History Main / BadassTransplant

** Similarly, [[spoiler:Danzo]] replaced his missing eye with a Sharingan. On top of that, he [[spoiler:implanted even more Sharingan into his right arm so he could utilize their reality-altering genjutsu]].

** Tobi stole the Rinnegan from Nagato's corpse and implanted one in himself, having discovered he lacked the ability to control both eyes at once. [[spoiler:Madara later reveals Nagato's Rinnegan was also a transplant, as they were originally Madara's eyes]].

* Gene's eponymous ''VideoGame/GodHand''; his EvilCounterpart Azel possess the other arm of the pair. [[spoiler:Then Gene gets ''both'' of them as an EleventhHourSuperpower.]]

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** And then there's Ling getting [[spoiler:Greed injected into him]].
* {{Inverted|Trope}} with Sesshomaru of ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', who goes through a bunch of replacement arms (including a dragon claw) all which were weaker than his original arm, before giving up on the idea. [[HandicappedBadass He only needs one, anyway]].
** [[spoiler:Then his body regenerates a new arm for him deep into the manga.]]

* During the Dream Tag Arc, Manga/{{Kinnikuman}} tries to save Mongolman from the Hell Missionaries' Cross Bomber attack and gets his arm wrecked. Buffaloman offers his remaining longhorn, and it is remade into a new arm bone from Kinnikuman's skeleton. This grants Kin remarkable punching power from that arm. When it looks like Kin might fall from a cliff, the arm ''punches itself'' into the cliff wall and saves Kin.

*** The Rinnegan itself is the result of a transplant. When [[spoiler:Madara]] implanted himself with [[spoiler:Hashirama]]'s cells, their unique chakras interacted and recreated the chakra of the Sage of Six Paths, allowing the Rinnegan to manifest.

* The supervillain Prometheus in Franchise/TheDCU could via a compact disc allow a download of the knowledge and physical skills of others directly into his brain; his default disc including the skills of thirty of the world's greatest martial artists.

* ''Creator/MarvelComics'':
** This is the gimmick of the U-Men, a cult of mutant wannabes opposed to the ComicBook/XMen who [[OrganTheft hunt mutants for grafts and transplants]], such as x-ray eyes or electric blood.

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] got significantly more badass when his destroyed left arm was [[ArtificialLimbs replaced with a metal one]] and he became the legendary Winter Soldier.
** [[ComicBook/SheHulk Jennifer Walters]] got her powers by way of a blood transfusion from [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk her cousin Bruce]].

* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' has Gazelle with her chop-ready blade heels.
* ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle'' provides a scenario of Charlie Hesketh with his cybernetic arm, nicknamed ''arm-ageddon''.

* In ''Spare Parts'', the protagonists get kidnapped by a cult staging GladiatorGames, who cut off their right hands and replace them with mounts upon which they can attach various weapons ranging from blades to flamethrowers.

* Riderman from ''Series/KamenRiderV3'' is apparently a normal dude in a powered suit... with a prosthetic right arm from the elbow down. Said arm can change forms into a rope-based arm, a giant claw, and a drill - at least in the live-action versions of him. He's not nearly as powerful as V3 himself, but makes up for it in effort.

* In [[Myth/CelticMythology Irish mythology]] Nuada, the first king of the gods, lost his arm in battle. He later was given a new arm made of silver that worked and moved just like a real one. This is how he came to be known as "Nuada Silver Arm."

* Among the artifact-level magic items available in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' are the Hand of Vecna and the Eye of Vecna, which were formerly body parts of a powerful lich. To use one of these items, a character must first remove the appropriate part from his or her ''own'' body. Rumors of an artifact called the "[[http://www.blindpanic.com/humor/vecna.htm Head of Vecna]]" should probably be disregarded as the invention of a sadistic PC with a sick sense of humor.

* Most games that allow cybernetics (''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' comes to mind; even ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' or ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' in some settings) will have a player who believes in this, and acts on it.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'''s {{Space Marine}}s obtain their superhuman abilities via surgical procedures that implant various new organs inside which also give them new features like acid breath and bulletproof ribcages. So important are they that dead Marines are always retrieved from the battlefield in order to save their geneseed which will then be implanted in new Marines (if circumstances allow, otherwise the Apothecaries just rip them back out).

* ''VideoGame/GodHand'':
** Gene's God Hand
** Also, Gene's EvilCounterpart, Azel, who possess the other arm of the pair.
** [[spoiler:Then Gene gets ''both'' of them as an EleventhHourSuperpower.]]

* "Meet the Medic" shows us that the Ubercharge in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is initiated by implanting the heart of a Mega Baboon with an implant attached in place of the trooper's normal heart (which tends to ''explode'' when exposed to the implant's charge).

* MEC Troopers in ''[[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown XCOM: Enemy Within]]'' ''voluntarily'' get their limbs amputated... so they can replace their flesh and blood limbs with ''[[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131106173122/xcom/images/d/dd/XCOM_EW_MECwRailgun.jpg this thing]]''.

* In ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'', [[spoiler:Marco loses an arm to Astaroth. Pandagraph implants one of [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Arco]]’s teeth into the arm before surgically reattaching it, causing Marco to gain some of Arco's powers.]]

* In Season 10 of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', an Insurrectionist soldier manages to survive an orbital strike from the previous season with nothing more than a lost arm, which he replaces with a mechanical one. It's fast and strong enough to catch a grenade from [[ImplacableMan the Meta]]'s brute shot out of the air and throw it back at him.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': Aquaman starts off with two working hands in "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E6And7TheEnemyBelow The Enemy Below]]", but when [[spoiler:his brother Orm chains him to a rock and leaves him and Aquaman's son to fall into an underwater magma stream, Aquaman cuts off his own hand to save the live of his son]]. He replaces it with a hook for the remainder of the series.

** When [[spoiler:Qilby the Traitor]] reveals himself as the season's true BigBad, he also merges with the Eliacube [[spoiler:replacing his missing arm with one made of pure wakfu]]. Prior to that, he was too weak to confront the heroes. Afterwards, [[spoiler:he shows what an adult Eliatrope who has fully mastered their powers can do.]]
** [[spoiler:Sadlygrove gets his arm bitten off by a Dragon]] in the Special OVA episodes. In the next season his missing arm is replaced [[spoiler:by merging with Rubilax. As an arm, Rubilax acts as a rather snarky and useful shapeshifting weapon.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': Aquaman starts off with two working hands, but when [[spoiler:his brother Orm chains him to a rock and leaves him and Aquaman's son to fall into an underwater magma stream, Aquaman cuts off his own hand to save the live of his son]]. He replaces it with a hook for the remainder of the series.

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfCorum'' kicks off the transition of the titular Corum from a pampered noble into a walking disaster zone when he loses [[AnArmAndALeg his hand]] and [[EyeScream his eye]] which subsequently get replaced by [[EvilHand The Hand of Kwll]] and [[EyepatchOfPower The Eye Of Rhynn]], which allow him to see into other dimensions and call up undead servants from them. He has to give both up in the end, and settles for a man-made silver prosthetic in his second trilogy of adventures.

* Albert Wesker of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' fame was a genius and skilled soldier at first, but it was the injection of [[SuperSerum an experimental virus]] that gave him his super strength, ability to dodge bullets, and overall NighInvulnerability.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'':

* The Dragon Slayers of ''Manga/FairyTail'' were taught by dragons to use their ElementalPowers like a dragon would, but the Second Generation Dragon Slayers such as Laxus, Cobra [[spoiler:and God Serena]] instead have these abilities due to Dragon [[PowerCrystal Lacrima]] implanted into their bodies. ''Manga/FairyTail100YearsQuest'' takes it further by revealing Dragon Lacrima is created from the [[GemHeart processed hearts of Dragons]], with Laxus' in particular belonging to [[spoiler:the Lightning Dragon King Elexion, who happened to be killed by Georg Raizen of Diabolos (who in turn preserved the heart with the intent of selling it off, which is how Laxus' dad Ivan got it) before having his flesh devoured by the Dragon Eater Kirin.]]
* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle''. Albeit, only one party was willing...
* Allen Walker's arm in ''Manga/DGrayMan'', which just keeps getting more badass.
* Clare's new arm in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}''.
** Technically, any transplant Clare gets is a Badass Transplant, since she tends to get the new parts from badasses.
*** Taken to an entirely new level when it's revealed that the transplanted flesh from [[spoiler:Teresa is able to Awaken, allowing Teresa to take control of Clare's body and fight again]].
** All Claymores become Badass due a piece of yoma flesh which is transplanted into their body. The transplant gradually alters their body until they become the half-yoma warriors.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** Scar has his older brother's arm, tattooed with alchemical markings that allow him to destroy anything with a touch. [[spoiler:Said brother transplanted that arm on Scar's ''by himself'', with alchemy, to save a young Scar from bleeding out after having been horribly mutilated by Kimblee in the Ishbalan massacre.]]
** The main character, Edward Elric, wears a prosthetic arm that he can transmute into a wrist-mounted blade.
** And then there's Ling getting [[spoiler:Greed injected into him]].

* {{Inverted|Trope}} with Sesshomaru of ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', who goes through a bunch of replacement arms (including a dragon claw) all which were weaker than his original arm, before giving up on the idea. [[HandicappedBadass He only needs one, anyway]].
** [[spoiler:Then his body regenerates a new arm for him deep into the manga.]]
** Played straight in the movie ''[[Anime/InuyashaTheMovieSwordsOfAnHonorableRuler Swords of an Honorable Ruler]]'' with Takemaru, who grafts Sesshomaru's severed left arm onto his body as part of his partnership with the [[ArtifactOfDoom demonic sword]] Sou'unga.
* Guts of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' replaces the left forearm that he lost during the Eclipse with a metal replacement that can smash opponents senseless and mount a ''repeating crossbow''. As a bonus, it's got a built-in '''cannon'''.
* Hiei from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' and his Jagan eye. It's an inversion, though; his Jagan actually made him weaker, a lot, it did however gave him some new abilities. It eventually becomes a straight example, as Hiei eventually surpasses his original power level even without taking the Jagan into consideration.

* Ai from ''Literature/DragonCrisis''.
* The ''Manga/KamenRiderSpirits'' version of Riderman. Prosthetic arm? Check. Rope Arm (to grab things at a distance; think [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast Link's]] Hookshot)? Check. Power Arm (a giant claw)? Check. Drill Arm (go on, [[ThisIsADrill guess]])? Check. ''Machine Gun'' Arm? Check. The ability to chain them together to break through some nigh-unbreakable armor? Score one for the (nearly-)normal guy.
* Legato's PeoplePuppets ability in the anime of ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' is possible because he has Vash's arm (in the manga, there's another explanation: microscopic wires inserted into peoples' bodies to control their nervous systems).
* Kazuki's powers in ''Manga/BusoRenkin'' stem from the Kakugane he uses as an artificial heart.
* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' a human young man named Ken Kaneki receives multiple organ transplants from the ghoul Rize Kamishiro and starts to develop ghoulish powers.
* During the Dream Tag Arc, Manga/{{Kinnikuman}} tries to save Mongolman from the Hell Missionaries' Cross Bomber attack and gets his arm wrecked. Buffaloman offers his remaining longhorn, and it is remade into a new arm bone from Kinnikuman's skeleton. This grants Kin remarkable punching power from that arm. When it looks like Kin might fall from a cliff, the arm ''punches itself'' into the cliff wall and saves Kin.
* In ''Literature/FateApocrypha'', Saber of Black (Siegfried) transfers his heart and sacrifices his life to a dying homunculus to save him. The reason this doesn't kill the homunculus is because, as an ArtificialHuman, his soul is described as a "blank canvas" that can integrate the heart safely, and in exchange he even gains the ability to transform into Siegfried [[HourOfPower for a limited amount of time]]. [[spoiler:However, it turns out each transformation results in Siegfried's heart slowly overwriting his current existence permanently and shaving at his lifespan, and ultimately it turns him into an [[ScaledUp actual dragon]].]]
* The Garicalege of ''Manga/BlueRamun'' are a group of FantasticTerrorists who traffic in the magically curative blood of the Blue Doctors of the Silkdeep Empire. Multiple high-ranking members of the Garicalege have swapped out their limbs for transplants from wolves, lions, and even dragons in order to make themselves stronger, faster, more powerful, and more lethal in combat.
** Rowan, the leader of the Garicalege, has replaced his left arm with a hulking, clawed transplant from a Fire Dragon.
** Rowan's 2nd in command Tisuodo is able to summon a dragon/snake headed prosthesis [[BladeBelowTheShoulder to replace his missing right arm]].
** An unnamed subordinate is shown with digitigrade legs that enable him to run faster than a normal human.

* The supervillain Prometheus in Franchise/TheDCU could via a compact disc allow a download of the knowledge and physical skills of others directly into his brain; his default disc including the skills of thirty of the world's greatest martial artists.

* ComicBook/LobsterRandom's claws.

* The MacGuffin in ''Film/DOADeadOrAlive'' was a pair of sunglasses that allowed the wearer to use the combined skills of the fighters whose moves were recorded into the device.
* ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'': Carol Danvers received superhuman powers due to a Kree blood transfusion. [[spoiler:Subverted, as her powers came from a [[MetaOrigin Tesseract]]-powered faster-than-light drive exploding in her face, although [[AffablyEvil Yon-Rogg]] ''did'' give Carol some of his blood.]]
* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' has Gazelle with her chop-ready blade heels.
* ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle'' provides a scenario of Charlie Hesketh with his cybernetic arm, nicknamed ''arm-ageddon''.

* Deliberately {{invoked|Trope}} by [[TheDragon Tsavong Lah]] in ''Literature/NewJediOrder''. His people, the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Yuuzhan Vong]], use transplanted limbs all the time, but after Lah's foot gets torn off in a duel, he goes for something special. He kills a Vua'sa (a nearly unkillable predator from his homeworld) with his ''bare hands'' and ''tears off one of its feet'' to replace his own. His subordinates were... impressed, to say the least.
* ''Literature/MachineMan'' has Dr. Charles Neumann, who begins with one, then a pair of powerful [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic legs]] that can not only leap tall buildings InASingleBound, but also kick down reinforced steel doors. His team also designs powerful arms that end up [[spoiler:attached to the Security Guard, Carl]].

* In ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'', this is the Cheiron group's specialty. What do you want? Demonic eyes that can see into the very depths of a man's soul? Trivial. A personal defence swarm of angry magical insects embedded into your arm? Child's play. A rotten human hand that can shoot fire, and hypnotize those that look at it? Why the hell not?
* Most games that allow cybernetics (''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' comes to mind; even ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' or ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' in some settings) will have a player who believes in this, and acts on it.

* Possibly the earliest in the medium: ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'''s arm.
* Gene's God Hand in ''VideoGame/GodHand''.
** Also, Gene's EvilCounterpart, Azel, who possess the other arm of the pair.
** [[spoiler:Then Gene gets ''both'' of them as an EleventhHourSuperpower.]]

* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' has eyes that act as equipment for the Nameless One. He equips them by ripping out his old one and sticking the new one in its socket.
* Ragna's replacement arm in ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', [[spoiler:formed from the corpse of an EldritchAbomination]].
** [[spoiler:And his second transplant. Though not quite to the EldritchAbomination levels of the Azure Grimore, he receives an arm made from whats left of Lambda 11's regeneration tank.]]
** Naoto Kurogane gets his right arm replaced with that made out of the blood of a vampire (twice), which allows him to use his own blood as a weapon.

** Though, (s)he was notably badass, before that.

* ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'': Adam Jensen is much more badass after having his arms replaced with bionic ones, among other things. [[spoiler: Most of them weren't even needed to save his life and were installed for the sole purpose of making him the most badass cyborg created by Sarif Industries.]]
* Albert Wesker of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' fame was a genius and skilled soldier at first, but it was the injection of [[SuperSerum an experimental virus]] that gave him his super strength, ability to dodge bullets, and overall NighInvulnerability.

* MEC Troopers in ''[[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown XCOM: Enemy Within]]'' ''voluntarily'' get their limbs amputated... so they can replace their flesh and blood limbs with ''[[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131106173122/xcom/images/d/dd/XCOM_EW_MECwRailgun.jpg this thing]]''.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel III'', the reason why [[spoiler: Rean has a SuperpoweredEvilSide is because Osborne transplanted his heart to Rean and that he can do it because Osborne's not human.]]
* In ''VideoGame/ShiningResonance'', Ette's MagicalEye is revealed to be [[spoiler:actually in possession of his surviving twin sister Marion, as after Ette's death [[MadScientist Jocahim]] decided to make sure it wouldn't go to waste and [[ColdBloodedTorture forcibly implanted it into Marion]] before brainwashing her into thinking she was Ette to make the integration process easier as his puppet]].
* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', Punished "Venom" Snake gets a prosthetic arm that can do a number of things with different upgrades, including sonar, a taser, and even a rocket punch.
** Before him, Vladimir Zadornov had one just like it in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'', complete with a built-in lighter and the aforementioned rocket punch.
** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', Gray Fox has much of his entire body reconstructed to be faster and stronger, turning him into the iconic Cyborg Ninja. As of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', the same thing happens to Raiden.
** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', Revolver Ocelot replaces the arm that was cut off by the aforementioned Cyborg Ninja in the first game with that of Liquid Snake. Unfortunately for him, all it does is allow Liquid's spirit to possess him from time to time [[spoiler: or, so it seems]].
* Barret from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' (as well as the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake remake]]) lost his arm and had it replaced with an upgradable gun-arm, which is naturally upgraded throughout the game.
* In ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'', [[spoiler:Marco loses an arm to Astaroth. Pandagraph implants one of [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Arco]]’s teeth into the arm before surgically reattaching it, causing Marco to gain some of Arco’s powers.]]
* The characters in ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' are regular humans at their core, and many of them are skilled fighters and hackers in their own right, but most of their badassness comes from their advanced cybernetic implants. Netrunning would be impossible without the required implants, and not even the best Solo could force armored doors with their bare hands or deflect bullets with their natural skin, but the right implants make it possible.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** Kargath Bladefist and the rest of the Shattered Hand orcs in ''Warlords of Draenor'' have had their left hand replaced with a weapon after breaking their original hands off to escape their shackles while in ogre captivity.
** Similarly, Malkorok in ''Mists of Pandaria'' sports a sword for a right hand when he's fought in the Underhold.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'', Link's right arm and the Master Sword it held were terminally corroded by Ganondorf's Gloom moments after the seal on the latter entity failed. The right arm of Rauru, king of the Zonai, thus Fused itself onto Link as a replacement to save his life, and it grants him abilities that differ from the Sheikah Slate from [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild his last adventure]].

* Zachary Foxx from ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' had half his body replaced with experimental cyberware after he was grievously injured in the pilot. Yes, the leg is good for jumping, and the arm has an ArmCannon built in. However, Zachary is ambivalent about the upgrades; they allow him to be back out in the field, where he can attempt rescuing his wife, but he's not so sure how reliable the cyberware is as it's backfired on him a couple times in-series.
* Badgerclops from ''WesternAnimation/MaoMaoHeroesOfPureHeart'' has a robotic right arm that can morph into anything he needs, be it a laser cannon, buzzsaw, hammer, breadknife, spatula, vacuum, [=MP3=] player, audio diary, videophone, drink dispenser, you get the idea.