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Briarios, a cyborg the size of a small car, tends to be calmer and more collected than his unaugmented partner Deunan. Artifically regulated hormones might be one factor, but he was the much calmer partner of the duo even long before he became a cyborg. However, he does worry that his increasing degree of mechanization puts a strain on their relationship. But the manga strongly implies that Deunan does not mind.
As given away right in the international title , Ghost in the Shell treats the Self as clearly separate from the body, which is merely a Shell. To the series' own definition, a "ghost" is a person's soul converted into digital data as a result of cyberization. At this point, it can technically be stolen away from you if a hacker is powerful enough to do so. The movies much less so the original manga deal a lot more with the related issue of how much particularly military cyborgs become increasingly removed from everyday life and even ordinary people and living almost in a separate world.
It usually falls to Togusa, who is the only Normal with any family, to remind the other cyborgs that their police work ultimately is supposed to protect the ordinary people of the country. There's also the question, if a Ghost actually needs to inhabit a Shell at all. A question that Motoko Kusanagi and the Puppeteer both proved to be true in the manga. Motoko achieved a form of transcendence in which she didn't need her body to exist anymore.
She managed to exist in the internet and other realms far beyond the limits of human imagination or understanding. Her body still existed in the physical plane, but she didn't need it to be consciously active. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex lightly touched on this concept at the end of 2nd Gig, but it didn't go nearly as "deep" into the whole concept as the Man-Machine Interface manga did.
Ultimately though, this trope is averted, as the great majority of the human race have cyberized themselves even Togusa because it has become the norm for human interaction. There are some minority affiliations like the Human Liberation Front who believe that this trope is what will happen when you do become cyberized, and these people still prefer to remain completely natural, but humanity as a whole has not changed very much as a result of everyone now being connected to the internet.
Almost all religions, especially the major ones, actually embrace the idea because it allows their followers to unify together. This is touched upon in the first season when the Major says that, basically, she doesn't really have a body.
Her view of her own body is that it's a shell, a replaceable object, and she admits to having a hard time reconciling with that. In the movie, this is treated a bit more grimly: she says that her being full cyborg save for some "real brain matter in that titanium skull of hers" makes her wonder if she's not 'real', but just a poor copy made up by cybernetics, who doesn't really have a Self at all.
Gintama : Prof. Hayashi is willing to do pretty much anything for his dying daughter, including making talking toys, immortalizing her by converting her personality into data and transplanting it into a robot and converting his own personality into data and transplanting it into a robot in order to cope with the pain of finally seeing her die. Unfortunately, the robot housing the professor's soul swallows it completely and turns into a cold murder machine. The professor gets to die as himself at the end though.
Bubblegum Crisis calls this "Boomer Syndrome", comparing it to the eponymous androids that occasionally go on rampages when their brains roll snake-eyes. Ultimately, it's inverted: Boomers go crazy because of the influence of their Super Prototype , whose brain structure was based on a real human, making this a case of cybernetics being eaten by a soul.
Dragon Ball Z : Androids 17 and 18 are human teenagers who were kidnapped by Dr. Gero and turned into cyborgs. According to Future 17, their Dr. Gero programmed them to be completely remorseless and cruel. The OVA Eight Man After discards this trope in favor of Drugs Are Bad - it's not the cybernetics per se that drives the users crazy, but the massive quantities of Psycho Serum they have to take to use the implants effectively.
Eight Man makes do with good-old Super Serum. Galaxy Express takes this all the way. Like, literally to the end of the line. In a sense they become mentally sick from "overliving" the way one might become physically sick from overeating.
Both played straight and averted in Macross Frontier. The Big Bad and her Dragon are both cyborgs. Though the latter is briefly interrupted by said Dragon being Brainwashed and Crazy , he shakes it off in the Grand Finale and even rejects the Big Bad 's Assimilation Plot on the basis of human emotion. Somewhat played straight, too, since he constantly worries about the possibility of losing his humanity as time passes or about people seeing him as a monster , and at least two episode "Tears of Steel" and "Man or Machine?
And there's also , the main enemy in "Tears of Steel", who plays the trope straight by being at first a Tragic Monster who only wanted to have his family back, but later was Brainwashed and Crazy and lost all of his remaining humanity. Made especially apparent by the robots in Robo Assyl where not only have they been taught by Ping to be human, but also to lie cheat and gamble along with their own religion.
Even greater is the Anomoly team which are composed entire of nanomachines Even complete with a robot penis. Hell created by grafting cybernetic implants in the brain of corpses many of which he, his Co-Dragons or his Humongous Mecha had murdered. Not only they are not allowed rest in peace but they have been mindwiped and programmed to be mindless slaves. One of them even gloated to Kouji Kabuto that he was glad to no longer be worried about pesky things like thinking, hesitating, worrying or fearing death, making him a perfect soldier.
Of course, Kouji was not impressed: Kouji : "You idiot, such a thing wouldn't even be human! Comic Books. It wasn't until he was rejected by his wife and wandered around space for a while that he became a hardcore villain and even more hardcore Death Seeker.
So, this is more a case of his soul eating cybernetics. He eventually found himself in a clique with the Anti-Monitor and Superboy Prime , both of whom had every intention of destroying everything that existed, including him. It didn't stick, much to his regret. The Guardians of the Universe got tired of the little issues that kept popping up with the Green Lantern Corps, and decided to "improve" upon them by inventing the Alpha Lanterns, elite volunteers converted into cyborgs via Manhunter tech.
The big problem was that the connection to the Book of Oa the conversion hardwired into the volunteers turned them into puppets. The Guardians were so happy they could get what they thought was a Lantern's flexibility with a Manhunter's zeal blinded them to the fact they were less than either due to their willpower being deadened by the programming. And that was before they were shown, forcefully , that they weren't the only ones who could control said puppets Then it got worse when Henshaw above found about the Alphas.
He was tired of living, and realized the conversion process was similar to his own experience. So he decided to study them, commencing mass production to study the process, in hopes of eventually reversing his own state back to normal human. The Alphas are nothing compared to the Third Army, who take this tropes to apocalyptic extremes. Imagine the Alpha Lanterns, but turn them into horrifying, zombielike beings that exist only to kill or assimilate anything that feels emotion.
And the worst part? The Guardians made them, intending for them to replace the Green Lantern Corps wholesale. All-Star Squadron 's Robotman, who in the main series struggles with maintaining his humanity while being a brain placed inside a robotic body, eventually loses his humanity after the war ended in JSA: The Golden Age.
In mainstream DC continuity, his brain was planted into the preserved body of his associate Chuck Grayson years later, making him human again. The Doom Patrol 's Robotman is a different person with similar issues, who once checks himself into a mental hospital as a result.
Despite this, he is often the sanest and most level-headed member of the team. At the team is a Dysfunction Junction , that isn't very difficult. The "Big Wheel" issue of Global Frequency had a half-dead soldier who'd been basically turned into a walking killing machine by cybernetic alterations. Then he saw his reflection and decided to live up to the role. And one of the members of the team sent to kill him before he could spread his killing spree was a partial cyborg who emphasized to her teammates the Body Horror inherent even in just the grinding, inhuman feel of an artificial arm and the anchoring necessary to keep it from ripping off her shoulder.
The arm disgusts her — she looks in the mirror every day and vomits because of that thing. The Government , being Too Dumb to Live , they provide all the Required Secondary Powers to keep their Super Soldiers alive, but they don't give a damn about keeping them sane.
Their "enhancile" can't even speak normally. And He Must Scream. Member : Try to imagine. You're a multiple amputee who's been flayed alive. You can't feel your own heartbeat. You can't feel yourself breathe. You can feel metal rubbing against your muscles and organs. And you don't recognize the man in the mirror. Comic Strips. Parodied in FoxTrot. Jason sees getting braces as the first step in this direction.
Naturally, he's all for it. In The Butcher Bird , one of the Augment types developed by Grigori Vinci , the Cogs, is implied to do this, as virtually all of the Cogs implanted cease to speak understandable language and have a tendency to be blindingly obsessed with technology, regardless of their previous circumstances.
The Homestuck fanfic Tenth Life , where one of the characters has a robot body made for her after her death, but the cybernetic body robs her of all imagination and creativity. Her friends eventually decide to just end her life. In the Service , building on the Lyrical Nanoha example above, posits that cybernetic enhancement is neither necessarily good nor evil: it reinforces existing traits. Mentally healthy people converted to cyborgs will withstand huge amounts of emotional trauma and stress without ill effect.
People who are not mentally healthy He is Cadance's brother, and literally only evil because of his high-tech suit, which brainwashed him, while he had used it before to stop some evil aliens. A major theme in Left Beyond , in which Metabolic Extension Controllers are used to literally keep people's souls out of Hell temporarily, by reactivating their bodies and forcibly keeping them running after God decrees their death This in turn damages mildly to severely their sense of passion, creativity, and empathy.
Beljar invokes this trope in The End of Ends , when he takes over, since the condition for the Dark Prognosticus is to have an empty heart. While that itself is jarring, what pushes him over the edge to cruelty is feeling betrayed by Mega Man.
In The Bridge , a large part of Gigan's character is him being a cyborg but he is a firm aversion. He has a definite personality, a strong Villainous Friendship with a team, and doesn't angst about cybernetics he sees as upgrades. His Readings Blew Up the Scale moment where he exceeds his machinery's limits is explicitly stated to be his soul fueling a Heroic Resolve. A video diary on his spaceship reveals to the Titans he was originally a mild-mannered professor named Vril Dox, and Brainiac was the A.
Unfortunately, Brainiac overwhelmed Dox once they were more machine than man, resulting in the sociopathic Planet Looter. Despite hints that Dox's personality is buried somewhere inside Brainiac, whatever's left is completely powerless. While the rest of the girls were chilled after starting to understand how their new abilities works, Melanie starts to become depressed as a result.
Celestial Paragons and Archangels helps her out. Done in a literal sense in Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls with the Espada Grogar, whose Resurreccion has been augumented by his experiments to incorporate reishi-constructed cybernetics, effectively making him a ghost-goat-man-cyborg. Captain Celestia feels a sense of disgust and pity at what he's literally mutilated his own soul into for power.
Granted, this is more to show the depths of depravity he would sink to; it's made clear from his appearances before the reveal of his Resurreccion he was rotten long before he started "upgrading" himself to surpass his natural limits. In Spider-Man 2 , Dr. Otto Octavius programs limited artificial intelligence into his trademark robotic tentacles in order for them to be able to work together more efficiently, and installs a Restraining Bolt to make sure he could control the arms, but not vice versa.
He is driven to madness by feedback "voices" from the arms after a lab accident destroys the chip, and becomes obsessed with finishing his failed experiment at any cost. He was able to overcome his programming and have a normal life. The villain, Andrew Scott, didn't, but he was pretty screwed up to begin with.
In the latter's case, it's also subverted: when Luc visits the scientist who was involved in the original project before he resigned, the scientist points out that the bad guy still thinks he's in Vietnam. However, by the end Scott seems to have realized that the war is long over, and is only continuing to pursue Deveraux to destroy his life and kill his family out of spite.
When S. Despite being grateful, Maggie tells Deveraux to take Hilary and blow up the building with herself and the remaining Uni Sols inside , as the implant cannot be removed from her brain and that she refuses to spend the rest of her life as a killing machine.
Bidding farewell to Maggie as he considered her a close friend who risked her life protecting Hilary , Luc reluctantly obliges to her wishes, and Maggie accepts her fate perishing in the explosion , taking the remaining Uni Sols with her in revenge for her horrible fate. In Kamen Rider: The First , it is explained that all Shocker agents must undergo periodic blood transfusions to stop their bodies from rejecting their cybernetic implants, forcing their loyalty to the organization.
RoboCop : Downplayed in the movies. While limited by his programming, Murphy remains a man inside. It does take a while for his old personality to re-emerge; initially he is every bit the compliant, robotic cop the OCP execs intended him to be. In RoboCop 2 , the prototype RoboCops immediately commit murder, then suicide, within seconds of their debut.
The final product, the psychopathic RoboCop 2 was a scumbag drug lord even before his conversion and after becoming a cyborg, goes completely Ax-Crazy. It probably didn't help these evil Robocops that none of their cybernetic bodies had anything resembling a human face or any resemblance to a human body.
While, at first, he does exactly what he's programmed to do, his original personality later re-asserts itself, and he performs a Heroic Sacrifice , while preventing Murphy from doing the same. In RoboCop , Omnicorp attempts to suppress Murphy's humanity, but he was eventually able to overcome this.
He even manages to overcome the film's equivalent of the original films' fourth prime directive. In an episode of Star Wars: Clone Wars , in a sequence reminiscent of Luke's Episode V experience in the cave, Anakin has a vision in which a warrior loses his arm in battle, and replaces it with a mysterious shiny, black one with great power.
At first he is able to defend his home and friends with the power of the arm, but soon it reaches out and kills a bunch of stuff without him meaning to, eventually including his wife. The parallel to the loss of his own hand is clear, and it certainly tracks to his own tragic fate and reliance on the power of the Force to protect the ones he loves. Downplayed with Lobot, Lando Calrissian's aide. He may seem rather soulless in the movie the fate of many Star Wars extras , but he retains a great deal of his humanity and actually became a more upstanding and noble person after the augmentation.
However, a malfunction with his implant can cause him to lose the rest of his humanity and go berserk. Inverted by Luke Skywalker at the end of Return of the Jedi , where staring at his cybernetic hand points out all too clearly what he would have become if he finished off Vader. Cybernetics saved his soul. Played straight with General Grievous. He has a Freudian Excuse like Vader, minus any redeemable qualities.
It should also be noted that unlike Vader, Grievous voluntarily turned himself into a cyborg or so he claims; as it's implied that he's deluding himself just so he could be better at killing Jedi. Ironically, a Force entity implies to him in Star Wars Age Of Republic that his augmentations crippled his potential connection to The Force and that he'll never be able to match the Jedi because of it.
Averted with Queen Breha Organa, who explicitly refused to disguise her mechanized organ replacements. As a child, her daughter compared them to a bouquet of glowing flowers in her chest. Inverted in Repo Men , in that Remy only becomes conscious of the horror of his profession after his real heart is replaced by an artiforg one. Iron Man : Inverted by Tony Stark. When he's completely flesh and blood, he's an arrogant playboy genius with no consideration for the consequences of his work.
It's not until he has to place the miniature arc reactor in his chest that his more noble nature emerges. It's how he is still alive at such an unnatural age! His victims are implied to be his evil, deadly, mindless slaves and are possibly insane. It's even posited that, though Will's personality may be entirely intact, he's simply grown so far beyond humanity that the difference is academic.
Too bad they were totally wrong. In Nemesis the voiceover narration mentions that the main character Alex Rain worries cybernetic augmentation and replacements are making him less human.
It is perhaps telling that he apparently keeps track of how much of his body is original down to tenth of a percent. Neuromancer : A possible example, but heavily downplayed at best: Case doesn't have any cybernetics, but being online all the time gave him a deep contempt for his "meat" body and when he was cut off from cyberspace he became a ruthless drug dealer and user. The thing is, he seems to have developed a deep-seated self-loathing very early on in his life. Molly Millions is an aversion.
It's not the implants themselves that created some of her backstory trauma but what she had to do to afford them Surprisingly perhaps , Peter Riviera is also an aversion. He seems to have been a manipulative sociopath all his life, with his cyberware just giving him particularly fun ways to express it.
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