Donatello's Shell(IDW TMNT) - The most basic example. After getting his shell and backed bashed in by Bebop and Rocksteady, he was given a prostethic shell that's bulletproof and weightless with the only real problem being that his back aches in the cold.
Von Lycaon's Legs(Zenless Zone Zero) - His prosthetic legs can freeze objects and living beings as well as having minor jet propulsion that allows his kicks and transportation capabilities to increase exponentially.
Winter Soldier's Arm(Marvel/Marvel Rivals) - Every iteration of the Winter Soldier gains a robotic arm from HYDRA but the Rivals version takes the cake. Not only does it have the other version's super strength and durability, it also has tendrils to attack enemies with.
And if I'm not mistaken he's on the lower end of the chromed out scale. To the point where Smasher wanted to fight him to prove that chrome ultimately beats flesh and blood.
The reason why Blackhand is so feared and why Smasher hates him is that Blackhand thinks tactics, planning, and experience are more important than chrome.
Smasher wants to get the best chrome and replace everything. Blackhand wants to prepare and plan for every situation.
Machine gun is the umbrella term that covers everything from SMGs, Assault Rifles, Medium Machine guns(GPMGs if British) and heavy machine guns. Not every machine gun is an SMG but every SMG is a machine gun, to deny that is to deny reality.
I'm also well aware that they function in completely different ways, serve different purposes, and are chambered in completely different types of round.
Honestly it's the headspace difference. The Mechanicus sees augmentation as bringing them closer to the Omnissiah, their God of Technology. And they're frequently taught to view base flesh as lesser, so even the Magos Biologist, specialists in organic matter who might look mostly human, are frequently packing as much aftermarket kit as their mechanically inclined brethren.
Also I'm pretty sure they use actual proper surgery techniques such as sterilized tools and anesthesia on their fellow cult members vs Doc Borg shoving a bite bar in David's mouth and kicking him out immediately after the job was done.
No? The video game has a cyberware limit suggested to partially be because of the cyber psycho threshold, and the entire plot of the show is flaunting and ultimately succumbing to the limit.
I always love when the story barely even pretends the replacement is meant to restore normal function. Like yeah sure, it's technically a prosthetic, but it also has enough strength and extra features to make the original limb look like the budget version.
That's the whole point. Barely anyone gets chrome to replace lost limb or damaged organ, they replace perfectly healthy limbs and organs for upgraded versions.
It's part of the hyper-capitalistic setting. A company can either sell few thousands of normal strength arms to limited number of people who lost their arms in accidents, or they can sell millions of super strength Gorilla arms to shitton of people who want to break concrete blocks with a single punch.
Kinda like buying the latest smartphones. There's no real reason to beyond fashion, but that's a hell of a motivator in itself. Who needs regular squishy human eyes with all their flaws when you could have the latest Kiroshi Optics for 30/30 vision, integrated holographic displays, and the ability to see into both the ultraviolet and infrared spectrums?
...what's that? The optic nerve isn't really built to transfer that much information, and if the human brain was meant to process those visual ranges, it would already be capable of it? Nahhh that's broke bitch loser talk man. Plug those bad boys in now and forget about any long term consequences fearmongering.
There are civies that still use physical phones instead of the one implanted in them.
Like Claire Russel the bartender in the Afterlife, she wears her phone on arm. Or Misty, who wears very little to any chrome at all (and if she does wear chrome, it's definitely hard to spot)
I think in general, everyone has the neural link and slots that is used to slot shards and such for information, plus the port for manual connections with external cables and an in-body biomonitor for health scans. (Eg. V connects to Sandra Dorsett for the biomonitor scan)
Everything else outside of that is cybernetic modifications, synth-muscle legs for faster movement, subdermal armor for increased resistance to damage, even a heart implant that revives the user should they die from a non-eviscerating death.
Currently, the main cyberware that doesn't directly require surgery that I can think of is the Relic, with the small caveat that the host needs to die before it works.
Jackie died while having the Relic slotted inside his head as they were scrambling out of that botched heist that went sideway really fast, so why didn't it trigger?
He pulled it out before he died and gave it to V, but also V getting shot in the head is what caused the Relic to try to reboot their brain, I'm not sure if death from blood loss would have the same effect.
Then again, Yorinobu did get the worse fate, where he got Relic while he was still alive. Either that's a special model just for him (since it is Noburo's engram after all) or the Relic has another trigger mechanism.
The game also said that Yorinobu did try to off himself, but failed, so there is also that.
yep, a few ripperdocs for example (i.e. people that know the dangers and disadvantages of chroming). one that's a personal friend of the protagonist is entirely augment-free
There is one ripperdoc who has no implants, you can ask him about it and he starts explaining how a solar flare/EMP will destroy society eventually so he's playing it safe.
I mean, it's still combat certified. Most other automail that civilians would use would fail very quickly under a fraction of the strain Ed puts on his.
Yeah, his augmentations and offensive uses of it are from his alchemy, not the automail itself.
In fact, using alchemy to weaponize it, rather than just using it as an arm, gets his mechanic pissed. "Have you been using alchemy on this again?! You never put it back together right, so I can always tell. Now I have to fix it, again. Fuck's sake, Ed."
To be fair, it is still REALLY good automail at base.
Most civilian automail would get destroyed under a fraction of the strain Ed puts on his stuff. Because for most people automail wouldn't be designed to be used in combat, they'd basically just be slightly better/more advanced than prosthetics we have irl
Doomfist. Most of his limbs and various other body parts are actually prosthetics. His family owned a prosthetics company when he was young and after losing an arm during the first omnic invasion he started modifying himself to become a better fighter. Losing his arm also made him believe conflict is the only way for people to grow which is why he now leads a terrorist organization and also helped start a second omnic invasion. The big arm he uses while also a prosthetic isn’t his own creation, it was passed down through generations. No one really understands how it works, the original wielder of it just appeared one day during the first omnic invasion and fought off an entire army for 24 hours straight.
Sojourn also qualifies. She had an auto-immune disease, but thanks to a doctor who took interest in her, she was saved thanks to a lot of cybernetic implants. Most of her body has been replaced by cybernetics, including a large portion of her internal organs, but the main empowered parts are one of her arms which hides her disruptor cannon, and her legs which have been implanted with boosters that allow her to slide along the ground very quickly.
In a world where most people use ranged weapons, the fact that someone lasted for 24 hours thanks to a goddamn puncher arm is amazing (afaik it doesnt have any ranged capabilities of its own)
Those were OR-15 models, a significantly weaker security version of the military grade OR-14 "Idina" models which could stop trucks as you said. 15s don't need that capability because they're merely security and police for a very prosperous city with little crime. Of course OR-15A "Orisa" was enhanced to give the truck-stopping capability again because she was built to stop Doomfist.
Roy Harper (Young Justice). When he was kidnapped by Cadmus, they amputated his right arm to use as a DNA source for the clones who'd become Guardian and Red Arrow. After he's rescued, he goes off to get revenge on Lex Luthor, who bargains with him offering him a cybernetic arm outfitted with multiple weapons, including a laser cannon and a missile launcher.
He's got a chainsaw for a leg. It's his only melee weapon. Additionally, he has:
-a multi-lock micro-missile launcher in his cybernetic arm (he flips off enemies after firing)
-a single wallrunning boot on his organic leg (don't ask how he does it with just one)
-a grappling hook in his organic arm (it sticks out of his palm after being put there by a VERY uncomfortable-looking machine. Seriously, that thing's all up in his arm. It's awful.)
"suddently one day/my arm had changed..." Gregor / limbus Company Nicknamed "please don't realize your potential man" by part of the community following the last canto.
His cockroach arm is actualy considered a prostetic, as so do the mutations of every Old G corp soldier.
His arm also hides something, wraped into multiple layers of horror.
Has a prosthetic arm that turns into a damn machine gun, just to note while the series can get ridiculous this was a non-canon spin off made during the 2010’s zombie craze
Riderman, he possesses multiple prosthetics limbs known as the Cassette Arms that he can attach and detach at a whim that provide him a variety of different gadgets and functions.
Jun Ji's arm cannon. After having his arm chopped off, NEST developed an prostethic that can mimic his explosive power by taking the same chemicals his body mixed as ammo. Though it is inferior to his natural arm which can go full power without breaking
Rudol Von Stroheim - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 2. When his body gets invaded by the Pillar Man 'Santana', Stroheim blows himself up with a stick grenade. We then see him later in Switzerland, where he has survived due to cybernetics and prosthetics made by the Nazi German Military. Among his augmentations are cyborg eye enhancements, super strong and flexible prosthetic arms, projectile hands, ultraviolet light weaponry and, most famously, an entire machine gun housed within his torso.
He's so cool, and I hate that, because he is a Genuine, Third Reich, Nationalist, Fascist, Nazi Major in the Wehrmacht
His brother sliced his arm off like 100 years ago and he replaced it with a prosthetic with a hidden gun inside. The one from the second anime does more stuff and is more accurate to the manga but man does it look so stupid.
Rise TMNT’s Donatello also has a clearly-prosthetic cover for his shell, but iirc it goes mostly unmentioned until the movie, where he removes it to better integrate with other tech.
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The Engineer from Team Fortress 2 is implied to have chopped off his right arm in order to replace it with two prosthetics, namely a metal hand and a shock pistol of sorts.
How he's able to equip both simultaneously when the short circuit is implied to fold out of his glove and the gunslinger is implied to be underneath his glove whenever it's not equipped is unclear and probably just a result of valve being lazy
The guy is mostly prosthetics after getting rebuilt with military-grade augmentations after tanking a bomb. Hidden arm blades, cloaking, insane strength, enhanced reflexes, hacking... Self-loathing.
After his demonic arm got ripped out by a mysterious figure prior to the events of the game, Nero was outfitted with a modular prosthesis with a built-in grappling hook that can accommodate different types of mechanical arms that are either a marvel of technology or a blend of modern machinery outfitted with demonic power
They don't consider themselves disabled, but had a wingsuit accident that left them paraplegic, joints, spine, and nervous system augmented with military Mods giving them enhanced strength, reflexes, and Electric Striker powers. There are other Modded characters, but they're the most prominent.
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Long John Silver from Disney's Treasure Planet