History Main / ManInTheMachine

* Alex Murphy, aka ''Franchise/RoboCop'', is almost completely mechanical. He doesn't even have a full organic head, just face grafted onto a case for his brain and spinal cord. The [[Film/RoboCop2014 remake's version]] is has ''slightly'' more organic parts, but how little is graphically demonstrated (to the audience [[TomatoInTheMirror and Murphy himself]]) when his machine parts are taken off, leaving just a head, a plastic shell with a few organs (including lungs), and one hand.

* Alex Murphy, aka ''Franchise/RoboCop''.

* In ''VideoGame/RType'', this is how a WetwareCPU was made. The R-9C War-Head is piloted by a biological computer made of amputated pilots linked onto the spacecrafts, the pilots are contained within a capsule known as Angel Pac. The R-9/0 Ragnarok is also speculated to have used a ''[[PoweredByAForsakenChild 23 year old girl stuck in a biologically 14 year old body]]'' as its biological computer, which the military denied the speculation.

* In ''VideoGame/RType'', this is how a WetwareCPU was made. The R-9C War-Head is piloted by a biological computer made of amputated pilots linked onto the spacecrafts, the pilots are contained within a capsule known as Angle Pac. The R-9/0 Ragnarok is also speculated to have used a ''[[PoweredByAForsakenChild 23 year old girl stuck in a biologically 14 year old body]]'' as its biological computer, which the military denied the speculation.

* Big Daddies from ''VideoGame/BioShock'' are humans whose organs have been removed and grafted into huge mechanized diving suits outfitted with [[ThisIsADrill one of]] [[NailEm several]] [[TheTurretMaster weapon]] [[FrickinLaserBeams loadouts]]. The FlawedPrototype Alpha Series Big Daddies are not grafted, and can take their suits off, but in order to be big enough to fill them they have to be spliced up so heavily that [[BodyHorror it's probably better for everyone if they kept them on]].

* This trope is more or less the entire point of the series of books starting with ''Literature/TheShipWho Sang'' by Creator/AnneMcCaffrey. Each of the main characters is a disabled person cybernetically attached to a ship. Or, for less adventurous shell-people, space stations. Eventually, however, [[spoiler:technology is developed that allows the shell-people to control human-sized robot bodies]].

->'''Diddy:''' I don't know how to tell you, metal buddy, but you look just like a solar-powered turbo-charged washing machine.
->'''DK:''' I'm not light on my feet, now I clank and I squeak, but my voice is the same when I speak
->My hand looks like aluminum foil
->Does this mean that I need a tune-up and a change of oil?
-->-- Donkey Kong TV series The Big Switch A Roo

* ''Seriess/{{NTSFSDSUV}}'': The NTSF office have their own precog lying in a bathtub filled with "thought goo". When they go and ask her for information, they find Alphonse in a compromising position with her.

** [[spoiler:Roboute Guilliman as of the Gathering Storm]] wears the Armor of Fate. The Armor of Fate is a specialized suit of PoweredArmor that also doubles as a life support system. He needs to wear it because [[spoiler:the venom from Fulgrim's blade is still in his system.]] It's basically a more elegant version of a Dreadnought.

* This trope is more or less the entire point of the series of books starting with ''Literature/TheShipWho Sang'' by Creator/AnneMcCaffrey. Each of the main characters is a disabled person cybernetically attached to a ship. Or, for less adventurous shell-people, space stations. Eventually, however, [[spoiler: technology is developed that allows the shell-people to control human-sized robot bodies]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}:'' Gideon Literature/{{Ravenor}}, a man so crippled his melted remnants are encased in a life-support/psychic enhancement antigravity box.

* The Hitek, a dead-end branch of human evolution from ''Literature/ManAfterMan'', had become so crippled by hereditary ailments that they spent their entire lives sealed inside personal hospital-suite/transports. Most were so frail that they'd die if they left their carriers long enough to attempt to breed.

** Not quite a human example, but [[BlackKnight Frank]] [[BigBad Horrigan]] in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' is permanently welded/grafted into his [[DarkLordOnLifeSupport life-supporting]] PowerArmor.

** Even worse, Raiden in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots MGS4]]'', whose only organic parts are his head and spine.

* Space Marine Dreadnaughts in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'' are mortally wounded Space Marines placed inside a life-supporting sarcophagus that is then installed into [[WalkingTank a robotic body]]. Because dying is no reason to stop fighting. Ork Dreads and Killa Kans follow the same principle, with an Ork or Grot "volunteer" wired inside a robotic body.

** For orks, the process is treated with the usual humorous relish- When a grot is wired into a killa kan, its first act is often to seek revenge on some of the orks who pushed around when it was weak flesh, much to the paternal-like pride of the mekboy who stuffed him in there.

* An [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung iron lung]] is a machine which enables a person to breath, when the muscle contol of the lungs is lost. Simply put, it's a steel cylinder with a person fully inside, except from the head, that keeps the person alive. For some it is {{AFateWorseThanDeath}}.

* An [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung iron lung]] is a machine which enables a person to breath, when the muscle contol of the lungs is lost. Simply put, it's a steel cylinder with a person fully inside, except from the head, that keeps the person alive. For some a {{FateWorseThanDeath}}.

* An [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung iron lung]] is a machine which enables a person to breath, when the muscle contol of the lungs is lost.]] Simply put, it's a steel cylinder with a [[FateWorseThanDeath person fully inside, except from the head, that keeps the person alive]].

* In ''VideoGame/RType'', this is how a WetwareCPU was made. The R-9C War-Head is piloted by a biological computer made of amputated pilots linked onto the spacecrafts, the pilots are contained within a capsule known as Angle Pac. The R-9/0 Ragnarok is also speculated to have used a 23 year old girl stuck in a biologically 14 year old body as its biological computer, which the military denied the speculation.

EchoesInTheDark, a Film/PacificRim fic has the Sentinels, which are particularly disturbing variation of Jeagers.

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* In ''VideoGame/RType'', this is how a WetwareCPU was made. The R-9C War-Head is piloted by a biological computer made of amputated pilots linked onto the spacecrafts, the pilots are contained within a capsule known as Angle Pac. The R-9/0 Ragnarok is also speculated to have used ''a 23 year old girl stuck in a biologically 14 year old body'' as its biological computer, which the military denied the speculation.

* [[spoiler: Ein Dalton]] from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' is merged with his own mecha after a fatal injury, the treatment was to keep him alive while being able to avenge his fallen allies.

* The Big Daddies from ''VideoGame/BioShock'' are humans with mechanized and weaponized diving suits permanently grafted on them.

* In ''{{VideoGame/Outlast}}'', one of the main antagonists is Billy, an inmate who is being used to conjure the evil spirit "Walrider". Beneath Mount Massive, an entire complex is devoted to keeping him alive and sentient.