History Main / ReversibleRoboticizing

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'': Fiora is turned into a Mechon with most of her body becoming more mechanical than organic. She dislikes it at first, but slowly warms up to her new body as it allows her to fight alongside Shulk against the enemies they face as well as not requiring things like food or sleep anymore. However her body [[YourDaysAreNumbered starts to slowly shut down]] after [[spoiler: the loss of Meyneth]]. Luckily, Fiora manages to get her old body back in the epilogue thanks to a High Entia Regeneration Chamber.

* Raiden from ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' was forcibly turned into a cyborg sometime after the events of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' losing 90% of his original body. By the end of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' we see him in a human body [[SubvertedTrope but it's really just cybernetic body meant to look as human-like as possible]].

* Dr. Eggman and Dr. Wily combine their skills to [[ReforgedIntoMinion convert Sonic's friends]] into "Roboticized Masters" in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide''. Fortunately, the blue heroes discover this can be instantly and neatly undone by hitting them with a [[CombinationAttack Spin Dash and then the Mega Buster]]. After learning this, Tails quickly modifies the Mega Buster so its shots will have properties of the Spin Dash, streamlining the process to a [[OneHitKill single shot]].

* Dr. Eggman and Dr. Wily combine their skills to convert Sonic's friends into "Roboticized Masters" in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide''. Fortunately, the blue heroes discover this can be instantly, and neatly undone by hitting them with a [[CombinationAttack Spin Dash and then the Mega Buster]], which also conveniently drops the weapon they were using for Rock to copy. After learning this, Tails quickly modifies the Mega Buster so its shots will have properties of the Spin Dash, streamlining the process to a [[OneHitKill single shot]].

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'': Eventually a way to reverse roboticization was discovered, though Bunnie didn't get her organic limbs back until an encounter with Naugus even later as she needed to replace the roboticized limbs with prosthetics before the discovery.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'': Fiora is turned into a Mechon with most of her body becoming more mechanical than organic. She dislikes it at first, but slowly warms up to her new body as it allows her to fight alongside Shulk against the enemies they face as well as not requiring things like food or sleep anymore. However her body [[YourDaysAreNumbered starts to slowly shut down]] after [[spoiler: the loss of Meyneth]]. Luckily, Fiora manages to get her old body back in the epilogue thanks to a High Entia Regeneration Chamber.

* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' has Ridley being turned into a cyborg dubbed Meta Ridley by the Space Pirates after almost dying at the hands of Samus. This winds up making him stronger and giving him new abilities, remaining this way throughout the ''Prime'' trilogy. Come ''[[VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns Samus Returns]]'', Ridley has shed almost half of his implants and has completely removed the rest of them by the events of ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid.''

* During ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'', Meta Knight is captured by the Haltmann Works Company and turned into their cyborg minion Mecha Knight. After Kirby beats him the second time, he flees and turns a short while later with all his robotic parts removed.

->''You think turning yourself into one of those tin men is a two-way street? The Kraut's holding auditions for the Frankenstein parade, and you're first in line!''

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'': Fiora is turned into a mechon with most of her body becoming more mechanical than organic. She dislikes it at first, but slowly warms up to her new body as it allows her to fight alongside Shulk against the enemies they face as well as not requiring things like food or sleep anymore. However her body [[YourDaysAreNumbered starts to slowly shut down]] after [[spoiler: the loss of Meyneth]]. Luckily, Fiora manages to get her old body back in the epilogue thanks to the Regeneration Chamber.

* In ''[[BigFinishDoctorWho058TheHarvest The Harvest]]'', it's revealed certain kinds of Cyberman can be restored to a semblance of humanity via extensive grafts and additional organs. However, the process is massively impractical since the grafts are gradually rejected, and even though they crave emotions and their restored senses, this process doesn't stop the "humanized" Cybermen from ''still'' wanting to cyberconvert people.

** The ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Unimatrix Zero" sees Janeway, Tuvok, and Torres become temporarily assimilated, but the process is reversed later. The Doctor handwaves that all three do have some implants that cannot be removed, but are hidden away with cosmetic alterations. In contrast, Seven of Nine, Echeb, and the liberated Borg children cannot have their implants fully removed because they were all assimilated as children and have had them for most of their lives.
** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' further confirms that because Seven was assimilated as a child, she has far more Borg stuff remaining inside her than most other ex-Borg.

Contrast CyberneticsEatYourSoul for when cybernetics not only are not easily replaced but have psychological or metaphysical effects too. See also DeathIsCheap, UndeathIsCheap, and DismembermentIsCheap.

* In the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise, those who have been assimilated by the Borg can have (most of) their implants removed if they're broken free soon enough. It seems like the longer one spends assimilated, the more difficult the process becomes without seriously risking fatal complications.

* In the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise, anyone assimilated by the Borg can have their implants removed if they're broken free soon enough.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Picard's extensive Borg implants are removed offscreen and he physically looks back to normal afterwards, though the psychological scars persist. Oddly in the later ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' Seven of Nine can't have all of her implants removed.
** Also in ''Star Trek Voyager'', in the episode "Unimatrix Zero" Janeway, Tuvok, and Torres are temporarily assimilated, yet this can be reversed later. Just as with Picard, one must assume that the longer a drone stays assimilated the harder it is for the process to be reversed. Hence Seven having permanent implants, she was assimilated as a child.

Not these kinds of cybernetics.

Some forms of media will depict robotization or cybernetic implants as being something that can be easily removed or reversed no matter how impossible it may seem, and usually the individual seems to suffer no ill effects after doing so, such as nausea, extreme pain, or risk of the subject's body rejecting the new implants. Reasons may vary, such as there being a way to replace the subject's organic material or that they possess a healing factor that they may simply shed all their cybernetics like a snake shedding its skin.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': In the cyberpunk future of the game, it is possible to have cybernetic parts removed from the body via surgery, the same way they were added in the first place. However, the Essence (magical LifeEnergy) that was [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul lost when the cybernetics were first implanted]] is not regained.

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* ''WesternAnimation/Pinocchio3000'': The BigBad of the film creates a machine designed to turn human children into robots, which he himself winds up getting turned into too. Luckily the process is reversible and the children are turned back to normal.

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* In ''Fanfic/PonyPalsDirkStriderEdition'', Anna loses an arm, and grafts a sloth arm onto herself to replace it, with no recovery time.

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* PlayedForLaughs on ''Series/SledgeHammer'': One episode has Hammer go after a robot being used to commit crimes and get seriously injured in the process. The robot's co-creator then turns Hammer into a cyborg called Hammeroid (who bears a strong resemblance to Robocop). He helps to shut down the robot and gets the cybernetic implants removed with little trouble...except for the enhanced trigger finger.

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