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Working Title: Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: From YKTTW

Should the focus of this entry really be tabletop games? I cannot believe the trope started or is most prominent there.

Happy Corner: Up to now, I've seen this trope more in RPGs than anywhere else. But if you can think of more or earlier examples from other media, then by all means!

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Tacitus: Reading the SHODAN quote and contemplating the Adeptus Mechanicus - does this trope have a counterpart where replacing the flesh is seen as desirable? Or are there too few works in which factions try to transcend the flesh for this to be tropeworthy? Or maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

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Bob: Cut for not being about cybernetics.

• In Bio Shock, the majority of non-mechanical antagonists are ordinary residents of Rapture who have been "spliced" up with plasmids to the extent that they have lost their sanity (aside from being addicted to splicing, so they're always hunting for ADAM). Even the ADAM gatherers, the Little Sisters, are conditioned so that they feel no revulsion in performing their grisly task, to extract blood from corpses and to drink it in order to recycle the ADAM in the blood. Not to mention that their perception of corpses is modified to consider them "angels".
• Geneforge has a similar thing from use of canisters, in what can be summed up as magical genetic modification; using them too much eventually leads to insanity.
  • Said insanity manifests through a horrible case of superiority complex - not without a good reason, since those things can improve you in almost any way imaginable.

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Zyxzy: Hmmm...it appears that the Obsidian entry link to a contributor's page. Anyone familiar with the game wanna have a go at making a proper entry for it? Or should we just delink it?

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Happy Corner: Yanked this -

** What's more likely to freak someone out, replacing their arm with a metal arm, or letting them snikt knives out of their flesh hands?

- because this trope is about your cybernetics freaking you out, not other people.