History PlayingWith / WeCanRebuildHim

* '''Downplayed''': A severely wounded character is patched up with prosthetic parts, but isn't implied to be superhuman as a result.

** A [[CrushKillDestroy mad cyborg]] is taken offline, and surgeons take the opportunity to remove most of the [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul soul-destroying cybernetics]] before reviving him.

** A damaged robot is repaired by replacing its broken parts with human limbs and organs.

* '''Subverted''': Lazarus is brought back to life... and he's basically in a walking life-support machine. Far from making him ''better, stronger, faster!'', his cybernetics are barely keeping him alive.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...but they keep him alive enough to slink away into a remote laboratory, to simmer in his own hatred of humanity and work on upgrading himself. He eventually emerges not just better, stronger and faster, but with a grudge against humanity in general and his "killers" [[ItsPersonal in particular]].

WeCanRebildHim is a broken link. But we can bring it back stronger... faster... '''WeCanRebuildHim!'''

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

** When we next see Lazurus, he's covers in mechanical parts, but [[UnRoboticReveal it turns out they are just the high-tech equivalent of splints.]]

** Lazurus has actual robotc parts under the igh-tech casts, but they're very subtle and it's not visible until [[RoboticReveal his face is blown off.]]

* '''Lampshaded''': "You can rebuild him? How much will it cost?" "$1.1 billion." ""Huh. That's... [[TheSixMillionDollarMan not what I was expecting.]]" "Yeah, that's inflation for you."

** A 15th-century pirate is at risk of dying of gangrene from an infected leg wound. The ship's doctor delivers the "we can rebuild him" speech from ''TheSixMillionDollarMan'' over a scene of him [[TechnologyMarchesOn sawing the leg off and replacing it with a wooden peg]].

* '''Defied''': "[[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder I'm a doctor, not a...]] [[BuffySpeak robot... making... person!]]"

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Conversed''': "Do you think they put this [[AlwaysReadTheSmallPrint in the small print]] of these agents' contracts? 'Item [[NumberOfTheBeast 666]](b)(iii): if the agent is fatally injured in the line of duty, the employer reserves the right to use any and all functioning systems, including but not limited to the central nervous system, in the creation of a cybernetic being...'"

* '''Enforced''': Given Lazarus' popularity and importance (not to mention [[MeaningfulName his name]], the fans [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt simply refuse to believe he's been]] KilledOffForReal. But since the writers had killed him off in the first place because they found him dull, they decide they have a good opportunity to bring him back in a barely-recognisable form.
* '''Lampshaded''': "You can rebuild him? How much will it cost?" "$1.1 billion." ""Huh. That's... not what I was expecting." "Yeah, that's inflation for you."

* '''Inverted''': A [[CrushKillDestroy mad cyborg]] is taken offline, and surgeons take the opportunity to remove most of the [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul soul-destroying cybernetics]] before reviving him.

* '''Parodied''': A 15th-century pirate is at risk of dying of gangrene from an infected leg wound. The ship's doctor delivers the "we can rebuild him" speech from ''TheSixMillionDollarMan'' over a scene of him [[TechnologyMarchesOn sawing the leg off and replacing it with a wooden peg]].

* '''Zig Zagged''': Cyberneticisation is a last resort, pulled only on the dying specifically because it's such a crapshoot. Most people are killed, some reject their enhancements, some are turned into vegetables; even of the survivors, most are left feeble shadows of themselves, barely able to move. But every once in a while...

* '''Enforced''': Given Lazarus' popularity and importance (not to mention [[MenaingfulName his name]], the fans [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt simply refuse to believe he's been]] KilledOffForReal. But since the writers had killed him off in the first place because they found him dull, they decide they have a good opportunity to bring him back in a barely-recognisable form.

* '''Inverted''': A [[CrushKillDestroy mad cyborg]] is taken offline, and surgeons take the opportunity to remove most of the [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul soul-destroying cybernetics]] before reviving him.

* '''Straight''': Lazarus N. Destructible gets a DisneyDeath... but a TheEndOrIsIt moment shows a MadScientist tinkering at his corpse with a welding torch.

* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': "I'm a doctor, not a... robot... making... person!"
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

Back to WeCanRebuildHim.

* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???

* '''Defied''': ???