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| 11 | [[quoteright:250:[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sally_roboticized.png]]]] |
| 12 | [[caption-width-right:250:Well, the [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furries]] may be sad about Sally Acorn's fate, but at least the {{robosexual}}s will be happy.[[note]][[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Or the robosexual furries.]][[/note]]]] |
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| 14 | ->''"I never asked for this. They say they saved me, but I'm not sure 'saved' is the right word."'' |
| 15 | -->-- '''Adam Jensen''', ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' |
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| 17 | Science fiction often portrays cybernetics as [[{{Transhuman}} the way forward]]. [[WeCanRebuildHim Replacing lost limbs]], [[JustForFun/HowToGiveACharacterSuperPowers augmenting abilities]], even allowing [[BodySurf body transplants]]. But on occasion, a story involves characters who don't want to surrender their fleshy bodies. And that can be handy to know for a villain. This is normally done by dictator and other control freak types. This can be to suppress [[LaResistance rebellion]], to [[LossOfIdentity remove individuality]], [[ReforgedIntoAMinion forcibly convert someone into a minion]], or to create a [[MechaMooks robot army]] -- [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters or a combination of the above]]. |
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| 19 | This is a [[AssimilationPlot common plot]] of TheAssimilator. Related to CyberneticsEatYourSoul. Can sometimes be portrayed as a very special kind of BodyHorror, akin to [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombification]] (especially in cases where the procedure begins with [[BrainInAJar brain harvesting]]). Also see WeCanRebuildHim and EmergencyTransformation. May also occur as SerialProstheses if the conversion isn't done all at once. |
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| 21 | Some devices that inflict roboticisation use {{nanomachines}}, resulting in [[NightmareFuel graphic scenes]] of the person [[BodyHorror being slowly mechanized]] while [[PainfulTransformation screaming in pain]] as they are being rebuilt into machines. May be resisted with HeroicWillpower. May lead to SheepInWolfsClothing. See also ManInTheMachine, FullConversionCyborg and HypnoTrinket. Compare and contrast BrainUploading. |
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| 29 | * ''Manga/Cyborg009'': None of the heroes ''wanted'' to become cyborgs. All of them were kidnapped and forcibly transformed by Black Ghost, leading to understandable angst, frustration and all nine becoming {{Phlebotinum Rebel}}s as soon as they could. [[spoiler:Most of the later cyborgs were created under similar circumstances; however, Black Ghost had ''learned'' from their prior mistakes and ensured they couldn't follow in the first nine's footsteps and become anything more than {{Tragic Monster}}s.]] |
| 30 | * ''Anime/Daitarn3'': The Meganoids' master plan is doing this to ''all'' humans to "improve" the species. |
| 31 | * Androids #17 and #18 in ''Franchise/DragonBall'' were once normal teenagers before [[MadScientist Dr. Gero]] kidnapped them and turned them into powerful cyborgs, planting [[SelfDestructMechanism powerful bombs]] in them for good measure. As soon as they're switched on ([[GodzillaThreshold at Gero's reluctance]]), [[TheDogBitesBack they show him how thankful they are]]. |
| 32 | * In ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999'', while Tetsuro originally tries to GET Roboticized, after witnessing that such operations do not make everything immediately better he decides against it. Cue [[spoiler:Queen Prometheum]] trying to forcefully turn him into, as Tetsuro describes it, a bolt. |
| 33 | ** Then again, [[spoiler:Queen Prometheum decides to turn all organics who do not undergo conversion into FoodPills for her bot citizens]]. |
| 34 | * This is how [[ActionGirl Renee Cardiff Shishioh]] from ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' initially became a cyborg. |
| 35 | * ''[[Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman Gatchaman]]'': [[ExecutiveMeddling For the sequel]], [[spoiler:Joe Asakura's]] essentially-dead body was scooped from where it was found and turned into a cyborg. Dr. Rafael, the scientist who did it without bothering to ask, had a vendetta against the Galactor organization and wanted a weapon to use against them. Several of the 105 episodes of the original series showed Galactor turning other victims into cyborgs as part of their plans; one story had a pair of StarCrossedLovers kidnapped and irreversably transformed within a single episode. |
| 36 | * ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' |
| 37 | ** The Major's {{backstory}} has elements of this. Technically she was turned into a full-body cyborg (essentially making her a BrainInAJar with a [[{{Fembot}} gynoid]] body) to save her life, but it's implied that she didn't have much choice in the matter. |
| 38 | ** In the third movie the Puppetmaster takes control of Togusa and gives him a SadisticChoice between committing suicide or forcing his own daughter to undergo surgery to become a cyborg. Fortunately a third party intervenes JustInTime. |
| 39 | * None of the cyborgs in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' were given any choice about their conversions, and most of them know no details of how they became candidates for conversion (the circumstances were varying but uniformly horrific, and little if anything remains of their old identities). Whether they can be happy that it was done to their previous selves is one of the questions the anime considers. The answer is probably "yes, but ..." seen from the points of view of the individual cyborgs, and possibly "no way, let me die if that life is how I'll end up" from the original girls' unavailable point of view. |
| 40 | * ''Manga/{{Inuyashiki}}'': Both Inuyashiki and Shishigami get turned into cyborgs after they are nearly killed by some wayward aliens crashing into Earth. Inuyashiki is initially freaked out by his transformation before deciding to use his new powers to help people, while Shishigami takes his transformation in stride and uses his newfound powers to become a serial murderer. |
| 41 | * ''Franchise/KagerouProject'': [[spoiler:Haruka, who has had an attack and is sent to the hospital, is killed by Kenjirou. His soul is sent to the Daze while Kenjirou starts making experiments on his body. His experiences in the aforementioned place and the scientist's interruption drives him to a point where he unintentionally uses his newly gained powers to reshape/robotize his body. He was kind of okay with it at first, but he probably didn't expect the 'lose all your memories' part of the deal.]] |
| 42 | * The master plan of the main antagonist in ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' is to institute mandatory cybernetics implantation for every single person in the universe as part of an AssimilationPlot. |
| 43 | * ''Anime/MazingerZ'': All {{Mooks}} and all CoDragons but Gorgon are {{Cyborg}}s created by BigBad Dr. Hell. He never gave anyone a choice in the matter or asked them if they wanted to be turned into half-mechanical beings (and since [[spoiler:Baron Ashura and his {{Mook}}s]] were corpses he revived by using cybernetic implants they could not refuse either). And in the case of Count Brocken, in one of the manga versions he states bitterly he was grateful to Hell because he saved his life... but he never wished serving him. |
| 44 | ** Baron Ashura may have subverted the trope in other versions, though: Even he/she was still converted to a cyborg unwillingly, in ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}'' he requests Dr. Hell [[spoiler:making him/her in a part of his latest Mechanical Beast to fight Mazinkaiser hand-to-hand]]. And in ''Manga/ShinMazingerZero'' he/she [[spoiler:wanted being turned into part of another {{Robeast}} with the same purpose.]] |
| 45 | * In ''Manga/MotherKeeper'', Ricalna gets turned into a cyborg so he can help the people he's meant to be fighting. |
| 46 | ** [[spoiler:Syal is turned into a cyborg after Jim misunderstands her pleas for Elsa to be saved and is pretty upset about it to begin with. She eventually comes to appreciate what Jim did for her.]] |
| 47 | * The Kikai Empire in ''Anime/NekketsuSaikyoGosaurer''. |
| 48 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': Subverted with Bartholomew Kuma. While Jewelry Bonney and the Revolutionary Army believe that Kuma was forced to become a full-fledged cyborg with an erased personality, several people working for World Government testify that Kuma voluntarily became a mindless cyborg. The truth about this is later revealed during the big flashback portion of the Egghead arc: [[spoiler:St. Saturn gave Kuma the ultimatum of becoming a cyborg and have his personality erased, become one of the Shichibukai, and he's not allowed to see Bonney again while she's in treatment and he's still in the process of becoming a FullConversionCyborg or else Kuma's deal with Vegapunk will not go through. Kuma is more than happy to accept the three conditions, as otherwise there's no other way for Bonney to be cured. During the time Kuma still has his personality intact, he finds hope in Bonney living free as a pirate and Luffy becoming a potential savior of the whole world, which is why he does not regret his sacrifice.]] |
| 49 | * ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}'': Many anime characters have been [[ArtificialLimbs texchnolyzed]], either voluntarily or not. Among them, Ichise, the protagonist, whose getting artificial arm and leg saved his life -- but the creator of the limbs, Doctor Kaneda, never asked Ichise if he wanted it, lied to him about the creation process, and also literally raped him when he was helpless. Then [[TheCaligula Kano]] creates the Shapes -- people whose entire body, except for the head, is replaced with a robotic one. Despite the horrors of dehumanization and the fate of becaming Kano's minions, many Lux residents believed Kano's promises of a better life, and also became so desperate, living in [[CrapsackWorld a poor, violent and dying world]], that they willingly agreed to texhnolyzation. Not all of them, though -- so, some of the Shapes are still full-fledged examples of this trope. After all, Kano texchnolyzes [[spoiler:his [[AmbiguouslyRelated (probably) sister]] Ran by placing her living head on a motionless two-headed doll. This causes Ran to destroy her own mind, and later causes Ichise to give her MercyKill]]. |
| 50 | * An Alien queen in episode 108 of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' turns disobedient crew members into robots, who are dropped into a worker robot shell [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Badnik style]]. |
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| 53 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 54 | * ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'': Rebecca Ryker was forced into becoming a cyborg by her father. |
| 55 | * ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': Robotman has never been comfortable with his transformation, and even less so after finding out that [[spoiler:the Chief was responsible for his fateful accident]]. |
| 56 | * ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'': Dark Bird ends up merging with her transforming jet thanks to her sister's evil machinations. |
| 57 | * ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': The Guardians of the Universe skirt dangerously close to the trope in ''ComicBook/RiseOfTheThirdArmy'' with the creation of the Alpha Lanterns, which in effect are Lanterns converted into cyborgs, having their lanters incorporated into their bodies as power source, and a permanent link to the Book of Oa, which subsumes the Lantern's original personality under layers upon layers of programming; in fact, the only thing that stops it from being so is the fact that the Guardians only convert elite volunteers. Then the Cyborg Superman takes control of the conversion chambers and starts churning Alpha Lanterns out by the bucketload. |
| 58 | * ''ComicBook/IronMan'': The ''ComicBook/SuperiorIronMan'' series has Tony Stark, still inverted by the events of ''ComicBook/{{AXIS}}'', spread out "Extremis 3.0" across San Francisco, granting the people their physical perfection. However, it's a "{{Freemium}}", and Stark reveals that if they want to keep it, it's $100 ''a day'', unleashing a massive crime wave. This ends up pissing off the city's protector, ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}. |
| 59 | * ''ComicBook/LadyMechanika'': The eponymous heroine was turned into a cyborg by persons unknown. She has no memory of who she was before she awoke in the lab. |
| 60 | * ''ComicBook/ManTech'': The comic revolves around three unconscious and fatally injured human astronauts who are rescued and [[WeCanRebuildHim cyborgized]] by a benevolent alien. Of the three, [=SolarTech=] accepts that it was the only way to save their lives, and [=LaserTech=] loves his new super powers, but [=AquaTech=] [[WhatHaveIBecome hates his transformation]]. |
| 61 | * ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': The "[[ShoutOut Latverian]] [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Prometheus]]" arc has [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]] doing this to [[CapturedSuperEntity Asgardians]] -- partly in an [[TheyWouldCutYouUp attempt to discover how their bodies work]] and [[ImmortalityImmorality duplicate their immortality]], and partly to create the ever-popular zombie-cyborg army. |
| 62 | * ''ComicBook/{{OMAC}}'': Large numbers of ordinary humans were (themselves unknowingly) roboticised, to serve as sleeper weapons against superhumans, in ''The O.M.A.C. Project'' (one of the preludes to ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''). |
| 63 | * ''ComicBook/{{The Outsiders|DCComics}}'': The villian the Duke of Oil thought that he was [[FullConversionCyborg a human brain transplanted into a cyborg body]]. Upon learning that there was no brain and he was just [[BrainUploading a set of memories downloaded into a robot]], he went slightly mad. |
| 64 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': As with their video game source material, various publications feature this trope: |
| 65 | ** ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' mostly followed the games; Robotnik's main forces were simply shells which weren't organic, and were powered by an organism. Most of them were [[{{Mooks}} nameless one-shot characters]], and several of the Freedom Fighters had been temporarily captured and converted into Badniks before being promptly broken out at various points. [[PhlebotinumRebel Shortfuse the Cybernik]] was a more permanent example of this trope, being used in an experimental creation made of [[MadeOfIndestructium Megatal]], with no readily-available means of getting him back out. |
| 66 | *** This was inverted with [[spoiler:Metamorphia. She started out as an apparently cybernetic artificial life-form, was turned into a Badnik and transformed into an organic character]]. |
| 67 | *** Vermin the Cybernik averts this, however, as he willingly went along with Robotnik's plans and was loyal to him. |
| 68 | ** ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' takes it more literally. The furry holocaust that served as the backstory of ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' (the TropeNamer) the was the result of Robotnik using the invention, known as the Roboticizer, to turn Mobians into mindless slaves to do his bidding. Ironically, the original Roboticizer wasn't even created by Robotnik; it was created by Charles Hedgehog, ''Sonic's'' uncle, as a way of [[JustThinkOfThePotential keeping critically ill or injured patients]] alive until a cure could be found. When the whole "mindless automaton" thing couldn't be resolved, Charles [[MyGreatestFailure dumped it as a failed experiment...]] then [[FromBadToWorse Robotnik stole the machine, using it as the basis for his takeover, and decided Charles should become his very first mindless slave]]. Just to pile on the tragedy, Charles's original test subject was ''his brother'' (and ''Sonic's father''), who had been mortally wounded. To this day, Jules is the last remaining "Robian", because de-roboticizing him would [[CantStayNormal restore his old wounds and kill him]]. |
| 69 | *** In one of the earliest issues, Sonic saved Bunnie Rabbot from a roboticizer, leaving the lower half of her body and one of her arms roboticized. She would become a powerful member of the Freedom Fighters from then on.[[note]]In [=SatAM=], Bunnie was a childhood friend of Sally Acorn who was partially roboticized in a NoodleIncident prior to the beginning of the series.[[/note]] Much later in the series, she would be fully de-roboticized. After the Genesis Wave II CosmicRetcon following the ''Worlds Collide'' crossover event, she was again partially roboticized in the new reality. |
| 70 | *** An early issue featured an alternate-universe Robotnik, driven to desperation by his imminent defeat, turning the roboticizer on himself -- resulting in [[VileVillainSaccharineShow one of the creepier villains]] produced by that series. |
| 71 | *** In issue #39, this happened to ''Sonic himself'', and it became the focus of the Mecha Madness arc. To fight him, the good guys roboticised ''Knuckles''. Yes, it was awesome. |
| 72 | *** It's a complete inversion with Overlanders/Humans in that if the subject isn't willing to be roboticized, they'll turn into [[HumanPopsicle an immobile]] [[TakenForGranite metal statue]]. |
| 73 | *** Sally was roboticised willingly. She wore a chip to allow her to keep her free will, escape, and study the effects. Unfortunately, the damn thing fell off right before she was changed. Bad stuff happened. [[spoiler:It happened to her again in issue #230, though for rather [[TakingTheBullet noble reasons]]; when the events of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'' caused a ContinuityReboot, she was de-roboticised by the CosmicRetcon.]] |
| 74 | *** {{Inverted|Trope}} with an alien race that developed a process to convert robotic lifeform into organic lifeforms and carrying an idiot ball caused genocide when they used it on an alien robotic race whose world couldn't support organic life (Sonic had to defend an alien who used the process to reverse the roboticization on the current victims of unwilling conversion and was due to be executed for it as the prohibition against the use of the technology made no distinctions between returning organic beings who'd been unwilling converted and forcibly converting robotic lifeforms). |
| 75 | *** And in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'', Robotnik teams up with Dr. Wily. Finding that entities from one of their universes have a hard time travelling to the other universe alone, they solve the conundrum by creating a CrossoverComboVillain of two worlds: Sonic's captured friends turned with ''Mega Man'' robotics into the "Roboticized Masters", each with a different Robot Master weapon. [[spoiler:However, a combination of Sonic's Spin Dash and Mega Man's Charged Shot and weapon copy system can turn them back to normal. Tails was the only one restored this way, as he modified Mega Man's [[ArmCannon Mega Buster]] so that the Charge Shot mimics Sonic's Spin Dash and do the work in one step.]] |
| 76 | *** In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsUnite'', this happens to Sonic and Mega Man themselves, turning them into Sonic Man and M'Egga Man respectively. |
| 77 | *** At the point the Archie run ended, Robotnik was looking for a new power source to build a new roboticizer. |
| 78 | ** The second major arc of the [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW IDW Sonic comics]] is built around this, as Eggman unleashes a [[TheVirus viral plague]] which causes all those infected to transform into mindless robot slaves, or "Zombots". [[spoiler:A major part of the arc's drama is that Sonic himself is infected, and has to fight to keep the transformation at bay. Most of his allies [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie are not so lucky]]: three are DevouredByTheHorde, while the rest opt to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice themselves]] and HoldTheLine until they succumb. Because Eggman [[UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway released the virus in an imperfect state]], he eventually loses control of the Zombots to his rivals, the [[VideoGame/SonicLostWorld Deadly Six]]. It takes the combined power of Sonic, Silver, the Chaos Emeralds, and a mysterious warpstone to [[WorldHealingWave finally cure and de-roboticize the world]].]] |
| 79 | * ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': In Supergirl's tie-in to ''ComicBook/TheNew52FuturesEnd'', she suffers from this as well at the hands of [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]] and her father, the Cyborg Superman (a.k.a. Zor-El). After some counter-{{brainwashed}} behavior from the latter (known as Herald One then), she serves him as TheDragon, becoming Cyborg Supergirl (aka Herald Two). Five years after this whole process, she learns what was done to her. Horrified about this, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation she briefly goes insane]], and tears out all of her robotic implants, including severing her own cybernetic arm. |
| 80 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Several iterations of the villain Metallo invoke this trope. Most involve his human brain being [[EmergencyTransformation moved into a robotic body after horrific injury to keep him alive]], without his consent (being unconscious from said injuries at the time of the transfer). |
| 81 | * ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage'' The Fugitoid is an unintentional example; One Professor Honeycutt was wearing a helmet that was supposed to give him telekinesis when he and his robot were struck by lightning, transferring the professor's mind into the robot. |
| 82 | * ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} never asked to be made into a cyborg. Victor's father [[EmergencyTransformation did it to save his life]] after the same EldritchAbomination that ate Victor's mother [[spoiler:and fatally poisoned his father with radiation]] tore him apart, but Victor was initially so horrified by his new body that he wished he had died instead and spent years hating his father. Making things worse, Victor was a great athlete, and his condition meant he could never participate in such activities again. Even aside from the fact that being a cyborg would be considered cheating in athletic competitions, Victor had always taken great joy in being able to push past his limits through hard work and determination, but unlike human muscles his cybernetic parts can't be improved via exercise. Victor eventually made peace with his new body and his father [[spoiler:when he learned his father was dying from radiation poisoning]]. |
| 83 | * ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries'': The [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Machination]] captures Hunter O'Nion and converts him into a cyborg Headmaster against his will. |
| 84 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': |
| 85 | ** In [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Volume 1]], Queen Atomia shrinks down humans and forcibly converts them into her mindless slaves by putting them through a machine that converts them into the almost entirely robotic "mindless Neutron" and "Proton" forms of her subjects. They retain enough of their gray matter that they're susceptible to Wonder Woman using a JediMindTrick on them, but their transformation appears to be permanent and they are considered dead. |
| 86 | ** In [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Volume 2]], Poor Vanessa Katapelis is nabbed and modified with cybernetics into the new Silver Swan; then, when Diana thinks that she's gotten her to help, Vanessa is nabbed again with the doctors hiding the fact that she'd been taken, delaying any attempt to rescue her as no one knew that she'd been taken to be experimented on some more. |
| 87 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 88 | ** The Phalanx and the Technarchy have this as their gimmick, along with elements of TheVirus. Both groups can convert organic life to techno-organic life by touch. The Phalanx use this as a recruiting tool; the Technarchy can do the same thing, but usually avert it by immediately eating whatever they convert. They actually use the same virus to do this. The Phalanx are supposedly spawned from the Technarchs' leftovers and are treated by the Technarchs in much the same way humans treat moldy food, though per ''ComicBook/XMen2019'', the truth is something closer to the other way around. |
| 89 | ** Having large numbers of ordinary humans were (themselves unknowingly) roboticised to serve as sleeper weapons against superhumans was part of Bastion's plan to get rid of all mutants (at the time in the '90s when most non-mutant heroes were thought to have died in the battle against ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}). |
| 90 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsCable Cable]] has a metal arm and bionic eye for this reason. As an infant, [[Characters/MarvelComicsApocalypse Apocalypse]] infected him with the techno-organic virus, which converts living cells into organic steel and spreads liquid metal throughout his body. He actually has to constantly expend some of his vast telekinetic powers to keep it in check, otherwise, his entire body will be consumed. Whenever his powers slacken or the virus gets super-charged, the results are usually high-end BodyHorror. |
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| 93 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 94 | * In ''ComicStrip/TheWackyAdventuresOfPedro'', Pedro's visit to the 31st century has him get abducted by aliens living on the [[BadMoonRising Ruby Moon]] [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of Doom]], who turn him and their other captors into robot slaves. |
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| 97 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 98 | * One alien abduction later, Jacob Morgan from ''Fanfic/{{Assimilation}}'' is now a self-aware mass of nanites, held together by his [[BrainUploading consciousness emulation]]. |
| 99 | * The whole backstory of ''Fanfic/BlueSkyWaffles''. |
| 100 | * [[MoralityDial Evil Jack]] from ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' tries to {{invoked|Trope}} this. |
| 101 | * In the RealPersonFic ''[[http://fav.me/dd7ow55 Case of the Technology]]'' [[spoiler:members of Music/GirlsAloud and Music/MelanieC]] are subjected to this, which forces the narrator and a team of doctors to finish up on the latter. |
| 102 | ** ''[[http://fav.me/ddb26fk Seeing Is Believing]]'' It's discovered [[spoiler:Victoria Beckham]] was subjected to this as well. |
| 103 | * ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Marvel's Techno-Organic virus, which is violently infectious and incredibly hard to stop -- it's implanted, dormant, into the Red Son [[spoiler:(a.k.a. the BlankSlate of Harry)]] and later activated when he's losing a fight against Magneto. The results are more than a little horrifying, and result in him losing an eye, an arm, and a large chunk of the left side of his body before it's stopped with a colossal EMP. |
| 104 | * Episode 10 of ''[[https://my.w.tt/PzsYvDyQIW Final Stand of Death]]'', [[spoiler:Music/SpiceGirls]] undergoes this. This ends up being subverted when it turns out that it wasn't as bad as they think, with [[spoiler:Emma]] being eager to get her upgrades a try. [[spoiler:Music/MelanieC]] has her done the most, at least her tattoos were among the parts of her former body that was left alone. |
| 105 | * In ''Fanfic/HuntersOfJustice'', Cinder Fall is subjected to this after she gets captured by Brainiac, whom was curious about her powers as the Fall Maiden. |
| 106 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' FanFiction ''Fanfic/ItsAKidsWorld'' features this trope quite heavily. [[spoiler: The main antagonist, Lord Viribus, erases all the world's adults so he can have an easier time upgrading those within the remaining population he considers worthy of evolution into his robotic servants. The rest he just turns into mindless zombie foot soldiers.]] |
| 107 | * Similar to the [[Website/SCPFoundation SCP Foundation]] example, anyone infected with The Machine Plague in ''Fanfic/JusticeSocietyOfJapan'' turns into a soulless clockwork robot. Shirley Fenette, however, managed to avoid losing her mind thanks to her recently-discovered [[{{Technopathy}} technopathic powers]]. |
| 108 | * The Other Light in ''Fanfic/LeftBeyond'' installs bootleg Metabolic Extension Controllers into their peasants, so that after they die they can be partially resurrected as cybernetic zombies for the purpose of doing unskilled labor. They attempt to use the technology to cause a ZombieApocalypse but are preempted by both the Temple and the Omega being ready for it and putting the cyber-zombies out of their misery relatively quickly. |
| 109 | * In this ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13877096/1/The-Perfect-Cyber-Lin-Kuei-Candidate fanfic]], the Tekunin (Cyber Lin-Kuei) abduct Kitana and forcibly robotize her into a far advanced version of their {{cyber ninja}}s. |
| 110 | * [[https://www.deviantart.com/kicsterash/art/ATSD-Alternate-Ending-Boyborg-476072830 More]] [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8228626/1/The-Dimensional-Conflict often]] [[https://www.deviantart.com/shadowpus/gallery/40128881/PnF-AT2D-AE than]] [[https://www.deviantart.com/pan-tastique/art/If-Things-Went-Differently-Cover-618885510 not]], should you come across a WhatIf fic about the ending of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'', Doof-2 will fulfill his threat to make Phineas into a boy-borg, and BreakTheCutie situations abound. |
| 111 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13820186/1/Shadow-Lady-An-Origin-Story Shadow Lady: An Origin Story]]'', [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] herself is kidnapped and forcibly subjected to a combination of this and ReforgedIntoAMinion by Shadaloo, transforming her into Shadow Lady. The cyborgization process itself is not pretty. [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13958688/1/Another-Shadaloo-Assassin Cammy herself is subjected to this]] when she notices Chun-Li has gone missing for quite a while. That both of them were StrappedToAnOperatingTable while undergoing the cyberization process speaks volumes. |
| 112 | * Many, many ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfics love to elaborate on this trope. |
| 113 | ** One particularly memorable one, Shax's ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2295134/1/Project-Mobitropolis-Act-One-Evil-Rises Project Mobitropolis,]]'' has Dr. Robotnik demonstrate how it worked, with a [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2295134/12/Project-Mobitropolis-Act-One-Evil-Rises vividly described scene of his first victim screaming as they were being converted.]] Sonic, who witnessed the scene secretly, [[NauseaFuel lost his lunch afterwards]]. |
| 114 | ** [[http://www.andrews.edu/~drazen/bloodl.txt Dan Drazen's "Bloodlines"]] looks seriously at another possible consequence of roboticisation, the buildup of toxins in the body. |
| 115 | *** Which is something of a HilariousInHindsight deal as the Archie comic did explore this concerning Bunnie. |
| 116 | ** Even Netraptor, famed for her G-rated Sonic fanfiction, touches on roboticisation with various characters, elaborating on the dangers of undoing roboticisation in one story, where a character who had underwent an experimental process was unable to be restored by the regular derobotizer because the alloy used in her metal frame would superheat and kill her during the process. |
| 117 | ** ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'' extensively deconstructs this trope to its [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul utterly]] [[NightmareFuel horrific]] [[BodyHorror extremes]]. [[spoiler:''Especially'' with Tsali - this trope was inflicted to him by the Seedrians, caused him to go [[DespairEventHorizon nearly insane from pain and despair]], and led to him committing genocide on Cosmo's entire race in revenge before starting the Metarex War and destroying most of the galaxy]]. |
| 118 | ** The second part of ''Fanfic/TheFurminator'' series has Robotnik doing this to Zooey. |
| 119 | * ''A Technological Singularity'' presents the Borg Collective, a company made up entirely by Borg Drones. The Borg Collective eventually gains so much influence that criminals and dissidents are forcefully assimilated. |
| 120 | * Implied in ''FanFic/ThatGuyWithTheGlassesInSpace''. |
| 121 | * ''{{Franchise/Transformers}}'' has a few fanfictions that feature characters which this happens to. [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4500810/1/Ghost-in-the-Machine One in particular]] has the ex-human slap the person who was responsible for her transformation. Others are usually [[SelfInsertFic self-insert fanfictions]]. |
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| 123 | |
| 124 | [[folder:Film -- Animated]] |
| 125 | * Happens to Perry the Platypus-2 in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'' after he was defeated by Dr. Doofensmirtz-2 and is thereafter known as the Platyborg, the [[TheDragon general]] of Doof-2's Norm-Bot army. [[spoiler:He gets better though, kinda.]] |
| 126 | ** Same thing can be said of 25 more of O.W.C.A.’s agents in the episode sequel ''[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTalesFromTheResistance Tales from the Resistance: Back to the 2nd Dimension]]'', as Doof-2's wife Charlene-2 turned them into cyborgs to help serve for the Doofenshmirtz family. [[spoiler:However, just like Platyborg, they would later get better, except for Pandaborg.]] |
| 127 | * In the final scene of ''WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank'', following the Deplanetizer being destroyed and Dr. Nefarious seemingly with it, it's revealed that he had barely survived and was discovered by a bunch of overeager repair drones which mistook him for a robot and "repaired" him, resulting in him taking on his iconic look. |
| 128 | -->'''Nefarious:''' I am ''NOT'' A ROBOT! ''(Looks down at his new body and lets out an EvilLaugh, complete with DramaticThunder)'' |
| 129 | [[/folder]] |
| 130 | |
| 131 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 132 | * In ''Film/TheBlackHole'' the Cygnus' compliment of robotic crew members [[spoiler:are actually revealed to be the lobotomised remains of the human crew who Reinhardt and Maximilian converted into subservient cyborgs after they tried to mutiny.]] |
| 133 | * ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'': Much like in the comics, Victor Stone never asked to be turned into a {{cyborg}}, even though his father Silas did this to save his life after suffering from a horrific car crash. He even accuses his father of having "created a monster". In [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 both]] [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague versions]] of ''Justice League'', however, he eventually makes peace with it and reconciles with his father (albeit in different ways). |
| 134 | * At the end of ''Film/TheFly1986'', [[spoiler:the Brundlefly is merged with one of the telepods]]. It's not pretty. |
| 135 | * ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': |
| 136 | ** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', this is revealed to have happened to Bucky. Bucky survived his fall off Zola's train in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', but his arm was amputated in the process. His near-dead body was recovered by HYDRA who gave him a cybernetic arm as a replacement and brainwashed him into becoming a ruthless assassin known as the "Winter Soldier", [[HumanPopsicle freezing him and unfreezing every time he is needed for a mission so that he doesn't age]]. Fortunately, he [[HeelFaceTurn gets better in the end]]. |
| 137 | ** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'': GalacticConqueror Thanos likes to take young girls from planets he has destroyed and raise them as his daughters. One such daughter, Nebula, was forced to fight her sister Gamora, and as punishment for losing, [[AbusiveParents Thanos ripped out pieces of her body]] to replace them with cybernetic implants. ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' shows just how extensive this is in a torture scene where Nebula's implants are slowly dragged apart by Thanos; almost her entire body is now robotic, including half of her brain. |
| 138 | * In ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet5TheDreamChild'', Freddy merges Dan Jordan with a motorcycle as the teen's driving it down a road. The transformation sequence was so horrible that most of it was cut out of subsequent video and DVD releases. |
| 139 | * Samira, a Middle Eastern terrorist, was captured by the CIA and made into an obedient cyborg in 1987's ''Film/ProgrammedToKill'' (aka ''The Retaliator''). Their plan [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]]. |
| 140 | * ''Franchise/RoboCop'': Officer Alex Murphy wasn't given a choice about being [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt]] as the title character in [[Film/RoboCop1987 the first movie]], and neither was Cain in ''Film/RoboCop2''. Both of them do still take it better than the two cops that were roboticized before Dr. Faxx came up with using Cain: the first [[MurderSuicide shot the scientists before committing suicide]], the second ripped out its life-support by removing its helmet. Murphy's dedication to law and order and his religious devotion which precluded the notion of suicide was why he survived being rebuilt. As for Cain, the researcher behind the Robocop 2 project wanted the brain of a psychopath that she could control by means of his addiction to [[FantasticDrug Nuke]]. Needless to say, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the project backfired]]. |
| 141 | * In ''Franchise/StarWars'': |
| 142 | ** ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'': The [[EmergencyTransformation transformation]] of Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader was carried out on the orders of [[BigBad Palpatine]], regardless of his apprentice's opinion. And it was done [[SkipTheAnesthetic without any form of painkillers]] to toughen him up. [[AllThereInTheManual Supplemental materials]] reveal that Palpatine wasn't just a {{Sadist}}, the sheer pain of the transformation was supposed to increase Vader's power in the Dark Side. |
| 143 | ** The Expanded Universe revealed that General Grievous was created this way as well. He was originally a fully organic general among his own people, until Dooku arranged an "accident" that left him needing a new body. Dooku's surgeons made sure to cut out his conscience while they were at it... |
| 144 | * One trailer from ''Film/SuckerPunch'' shows us the creation of one of the German Steam-Zombies through the eyes of one poor battlefield casualty, [[AndIMustScream injured enough to be paralyzed, but not killed]]. |
| 145 | * During the climax of ''Film/SupermanIII'', the super-super-computer drags [[spoiler:Vera Webster]] into its internals and covers her skin with metal plates. |
| 146 | * In ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'', [[spoiler:John Connor is attacked by a Terminator who infects him with technology that turns his cells into mechanic ones, turning him into one of the killer robots himself.]] |
| 147 | * All the freakish, zombie cyborg monsters in ''Film/FrankensteinsArmy'' used to be either Nazis or their families, until Doctor Victor Frankenstein II got ahold of them. This is apparently in revenge for sending him to a concentration camp, and then forcing him to run a SuperSoldier project. |
| 148 | * Mecha Gomora from ''[[Franchise/UltramanZero Ultra Galaxy Gaiden: Ultraman Zero vs. Darklops Zero]]''. Despite showing no organic features, he was once a normal Gomora until he was "[[AndIMustScream modified]]" by the Alien Salome to serve them. |
| 149 | * ''Film/UniversalSoldierTheReturn'': S.E.T.H. has subjected Luc's deceased partner Maggie to this by placing a neural implant in her brain similar to what he did earlier to a new Uni Sol, resulting her to be revived as one, much to Luc's grief. After kidnapping Luc's daughter Hilary, S.E.T.H. decides to subject her to the same fate to cure her of influenza and raise her as his own daughter. Obviously, [[PapaWolf Luc is not on board with this and brutally shatters S.E.T.H. to pieces]]. |
| 150 | * The ''[[Film/VHS94 V/H/S/94]]'' segment "The Subject" is about a MadScientist, Dr. James Suhendra, who does this to people. The protagonist is a woman, known only as "Subject 99", who had most of her head from her lower jaw on up removed and replaced with cameras and speakers, and her right hand removed so a modular ArmCannon can be attached. We also see a human head attached to robotic spider legs, a man with a camera mounted to his skull who's had his lower arms replaced with [[BladeBelowTheShoulder retractable blades]] that he uses to [[spoiler:kill the SWAT team who comes to bust Suhendra]], and a woman still in the middle of roboticization (while conscious) who's had an arm and a foot removed and most of her internal organs replaced with machinery. |
| 151 | * The EnergyBeing in ''Film/{{Virus}}'' does this to an entire ship's worth of Russian scientists, and two American salvage crewmen. One of them prefers the state, retorting "Nothing, now" when asked what is wrong with him. |
| 152 | * ''Film/TheWorldsEnd''. [[spoiler:All but three of the residents of Newton Haven (plus thousands of other towns across the globe) have been replaced by identical robots with their memories retained as part of a scheme to aid the remaining humans to fulfill their potential and join the Galactic Community. However, people generally tend not to like being replaced by a doppelganger and [[HumanResources recycled as fertilizer]].]] |
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| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 156 | * In the 1998 novel ''[[Franchise/{{Alien}} Aliens: Berserker]]'' it is revealed that the [[PoweredArmor MAX robot]] was run by convicted felons. [[spoiler:Although the convicts are offered a reduced sentence for their services, it is not possible to survive their stint as the suit's operator due to the constant chemicals pumped into them and the countless wires run in and out of their bodies which reduce [[AndIMustScream them to a living husk]].]] |
| 157 | * ''Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' is a series known for [[TheManyDeathsOfYou inflicting morbid deaths on the character if the reader chooses the wrong path]], but one of the scariest occurs in ''Your Very Own Robot'' where the protagonist is cut to pieces and reassembled as a robot. And this one was intended for "younger readers"; none of the other bad endings in the book are very unpleasant at all. (The editors eventually decided it ''was'' too dark for kids, and changed that ending for the reprint so the protagonist was magically transformed, but it was still rather scary.) |
| 158 | * In ''Literature/TheCourtOfTheAir'', revolutionaries obsessed with leveling all social disparities take over a city, then begin forcibly converting its organic inhabitants into {{Clockpunk}} proto-cyborgs so they'll be "equal" to the city's animated-construct inhabitants. |
| 159 | * In ''Literature/TheGapCycle'', the principle antagonist Angus Thermopylea, a vicious space pirate more interested in the damage he can do than the money he can steal, is captured and "welded", cybernetically enhanced against his will and mind-controlled with brain implants to work undercover for the United Mining Corporation Police. |
| 160 | * In ''Literature/HeartOfSteel'', Jim is turned into a cyborg after Scarface the shark-man rips him in half. In Alistair's (slight) defense, the procedure was intended as a gift for Julia, but his jealousy spurred him to make Jim an ugly, clunky mashup of man and metal. Jim subsequently fights his way free of the neural dampening and goes berserk. |
| 161 | * Fletcher Pratt's ''Invaders From Rigel'' involves a comet striking the Earth somehow turning humans into robots. [[AWizardDidIt (Aliens were involved.)]] |
| 162 | * In Max Barry's ''Literature/MachineMan'', Dr. Charles Neumann [[spoiler:undergoes this]]. What's curious is that while the good doctor was perfectly content to replace [[spoiler:his legs and right hand]], he had no desire to [[spoiler:become a ManInTheMachine or a BrainInAJar]]. Both end up happening to him. |
| 163 | * ''[[Literature/FederationOfTheHub The Machmen]]'' by Creator/JamesSchmitz. |
| 164 | * Played with in Stanislaw Lem's ''Literature/MemoirsOfASpaceTraveller'', where Ijon Tichy, touring an asylum for robots, meets a robot friend of his who has developed a delusion that he was previously a human who one day woke up transformed into a robot, and that "they" have "stolen his body". |
| 165 | * Enga from ''Literature/TheOutside'' was made into an [[{{Cyborg}} angel]] against her will. Because of her resistance, the procedure caused severe brain damage, rendering her mute and almost immobile. Thanks to computer programs and decades of training, she can now move better than most angels, but she still can't talk |
| 166 | * ''Literature/{{Robopocalypse}}'' features this as the robots experiment on humans during their attempt to eradicate their creators. Anything from replacing a guy's hand with a metal claw to ripping out a young girl's eyes and replacing them with electronic equipment. |
| 167 | * A novelization of ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' had this happen to side-character Bunny Rabbit. Luckily, Sonic could save her before the process was completed, turning her into [[PunnyName Bunny Rabbot]]. |
| 168 | * ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': |
| 169 | ** In ''Literature/DarthBane'', it's shown that during the [[ForeverWar New Sith Wars]] a Sith Lord by the name of Belia Darzu used [[DarkSide Sith alchemy]] and {{nanomachines}} to create a virus called the Nanogene spore that inflicted this on its victims. The nanobots would consume living tissue, replicating themselves within minutes while simultaneously growing metallic tumors on the body of the victim. Throughout the infection, the virus instinctively moved towards the brain of the subject and lobotomized their frontal lobe, rendering the victim incapable of higher thought and turning them into cyborg slaves known as technobeasts. During the campaign against Darzu known as the Sictis Wars, one Jedi Knight managed to prevent the virus from infecting his brain through the Force but failed to prevent the BodyHorror, becoming known as the "Technobeast Jedi". |
| 170 | ** In ''Literature/TheTruceAtBakura'', the ScaryDogmaticAliens known as the Ssi-ruuk practiced a form of this called "entechment" in which they would drain people's LifeEnergy to power their droids and ships, turning what little remained of their consciousness into mechanical slaves. Their EvilPlan was to fill the EvilPowerVacuum left by TheEmperor's death by using Bakura's resources to expand their entechment capabilities and [[GalacticConqueror take over the galaxy]]. |
| 171 | * ''Stronger, Faster And More Beautiful:'' Happens to the two protagonists of Part Five, Jake and Kostya, who are transformed against their will into asteroid-mining cyborgs. The process is agonising, and the results are described as little more than mobile, metal-coated skeletons, with artificial faces and skin meant to stop them [[DrivenToSuicide going completely insane]]. Jake was transformed after the cryogenic facility his body was stored in was captured during a war, while Kostya was handed over to the miners by his own father. |
| 172 | * In the ''Literature/TheTruceAtBakura,'' the Ssi-ruuk's forces consisted of several members of other races who had been "enteched," turned into battle droids. Turns out their souls are still alive and in agony. |
| 173 | * In ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', the Tin Man is repeatedly attacked by his own ax, which has been bewitched by the Witch of the East. His limbs and body are cut off one by one, and he gradually has to replace them all with a body and head of tin. |
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| 175 | |
| 176 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 177 | * This is a major plot point in the ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E06SpiderInTheWeb Spider in the Web]]". [[spoiler:Abel Horn, a (former) authority figure in the Free Mars terrorist group, is rebuilt as a cyborg ''post mortem'', the cybernetic part controlling his body while his mind is fixated on the moment of his death by means of a telepathic deep scan.]] |
| 178 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 179 | ** This is the Cybermen's ''modus operandi''. What started as the end result of people on a dying planet willing to throw away their humanity and all emotion to survive, now seeks to bolster its numbers by "upgrading" other life forms, whether they like it or not. To quote the Doctor, "it's just like being an organ donor, except you're alive, and... sort of... ''screaming''." (Although it's a bad example because organ donors are volunteers, the people 'upgraded' into Cybermen are not given a choice, they are 'upgraded' into Cybermen whether they want to be or not.) |
| 180 | *** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen "Rise of the Cybermen"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel "The Age of Steel"]] introduces a parallel breed of Cybermen from an AlternateUniverse, as the brainchild of gadget magnate [[GeniusCripple John Lumic]], who puts the technology forward as a way to overcome the ageing process and eliminate frailty. Those who know what it entails reject it as a sick idea, so he uses another of his gadgets to brainwash people into assembling at his cyber-conversion facilities. When he is left for dead by one of his underlings, however, [[{{Hypocrite}} he's not so keen]]: |
| 181 | ---->'''Lumic:''' I will upgrade [[TemptingFate only with my last breath]].\ |
| 182 | '''Cyberman:''' [[LiteralGenie Then breathe no more.]] |
| 183 | *** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]] reveals that the Mondasian Cybermen were started with largely unwilling and unwitting test subjects being converted. [[spoiler:The DownerEnding {{Cliffhanger}} has the Doctor's own companion, Bill Potts, being turned into one.]] |
| 184 | *** The climax of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E8TheHauntingOfVillaDiodati "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"]] has Mary Shelley attempt to reason with the Cyberman menacing the house, encouraging it to fight the mental conditioning and remember who it used to be. [[spoiler:He remembers he used to be a man called Ashad, and he had children...and then he slit their throats for trying to fight the Cybermen, before gladly offering himself up for conversion (to the point they didn't even need to install an emotional inhibitor in him).]] [[AvertedTrope This is therefore the first and only example in the TV series of a Cyberman who wasn't unwilling.]] In fact, his ultimate plan is [[spoiler:to convert the Cybermen from cyborgs into robots, and in the next episode, he forcibly converts some standard Cybermen to help him out.]] |
| 185 | *** The tragedy of the Cybermen converting unwilling victims is that [[ObliviouslyEvil they genuinely believe they're]] ''[[ObliviouslyEvil helping]]'' [[ObliviouslyEvil them]]. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Why wouldn't you want to be free of the frailties of the flesh? To believe otherwise is just an illogical and emotional response]]. After all [[Main/CyberneticsEatYourSoul it's done them no harm...]] |
| 186 | ** Even scarier are the Robomen from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth "The Dalek Invasion of Earth"]] and its film adaptation, ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD''. Jenny, a resistance member, explains: "There aren’t that many Daleks on Earth. They needed helpers. So they operated on some of their prisoners and turned them into robots... The Transfer, as the Daleks call the operation, controls the human brain. Well, at least for a time... I've seen the Robos when they break down. They go insane. They smash their heads against walls. They throw themselves off buildings or into the river." |
| 187 | *** The Robomen in the original television version are particularly chilling. In the film, they simply seem to be under mind control, but the television ones it's clearly implied are effectively dead from the moment the transfer is carried out –- there is no way they can be "cured" or "freed" as the film versions can; the only freedom is death. In some ways, they make the Cyber-alternative look almost merciful. But then, that's the Daleks for you... The movie version aren't ever shown being "freed" or "cured" in any way, either. They all get killed at the end of the film as part of a delaying action to provide time to throw a SpannerInTheWorks of the Daleks' plan. |
| 188 | *** The TV series would much later introduce the Robotmen's successors, "Dalek puppets": humanoids who, upon death, were implanted with Dalek technology and used as {{Manchurian Agent}}s. They can pass for their old selves up until they're triggered or remember their deaths, at which point a Dalek eyestalk erupts from their forehead. |
| 189 | ** Daleks can be produced from humans. Specific methods include harvesting the humans for "good" materials and using them to construct Daleks, and using nanogenes to convert corpses into mechanical (but humanoid) soldiers. There's also such a thing as a "full conversion" for those they consider too intelligent to waste, [[spoiler:[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks like Oswin]].]] |
| 190 | * This trope is a major staple of Showa-Era ''Franchise/KamenRider''. Played straight with [[Series/KamenRider #1, #2]], [[Series/KamenRiderStronger Tackle]], Film/KamenRiderZX, [[Series/KamenRiderBlack Kamen Rider Black and Shadow Moon]] who were unwillingly turned into cyborgs by evil organizations [[PhlebotinumRebel that they'd later battle]] (except for Shadow Moon, who is loyal to his converters). [[Series/KamenRiderV3 Riderman]], Series/KamenRiderX and [[Series/KamenRiderSkyrider Skyrider]] were cyborgized as means to [[WeCanRebuildHim save their lives]]. One of the 90s movie-only Riders was like this as well. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by Series/KamenRiderV3, Series/KamenRiderStronger and Series/KamenRiderSuper1 who got turned into Altered Humans willingly[[note]][=V3=] asked the Double Riders to convert him so he could avenge his family, Stronger pretended to join the villains so he could become powerful enough to fight them, and Super-1 was made to be a sort of space exploration SuperSoldier[[/note]]. Almost all cases contained scenes of [[NightmareFuel very painful looking surgery]] without any anesthesia. TheMovie ''Film/KamenRiderTheFirst'' was less graphic on PainfulTransformation, but still given us [[NightmareFuel a lot of screaming and implications of drill to the skull]]; and ''{{Film/Shin Kamen Rider|2023}}'' focuses more on the protagonist's [[WhatHaveIBecome emotional state]] following his "upgrading" into an Augment than the actual procedure. The only Showa Rider to completely avert it is [[Series/KamenRiderAmazon Amazon]], whose powers come from a mystical {{Mayincatec}} armlet. |
| 191 | * In ''Series/{{Lexx}}'', Kai was the victim of this in the pilot after his doomed attack against His Shadow's flagship. His Shadow stabbed Kai to death and had his body converted into a Divine Assassin as a "punishment beyond death" and absorbed his memories for good measure. Kai was decarbonized (a process that removed all organic material in his body and replaced it with inorganic material), had cybernetic implants installed, and given unnatural "life" via protoblood. The result was a nigh indestructible killing machine wholly loyal to His Shadow with only an outward resemblance to the heroic Brunnen-G Kai was in life bereft of his willpower and memories. An unlikely chain of events and a chance encounter with the Divine Predecessor holding his memories restores Kai's willpower. |
| 192 | * In ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'', this is what [[AIIsACrapshoot sentient computer virus Venjix]] does to create his MechaMooks. This was also what happened to [[spoiler: Dillon and his sister, Tanaya 7]] and, in the finale, [[spoiler: unknowingly to many of the people of Corinthe, who were being slowly roboticized by a virus since the war started to act as sleeper cells]]. |
| 193 | * An episode of ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' had them finding a world where the UsefulNotes/ColdWar went hot, and the resulting arms race (of the non-nuclear sort, presumably) has resulted in fighter jets becoming faster and more maneuverable, with the pilots now having to be implanted with augmentations that allow them to survive flying these things. However, the military is interested in further turning the pilots into mindless drones that are capable of even greater feats... with or without the pilots' permission. |
| 194 | * The Borg from ''Franchise/StarTrek'', who seek to [[TheAssimilator convert as many lifeforms as possible into more Borg]] to expand their HiveMind. They don't give a flying hoot about whatever you have to say about it, as [[ObliviouslyEvil they genuinely do not see anything wrong with their actions]], thinking that they're "improving the quality of all life". While they utilize nanomachines, these don't cause as much terror as they do in other series. Aside from changing skin color and causing small basic machines to appear, they mostly work to render the person compliant before the full process commences. The true horror is more understated, as this process also implements LossOfIdentity at the early stage. |
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| 197 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 198 | * This was one of [[PhysicalHell Phyrexia's]] more terrifying tools in the earlier storylines of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering.'' This being a fantasy setting, rather than a sci fi one, the cyborgs in question were monstrous in appearance and the game rules classified most as either a "Zombie" or a "Horror." |
| 199 | ** Revisited again in the Scars of Mirrodin storyline, wherein Phyrexia invades (and eventually conquers) Mirrodin. Creatures made ''compleat'' by the New Phyrexians have more of a sci-fi horror flavor to them but generally retain mundane card abilities (save for the usual addition of Infect). |
| 200 | ** Comes into play again in ''Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty''. [[spoiler:The New Phyrexians have perfected the process, and are able to compleat Planeswalkers ''without snuffing out their Spark''. The first test subject is Tamiyo.]] |
| 201 | * The ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' NPC Ahmi Vanjuko was converted against his will into a mechanical golem by the insane darklord of Vechor. |
| 202 | * ''TabletopGame/SeditionWars'' has one faction made up of a nanomachine plague which converts anything it can get its claws on, requiring a minimum safe termination distance for any of its units. The lower level units are infected humans, who effectively become [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]]; as they slowly update and continue to be rebuilt, they become obviously more robotic, often ending up completely inhuman-shaped. |
| 203 | * In ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', this is perfectly plausible to happen to any unfortunate corps- or yakuza-employee whose boss has decided 'needs' an implant, either because the employee needs to stay competitive, or because said high-security prototype/recently stolen implant needs a suitable test subject before sale, or a good old-fashioned Cranial Bomb is needed to maintain employee loyalty. It is quite possible to play StreetSamurai with an unwelcome procedure in their back-story, although most Shadowrunners will probably be paranoid of anyone who's got non-consensual chrome (who knows what his 'former' bosses might have stuffed in there?). |
| 204 | * In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', one punishment [[ChurchMilitant the Ministorum]] reserves for the worst heretics or criminals is the rite of Arco-Flagellation, in which the offender's arms are lopped off and replaced with vicious close combat weapons, their brains scrambled, and combat drug dispensers are grafted onto their spines. Pacifier visors play soothing hymns and display religious imagery to keep them calm outside of combat, but when the right official gives the TriggerPhrase the visor lifts, a cocktail of drugs floods into their systems, and the Arco-Flagellants turn into snarling killing machines. By the way we actually meant that these are criminals who were pretty bad but have some chance of redemption of their souls, others are just shot. |
| 205 | ** Servitors are lobotomized individuals implanted with cybernetics and "bio-programming" so they can serve as menial laborers, weapon platforms, targeting computers, and other useful tasks to [[WetwareCPU get around the Imperium's ban on]] [[AIIsACrapshoot "Abominable Intelligences."]] Some unlucky servitors were former political prisoners, SpaceMarine washouts, [[ReleasedToElsewhere "retired" Imperial Guardsmen]], or just Forge-World menials who were judged to be more useful as cyborg slave-drones than human beings, but others, likely most, are vat-grown clones who are designed with no memories and are implanted before the nervous system begins to develop and so are not true examples of this trope. Sometimes a heretic that would otherwise be deemed redeemable through arco-flagellation (or other form of service, usually to the [[StateSec Inquisition]]) but has committed truly heinous crimes become servitors so they suffer more in penitence, at least most arco-flagellants die in battle. Such a punishment was levied on a dictator that slaughtered many in rape gulags. |
| 206 | *** A form of temporary servitor is called a serfitor, which acts as a way to provide civilian service and give debtors or minor heretics who are not needed at the penal legions or as a regular prison laborer and weren't bad (or unlucky) enough to be arco-flagellated. They retain their memories by design, but perform tasks as a servitor enough to pay off the debt, then are let go free if with pretty bad scarring and the experience of spending months to years locked in and only conversing with the parole officer. |
| 207 | ** The Necrons used to do this to abducted humans who possessed the [[AntiMagic Pariah gene]], turning them into flesh-metal hybrid units that [[TheDreaded terrified anything they came near]] and were particularly effective against psyker powers. Their new backstory has some of the Necrontyr resisting the transformation into immortal, soulless Necrons but being deceived and forced into the procedure anyway. |
| 208 | ** A Space Marine Dreadnought is a [[MiniMecha bipedal war machine]] that serves as the tomb of the [[EmergencyTransformation mortally-wounded warrior interred within]], and are treated as honored elders allowed to slumber away the centuries when they aren't needed for battle. ''Chaos'' Space Marines view such an imprisonment as a living hell, the ultimate in sensory deprivation, a denial of an afterlife of oneness with the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Warp]]. This doesn't prevent some Chaos Marines from being put into a Dreadnought anyway, and as such Chaos Dreadnoughts are psychotic killing machines prone to [[UnfriendlyFire firing upon their allies]], so dangerous that outside of battle, the sarcophagus is removed from the Dreadnought, which is then chained to the wall, just to be safe. Abaddon the Despoiler came up with Defilers, war machines crewed by [[DemonicPossession bound daemons]], because such blasphemies were ''more reliable'' than Chaos Dreadnoughts. |
| 209 | ** This is why most Orks would rather go on lacking an arm than visit a painboy willingly. Sure, you might wake up again after anaesthesia (a big hammer applied to the skull) with a new bionik bit replacing whatever you lost (or some other ork's bit replacing what you lost, painboys aren't particular). You may also wake up with a brand new pair of underwater lungs you never asked for that the painboy wanted to try out, or have your feet replaced by tank treads, or wake up inserted into a Deff Dread or with your head transplanted (stapled onto) another ork's body (painboys ''really'' aren't particular). Back before the 8th Edition rework the attached medic granted Feel no Pain rolls to ignore wounds suffered by the squad. Painboy FnP is the Ork in question deciding that the missing leg is not that big of a deal. |
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| 213 | %%(ZCE)* The enemies in ''VideoGame/{{Absorption}}''. |
| 214 | * In ''Videogame/{{Achron}}'' it is heavily implied that [[spoiler:this is the origin of the Vecgir. They were humans that were enslaved and 'enhanced' by the Coremind]]. |
| 215 | * Standard operating procedure for mainstream Assembly in ''VideoGame/AgeOfWondersPlanetfall'', though some individual Assembly commanders dissent from this. (And some flavor text indicates that at least some people ''volunteer'' for reassembly.) They started out as test subjects for one of [[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair the Star Union]]'s many unethical experiments, before assimilating those very scientists. |
| 216 | * The main villain of ''VideoGame/Alundra2'', Mephisto, uses a magic wind up key to turn humans and animals into Cyborgs. The [[BeatTheCurseOutOfhim Cyborg bosses return to normal when defeated]]. |
| 217 | * In ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice'', the Mad Hatter ran an asylum where he transformed the patients into steampunk robots. |
| 218 | * In ''VideoGame/AnnoMutationem'', much of the world was changed by the spread of the Mechanika Virus, a mysterious disease that slowly turned organic matter into inorganic machinery. In its most advanced stages, it would seriously degrade the victim's consciousness and ability to rationally think, turning them into suffering, mindless, and oftentimes violently berserk cyborgs--not that that has stopped some {{transhuman}}ist cults from praising it as the "next evolution" of humanity. By the events of the game, a vaccine has been widespread, and it has gone down from "apocalyptic scourge" to "manageable part of everyday life", though the scars obviously remain. |
| 219 | * In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', tiefling companion/PlayerCharacter Karlach was conscripted by the archdevil Zariel to fight in the Blood War, and had her heart forcibly replaced with a {{magitek}} one. It gave her a SuperMode, but at the cost of [[BlessedWithSuck superheating her entire body]], [[SenseLossSadness denying her any human contact for a decade]]. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that her ArchEnemy Lord Gortash used her as a bargaining chip in a DealWithTheDevil in order to turn her into a FlawedPrototype for his MechaMooks.]] Her questline revolves around finding a way to eliminate the drawbacks. |
| 220 | * ''VideoGame/{{Bioforge}}'': The [[MachineWorship Mondite movement]] is building its loyal cyborg army from unwilling, kidnapped victims. |
| 221 | * When Luke tries to report [[MegaCorp Nanotech’s]] illegal experiments to the police in one ending of ''VisualNovel/BionicHeart'', [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Richard]] arrives, captures him, and turns him into [[ArtificialHuman Prototype 11]]. |
| 222 | * The Big Daddies of ''VideoGame/BioShock'' are described in game as being the internal organs of a subject grafted into a large diving suit. Most Big Daddies are criminals, political dissidents, and other undesirables, although a handful of volunteers exist. |
| 223 | * The Handymen of ''VideoGame/{{BioShock Infinite}}'' were once regular citizens of Columbia who were fatally injured during the civil war between the Founders and the Vox Populi; using advanced technology, their vital organs and heads were grafted into giant metal bodies with oversized hands (hence their name). Not all Handymen are unwilling, though; the procedure is used on terminally ill or injured people who request it as well. |
| 224 | ** That said, it is also used as a punishment. At one point you can find a list of "sins" that could lead to you being forcibly converted to a Handyman. Notably, one of them is ''pacifism''. |
| 225 | * The various cyborg drones and mooks in ''VideoGame/CTwelveFinalResistance'' are revealed to be former humans captured alive by the hostile alien invaders, and forcefully converted into robotic mooks serving the aliens. This fate also befalls the hero of the game, Riley Vaughn, in the final level, although he's rescued before the droning process could be completed. No thanks to Vaughn's former superior -- Major Dan Carter, a human who willingly supported the aliens, puts himself through ''Willing'' Roboticisation and is actively assisting the alien invaders to wipe out all of humanity to save his own skin. |
| 226 | * ''[[VideoGame/AssaultOnDarkAthena The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena]]''. Much of the Athena's mission since Revas took over is to annihilate major colonies so the survivors can be harvested for her cyborg army. The "Ghost Drones" can be remote-controlled by the other mercs from specific control stations and are mindless automatons. Riddick encounters a guy who's in the middle of the transformation process and [[MercyKill begs Riddick to kill him]]. |
| 227 | * In ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth'', this is the ultimate fate of the people of Earth if a Supremacy colony manages to pull off the Emancipation victory, as their forces invade and begin forcibly upgrading the planet's population into {{Cyborg}}s. According the victory's flavour text, some humans try (and fail) to resist. [[FridgeHorror Implied to be]] {{Inverted|Trope}} if a [[NoTranshumanismAllowed Purity]] colony invades a Supremacy colony's city, in which case it's Unwilling ''[[BodyHorror De-]]''[[BroughtDownToNormal Roboticisation]], as the augmented citizens either in best-case get a mental transfer into a cloned body (which, while painless, will still likely bring about psychological damage like lost aspirations, perceived violation of the soul or the sudden removal of an extended lifespan) or [[NightmareFuel absolute worst-case]], [[TheyWouldCutYouUp being tied down to the table and having their enhancements forcibly removed through very painful and intrusive surgery]]. |
| 228 | * In the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun'' expansion pack ''Firestorm'', the [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue Nod A.I.]] CABAL attacks civilian settlements to harvest the people for his cyborg army. GDI is responsible for shutting down one of his processing plants during the campaign. |
| 229 | * ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': One mission involves saving a [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Buddhist]] monk from being forcefully cyberized by Maelstrom gangsters ForTheEvulz. Not only is this against his religion, but the augmentations also used are ''intentionally'' designed and installed poorly [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul to cause cyberpsychosis]] - Maelstromers think going insane from cybernetic sensory overload is "enlightenment". It's too late for his buddy, who has a poorly-installed cyberarm and brain jack, but the monk says he'll try to pray for their soul anyways. |
| 230 | * Bishamon from ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}''. |
| 231 | * ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar: Soulstorm'' holds that Indrick Boreale is turned into a Necron if they destroy his stronghold, and that the Sisters of Battle fear this fate befalling them. As mentioned above, this only happens to certain genetically-mutated humans like Tomas Maccabeus, an Explorator Magos in ''Dark Crusade'' who serves as the MouthOfSauron for the Necrons, and as those with the pariah gene are {{Humanoid Abomination}}s to psykers, it's highly unlikely Boreale was one. Then again, inconsistencies with canon are among the many reasons ''Soulstorm'' was disliked. |
| 232 | * Adam Jensen from ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'', as a result of near-fatal injuries he suffered at the beginning of the game. While there's some MemeticMutation regarding his line "I never asked for this," from the trailer, the player can play him as either resentful or as grateful as they like. |
| 233 | ** Adam's case is interesting because it's not only unwilling, it's also [[spoiler:unnecessary, according to a medical report. Limbs and body parts from him were removed no matter the damage on them, ''if any''.]] Then again, [[spoiler:the player finds out later that Jensen has been conceived in vitro to receive said augmentations at some point in his life - his fatal injuries during the assault simply served as the perfect excuse to advance the plan.]] |
| 234 | ** Anyone affiliated with the Omar in ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'' will eventually be "invited" to join their HiveMind. How? They come in the middle of the night, take you, and "upgrade" you to a full Omar with your will completely suppressed. |
| 235 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4|A Promise Unforgotten}}'' all of the generic classes have introductory cutscenes which play when you create a new one to add to your team. The [[InfinityPlusOneSword cyborg]] class's cutscene shows a female fighter being subject to AlienAbduction, before being StrappedToAnOperatingTable and transformed into one. |
| 236 | ** This happens to Jennifer in the first game, at the hands of Kurtis. It proves to be reversible. It also mostly seems to be limited largely to mind control; the demons were expecting a giant robotic Jennifer stomping a city, but the reality is disappointing. |
| 237 | * In ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonNeon'', the Lee brothers get roboticized for the [[FinalBossNewDimension final stage]]. |
| 238 | * ''Escape From the Planet of the Robot Monsters'' (Atari, 1989) features a cybernetic race called the Reptilons whose plan for conquering Earth involves transforming several blonde, bikini-clad ladies into "robo-zombies". Befitting the game's kitschy tone, said zombies turn out to be blonde, bikini-clad ladies with silver skin and a silly stiff-armed zombie walk. |
| 239 | * One of the main quests in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' has the player combing through dwarven ruins to find a magic anvil that modern dwarves believe creates golems. Upon some exposition, the anvil actually invokes this trope, and has a long and sordid history of more and more dwarves being cast into it as the war underground got worse. Initially, it was only used on condemned criminals and volunteers, but by the time the situation got so bad that the city was lost, any criminals (even petty thieves), political dissidents, and low-ranking individuals of the caste system were thrown into the anvil, ending with [[spoiler:its creator suffering the same fate]]. |
| 240 | * This is what happened to Captain Hook's crew in ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'', with Mickey being given the option of destroying or reversing the conversion machine while on his way to fight Captain Hook. |
| 241 | * In ''VideoGame/Halo4'', the [[BigBad Didact]] intends to do this to humanity as revenge for what he sees as humanity's responsibility for the end of the Forerunner race and to create an army with which he can use to conquer the galaxy. The method he uses was originally designed as a way of creating an army of [[ParasiteZombie Flood]]-resistant warriors by turning organic consciousness into AI and vaporizing the subject's original body, but it unfortunately came with the nasty side effect of driving the subject homocidally insane from the traumatic process. [[spoiler:Plus, since the [[EldritchAbomination Gravemind]] made a hobby of corrupting AI into loyal subordinates to the Flood ''anyways'', [[AllForNothing it still wouldn't have worked]] (in fact, it was the Gravemind that [[MindRape implanted this idea into the Didact]] for kicks).]] |
| 242 | * ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'': |
| 243 | ** In Pre-War America before the events of the series, the United States government partnered with [[MegaCorp General Atomics International]] to create robots that use organic brains for their central processors. At first only chimpanzee brains were used for the Robobrains, but the government began using the brains of executed criminals to give them a wider range of function. Some retain their former personalities, and end up enslaved to their programming (although the more sociopathic ones don't seem to mind being forced to kill people at random). Some would manage to break free of their programming restraints and [[DrivenToSuicide attempt suicide]]. |
| 244 | ** The ''Old World Blues'' DLC for ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' starts with this; your character's brain, heart, and spine are removed, and replaced with machinery. However, there's a lot of CursedWithAwesome involved. Having no brain means you can't become addicted to drugs or be concussed, no heart means you can't be poisoned or Critically hit by robot enemies, and no spine means your torso can't be crippled, and you become superhumanly strong and resilient. [[UnfazedEveryman Your character just takes it in stride]]. Though putting the said organs back {{Nerf}}s the perks, a new set is introduced from choosing to do so. |
| 245 | * Done to humans (both volunteers looking for privileges and anyone who rebels) by the Combine, Earth's alien overlords in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', to the point that some (such as stalkers) scarcely even count as human any more, and certainly haven't had the free will of a human for a very long time. It's implied by the look of some of the Combine's technology that they've done this to other species as well--for example, both gunships and dropships have a very organic look, augmented with mechanical parts. |
| 246 | * In ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'''s extended BBL route, the characters are attacked by a [[spoiler:scarecrow robot after they are trapped in the school]]. Turns out that [[spoiler:the doctor used your character's brain to power it]]. |
| 247 | * ''VideoGame/HiddenDragonLegend'' have the frequently-encountered "puppet" enemies, {{steampunk}} MechaMooks that you destroy aplenty. But late in the game, a cutscene reveals them to be ''former'' human prisoners of the Trigram, converted into machines by the Trigram's power-hungry leader Dark Raven, in order to control them better. |
| 248 | * Inverted in ''VideoGame/InPursuitOfGreed'', which has a ''Willing'' Roboticization as the backstory of one of the main characters, Tobias. Accordingly, Tobias underwent cyborgification to complete his initiation with the Loth Mal Esch clan, whose members are all cyborgs and must allow themselves to be converted to finish their adulthood ritual. |
| 249 | * In ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'', the Haltmann Works Company does this to Planet Popstar, turning the land and many of its inhabitants into [[MechaMooks partly mechanical beings]]. Even [[WarmUpBoss Whispy]] [[WhenTreesAttack Woods]] and [[spoiler:Meta Knight]] are affected by the roboticisation. |
| 250 | * ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'': |
| 251 | ** In ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomClashOfSuperHeroes'', the SecretCharacter known as Shadow Lady is [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] from an AlternateUniverse forcibly turned into a brainwashed cyborg for Shadaloo. In revenge for repeatedly foiling their operations, Shadaloo kidnapped and robotized Chun-Li for the sake of transforming her into M. Bison's [[TheDragon top assassin]], complete with a new name. Unlike [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter Shadow]] — a brainwashed Charlie Nash who escaped shortly after being transformed — a RestrainingBolt was added to Shadow Lady's programming so she would be an emotionless minion fully loyal to Shadaloo, [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul erasing her former cheerful personality]]. [[spoiler:In her ending, however, Shadow Lady [[HeroicWillpower overcomes Shadaloo's brainwashing]], regains her original memories as Chun-Li, and allies with Shadow in taking them down.]] |
| 252 | ** In ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite'', [[FusionDance Ultron-Sigma]] intends to turn all organic life into his robotic slaves through a modified Sigma Virus, having already subjugated all of Asgard [[spoiler:including Thor himself]]. |
| 253 | * This is the modus operandi of the Reapers and their Geth allies in ''Franchise/MassEffect'', forcibly turning humans into cybernetic zombies called Husks. |
| 254 | ** Even more frightening [[spoiler:the Reapers are created by forcibly melting organics down into a liquid metal which is then fused into a massive exoskeleton]]. |
| 255 | ** When the Collector General [[VillainOverride assumes direct control of one of its soldiers]], the Collector in question is effectively transformed into nothing but a super-powered collection of cybernetics. |
| 256 | ** The ultimate fate of [[spoiler:Saren]], following his death, was [[spoiler:to have his corpse transformed into a cybernetic puppet of Sovereign]]. |
| 257 | ** The dialogue added by the Extended Cut DLC to [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan Catalyst's]] dialogue states that Harbinger was created from Catalyst's creators. Though they wanted Catalyst to find some way to put an end to the eternal cycle of organics vs. synthetics, they didn't exactly want to be melted down and made into an EldritchAbomination. Catalyst didn't give them a choice.]] |
| 258 | * ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': |
| 259 | ** [[spoiler:Gray Fox]] and [[spoiler:Raiden]] were both unwillingly transformed into cyborgs. |
| 260 | ** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Desperado Enforcement]] kidnaps children and turns them into brainwashed cyborg ChildSoldiers. |
| 261 | * The Lin Kuei ninja clan do this to their clansmen in ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' via the Cyber Initiative with the intent of turning them into robo-ninjas to improve their combat efficiency and prevent complex thinking. Though Sektor was a volunteer, Cyrax and, depending on which timeline out of two is in question, either Smoke or [[spoiler:Sub-Zero]] aren't willing. [[spoiler:And depending on the timeline, Cyrax and either Smoke or Sub-Zero regain their humanity, while Sektor branches out to form his own cyber-ninja clan, the Tekunin.]] |
| 262 | ** [[spoiler:When Cyber Sub-Zero's slaving protocols are disengaged, the electronic readout in his HUD shows that his brain function was lowered. This means that the Lin Kuei did this to prevent insubordination within the rank and file.]] |
| 263 | ** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', a Special Forces team wanted to build a working robot ninja they obtained from the Lin Kuei files, so they decided to use the data storage housing the physical and mental files for Sektor, Cyrax, Smoke and [[spoiler:Cyber Sub-Zero, into the cybernetic body that he briefly inhabited before being converted into a revenant. Upon activation, the AI [[AIIsACrapshoot suddenly became aware]] (possibly because four data files overloaded its systems), killing all humans in the lab before vowing to restore the Lin Kuei to its old glory. But since Sub-Zero sullied the Lin Kuei name, the robot, now calling itself "Triborg", [[StartMyOwn forms the Tekunin]] by saving the brainwave data of its fellow Lin Kuei onto the S-F servers and uses their resources to create new robotic bodies for them. It's also implied the dead humans in the lab were converted into {{Meat Sack Robot}}s. With an army of robo-ninjas at its disposal, Triborg vows to forcibly convert many of the kombatants into cyborgs.]] |
| 264 | ** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', [[RobotGirl Frost]] — now a CyberNinja herself — can use this as a Fatality, where she freezes and shatters her opponent's torso, hands their brain and spine to a drone, and drops it into the body of a Lin Kuei robot. While some of the kombatants such as Shao Kahn and Kano are unpleasant to begin with, seeing them cyberized against their will is quite nauseating. This is possibly the only Fatality in the game that inflicts a FateWorseThanDeath rather than just killing the victim. |
| 265 | *** In-story, she continues Sektor's evil work by forcibly converting her former Lin Kuei comrades into the Tekunin as a way to [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil spite her former mentor Sub-Zero]] for "under-appreciating" her potential and allying with the Shirai Ryu. |
| 266 | *** In her arcade ending, [[spoiler:it's unknown what became of the other kombatants once she killed them all, but it's implied she did turn them into brainwashed robo-ninjas and sicced them to enforce her [[ItsAllAboutMe preferred version]] in all timelines]]. |
| 267 | * Plenty of animals had this happen to them in ''VideoGame/Mother3'' when not being [[MixandMatchCritters spliced to other lifeforms]]. Some examples include the Reconstructed Caribou, [[spoiler:the Mecha-Drago]], the Almost-Mecha-Lion and Mecha-Lion, [[spoiler:and the protagonist's older twin Claus]]. |
| 268 | ** Happens to one character in fangame ''VideoGame/TouhouMother'', making her an [[ApologeticAttacker unwilling]] RecurringBoss. |
| 269 | * ''VideoGame/NanoBreaker'' have this happening in the backstory as the reason behind the Orgamech outbreak; nanomachines created to serve mankind has malfunctioned and started assimilating humans in a manner reminiscent to viral strain, where victims will have their internal cells assimilated with nanotech turning them into mindless mechanical abominations called Orgamechs. After the initial outbreak, by the time the player hero made it to the island which serves as Point Zero of the infection, the entire population has been replaced by Orgamechs. |
| 270 | * ''VideoGame/OperationMatriarchy'' have the drone enemies, who used to be humans of a space colony. After barely surviving an alien viral outbreak, they're all captured alive and forcefully grafted with machinery and implants, becoming mindless cyborg slaves. |
| 271 | * Played with in ''VideoGame/Portal2'': [=GLaDOS=], who is already a robot, is [[spoiler:unwillingly changed into a potato-battery]]. It also turns out that [[spoiler:this is [=GLaDOS=]' origin as well: she was initially Cave Johnson's secretary Caroline, whose [[BrainUploading consciousness was uploaded into an A.I. in order to make her immortal]] against her will. Audio actually exists in the game's files of [=GLaDOS=]' voice actress protesting repeatedly. This was cut, as it was determined to not fit with the game's tone]]. |
| 272 | * The brain of [[spoiler:Dogan]] from ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' is used to power a tank weapon when Raz enters the Brain Tumbler. |
| 273 | * In ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'', augmentation is standard procedure for all Strogg, [[TheAssimilator including POWs from other species]] such as PlayerCharacter Matthew Kane. You can take a look [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HH-MqsB8L4 here]], but be warned that it is '''not''' for the squeamish. [[spoiler:Lieutenant Voss]] is also Stroggified, [[ManInTheMachine becoming a torso power unit of a combat robot]], and you're forced to kill him in a BossBattle. The entire time, he begs you to run away, because he can't control the robot he was attached to. |
| 274 | * Dr. Nefarious of ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' makes this his goal out of hatred for organic life. According to the Qwark vidcomics, [[spoiler:he was once organic himself, until he became a robot through a wedgie gone wrong]]. |
| 275 | * ''[[VideoGame/RobotizationTheLastHuman Robotization: The Last Human]]'' is a horror game set after a virus causes machines to malfunction and take over mankind, turning unwilling humans into their members. By the start of the game you're the only human alive, and [[spoiler:the game ends on a haunting note that you are eventually caught and assimilated]]. |
| 276 | * In ''{{VideoGame/Rimworld}}'', one of the possible traits a person can have is "Body Purist". People with this trait consider artificial body parts to be unethical and will get increasing negative mood penalties for each one attached to them. This is a bad thing in a game where limbs are lost on a regular basis, means of regrowing natural limbs are restricted to DLC content and rare even then, and artificial body parts and implants can improve on natural ones. |
| 277 | * ''VideoGame/SongSummoner'' plays this for all of the NightmareFuel it can. The worst part is that the Machines still retain some of their humanity, but you have to destroy them anyway. One Stargazer combines this with AnOfferYouCantRefuse -- he cuts off a city full of starving refugees from any outside aid and offers to turn them into Machines that feel no hunger. |
| 278 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'''s Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik is the [[TropeCodifier king of this trope]], although the concept was treated more lightly (the victim is used as an living battery, there is no direct transformation) than in the TropeNamer, WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM, and its [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics comic spinoff]]. ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' downplayed the roboticization aspect (although it ''is'' [[spoiler:the central plot point of E-102 Gamma's storyline]]) and since ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', it is rarely been used. |
| 279 | ** In ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'' we actually see the animals being put inside Badniks. [[spoiler:Later on, the Deadly Six plan to turn Sonic into a robot in a style similar to the [=SatAM=] method, but due to a HeroicSacrifice they wind up kidnapping Tails instead. They try to turn him into a robot anyway, but he [[MacGyvering Macgyvers]] his way out and pretends to have been turned into a robot, only to turn on the Six.]] |
| 280 | ** In ''VisualNovel/TheMurderOfSonicTheHedgehog'', [[spoiler: after Eggman uses the Mirage Express to kidnap Sonic and friends, the PlayerCharacter has the option to beg him not to turn them into robots. In response, Eggman mentions he hasn't done that in a while and figures his daughter Sage could use some new robotic playthings, so he decides to go through with it once they reach his base.]] |
| 281 | * The BigBad of ''VideoGame/SpaceSiege'' forcibly converts humans into cyborgs to fight off the resident ScaryDogmaticAliens. If you decide to go with pilot, all humans are forced into cyborgification whether they want it or not. |
| 282 | * ''VideoGame/SpaceStation13'' has this as an alternative to execution for murderers and the like. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that some people request this as a way to keep playing and/or redeem themselves. [[VastBureaucracy There's even a form for that]]! |
| 283 | * Used as a late-game plot point in ''[[Franchise/SpyroTheDragon Spyro: A Hero's Tail]]''. The villain has his underlings reversibly turned into robots to improve their combat efficiency. [[spoiler:It's used on him before the final boss fight]]. |
| 284 | * ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'': |
| 285 | ** While the Borg doing this is no surprise, what is particularly vile is the ''Tal Shiar'' doing this, seeking to use Borg technology to gain greater control over people. |
| 286 | *** Even worse, during the Romulan mission "Mind Game" your (brainwashed) PlayerCharacter is forced to do this to an innocent victim. |
| 287 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': |
| 288 | ** The Dark Troopers in ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront'' were originally clone troopers that were forcibly converted into cyborgs by TheEmpire to counteract their CloneDegeneration, having up to 70% of their bodies replaced with cybernetics. Many couldn't cope with being more machine than man and were DrivenToSuicide, resulting in them being replaced with droids by the time of ''VideoGame/DarkForces''. |
| 289 | ** In the DarkSide ending of ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'', this is what becomes of [[spoiler:Starkiller. In this ending, the apprentice kills Darth Vader, but turns on Darth Sidious and is nearly killed by him. TheEmperor transforms him into a placeholder until he can find a proper apprentice not limited by prosthetics like Vader and Starkiller.]] |
| 290 | ** One sidequest from ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' has Imperial soldiers captured by a rogue Sith lord and [[WetwareCPU their brains used as the central processor of advanced droids]]. The only one still able to communicate realizes in horror that they'll be [[AndIMustScream aware within the droids]], but unable to control themselves, and begs for death. You may MercyKill them or [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential decide that the droids are too useful a resource to waste]]. |
| 291 | * ''VideoGame/SteelHarbinger'' have this as the fate of unfortunate humans getting captured alive by alien pods, where they're skewered and wrapped by the pods' CombatTentacles and their skin turns metallic upon touch. The protagonist, Miranda Bowen, nearly suffers this fate in the opening, and surviving her roboticization at the cost of her memory and humanity, proceeds to fight back against the pods. |
| 292 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'', machine empires with the Driven Assimilator civic are thinly veiled [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]] {{Expy}}s, so their whole purpose in life is inflicting this on any hapless meatbag empire in the neighbourhood. Pre-''Apocalypse'' Assimilators had to conquer planets the old-fashioned way before they could begin to stuff all those nifty cybernetics into their new drones. ''Apocalypse'', coupled with the Cherryh update, gave them a new range of options including abducting hostile pops through a special "Raiding" OrbitalBombardment stance, or simply assimilating the whole planet in one fell swoop by cyborgizing its population with the Nanobot Diffuser Colossus weapon. |
| 293 | ** Certain government types and Ascension paths unlock Assimilation citizen rights that forcingly convert pops from different species to your race's standard. Synthetic Ascension path does exactly this. |
| 294 | * As the intro to ''{{VideoGame/Syndicate}}'' demonstrates, the evil future corporations recruit new agents by driving over people in the street and kidnapping them, followed by augmentation with artificial limbs and brainwashing through a neural implant. |
| 295 | * Used in ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' and ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'', forming most of SHODAN's army. Notable examples include [[spoiler:the Cortex Reaver (a spiderlike mech that takes corpses and [[WetwareCPU uses their brains as CPUs]] but don't bother removing the rest of the body), and Cyborg Midwives (former nurses who have their entire bodies south of their collarbone replaced with machinery and their faces ripped off).]] |
| 296 | ** The protagonist of the second game is an odd situation. He was never given a chance to object, and how he feels about his new body post-op is never addressed. An interesting narrative decision, given that the two big players in the plot repeatedly try to persuade him in one direction or the other. |
| 297 | * In ''Videogame/ThiefIITheMetalAge'', Father Karras and the Mechanists kidnap the lesser denizens of The City and turn them into "Servants", SteamPunk cyborgs that are programmed to serve their masters perfectly [[spoiler: until Karras sends the signal for them to detonate and release toxic gas]]. They are not particularly happy about this arrangement; listen to them, and you'll hear them weeping about [[ImColdSoCold how cold it is]] and [[ICannotSelfTerminate beg you to kill them]]. If you do, they thank you. |
| 298 | * A major part of the {{backstory}} in ''VideoGame/TotalAnnihilation''. |
| 299 | * Done to a character named Tsukikage, [[spoiler:known after becoming a cyborg as Dural]], in ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter''. |
| 300 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'', your VirtualSidekick Ordis, as well as the other [[ArtificialIntelligence Cephalons]] of the setting, [[WasOnceAMan used to be flesh-and-blood humans]]. Being turned into a Cephalon was treated as [[FateWorseThanDeath a punishment even worse than the death penalty]] (though one Executor, [[HangingJudge Nihil]], [[AllCrimesAreEqual would hand out this sentence like candy]]): after being converted into a Cephalon, the condemned would then, if they were lucky, be brainwashed into [[HappinessInSlavery fulfilling a certain role in Orokin society]]; the unlucky ones would [[AndIMustScream be sealed in a glass bottle and left there]]. |
| 301 | * Some gnomes in the ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' region of Borean Toundra are transformed into "mechagnomes" by gearmaster Mechazod. Interestingly, since modern gnomes [[spoiler:evolved from mechagnomes, this is also a case of DevolutionDevice]]. |
| 302 | * In ''VideoGame/{{XCOM}}'' the Floaters were forcibly altered by the [[GalacticConquerer Ethereals]] into horrific {{cyborg}}s barely capable of rational thought, with ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' implying [[WasOnceAMan they were once Mutons]]. In ''VideoGame/XCOM2'' they're altered even further into the Archons, who were [[LightIsNotGood deceptively gallant-looking]] EliteMooks with greater intelligence that were kept in line through MindRape as a consequence. In ''VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad'' it's shown that after [[VichyEarth humanity overthrew the Ethereals]], the Archons were horribly traumatized by all of this and were placed in a LotusEaterMachine so they could find some semblance of peace. |
| 303 | * In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'', the seventh member of the group, [[spoiler:or the third one if you take into consideration she appeared in the prologue, Fiora,]] gets transformed into a Mechon. [[spoiler:She takes it [[SubvertedTrope surprisingly well]] after breaking from the mind-control, especially considering she would have died from previously acquired injuries before her conversion and now she can use those abilities to help Shulk.]] |
| 304 | ** [[spoiler:The same happened to [[GreenEyedMonster Mum]][[AxCrazy khar]] and Gadolt but unlike the latter, the former didn't get his memory wiped. In Mumkhar's case however, while the roboticization was unwilling, he's perfectly happy with it since he's still largely independent and it gives him more power. He [[EvilAllAlong wanted to kill the protagonists anyway]].]] |
| 305 | ** [[spoiler:Egil's forces do this to a ''lot'' of Homs, in order to have them pilot [[HumongousMecha Face units]]. The process is not pretty. It involves the removal and replacement of internal organs, and the reconfiguration of the circulatory system so that their blood can interface with the Face unit to which they're assigned. It's implied that the reason Fiora looks comparatively well off is because Egil's sister Vanea, who had her own ulterior motives to try and stop her brother, was the one who oversaw her conversion.]] |
| 306 | [[/folder]] |
| 307 | |
| 308 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 309 | * Used in an extremely gruesome manner in ''Webcomic/AvasDemon''. [[spoiler:Nearly happens to Ava when she is pushed into TITAN's Gate to Paradise. [[http://www.avasdemon.com/pages.php#1287/ Prudith accidentally takes her place]], and has her body entirely destroyed, [[BodyHorror save for her brain, eyes, and nervous system]], and has it replaced with new body parts and machinery. It's implied that all higher ranking members of TITAN's army are roboticised, willing or not.]] |
| 310 | * Used in a rather roundabout fashion in ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty''. [[spoiler: The victims aren't the originals, but "perfect" ''clones'' created with all the memories of the originals. [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2012/01/01/seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time/ The clones are then converted into robots by nanomachines, which remove all remaining "imperfections" in the process.]]]] |
| 311 | * In ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'''s version of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequels, General Grievous/[[spoiler:Chancellor Valorum]] plans to forcibly convert people into an army of unstoppable cyborgs to take over the galaxy. This has the effect of giving context to Darth Vader's transformation and horrified reaction to it. |
| 312 | [[/folder]] |
| 313 | |
| 314 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 315 | * ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' is this in his ''Franchise/{{RoboCop}}'' review, having been roboticised by ''Myth/{{Polybius}}'' in his previous review. |
| 316 | * In ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWallTheMovie'', [[spoiler: Mechakara quickly assimilates the crew of the ''Caelestis'' and turns them into cybernetic drones loyal only to him. The astronauts are freed from Mechakara's control by the end of the movie, although their cybernetic components are said to still remain inside them]]. |
| 317 | * The entire population of Tattooine is transformed into fusions of flesh and machine under Creepio's regime in Episode 2 of the ''[[WebVideo/AuralnautsStarWarsSaga Auralnauts Star Wars Saga]]''. General Grievous is one of these fusions, and works aboard a hospital ship dedicated to the unfortunate victims. |
| 318 | * Happens to Lord Richington in ''Lord Canelaser: Eater of Widows'' after he is hit by a powerful curse. |
| 319 | * ''Roleplay/PokemonDigimonMonWars'': Datamon had been turning Pokemon into robots. His technology was reused by Machinedramon; in a ShoutOut to ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', only Pokemon were turned into robots while humans instead became metal statues. |
| 320 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'': |
| 321 | ** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-191 SCP-191]], the Cyborg Child, is a girl kidnapped by a MadScientist who replaced many of her organs with machine parts. |
| 322 | ** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-217 SCP-217]] is a virus that causes this to any animal, [[BodyHorror in gruesome ways]]. |
| 323 | * At the end of ''WebAnimation/Shed17'', it's revealed that the technology used to turn people into vehicles was sold to RedChina, who then used it to enslave political prisoners with it being PlayedForLaughs. It's a lot less funny [[AndIMustScream when it happens in the sequel though]]. |
| 324 | * Happens to both WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick and WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', thanks to [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Mechakara]]. [[spoiler: Even when their brainwashing broke, Chick was shown to still retain the robotic parts.]] |
| 325 | [[/folder]] |
| 326 | |
| 327 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 328 | * The BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}'', {{cyborg}} MadScientist Doc Terror, was strongly implied to create his drones this way. The process, so far as was shown, was not reversible. |
| 329 | * ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''; Taurus Bulba was brought BackFromTheDead by F.O.W.L. using cybernetics, but to their regret, he was rather angry that they forgot some "minor" details, like asking his permission. He shows his gratitude by [[UngratefulBastard destroying their base]] and going to work on his own. |
| 330 | * Happens to [[spoiler:Wylde and Kadeem]] in ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers''. The former survives with his mind intact, and his body completely intact except that it has an awesome-looking robot arm, the latter... [[BodyHorror wasn't so]] [[{{Brainwashing}} fortunate]]. |
| 331 | * This happens to the [[{{Irony}} the Joes' computer expert Mainframe]] in the ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' episode "Nightmare Assault"; fortunately, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin it was only a dream]]. |
| 332 | * In ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'', the MadScientist college student DA Sinclair kidnaps other young men around his campus in order to forcibly convert them into cyborgs in an attempt to make them immortal, seeing organ failures as a mere "engineering challenge". |
| 333 | * In ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'', Brainiac takes over Lex Luthor's body and turns him into a cyborg in a rather [[BodyHorror disturbing fashion]]. This ends up being {{subverted|Trope}} when Luthor and Brainiac come to an agreement: their [[FusionDance further roboticisation]] is entirely willing. |
| 334 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Poor [[spoiler:[[CosmicPlaything Stumpy]]]] suffers this at the hands of [[spoiler:[[RobotMaster Olaf]]]] in Episode 78. |
| 335 | * This trope is given an adult treatment in the ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'' episode "[[Recap/LoveDeathAndRobotsGoodHunting Good Hunting]]". The supernatural being Yen is transformed into a machine bit by bit, starting with her legs, while moonlighting as a prostitute. She is eventually able to escape and contact an old friend who finds the silver lining -- a custom-built new body capable or overcoming the ShapeshifterModeLock she's been stuck in, and will let her finally hunt among the streets of Hong Kong. |
| 336 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicKey'': In “Nadim’s Machine”, a CorruptCorporateExecutive has turned his workers into robots to increase efficiency, and subjects Wilf and Floppy to the same fate. Fortunately, Nadim manages to figure out how to reverse the process and free them. |
| 337 | * Dr. Wily appeared to be doing this to innocent park-goers in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears''. [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} -- it turns out that he was just brainwashing them to ''think'' they were robots, then outfitted them with armor and blasters.]] |
| 338 | * The ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' is a combination of this an BackFromTheDead -- a dead roadkill chicken can't agree to be turned into a cyborg, after all. After becoming robotic, the MadScientist just straps the Chicken to a chair and uses him as an unwilling test subject. |
| 339 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', one of the stories in ''Treehouse of Horror II'' had Homer's brain being put into a robot by Mr. Burns. |
| 340 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': |
| 341 | ** The TropeNamer is ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM''. The cartoon uses this trope in all of the mentioned methods, as does [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics the Archie Comics spinoff]] (mentioned above). An early episode contains a scene -- part of a dream Sonic has -- where Sally is roboticized.[[note]]Sonic saw his uncle get roboticized right in front of him [[HarmfulToMinors when he was only five years old]]. Since then, he's had [[PastExperienceNightmare nightmares about losing his friends the same way]]. [[HeroicBSOD He doesn't need to be asleep to have them]].[[/note]] The horrified look on her face as it happens and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z24qDRoys3g her agonized scream]] when she sees what's been done to her [[PainfulTransformation says it all]]. The cartoon's [[SpiritualSuccessor unrelated successor]], ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'', does the same. |
| 342 | ** [[DramaticIrony Ironically]], the "Blast to the Past" two-parter of ''[=SatAM=]'' showed this partially happening to Robotnik himself. The series had always shown Robotnik sporting a mechanical left arm (the Archie comics usually did too, especially later on, when they started following the tone of the cartoon more closely). We learn that during the aftermath of his coup, Robotnik -- knocked dizzy by a time-travelling Sonic -- accidentally [[AnArmAndALeg stuck his arm into an active Roboticizer.]] It is heavily implied that this is the [[FreudianExcuse reason]] that Robotnik goes berserk anytime Sonic is mentioned. |
| 343 | ** Also happened in ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'''s "Quest for the Chaos Emeralds" four-parter; Robotnik uses his robot transmogrifying raygun on the Mobius version of UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, a whale, a pterodactyl, and a treasure chest (the latter resembling Crabmeat from ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 Sonic 1]]''). For whatever reason, [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Robotnik never got the idea to shoot Sonic with the raygun]]. Also disturbingly, none of the victims were returned to normal and several were even destroyed like any other [[MechaMooks Mecha-Mook]]. Oddly enough, this is the only time that style of roboticization is ever mentioned in that series, though in another episode uses the game style organic battery. |
| 344 | ** Another example involving Sonic was his {{Crossover}} with ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'', with Lord Boxman (who's ironically played by [[Creator/{{Jim Cummings|1952}} the voice of the trope namer]]) using the Master Emerald to power his own Roboticiser. He intended to use it on Sonic himself, but KO gets trapped in it first and thus becomes a Metal version of himself. Despite a tough fight with the Blue Blur, Sonic manages to turn him back to normal in the end. |
| 345 | ** ''WesternAnimation/SonicPrime'': Rusty Rose, a version of Amy Rose from the dystopian New Yoke City, is a cyborg. It is strongly implied that her transformation was not voluntary. Fitting in that Rusty has been largely subjected to this by the TropeCodifier himself. |
| 346 | * {{Parodied|Trope}} in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Welcome to the Chum Bucket"; Plankton threatens to put [=SpongeBob=]'s brain inside a robot chef if he didn't make a Krabby Patty. Eventually he does just that, but since the robot has [=SpongeBob=]'s ''brain'', he turns out to be just as recalcitrant. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Karen, who says to Plankton "[[HoistByHisOwnPetard You know that never works]]." |
| 347 | * {{Subverted|Trope}} with Metallo in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. John Corben contracts a rare virus while in prison and willingly subjects himself to Luthor's experiment to [[EmergencyTransformation save himself]]. Initially he's happy with the results: SuperStrength, NighInvulnerability, and a Kryptonite power source that weakens Superman. ''Then'' he discovers that [[SenseLossSadness his robotic body has no sense of taste, touch, or smell]]. Since he's TheHedonist, this causes a FreakOut so bad that he rips off half of his artificial skin. When Superman reveals that [[spoiler:Luthor was the one who had him infected by the virus in the first place]], he temporarily halts his attack on Superman to go after Luthor. |
| 348 | * In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', the robot Fixit wants to make Cyborg 100% robot by removing what made him human. It should be noted that Fixit detects flaws in the human body and honestly thinks that he's fixing Cyborg. He probably would have left Cyborg alone had he been completely human. |
| 349 | ** Indeed, Fixit even made sure to create a [[BrainUploading backup copy]] of Cyborg's memories and personality. It's upon examining the backup copy that he [[HeelRealization realizes his error]] and lets Cyborg go. |
| 350 | ** Brother Blood returns in Titans East to re-create his school by abducting the Titans East and turning them into Cyborgs, with Cyborg's own tech. He also made several robot clones of Cyborg as well to help with this, but his main goal is to use the cybernetics to more easily control his "students"' minds. |
| 351 | * Dr. Arkeville of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers''. He'd already had some work done on him at some point before we met him, but was injured and "repaired" by Shockwave into being more mechanical than human. |
| 352 | * ''WesternAnimation/VorTechUndercoverConversionSquad'': The series mooks where transformed with a techo-infectious plague TranshumanTreachery ensues. |
| 353 | * ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': In one episode, Techna, who is arguably already a cyborg fairy, was affected by a techno-magical curse that turned her into even more of a robot. Luckily, [[StatusQuoIsGod it was reversed in the same episode]]. |
| 354 | [[/folder]] |
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