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Basic Trope: Prosthetic body parts start working immediately after being put into the body.

  • Straight: Alice loses her arm in a battle. She gets a prosthetic arm, and she can use it just fine soon after it's attached.
  • Exaggerated: Alice loses almost her entire body in an accident and is essentially converted into a robot. She requires no rehabilitation whatsoever.
  • Downplayed: Alice struggles a bit with her new arm, but it works as intended fairly quickly.
  • Justified: The prosthetics are of sufficiently advanced medical technology that adjust easily to the user.
  • Inverted: Alice gets a new prosthetic arm, and it immediately goes haywire and doesn't work again.
  • Subverted:
    • Alice seems to be adjusting to her new prosthetic well, but then the arm suddenly starts choking someone.
    • Alice's previous left arm was a prosthetic of the same build. What's the difference?
  • Double Subverted:
    • It starts working again normally after that little mishap, though.
    • It turns out that Alice did mean to choke that person, so the arm is working as expected.
  • Parodied: Alice’s missing arm is replaced with a claw grabber toy. She can immediately control it with ease.
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Alice takes a realistic amount of time to get used to her prosthetic arm.
  • Enforced: Actually having Alice get used to her prosthetic would take up a lot of time and impede on the plot.
  • Lampshaded: "Wow! You got used to your prosthetic arm, like, instantly!"
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: Alice’s friends expect her to get used to her new prosthetic arm quickly, but she claims that it doesn’t work that way, and struggles to use it properly.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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