History Main / Cyborg

For the Creator/DCComics character, Victor Stone, see ComicBook/{{Cyborg}}. For the movie, see ''Film/Cyborg1989''. For the Tabletop RPG, see ''TabletopGame/CYBORGTabletopRPG''.

For the Creator/DCComics character, Victor Stone, see ComicBook/{{Cyborg}}. For the movie, see ''Film/Cyborg1989''. For the Tabletop RPG, see ''TabletopGame/CYBORGTABLETOPRPG''.

For the Creator/DCComics character, Victor Stone, see ComicBook/{{Cyborg}}. For the movie, see ''Film/Cyborg1989''. For the Tabletop RPG, see ''TabletopGame/{{CYBORG}}''.

For the Creator/DCComics character, Victor Stone, see ComicBook/{{Cyborg}}. For the movie, see ''Film/Cyborg1989''.

** Aquila Amador from the episode "Eye Spy" has a cybernetic eye.

** Shadows use machine-fused humans as ''WetwareCPU''s of their ships. Said humans also are capable of taking over common human tech, which was successfully exploited by protagonists in the series.
** One of the series features a piece of ''Main/OrganicTechnology'', capable to fuse with a human and transforming into battle cyborg.
** White Stars, ships, utilizing both Minbari AND Vorlon tech may be speculated to be this, though in this case both 'living' and 'cybernetic' parts are artificial.

* ''Franchise/KamenRider.'' It's been a while since this was anything like standard, and cyborgs are not a RecurringElement anymore, but the old-school Showa-era Riders were either (a) kidnapped by bad guys and put through UnwillingRoboticisation to serve them, escaped brainwashing, and kicked MonsterOfTheWeek butt (literally. [[FinishingMove RIDER]] [[CallingYourAttacks KIIIIIICK]]!) or (b) were upgraded by good guys to fight the rising evil organization, usually after losing a friend or family member (or several!) to the bad guys. If ''Film/KamenRiderG'' doesn't count, the last such Rider (for heroic ones) was Kotaro Minami of ''Series/KamenRiderBlack'' and ''Series/KamenRiderBlackRX,'' in 1988-89, although Series/KamenRiderDouble's [[spoiler:Philip is a person made of data who was used by the bad guys to create the Gaia Memories]], which is this trope in spirit.

** In one [[FanonDiscontinuity problematic]] episode of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original series]], Spock's brain was stored in a jar and replaced by a remote control receiver.
** In ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'', Vedek Bareil is injured in a shuttlecraft accident and, against Dr. Bashir's advice, has parts of his brain replaced by positronic synapses. They [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul don't work as well as the original]]. [[spoiler:They also can only keep him alive temporarily, as the brain damage was too extensive. The only thing left that could've been tried was replacing ''all'' of Bareil's brain with cybernetics, which was rejected for obvious reasons.]]

* Colonel "Iron Man" Torres is a 19th century version of this in "The Night of the Steel Assassin" from ''Series/TheWildWildWest''.

For the Creator/DCComics character, see ComicBook/{{Cyborg}}. For the movie, see ''Film/Cyborg1989''.

** Introduced in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', unlike most of Dr. Gero's creations, #17 and #18 are cyborgs, not androids. [[BrainInAJar Android #20 is a robot body which houses Gero's brain]]. Cell is a strange case, being a bio-organism made using cells from powerful warriors. A lot of the confusion among the fandom comes from the fact that all Gero's creations are referred to with blanket terminology that doesn't quite fit: the English dub calls them "Androids", the French dub calls them all Cyborgs, and even the original Japanese version uses the term "ArtificialHuman".
** Frieza also becomes a cyborg after being defeated by Goku on Namek. Oddly enough, in Hell he isn't allowed to keep his cyborg body while Dr. Gero is. Perhaps it was because he was reverted back to how he was before he suffered the massive body mutilation in his fight with Goku. Gero was revived with a new humanoid body after escaping Hell -- which was altered from the human flesh once again.

** Geordi [=LaForge=]'s VISOR and, later, cybernetic replacement eyes.
** Picard has an artificial heart.
** In one [[FanonDiscontinuity problematic]] episode of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original series]], Spock's brain was stored in a jar and replaced by a remote control receiver.
** In ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'', Vedek Bareil is injured in a shuttlecraft accident and, against Dr. Bashir's advice, has parts of his brain replaced by positronic synapses. They [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul don't work as well as the original]]. [[spoiler:They also can only keep him alive temporarily, as the brain damage was too extensive. The only thing left that could've been tried was replacing ''all'' of Bareil's brain with cybernetics, which was rejected for obvious reasons.]]
** ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' has Lieutenant Commander Airiam (extensive full-body augmentation following a shuttle crash with at least partial brain replacement) and Lieutenant [[CyborgHelmsman Detmer]] (artificial eye and some cranial implants following an injury in the pilot two-parter).

->''"The Terminator's an infiltration unit, part man, part machine. Underneath, it's a hyper-alloy combat chassis - micro processor-controlled, fully armored. Very tough. But outside, it's living human tissue - flesh, skin, hair, blood, grown for the cyborgs."''

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': Come in two types, those with {{Nanomachines}} in their bloodstream that are stored somewhere in the person, and more typical cyborgs (usually FullConversionCyborg).
** Sara is introduced having medical nanomachines that serve to control her incurable illness, but also grant her SuperStrength and a HealingFactor by consuming the expensive to refill nanomachines stored in her breasts (which shrink as she uses them).
** BrainUploading technology is often used in a black box on a hunter's person as part of insurance plans for an EmergencyTransformation if that hunter "dies". The subject of SenseLossSadness from low quality prosthetic bodies gets explored in depth, and the full type of cyborg have the benifit of a plug in BrainComputerInterface to better control AutomatedAutomobiles or MiniMecha.

* ''Manga/SailorMoon'': Creator/NaokoTakeuchi [[WhatCouldHaveBeen once planned]] to make Ami Mizuno a cyborg, to justify her [[TeenGenius incredible intelligence]]. She was even planned to have PinocchioSyndrome and to make a HeroicSacrifice since she "wasn't human anyways", but instead the cyborg elements were incorporated into Hotaru, who had wired limbs and mechanical parts visible through them [[spoiler:(this is due to her father experimenting on her to keep her alive)]]. Hotaru even despairs of her body feeling "bloodless".

%%* Wiki/SCPFoundation: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-191 SCP-191]]

* In ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'', David starts the series with the standard neural interface as well as ocular implants that most people have. He's closer to a FullConversionCyborg after the TimeSkip: he has Cyber Eyes, the Sandevistan (Spine), [[spoiler:Maine's]] Cyberarms, jump-boosting Cyber Legs, a Ballistic Torso, and muscle enhancements. Doc [[LampshadedTrope lampshades this transformation]], as he questions whether David has less organic than machine with the number of enhancements he installed. [[spoiler:And this is ''before'' he installs the cyberskeleton, which exaggerates this by turning him into a MiniMecha (aside from his torso and head)]].

* In ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'', David starts the series with the standard neural interface as well as ocular implants that most people have. He's closer to full body conversion by the mid-point of the show: he has Cyber Eyes, the Sandevistan (Spine), [[spoiler:Maine's]] Cyberarms, jump-boosting Cyber Legs, a Ballistic Torso and muscle enhancements. Doc [[LampshadedTrope lampshades this transformation]], as he questions whether David has less organic than machine with the number of enhancements he installed. [[spoiler:And this is ''before'' he installs the cyberskeleton, which exaggerates this by turning him into a MiniMecha (aside from his torso and head)]].

* ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' and his DistaffCounterpart ''Series/TheBionicWoman''.

** [[spoiler:Colonel Archer]] in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]] of was blown up at one point, but came back in a half-robot form.

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* ''Literature/AgentG'': The protagonist is one of 26 Letters who are all heavily modified SuperSoldier assassins who have only their brains remaining organic. They aren't alone in this as "Shells" are apparently used by many governments and assassination groups. Regular humans are just completely outclassed by these enhanced individuals but they are able to live otherwise normal lives.
* ''Literature/AliceLong'': Cyborgs are the norm rather than baseline humans simply due to all the advanced abilities cybernetics give. The titular character is the most advanced Cyborg ever born.
* ''Literature/{{Alterien}}'' features a few cyborgs. The technology they're created with can have dangerous consequences for anyone, including Alteriens. Oberon went up against two cyborgs on two different occasions, nearly getting killed both times.
* ''Literature/TheCyberDragonsTrilogy'': Cybernetics are ubiquitous and used to replace bad organs and missing body parts. They can also be used as enhancements for soldiers or those who don't like their existing bodies with the most extreme example being "Shells" who are all machine but for their brains. Technology is advanced enough that their quality of life improves rather than diminishes.
* ''Literature/SpareParts'' is about a girl selling her young healthy human body so she can be implanted in a "cyberform".
* ''Literature/{{Segregationist}}'', a short story by Creator/IsaacAsimov, involves a doctor replacing the heart of his patient. He tries to persuade the patient that an organic prosthetic is the way to go, only for the patient to decide that he doesn't trust it and wants to go with a mechanical heart. We discover at the end that the doctor is [[spoiler:actually a robot]], one of the few who has not chosen to [[spoiler:become more human by surgery]] while the [[spoiler:humans have all been becoming more and more robotic]]. The implication is that eventually, they'll all slowly [[spoiler:morph into one cyborg species]].
* ''Literature/TalesOfTheContinuingTime'':
** The Peaceforcer Elites are cyborged {{super soldier}}s. Gi'Suei'Obodi'Sedon, a purely organic Super Soldier, considers the Elites to be horribly maimed (not to mention, not all that elite).
** Trent Castanaveras is also modified, in that he had the Tytan NN-II, a "nerve net that's designed to sit in high memory and model what's happening in your brain. It has nearly half a million processors, and makes a discrete connection somewhere inside your brain for every one of them. Once it is installed between your skull and the outer surface of your brain, it doesn't come out."
* ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]]: The franchise really likes the ArtificialLimbs trope.
** It's not usually explicitly mentioned whether or not they make people stronger, and the [[FantasticRacism prejudice against cyborgs]] is lessened when they have convincing synthetic flesh covering them, but [[Literature/XWingSeries Ton Phanan]] feels that his [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul Cybernetics Ate His Future]]. Interestingly, though he's mentioned as having synthflesh on his limbs, which are once seen to be twitching eerily when malfunctioning, there's none on his face.
** ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheEmpire'': Guri is a ''Terminator''-like one, a human built around a robot core rather than the other way around. Her outer layers are cloned human material, but her "brain" and inner mechanisms are robotic.
* ''Literature/TheLunarChronicles'': Linh Cinder is a cyborg living in New Beijing after the Fourth World War.
* "Literature/ScannersLiveInVain": Humans are unable to cope with the "Great Pain of Space" and rely on [[HumanPopsicle cold sleep]] ships crewed by ''habermans'' whose brain has been severed from all sensory input except the eyes, and whose body therefore has to be regulated by implanted instruments.
* Creator/AlastairReynolds's works:
** ''Literature/RevelationSpaceSeries'' has the Ultranauts, which are the crews of the slower-than-light interstellar freighters, who use extreme cybernetic replacements to counter the effects of age and help with ship maintenance. [[CyborgHelmsman Captain John Brannigan]] is the most extreme; when his [[BodyHorror pre-Melding Plague]] appearance is shown, all that is left is one leg, one arm, and his face ([[GasMaskMooks mostly]]). ''Diamond Dogs'' has the main character being slowly, ''voluntarily'' being turned from a human into a cybernetic dog-like creature with a skull full of computer bits. Unfortunately the doctor who did this took himself apart so he wouldn't have to undo his 'greatest work'.
** ''Literature/TerminalWorld'' has a man whose lungs were crippled in a war; he's linked up to a [[SteamPunk furnace which powers a pump]] that replaces most of his chest.
* ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'': Possibly the earliest example of a full-body-replacement cyborg in modern literature is the Tin Woodsman -- once a perfectly ordinary human being, he had progressively more parts of his body replaced with tin prosthetics as they were chopped off by a cursed axe -- until essentially all that was left was a mind in a tin shell. [[note]]The tinsmith kept his old head in a closet, where, due to the no-death nature of Oz, it remained sentient, desiring nothing to do with the Tin Man when he returned to retrieve it.[[/note]]
* In ''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible'', by Austin Grossman, the heroine Fatale agrees to have her legs and right arm replaced after an accident. The scientists have to modify most of the rest of her body in order to make those parts work. After the experiment she weighs hundreds of pounds because of all of her cybernetic parts. The corporation that funded her reconstruction promptly vanishes, leaving her to pay for the regiment of antibiotics necessary to prevent infection caused by her new parts.
%%* ''Literature/SnowCrash'': The Rat Things are basically cyborg dogs.
%%* ''Literature/{{Cyborg}}'' by Creator/MartinCaidin.
* ''Literature/TheShipWho'': The Brainships are cybernetics carried about as far as possible, with human brains implanted into and in complete control of entire space ships and space stations. It's implied that the human body is still there, but only as a life-support system for the brain.
* ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'': [[StreetSamurai Molly Millions]] has retractable razors beneath her fingernails and can see the time by pressing her tongue against a tooth. Most impressively, though, her eyes sockets have been [[AwesomeButImpractical sealed with mirrors]] and her tear ducts rerouted to her mouth so that, when she cries, she spits.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': ''Literature/QSquared'' features an inversion of the usual form of this trope. An alternate universe version of Data consists of a positronic brain in a cloned human body.
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Taylor, a former AlphaBitch turned [[TheQuisling Quisling]], is rebuilt with Yeerk technology in exchange for voluntary infestation. One of her arms is a prosthesis capable of deploying various types of deadly gases and possibly a RayGun.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Mad-Eye Moody is essentially a "magical cyborg", given that he replaced a lost eye with a magical one that gives him enhanced abilities. He also has a prosthetic leg, but this isn't described as giving him any extra abilities and is more often than not a hindrance.
* ''Literature/QuantumGravity'': Lila Amanda Black, the protagonist, begins as a fairly standard (if fusion-powered) cyborg of the WeCanRebuildHim variety. It all eventually gets subverted and the experimental prototype first-of-your-kind thing gets pulled to tiny little bits. Subverted in the first book, as the cybernetic parts are actually more physically powerful than her body can withstand. Her SuperMode simply involves turning off the governor units that prevent this and flooding her body with painkillers. The first time this is shown in the book, she manages to ''break her own spine''. [[spoiler:Fortunately for her, she's back at base when this happens, and spends a while in a regeneration tank instead of a body bag.]]
* ''Literature/TheCobraTrilogy'' by Creator/TimothyZahn feature as their protagonists members of the elite Cobra guerrilla commandos, who receive surgically-implanted skeletal laminations (to make their bones effectively unbreakable), servomotors (to give them superhuman strength), hidden weapons (two small antipersonnel lasers in their fingers, one anti-armor laser in the calf and foot of one leg, an "arc thrower" that shoots an electric current down the ionized trail of one of the finger lasers to fry electronics, sonic projectors, and an emergency self-destruct mechanism), optical and auditory enhancements, a tiny supercomputer to control it all (as well as giving them pre-programmed combat reflexes), and a tiny fusion power plant to power all that. Quite an impressive load-out, especially considering they can still pass for normal civilians, which is necessary because they work in sabotage and subversion in cities captured by their enemies. After the war is over, they find it difficult to re-assimilate into regular civilian life, and most go on to move to a group of new colony planets where they prove themselves equally adept at surviving the ridiculously dangerous local fauna. It should be noted that the Trofts (the enemies in the war) actually believe the Cobras to be unkillable. They're just that good. That said, there are major side effects, including early-onset arthritis.
* ''Literature/MachineMan'' has Dr. Charles Neumann spend time as an exceptionally powerful one [[spoiler:along with the Security Guard Carl, before ending up just BrainUploading.]]
* ''Literature/EmpireFromTheAshes'': the Fourth Imperium used "biotechnic" enhancement to give it's military personnel SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, SuperSenses, and a lot of other things. The main character gets improved versions of the implants.
* ''Literature/CreaturesOfLightAndDarkness'': Blends of man and machine are common on the human worlds. They include the Pleasure-Comps -- oracles which are human from the waist down -- and one of the ultimate examples, the Steel General, who still wears a ring of his original flesh on his pinky.
* ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'': Mr. Sellars is a moderate version; he implanted computer hardware into his own body in order to allow him to connect to the [[TheMetaverse Net]] without his captors noticing; by the time of the main story he's practically half computer. Treated fairly realistically in that it doesn't make him any stronger; quite the opposite, in fact.
* ''Literature/NoonUniverse'': Tried and largely rejected. It turned out that few people have required psychic plasticity to accept the changes that happened to them, and those that do slowly turned [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul cold and indifferent observers]].
* ''Literature/ObservationOnTheSpot'': The people of Lusania turned to replacing each cell in their bodies by {{Nanomachines}} in attempt to reach immortality only to run into the "WhoWantsToLiveForever" wall at full speed. Most of the experimental subjects quickly became obsessed with death, [[DeathSeeker trying to kill themselves at all costs]] -- which, given the nature of their new bodies, [[MadeOfIndestructium became nigh impossible]], though most persevered. There was ''one'' survivor of the experiment, a philosopher who never had any illusions about the whole experiment to begin with.
* ''Literature/TimeMachineSeries'': In ''The Rings of Saturn'', cyborgs, in the future, are typically feared by mundane people because they make for dangerous competition in the job market. On the other hand, the cyborgs seem to frequently think themselves superior to humans, to the point of establishing crime organizations and pulling off acts of terrorism.
* ''Literature/{{Incarceron}}'' has many people living inside the gigantic, living prison, and a lot of them aren't pure human, but also part robot. This is because nothing is allowed to come into or escape the prison, and as the prison is running out of bodies to use to make new people with, it instead uses metal. An odd case where some of these people have no metal on the outside of their body, so they are impossible to distinguish from normal humans, as the metal is all inside their bodies.
* ''Literature/HostileTakeoverSwann'': Dominic Magnus has been extensively rebuilt, including a [[ArtificialLimbs replacement arm and leg]], as well as complete skin replacement and facial reconstruction.
* ''Literature/HeartOfSteel'': Alistair Mechanus is a cyborg MadScientist who rebuilt himself after a horrific car accident. Noteworthy in that his upgrades were largely DIY, including his own heart (he had [[RobotBuddy help]]).
* ''Literature/{{Kosmotehnoluhi}}'': In the footnotes, the author explains that by definition, even an old woman with a prosthetic jaw can be considered a cyborg, albeit common usage usually implies more advanced models. In the story, cyborgs are basically cloned human bodies with integrated processor and other implants. They are considered expendable biological machines, produced by DEX Company corporation in several models: DEX (general purpose/military), "Mary" (domestic servants), "Bond" (espionage/secret service) and "Irien" (sex toy). In human society, cyborgs are assumed to be non-sentient, incapable of developing any level of self-awareness [[spoiler:they actually ARE capable, but this ability are deliberately suppressed by DEX Company, because laws absolutely forbade enslavement of self-aware beings]].
* ''Literature/{{DFZ}}'': Cyberware is extremely common in the DFZ. Nik has a ''lot'' of cyberware, though it's not as obvious as most.
* ''Literature/{{Limbo}}'' by Bernard Wolfe is about a post-WWIII world where people willingly amputate their limbs for nuclear-powered prosthetics.
* ''Literature/TheUltimateKillingGame'': Felix Gilfer has metal bones. That includes his teeth. His friends don't know how much human is actually left of him.
* ''Literature/WarGirls'': Onyii has a robotic arm and eye.
* ''Literature/XandriCorelel'': Cybernetics is referred to as chroming. Most people have personal [[{{nanomachine}} nanobots]] and [[HeadsUpDisplay HUDs]], and the protagonists all have translator and filter implants that allow them to talk to aliens and breathe on other planets. Some people have ArtificialLimbs, although those have become increasingly uncommon as regeneration technology improves. Advantage chroming, or chroming not done out of necessity, includes weapons implants, bulletproof skin, limb mods for greater athleticism, and eye and finger mods that make it easier to [[FixingTheGame cheat at cards]].
* ''Literature/TheOutside'': Priests have circuitry implanted in their brains that allows them to directly communicate with the Gods, while angels have had more than half their neurons burned away and replaced by machinery, giving them a much higher bandwidth connection.
%%* ''Literature/{{Deathstalker}}'' has the Hadenmen, who fought a war against the Empire and were defeated; they were revived to take part in the Rebellion.%%And they're examples how?
* ''Literature/TheMouseWatch'': The MadScientist rat Dr. Thornpaw lost one eye, one arm and both legs to horrific AnimalTesting by human scientists. He replaced them with mechanical parts that he crafted himself.
* In ''Literature/{{Bounders}}'', high-ranking Alkalinians have their six natural limbs removed and replaced with a single robot arm.
* In ''Literature/{{Distress}}'', the reporter Andrew Worth has technology in his body that includes cameras in his eyes and a computer in his gut that can connect to external computers via a port in his navel.
* ''Literature/{{Gearbreakers}}'': The [[HumongousMecha Windup]] pilots are cybernetically enhanced to connect to their mechas. Many have ElectronicEyes as well.
* ''Literature/LaszloHadronAndTheWargodsTomb'': Numerous characters have cybernetic enhancements:
** Isis has neural and retinal implants to assist in hacking computer systems.
** Emara Larroe, the Durendal's chief engineer, has cybernetic arms.
** Lord Admiral Rigel's entire body is cybernetic.
* ''Literature/SpaceAcademyDropouts'': Vance is enhanced in several unnoticeable ways. These include having translation software in his brain, computerized memory, and machines in his body that protect him from the side effects of space travel. This is apparently quite normal in the future but not required.
* ''Literature/FracturedStars'': Young people who seem like promising soldiers are put through a variety of hormonal and surgical enhancements and assigned to work in the military for a certain number of years. Most cyborgs die in the line of duty, but a minority live long enough to retire. Most choose to live in enclaves with other cyborgs, as they can no longer relate to anyone else.
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* Franchise/RoboCop's body is almost completely mechanical. The only organic parts are his brain, part of his spinal cord, and his face. Murphy's face was peeled off and placed upon a layer of synthetic support as a posthumous honor to the dead cop. The [[Film/RoboCop2014 reboot]] doesn't leave him with much more (hand, lungs), though unlike the original, it also plays up the human aspect [[spoiler: up until it starts becoming inconvenient to the company...]]

* ''Literature/{{Kosmotehnoluhi}}'': In the footnotes, the author explains that by definition, even an old woman with a prosthetic jaw can be considered a cyborg, albeit common usage usually implies more advanced models. In the story, cyborgs are basically cloned human bodies with integrated processor and other implants. They are considered expendable biological machines, produced by DEX Company corporation in several models: DEX (general purpose/military), "Mary" (domestic servants), "Bond" (espionage/secret service) and "Irien" (sex toy). In human society, cyborgs are assumed to be non-sentient, incapable of developing any level of self-awareness [[spoiler: they actually ARE capable, but this ability are deliberately suppressed by DEX Company, because laws absolutely forbade enslavement of self-aware beings]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}'': [[BigBad Doc Terror]] and Hacker, as well as some of their EvilMinions are all cyborgs. Doc Terror seems to have everything but the left side of his head replaced with mechanical parts, while Hacker has a bit more organic pieces remaining. One episode had Ace require a cybernetic arm and leg after he was badly injured in a fight. [[spoiler: This turned out to actually be a ruse to let him join an underground group of ex-military cyborg criminals, at the end of the episode he revealed that he actually wasn't a cyborg, he'd just been wearing fake parts over his undamaged arm and leg. ]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]]. According to "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy", Rick's body ([[spoiler:or at least the body he currently has]]) contains a lot of advanced cybernetics. It's never said whether his [[spoiler: original]] body was this, though it'd admittedly explain a lot of his unnatural strength. "Rest and Ricklaxation" resulted in Rick's body being killed off by Toxic Rick, but his quick thinking allowed him to grow a new body out of Toxic Rick himself, which brought him back to full human, but ''then'' he gets his right arm ripped off in "The [=ABCs=] of Beth", but has a replacement robotic arm ready to immediately replace it. Within the same episode, he's already grown back his organic arm.

* ''Literature/AgentG'': The protagonist is one of 26 Letters who are all heavily modified SuperSoldier assassins who have only their brains remaining organic. They aren't alone in this as "Shells" are apparently used by many governments and assassination groups. Regular humans are just completely outclassed by these enhanced individuals but they are able to live otherwise normal lives.

* [[Creator/DisneyXD Disney XD's]] ''Series/LabRats'', and its spin-off, ''Series/LabRatsEliteForce'' feature its main co-protagonists, Adam, Bree, and Chase, as teenaged cybernetic/bionic superhumans, whom their original creator, Douglas Davenport, intended to use as bionic super-soldiers, to try and sell them off to different countries' governments for profit. [[note]] He also contemplated using them for more evil purposes as well, such as trying to use them to create his own army of henchmen and minions in order to see if he could take over the world as an evil dictator, so it's worth nothing that he wasn't doing it ''just'' for the money either. [[/note]] However his younger brother and one of the other main deuteragonists of the show, Donald Davenport, stole them from Douglas and adopted them as his own children in order to raise them in a safer and more normal environment like regular human beings. As they grow older and as they go to high school, he then trains them to use their cybernetic and bionic powers for good, so that they can become a team of superheroes together, and learn how to balance their hero lives with their normal, human lives.
** Also Donald Davenport's stepson, Leo Dooley, also becomes a [[WeCanRebuildHim half-bionic superhuman]] when he's given a bionic arm and leg to treat the near-fatal, mortal injuries he suffered while trying to fight Douglas Davenport and his army of bionic superhumans.

* [[Creator/DisneyXD Disney XD's]] ''Series/LabRats'', and its spin-off, ''Series/LabRatsEliteForce'' feature its main co-protagonists, Adam, Bree, and Chase, as teenaged cybernetic/bionic superhumans, whom their original creator, Douglas Davenport, intended to use as bionic super-soldiers, to try and sell them off to different countries' governments for profit. However his younger brother and one of the other main deuteragonists of the show, Donald Davenport, stole them from Douglas and adopted them as his own children in order to raise them in a safer and more normal environment like regular human beings. As they grow older and as they go to high school, he then trains them to use their cybernetic and bionic powers for good, so that they can become a team lf superheroes together, and learn how to balance their hero life with their normal, human lives.

* [[Creator/DisneyXD Disney XD's]] ''Series/LabRats'', and its spin-off, ''Series/LabRatsEliteForce'' feature its main co-protagonists, Adam, Bree, and Chase, as teenaged cybernetic/bionic superhumans, whom their original creator, Douglas Davenport, intended to use as bionic super-soldiers, to try and sell them off to different countries' governments for profit. However his younger brother and one of the other main deuteragonists of the show, Donald Davenport, stole them from Douglas and adopted them as his own children in order to raise them in a safer and more normal environment like regular human beings. As they grow older and as they go to high school, he then trains them to use their cybernetic and bionic powers for good, so that they can become q team lf superheroes together, and learn how to balance their hero life with their normal, human lives.

* [[Creator/DisneyXD Disney XD's]] ''Series/LabRats'', and its spin-off, ''Series/LabRatsEliteForce'' feature its main co-protagonists, Adam, Bree, and Chase, as teenaged cybernetic bionic superhumans, whom their original creator, Douglas Davenport, intended to use as bionic super-soldiers, to try and sell them off to different countries' governments for profit. However his younger brother and one of the other main deuteragonists of the show, Donald Davenport, stole them from Douglas and adopted them as his own children in order to raise them in a safer and more normal environment like regular human beings and then train them to use their cybernetic and bionic powers for good, and to be superheroes.