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* ''LightNovel/DemonKingDaimao'' has Eiko killing [[spoiler:her father to become the new Teruya head]]. She's in for a bit of a surprise when he returns as a cyborg.

* ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'' has Gadget as an injured police officer who gets converted into a cyborg by the experimental Gadget Program.

* Available as an option in ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyWithin''. A soldier who gets critically wounded can be out of commission for up to a month, or even longer with the [[VideoGame/XComLongWar Long War mod]]. Converting a soldier into a [[{{Cyborg}} MEC Trooper]], however, takes 3 days. Sometimes you just need to get your best troops back into the field as soon as possible.

* Bunnie Rabbot from ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' has a variation of this. Her old roboticized limbs were finally being rejected by her body and the toxicity building up were killing her. She was given two options - attempt deroboticization, which had a very low chance of succeeding (it's stated that they can only be reverted by using the same roboticizor and while the Freedom Fighters had Bunnie's, it was repaired and modified, thus not the original) or replace her limbs and never have the chance to be normal again. She took option B.
** In the CosmicReboot universe, this trope was played straight with her: when Eggman took over Mobotropolis, a young Bunnie was caught in falling debris. To save her, Professor Charles the Hedgehog (the former Uncle Chuck) snuck Bunnie back into the city and used his roboticizor to save her life. It's also revealed that Eggman does this to those who join him, giving them cybernetics, but purposely botches them so that they'll stay with him forever.

* ''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 GagBoobs 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 ''bigger!''

* In ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]''[=/=]''[=Halo=]'']] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, Samantha Shepard cheats death ''[[RuleOfThree three]]'' times, two involving adding more cyborg parts -- the first is [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Cerberus' work]] and the second arises from being [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half the Woman She Used to Be]] courtesy of being taken out of the final battle in ''FanFic/{{Fractured}}''.

* All the [[BonusBoss Bonus Bosses]] in ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' are improved robotic versions of the older bosses. Which leads one to believe that ''[[FridgeHorror something]]'' [[FridgeHorror had rebuilt them for a reason]].

* Film/Dogma: The Metatron (as played by AlanRickman of course) paraphrased the speech from the show, while Bethany was busy being resurrected.

* In ''The Secret Colocation of Alex Mack''- a sequel to ''The League of Extraordinary Women'' and ''Fanfic/TheSecretReturnOfAlexMack''- primary fanfic protagonist Alex Mack, who previously made contact with Buffy Summers, Selina Kyle, Samantha Carter, Jamie Sommers, and Hermione Granger, is drawn into the parallel universe of Harry Dresden, along with her various allies from her previous cross-dimensional experience, ''and'' six versions of her from the various parallel realities (Lexi Mack the Slayer, Alexan Mack of the American wizarding world, etc.). In the world of Jamie Sommers, Jamie 'recruited' Aly Mack for the bionics program after she was caught in a serious plane accident, which resulted in her losing most of her limbs and internal organs and suffering serious burns; Aly states at one point that she has around 40% of her original body left, with the rest all being bionic.

* [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]]: College athlete Victor Stone is badly injured in a lab accident (originally a transdimensional experiment his parents were working on releasing a monstrous being, but it varies by canon), and his distraught father rebuilds him with experimental technology. Understandably, Cyborg is badly traumatized both by his injuries and UnwillingRoboticisation for quite some time.
%% * ComicBook/{{Deathlok}} the Demolisher from the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

* ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'': In ''Completing the Mission'', following the routes where the Right Hand Man is defeated by Henry, he comes back this way, with half of his face, one of his arms, and both of his legs being turned into metal. He is shown to be extremely powerful in this form, too, with such power-ups as jet boosters and EyeBeams.
Henry himself gets the same treatment at the beginning of the Revenged storyline.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': It's mentioned most cyborgs in the setting aren't one by choice, with SenseLossSadness explored in depth. In part {{Foreshadowing}} this, it's described how many hunters use a BrainUploading black box of sorts within their body that can be recovered to make them a FullConversionCyborg after "death". This happens [[spoiler:when Zelmo's fellow terrorists recover his body after Akira kills him for raiding Sheryl's shop.]] Additionally, there are MadScientist Yatsubiyashi's unethical experiments [[TooDesperateToBePicky taking advantage of those in the slums unable to pay]], which include Tiol, after being shot by Airi, getting monster {{Nanomachines}} injected into him which makes him face CyberneticsEatYourSoul, HorrorHunger, and FightingFromTheInside against monster programming and A.I. hacking him.

* [[BigBad Driscoll]] at the end of ''VideoGame/FrontMission1.'' In your (presumably) final confrontation, he is trapped in his destroyed Wanzer as it explodes around him. Most other pilots [[ArmoredCofffins don't survive if their Wanzer goes down]], but Driscoll is pulled from the wreckage and rebuilt as a sort of sentient intelligence core of the game's ''actual'' final boss. Lore-wise, if you play the GaidenGame, it turns out he was HoistByHisOwnPetard (he'd planned to use this process to turn someone else into an intelligence core he could control, not ''become'' one).

%% * Driscoll at the end of ''VideoGame/FrontMission1.'' If you play the GaidenGame, it turns out he was HoistByHisOwnPetard.

* [[invoked]] One of Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's {{Red Baron}}s is "The Bionic Redneck" due to [[NamesTheSame sharing his name]] with the Six Million Dollar Man.

* ''Literature/{{Cyborg}}'' by Creator/MartinCaidin. The book they based the TV series ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' on. Steve Austin is an Airforce test pilot rebuilt with cybernetic parts after a horrific crash. He spends much of the book wrestling with CyberneticsEatYourSoul, mostly because the prosthetics in the book are more "realistic" than in the TV series: He can't see through his bionic eye, though it can act as a micro-camera; his bionic limbs carry limited and unfamiliar sensation; and he only has 'super strength' in his grip, and in some forms of striking. Though he can run at tremendous speed almost indefinitely and has a broad variety of built-in equipment.

--->"I never asked for this."

* Implied of [[GiantRobot Liberty Prime]] in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', who gets {{Kill Sat}}ted and blown to smithereens during the first quest of ''Broken Steel''; his remains are returned to the Citadel, where you can donate spare parts for cash, although he never actually gets rebuilt in the game. A more traditional example is Star Paladin Cross, who was rebuilt into a cyborg by Scribe Rothchild following critical injuries while defending Elder Lyons.
** As of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', [[spoiler:Liberty Prime]] is back and is the trump card of the Brotherhood's military forces after the fall of [[spoiler:The Enclave]]. Elder Maxson makes sure his ace in the hole is used when the Brotherhood '''really''' needs heavy firepower.

-->-- '''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan''', OpeningNarration

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' plays With this trope a bit. In this case, the person turned into a {{cyborg}} (Simmons) isn't actually the one who needed rebuilding; instead, he's rebuilt as a cyborg so his body parts can be used to save Grif after an unfortunate incident with a Warthog and the wall of a base. Why Grif wasn't the one to be made a cyborg is a testament to Sarge's determination to never let common sense get in the way of scientific progress. Though technically, he was already planning to make Simmons a cyborg (so he could fix the warthog), it just happened that it left a bunch of spare organs lying around.

But later, he returns! Only this time, he's a {{cyborg}}! He's got more power but he might be [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul less human]] so in villainous cases it's [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman OK to be]] [[MechaMooks more brutal]] [[NotEvenHuman on him.]] When heroes are subject to this, it tends to make them [[WhatHaveIBecome question their humanity]], and in doing so retain it.

** A similar case to Orianna is is implied to occur with Viktor. While in his previous lore he turned himself into a cyborg as part of his "Glorious Evolution", the animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'' reveals that Viktor was a GeniusCripple [[IllGirl Ill Boy]] his entire life and by the time of Act II he is dying from his prior exposure to the same toxic fumes. This implies that Viktor turned himself (or was turned into) the cybernetic being he is today to save his (own) life.

* A non-cybernetic example happens to [[spoiler:Ser Gregor Clegane]] in ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Though [[spoiler:victorious in his duel with Oberyn Martell, he was incapacitated by the manticore venom which tipped Oberyn's spear, and only an unknown process performed by Qyburn was able to save him]]. The process has left [[spoiler:Gregor]] with bluish pale skin and red eyes, but has not diminished his strength or deadliness; in fact, it seems to have enhanced it. [[spoiler:When his face is finally shown in the finale of Season 6, we see it is stuck in a listless expression and a lot of it is ''still rotting off''.]] His VaderBreath, FrankensteinsMonster-like behavior and concealing armor make him very close to a medieval fantasy version of the trope.

* Hexadecimal from ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' has this treatment after being blown up when a game cube ([[Creator/{{Nintendo}} No, not THAT one]]) cut the giant laser she was using in half, but instead of a cyborg she was turned into a BDSM slave. [[{{Squick}} By]] [[IncestIsRelative her]] [[BrotherSisterIncest brother]].

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* In one one-page comic from ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', Helix is kidnapped, and his kidnappers mail Sam and Florence Helix's body parts, [[WhatAnIdiot forgetting that Helix, being a robot, can be reassembled.]] Even ''Sam'' says that these guys aren't criminal masterminds.