History Main / ArtificialLimbs

* Teddy has one in ''Fanfic/TheEggTeam'', gaining it almost immediately after his first appearance. It's one of the most important parts of his character, as the electric orbs he can create with it is his only method of fighting

-->'''Mingxing:''' [[https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-17-page-22 I like the more Sci-Fi vibe. Beep boop beep boop. ]]

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* Professor Trevols from ''Webcomic/AliceAndTheNightmare'' has an artificial hand to replace one he lost to a Jabberwocky. It seems to be just a simple replacement.

* In ''Webcomic/BicycleBoy'', the majority of Poet's body is mechanical.
* Joana in ''Webcomic/BinaryStars'' lost her arm [[spoiler: in an explosion]], and now has a robotic prosthesis in its place.
* Clubber in ''Webcomic/CityOfReality'' has an artificial arm that incorporates a variety of useful tools, including an ArmCannon.
* [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/index.php?strip_id=30/ Nin Wah]] the red panda in ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'' has a cybernetic right arm [[spoiler: that also happens to be a powerful ArmCannon]].
* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'''s title character has an artificial leg. He lost the original leg in an explosion set off by his EvilCounterpart. Unusually, it's a standard prosthetic limb with no special powers.
* [[http://dresdencodak.com/wp-content/gallery/doodles/cyborg_big.jpg Kimiko Ross]] in ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'' [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/10/22/the-end/ replaced her ''own'' arm, legs and eye]] shortly after losing the originals in a battle with time-traveling luddites (lucky for her she was already a transhumanist) and that's ''after'' she [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/10/02/epilogue-2/ escaped from the hospital using thermite, a parachute, and the one arm she had left.]]
* Characters in ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' have 2 options -- golem limbs (see ''Magitek'') or demon limbs. The latter is rare and seen only in a private section (at least so far). A notable example is Nihi'Liir [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=596 here]] after she lost it [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=455 here]]
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Lord Tedd has what appears to be a prosthetic arm that can shoot energy blasts. Some fans have theorized that it's partly made of the TF gun that causes BodyHorror.
* Jason in ''Webcomic/TheEnds'' gets a cyborg arm to replace one that was torn off by a monster.
* [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/1990798/just-some-of-the-neighbors/ Mecha-Nicole]] of ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'' was a former mad scientist who gave herself an artificial ''head''.
* Jordan from ''Webcomic/ExploitationNow'' lost her left arm in a car accident when she was little. And replaced it with a mechanical one armed with all sort of gadgets.
* In ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'' Lothar Hex has two prosthetic legs with rocket boots built in, a bionic right arm with a plasma blaster and power saw, and a cybernetic eye that he uses to record daemon girls making out. He also mentions having a robotic spine [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2012-09-16/comic/non-storyline/randoms/the-wading-dead/ one time]] they're dumping bodies.

* In ''Webcomic/GiftsOfWanderingIce'' webcomic [[http://giftscomic.com/index.php?comic_id=483 Faith]], one of the Norns, has a cyber-arm and a cyber-leg.

* Cora of ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'' was born without limbs and has hard light artificial ones.

* Shogun in ''Webcomic/{{Harkovast}}'' has a mechanical hand (and forearm) which is strong enough to crush the blades of [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Harkovast/index.php?p=478164 swords]].
* Bombshell (from ''Webcomic/HeroesUnite''/''Heroes Alliance'' as well as her own title) has a cybernetic arm that functions like a real one as well as being able to deliver a nasty [[ShockAndAwe electric shock]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', robotics expert Equius gave his crush [[spoiler:Aradia (a DeadToBeginWith character) a robotic body]]. His other works have been (in flashbacks) Vriska's robotic arm and replacement eye after she lost both to [[spoiler:Terezi's BatmanGambit, which caused her future-seeing cueball to explode in her face]] and Tavros's legs after having been a wheelchair- then hoverchair-bound paraplegic throughout their game session (since Vriska psychically coerced him to jump off of a cliff).
** Spades Slick progressively gains more robotic parts as he suffers greater injuries. He first acquires a robotic arm after Snowman [[WhipItGood whips]] his first arm off, and after [[spoiler:surviving the destruction of his universe,]] [[ManInTheMachine nearly all parts of him are artificial]] except for half his face.
** Lord English has his own golden peg-leg, which is inspired by [[spoiler:his younger self's use of one of Dirk's spare robot legs, which somehow works as it's supposed to even though he simply sticks it onto his self-inflicted wound without any further procedures]].
* Isabelle from ''Webcomic/TheHorrifyingExperimentsOfDrPleasant'' has artificial legs jointed at an artificial pelvis AND an artificial left arm. She also has an artificial tail, but that isn't replacing anything. (Probably?)
* Crustaceo from ''Webcomic/TheIncredibleAndAweInspiringSerialAdventureOfTheAmazingPlasmaMan'' has a bionic crab claw in place of his right arm.

* Daisy Archanis in ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' gets one of these as part of the Backstory just before the show begins, after having her left leg amputated while in Celigo's custody. It's heavily implied that [[BigBad Veled]] had it removed to prevent her from being able to teleport.

* Kaogin, from ''Webcomic/TheMotleyTwo'', has a robotic arm and leg, replacements she had to get after a NoodleIncident. The arm grants her SuperStrength, enough to tear down a wall. Also, she's got a vocal implant that allows her to {{autotune}} while singing.
* Resident BlackKnight Ballister Blackheart from ''Webcomic/{{Nimona}}'' has a robotic right arm. [[spoiler:His arm was shot off by his best friend Goldenloin after Blackheart won a joust with him.]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Pilot}}'', robotic arms, legs, and even [[ElectronicEyes eyes]] are extremely commonplace.
* Clinton from ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' has a robotic right hand, which he got following a fireworks accident as a child. His sister mentions that he took the loss of his original hand well and actually ''prefers'' his robotic one, noting the [[BrokenAesop unfortunate moral]] of the story seems to be "playing with fireworks gets you cool robot limbs".
* ''{{Webcomic/Sarilho}}'': Filipa has a prosthetic leg [[spoiler: after an [[https://sarilho.net/en/arquivo/comic/ch2p34 incident]] in chapter 3]].

* ''WebComic/SleeplessDomain'', which, note, is done by the same person that does ''WebComic/KiwiBlitz'':

* In ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'', CORE marines have a certain saying. "If you still have all your limbs... you're not trying hard enough!"
* Ally from ''Webcomic/StubbleTrouble'' has a prosthetic leg to replace her original leg which was severely damaged in a car crash.
* Very common in ''Webcomic/TheSunjackers''. Of the main characters, Atom Smasher has all four legs replaced due to a car accident, and Candy Chip has her right hoof replaced after losing it to diabetes.
* Tabitha from ''Webcomic/SweetDreams'' sports a prosthetic arm, similar to real-world pincer handed ones.
* In ''Webcomic/TryingHuman'', when [=EBE1=] first crashed on Earth (in the Forties), they amputated his arm and replaced it with one made of the metal from his ship, which he retains in present-day storyline.

* Minnow in ''Webcomic/ValAndIsaac'' has cybernetic arms. At one point she swaps arms with her [[{{Robosexual}} robot girlfriend]].
* Cirrus of ''Webcomic/WakeOfTheClash'' is seen in flashbacks using her cloud-forms to simulate a prostetic arm. She does this again [[spoiler: during the main story when she insists she is no longer Cirrus, but instead just Abigail Hoang.]]

** An ambiguous inversion in ''Series/AgentCarter''. Agent Daniel Sousa was injured in [=WW2=], and subsequently walks with a crutch and limp, but it's not made clear if his lower leg is still there.

*** In Season 7, the above mentioned Sousa joins the team, and reveals his leg is very much a prosthetic, albeit one he has gotten used to in the decade since ''Agent Carter''. Simmons, having had experience with high-tech prosthetics after helping Coulson and Yo-Yo, eventually develops a new leg for him (with the help of some seriously advanced Chronicom tech). This lets him take a serious [[TookALevelInBadass level in badass]].

* The "Fudge 10th Anniversary Edition" book for ''TabletopGame/{{Fudge}}'' contains rules for all sorts of implants, and by default there is no reason other than money not to have them. That said it also notes that just having arms and legs won't let you have super-strength because the human body can't support it, right before presenting a body frame that does let you do this.

** An ambiguous inversion in ''Series/AgentCarter''. Agent Daniel Sousa was injured in WW2, and subsequently walks with a crutch and limp, but it's not made clear if his lower leg is still there.

* [[spoiler: Demo Man]] shows up once again in the flashback portions of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' Season 10 after [[spoiler: getting hit by a MAC round fired from the main cannon of the ''Mother Of Invention'' from orbit,]] with the only visible damage being that he now has cybernetic arms. Crosses over into ArtificialLimbsAreStronger territory when he's shown firing a shotgun one handed, knocking Agent Carolina to the ground with a single punch, and catching a grenade fired by Agent Maine's Brute Shot.

** This is actually to the point where fans mockingly or not say certain individuals ''aren't'' skywalkers because they haven't lost a limb.

* [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/six-day-week-part-one Simon Heller]], a character in the Unwaking setting of ''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary'', has an artificial hand after he traded the real one for better eyes.

* Donald Pearce from ''Film/{{Logan}}'' has one.

-->'''Mingxing:''' I like the more Sci-Fi vibe. Beep boop beep boop.

* Done for laughs with Fry of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. In one episode he feeds a ''T. rex'' at a sort of petting zoo, and the ''T. rex'' bites off his hands. A quick stop at [[{{Expy}} Hands Crafters]] and he's as good as new.

* Just like in the post-Zero Hour comics above, in the ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' cartoon, the episode "Chained Lightning" sees Lightning Lad loses an arm to an attack by Imperiex; Brainiac 5 gives him a new cybernetic arm. He can still channel his powers through the arm and it comes with some cool other features, but the whole thing is a bit unnerving for a couple of reasons. First off, Lightning Lad was knocked unconscious by the attack, and Brainiac 5 just started working on him without, you know, asking if he wanted a cybernetic arm in the first place. Second, Lightning Lad doesn't even spare a second lamenting the loss of his freaking arm; he says "Cool" and hops out of bed to go fight the bad guys. Sorry, but [[AngstWhatAngst losing a freaking limb isn't the slightest bit traumatic?]]

* In ''VisualNovel/Va11HALLA'', Dana's right arm and both of Alma's are replaced with cybernetic prosthetics. Alma replaced her arms to make her job as a professional hacker easier, typing faster and never getting carpal tunnel, while there are [[MultipleChoicePast conflicting stories]] on why Dana's arm is artificial. Additionally, Jamie notes that while he's still organic enough that his skin heals on its own, enough of his body has been replaced that he's disqualified from hiring Dorothy due to her 40% organic policy.

* ''Roleplay/MSFHighForum'': Israfel has a legion made wooden false arm since Seram keeps his real arm, Fable was given an artificial arm by Yosah on her first day.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', there have been three alternate versions of Finn to have an artificial arm. In the episode "Finn the Human", when Finn is teleported to an alternate timeline where [[BigBad the Lich]] never existed he can replace his arm with a sword. As of [[WhamEpisode the Season 6 premiere]], Finn's arm is torn off in the main timeline, necessitating one of these. When it grows back and is later torn off again in the Season 7 finale, he gets a robotic arm that later turns out to be a SwissArmyAppendage.

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* ''Manga/SazanEyes'': the Juuma known as Jia Zhi Gu (Prosthetic Arm Insect) can take the form of a fully functional arm on a person besides the summoner, which is first seen when Yakumo uses it to give Hahn a new left arm. When activated, Jia Zhi Gu can turn said arm into a massive scythe-like appendage for battle and when used by Yakumo it takes the form of a set of bladed limbs and wings attached to his shoulders. For the bad guys, Spazug wears a monstrous bug-like to replace his missing arm, with the bonus of having a shield ability to repeal magic attacks.
* In ''Anime/{{Basquash}}'', Iceman Hotty has some made by Thousant after getting his left arm and leg cut off by Price.
* ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'' features similar levels of cybernetic enhancement as well as ordinary robotic limbs depending on how badly damaged a body is or (at least in the [[{{Dystopia}} Scrapyard]]) how deeply into debt one is willing to go. Also in the sky city Zalem/Tiphares above the aforementioned pit [[spoiler: all adults have their brains uploaded into, and replaced by, microcomputers without their knowledge.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', the main character, Guts, loses his left forearm to a monster [[spoiler:during the hellish ordeal where his friends in the Band of the Hawk are sacrificed so that their band's former leader, Griffith, can become one of the evil Godhand]]. His forearm is replaced by a ''SteamPunk'' prosthetic which quadruples as a [[ArmCannon gunpowder cannon]], a [[AutomaticCrossbow repeating crossbow mount]], and [[PowerFist improvised club.]]
** Although the aforementioned hand's microcannon is reassuringly fictional in medieval history, the hand itself is more real than you might expect. Although the author of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' claims the resemblance to be purely coincidental, a German mercenary named UsefulNotes/GotzVonBerlichingen had a very similar prosthetic hand ''[[SchizoTech 500 years ago.]]'' Really.
** Also, the hand's only function is to look more human, and act as a cover for the cannon. The arm was lost right below the elbow, so he can still bend it, but the fingers don't work. There is a magnet in the palm, to help Guts hold his BFS. Oddly enough, possibly for convenience's sake, the fingers do still bend and function like living fingers sometimes. Following the acquisition of the Berserker Armor, however, the hand has begun acting like a live human hand, most likely due to the armor's supernatural influence.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Kukaku Shiba has a BambooTechnology wooden prosthetic arm. However, in the manga, she has no such replacement.
** Gigai are prosthetic bodies to allow shinigami to interact with mortals and (mod) soul pills act as prosthetic '''minds''' to control gigai or bodies while their normal occupants are performing shinigami business.
* Karl and [[spoiler:James]] from ''Anime/BloodPlus'' receive [[SuperSoldier Schiff]] limbs after being amputated.
* In the sequel to ''Manga/Brave10'', it turns out there are two characters with [[AnachronismStew fully functional]] artificial hands [[spoiler:Hanzo ([[HoistByHisOwnPetard who lost his to Isanami when he tried to control her at the climax of the first manga]]) and [[DressedToPlunder Jinpachi]] (lost before he joined the Braves).]]
* Kazuhiko from ''Manga/{{Clover}}'' has his famous roboclaw.
* ''Anime/CombattlerV'': Hyoma Aoi -- TheHero of the FiveManBand -- got replacement arms after TheDragon Garuda [[spoiler:shot his original arms off.]] Unlike from other examples of this trope, they did not grant him super-strength and they did not work perfectly at all. Several times they stopped working momentarily in ''very'' inopportune moments (such like when he was driving his car or fighting in his HumongousMecha).
* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'':
** Jet Black has a cybernetic arm replacing one he lost in a police investigation gone wrong, although he became old-fashionedly defensive at Faye's recommendation that the current tech made organic limb replacements fairly easy. Jet chooses to keep the arm as a reminder of his mistake. Surprisingly Jet's arm is depicted as synthetic, but made of soft yielding materials almost leathery in nature. It's also nowhere near bulletproof and doesn't grant him any kind of superhuman strength.
** [[spoiler:Spike]]'s replacement eye. The flashback where we see him actually get his eye definitely implies it's much more than glass. [[spoiler: He's lying naked on a lab table surrounded by machines and men in lab coats, with needle-like claws holding his eyelid open.]]
* Subverted in ''Manga/CynthiaTheMission''. Minor villain Bridget has a prosthetic arm that LOOKS real, but it turns out it's just camouflaged to look like a real one, while underneath it's similar to a modern-day prosthetic arm with a lot of grip power. Just before she is killed, it's replaced by a much more advanced model.
* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', the swordsmanship master Jigoro Kwajima has a peg-leg, a wood construction, which is likely one of the reasons for his retirement, a Breath of Thunder adept has their legs as the basis of their strength, which is pure speed, without them Jigoro is effectively crippled.
* Bandou of ''Manga/ElfenLied'' gets cybernetic eyes and a cybernetic arm. The arm can stand anything short of a Desert Eagle's recoil.
** In the final chapter of the manga [[spoiler:he returns with a prosthetic body from the chest down after getting ''[[BackFromTheDead killed]]'' by Lucy]].
** Nana has all her limbs severed, and has prosthetics for limbs that she moves with four of her six vectors.
*** Just a bit of clarification, her vectors aren't just moving her limbs, ''they're holding them in place'' since they're not actually connected to her body. As a RunningGag, she'll sometimes loose her concentration and drop a limb right in front of some poor bystander (usually Mayu).
** Mariko gets a prosthetic right arm similar to Nana's limbs after her original is [[ExplosiveLeash blown off]].
* As a result of a human transmutation experiment GoneHorriblyWrong, Edward Elric from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' (pictured above) lost, literally, AnArmAndALeg. His childhood friend Winry was able to manufacture him "[[SteamPunk automail]]" replacements. Notably, the attachments of nerves and muscles is actually mentioned, and mentioned to be extremely painful, taking years to recuperate (it took Ed, as a child, only one year, in defiance of his mechanic's 3-year prediction). Also, the automail frequently breaks under sufficient strain -- Winry occasionally asks Ed if he breaks his limbs on purpose just to annoy her.
** There's also [[spoiler:Lan Fan, who gets an automail limb to replace the one she [[LifeOrLimbDecision cut off so she and Ling Yao could escape from Bradley]], and recuperates in six months]]; since she's not an alchemist who saw the Gate like Ed, hers has a [[BladeBelowTheShoulder permanently-attached blade]]. The dangers of engaging in strenuous activity (such as combat) with automail before your body has fully adapted to it is demonstrated by [[spoiler:Lan Fan bleeding from the attachment point and almost having her automail arm ripped out of its socket.]]
** Paninya and [[ChainsawGood Buccaneer]] also have automail limbs with built-in weapons. Paninya's legs have a blade and a short-barrel ''cannon'' in them, while Buccaneer has two different automails that he can switch between for his right arm. His standard one is a combined chainsaw and jaw clamp, while his backup limb has actual fingers allowing it to be used in non-combat roles but also has razor-sharp claws and a much stronger grip than biological hand.
** And Winry's dog Den.
** Additionally, there have been several occasions where it's been a problem how much a metal limb conducts heat. While in Briggs, Ed almost suffered major frostbite, while Buccaneer has his made from a less conductive metal and uses the exhaust from the motor in his to keep it warm. Ed also has the opposite problem in deserts, when the metal in his automail limbs gets uncomfortably hot.
** There's also mention of automail needing maintenance, in the form of oiling and such to prevent rust, and has to be adjusted slightly when Ed grows.
* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'', and its source material, carry the concept forward. Instead of passé clunky mechanical limbs, the sufficiently wealthy or connected can have their whole body replaced with a [[CursedWithAwesome super-realistic and super-strong artificial construct]]. One's brain is removed, and placed in a life-supporting enclosure, and swaps from body to body are possible even in non-sterile environments. Two of the series' main characters, the Major and Batou (anime only), are such full cyborgs.
** In the manga a page is also devoted to explaining the fact that most people have their entire bodies replaced, due to the exact problem of the arm falling off the body if too much pressure is exerted. Most people in their line of work prefer to have the added insurance. The whole conversation is in reference to a rogue army leader who only had his arm and his leg replaced.
** The Manga implies, but does not state outright, that the Major became a full-body replacement cyborg unexpectedly at a relatively young age, perhaps due to an accident. In the AlternateContinuity ''Anime/GhostInTheShellArise'', it's revealed that she was literally ''born'' into a cyborg body -- her brain was transferred into one while she was still a ''fetus''.
* ''Manga/GunsmithCats'': Several of Rally Vincent's most implacable opponents all use prosthetic hands, thumbs or legs... mostly because Rally ''shot off'' their original hands, thumbs, or legs.
* ''Anime/HeavyMetalLGaim'': Desert bandits' chief Lilin after an encounter with Daba's [[LaserBlade Lightsaber]]. And later, Giwaza after squaring off against [[spoiler: Nei Mo Han.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', [[ActionGirl Seras Victoria]] gets a [[CastingAShadow shadow-based]] replacement arm when she becomes a full-fledged [[OurVampiresAreDifferent draculina]].
* Ginkotsu of the Band of Seven in ''Manga/InuYasha'' starts out with a heavily prosthetically amplified body and ends up as torso attached to a Feudal style tank.
** Arguably, the Band of Seven and Kikyou have prosthetic bodies which store their souls. Ditto for Akago/Mouryoumaru, kinda.
* When Joseph Joestar gets his arm sliced off by Kars in [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Part 2]] of ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', he gets a replacement made by his Nazi buddies. Did I mention that this takes place in 1939? And that one of the aforementioned Nazi buddies is a cyborg with a gun in his chest?
* ''Manga/KarakuriCircus'': Narumi receives Arlequin's detached left arm after [[spoiler:he goes missing. During the battle of Sahara, his remaining limbs are replaced by the parts of the puppets used by fallen Shirogane.]]
* Koharu of ''Manga/TheLastSaiyuki'' is quadriplegic, and her limbs are instead those similar to a ball-jointed doll. They don't work as limbs, but she does have a DisabilitySuperpower that allows her to move around.
* In ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'', prosthetic technology has advanced to the point that artificial limbs are virtually indistinguishable from real limbs, which benefited many soldiers who were wounded in action, most notably August Samuel Wahlen, an Imperial admiral.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** The existence of cybernetic prosthetics are mentioned in the passing when discussing the Combat Cyborg program in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers''.
** ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' has the [[spoiler:[[WeHardlyKnewYe short-lived]]]] [[ViralTransformation Infected]], Diego, whose Chrome Greet [[SuperMode Reacted]] form grants him a pair of cybernetic arms [[spoiler:that get ripped off by a [[TranquilFury pissed Veyron]]]].
** ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' reveals that the gauntlets that [[GodEmperor Sankt Kaiser Olivie Sägebrecht]] always wore were actually crude prosthetic arms to replace the ones [[AnArmAndALeg she lost in early childhood]]. She manipulated them through [[PeoplePuppets self-targeted body control]].
** At the end of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation'', [[spoiler:Nanoha herself ends up getting a replacement right arm when it gets blown off [[TakingYouWithMe from being at point-blank range of an enemy robot's self-destruct]].]]
* In ''Literature/MardockScramble'', [[AxeCrazy Medium the Fingernail]] of the [[PsychosForHire Bandersnatch Company]] replaces the hand the lead blew off in the first film with a mechanical one in the second.
* Andrew Waltfeld shows up in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny'' with a fully functional prosthetic arm. [[ArmCannon Which conceals a shotgun.]] ''How'' exactly it's able to function with sufficient dexterity to pilot mobile suits and aircraft yet also be hollow so as to fit a a shotgun underneath it is never explained.
* [[spoiler:Louise]] from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' gets one of these in Season 2 as [[spoiler:her]] lost arm cannot be regenerated [[ToxicPhlebotinum due to the particles in the beam rifle shot that blew it off]] inhibiting cellular mitosis. The replacement looks and handles like the original one and doesn't appear to have any special features aside from above normal physical strength and a circuitry-like line where it's attached to [[spoiler:her]] forearm stump. [[spoiler:When she gets caught in the 00 Raiser's first Trans-Am Burst, the damage is fixed and she can get her arm regenerated.]]
* Dayrl Lorenz in ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamThunderbolt'' starts off the series with two crude prosthetic legs as they were blown off at the knee during the Zeon invasion of Earth. He gets prosthetic arms when he loses one to Io Fleming and the Full Armor Gundam and has the other amputated to make him pilot the Psycho Zaku. It makes piloting other suits much harder, though.
* In ''Manga/MotherKeeper'', Zelik gains a metal prosthetic arm which makes him a bit more powerful [[spoiler: though the prosthetic ended up being very short lived as it was destroy in the first fight.]]
* [[spoiler:Aramusha]] gets a prosthetic arm and eye due to injuries in the Empty Earth arc of ''Mythic Quest''. They're pretty common already in the futuristic world, though this particular set doesn't have any synthetic skin and has many extra [[UnusualUserInterface jack-ins]] for enhanced computer-interfacing powers.
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Chiyo's right arm is artificial and controlled through her puppet jutsu. She can use it to create a chakra shield similar to the puppets in the likeness of her son and daughter-in-law, but it's also vulnerable to getting clogged.
** [[spoiler:Obito]] lost his right arm and leg, but they were replaced with [[spoiler:implanted cells from the First Hokage]]. As a result, he can regrow the limbs mid-battle, which has resulted him frequently sacrificing his right arm.
** And now [[spoiler: Naruto also sports an artificial right hand, having lost it during his final duel with Sasuke. Like Obito, his hand is made of cloned cells from the First Hokage]]. [[spoiler:Sasuke]] on the other hand opted not to get one after [[spoiler:losing his own left hand during that duel. He does however have ways of generating a temporary replacement as needed, such as a partial Susanoo via his Sharingan or a metal arm via the Asura Path of his Rinnegan]].
* Princess Kushana from the movie version of ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' is both an example and a partial aversion because, despite her having one mechanical arm and two mechanical legs, she's never depicted as having super-strength or super-speed. The most unusual thing she ever does is to detach one hand to illustrate that it's artificial and not merely armour covering her hand. In that scene, she hints that more intimate areas of her body needed similar replacements.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Franky. He's a cola-powered cyborg, having rebuilt his limbs and much of his body from the wrecks of his old battleships aka Battle Frankys.
** [[spoiler: Bartholomew Kuma, who's also a cyborg, albeit much more advanced, and ]]Crocodile who has a hook for a right hand (which is covering a poisonous hook underneath that; and if ''that's'' broken, a knife pops up to replace it). And lastly Movie 10 villain Shiki, who cut off his legs to escape from prison and replaced them with swords!
** [[spoiler:During the TimeSkip, Aokiji lost half his leg during his duel with Akainu. Thankfully, due to his Devil Fruit powers, he now has an ice prosthetic to replace it. And if the prosthetic is broken, he can just instantly make another one.]]
* Harry [=MacDougall=] in ''Manga/OutlawStar'' got an artificial arm after a nasty run-in with Gene Starwind. Unfortunately, he goes AxCrazy at one point, rips it off, and beats on the door of the ''Outlaw Star'' with it. Later on, he gets an artificial body. Earlier in the series, we see that Hilda has an artificial arm too.
* In ''Manga/RaveMaster'', after cutting off his own arm to admit his defeat against Haru, Shuda replaces it with a metal one.
* Squalo from ''Manga/Reborn2004'' has a fake left hand. He cut off his real hand to better understand the previous Sword Emperor.
* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'':
** The ShellShockedVeteran hunter Colbert has his left arm replaced with a prosthetic after he'd had both his arms torn off by monsters, since he could only afford to re-grow the right arm.
** During a hospital stay after losing one of his arms, Akira uses a temporary medical cyborg arm for part of the process of connecting the nerves of his culture-grown replacement arm to his body, prior to transplanting it.
* Shichiroji of ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'' has an artificial arm with a grapple.
* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': Zoruru, who not only has a robot arm and leg, but ''an entire half of his body and head'' too.
* In the ''Manga/SoulHunter'' manga, Taikoubou loses an arm in a battle and he's given an artificial one to replace it. It features a number of abilities including stretching (to work as a GrapplingHookPistol), a squirt gun, and a RocketPunch. Meanwhile, Kou Tenka ends up injured against the Maka Yonsho to the point that that he needs prosthetic ''knees and elbows'' (read: flesh grafts to replace the destroyed tissue) and said grafts are visible for the rest of the story.
* Prosthetic limbs are an important plot point in ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}''.
* In ''Manga/TokyoCrazyParadise'', [[spoiler:Asago gets a prostheses after having her right arm cut off in a fight; she chooses to get an artificial limb instead of reattaching her arm to cut down on rehabilitation time]].
* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'': Vash's left arm was shot off by his twin brother, forcing him to get a replacement. It converts to a gun when he wants it to.
* Kurogane of ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' has, in the manga, recently required a prosthetic arm from the technologically advanced world of Piffle after he sacrificed his own arm to save Fai. Despite being a rush-job and therefore not covered in synthetic skin, it appears to work just as well as his organic arm. However, he has recently admitted [[spoiler:that the arm does not fit him right and causes him pain. Hard to conceal bleeding when your boyfriend is a vampire.]] In ''Manga/XxxHolic'', it is mentioned that [[spoiler: the gang eventually makes their way back to Piffle to get Kurogane's prosthetic arm fixed up properly]].
* The eponymous Violet Evergarden from ''LightNovel/VioletEvergarden'' has a pair of these due to her loosing her original arms in battle.
* In ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'', TheDragon [[AloofBigBrother Folken]] has a pretty nifty-looking right arm given to him by the BigBad to replace the one that got eaten by a dragon.
* Snark of ''Manga/TheVoynichHotel'' has two prosthetic arms. She is still quite the capable chef with them, mostly because they are actually [[spoiler:demon claws she sold her soul for.]]
* Cornelia from ''Manhwa/WestwoodVibrato'' has an artificial leg.
* ''Manga/YamiNoAegis'': Tate has a metal arm with which he can deflect bullets. It's also his primary weapon.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': [[spoiler: The Godwin brothers both have robotic left arms. Rex lost his while escaping from Satellite, and Rudger cut off his own arm, with the Dragon Head Mark, to give to Rex.]]
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* John Simpson, in the ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' series, has a prosthetic replacing a lower leg lost in an ambush, in his service during the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar, first mentioned in the short story "In the Navy", by Creator/DavidWeber. Eddie Cantrell later gets one after losing his leg during the engagement at Wismar, in ''1633''.
* ''Literature/AbsolutelyTruly'': Truly's father had his right arm blown off by an [=IED=] ('''I'''mprovised '''E'''xplosive '''D'''evice), and got it replaced with a prosthetic that has a HookHand.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov
** "Literature/TheBicentennialMan": In order to [[BecomeARealBoy become more human]], Andrew Martin designs more and more prosthetics. He starts with a simple stomach system and builds more from there, with realistic skin, and eventually a replacement brain. He replaces all of his metal with organic imitations.
** "Literature/CChute": While a guest of the Kloros, John Stuart had mangled his hands irreparably. Since they couldn't fix the human hands, they used their advanced chemistry knowledge to grow artificial hands out of artiplasm instead. The new hands are weaker than the originals, and require delicate care.
* ''Literature/{{ATLStoriesfromtheRetrofuture}}'': Yuri, the "Mercenary Prince," got three after an explosion in the [[AlternateHistory Battle of Houston]].
* In one ''Literature/BillTheGalacticHero'' story, the titular character has a Swiss Army Foot.
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': [[spoiler:Mugino]] after her fight with Hamazura has a mechanical left arm and right eye. They're mostly indistinguishable from her normal body, but one can hear the gears whirring when she moves them. She also has to periodically have them updated so they don't get out of sync with her natural body. As well, Kuroyoru is a cyborg with mechanical (and detachable) arms, and she can attach [[MultiArmedAndDangerous additional arms]] to her back if necessary.
* In Roger Zelazny's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'' series, Benedict has a mechanical arm. It is a temporary replacement because Amberites regenerate limbs. However, this takes months or years. The arm has a role in the novel ''The Hand of Oberon''. In fact, it is "the hand" because the arm moved of its own accord and helped Corwin and Benedict, who implied Oberon was behind. It was true.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfProfessorJackBaling'', a character is described as having blade-like prosthetic legs. Probably something similar to Oscar Pistorius’s. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pistorius]].
* Creator/SandyMitchell's Literature/CiaphasCain lost several fingers in a fight with necrons. The replacements are augmentic.
* In ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'', Daja, with some help from her foster siblings, creates an artificial leg for her friend Polyam. She also has apparently made a living metal eye.
** However, her own hand, though coated in living metal, is still just her own hand. It simply produces more of her metal.
* Eternal President Clydesdale from ''Literature/ClocksThatDontTick'' replaced one of his arms with a mechanical one. No one knows why. In all likelihood, it was merely a result of his insanity.
* Spoofed by Creator/TerryPratchett in ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic'' with Goldeneyes Silverhand Dactylos, who is such a great architect his employers all tend to try and maim him so he can never make anything more beautiful than the work he's done for them. As he exposits to his current employer, his first employer gave him piles of gold and blinded him (he learned to work by touch, smell and hearing), his second loaded him with silver and then cut off his left hand (he built a mechanical replacement from silver using his knowledge of levers), and his third employer gave him mounds of silk before hamstringing and imprisoning him (he built a hang glider to escape). He winds up by reminding his employer of his promise to let him go free and unharmed now his work is complete, at which his employer says 'ILied' and promptly has him shot. Dactylos comments on the shoddy quality of the arrowhead before he dies.
* Hertzer Herrick in Creator/JohnRingo's ''Literature/CouncilWars'' series lost a hand in the first book and received a very trick SteamPunk replacement. He'd still rather have a real hand, though.
* Creator/MartinCaidin's 1972 novel ''Cyborg'' introduced Colonel Steve Austin to the world. This novel was later adapted into ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan''.
* There's two cases in ''Literature/DragonsOfRequiem''.
** In the ''Song of Dragons'' trilogy, Dies Irae has his arm bitten off and replaces it with a mace.
** In the ''Dawn of Dragons'' trilogy, [[spoiler:Raem Seran]] loses his arms ''and'' legs, and one of his demons replaces them with four different animal parts.
* In [=McCaffrey=]'s ''[[Literature/DragonridersOfPern Dragonsdawn]]'' Paul Benden has a couple of prosthetic fingers.
* Kol Maros in ''Literature/TheDreamsideRoad'' has a robotic right hand. He occasionally comments on the greater strength in his prosthetic.
* Ian Fleming's ''Literature/DrNo'' had two artificial hands (here his hands were cut off by the Tong as a punishment where he lost them to radiation in [[Film/DrNo the movie]]) -- he uses them for dramatic effect to enhance his ominous nature.
* Augustus Waters from ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'' has a prosthetic leg due to his osteosarcoma.
-->"Excellent! You'll find my leg under the coffee table."
* Commander Raeder in ''Literature/TheFlightEngineer'' has a prosthetic hand to replace one he lost in battle. [[CareerEndingInjury It's also not sensitive or precise enough to allow him to keep flying,]] at least until his second-in-command in his new job makes a breakthrough that gets him cleared to fly in emergencies.
* A strictly medicinal version in the ''Literature/FirestarSeries'' contains a neural link that needs quite a bit of conditioning until you associate various grab-bags of synaesthesia with heat, cold, pain and whatnot. They're also just enough like actual human limbs to weird you out when you touch them. Underwhelming, perhaps, but not bad compared to ''our'' 2016.
* ''Literature/TheForeverWar''. Mandella loses an arm and thinks he's getting a prosthesis. He's unaware of the technological advances that have been made over the hundreds of years that have elapsed due to time dilation. Turns out they're actually growing him a new flesh-and-blood arm.
** Later in the book, he meets a fellow officer who lost [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe the entirety of his body below the waist]] and recieved metal and plastic replacements, rendering him asexual.
* [[spoiler:Ryogi Shiki]] from ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' has an artificial left arm, as her original was torn apart in a fight. It's a magic arm, to boot.
* The ghost story "The Golden Arm" features a woman with just that, whose husband is very greedy. His greed causes her to starve to death ("Meat and cheese cost more each day./ I will not pay and pay and pay,/ And so throw all my wealth away./ Not one penny will you get today."). Her only request is to be buried with her arm, which the husband does... until he digs it up the next night and [[ChekhovsGun leaves it under his pillow]]. The wife's spirit is not pleased about this....
* ''Literature/HackAlleyDoctor'': Derrick starts off the story with a prosthetic arm. Hack Alley serves many patients who have prosthetic limbs and organs.
* In ''Literature/{{Hammerjack}}'', Avalon is forced to amputate one of her arms after being stabbed with a poisoned dagger. When she returns in the sequel ''Prodigal'', she's equipped with a cybernetic replacement.
* In ''Literature/HammersSlammers'' it's not uncommon for veteran [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Slammers]] to have prosthetics. However, they are markedly inferior to the original parts and periodically need to be recalibrated by an external computer (a problem if living on a low-tech planet), so soldiers with prosthetics either retire or are reassigned to desk jobs.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** Peter "Wormtail" Pettigrew is forced to cut off his own hand in the ritual to recreate Voldemort's body. As Voldemort returns to full power, he gives Wormtail a gift for his efforts, a hand made of silver which functions just as well as his old hand. [[spoiler:Except for the fact that the hand was eternally devoted to Voldemort and ended up choking Wormtail when he hesitated to attack Harry in the seventh book.]]
** Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody has a wooden leg and a magical revolving eye to replace the ones he lost as an Auror fighting against Voldemort. Also, when Professor Kettleburn (the Care of Magical Creatures teacher before Hagrid) retired in order to enjoy time with his remaining limbs, Professor Dumbledore presented him with a set of enchanted wooden prosthetics. Unfortunately, they have to keep being replaced due to Professor Kettleburn's habit of visiting dragon preserves.
* In ''Literature/HeartOfSteel'', we have three examples:
** Alistair Mechanus is a (largely self-built) cyborg due to injuries in his backstory. Everything from the hips down has been replaced with metal, as well as his heart, larynx, left eye, and significant portions of skin.
** Julia receives a limb transplant after her own leg is torn off at the knee near the beginning of the novel.
** Jim is torn in half and turned into a cyborg with artificial legs, pelvis, and left arm. He turns out to be [[UnstoppableRage rather unhappy]] about this.
* ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'':
** In [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1 the first book]], Zaphod Beeblebrox has a third, artificial arm fitted to improve his ski-boxing. As is often the case with the franchise, the reason changes in [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981 the TV series]]/[[VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1984 computer game]]/movie -- in [[Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978 the radio series]], he claims he grew the arm "for Trillian".
** [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005 The movie]] features handkerchief-cultist Humma Kavula, who uses a "platform" of dozens of tiny metal legs... and one gimpy one.
** The installment ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'' has Marvin the Paranoid Android receive an artificial leg.
* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'', as starting off as a Lord Nelson Expy, loses an arm and eye over the series. After an EyepatchOfPower she gets an artificial eye and arm. Rare in this society because the normal techniques used to regrow limbs doesn't work on her. She has a pulser in the arm and the aiming camera in her eye...
* An artificial leg for Peeta in ''Literature/TheHungerGames''.
* The 1952 ScienceFiction novel "Limbo" by Bernard Wolfe is about a post-WWIII world where people willingly amputate their limbs for nuclear-powered prosthetics.
* ''Literature/LivInTheFuture'': Alix has a prosthetic leg. While he doesn't remember how he lost it, it's implied [[spoiler: the Neighborhood Watch]] was involved somehow.
* In Max Barry's ''Literature/MachineMan'', the protagonist Dr. Charles Neumann accidentally crushes one of his legs in an industrial accident. Being an engineer, he designs a better replacement. Then he realizes he wants his legs to match...
* The ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' features occasional appearances by the K'Chain Che'Malle. Considered the native demons of the Malazan world, they were sapient dinosaur analogues. The warrior caste surgically replaced both lower arms with [[AnatomyArsenal massive blades]].
* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's short story "The Man Who Was Used Up" makes this at least OlderThanSteam, along with Captains Ahab and Boomer from ''Literature/MobyDick''.
* Manuel Garcia O'Kelly Davis from the Creator/RobertAHeinlein book ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'' had a variety of artificial arms that allowed him to do electronic work with the built-in tools.
* In ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'', Ratz, the German bartender at the Chatsubo in Chiba City, has an old Russian military cyberarm, "a seven-function force-feedback manipulator cased in grubby pink plastic." At one point, he uses the arm to crush a hard plastic ashtray to make a point about the bar's strict "no-fighting" rule.
** In the short story ''Burning Chrome'', set in the same universe, the narrator, Automatic Jack, has a seemingly more advanced prosthetic, which he is implied to have received after being injured in a military operation gone wrong.
* In the ''Literature/OldKingdom'' series, [[spoiler:Lirael]] loses a hand in the final battle against the big bad. It's mentioned in the epilogue that [[spoiler:Prince Sameth]] later crafts her a new one, earning her the title [[spoiler:Lirael Goldenhand]].
* In Clive Cussler's ''Literature/TheOregonFiles'' series, the protagonist Juan Cabrillo has an advanced prosthetic leg that conceals a small pistol, a block of C4, a throwing knife, and a [[ArmCannon built-in single-shot leg cannon that can ]][[{{BFG}} blow a hole the size of a dinner plate through your chest.]]
* ''Literature/QuantumGravity'' books' ''Lila Black'' becomes a cyborg after an accident.
* The Ultranauts in Creator/AlastairReynolds' [[Literature/RevelationSpaceSeries Revelation Space]] trilogy replace their body parts as they age and fail. [[TheCaptain Captain John Brannigan]] is almost ''entirely'' robotic at the start of Revelation Space; he can last for hours in total vacuum. [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld He's very old]].
* [[BrawnHilda Sookaiya Venatosh]] from ''Literature/RieselTalesTwoHunters''. Both of her legs are prosthetic.
* Jack West in Creator/MatthewReilly's ''Seven Ancient Wonders'' trilogy sacrificed his left arm to escape from a trap... after he was promised one of these. Luckily for him, this was in the backstory, 10 years before the first novel started so he had time to adjust to his new arm before everything went to hell.
** Mother in his ''Scarecrow'' series looses her leg to a Orca in ''Literature/IceStation'', an unpleasant surprise to a shark in a later novel
* Progress in this field is noted in Creator/{{Anne McCaffrey}}'s ''Literature/TheShipWhoSearched''.
* In Stephen Lawhead's second Song of Albion book "The Silver Hand", Llew gets a new hand and his Bard gets new eyes in a magical lake. [[spoiler:The villains gets dissolved]].
* Special mention to ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'': The titular character is a "living" skeleton who doesn't know how he got reanimated and had his skull stolen by some goblins (a few decades after his reanimation) so took to using one that he won in a poker game (which becomes a sequel hook at the end of the third book). He gets it back in the fourth and it becomes a brick joke as everyone but his sidekick comment on how better his jaw looks.
** It is never mentioned though whether he won the other skull before or after he lost his own.
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' Jaime Lannister receives a crude prosthetic hand made of gold. Unfortunately he needs to use his other hand to tighten it on something, and he can't wield his sword with it at all.
* Fatale, in ''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible'', is a cyborg who has only a small portion of organic matter left in her. She often bemoans her added weight, but has a full complement of high-tech gadgets to compensate.
* TobyFrost's ''Literature/SpaceCaptainSmith'' lost the lower half of an arm fighting the Ghast, Number 8, and while he waited for a new organic arm to be grown by the NHS, he had to make do with a bionic arm that had previously belonged to a commando, and which kept trying to kill people.
* The murderous ex-con Chemo in Carl Hiaasen's novel ''Literature/StarIsland'', having lost his arm to a barracuda in a previous book, has replaced it with a weed whacker, which he [[spoiler: demonstrates upon a main character]].
* ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' briefly features the recruiting sergeant, a triple amputee from some unspecified past war. In the book he appears without prostheses on duty for shock value, but simply straps on his lightweight hi-tech units when off duty; the film completely inverts this point by showing him with no legs, and a huge mechanical hand, more like an earth-moving machine than a prosthesis .
* A plot point in ''Literature/StarTrekKlingonEmpire'' -- Klag, who lost an arm in a previous conflict, could be fitted with an artificial replacement. He refuses, though, insisting that he's a Klingon, not a Borg. It's one of the HonorBeforeReason issues Doctor B'Oraq has to deal with. Eventually, Klag accepts a biological graft -- his dead father's arm to replace his own. It's not as effective but it's a compromise.
* [[ScaryDogmaticAliens The Yuuzhan Vong]] of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse ritually chop off their own limbs to show their devotion to the gods then get them replaced with a [[OrganicTechnology Biotech]] appendage. Warriors get limbs from the various predatory animals of their home world, while the [[MadScientist Shapers]] replace their fingers with ''surgical instruments''.
* ''Literature/TogetherlyLong'': [[KidHero Oukii]] has one because his arm was vaporized in a duel when the evil [[BigBad Emperor Von Mal]] shot it with his RayGun, and he had to receive a robotic replacement.
* In ''Literature/TheTraitorSonCycle'', after [[spoiler:Gabriel]] loses an arm, the Wyrm has a replacement made of metal. It's magic, so it look, feels and acts like a normal hand, but it has all the toughness of its original material.
* ''LightNovel/VioletEvergarden'' is equipped with a pair of 'Adamant Silver' prosthetic arms, having lost her original ones in a highly traumatic battle during the Continental War. They are advanced well beyond even 21st century technology, despite the roughly 1910s time period, much like the example set by ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. After a readjustment period, Violet can use her new hands to type faster than almost anyone else while maintaining impeccable grammar and spelling. They're also, to a degree, [[spoiler:bulletproof, though they don't hold up against sustained fire and stress.]]
* The ''Literature/WingCommander IV'' {{novelization}} states [[AscendedExtra Jason "Bear" Bondarevski]] loses an arm during the conclusion of the Kilrathi War, and has it replaced with a cybernetic substitute. In ''False Colors'', he's given the opportunity to have it modified to give him an UnusualUserInterface, but declines.
* Nick Chopper, the Tin Woodsman from ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''. For those who don't know his origin story, his axe was cursed by a witch, and one by one, he chopped off his own limbs. Every time he lost one, he had it replaced with a prosthetic made by a local tinsmith -- up to and including ''his head and torso''... but not, alas, his heart.
** For an extra dose of MindScrew, [[Literature/LandOfOz a sequel]] reveals someone later reassembled and ''reanimated'' the discarded body parts with use of some magic glue... creating a whole new character.
* The ''Literature/XWingSeries'' enjoys this trope. Nawara Ven's cybernetic replacement leg synched up relatively (95%) poorly with his body, so he switched careers from AcePilot to executive officer. Ton Phanan had an ever-increasing percentage of himself [[EmergencyTransformation replaced]] since he was allergic to bacta, and [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul cybernetics ate his future.]] Krennel, a villain, had an extremely obvious prosthetic hand that [[RedRightHand glowed red]].
** When the team infiltrated Empire-controlled Coruscant as part of a covert operation, getting Wedge through security posed a problem, since he was a well known rebel hero. He disguised himself as an imperial officer with a bulky cybernetic arm and metal plating on his face and throat, apparently on his way to a specialized hospital to receive more sophisticated implants. People who saw him looked more at the prosthetics than the remaining flesh, and remembered him more for that than anything else. He was counting on that; many Imperials [[FantasticRacism are uneasy around cyborgs]]. Wedge took this guise again in ''Isard's Revenge'', this time in smoother-looking prosthetics.
** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Derek_Klivian Hobbie Klivian]], being [[CaptainCrash prone to crashes]], has an artificial left arm, an artificial right leg, and an artificial left leg, probably more. ''Darklighter'' also had a scene where Biggs hinted that the same fight that took Hobbie's arm also left him needing artificial genitalia.
** Nawara Ven loses part of his leg when his fighter is shot and damaged, and is fitted for a prosthetic. It's not quite enough to let him keep flying, though, so he moves into an administrative role.
* Dorn Graybrook from the ''Literature/TheYearOfRogueDragons'' trilogy, set in the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'', survived a red dragon attack as a child that left him missing half his limbs. A wizard replaced them with iron golem limbs that had to be periodically (and painfully) replaced as he grew.
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* The Nobleman from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' has an artificial left arm ending in a claw.
* ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos'' is set in a world where everyone is born with "[[WingedHumanoid wings of the heart]]", which appear on the body at will -- except for Kalas, the main character, who was born with only a single wing. His foster father made an artificial wing for him as a replacement.
* ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'':
** After [[MaskedLuchador El Dragón's]] arms were torn off by the [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue Magnus]] ISIC in a wrestling match, the luchador's lost limbs were replaced with giant robot arms.
** Pendles is a part of an [[SnakePeople alien snake race]] that live part of their lives as bipedal creatures. Eventually however, they naturally shed off their limbs and return to living beneath the waves. When Pendles shed off his right tentacle, he put a halt to his natural molting process through hormone therapy and then acquired himself a nifty prosthetic arm.
** Beatrix's limbs are all artificial, the most noticeable being her giant prosthetic syringe-arm the Incistyx Injector. Due to the terminal illness she was born with, her original limbs didn't grow and develop fully. As such, they had to be replaced.
** Rendain has a very prominent mechanical right arm. In battle, the arm can detach from Rendain's body at the shoulder point and float mid-air a small distance away from him with only a couple of red bolts of energy tethering the arm to the still attached but now rotating propeller engine looking part of the arm. With his arm floating like this, Rendain has a wide range of attack.
* In ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'', Tom's left forearm has been replaced with the one from Chapter 4's animatronic Bendy.
* Ragna the Bloodedge from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' got his right arm chopped off when he was a kid. His new right arm [[spoiler: is made of the remains of the Black Beast]]. At the end of ''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift Continuum Shift]]'', [[spoiler: he loses his left arm. That gets replaced by Kokonoe with materials from Lambda-11's rejuvenation tank]]. Iron Tager, being a cyborg, has Artificial ''Everything''.
* The ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' series has the protagonist, Nathan "Rad" Spencer with a bionic arm. It has incredible grip and can grab everything. It's used as a gameplay mechanic as it replaces jumping with swinging.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bombshell}}'', the protagonist has a prominent mechanical arm, which she received after losing her original one while working as a bomb disposal technician.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', Helena Pierce has an artificial arm. We find out why in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'': she was attacked by skags because of a ring her husband gave her, which contained a pearl that released hunger-inducing pheromones. T.K. Baha also has an artificial leg, which he similarly lost to a skag.
** The second game also has Sir Hammerlock who has a mechanical right arm and leg (ripped out by a thresher) and Gaige who has a mechanical left arm (who built it herself after ''deliberately cutting her own arm off so she could summon her robot'').
** ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' has Wilhelm the Enforcer, who is ''addicted'' to body modifications and willingly replaces his limbs with cybernetics by obtaining new skills. He can replace his left arm and legs so he can punch really hard and shoot while sprinting respectively.
** ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands'' continues the tradition with one of the protagonists, Rhys. His right arm is cybernetic, as is part of his left eye. [[spoiler: He has to tear them out and have them replaced by the end due to an AI copy of Jack inhabiting them.]] His SitcomArchNemesis Vasquez has a barely noticeable cybernetic pinky finger as a parody of this trope and a [[{{Yubitsume}} hint to his criminal ties]].
* ''VideoGame/BugFables'': Vi's older sister Jaune is a skilled painter whose artsy nature is further emphasized by having a paintbrush implanted where her stinger should be.
* ''{{VideoGame/Bugsnax}}'': After cutting off their own leg ForScience, Floofty has to use a prosthetic. At first, they're shown with a wooden peg leg, but [[spoiler:if they survive the finale]] they're shown in the credits with a full-on prosthetic.
* In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare'', protagonist Jack Mitchell loses his left arm in combat early in the game and has it replaced with a prosthetic courtesy of the Atlas Corporation. [[spoiler:At the beginning of the second to last mission, it is severely damaged by BigBad Jonathan Irons, and the final mission ends with Mitchell cutting it off with a knife to drop Irons, who is hanging on to it over the side of a building, to his death.]]
* Due to how prolific various cyberware is in the world of ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', quite a lot of characters had their regular limbs replaced. Some notable examples would be:
** [[PlayerCharacter V]] has cybernetic forearms from the start, which house a retractable cable that allows them to connect to computers and terminals, and a grip that allows them to read things like magazine capacity of their guns. With time, the player can unlock more combat-oriented implants like the [[BladeBelowTheShoulder mantis blades]].
** [[{{Deuteragonist}} Johnny Silverhand]] has his iconic, well, silver hand, from which he takes his stagename from. It's worth noting that this is one of the few times where a character has actually lost their limb, with Johnny losing his flesh hand during the war. It doesn't have any offensive capabilities and seems to function like a regular hand.
** [[ByTheBookCop River Ward]] has a prosthetic right palm. It's relatively crude and simple, and seems to be a normal prosthetic.
** [[ShellShockedVeteran Mitch]] has a simple prosthetic left arm. Like Johnny, he's also a veteran and lost his limb during the war, though a different one than the one Johnny fought in.
** [[DirtyCoward Dexter deShawn]] has a [[ConspicuousConsumption gold-plated]] right arm.
** Many [=NPCs=] in the overworld can spawn with cybernetic arms and/or legs.
* In ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', the protagonist JC Denton is an aversion -- his limbs are all human, and his augmentations consist of nano-scale robots that have merged with his physical body on the cellular level, creating the first true fusion of man and machine. Denton's brother Paul, Walter Simons and Robert Page are similarly augmented. However, traditional mechanical implants are around (though on their way to obsolesence, much to the dismay of the people who opted for them), most prominently in UNATCO agents Anna Nevarre and Gunther Hermann. [[spoiler: Conveniently, both Nevarre and Hermann are installed with a killphrase which, when said, causes them to violently explode.]]
** Fan-made prequel and GameMod ''[[VideoGame/TwentyTwentySeven 2027]]'' features these, as nanoaugmentation is still on the drawing boards. In terms of gameplay, they still function like nano augs in the original game, except augs like the leg prosthesis make a whirring sound when used.
* Adam Jensen, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' gets both of his arms replaced with advanced prosthetics, and most of his body "enhanced" with cybernetic implants, after surviving an attack on a corporate research facility by a group of anti-bionics extremists. All the augments are present from the beginning of the game but Adam must learn to use them by earning experience and spending "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) Praxis]] Points". This allows the player to unlock various enhancements, including [[BladeBelowTheShoulder retractable blades]], super jumping skills, pheromones and [[InvisibilityCloak Optical Camouflage]].
** One of the antagonists, [[ShoutOut a mercenary]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII named Barrett,]] has [[ArmCannon a minigun built into one of his cyberarms.]]
** Artificial arms are the rage in 2027, it seems -- Jensen's boss David Sarif and Tong Si Hung, a Shanghai bartender/mafioso, sport them too.
** They are handled in a slightly more realistic way, especially regarding the super-strength aspect. While Jensen can punch through walls and do some serious damage with his prosthetics, its not as over-the-top as some other examples. Also, if you look at his chest when he's shirtless (best seen in the Missing Link DLC) you can see there's a support bar crossing his torso under his skin, linking both arms together, to prevent them tearing out. Plus every other person that has augmentations has to take a daily dose of a certain immunosuppressant to prevent a violent rejection of the augs.
* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'', a villain rips off and steals Nero's demonic right arm, Devil Bringer. Nico builds him mechanical arms called Devil Breakers, which can emulate most of the Devil Bringer's techniques and use a few extra like a RocketPunch attack. However, Devil Breakers will break if Nero is attacked while using them or if he uses a ChargedAttack with them though fortunately he can find or buy replacements.
* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': Malenia's right arm is prosthetic. Her left leg and half her right leg are also prosthetic.
* Can happen to the PC in the ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' DLC Old World Blues; albeit with your brain, heart and spine and replaced with Tesla coils, an artificial heart/filter and a synthetic spine. How you are able to function with your brain missing ([[ItMakesSenseInContext and have a conversation with it]]) is never explained, though it is all but stated that all the Think Tank have no idea what they're doing anymore and haven't for over a century and a half. The whole point of the DLC is to get your brain back which was misplaced by the Think Tank, though you can opt to keep your artificial brain if you want to, you just get different bonuses than if you get your brain reinstalled.
** In a piece of DummiedOut content in the first ''[[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} Fallout]]'' there was a gang leader called Tangler who had a robotic arm. You were hired to kill him and tear it off from his corpse as proof you had done the deed.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' ''kind of'' plays on this trope with the Brotherhood of Steel Proctor Ingram, who lost both of her legs to Super Mutants. While she doesn't have any true prosthetics to replace them, ''Fallout 4'' was the first game to treat PowerArmor as a [[AMechByAnyOtherName vehicle]] rather than a suit of armor that you would equip from your inventory, so Ingram is always seen in a power armor frame to allow her to get around.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Barret Wallace lost his arm to multiple bullet wounds. Later, his original artificial arm was replaced by a machine gun, and later upgraded in the ''Advent Children'' spinoff movie with the ability to morph into a (relatively) normal looking hand.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Ghostrunner}}'''s left arm is replaced by a crude mechanical version after the original was ripped off by Mara. Zoe also mentions having a limb implant, though given her status as a VoiceWithAnInternetConnection, we never actually see it in-game.
* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'': One of Balurga's hands got bitten off by one of the gang's war beasts when she was proving herself worthy of joining them. They replaced it by a clawed ArmCannon.
* Wendy Cooke has a wooden prosthetic arm in ''VideoGame/GrowingUp'' but is conscious of it because bullies call her "Captain Hook" for it. However, she's inspired by it to make horror movie makeup and special effects.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'': Dr. Eli Vance has an artificial right leg, although it is crude and amounts to a curved, springy metal strip. His original leg was eaten by an alien animal. Eli Vance's leg [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USMC-07775.jpg is]] TruthInTelevision, although the springy metal strip type is usually used by [[http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aimee_mullins_on_running.html athletes]], because it's hard to stand still on one. On the other hand, not only would the Seven Hour War have limited his choices for a replacement, but one that allows the user to run would be very useful for a rebel.
%%** And then there's all the fun things the Combine do to biological lifeforms...
* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
** ''VideoGame/HaloReach'': Kat has a mechanical right arm. Which is a bit odd in that there seems to be no other reason to put it into a much thinner and more skeletal casing than the other arm of the body armor, but to make it obviously visible.
** The expanded universe has a lot more characters with robot limbs, like [[Literature/HaloContactHarvest Captain Ponder]], [[Literature/HaloTheColeProtocol Eddie Underwood]], and an officer overseeing the SPARTAN-III Alpha Company's augmentation procedure named [[Literature/HaloGhostsOfOnyx De Guzman]]. Ponder and Eddie have artificial arms like Kat, while De Guzman has a synthetic left leg. ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'' also depicted Spartan-[=II=] James-005 lose his lower left arm to a Hunter's assault cannon, which is replaced with one of these before the Spartan is sent back into the field.
** ''VideoGame/HaloInfinite'': Escharum's [[TheDragon Dragon]], Blademaster Jega 'Rdomnai, is an Elite with a prosthetic left arm. The lore around the character says he was part of a special team who was maimed in combat. The Covenant was anti-prosthetic and fellow Elites felt he had lost his honour, but he instead found himself allying with the Banished, whose entire premise was rejecting the needless dogma of the Covenant.
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'':
** In the first game, Darth Malak lost his mandible courtesy of a duel with Revan, requiring the use of an artificial ''jaw'' and vocabulator.
** ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'': Bao-Dur has an artificial arm he designed and built himself. He tries to joke about it, but turns out it's a "souvenir" from the horrors of Malachor V. It has the ability to disable force fields, but somehow restricts the kinds of armor he can wear.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroDawnOfTheDragon'': During the siege of Warfang, the golem replaces the arm it loses earlier in the game by magically grafting rubble from the city in its place, which assembles itself into a new, fully functional limb.
* ''VideoGame/{{Madworld}}'': Jack has a mechanical arm. [[RuleOfCool With a built-in]] [[ChainsawGood chainsaw.]]
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': While never mentioned in-universe, a Geth arm was grafted onto Saren's body to replace his left arm.
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', it's mentioned that the means in which Shepard was [[WeCanRebuildHim resurrected]] was "bio-synthetic fusion", meaning most of their body was artificially created in some fashion or another. In addition to a reinforced skeletal structure and cybernetic implants, it's implied that their eyes and skin were replaced using cloned grafts.
* ''VideoGame/Medievil2'': Professor Hamilton Kift has a pair of mechanical hands. Reading his journal late in the game reveals he was forced to replace his flesh-and-blood hands after they were badly mangled during an expedition [[spoiler:to find Zarok's legendary spellbook alongside [[BigBad Palethorn]]]].
* ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends2'': Joe has a Reaverbot arm, mostly longer than his natural arm. In fact, this seems rather common in the Legends era. The only major male character who doesn't seem to have mechanical prosthesis, at one time or another, is Werner von Bluecher.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'': [[spoiler:Ocelot]]'s artificial arm doesn't provide absurd amounts of SuperStrength, but it still ''really hurts'' when he manages to punch you with it. Total-conversion cyborgs such as Grey Fox and [[spoiler:Raiden]] do have inhuman strength and reflexes, as well as ImplausibleFencingPowers.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'': Peter Stillman has an artificial leg, after his original one was blown off when he failed to defuse a bomb in a church. [[spoiler:Though he ends up being a subversion. In reality, he panicked and fled mid-defusal, leaving the bomb to detonate and kill some nearby kids. He faked having failed to defuse the bomb and lost a limb from the resulting explosion to garner sympathy because he couldn't bear to face the families of the real victims.]]
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'': Big Boss gets a few after losing his left arm. Initially, he has a HookHand, but is given a more advanced Bionic Arm by Ocelot, complete with full set of digits and wrist articulation. The arm can be swapped out for different models, such as an electrical stun arm, a remote controlled non-lethal or explosive arm, or a WISP arm that can teleport distant enemies to him.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'': "Jetstream" Sam Rodrigues has a cybernetic arm to replace the one he lost fighting [[spoiler:Armstrong]]. The fact that this was his only cybernetic replacement makes him being able to best Raiden in their first fight and still match his upgraded body in their second one all the more impressive.
* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'': The cyborg Ghor only has 6% of his original body left, having replaced most of it with mechanical appendages. He displays a bit of CyberneticsEatYourSoul -- his personality changes from a fairly gentle and intelligent demeanor (it's noted that he will work for free or give bounty money to the victims of those he hunts) to aggressive and violent when he merges with his [[MiniMecha armorsuit]], though he maintains control of himself as seen on Norion (where the player sees him both in and out of his suit -- out of the suit, he calmly informs Samus of a tactical decision, while in the suit he starts shouting at her to get a move on to the objective while brandishing weapons). Justified in that the suit could be designed to alter his personality to make him more aggressive, as it's noted in his scan entry that he isn't a proficient fighter without it. However, [[spoiler:after his corruption, he does get a terminal case of straight CyberneticsEatYourSoul as seen when, without his suit, he gloats and causes some destruction to hinder Samus but is easily fended off (and even makes a remark while retreating that could show he's not yet fully corrupted), but in his suit he goes full-on berserker, going as far as to throw Samus' gunship at her.]]
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'':
** Major Jackson Briggs a.k.a. "Jax" has ''bionic implants'' covering his arms that give him enhanced strength. Unlike most cybernetic arms, these can be removed, and he retains his natural arms underneath.
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'': In the ContinuityReboot, Jax's arms are brutally removed by Ermac and replaced with cybernetic implants, making them 100% artificial arms.
* ''VideoGame/NiNoKuniIIRevenantKingdom'': Bracken has an artificial leg.
* In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', Holly Summers has an artificial leg. In addition, Shinobu gets a mechanical replacement for the hand Travis chops off at the end of her fight with him.
** In Japan, due to {{Bowdlerization}}, Shinobu doesn't get her hand cut off at the end of the fight, which led to some confusion about whether or not her losing the hand was canon. This was settled in ''Desperate Struggle'', which confirmed she has a mechanical hand.
** In III, ''both'' her arms are ripped off and have to be replaced.
* The sligs in the ''Videogame/{{Oddworld}}'' series use mechanical "pants", which come in two forms: a pair of cybernetic legs or a helicopter backpack with a built in grenade launcher. Interesting for this trope, they're not actually fused to the user's body; they're mass produced for the slig species to compensate for the fact that they didn't evolve legs, and operate like the lower half of a suit of PowerArmor.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has several characters with artificial limbs of varying quality. Junkrat has a mechanical peg-leg and a mechanical hand (not surprising, considering [[MadBomber his fondness for explosives]] and lack of any safety awareness), Cassidy/[=McCree=] and Symmetra both have a relatively nice looking mechanical arm while Torbjörn has a weird claw thing replacing the lower part of his arm. Genji is a full {{Cyborg}} with all of his limbs being mechanical (his Blackwatch skin has the left arm as flesh but the normal skin has it mechanical). Doomfist's right arm is a cybernetic limb that he uses to wield his PowerFist, but is also strong enough by itself to smash through concrete.
* The "Artificial Organs" scenario in ''VideoGame/PlagueInc'' places you in a world where artificial organs are cheap and reliable, so you have to pit your plague against a humanity that can survive otherwise deadly symptoms like ''total organ failure'', as they search for a cure. [[spoiler: If you evolve the Insanity symptom, then you'll get treated to the [[SarcasmMode lovely]] news that people are ripping their own artificial organs in bouts of madness, leading to messy and quick deaths]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' has [[DepravedDentist Dr. Loboto]], who has a clawed hand with a pepper grinder built in.
* ''VideoGame/QuantumReplica'': [[PlayerCharacter Alpha]] appears to have a prosthetic in place of his left arm.
* ''VideoGame/Raid2020'': Shadow lost his right arm some time before the game which has been replaced by a robotic arm with an integrated mini-computer.
* ''VideoGame/{{Rimworld}}'' has artificial limbs ranging from simple peg legs to bionic limbs and eyes that perform better than their biological counterparts. Characters with the "Transhumanist" trait want to be cybernetically enhanced and get a mood bonus if they have an artificial body part; conversely, Body Purists consider bionics unethical and get a permanent mood penalty if they have any artificial parts.
* In ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice'' Wolf has his left arm cut off at the beginning of the game and has a bone prosthetic attached to the stump that functions exactly as the lost limb and also has a grappling hook and a variety of shinobi tools installed in it, such as a flamethrower, a spring-loaded spear and so on.
* In ''VideoGame/SlySpy'', the boss of the third level is a GiantMook with two metal arms.
* Yoshimitsu from ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur'' is a bizarre case, as he lives in the late 16th century. His missing arm is replaced by a strange wooden contraption, which still serves him well enough to sword fight with the best of them (and in a few of his moves, he visibly grabs and moves the replacement's wrist with his good hand). His 20th-century counterpart from ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' may or may not have a mechanical arm; it's hard to tell in most of his costumes (PROTIP: one hand is usually spinning at the wrist).
** In the ''Soul Calibur IV'' Character Creation, it's seen that his left arm, face and both legs are also prosthetic, making him a possible ManInTheMachine.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceSiege'': As you play security officer Seth Reynolds, you have the option during the game to upgrade yourself with cybernetics. This also enables the option to use heavier weapons. [[spoiler:In the end you have the option to go with the ship AI ‘’Pilot’’ and turn all into cyborgs or kill the AI]]
* The Grox of ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}''. Being an AffectionateParody of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration the Borg]], the entire species has replaced their right arms, legs, and eyes with cyborg equivalents.
* In ''VideoGame/StarSweep'' Dr. J has a robotic arm, in contrast with the fantasy aesthetic everything else has.
* ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'': When General Warfield has to have his right arm amputated after being poisoned by a Hydralisk, he returns with a sweet mechanical prosthetic that [[ArmCannon changes into a cannon.]]
** Swann also has one, from when he lost an arm when he and his miners rebelled against the Kel-Morian Combine.
* The pilots of the ''Videogame/StarFox'' universe [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r0oKdhp4ENs/UC6GKyqvpXI/AAAAAAAABK8/uaSpSU2Q58k/s1600/robot+legs.jpg have]] [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/starfox/images/7/7e/Star_Fox_Nintendo_Power.png/revision/latest?cb=20120211162252 prosthetic]] [[http://amiiboplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ssbm_fox_render_by_machriderz-d56n3ki.png legs]] [[http://geekmelee.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Title-Photo.png replacing]] [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/ssb/images/6/6d/Fox_(SF643D).png/revision/latest?cb=20140912071720 their]] [[http://65.media.tumblr.com/a224d06a8948c45c3dea4973dac2a050/tumblr_nw0f0xF4TS1rkrwaco4_1280.jpg normal]] [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/starfox/images/4/44/Andrew.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080227063016 ones]]. For years fans have created theories as to their purpose, ranging from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Np3_ZLOH8 augmenting the pilots for field work,]] to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX-pGlStTZw move]] [[https://youtu.be/ncImCSfwZZE?t=34 faster,]] to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk78nrxHqvc helping the pilots deal with extreme G-Forces.]] Years later, [[WordOfGod creator Miyamoto]] finally confirmed why the Star Fox team were depicted with metal legs: it was an attempt to make his {{Funny Animal}}s [[https://youtu.be/1z6a8Oswk1s?t=429 appear more human to the player]] and [[RuleOfCool look cool.]]
* Subverted: Raidies F. von Branstein of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' fame has a prosthetic hand. It apparently doesn't look realistic despite its functionality, so he wears a glove over it. He also never shows any kind of increased strength or anything. In fact, he likes to pretend it doesn't exist...
* The Agents in ''VideoGame/{{Syndicate}}'' are kidnapped humans that undergo a conversion process by the Syndicate organizations, starting with the implantation of a mind control chip. As you earn money you can upgrade their bodies with cybernetic parts. By the end of the game, each agent is practically a full-conversion cyborg, able to carry several miniguns and a rocket launcher or two.
* [[PsychoForHire Zagi]] from ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' gets a laser-shooting blastia arm after losing the use of his left arm from the second fight he has against the party. It's begun to have some [[VoiceOfTheLegion unsettling effects]] on him by the time he confronts the party for the last time, due to him misusing it.
* The Gunslinger, one of the weapons for the Engineer in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', is a mechanical hand designed by his grandfather Radigan. It was implied in the official blog that the Engineer willingly sawed off his original right hand to accommodate the replacement, though some theories exist that the hand under the glove was always artificial.
* Garrett in ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' has his [[EyeScream eye plucked out partway through the first game]]. In the epilogue, it's shown that he's gotten a mechanical replacement, which he keeps for the rest of the series. It grants him a few neat tricks like telescopic vision and (very limited) remote camera input. The second game reveals that the eye was given to him by the Hammerites, perhaps out of gratitude for his actions at the end of the first game.
* Wild Dog of ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'' gets one with a built-in chain gun after his defeat in the first game.
* In ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', [[Manga/TouhouIbarakasenWildAndHornedHermit Kasen]] appears to have a magical prosthetic arm. Normally she wraps it in bandages and claims it's scarred from an old injury, but there isn't anything but smoke underneath the bandages, and she can detach it and control it remotely (when she thinks no one is looking). She's been given access to several magical means of healing her arm, [[WoundThatWillNotHeal but it seems there was something special about how it was removed]] and indeed she's actively searching for her missing arm.
* Perhaps the most extreme example is Sydney Losstarot from ''VideoGame/VagrantStory''. He sacrificed all four of his limbs to the goddess of his religion, Mullenkamp, and had all four replaced by creepy {{steampunk}}-ish prosthetics.
* Limb replacement is fairly commonplace in ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}''; the average [[CloneArmy Grineer]] requires extensive surgery in order to function due to their [[CloneDegeneration production flaws]], and mechanical limbs are a common sight. Some of them take it further; Councillor Vay Hek appears to have only kept his original face. [[BodyHorror The rest of him has changed quite a bit.]]
** The Solaris of the [[PenalColony Fortuna colony]] tend to sell and replace their limbs as partial payment of 'debts;' oddly, the most common prosthetic seen is artificial ''heads''.
* Kanon from ''VideoGame/WildArms2'' has had an arm and part of her trunk replaced by cybernetics; she not only has enhanced strength, but also neat gadgets like a hookshot. Considering the generally low-tech or steampunk feel of the game, one wonders how they can function as well as they do.
** ''VideoGame/WildArms5'' had Kartikeya, a.k.a., the man with a [[AMechByAnyOtherName Golem]] arm.
* ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus''. HilarityEnsues when Fergus gets an artificial arm that appears to have a mind of its own, punching him in the face when he's trying to sleep and [[AccidentalPervert grabbing a woman's breast]] while Fergus is making a romantic overture.
* You can make an [[{{UsefulNotes/XboxAvatars}} Xbox Avatar]] with prosthetic limbs.
* In ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'''s ExpansionPack ''Enemy Within'', your troops can undergo surgery to become MEC Troopers. This involves having ''all four limbs'' amputated and replaced with cybertech sockets that can either mount robotic imitations of the original limbs when not in combat, or interface with the [[PoweredArmor Mechanical Exoskeletal Cybersuits]] that gives them their class name. The benefit of this is the operative gets to be a ridiculously tough 12-to-15-foot-tall mechanic giant that carries a [[{{BFG}} rifle-like Minigun]] (that can be upgraded up to a [[WaveMotionGun Particle Cannon]], and can be equipped with subsystems like a {{Barrier Busting|Blow}} RocketPunch, [[LandMineGoesClick a proximity mine layer]], [[FireBreathingWeapon a flamethrower that can make anything organic panic]], an {{EMP}} module, and other such goodness. When researching the technology, it's noted that the surgery is reversible ([[GameplayAndStorySegregation though not in the game]]).
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* One ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' comic showed a salty old sailor pointing to his peg leg and saying "Well, that ain't a bad story, but lemme tell ya about the time I lost ''this!''" The guy he's talking to, by the way, has a wooden peg ''[[UpToEleven for a head]]''.

** The Solaris of the [[PenalColony Fortuna colony]] tend to sell and replace their limbs as partial payment of 'debts;' oddly, the most common prosthetic seen is artificial ''[[UpToEleven heads]]''.

* ''Fanfic/AMoonAndWorldApart'': Chapter 26 sees Rainbow Dash getting offered, and accepting, a replacement mechanical wing after she finds out she lost one while saving lives during the terrorist attack on the ''Orion''.

* ''Fanfic/UnderTheNorthernLights'': Wiglek has a crude one in the form of a spear tip jammed into his leg to replace a lost hoof, held in place by undead flesh grown around it.

* ''VisualNovel/C14Dating'': Hendrik lost a hand in a car accident and has a fairly mundane replacement. The hand part of his forearm-covering prothestic seems to be mostly cosmetic and he sometimes needs to detach it to use the HookHand he has underneath. His route includes an event in which he asks Melissa to hold his hand while she is assissting him with a task and quickly turns out to mean the removable one.