History Main / WeCanRebuildHim

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader. At the climax of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', he gets horrifically burned and loses all of his limbs save his prosthetic hand. Palpatine has him outfitted with new prosthetics and a [[VaderBreath breathing apparatus.]] He's still mostly human, but can't survive without his suit, "more machine now than man," as Obi-Wan says in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.

%% * In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', [[spoiler:Pronto]] goes through this, becoming the brainwashed and crazy Modern Prometheus, who nearly kills Siphon.
* ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'' character Commander Steel is a man named Henry Haywood who was injured in an accident and had his skeleton replaced with a metallic alloy when the doctors helped him recover.
* Rebecca Ryker, debuting in ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'', has this as backstory. When a Deathlok robot from the future tried to kill her father, lead designer of Deathlok program, he instead killed her mother and brother as well as severely wounded her. Her father then saved her life but turning her into a cyborg, now known also under alias Death Locket.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' foe Gearhead. While he was kidnapping and holding Gloria Osteen, his boss' daughter, for ransom, he ran afoul of Batman who rescued her, but Batman was not able to save Nathan from falling to a presumed icy death. Nathan Finch's body was discovered by two down-and-out people who take him to an underworld doctor named Dr. Bascomb. It turned out that Nathan was not dead and the doctor wanted Nathan's knowledge of cybernetics. Due to the ravages of frostbite, Dr. Bascomb was forced to remove his arms and legs and replaced them with cybernetic arms and legs. Following training with his cybernetic limbs, Nathan becomes Gearhead and develops his own cybernetic arsenal of removable body parts as well as a goal to exterminate Batman.
* ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'': This is what the villain the Duke of Oil thinks SKULL did to him after his accident. He was actually subjected to UnwillingRoboticisation.
* Averted with [=USAgent=] from ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica''. He lost an arm and a leg to Nuke, a cybernetically-augmented SuperSoldier, but refuses to get cybernetic replacements, as he doesn't want to look down at his own body and be reminded of Nuke every day... [[HandicappedBadass not that he really needs 'em]]. Played straight later, his legs do get rebuilt by his supervillainess comrade Toxy Doxie. He accepts because these legs aren't robotic but are instead made of re-engineered alien symbiote.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Chassis}}'', Covergirl was almost killed in a spectacular FlyingCar crash.She underwent extensive reconstructive surgery that included the implanting of various mechanical improvements in her body. However, her lungs were so badly damaged that she cannot survive without a portable respirator machine she must always carry with her.
* ''ComicBook/{{Chew}}'' has this for two characters [[spoiler:so far]]. The first one it happens to is [[spoiler:Colby]] who [[spoiler:takes a butcher's knife to the face in issue #1]] while [[spoiler:Poyo]] undergoes this later on.

* ''ComicBook/{{Deathlok}} the Demolisher''. A US Army [[ColonelBadass colonel]] who was mortally wounded in a BadFuture, he gets reanimated as a cyborg and eventually time travels to the main Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' member Robotman. In his case, everything but the brain is robotic.
* ''ComicBook/GlobalFrequency'' features a squad assembled from members of the titular group to take down a "realistic" take on the Six Million Dollar Man. Specifically creating the single successful individual required several failures and cost somewhere in the vein of five hundred million dollars. It entailed basically turning the subject into a humanoid BrainInAJar as his skin was replaced, bones were replaced, weapons were installed, and chips were inserted into his brain to allow him to operate everything. He also runs on at least two nuclear reactors, has a plasma laser in his chest, a vulcan minigun in his arm, and can do 70 miles per hour from a standing start. Most nefariously, he has a wire to simulate sexual pleasure from murdering people...and he's loose.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Legacy}}'', Cade refuses to let Azlyn Rae die and has her put in a Vader-like life support armor. She is initially very unhappy with this, both because she was at peace and because the armor came with a Vader-like mask too. Fortunately, she was able to trade up for a more elegant suit of armor sans breath mask.
* ''ComicBook/MoonKnight'' briefly had a teenage sidekick named Jeff Wilde, a.k.a. Midnight, the son of his old enemy Midnight Man. Wilde was killed during a battle with the Secret Empire, but as was eventually revealed, the blast only badly injured him, and the Empire took the opportunity to rebuild him as a monstrous cyborg, obsessed with revenge against Moon Knight.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Okko}}'' a custom [[PoweredArmor Bunraku]] was fashioned for the legendary demon hunter Kubban Kiritsu that essentially served as his new body after he was badly maimed in his duel with the sorcerer Phang Lho.
* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' fights and decapitates a villain known only as The Russian. He is later rebuilt with stolen technology, but, in a terrifying move, is now given huge boobs as an unfortunate side effect of the hormone treatment required to keep him alive. The Russian isn't the least bit fazed by this, and actually requests to have them made ''[[BuxomBeautyStandard bigger]]!''

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' villain Silvermane, a high-ranking member of {{The Ma|fia}}ggia who sought a way to avoid death from old age for years, eventually resorting to transforming himself into a cyborg after being badly injured during a fight with the second Green Goblin.
* Several characters in ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'':

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' villain Metallo, in most versions a criminal (usually a man named John Corben, but there's been others, including a version of Lex Luthor) who has his brain put into a robotic body after his original human form is damaged beyond repair. Adding an extra layer to the character is the fact that in most versions, only green kryptonite can provide enough power to properly run the robotic body, inevitably driving him into conflict with Superman.

* In ''ComicBook/TransformersVsGIJoe'', Billy loses his arm and leg during a fight with Snake-Eyes. Megatron then replaces Billy's missing limbs by binary-bonding him to the Decepticons Army (who serves as Billy's new arm) and Limbot (who is the replacement for Billy's leg).
* The ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'' version of ComicBook/BlackPanther is a Wakandan teenager who was rebuilt into a cyborg by Weapon X after getting mauled by a panther.
* The Machine Men in ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'' were Martians that have been killed and had their heads placed on cybernetic bodies. Their creation was possible by researching an ancient golem sealed under Helium's catacombs. Their head being intact is required to create a Machine Man, the manner or time of their death is irrelevant. The very first Machine Man [[spoiler:Senneth Dor]] tries to raise an army with them to conquer Mars.
* The ''ComicBook/XMen'' villain Crimson Commando was nearly killed during a mission working for the U.S. government in Iraq, including having his arm sliced off. He was saved by [[DishingOutDirt Avalanche]], who got him back to base in time to receive medical attention. Since he still wanted to serve his country, the Commando agreed to be rebuilt as a cyborg by SHIELD scientists. A test run briefly caused him to go crazy until he was stopped by ComicBook/SpiderMan and ComicBook/GhostRider, but once the bugs were worked out he started serving as a government agent full-time.