Basic Trope: A character laments they've been turned into something inhuman.
- Straight: After being brought back to life as a semi-cybernetic humanoid, Iris is horrified upon learning what she's become.
- Exaggerated: Iris is so terrified and disgusted by herself and the work of her underlings, she kills everyone involved by collapsing the entire medical center.
- Downplayed: Iris doesn't know she's been transformed... until she shatters a wine glass with her bare hand. It surprises her.
- Justified: The alterations made to her body have had an adverse effect on Iris's mental health.
- Inverted: Iris loves her new body, primarily for its killing potential.
- Subverted: Even if Iris is distraught about her situation, she doesn't worry about it much after her remaining brain matter is assimilated by her new hardware, completely erasing her old personality.
- Double Subverted: The new Iris AI is sophisticated enough to be sentient, and still has access to the memories she had as the previous Iris. The current Iris still ends up mourning the changes made to her that make her no longer human, even if she acknowledges that it was ultimately necessary in order to save something of her.
- Parodied: The first few minutes of Iris's second life involve her chewing out her staff for putting her in a glorified tin can instead of "whipping up a clone or something".
- Zig Zagged: The transformation is a mixed bag for Iris. On the one hand, she likes having a number of devastating weapons on hand at all times. On the other, she now has trouble going through metal detectors.
- Averted: Iris is never brought back.
- Enforced: Cybernetic transformations come with a lot of problems, not all of which can be solved with further surgeries. Iris is living on borrowed time, and she knows it, further unbalancing her mental state.
- Lampshaded: In her first confrontation with her old enemy John after the change, Iris acknowledges her uncanny new appearance.
- Invoked: The board of directors for Iris's company use her as a test bed for the cybernetics project, mostly to save on research costs, but also because the situation is a wonderful opportunity to study the human mind under copious amounts of emotional stress. The fact that the subject is their much-loathed boss is icing on the cake.
- Exploited: Sensing a mental breakdown around the corner, Iris's competitors begin to circle her embattled company like vultures.
- Defied:
- Iris's consciousness is transferred into a copy of her human body instead of an abomination.
- Iris refuses to dwell on the fact that she is no longer physically human, deciding that what she does is more important than what she does them with.
- Discussed: An onboard diagnostic program becomes Iris's inner voice, helping to both shape her new personality and curb her violent tendencies during the transition process.
- Conversed: Iris's speech patterns become very disorganized.
- Implied: Iris's penthouse apartment has all its mirrors forcibly removed after her transformation.
- Deconstructed: The transformation Iris experiences is merely the coda to a lifetime of being ostracized by everyone around her for one reason or another. Now that her appearance matches how she's always felt, the effect is one of liberation and acceptance rather than terror and disgust, and a reinvigorated Iris quickly becomes more dangerous than ever.
- Reconstructed: Iris's newfound confidence only lasts until she runs into an enemy she can't beat. After being defeated despite considering herself to be unstoppable metal juggernaut, her self-regard and arrogance collapses, and she begins to see her new body as a glorified coffin.
Everyone I know goes back to the main page in the end.
