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  • The Nobleman from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has an artificial left arm ending in a claw.
  • Baten Kaitos is set in a world where everyone is born with "wings of the heart", which appear on the body at will — except for Kalas, the main character, who was born with only a single wing. His foster father made an artificial wing for him as a replacement.
  • Battleborn:
    • After El Dragón's arms were torn off by the rogue Magnus ISIC in a wrestling match, the luchador's lost limbs were replaced with giant robot arms.
    • Pendles is a part of an alien snake race that live part of their lives as bipedal creatures. Eventually however, they naturally shed off their limbs and return to living beneath the waves. When Pendles shed off his right tentacle, he put a halt to his natural molting process through hormone therapy and then acquired himself a nifty prosthetic arm.
    • Beatrix's limbs are all artificial, the most noticeable being her giant prosthetic syringe-arm the Incistyx Injector. Due to the terminal illness she was born with, her original limbs didn't grow and develop fully. As such, they had to be replaced.
    • Rendain has a very prominent mechanical right arm. In battle, the arm can detach from Rendain's body at the shoulder point and float mid-air a small distance away from him with only a couple of red bolts of energy tethering the arm to the still attached but now rotating propeller engine looking part of the arm. With his arm floating like this, Rendain has a wide range of attack.
  • In Bendy and the Ink Machine, Tom's left forearm has been replaced with the one from Chapter 4's animatronic Bendy.
  • Bionic Commando (1988) has the protagonist, Nathan "Rad" Spencer with a bionic arm. It has incredible grip and can grab everything. It's used as a gameplay mechanic as it replaces jumping with swinging.
  • Ragna the Bloodedge from BlazBlue got his right arm chopped off when he was a kid. His new right arm is made of the remains of the Black Beast. At the end of Continuum Shift, he loses his left arm. That gets replaced by Kokonoe with materials from Lambda-11's rejuvenation tank. Iron Tager, being a cyborg, has Artificial Everything.
  • In Bombshell, the protagonist has a prominent mechanical arm, which she received after losing her original one while working as a bomb disposal technician.
  • In Borderlands, Helena Pierce has an artificial arm. We find out why in Borderlands 2: she was attacked by skags because of a ring her husband gave her, which contained a pearl that released hunger-inducing pheromones. T.K. Baha also has an artificial leg, which he similarly lost to a skag.
    • The second game also has Sir Hammerlock who has a mechanical right arm and leg (ripped out by a thresher) and Gaige who has a mechanical left arm (who built it herself after deliberately cutting her own arm off so she could summon her robot).
    • Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! has Wilhelm the Enforcer, who is addicted to body modifications and willingly replaces his limbs with cybernetics by obtaining new skills. He can replace his left arm and legs so he can punch really hard and shoot while sprinting respectively.
    • Tales from the Borderlands continues the tradition with one of the protagonists, Rhys. His right arm is cybernetic, as is part of his left eye. His Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Vasquez has a barely noticeable cybernetic pinky finger as a parody of this trope and a hint to his criminal ties.
  • Bug Fables: Vi's older sister Jaune is a skilled painter whose artsy nature is further emphasized by having a paintbrush implanted where her stinger should be.
  • Bugsnax: After cutting off their own leg For Science!, Floofty has to use a prosthetic. At first, they're shown with a wooden peg leg, but if they survive the finale they're shown in the credits with a full-on prosthetic.
  • In Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, protagonist Jack Mitchell loses his left arm in combat early in the game and has it replaced with a prosthetic courtesy of the Atlas Corporation. At the beginning of the second to last mission, it is severely damaged by Big Bad Jonathan Irons, and the final mission ends with Mitchell cutting it off with a knife to drop Irons, who is hanging on to it over the side of a building, to his death.
  • In Chicory: A Colorful Tale, One of Quinoa's legs is a prosthetic.
  • Due to how prolific various cyberware is in the world of Cyberpunk 2077, quite a lot of characters had their regular limbs replaced. Some notable examples would be:
    • V has cybernetic forearms from the start, which house a retractable cable that allows them to connect to computers and terminals, and a grip that allows them to read things like magazine capacity of their guns. With time, the player can unlock more combat-oriented implants like the mantis blades.
    • Johnny Silverhand has his iconic, well, silver hand, from which he takes his stagename from. It's worth noting that this is one of the few times where a character has actually lost their limb, with Johnny losing his flesh hand during the war. It doesn't have any offensive capabilities and seems to function like a regular hand.
    • River Ward has a prosthetic right palm. It's relatively crude and simple, and seems to be a normal prosthetic.
    • Mitch has a simple prosthetic left arm. Like Johnny, he's also a veteran and lost his limb during the war, though a different one than the one Johnny fought in.
    • Dexter deShawn has a gold-plated right arm.
    • Many NPCs in the overworld can spawn with cybernetic arms and/or legs.
  • In Deus Ex, the protagonist JC Denton is an aversion — his limbs are all human, and his augmentations consist of nano-scale robots that have merged with his physical body on the cellular level, creating the first true fusion of man and machine. Denton's brother Paul, Walter Simons and Robert Page are similarly augmented. However, traditional mechanical implants are around (though on their way to obsolesence, much to the dismay of the people who opted for them), most prominently in UNATCO agents Anna Nevarre and Gunther Hermann. Conveniently, both Nevarre and Hermann are installed with a killphrase which, when said, causes them to violently explode.
    • Fan-made prequel and Game Mod 2027 features these, as nanoaugmentation is still on the drawing boards. In terms of gameplay, they still function like nano augs in the original game, except augs like the leg prosthesis make a whirring sound when used.
  • Adam Jensen, the protagonist of Deus Ex: Human Revolution gets both of his arms replaced with advanced prosthetics, and most of his body "enhanced" with cybernetic implants, after surviving an attack on a corporate research facility by a group of anti-bionics extremists. All the augments are present from the beginning of the game but Adam must learn to use them by earning experience and spending "Praxis Points". This allows the player to unlock various enhancements, including retractable blades, super jumping skills, pheromones and Optical Camouflage.
    • One of the antagonists, a mercenary named Barrett, has a minigun built into one of his cyberarms.
    • Artificial arms are the rage in 2027, it seems — Jensen's boss David Sarif and Tong Si Hung, a Shanghai bartender/mafioso, sport them too.
    • They are handled in a slightly more realistic way, especially regarding the super-strength aspect. While Jensen can punch through walls and do some serious damage with his prosthetics, its not as over-the-top as some other examples. Also, if you look at his chest when he's shirtless (best seen in the Missing Link DLC) you can see there's a support bar crossing his torso under his skin, linking both arms together, to prevent them tearing out. Plus every other person that has augmentations has to take a daily dose of a certain immunosuppressant to prevent a violent rejection of the augs.
  • In Devil May Cry 5, a villain rips off and steals Nero's demonic right arm, Devil Bringer. Nico builds him mechanical arms called Devil Breakers, which can emulate most of the Devil Bringer's techniques and use a few extra like a Rocket Punch attack. However, Devil Breakers will, as per the name, break if Nero is attacked while using them or if he uses a Charged Attack; fortunately, he can find or buy replacements.
  • Ehrgeiz: Han Daehan had to get an artificial right leg after losing it to a mysterious black smoke that stole it for reasons unknown, although he can still feel its existence. In fact, he has two endings in the game, depending on if he beats the Final Boss in time to reclaim his real leg.
  • Elden Ring: Malenia's right arm is prosthetic. Her left leg and half her right leg are also prosthetic.
  • Fallout:
    • In a piece of Dummied Out content in the first Fallout, there was a gang leader called Tangler who had a robotic arm. You were hired to kill him and tear it off from his corpse as proof you had done the deed.
    • Can happen to the PC in the Fallout: New Vegas DLC Old World Blues; albeit with your brain, heart and spine and replaced with Tesla coils, an artificial heart/filter and a synthetic spine. How you are able to function with your brain missing (and have a conversation with it) is never explained, though it is all but stated that all the Think Tank have no idea what they're doing anymore and haven't for over a century and a half. The whole point of the DLC is to get your brain back which was misplaced by the Think Tank, though you can opt to keep your artificial brain if you want to, you just get different bonuses than if you get your brain reinstalled.
    • Fallout 4 kind of plays on this trope with the Brotherhood of Steel Proctor Ingram, who lost both of her legs to Super Mutants. While she doesn't have any true prosthetics to replace them, Fallout 4 was the first game to treat Power Armor as a vehicle rather than a suit of armor that you would equip from your inventory, so Ingram is always seen in a power armor frame to allow her to get around.
  • Final Fantasy VII: Barret Wallace lost his arm to multiple bullet wounds. Later, his original artificial arm was replaced by a machine gun, and later upgraded in the Advent Children spinoff movie with the ability to morph into a (relatively) normal looking hand.
  • The Ghostrunner's left arm is replaced by a crude mechanical version after the original was ripped off by Mara. Zoe also mentions having a limb implant, though given her status as a Voice with an Internet Connection, we never actually see it in-game.
  • Granblue Fantasy: One of Balurga's hands got bitten off by one of the gang's war beasts when she was proving herself worthy of joining them. They replaced it by a clawed Arm Cannon.
  • Wendy Cooke from Growing Up was born without her left arm, so she had it replaced with a wooden prosthetic, but is conscious of it because bullies call her "Captain Hook" for it. However, she's inspired by it to make horror movie makeup and special effects.
  • Half-Life 2: Dr. Eli Vance has an artificial right leg, although it is crude and amounts to a curved, springy metal strip. His original leg was eaten by an alien animal. Eli Vance's leg is Truth in Television, although the springy metal strip type is usually used by athletes, because it's hard to stand still on one. On the other hand, not only would the Seven Hour War have limited his choices for a replacement, but one that allows the user to run would be very useful for a rebel.
  • Halo:
    • Halo: Reach: Kat has a mechanical right arm. Which is a bit odd in that there seems to be no other reason to put it into a much thinner and more skeletal casing than the other arm of the body armor, but to make it obviously visible.
    • The expanded universe has a lot more characters with robot limbs, like Captain Ponder, Eddie Underwood, and an officer overseeing the SPARTAN-III Alpha Company's augmentation procedure named De Guzman. Ponder and Eddie have artificial arms like Kat, while De Guzman has a synthetic left leg. Halo: The Fall of Reach also depicted Spartan-II James-005 lose his lower left arm to a Hunter's assault cannon, which is replaced with one of these before the Spartan is sent back into the field.
    • Halo Infinite: Escharum's Dragon, Blademaster Jega 'Rdomnai, is an Elite with a prosthetic left arm. The lore around the character says he was part of a special team who was maimed in combat. The Covenant was anti-prosthetic and fellow Elites felt he had lost his honour, but he instead found himself allying with the Banished, whose entire premise was rejecting the needless dogma of the Covenant.
  • Hi-Fi RUSH:
    • A major part of the story revolves around these. "Project Armstrong" is a philanthropic initiative by Vandelay Technologies to give artificial limbs for people in need. Chai, the player character, has his disabled right arm replaced with a robot arm in the opening cutscene.
    • Peppermint has a robot right leg which she notes wasn't made with Project Armstrong technology. As revealed later, it was hand-made by her mother, Roxanne Vandelay, after she lost her leg in an accident as a child.
    • This varies between the different heads of Vandelay Technologies. Both Rekka and Zanzo have artificial limbs, while Mimosa has none but has robot wings. Roquefort and Kale both appear to have simple limb enhancements but are both later revealed to be Full Conversion Cyborgs. Korsica is The Team Normal with no robot limbs until after Kale attempts to kill her, and she's given robot implants on her chest and arms to revive her.
  • Inazuma Eleven Galaxy: Among the inhabitants of planet Gurdon, the pro-machine faction have traded their wings for mechanical arms. This allows them to create tools at the cost of their flying ability.
  • I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
    • Flulu's right leg is a prosthetic, and her husband, Geranium, used to joke that she got it so she could run faster than everyone else before they had access to genetech. In truth, she had her leg replaced after losing it during the war against humanity before her crew left Earth.
    • Vace, a Child Soldier from the Heliopause, has a prosthetic left hand.
  • Aros Helgason from Jitsu Squad is a fierce Viking warrior who lose an arm after slaying a dragon in the past. In the present, his severed arm has been replaced with a metal one, which can double as a Power Fist. Collecting enough power-ups and said arm becomes an Arm Cannon.
  • Prevalent in Kenshi, where the combat system is programmed to have your characters lose limbs if they take too much damage too quickly. The Hivers produce more bionic limbs than any other faction, but they are almost always inferior to their biological counterparts. Additionally, the Holy Nation is so repulsed by technology that anyone with artificial limbs will be attacked on sight as an "abomination."
  • Knights of the Old Republic:
    • In the first game, Darth Malak lost his mandible courtesy of a duel with Revan, requiring the use of an artificial jaw and vocabulator.
    • Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: Bao-Dur has an artificial arm he designed and built himself. He tries to joke about it, but turns out it's a "souvenir" from the horrors of Malachor V. It has the ability to disable force fields, but somehow restricts the kinds of armor he can wear.
  • In League of Legends:
    • Camille, while most of her body is augmented with machinery, her long, bladed legs are her most iconic feature.
    • Gangplank has a mechanical arm after surviving the destruction of his ship.
    • Renata Glasc’s right arm is a robotic piece of chemtech, which as even uses in game to toss enemies around.
    • Sion has a large, iron peg leg, which gives him a limp when he walks. While his iron jaw looks like one, it’s actually bolted on to his lower jaw.
    • Swain’s left arm is constructed from demonic energy, and is clawed and red.
  • The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon: During the siege of Warfang, the golem replaces the arm it loses earlier in the game by magically grafting rubble from the city in its place, which assembles itself into a new, fully functional limb.
  • Loopmancer: Xiang, the player-controlled protagonist has a mechanical arm and two mechanical legs, owing to an accident that nearly killed him five years ago.
  • Madworld: Jack has a mechanical arm. With a built-in chainsaw.
  • Mass Effect: While never mentioned in-universe, a Geth arm was grafted onto Saren's body to replace his left arm.
    • In Mass Effect 2, it's mentioned that the means in which Shepard was resurrected was "bio-synthetic fusion", meaning most of their body was artificially created in some fashion or another. In addition to a reinforced skeletal structure and cybernetic implants, it's implied that their eyes and skin were replaced using cloned grafts.
  • Medievil 2: Professor Hamilton Kift has a pair of mechanical hands. Reading his journal late in the game reveals he was forced to replace his flesh-and-blood hands after they were badly mangled during an expedition to find Zarok's legendary spellbook alongside Palethorn.
  • Mega Man Legends 2: Joe has a Reaverbot arm, mostly longer than his natural arm. In fact, this seems rather common in the Legends era. The only major male character who doesn't seem to have mechanical prosthesis, at one time or another, is Werner von Bluecher.
  • Metal Gear:
    • Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: Peter Stillman has an artificial leg, after his original one was blown off when he failed to defuse a bomb in a church. He ends up being a subversion. In reality, he panicked and fled mid-defusal, leaving the bomb to detonate and kill some nearby kids. He faked having failed to defuse the bomb and lost a limb from the resulting explosion to garner sympathy because he couldn't bear to face the families of the real victims.
    • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots: Ocelot's artificial arm doesn't provide absurd amounts of Super-Strength, but it still really hurts when he manages to punch you with it. Total-conversion cyborgs such as Grey Fox and Raiden do have inhuman strength and reflexes, as well as Implausible Fencing Powers.
    • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: Big Boss gets a few after losing his left arm. Initially, he has a Hook Hand, but is given a more advanced Bionic Arm by Ocelot, complete with full set of digits and wrist articulation. The arm can be swapped out for different models, such as an electrical stun arm, a remote controlled non-lethal or explosive arm, or a WISP arm that can teleport distant enemies to him.
    • Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance: "Jetstream" Sam Rodrigues has a cybernetic arm to replace the one he lost fighting Armstrong. The fact that this was his only cybernetic replacement makes him being able to best Raiden in their first fight and still match his upgraded body in their second one all the more impressive.
  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: The cyborg Ghor only has 6% of his original body left, having replaced most of it with mechanical appendages. He displays a bit of Cybernetics Eat Your Soul — his personality changes from a fairly gentle and intelligent demeanor (it's noted that he will work for free or give bounty money to the victims of those he hunts) to aggressive and violent when he merges with his armorsuit, though he maintains control of himself as seen on Norion (where the player sees him both in and out of his suit — out of the suit, he calmly informs Samus of a tactical decision, while in the suit he starts shouting at her to get a move on to the objective while brandishing weapons). Justified in that the suit could be designed to alter his personality to make him more aggressive, as it's noted in his scan entry that he isn't a proficient fighter without it. However, after his corruption, he does get a terminal case of straight Cybernetics Eat Your Soul as seen when, without his suit, he gloats and causes some destruction to hinder Samus but is easily fended off (and even makes a remark while retreating that could show he's not yet fully corrupted), but in his suit he goes full-on berserker, going as far as to throw Samus' gunship at her.
  • Mortal Kombat:
    • Major Jackson Briggs a.k.a. "Jax" has bionic implants covering his arms that give him enhanced strength. Unlike most cybernetic arms, these can be removed, and he retains his natural arms underneath.
    • Mortal Kombat 9: In the Continuity Reboot, Jax's arms are brutally removed by Ermac and replaced with cybernetic implants, making them 100% artificial arms.
  • Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom: Bracken has an artificial leg.
  • No More Heroes:
    • Holly Summers has an artificial leg. In addition, Shinobu gets a mechanical replacement for the hand Travis chops off at the end of her fight with him.
    • In Japan, due to Bowdlerization, Shinobu doesn't get her hand cut off at the end of the fight, which led to some confusion about whether or not her losing the hand was canon. This was settled in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, which confirmed she has a mechanical hand.
  • No More Heroes III: After a sordid encounter with FU, both of Shinobu's arms are ripped off and have to be replaced.
  • The sligs in the Oddworld series use mechanical "pants", which come in two forms: a pair of cybernetic legs or a helicopter backpack with a built in grenade launcher. Interesting for this trope, they're not actually fused to the user's body; they're mass produced for the slig species to compensate for the fact that they didn't evolve legs, and operate like the lower half of a suit of Power Armor.
  • Overwatch has several characters with artificial limbs of varying quality. Junkrat has a mechanical peg-leg and a mechanical hand (not surprising, considering his fondness for explosives and lack of any safety awareness), Cassidy/McCree and Symmetra both have a relatively nice looking mechanical arm while Torbjörn has a weird claw thing replacing the lower part of his arm. Genji is a full Cyborg with all of his limbs being mechanical (his Blackwatch skin has the left arm as flesh but the normal skin has it mechanical). Doomfist's right arm is a cybernetic limb that he uses to wield his Power Fist, but is also strong enough by itself to smash through concrete.
  • The "Artificial Organs" scenario in Plague Inc. places you in a world where artificial organs are cheap and reliable, so you have to pit your plague against a humanity that can survive otherwise deadly symptoms like total organ failure, as they search for a cure. If you evolve the Insanity symptom, then you'll get treated to the lovely news that people are ripping their own artificial organs in bouts of madness, leading to messy and quick deaths.
  • Psychonauts has Dr. Loboto, who has a clawed hand with a pepper grinder built in.
  • Quantum Replica: Alpha appears to have a prosthetic in place of his left arm.
  • Raid 2020: Shadow lost his right arm some time before the game which has been replaced by a robotic arm with an integrated mini-computer.
  • Rimworld has artificial limbs ranging from simple peg legs to bionic limbs and eyes that perform better than their biological counterparts. Characters with the "Transhumanist" trait want to be cybernetically enhanced and get a mood bonus if they have an artificial body part; conversely, Body Purists consider bionics unethical and get a permanent mood penalty if they have any artificial parts.
  • In Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Wolf has his left arm cut off at the beginning of the game and has a bone prosthetic attached to the stump that functions exactly as the lost limb and also has a grappling hook and a variety of shinobi tools installed in it, such as a flamethrower, a spring-loaded spear and so on.
  • Officer 0259 who you play as in Signal Ops has a hook for a left hand and a metal peg left leg.
  • In Sly Spy, the boss of the third level is a Giant Mook with two metal arms.
  • Yoshimitsu from the Soul Series is a bizarre case, as he lives in the late 16th century. His missing arm is replaced by a strange wooden contraption, which still serves him well enough to sword fight with the best of them (and in a few of his moves, he visibly grabs and moves the replacement's wrist with his good hand). His 20th-century counterpart from Tekken may or may not have a mechanical arm; it's hard to tell in most of his costumes (PROTIP: one hand is usually spinning at the wrist). In the Soul Calibur IV Character Creation, it's seen that his left arm, face and both legs are also prosthetic, making him a possible Man in the Machine.
  • Space Siege: As you play security officer Seth Reynolds, you have the option during the game to upgrade yourself with cybernetics. This also enables the option to use heavier weapons. In the end, you have the option to go with the ship AI "Pilot" and turn all into cyborgs or kill the AI.
  • The Grox of Spore. Being an Affectionate Parody of the Borg, the entire species has replaced their right arms, legs, and eyes with cyborg equivalents.
  • In Star Sweep Dr. J has a robotic arm, in contrast with the fantasy aesthetic everything else has.
  • StarCraft:
    • When General Warfield has to have his right arm amputated after being poisoned by a Hydralisk, he returns with a sweet mechanical prosthetic that changes into a cannon.
    • Swann also has one, from when he lost an arm when he and his miners rebelled against the Kel-Morian Combine.
  • The pilots of the Star Fox universe have prosthetic legs replacing their normal ones. For years fans have created theories as to their purpose, ranging from augmenting the pilots for field work, to move faster, to helping the pilots deal with extreme G-Forces. Years later, creator Miyamoto finally confirmed why the Star Fox team were depicted with metal legs: it was an attempt to make his Funny Animals appear more human to the player and look cool.
  • Subverted: Raidies F. von Branstein of Super Robot Wars fame has a prosthetic hand. It apparently doesn't look realistic despite its functionality, so he wears a glove over it. He also never shows any kind of increased strength or anything. In fact, he likes to pretend it doesn't exist...
  • The Agents in Syndicate are kidnapped humans that undergo a conversion process by the Syndicate organizations, starting with the implantation of a mind control chip. As you earn money you can upgrade their bodies with cybernetic parts. By the end of the game, each agent is practically a full-conversion cyborg, able to carry several miniguns and a rocket launcher or two.
  • Zagi from Tales of Vesperia gets a laser-shooting blastia arm after losing the use of his left arm from the second fight he has against the party. It's begun to have some unsettling effects on him by the time he confronts the party for the last time, due to him misusing it.
  • The Gunslinger, one of the weapons for the Engineer in Team Fortress 2, is a mechanical hand designed by his grandfather Radigan. It was implied in the official blog that the Engineer willingly sawed off his original right hand to accommodate the replacement, though some theories exist that the hand under the glove was always artificial.
  • Garrett in Thief has his eye plucked out partway through the first game. In the epilogue, it's shown that he's gotten a mechanical replacement, which he keeps for the rest of the series. It grants him a few neat tricks like telescopic vision and (very limited) remote camera input. The second game reveals that the eye was given to him by the Hammerites, perhaps out of gratitude for his actions at the end of the first game.
  • Wild Dog of Time Crisis gets one with a built-in chain gun after his defeat in the first game.
  • In Touhou Project, Kasen appears to have a magical prosthetic arm. Normally she wraps it in bandages and claims it's scarred from an old injury, but there isn't anything but smoke underneath the bandages, and she can detach it and control it remotely (when she thinks no one is looking). She's been given access to several magical means of healing her arm, but it seems there was something special about how it was removed and indeed she's actively searching for her missing arm.
  • Perhaps the most extreme example is Sydney Losstarot from Vagrant Story. He sacrificed all four of his limbs to the goddess of his religion, Mullenkamp, and had all four replaced by creepy steampunk-ish prosthetics.
  • Warframe:
    • Limb replacement is fairly commonplace. The average Grineer requires extensive surgery in order to function due to their production flaws, and mechanical limbs are a common sight. Some of them take it further; Councillor Vay Hek appears to have only kept his original face. The rest of him has changed quite a bit.
    • The Solaris of the Fortuna colony tend to sell and replace their limbs as partial payment of 'debts;' oddly, the most common prosthetic seen is artificial heads.
  • Kanon from Wild ARMs 2 has had an arm and part of her trunk replaced by cybernetics; she not only has enhanced strength, but also neat gadgets like a hookshot. Considering the generally low-tech or steampunk feel of the game, one wonders how they can function as well as they do.
  • Wild ARMs 5 had Kartikeya, a.k.a., the man with a Golem arm.
  • Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey: Wishbone ends up assembling a set of artificial wings so he can fly across a gap on Thrinacia and get some fruit for his crew to eat. They fall apart when he crashes back on his original side though.
  • Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Hilarity Ensues when Fergus gets an artificial arm that appears to have a mind of its own, punching him in the face when he's trying to sleep and grabbing a woman's breast while Fergus is making a romantic overture.
  • World of Warcraft: Blackhand's incarnation in Warlords of Draenor has a stone right arm.
  • You can make an Xbox Avatar with prosthetic limbs.
  • In XCOM: Enemy Unknown's Expansion Pack Enemy Within, your troops can undergo surgery to become MEC Troopers. This involves having all four limbs amputated and replaced with cybertech sockets that can either mount robotic imitations of the original limbs when not in combat, or interface with the Mechanical Exoskeletal Cybersuits that gives them their class name. The benefit of this is the operative gets to be a ridiculously tough and agile 12-to-15-foot-tall mechanical giant that carries a rifle-like Minigun (that can be upgraded up to a Particle Cannon, and can be equipped with subsystems like a Barrier Busting Rocket Punch, a proximity mine layer, a flamethrower that can make anything organic panic, an EMP module, and other such goodness. When researching the technology, it's noted that the surgery is reversible (though not in the game).

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