This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
BT The P: That thing with Goldeneyes Silverhand Dactylos seems to parody the man who designed the Kremlin. Supposedly the then-ruler had him blinded so he could never outdo himself.
Paul A: Also the legendary Greek inventor Daedalus, who according to one story was kept imprisoned by his patron, the king of Crete, so that nobody else could benefit from his genius; Daedalus escaped by building himself a set of wings and flying away.
Ununnilium: Basically, there's a lot of stories like this, and it parodies them all, though, since Dactylos is from Ephebe, a parody Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Greece, Daedalus is probably the closest.
Andyroid: Removed the Hogfather example, Teatime would fall under Eyepatch of Power.
Rissa: Removed this from the Evil Dead example on Ash's hand. Natter.
- Incidentally, this editor wonders what this entry was doing in the Live Action TV section.
Zetaseal: More natter, and lots of it, in case anyone is interested in continuing these conversations.
- Actually, manga Batou is not. He appears to be fully human except for his eyes, standard-issue special forces implant from his Army days. After the Major bashes him in the head yet again, Batou contemplates going fully prosthetic.
- Anime Batou is completely cyborg, evidenced by the ability of his body to take jumps from massive heights. Although that would probably cause brain bruising in the real-world. He spends much of his paycheck on weight lifting equipment, but since he won't exactly get stronger from lifting weights...
- The idea may be that neglecting to maintain synthetic muscle fibers would cause them to atrophy, so he weight-lifts to calibrate them.
- It's specifically stated that the equipment is useless. He works out as a reminder of his days as a non-cyborg.
- Anime Batou has also been injured in the head revealing metal skull, and gotten a steel pole struck through his chest with no ill effects, or even bleeding. He's as full cyborg as they come. The Japanese trailer of Innocence even states that much of his brain has been replaced.
- They almost always have a bit too much connection to Adeptus Mechanicus, and cogheads are, well, just too strange sometimes... Indeed, the highest ranking of them tend to replace all of their bodies except for the brain and some of the nervous system with cybernetic bits, and the most extreme undertake the "Junction of pure thought", which involves replacing the part of their brain responible for creative and emotional thought with a computer.
- This troper remembers an arch-techpriest from Storm of Iron whose sole organic component was his face in a jar, whose muscles were manipulated by wires. The rest of him has been replaced by enormous computer banks that occupied an entire floor of a building.
- They almost always have a bit too much connection to Adeptus Mechanicus, and cogheads are, well, just too strange sometimes... Indeed, the highest ranking of them tend to replace all of their bodies except for the brain and some of the nervous system with cybernetic bits, and the most extreme undertake the "Junction of pure thought", which involves replacing the part of their brain responible for creative and emotional thought with a computer.
