History Main / WeCanRebuildHim

%% * Possibly the first anime example: Detective Azuma, the eponymous ''Anime/EighthMan''.

* 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.

* 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':

---->'''Bizarro:''' We will just make another Lex like I made him the first time.

%% * Jack Moon in ''Series/MadanSenkiRyukendo'' is brought back as Mechanimoon.
* Inverted in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' with Seven of Nine who's turned from a Borg drone into a human with a few Borg components...which miraculously enable her to [[DoAnythingRobot do everything (and more) that a Borg drone can do]].

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Repli-Weir, but her body was built from [[WhyAmITicking Fran's]] plans, so it's also a TheNthDoctor situation. You know, [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman before they]] killed her.
* In ''Franchise/KamenRider,'' most of the 90s-and-before Riders were physically altered in some way to become Riders, though few in response to otherwise-unrecoverable injury or illness. ''Film/KamenRiderJ'' was one of those cases, infused with "J Power" after being tossed off a cliff by bad guys. (This is a rare case of the transformation being benign: the rebuilding is usually done by ''bad guys'' wanting to use the Riders as a trump card. For some reason, upgrading always comes before brainwashing, and the Rider-to-be ''always'' escapes brainwashing. (When will [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Shocker]] learn?)

* In ''Series/UltraSeven'', when the Ghose aliens' monster Pandon gets AnArmAndALeg chopped off by Ultraseven, they rebuild the creature's missing limbs and send it back out to battle Seven under the name Reconstructed Pandon.

* A non-cybernetic example happens to Ser Gregor Clegane in ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Though 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 Gregor with bluish pale skin and red eyes, but has not diminished his strength or deadliness; in fact, it seems to have enhanced it. 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 demeanor and concealing armor basically make him a medieval fantasy version of the trope.
* In ''Series/EmeraldCity'', after [[spoiler:Jack's]] horrible fall at the end of [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E3MistressNewMistress "Mistress - New - Mistress"]], a woman named Jane finds and heals him, [[spoiler:replacing a large portion of damaged body with metal prosthetic]] in [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E4ScienceAndMagic "Science and Magic"]].
* Zig-zagged in ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' with Cromartie and John Henry. First, Cromartie goes through a lengthy process to repair himself. Then, without the CPU, he becomes John Henry. The tech finds out that the AI requires identical software and hardware to be restored.

* On ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'', The Six Dollar and Thirty-Nine Cent Man sketches began with a near shot-for-shot recreation of the opening of ''The Six Million Dollar Man'' (except Steve Awesome falls off a skateboard), including the phrase "We can rebuild him — we have permission"... in the dulcet tones of Creator/MorganFreeman, no less!
* After his return from the dead in ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'', Brittas had to undergo extensive surgery. Although outwardly, he looks no different, he's stated to have a bionic butt, no belly-button, and has enough metal parts within him that it wound up delaying his trip through a metal detector. He's also stated to be much stronger, gaining a CrushingHandshake and at one point lifting Linda up into the air with ease.

* "Robot Man" by [[Music/ScorpionsBand Scorpions]] is about someone struggling with this situation.

* Creator/GamesWorkshop games:
** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000:''
*** After he was left for dead by a group of former patients out for revenge, Mad Dok Grotsnik’s Gretchin assistants attempted to save his life with emergency surgery and extensive bionic replacements. Unfortunately, the Gretchin had more enthusiasm than skill and although Grotsnik’s life was saved by the surgery, his already shaky grasp on sanity was lost altogether and he is now utterly, absolutely, and completely mad.
*** Dreadnoughts are the ultimate expression of this trope in the ''Warhammer 40,000'' universe. A Space Marine who has been mortally wounded is fitted with advanced neural interfaces and hardwired into a MiniMecha so that they can continue to fight for the Imperium.
** In ''TabletopGame/{{Gorkamorka}}'', the special character known only as Da Krusha suffered from an accident at some point in the past that left him on the verge of death. For unknown reasons, the Mekboyz of Mektown felt obliged to rebuild him with the most advanced bionics replacements available and continue to maintain and upgrade him generations later.
** The 5th Edition of ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'' introduces the(In)Famous Coaching Staff character Krot Shockwhisker. Krot is a [[RatMen Skaven]] Engineer who excels in combining flesh with [[{{Magitek}} his race's technology]] and hires out his services to Blood Bowl teams to finance his experiments. During a game, Krot can attempt to fix a seriously injured player so that they can take to the field once more. Given the nature of Skaven technology, however, there are often complications.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Mordheim}}'' has Veskit, the high executioner of Clan Eshin, who would have died from the terrible wounds he sustained while rescuing a Clan Skryre Warlock Engineer had the scientist-sorcerers not rebuilt him with their {{Magitek}}. Veskit is now more machine than Skaven, an emotionless and uncontrollable killing machine that Clan Eshin have sent to strengthen their forces in the City of the Damned.

* Most sci-fi games feature {{Transhuman}} cybertech of some stripe, but there's usually some limiting factor as to the degree to which one can be rebuilt, often meant to curb {{Munchkin}}ism. However, ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' goes whole hog with cyberzombies. Apparently, Aztechnology ''can'' completely rebuild a person... but he'll live a miserable shell of an existence and likely be dead within a year. To do it, you have to take someone, [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul shove enough cybernetic implants into them to kill them]], then use BlackMagic to bring them back to life, ''then'' stuff them with enough drugs to make them temporarily forget that they're supposed to be dead. And they'll probably still go psychotic or catatonic within six to twelve months.

%% * This is the backstory of the androids in ''TabletopGame/BleakWorld''. Why they chose teenagers to be the ones to rebuild, however, is lost on most of the fandom.
* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' has prosthetics in-universe, and since medical cloning technology is either prohibitively expensive (for limbs and some organs) or impossible to get right in a safe manner (for critical things like hearts, lungs, and anything involving the nervous system), a lot of characters both heroic and villainous have are described with cybernetics. In the game, this has little impact at the tactical level of ''Battletech'' but it does feature more heavily in ''Mechwarrior'', where the loss of a limb, eye, or ear is a very real possibility for a player. A critically wounded character with irreparable damage to all their body parts can come back with four new cyborg limbs that are just as functional as their old ones, a pair of cyber-eyes and functional replacement ears, and artificial muscle grafts just to top it all off. Even with all that, there is no '[[CyberneticsEatYourSoul cyberpsycho]]' effect in ''Battletech'', so characters can be remade into a cyborg worth more than some Battlemechs and be unchanged personality-wise. Anything beyond basic replacement is heavily stigmatized, though, thanks to the Word of Blake cult, who built cybernetic super-soldiers and unleashed them on the Inner Sphere.

* ''TabletopGame/DeviantTheRenegades'': Were you subjected to being rebuilt with dodgy technology while unable to give informed consent due to a horrific injury? Congrats! You're now an Invasive Exomorph, assuming you survived the procedure in the first place. Though it doesn't have to be technology...the conspiracy that created you might have turned to magical rituals or alchemical concoctions to rebuild you. Of course, that's assuming you were only Mostly Dead at the time...if you were all dead and pieced back together with bits of other corpses or a bunch of inanimate objects, that's [[TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated a different game entirely]]...

* This also turned out to be a popular method of justifying new versions of Franchise/{{Transformers}} characters to sell more toys. Since they're already robots to begin with, it usually works out fine. In fact, it's not unusual for Transformers to go through this several times over the course of their lives.

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' Start Of Darkness Prequel, Xykon's transformation from forcibly de-powered old man to Lich Sorcerer was described in this fashion, parodying the {{opening narration}} of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'': "Xykon, sorcerer. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the magic. We have the magic to make the world's next undead sorcerer lich. Xykon will be that lich. Deader than he was before. Deader, faster, stronger." and so on.
%% * Done to a raccoon in ''Webcomic/TheIntrepidGirlbot''.

* In one one-page comic from ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', Helix is kidnapped, and his kidnappers mail Sam and Florence Helix's body parts, forgetting that Helix, being a robot, can be reassembled. Even ''Sam'' says that these guys aren't criminal masterminds.
* ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'': During Hob, happens offscreen to Kimiko, [[spoiler:then she gets ripped apart, and rebuilt ''again'']]. She's had her ArtificialLimbs ever since, despite the comic's ambiguous continuity.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Crankrats}}'', the eponymous [[BloodKnight crankrats]] were originally soldiers who had been fatally wounded before being augmented with {{steampunk}} [[AppliedPhlebotinum machinery]]. [[GoneHorriblyRight Unfortunately]], WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
* Parodied in [[http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/268/a/d/the_six_million_dollar_scout_by_brokenteapot-d2zg2rr.png this]] VideoGame/TeamFortress2 comic. A Scout steps on a bomb and his body is destroyed, and a group of Engineers gather saying they have the technology to rebuild him. The result is a bunch of spare parts put together and looking more like a barrel than a human.
* ''Webcomic/ProjectFuture'' has one character rebuilt as a cyborg, unfortunately after a shot in the head his remaining biological parts are destroyed. Fortunately his soul and mind are transferred into a purely mechanical body.
* How Amazingman in ''Webcomic/EvilPlan'' survives falling off of a water tower and being paralyzed. Along with the fancy robotic spine came an impossible to pay off hospital bill and a mandate that he must continue superhero work until he [[WorkOffTheDebt pays it off]].

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* Psychotic assassin Deathlist of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse. He's been rebuilt so many times the only human part of him is his head. Supposedly, his first rebuild was after his parents stuffed him into a trash compactor, decades ago.
* ''WebAnimation/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.

* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', when [[GadgeteerGenius Armsmaster]], having already lost an arm against Leviathan, is nearly killed by [[WasOnceAMan Mannequin]], his friend [[ArtificialIntelligence Dragon]] designs and implements cyborg technology to save his life on the spot. He later refines this even more to the point that he doesn't need to sleep and moves like a speedster, in addition to his powered armor.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': Betty's lower-body was crushed by a pillar, so it had to be reconstructed, making her a {{Cyborg}}.

* Baxter Stockman in ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (2003) loses more and more body parts as the show goes on, becoming a more monstrous cyborg with each appearance, until he eventually ends up as a BrainInAJar.

* Zachary Foxx of the ''[[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers Galaxy Rangers]]'' is turned into a {{Cyborg}} with an ArmCannon after being injured in a space battle.
* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' in a [[CutawayGag faux-flashback]] when Peter remembers the time when he was ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan''. Unfortunately, they didn't want to spend a lot of money so they came up with...[[http://www.pisitoenmadrid.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/six_million_dollar_man.jpg this.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'', [[KnightOfCerebus Alpha]] first rebuilt himself with alien body parts, but later used cybernetics.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BionicSix'', Bionic One was able to keep his identity as a cyborg superhero secret from his family until an accident required him to "use the technology," if you will, to prevent them from dying.
%% * Cyber-Godzilla in ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'', who is Zilla brought back to life by aliens.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':
** Parodied with Steve Austin, the original bionic man, running away from the U.S. since it turns out the government wants him to pay for the multi-million dollar surgery, on a government agent's salary.
** It's later revealed that the cyborg villain Vendata was once the Monarch's father, the Blue Morpho, and was [[BackFromTheDead resurrected by Jonas Venture Sr.]] as a cyborg after he died in a plane crash. However he was shut down by Kano after he accidentally started strangling Rusty, and was found by Dr. Z who wiped his memories and turned him evil. He later regained his memories and took up the mantle of the Blue Morpho once more during the Morphic Trilogy.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation: H.O.S.P.I.T.A.L.", [[TeamPet the skunk Bradley]], aka Numbuh Six, was run over by a car while helping out Sector V and ended up in the hospital; Numbuh Two was able to use cybernetics rebuild him into [[BadassBoast "a half-skunk, half-Kids Next Door operative,]] [[TooManyHalves half-butt-kicking machine]] [[BadassBoast known as... R.O.B.O.B.R.A.D.L.E.Y.!"]]
* Cyborg's backstory in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' was [[AdaptationalBackstoryChange similar to his comic one]], except rather than being injured in a FreakLabAccident, he was mutilated in a car accident.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'':
** In the second season finale, the KGB turns [[spoiler:Barry]] into a bionic man to hunt down Archer and Katya. His introduction is a straight-up homage to the oft-quoted ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' opening.
** Later, Krieger rebuilds Katya. After she [[spoiler:falls in love with]] Barry during his attempts to kill Archer during the second attempt to marry him and Katya, [[spoiler:she later becomes head of the KGB]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode "Total Re-Carl", Meatwad declares they can rebuild him after Frylock's Super-Toilet prototype destroyed Carl's body (leaving him a severed head), though all he actually does is tie Carl's head to a tree with bungee cords and pretend Carl can actually talk. Frylock then takes the head with the intent of making a new body, but after several mishaps, Frylock just shoves Carl's head onto a remote-control toy truck and calls it a day (though technically, he ''did'' make a fully useable {{cyborg}} body for Carl, but [[DidntThinkThisThrough outfitted it with so much military hardware and weapons that if he gave it to Carl he would probably just kill them all with it]]).
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' Mother Talzin used her [[{{Magitek}} magicks to fashion new, cybernetic legs]] for Darth Maul, who [[NotQuiteDead survived]] [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe his bisection]] at the hands of Obi-Wan.

* This happened to federal agent "[[MeaningfulName B.P. Vess]]" (AKA: Bulletproof) in the animated series ''WesternAnimation/COPS1988'' After a failed assassination attempt left him with devastating injuries, his life was saved through an experimental process that gave him [[{{Cyborg}} cybernetic armor]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', members of MECH save their critically-wounded leader Silas by modifying the corpse of the Decepticon warrior Breakdown to act as life support and to let Silas control it while hooked up to it. Even ''Megatron'' is disturbed by this.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', Birdperson is killed by his recently-married wife Tammy in the episode "The Wedding Squanchers". TheStinger of the next episode reveals that the Federation secretly reconstructed him as Phoenix-Person.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'': The character Sabre Jet (who is [[{{Transplant}} heavily implied to be]] Ace from ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'') gets critically injured at one point and the Earth Corps save him by building his new armor around his body.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRobonicStooges'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: the Three Stooges rebuilt as robot superheroes. The creators of them have silently apologized for 32 episodes.

* ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight'': The first generation of Spaceknights volunteered to be made cyborgs with half of their bodies replaced by tech, with the understanding that after the Dire Wraith threat is ended, they will be restored. Unfortunately, all of their stored organics wind up destroyed.
* 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.
* 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).

* In ''Fanfic/XCOMRWBYWithin'', during the events of the [[WhamEpisode Site Recon mission]], [[spoiler:Blake]] is badly wounded, and has to be turned into a [[{{Cyborg}} MEC Trooper]] in order to survive. Because of this, their semblance stops working properly, [[spoiler:with her missing limbs no longer appearing on her afterimage, requiring a special hologram projector to cover it up]]. Remember, semblances are an expression of [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul the user's soul]].

* In ''The Secret Collocation 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 severe burns; Aly states at one point that she has around 40% of her original body left, with the rest all being bionic.
* In ''[[http://fav.me/dd7ow55 Case of the Missing Technology]]'', this was literally happening when the narrator finds out what had happened to [[spoiler:Music/MelanieC]]. Since she had been [[AnArmAndALeg left in pieces]] as [[UnwillingRoboticisation "part of an experiment"]], the rescue team was forced to go for this option.
* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Ash's Pokédex, who up to that point had been established to be MadeOfIndestructium, [[TheWorfEffect was destroyed]] when he made [[OlympusMons Mewtwo]] get enraged. Fortunately, when Ash returns to Pallet Town, Professor Oak informs him that all of his data and personality is backed up, enough to be uploaded into a new case.

* Film/{{Dogma}}: The Metatron (as played by AlanRickman of course) paraphrased the speech from the show, while Bethany was busy being resurrected.
* Film/{{Nemesis}}: The protagonist, Alex.
--> '''Narrator''': It took them six months to put him back together. Synthetic flesh, bioengineered organs. It always scared him that they might take out his soul... and replace it with some matrix chip.
* ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'' has Gadget as a security guard who was injured in an explosion and gets converted into a cyborg police inspector by the experimental Gadget Program.

* ''Franchise/RoboCop'':
** ''Film/RoboCop1987'': Alex Murphy is rebuilt as a cyborg after he is murdered by criminals. Apparently the original Robocop team was on to something, as they decided to preserve Murphy's original face (with some body horror thrown in, it IS his actual face skin) even though the body prosthesis is complete: no original limbs from his body remain, only his brain, nervous system, some vertebrae, and a rudimentary digestive system. That's right, Robocop doesn't even have to "breathe" to function. In the second movie, Robocop mentions they "did this to honor him" referring to Alex Murphy as if he were another man.
** Ditto for the villain Cain in ''Film/RoboCop2'' who lost [[BrainInAJar his whole body]]. Especially monstrous as OCP killed Cain explicitly so they could rebuild him. Another interesting side note is that several other attempted [=RoboCop=] 2s committed suicide; the implication is that people need a level of motivation found mostly in psychotics to be able to tolerate a cyborg's existence. It's also implied that BodyHorror played a significant part in those suicides. Those failed batches were ''much less'' human in appearance than the [=RoboCop=] model Murphy was converted into.
** ''Film/RoboCop2014'' has a much more mobile version of the character. He can run and fight hand-to-hand. Also, for some reason, Alex's right hand was left original. Given how powerful his custom weapon is, wouldn't a human hand be shattered by the recoil? Additionally, the scientist in charge of the project made sure that the cyborg would stay loyal and complete missions by controlling the body and tricking Alex's brain into thinking that he's the one in control. However, later, Alex manages to override the body's priority and takes control.
%% * [[Film/Godzilla1954 The original]] Franchise/{{Godzilla}} went from [[http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk210/xolta_99/1810602_780cf736b9_m.jpg this]] to [[http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r212/MasterGodzilla/kiryu03.jpg this]] when he was [[Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla rebuilt as Kiryu]] (the latest version of Mechagodzilla).

%% * ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'', in the TV show within the movie.
* In the SoBadItsGood sci-fi comedy ''Film/SpaceTruckers'', the CorruptCorporateExecutive betrays the MadScientist by turning his KillerRobot creations against him. Fortunately for him, he's able to rebuild himself, turning himself into a grotesque mish-mash of man and machine, and takes up a new life as a pirate.

* Dr. Arliss Loveless in ''Film/WildWildWest'' lost the entire lower half of his body to his explosive experiments during the Civil War. Somehow, he survived and managed to build himself a replacement in the form of a SteamPunk wheelchair with some "custom" features. He also implies that he has found a way of restoring certain other lower-body functions using technology. "Somethin' hard-pumpin', and indefatigably steely"!

* ''Film/SpyHard'': General Rancor has been rebuilt with artificial arms after surviving the explosion of his helicopter so he can menace the world once more.

* Creator/PeterDavid's ''Literature/PsiMan'' series has Beutel return with fewer and fewer organic parts each time, after getting trashed in the previous appearance's NoOneCouldSurviveThat moment. We ''think'' the finale got him for real...
* The hero of Creator/ArthurCClarke's short story "A Meeting With Medusa" is a man who was, delicately speaking, badly hurt in a blimp crash, and was more reconstructed (with cybernetics) than healed. The doctors were nice enough to make him 20 centimeters taller to make up for being half-machine. The sequel-by-other-hands, ''The Medusa Chronicles'' by Creator/StephenBaxter and Creator/AlastairReynolds, has him continually ''re''-rebuilt over the centuries, until [[spoiler:he sheds his last organic components to survive Jupiter Below, but maintains continuity of consciousness]].

%% * The Tin Man from the Literature/LandOfOz books may be the UrExample.

* This is the superhero Fatale's origin in ''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible''. She is an ex-NSA cyborg whose implants come from a SuperSoldier program that never really existed, becoming a candidate for that program after a near-fatal traffic accident in Brazil. She doesn't remember why she was there, or any of her previous life. Weighs about 500 pounds due to all the metal in her body.
%% * In ''Freedom'' (the sequel to ''Literature/{{Daemon}}''), [[spoiler:Loki]] receives this treatment after being disfigured during torture.
* In the ''Literature/QuantumGravity'' series, [[ActionGirl Lila Black]] comes back from [[OurElvesAreDifferent Alfheim]] after a torture session and goes through this in order to survive. [[spoiler:In a twist emphasizing the GreyAndGrayMorality, she didn't need those to survive until the people in her organization got their hands on her...]]
* In ''Literature/PreludeToDune'', Prince Rhombur Vernius of Ix is seriously injured during an assassination attempt on his friend Duke Leto Atreides, losing his entire lower half and much of the upper half. Dr. Wellington Yueh, who has just managed to perfect cybernetic prosthetics on Richese, agrees to "fix" Rhombur with the prosthetics. After the procedure, he is more machine than flesh. Since Rhombur is Ixian, machines are a big part of his life, so being a cyborg for him is not so bad. However, he loses the ability to reproduce and, being the last surviving member of House Vernius, knows his line is ending. His wife suggests impregnating herself with the semen of Rhombur's deceased half-brother on his mother's side, thus providing him with a distaff heir. With his new cybernetic body, Rhombur is very strong and can crush a man's neck with one hand. He does, however, spend years learning how to properly use his new parts.
* In Max Barry's ''Literature/MachineMan'', Dr. Charles Neumann does this to ''himself'', going from [[spoiler:amputee, to double-amputee, to ManInTheMachine, to BrainInAJar, to full-on BrainUploading]].
* People in ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' generally prefer a regen therapy, but there's a sizable minority for whom it doesn't work, including the main character. These unfortunates have to do with prosthetics, up to and including becoming a {{Cyborg}} depending on the extent of the damage. Honor, for example, has an artificial eye and an artificial arm ([[ArmCannon with a built-in gun]], no less).
* In the late 1980s, there was an adventure series called "Steele", whose lead, SWAT cop Donovan Steele, was rebuilt into a cyborg with a bit of a twist on the concept: he looked normal, but his damaged brain had been replaced with an [[WetwareBody artificially intelligent computer]] programmed to THINK of itself as Don Steele. Half his memories weren't even his -- programmers patched in some of their own to fill gaps in the upload. He angsted a good bit about his humanity when he wasn't slaughtering bad guys.
* ''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.
* The third ''Robot City'' novel, "Cyborg", used this with a teenager named Jeff Leong, whose body was mangled in a crash-landing to the point that the city's robots had no choice but to put his brain in a modified robot shell, with his body [[HumanPopsicle frozen]] for reintegration later. It worked, but he ran off out of shock before tests could be completed. Along the way, Jeff slowly becomes DrunkWithPower from his new abilities and starts thinking the other humans on the planet should be like him. [[spoiler:It turns out that later due to the robots' incomplete knowledge of human anatomy, Jeff wasn't given the proper brain chemicals to stay sane after the transplant. After said brain is returned to Jeff's body, he goes back to normal.]]
* In ''Literature/HeartOfSteel'', Alistair Mechanus rebuilds Julia's mangled boyfriend into a cyborg as a gift, complete with lots of neural dampeners to keep him in line. Things go sideways very quickly when Jim breaks free.
* In the ''Literature/RevelationSpaceSeries'', the BigBad Skade is mortally wounded in an accident involving a [[spoiler:faster-than-light drive, in a universe where that's a [[RetGone Very Bad Thing]] to experiment with]]. Her head is retrieved and hooked up to what is essentially a suit of PoweredArmor. A similar approach is mentioned with a special type of spacesuit helmet that appears in ''Literature/RevelationSpace'', which in the event of a suit breach, will [[LosingYourHead chop off the user's head]] and [[HumanPopsicle freeze it]], so that they can be retrieved and revived on a new cybernetic body.

* Several examples in Betsy Cornwell's ''Mechanica'' duology:
** In ''Mechanica'', the tiny clockwork horse Jules is smashed to pieces, but [[spoiler:Nick eventually rebuilds him as a life-sized, rideable coal-powered horse. He retains the same sentient mind in both forms because the same magical Ashes are stored inside him]].
** In ''Venturess'', [[spoiler:Nick's mother is revealed to [[NotQuiteDead still be alive]] in a mechanical body, which she built to save herself from her terminal illness. During the climactic battle, she's "fatally" damaged and Nick is [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown forced to dismantle her]], but afterwards, Nick effectively becomes her mother's "mother" by rebuilding her. As with Jules, her mind is retained in the Ashes... the magic-infused cremains of her original organic body]].
** Also in ''Venturess'', this turns out to be the secret behind Esting's mechanical army. [[spoiler:Esting's soldiers have been using the geyser of magical fire in Faerie to burn their wounded men and horses alive, preserving their minds in their Ashes, and then building new, invulnerable mechanical bodies for them.]]
* Throughout ''Literature/FreakTheMighty'', Freak lies to Max that the hospital will eventually cure his crippling disease by building him a whole new body. Max believes this, [[spoiler:which makes Freak's eventual [[DeathByNewberyMedal death]] a brutal shock for him]].
* Creator/MichaelMoorcock, possibly prompted by parodic references to his works by people like Creator/TerryPratchett, wrote a deliberate self-parody acknowledging that things like Literature/TheElricSaga might have gone a teeny-weeny bit [[ExaggeratedTrope over the top]], called ''The Stone Thing; A Man of Many Parts''. in which a typical Moorcock hero admits to a woman he is wooing that life has taken its toll somewhat and practically every part of his body has, at one time or another, been replaced by a prosthetic. the deal-breaker, for the lady involved, is [[TheReveal The Stone Thing]] of the title... [[note]]Most incarnations of The Eternal Warrior in Moorcock's opus have had at least one physical component severed and replaced[[/note]]
* In Creator/WilliamGoldman's ''Brothers'', his sequel to ''Film/MarathonMan'', [[spoiler:Scylla]] was brought back this way by his boss and friend Perkins: "If we can keep you alive through the night and if we can pump strength into your body, I want to change you--your prints, your face, your voice, state-of-the-art surgery..."

%% * ''Series/TheBionicWoman'', being a spin-off of ''The Six Million Dollar Man'', follows on with the same concept. As does the 2007 remake, ''Series/BionicWoman''.

* This ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfvvepcEloU America Online for Broadband]]'' commercial directly references the opening from ''The Six Million Dollar Man''.

* The original ''A.D. Police'' OVA series (a ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' spinoff) had an episode revolve around "The Man Who Bites His Tongue", a police officer who was rebuilt with nothing organic left beside his brain and his tongue - which he began compulsively biting to hold on to his humanity. It doesn't end well, naturally.

* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
** ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': College athlete Victor Stone is badly injured in a lab accident (originally a transdimensional experiment his parents were working on, which released a monstrous being, but it varies by canon). This led to the death of his mother, and his distraught father rebuilds him with experimental technology, turning him into the superhero Cyborg. Understandably, Cyborg is badly traumatized both by his injuries and UnwillingRoboticisation for quite some time. Not helping is that his cybernetics put an end to his athletic career.
** ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
*** Reactron was turned into an armored, Golden-Kryptonite-powered cyborg after getting beaten by Supergirl.
*** In the story arc ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', Bizarro Luthor gets stomped by a monster. Bizarro assures that it does not matter since he can simply remake Lex.
---->'''Bizarro:''' We will just make another Lex like I made him the first time.
** ''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.
** ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' member Robotman. In his case, everything but the brain is robotic.
** ''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.
%%** ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' foe Gearhead.
* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** ''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.
** 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.
** 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/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.
** 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.
%% * In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', [[spoiler:Pronto]] goes through this, becoming the brainwashed and crazy Modern Prometheus, who nearly kills Siphon.

* Several characters in ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'':
** In the very first non-film comic, a town proves unwilling to let a man be buried in the graveyard set aside for offworlders because he was a cyborg, so you know there's a lot of FantasticRacism. A stormtrooper named [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Beilert_Valance Valance]] who was badly injured and had to be made into a cyborg became a bounty hunter who mostly expressed [[YouAreWhatYouHate hatred towards droids]].
** Then there's Shira Brie/Lumiya. Originally Luke's {{wingma|n}}te and love interest, he shot her down without knowing who she was while on a mission and later found that she was actually an assassin/agent [[GoSeduceMyArchNemesis sent by his father]]. At the end of that arc, she was seen floating in a bacta tank, observed by Vader. Later she resurfaced with three prosthetic limbs and extensive scarring as Lumiya, Dark Lady of the Sith.
* ''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/JudgeDredd'': Medical and cybernetic technology has advanced sufficiently that critically wounded judges and soldiers can be rebuilt as cyborgs. Notably, [[SpaceMarine Nate Slaughterhouse]] is left as little more than a head and one shoulder before he is rebuilt as a mandroid.
* ''ComicBook/DogManDavPilkey'': When the body of Greg the dog and the head of Knight the human police officer are dying, doctors sew Greg's head onto Knight's body, creating Dog Man.

* All the {{Superboss}}es 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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': Coldstone was three seperate gargoyles, or more accuratly, the shattered stone remains of three gargoyles, who Xanatos and Demona reassembled using magic and science. The same series also gave us Jackel and Hyena, though they were perfectly healthy and chose to become cyborgs voluntarily, no horrific injury required.

* [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]]: College athlete Victor Stone is badly injured in a lab accident (originally a transdimensional experiment his parents were working on. It released a monstrous being, but it varies by canon). This led to the death of his mother, and his distraught father rebuilds him with experimental technology. Understandably, Cyborg is badly traumatized both by his injuries and UnwillingRoboticisation for quite some time. Not helping is that his cybernetics put an end to his athletic career.
* 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/{{Batman}}'' foe Gearhead.
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' villain Reactron was turned into an armored, Golden-Kryptonite-powered cyborg after getting beaten by Supergirl.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story arc ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', Bizarro Luthor gets stomped by a monster. Bizarro assures that it does not matter since he can simply remake Lex.
-->'''Bizarro:''' We will just make another Lex like I made him the first time.
* ''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.
* ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'' member Robotman. In his case, everything but the brain is robotic.
* Averted by [=USAgent=] of the Marvel Universe. He lost an arm and a leg to Nuke, a cybernetically-augmented super soldier, 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.
* ''Franchise/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.
* 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.

* Warren Ellis' ''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.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics''

* ''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!]]''
* Obscure DC Comics character ComicBook/CommanderSteel (not to be confused with the more popular [[ComicBook/{{Steel}} John Henry Irons]]) was 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.

* ComicBook/{{Rom|SpaceKnight}} and his fellow Spaceknights, in their Marvel incarnation. The first generation of Spaceknights volunteered to be made cyborgs with half of their bodies replaced by tech, with the understanding that after the Dire Wraith threat is ended they will be restored. Unfortunately, all of their stored organics wind up destroyed.

* ''ComicBook/MoonKnight'': Moon Knight briefly had a teenage sidekick named Jeff Wilde, AKA 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.

* 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.
* 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 [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]] and ComicBook/GhostRider, but once the bugs were worked out he started serving as a government agent full-time.

->''"Annika Hansen: blonde. A woman [[DumbBlonde barely sentient]]. We can rebuild her. We have the nanotechnology. We have the capability to make the world's first intelligent blonde."''

->''"Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster."''
-->-- '''OpeningNarration''', ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan''

** Supplementary material for ''[[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Dark Forces]]'' reveals that the prototypes for darktroopers - robotic stormtroopers - were aging veteran clone troopers, too old to fight well but very experienced, who had seventy percent or more of their bodies replaced. [[CloningBlues No one asked them about this beforehand]], so while they were effective in the battlefield, a lot of them committed suicide.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' Mother Talzin used her [[{{Magitek}} magicks to fashion new, cybernetic legs]] for [[spoiler:Darth Maul, who survived [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe his bisection]] at the hands of Obi-Wan]].

* Ed before the start of ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist''. Towards the end of [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the first anime]], Col. Archer gets this done to [[TwoFaced a much more extreme extent.]]

* [[spoiler: Jeremiah Gottwald]] in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' pulled this one twice. Technically the second time was just the completed version. He awakened prematurely the first time, and his cybernetic upgrades were not yet finished.

* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', being the PostModern GagSeries that it is, doesn't just do this to one of the characters... it does this to Hideaki Sorachi - Gintama's author! [[spoiler: During the Character Popularity Poll Arc [[note]]Yes, Sorachi made an entire arc out of a Character Popularity Poll![[/note]], Tae freaks at ranking lower than two "monkeys" (Kondo and Sorachi's AuthorAvatar), so she [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] to kill Sorachi. Next chapter/episode, he's rebuilt as a cyborg!]]

** A less serious example is [[spoiler: Yamazaki, who only had to be rebuilt because [[SomethingWeForgot nobody bothered to check if he was still alive]]]].

* [[spoiler: The Major]] in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' although the original manga never got around explaining how he became one. Fans speculate that the prequel series will show what happened between the time he is assumed to be still made of flesh and the not-so-human plot twist fifty years later.

* Done in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans''. After being nearly killed [[spoiler: Ein]] is rebuilt into a {{cyborg}}. [[spoiler: A cyborg that IS a Graze Mobile Suit, the Graze Ein. It is [[ManInTheMachine unclear if he can be removed at all from the suit]].]]

* Abullah in ''Manga/{{Pluto}}''. [[spoiler: He thinks he's one of these. In reality, portions of his memory caused a superpowerful robot to think it was him and the human Abullah is dead.]]

%% * Hero example: [[spoiler: Joe Asakura]] in ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman''.

%% * In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', [[spoiler: Pronto]] goes through this, becoming the brainwashed and crazy Modern Prometheus, who nearly kills Siphon.

* 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.

* In ''Fanfic/XCOMRWBYWithin'', during the events of the [[WhamEpisode Site Recon mission]], [[spoiler: Blake]] is badly wounded, and has to be turned into a [[{{Cyborg}} MEC Trooper]] in order to survive. Because of this, their semblance stops working properly, [[spoiler: with her missing limbs no longer appearing on her afterimage, requiring a special hologram projector to cover it up]]. Remember, semblances are an expression of [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul the user's soul]].

* In ''[[http://fav.me/dd7ow55 Case of the Missing Technology]]'', this was literally happening when the narrator finds out what had happened to [[spoiler: Music/MelanieC]]. Since she had been [[AnArmAndALeg left in pieces]] as [[UnwillingRoboticisation "part of an experiment"]], the rescue team was forced to go for this option.

* The hero of Creator/ArthurCClarke's short story "A Meeting With Medusa" is a man who was, delicately speaking, badly hurt in a blimp crash, and was more reconstructed (with cybernetics) than healed. The doctors were nice enough to make him 20 centimeters taller to make up for being half-machine. The sequel-by-other-hands, ''The Medusa Chronicles'' by Creator/StephenBaxter and Creator/AlastairReynolds, has him continually ''re''-rebuilt over the centuries, until [[spoiler: he sheds his last organic components to survive Jupiter Below, but maintains continuity of consciousness]].
%% * Played for laughs by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe in [[spoiler: ''The Man Who Was Used Up'']].

%% * In ''Freedom'' (the sequel to ''Literature/{{Daemon}}''), [[spoiler: Loki]] receives this treatment after being disfigured during torture.

* In Max Barry's ''Literature/MachineMan'', Dr. Charles Neumann does this to ''himself'', going from [[spoiler: amputee, to double-amputee, to ManInTheMachine, to BrainInAJar, to full-on BrainUploading]].

* The third ''Robot City'' novel, "Cyborg", used this with a teenager named Jeff Leong, whose body was mangled in a crash-landing to the point that the city's robots had no choice but to put his brain in a modified robot shell, with his body [[HumanPopsicle frozen]] for reintegration later. It worked, but he ran off out of shock before tests could be completed. Along the way, Jeff slowly becomes DrunkWithPower from his new abilities and starts thinking the other humans on the planet should be like him. [[spoiler: It turns out that later due to the robots' incomplete knowledge of human anatomy, Jeff wasn't given the proper brain chemicals to stay sane after the transplant. After said brain is returned to Jeff's body, he goes back to normal.]]

* In the ''Literature/RevelationSpaceSeries'', the BigBad Skade is mortally wounded in an accident involving a [[spoiler: faster-than-light drive, in a universe where that's a [[RetGone Very Bad Thing]] to experiment with]]. Her head is retrieved and hooked up to what is essentially a suit of PoweredArmor. A similar approach is mentioned with a special type of spacesuit helmet that appears in ''Literature/RevelationSpace'', which in the event of a suit breach, will [[LosingYourHead chop off the user's head]] and [[HumanPopsicle freeze it]], so that they can be retrieved and revived on a new cybernetic body.

** In ''Mechanica'', the tiny clockwork horse Jules is smashed to pieces, but [[spoiler: Nick eventually rebuilds him as a life-sized, rideable coal-powered horse. He retains the same sentient mind in both forms because the same magical Ashes are stored inside him]].
** In ''Venturess'', [[spoiler: Nick's mother is revealed to [[NotQuiteDead still be alive]] in a mechanical body, which she built to save herself from her terminal illness. During the climactic battle, she's "fatally" damaged and Nick is [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown forced to dismantle her]], but afterwards, Nick effectively becomes her mother's "mother" by rebuilding her. As with Jules, her mind is retained in the Ashes... the magic-infused cremains of her original organic body]].
** Also in ''Venturess'', this turns out to be the secret behind Esting's mechanical army. [[spoiler: Esting's soldiers have been using the geyser of magical fire in Faerie to burn their wounded men and horses alive, preserving their minds in their Ashes, and then building new, invulnerable mechanical bodies for them.]]
* Throughout ''Literature/FreakTheMighty'', Freak lies to Max that the hospital will eventually cure his crippling disease by building him a whole new body. Max believes this, [[spoiler: which makes Freak's eventual [[DeathByNewberyMedal death]] a brutal shock for him]].

* [[spoiler: Gaardus]] from ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' was rebuilt by a bunch of rogue engineers ForScience. Although he was already a cyborg and didn't directly suffer from CyberneticsEatYourSoul, he was upset enough to [[IHateYouVampireDad murder those responsible for his transformation]] and become an outcast.

* Happens to the player at the start of the campaign in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII'' after a GIU robot owned by Ethiopian terrorists tears off [[AnArmAndALeg both their arms and a leg]] while breaking the other. [[spoiler: It ends up kickstarting the events of the game, as the [[FreezeFrameBonus pre-mission text]] reveals that the player actually ''dies'' while on the operating table, meaning most of the game is a DyingDream also revealed in the rest of the game's texts to have been partially built off Taylor's memories.]]

** Before Raiden, there was... Cyborg Ninja, a.k.a. [[spoiler: Gray Fox]].
*** And before even the Cyborg Ninja, there was [[spoiler: Schneider]] in ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake''.
** Big Boss in ''VideoGame/SnakesRevenge''. But we don't talk about that. He's a cyborg in official ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'' as well, although this fact only comes up at the end (and is explained as being the end result of having been tortured and mutilated prior to becoming your CO in the first game). The process of transforming Big Boss with prostheses is finally depicted in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that [[spoiler: Venom Snake (the one with the prosthetic arm) was in fact a BodyDouble for Big Boss (he is the Big Boss that Snake fights in the original ''VideoGame/MetalGear''), and the real Big Boss survived his injuries in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' relatively unscathed]]. Potential DoubleSubversion in [[spoiler:''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' when Big Boss shows up in the ending, as he had to borrow body parts from Liquid and Solidus (his clone-sons) to survive after the injuries he sustained in ''2'', only to die shortly afterward due to having the Foxdie virus]].

** Yokuba/Fassad ends up falling off the Thunder Tower as a result of his own stupidity, but returns as a cyborg not much later. He loses his ability to speak, instead communicating through music which requires an interpreter, and is now combat-capable enough to pick fights with the party on his own [[spoiler: [[IAmNotLeftHanded though it turns out he would've been a threat even without his enhancements]]]].
** [[spoiler: It also turns out that the Masked Man is a brainwashed, reconstructed Claus, who was found by the Pigmask army after his failed attempt to get revenge on the Mecha-Drago, then used by the BigBad as the commander of the army and as a tool to pull [[MacGuffin the needles]].]]

** Later, [[AuthorAvatar Andrew Hussie]] does this for [[spoiler: Spades Slick]] after saving him from his [[spoiler: dying universe]].

* ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'': During Hob, happens offscreen to Kimiko, [[spoiler: then she gets ripped apart, and rebuilt ''again'']]. She's had her ArtificialLimbs ever since, despite the comic's ambiguous continuity.

%% * [[spoiler: Julia]] is rebuilt in ''WebAnimation/{{Ducktalez}} 7'' and plans on getting the Lucky Dime again.

* The first episode of Volume 7 of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' reveals that [[spoiler: Penny, who had been destroyed by an unwitting Pyrrha in the Vytal Tournament back in Volume 3, had been rebuilt by her creator]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' Mother Talzin used her [[{{Magitek}} magicks to fashion new, cybernetic legs]] for [[spoiler: Darth Maul, who survived [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe his bisection]] at the hands of Obi-Wan]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': Coldstone was three seperate gargoyles, or more accuratly, the shattered stone remains of three gargoyles, who Xanatos and Demona reassembled using magic and science. The same series also gave us Hyena and Jackal, though they were perfectly healthy and chose to become cyborgs volunterliy, no horrific injury required.

%% * Taurus Bulba from ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', courtesy of F.O.W.L. He was ''not'' pleased.
%% * Hyena and Jackal from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''. And Coldstone, but he/they weren't human to start with.

* On ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'' Accident prone Steve Awesome is rebuilt with bionic parts and a bionic brain. He is the Six Dollar and Thirty-Nine Cent Man.

* [[PsychoForHire Adam Smasher]] of ''TabletopRPG/{{Cyberpunk}}'' was once just a typical thug for hire who was reduced to a bloody pulp after getting hit by an RPG. As he's laying on the operating table, he was approached by representatives from the [[EvilInc Arasaka Corporation]] who offered to give him a full body cybernetic conversion or to simply let him die. Thus, he went from just yet another mercenary to Arasaka's most infamous hatchetman and [[TheDreaded the boogeyman of Night City]].

* [[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. Not helping is that his cybernetics put an end to his athletic career

This trope can serve as the OriginStory for both heroes and villains of the cybernetic variety. Alternately, if the character being repaired is a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots ridiculously human robot]], it justifies how they survive a seeming HeroicSacrifice or DisneyVillainDeath.