Oddball
Would Mr. Robert House from Fallout New Vegas count? He is immobile in his metal life-support coffin, but from it controls a sprawling computer system and a large number of robot securitrons.
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Sorcerer in training
"Robotman from Doom Patrol. Cliff often wished that The Chief hadn't "saved" his life after his fateful car crash."
"Alex Murphy, aka Robo Cop."
I thought Robotman was a brain in a robot-jar, not a man in the machine like in the trope description. And Robo Cop was much the same. Do they still count as examples anyway?
Edited by Candi Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Missing example: Josef Virek in the Sprawl Trilogy is a very good example of this. He is kept alive in a vat, hooked up to extensive life support. But he never appears in person, and so is not easily remembered, I guess.
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Go ahead and add it, then. Nothing wrog with something being obscure.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Needs Help
, started by PomoSapiens on Apr 30th 2012 at 10:00:13 PM
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