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Working for a Body Upgrade
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Sometimes a minion doesn't want money from the Mad Scientist or Evil Sorcerer they call "Boss". Rather, they want to become the subject of the employer's transformation techniques. Perhaps the employee is disabled or ill, and wants to be strong and fit. Possibly they're wanted by the law or by deadly enemies, and need a new face to escape pursuers (or enough power to fight back). Could be that the employer's exclusive brand of augmentation is superior to anything a cyborg-wannabe could acquire elsewhere. Possibly the minion is in the market for a Gender Bender in a world without sex-change operations. Or maybe they're just butt-ugly and want to be a Chick Magnet. Whatever the motive, the result is that they hire on with someone who can offer (or at least claims to offer) a chance to acquire the body of their dreams. Not exclusive to villainous employers, but good examples aren't often seen, probably due to audiences' expectations of Transhuman Treachery by anyone so altered. A common motivation for The Igor or the Vampire Vannabe. Generally this leads to You Have Outlived Your Usefulness and Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves as often as it does to the promised upgrade. Compare Indentured Servitude and Saved by the Phlebotinum. For the more mundane version, see Signed Up for the Dental. Any Real Life examples should go there as well. |
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One of the ways to live past puberty in Left Beyond is to sign up with the Omega AI, who will turn you into a cyborg and let you live a mostly normal life until it's time to deploy for a terror mission. The main other way is to declare your allegiance to the tyrannical God of the setting. | |
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Prince Raffendorf from SnarfQuest parted company with Snarf when he opted to work for Geezel and Etheah for a year, in exchange for them transforming him from a giant humanoid rat back into a human. | |
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Cassian from Count Cain works for Delilah because he never physically grew past eight or so, and their Mad Science experiments are the best hope he has going for finally getting an adult body. Doctor Disraeli, his superior in the organization, does eventually transplant his brain into an adult body, but no thanks to Delilah except in that it introduced them. | |
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In Star Trek: Enterprise, members of the Suliban Cabal receive genetic enhancements as payment for completing missions. Normal Suliban cannot shapeshift, cling to the ceiling, see into an extended spectrum, or squish themselves under doors, while most of the members of the Cabal can. | |
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In Hollow Fields, the teachers of the eponymous school are working so they can have new bodies. | |
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In Lonely Werewolf Girl, the Big Bad, Sarapen, has a servant called Madrigal who has been promised a werewolf upgrade if he serves Sarapen well enough. Sadly, since werewolves in this verse are born, not made, all he does is outlive his usefulness. | |
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Komodo from Avengers: The Initiative figured out how to create a version of Curt Connor's Lizard serum that didn't give her a split personality. She is conscripted into the Initiative on the threat of being deprived of the serum. This is especially distressing to her because she's a paraplegic without it (being in Lizard form regenerates her legs). | |
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In Fringe, the writing machine storekeeper does this, in exchange for a cure to his legs' paralysis. The paraplegic subjects of the floating experiments likewise agree to steal rare metals to support the researcher's work, which grants them mobility. | |
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On Gotham, once Butch regains his memories and ceases to be Solomon Grundy, he reluctantly agrees to be muscle for Penguin in return for Cobblepot's help in finding Hugo Strange, whom he hopes can make him a normal human again. It works, but Oswald shoots Butch dead immediately after he's restored, to make Tabitha suffer the same grief Penguin felt when she murdered his mom. | |
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In The Revenge of Frankenstein, the hunchback Karl helps Dr. Frankenstein escape the guillotine and acts as The Igor for him in exchange for having his brain transplanted into a normal (and handsome) body constructed for him by the doctor. | |
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In The Year of Rogue Dragons, most of Sammaster's dragon minions work for the promise of being made into dracoliches, which would make them super-powerful and also immune to the Rage. | |
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In the first season of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, the brain-like alien Krang has made a deal with Shredder, wherein Krang provides Shredder with a lot of weapons, while Shredder must give Krang a new body to replace the one he lost. Shredder is more busy dealing with the Turtles, but eventually builds Krang the desired robotic body. (The turtles are able to defeat that as well, but Krang uses it in many later episodes of the series.) | |
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In Years and Years, Bethany takes a job in the civil service solely for this, as she is interested in becoming transhuman. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: In the manga, the Amestrian military assists Father with his conspiracy, motivated by the promise that he'll make them immortal once his Evil Plan is carried out. Of course, Father neglected to tell them that their immortality would involve them all being transmuted into a Philosopher's Stone, their souls still conscious and tormented for all eternity. In the 2003 anime version, the homunculi work for Dante because they were promised human bodies. |
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This is the motivation for becoming a familiar in What We Do in the Shadows (2019) - serve them faithfully, and they will turn you into a vampire. If they remember, or are properly motivated, before you die of old age, that is. It's implied this is a fairly uncommon event, because most vampires are jerks. | |
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The Dresden Files: In Changes, Harry agrees to become Queen Mab's Winter Knight in exchange for having his broken back repaired, so he can rescue his daughter from the Red Court. Notably, if he ever tries to go against Mab's word or laws, his broken back will return until he stops or corrects his course. He's already got the body, but he's never going to not be working for it. It takes him a while to remember that Mab loves only the letter of the law, and he is free to subvert everything if he can figure out how to do it. | |
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In Iron Man 3, the Vice-President seems to be working like this on his young daughter's behalf, as she is disabled and Extremis's tests on amputee veterans show it has at least the raw potential to regenerate healthy limbs. | |
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A two-way example in The Transformers: In "Ghost in the Machine", the disembodied Starstream bargains with Unicron's head in exchange for having his original body restored. Unicron demands new eyes and a new body (Cybertron) for himself. Starscream tricks Unicron into giving his early and just runs off with his shiny new body. | |
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In Use of Weapons, the anti-hero mercenary Cheradenine Zakalwe does jobs for the Culture in exchange for payments which generally include both cash and body upgrades/rejuvenation treatments. In the novel's coda, Zakalwe's Handler recruits a soldier (ambiguously framed as his "replacement") who lost both of his legs in combat, and the implication is that his employment with the Culture will include new legs. | |
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In The Man Who Changed His Mind, Clayton works as The Igor to Dr. Laurience in exchange for having his mind swapped from his wheelchair-bound form into a young healthy body one Laurience succeeds. | |
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Inversions are common, too. In Killer Instinct, Sabrewulf enters the tournament in hopes of finding a cure for his lycanthropy so that he can become human again. | |
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In Speed Grapher, Suitengu transforms several people into Euphorics, and in some cases it's indicated or implied that, in exchange for the transformation, they would do him a favor by serving as minions whenever called upon. | |
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In Dracula vs. Frankenstein, The mute, simple-minded assistant Groton, and the Depraved Dwarf Grazbo, are both working for Dr. Durea in the hopes that the serum he is developing will cure their conditions. | |
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In Starcraft II Legacy Of The Void, the Tal'darim faction of the Protoss worship and serve the Big Bad because he promised to turn them into Hybrids. The Tal'darim Alarak is very pissed off when he realizes the promised Ascension is a lie since Amon plans to simply wipe out the Tal'darim once he no longer needs them and joins Artanis' forces so he can help bring down his former god. | |
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In S.S.D.D. Robert had an eye condition that would have rendered him blind by thirty, and fixing it would have cost his college fund. But the CORE would give him brand new eyes for free if he enlisted. They also claimed they would give him natural-looking eyes, instead of the jet-black ones they gave him that scare children, by the time his term was up, but they never followed through on that little detail. | |
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Johnny Mnemonic: The street preacher accepts contract killing offers in exchange for money so he can afford to replace his organic body parts with cybernetic ones. Inverted, while Johnny's motivations are established in the opening scenes. Johnny signs on for the courier assignment in Beijing because he needs the money to have his own brain implant removed. |
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In every version of Ghost in the Shell, the Major states that access to the very expensive state of the art cybernetics is one of her job's perks she enjoys the most. In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, the barman the team occasionally bribe to leak information for them sells them out because he's desperate for money to pay off what he owes on his cybernetic body (although he's willing to leak the information they slipped to him anyway). | |
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In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Wonder Man works for the villains because without the Enchantress' magic, he would have dissolved, and he's promised that his loyalty will be rewarded by making him human again. | |
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Neuromancer: Case agrees to work for Armitage in return for having the nerve damage that prevents him from accessing cyberspace corrected. Once he gets the fixes he needs, he gets press-ganged into continuing to work for Armitage in order to get the antidote for the poison sacs bonded to his rebuilt organs. Molly once worked as a prostitute in order to get enough money for her finger blades, ocular implants, boosted reflexes, and her other cybernetics. However, her "razorgirl" mods started interfering with the implant that put her in a sleepwalking-like state while working and she started to remember her sessions, in particular being forced to do snuff scenes, eventually the implant failed entirely and she killed her pimp. |
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In Batman Beyond, Inque — a sort of liquid shapeshifter — is released and assisted by the man who was supposed to be guarding her. In return he wants to be turned into a being like her. Inque not being the world's most trustworthy person, she agrees... but only gives him half the treatment, turning him into a formless blob with no ability to move. | |
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In Altered Carbon, Bancroft hires a married couple to fight to the death for his amusement, promising a sleeve upgrade for the winner and a downgrade for the loser. When Kovacs interferes Bancroft shoves him into the arena and changes the terms to upgrades for both if they kill him. They fail, but Kovacs gives them his "winnings". | |
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Seemingly most of the Imperfects in Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects, as their patron gives all of them some kind of bio-enhancement. | |
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In Baten Kaitos Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean main character Kalas has been working with the Big Bad from the very beginning so that he can use the power of Malpercio sealed within the End Magnus to give himself a second wing. | |
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In Mass Effect 2, it is stated that the heretic geth are working for the Reapers because they were promised a Reaper body as a collective platform. Shepard themself works with the Illusive Man, among other reasons, because he was responsible for Shepard coming Back from the Dead through cybernetic augmentation, and even made a point of avoiding adding a Restraining Bolt even though he could. |
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Many splicers in BioShock work for Andrew Ryan or Frank Fontaine in exchange for ADAM that will allow their continued genetic modification. | |
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In Keychain of Creation, an alchemical exalt had taken control of a town and this is now the common goal of its citizens, either through government service or just paying for them. | |
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In The Transformers: The Movie, Unicron summoned the dying Megatron and offered him a deal: destroy the Autobot Matrix of Leadership for him and in return Unicron would provide Megatron with a new body and new troops to command. Megatron had the guts to ask for more, which annoyed Unicron. Megatron quickly accepted the deal once it became clear that his options were "serve Unicron" or "be eaten by Unicron". Unicron then proceeded to upgrade Megatron into Galvatron. | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade | |
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In Avatar, Jake is promised the chance to restore his human body's legs if he works for the mining company to persuade the Na'vi to move. Double subverted in that he does acquire a new body, but via a completely different route. | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade / int_7b039953 | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade | |
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Subverted in Camelot 3000, in which Morgan la Fay tempts Tristan to betray Merlin in exchange for being transformed from a female reincarnation to male. Tristan never gets the chance because Kay betrays Merlin first; in any case, s/he had been planning to kill Morgan as soon as the transformation spell was applied. | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade | |
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Daniel, the hunchback in 1944's House of Frankenstein, worked for an evil doctor who's promised to give him a new, straight-spined body. | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade / int_7dcd766b | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade | |
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In Astonishing Ant-Man, Cassie Lang ends up making such a deal in issue #6 as part of a potential Face–Heel Turn. Cassie was resurrected shortly before the start of the comic but came back without her size-shifting powers, ending her superhero career. She goes to the villain the Power Broker (the second one) who offers an App for supervillain recruiting and can provide clients with superpowers. Initially, she expresses interest in becoming a supervillain in exchange for having her powers restored, but the Power Broker sees through that and reveals that her father had kept secret from her the fact that she had been kidnapped by old enemy Darren Cross, who had made a new attempt to steal her heart. Since Cross had also robbed the Power Broker, he then offers a supposedly no-strings-attached deal to give Cassie her powers back in exchange for going after Cross (which she wants to do anyway). | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade / int_80d4f17c | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade | |
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At the ending of Matt Cordell's storyline in Terrordrome the Game: Rise of the Boogeymen, it is revealed that he was searching for Herbert West so that he can build him a new, healthier body. West agrees to do it, and Cordell starts working for him, collecting material for his research. | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade / int_845f501d | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade | |
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In Girl Genius, the captured (beheaded!) general of an invading army agrees to work for Klaus for, among other things, a new body and a brass plate that says ABOMINATION OF SCIENCE! His enthusiasm stems largely from the fact that, being legally dead, he's now free of his marriage to his hated wife and any responsibility to his hated children. | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade / int_86c3beca | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade | |
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In the 2003 anime version, the homunculi work for Dante because they were promised human bodies. | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade / int_88383ee7 | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade | |
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In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Wormtail cuts off his own hand during the ritual to resurrect Lord Voldemort under the pretense that his master will reimburse him with a superior limb. He is given a stronger silver hand, but it's also programmed to strangle him if he betrays Voldemort. | |
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In Animorphs, Taylor was a popular teenage girl who was disfigured and disabled in a fire; she was also the daughter of somebody important, so the Yeerks, wanting to use her as a stepping stone to her mother, offered to fix her in exchange for being infested. They kept their word: as a Controller, Taylor is once again beautiful and has a cyborg arm to replace the one that she lost. | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade / int_90c73dda | |
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Inverted in The Spectacular Spider-Man, in which Molten Man was tricked into getting transformed because of a gambling debt and is deliberately given Power Incontinence absent a control that's in the hands of the Green Goblin. The latter forces him to be a criminal with the promise of allowing him to control his powers; if he refuses, he'll naturally be left in his transformed state. | |
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In the Secret Histories novels, some of the rogue Droods return to the family in hope of getting their lost torcs replaced. | |
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Many elebrians in Starfinder go into indentured servitude to fund the cost of their own reanimation as undead Corpsefolk that aren't bothered by their homeworld's current lack of atmosphere. | |
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In Mortasheen, humans are considered to be (barely) sapient vermin, not even worth eating. They only manage to survive the Polluted Wasteland Earth has become by living in an ancient motor pool loaded with futuristic Tank Goodness and guarded by a huge robot army, fittingly called "Tank-Town." Humans who wander into the monster-haunted, toxic, irradiated Forbidden Zone that constitutes the titular city consider it a step up to be spliced with bug DNA or have their genes messed around with to turn them into a Monster, beholden to a zombie or bug-person. | |
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Liliana Vess of Magic: The Gathering was a pre-Mending planeswalker. When the Mending happened and had her powers nerfed, the one she most missed was her immortality. She eventually made Deals with Four Devils to keep her youth and beauty, but in exchange she had to serve them. Her long term plan is to pull a Faustian Rebellion to kill the demons and stay free while keeping the immortality. | |
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In the Ravenloft adventure From the Shadows, it's the player characters who act out this trope, as they're reduced to disembodied heads imprisoned in Azalin's laboratory and have no choice but to do his dirty work if they're to get their bodies back. | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade / int_a9cb14fc | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade | |
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Completely voluntary and benign version in Questionable Content. Marigold buys her AnthroPC, Momo, an expensive new chassis. And upon hearing how much it cost Momo offers to get a job to pay it back. Later on another robot character, May, is working a Soul-Sucking Retail Job after being paroled (she previously tried to transfer her mind into a fighter jet). Her current body is falling apart, and the money she makes is barely enough to keep it repaired. Her friends set up an online fundraiser to get her a better body. Definitely not a commentary on the US healthcare system. |
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Spider-Man supporting character Flash Thompson lost his legs fighting in Iraq and was offered a deal to become an operative: he would get to wear a symbiote for missions, during which time his legs would be restored, but he wouldn't get to wear the suit at other times, in an effort to stop it from bonding with him. He's the most heroic Venom so far, although he has a little problem with eating his enemies when he loses his temper. | |
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In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, quite a few people are implied to work in order to get augmentations. Workers on Hugh Darrow's Panchea project are directly stated to have been augmented with money out of Darrow's pocket so they can survive in the deep sea working conditions and be more productive. Jensen, on the other hand, is a twist: he never intended to get augmented, but apparently his contract allowed Sarif to load him up with every aug in their catalog after he almost dies in the intro. Even those that afford their augmentations outright (or steal them) need to take the immunosuppressant drug Neuropozyne regularly, or risk their augs being rejected by their biology. This, naturally, is another method of control, as Neuropozyne is only available in limited quantities from authorized distributors, and the corporate cops deal with theft harshly. |
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Working for a Body Upgrade | |
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The Dark Eldar Haemonculi of Warhammer 40,000 have the means and expertise to modify their clients' bodies considerably, the most obvious being the Scourge (a Dark Eldar turned into a functional Winged Humanoid via hollowed bones, grafted flight muscles and enormous wings). There are also Wracks, Dark Eldar who willingly have themselves turned into gigantic Frankensteinian monstrosities in the hopes of new experiences. | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade | |
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Some of the shadowrunners in Shadowrun products have worked for corporations, on or off the books, in exchange for installations of cyberware they couldn't otherwise afford or gain access to. It's also a common reward for missions. | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade / int_bcb32dc6 | |
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Working for a Body Upgrade | |
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In Transformers: Animated, this is how the bounty hunter Lockdown likes to be paid. He's also fond of picking up parts another way in the course of the job. | |
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Tyldak in ElfQuest works for Winnowill because she promised to give him wings. She did make good on her promise, on the condition that he kept working for her. | |
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One Judge Dredd strip showed that the many of Mega City One's Olympic athletes receive cybernetic upgrades and performance enhancing drugs from sponsors in return for performing well. | |
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In Eclipse Phase many people escaped the Fall by uploading themselves to other planets or habitats, but a lot of them were unable to purchase new morphs and are still bodiless "infomorphs". The Hypercorps often take advantage of these "infugees" with indentured labor contracts promising them bodies after so many years of work (usually just a cheap synthmorph or splicer). | |
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Doctor Who: Condo, The Igor to Mad Scientist Solon in "The Brain of Morbius", has been promised a new, complete body. Most specifically, he wants his missing arm replaced by Solon. When he finds out that Solon actually stole his arm to create Morbius' body, he goes mad with rage and attacks Solon, which ultimately helps the Doctor defeat Solon and Morbius both. In "The Five Doctors", the Time Lord high council offers the Master a new series of regenerations if he will rescue the Doctor from the Death Zone. Subverted twice in that Borusa, head of the Council, doesn't actually want the Doctor rescued, and the Master only accepts the mission as an excuse to obtain true immortality from the heart of the Zone. |
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Djan Seriy Anaplian in the novel Matter is an outsider turned Culture citizen and operative, and besides the standard perks, has a cocktail of augmentations including programmed combat subroutines, "laser" fingernails and an antimatter bomb implanted in her brain. | |
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In the first Deus Ex, the two early-generation cyborgs Hermann and Anna are implied to ignore their boss' corruption because he's the only one who can provide them with continuous upgrades to prevent their being scrapped for obsolescence. | |
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Halfway through Power Rangers S.P.D., we find out that Mora, a Bratty Half-Pint that can create monsters for Emperor Gruum, is actually an adult. She works for Gruum because she likes being a child and he's able to turn her physically into one again. This is revealed to us when he turns her back into an adult as punishment. | |
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In the Rivers of London series, Lesley May pulls a Face–Heel Turn and goes to work for the Big Bad in exchange for having her damaged face repaired magically. | |
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Armored Core: The earlier games play with this trope with the "Human+" mechanic. If you go too far into debt, your character is "volunteered" into Human+ experiments, giving them a new lease on life and an increasing number of perks, like being able to fire heavy weapons without crouching. While there are no in-game penalties other than it being irreversible and considered cheating by most players, occasionally you'll encounter another Human+ subject in a mission who wasn't so lucky. In a way, you're working to avoid this fate. Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon has every AC pilot be cybernetically augmented in some way by their employers. The only one that explicitly isn't, Rusty, refuses to say where he got his augmentations. The player character, C4-621, apparently has brain damage from the process, and is working with Handler Walter to try to cure it. |
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The hacker protagonist of System Shock is hired to hack into a complex artificial intelligence system as a Boxed Crook; however, an additional motivation for him is receiving a military-grade neural implant. Even that's a method of additional control: the healing cycle for the surgery is six months, more than enough time for Edward Diego to figure out if he would need the Hacker again. | |
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In Lady Frankenstein, one of the benefits Marshall gets for going along with Tanya's scheme is having his brain transplanted into a young, healthy and virile body. | |
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In the Forgotten Realms novel Pool of Radiance, a half-orc assassin works for the story's big bad at least partly in exchange for her heart's desire — a proper human nose. She never gets her wish because she gets herself promptly killed attacking the protagonists after an attempt at "negotiation" goes poorly. | |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda: The kett work in exchange for Exaltation, where the rank-n-file get genetic enhancements. In theory, at any rate. The Archon has been hoarding any enhancements for himself, something his immediate underling is pretty unhappy about. | |
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Special Circumstances agents in The Culture are often augmented far and above the "standard" bodily augmentations of the rest of the citizens of the Culture, and the Culture also offers the "standard" perks for mercenaries from other civilizations: In Use of Weapons, the anti-hero mercenary Cheradenine Zakalwe does jobs for the Culture in exchange for payments which generally include both cash and body upgrades/rejuvenation treatments. In the novel's coda, Zakalwe's Handler recruits a soldier (ambiguously framed as his "replacement") who lost both of his legs in combat, and the implication is that his employment with the Culture will include new legs. Djan Seriy Anaplian in the novel Matter is an outsider turned Culture citizen and operative, and besides the standard perks, has a cocktail of augmentations including programmed combat subroutines, "laser" fingernails and an antimatter bomb implanted in her brain. |
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has Raiden working for a private contractor. They make it clear that the upgraded cyborg body he gets after the prologue is company property. However, when he goes rogue to stop a conspiracy that will turn children into super-soldiers, his support staff isn't too concerned about getting his body back. They even help him with his attempts to do so - off the record, of course. | |
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Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon has every AC pilot be cybernetically augmented in some way by their employers. The only one that explicitly isn't, Rusty, refuses to say where he got his augmentations. The player character, C4-621, apparently has brain damage from the process, and is working with Handler Walter to try to cure it. | |
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In My Little Pony: The Movie (2017), Tempest Shadow works for the Storm King because he promised to heal her broken horn in exchange for her aid in conquering Equestria. She turns on him when he gloats that he had no intention of living up to his end of the deal. | |
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In Repo! The Genetic Opera Blind Mag was given the option of working off her eye implants by acting as GeneCo's spokeswoman. Of course, when she decided to quit they killed her just like everyone else who missed a payment, but as a last act of spite, she put out her new eyes to deny them to GeneCo. | |
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The Company also likes to have its personnel play the role of Mysterious Backer and recruit operatives through various perks. The immortal cyborg operatives of The Company are usually recruited as young children in a precarious situation (e.g. prisoner of the Inquisition) and are offered immediate rescue and immortal life in an eventual utopia, which they will bring about by their supposedly righteous labors over the centuries. The Company's Victorian offshoot/cover organization "The Gentlemen’s Speculative Society" mostly just outfits normal people with Schizo Tech, but Mrs. Corvey, who works as a Madame and Information Broker, was recruited as a blind, syphilitic prostitute and in exchange for working for the Society, was cured of the venereal disease and given Electronic Eyes. | |
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In Hellsing, the Nazi old guard supported and funded the Major hoping he would turn them into immortal vampires. They eventually grow so frustrated when he doesn't do this that one of them starts caning him in full view of the Major's loyal subordinates. It doesn't end well for them. | |
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In The Freakmaker, the physically powerful but deformed Lynch (who used to be a freak show act billed as 'The World's Ugliest Man') acts as The Igor to Professor Nolter in exchange for Nolter curing his deformities. | |
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