History Main / FullConversionCyborg

* ''VideoGame/BIOFreaks'': Dozer-class F.R.E.A.K.s are mostly mechanical save for their brains, as they happen to be F.R.E.A.Ks. whose HealingFactor has finally ran out due to defects in the cloning process.

** 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.
** The parallel-universe Cybermen created on an alternate Earth by Cybus Industries were described as being nothing more than human brains in completely mechanical bodies.
** The Toclafane from "The Sound of Drums"/"Last of The Time Lords" are humans who had their heads removed from their bodies and placed into spherical robotic shells to survive after the last stars in the universe went out. Unfortunately, the conversion [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul completely destroyed their sanity]], and now they willingly serve the Master and kill on his orders because they think it's fun.
** The Cybermen created as a slave army by Missy in "Dark Water"/"Death In Heaven" were cyber-converted human skeletons without even organic brains, inhabited by copies of the originals' personalities with the emotions removed which were created using Gallifreyan "Matrix" technology.

* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'': BridgeBunny Airiam, who appears to be an android, is revealed to be one in [[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS2E09ProjectDaedalus "Project Daedalus"]]. After suffering catastrophic injuries in a shuttle crash, she had to be cyberized to the point where even parts of her brain were replaced with computer memory that she has to download to offline storage periodically or run out of space. [[spoiler:This allows her body to be taken over by the rogue AI Control, forcing Burnham to MercyKill her via [[ThrownOutTheAirlock airlock]].]]

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** ''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 figure, it turns out placing a brain with a [[AGodAmI god complex]], 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.

People's reasons for becoming beings of this sort vary. A common origin has them suffer from horrific accidents that left the majority of their bodies unsalvageable, [[WeCanRebuildHim requiring the placement of their surviving parts in an artificial shell]]. Others take a more {{Transhuman}}ist route, replacing and upgrading more and more of their original bodies in an attempt to become more effective at their chosen vocations or to achieve a higher state of consciousness. Others still are the result of UnwillingRoboticization, often intended to turn them into living weapons. The Full-Conversion Cyborg tends to have a high chance of showing up in CyberneticsEatYourSoul or WhatMeasureIsANonHuman plots, given that, going solely by proportions, they're closer to robots than people.

* ''VideoGame/CopyKitty'': Every Cyber in the 'verse was a RandomlyGifted person who was roboticized (usually of the [[UnwillingRoboticization unwilling]] kind) by the Cybers presumably to expand their ranks. Isotope, the one who appears in game doesn't even look like she was ever organic, and judging by the [[AllThereInTheManual developer's worldbuilding]], that's par for the course.

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, and usually appear like a robot at first glance. Sometimes, only their brain remains; in other cases, a limited core of organic systems is kept to keep the brain supplied with blood and nutrients.

* ''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 becomes 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 [[BrainUploading entirely]] and become true machines... though Spiritualist empires will decide the transcendent empire committed mass suicide and were replaced by soulless machines and attempt to wipe out the abominations.

* ''Literature/DiamondDogs''. The team attempting to pass the increasingly deadly and complicated traps of the [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Blood Spire]] have to modify their minds and bodies to replace severed limbs, increase their intelligence and survival ability, and enter the doors which get smaller the further you go. Eventually they resemble greyhounds covered with diamond armor, the "diamond dogs" of the title. [[spoiler:The MadScientist who carried out the augmentations is convinced it's his greatest work and kills himself so he won't have to change them back, leading the SoleSurvivor stuck in that form.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'': Wonder Woman, Hawkman, Martian Manhunter, Mera, and Starfire all end up being horribly mutilated by Paradooms and [[ReforgedIntoAMinion eventually turned into Darkseid's cyborg Furies]]. Their bodies have become mostly machine with very little of their original bodies remaining, with Wonder Woman arguably being the least horrifying-looking out of the five.

* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah Mechagodzilla]] looks on the surface like it's purely cybernetic, but it's ultimately revealed to be this trope: the neural transmitter which controls the Mecha's actions is using [[spoiler:the undead, telepathic upper-skull of Ghidorah's leftover severed head]] as its WetwareCPU, and Bernie Hayes furthermore speculates that there's likely a second piece of [[spoiler:Ghidorah's DNA (believed by Bernie in the movie and explicitly stated in the novelization to be a second skull, although neither version of the story explains where the hell a second skull came from [[NotEnoughToBury given the nature of Ghidorah's death]])]] integrated in the actual Mecha to act as the receiver. At first, Mechagodzilla is strictly under its builders' control, but once the Mecha is empowered with untested HollowEarth energy, [[spoiler:what's left of Ghidorah's consciousness re-emerges and takes control of the Mecha for itself]], ironically turning Godzilla's EvilKnockoff into [[spoiler:Godzilla's ArchEnemy [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnated]] as a RoboticPsychopath]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'': The titular characters are organic brains installed in TransformingMecha bodies.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'': Wonder Woman, Hawkman, Martian Manhunter, Mera, and Starfire all end up being horribly mutilated by Paradooms and eventually turned into Darkseid's [[ReforgedIntoAMinion cyborg furies]]. The majority of their bodies are robotized with very little of their original ones left. All of them are freed from Darkseid's control through various means and rejoin the heroic side during the final act.

* ''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/GhostInTheShell1995 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.

** Cyborgization extends to this in many cases, such as the "mechs" in the ''Rika's Marauders'' series. Built by the Genevian Alliance as {{Super Soldier}}s during their war with the Nietzschean Empire, mechs have their limbs removed and replaced with attachment points for cybernetic limbs and weapons, a BrainComputerInterface installed that includes a RestrainingBolt and a compartment for an AI core, and internal batteries for all their various add-ons (it's noted that some of Rika's c-batts would have to be removed in order for her genitalia to be made usable again). Later models have artificial skin to remove the need to take mechs out of their undersuits for cleaning.

** {{Inverted|Trope}} 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.

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Contrast ArtificialHuman, MeatSackRobot, WetwareBody, and WetwareCPU for situations where a machine intelligence takes on more organic materials.

** The first Robotman was a GoldenAge superhero. After being fatally wounded, his brain was transplanted into the robot body he had been working on.

* ''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.

** There's also Lizzy Wizzy, with her ChromeChampion appearance.

* ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'': Past a point, it's more convenient for a SuperSoldier to convert to "five pounds of flesh strapped to a robot" than to work around the limitations of their organic parts. The Commander's ex-girlfriend Spider [[https://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/happy-four-years-of-mgdmt switched]] to a full machine body with [[https://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/ace-enters-the-fry tons of bonus features.]]

** ''Film/RoboCop1987'' doesn't go into extreme detail over what remains of Alex Murphy, but largely implied all that remains is his head and some minimal organs in the chest. Even the rest of his skull is obviously metallic, [[UncannyValley face aside]]. In the second movie he gets dismembered but survives with only his head and half his torso intact.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': Common [[PrivateMilitaryContractors for hunters]] in this CyberPunk setting, but most of these came to be via WeCanRebuildHim. Many hunters carry a BrainUploading 'black box' device on their body to be recovered post-mortem, with a saved version of their consciousness inside, such things often being part of an insurance plan, which is why corpses are taken in Search and Rescue operations. This kind of backup results in some enemies coming for ResurrectionRevenge on Akira as this. The various SenseLossSadness this leads to is explored in depth. Nelia, being a brain-only cyborg, has the benefit of her connection to her prosthetic bodies allowing her a BrainComputerInterface to plug into her vehicles and control them as if they were her body, allowing her to be an AcePilot of MiniMecha, and BadassDriver.

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* ''Franchise/MegaMan''

* ''Franchise/MetalGear'': In between ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', 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.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots'': The titular characters are organic brains installed in TransformingMecha bodies.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[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...

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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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** Borgware in general is how one normally does full conversion. It generally requires an Implanted Linear Frame, which in turn requires high Body and Grafted Muscle and Bone Lace to be installed first. The highest grade of linear frame requires two applications of Grafted Muscle and Bone Lace before it can be installed. It is also very expensive and [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul very taxing on your Humanity]], placing your average solo at serious risk of going psycho.

* ''TabletopGame/Cyberpunk'':

** Borgware in general is how one normallly does full conversion. It generally requires an Implanted Linear Frame, which in turn requires high Body and Grafted Muscle and Bone Lace to be installed first. The highest grade of linear frame requires two such applications before it can be installed. It is also very expensive and [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul very taxing on your Humanity]].

* ''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/MagicTheGathering'': The ''Unstable'' joke set introduces the Order of the Widget, a group of well-intentioned but rather insane artificers who replace body parts to function better. Many consist of little more than a head and a limb or two mounted on a clockwork or steampunk mechanical body; their leader, [[https://scryfall.com/card/ust/131/the-grand-calcutron the Grand Calcutron]], is enhanced to the point of being completely immobile and no longer actually counting as even an Artifact Creature in game terms, but just an Artifact.