His dog, Lucky, also becomes one called Friender.
* Garuballade from ''Anime/UltramanTheAdventureBegins'', whose default form is an insectoid monster hibernating in an asteroid filled with metal, but upon crashing itself on earth, proceeds to absorb the metal to form it's exterior body. When Ultraman Scott arrives to prevent it from destroying Louisiana, Garuballade has completely become a robotic creature, and whatever organic features it ''used'' to have is hidden entirely in its mechanical shell.

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** The ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' villain Metallo aka John Corben is a man whose brain was placed in a robot body powered by green Kryptonite after a freak accident. Some incarnations feature him trying to return to a normal life, only to fail and be pulled back into villainy.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Grendel}}'', Grendel Prime, at the time he's first introduced, is little more than a head and upper torso with mechanical limbs. By the time of ''Batman/Grendel II'', his only remaining human parts are his brain and eyes. The intervening events are described with gruesome BodyHorror in the prose novel ''Grendel: Past Prime''.

** The B'omarr Order was a group of ascetics who surgically extracted their own brains to become a BrainInAJar as a form of intentional sensory deprivation so they could achieve enlightenment. More senior monks were permitted to connect their brains to cybernetic SpiderWalker bodies for practical needs. Jabba the Hutt's palace in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' is a B'omarr monastery that the Hutt Cartel took over about half of; a monk's walker is briefly visible when C-3PO and R2-D2 enter at the beginning of the film. In both the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' and ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', they retook full control of the palace after Jabba's death.

* After suffering fatal injuries in ''Literature/{{Colony}},'' luckless protagonist Eddie O'Hare awakens to find his mortal remains plugged into an [[CrapolaTech extremely clumsy mechanical body]]; his only organic components are his severed head and spinal column, currently [[BrainInAJar suspended in a glass jar]] attached to the neck of his new body. It's eventually revealed that the process is so psychologically jarring that most recipients either die of shock or go completely insane - [[spoiler: as was the case with [[BigBad Paulo San Pablos]], the hitman that followed Eddie onto the ''Willflower.'']]

* According to the first book in ''Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries'', the BenevolentPrecursors progressively replaced their bodies with cyborg implants as they wore outm until the only organic components left to them were their brains. And eventually, BrainUploading made even this obsolete, with the race existing as mechanical minds inhabiting SapientShip bodies - [[spoiler: until they [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence transcended physical existence altogether]].]]

* Drumbot Brian, from {{Steampunk}} KayfabeBand Music/TheMechanisms has had everything but his heart mechanized. Later live-shows give his performer full-face makeup to match the lore.

* ''[[TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} Cyberpunk 2020]]'': Adam Smasher debuted in the RPG Cyberpunk 2020, but he was one of many "full conversion" or "full 'borgs". There was the Gemini that was made to look like a human, several that looked robotic, an aircraft and the fearsome Dragoon. The Dragoon was a 7-8 foot tall killing machine barely controlled by cyberware and drugs, the only organic part was human brain that controlled it. Many "full 'borgs" opted for a BrainInAJar system where they could swap bodies.

* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000,''

* The Handymen of ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' retain only a few of their original organs in their massive steampunk bodies, most prominently their heads and hearts - which can be seen via a porthole in their torsos and [[AttackItsWeakPoint shot by wily players]]. Given the powerful-but-clumsy tech that was used to [[WeCanRebuildHim remake them]], Handymen find this condition ''agonizing.''
* Adam Smasher of ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' used to be a human, but cared so little for his organic side that in the current day, he's almost entirely robotic (96%, to be specific), his flesh now consisting of nothing more than small amount of skin stretched over a robotic face.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', Quickthinx Allthoughts, the leader of the Illuminati, is revealed to be more machina than goblin after he survives getting a bullet to the head from Mide. The heroes had thought he was merely wearing a mask and partially cybernetic prior to the reveal.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' eventually reveals that the Collectors, despite appearing to be InsectoidAliens, are heavily-disguised cyborgs. They were originally a race conquered and enslaved by [[MechanicalAbomination the Reapers]], but as [[MindRape indoctrination destroyed their intelligence]], they were implanted with Reaper tech to compensate; over generations of cloning and genetic experimentation, more implants were added to replace organs that failed to form, until the Collectors were reduced to carapaces draped over highly-sophisticated machinery. Today, they're just cheap clones kept active through one-size-fits-all implants. And that species that the Collectors used to be? [[spoiler: The Protheans - a race so different that you'd be hard-pressed to find similarities between the two.]]
* In between ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', Raiden was converted into a full-body cyborg. He usually leaves his mechanical parts uncovered, with only his face looking consistently organic. [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Four years later]], full-body cyborgs, such as the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Winds of Destruction]] and assorted EliteMooks, are much more common. [[spoiler: [[TheDragon Sundowner]] is trying to use the process on ''children'' to turn them into ChildSoldiers, using Raiden's experiences as a template.]]

** Weavel from ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeHunters'' is one of these, having become one after being left for dead in a fight against Samus. The only organic parts of his body left are his brain and spinal cord.
** Ghor from ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'' is even more so, with 94% of his body stated to be completely mechanical while the other 6% is what's left of his original body. He's typically a NiceGuy known for making charitable donations and occasionally working for free, although in his battle armor he becomes a lot more aggressive.

-->'''Jones:''' Oh man, was she okay, what happened to her?
-->'''Angel:''' Oh nothin', she volunteered for it, she just wanted to be a badass cyborg. Those upgrades can be super addictive.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode [[Recap/FuturamaS7E7TheSixMillionDollarMon The Six Million Dollar Mon]] Hermes replaces pieces of his body with cybernetics until he's reduced to an organic brain (and dreadlocks) in a hulking mecha-Hermes. Then he decides to replace his brain with a robot CPU as well...

** In "[[Recap/LoveDeathAndRobotsGoodHunting Good Hunting]]", Yan, a Huli Jing, is forced against her will to become a steampunk cyborg to appeal to the mayor's sexual desires. After killing him, she approaches her human friend, who uses his mechanical prowess to revert her back to her fox form.
** In "[[Recap/LoveDeathAndRobotsZimaBlue Zima Blue]]", the eponymous artist has been cybernetically augmented so thoroughly that his few remaining organic components are hidden inside the polymer shell that's replaced his skin. [[spoiler: And then it turns out that Zima actually used to be a robot that remade itself into a human, before remaking himself into a cyborg; during his climactic self-dismantling, no organic components can be found anywhere in Zima's body.]]

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* ''[[{{TabletopGame/Cyberpunk}} Cyberpunk 2020]]'': Adam Smasher debuted in the RPG Cyberpunk 2020, but he was one of many "full conversion" or "full 'borgs". There was the Gemini that was made to look like a human, several that looked robotic, an aircraft and the fearsome Dragoon. The Dragoon was a 7-8 foot tall killing machine barely controlled by cyberware and drugs, the only organic part was human brain that controlled it. Many "full 'borgs" opted for a BrainInAJar system where they could swap bodies.