The inclusion of characters with prosthetics in novels became all the more evident in recent works. Here are more examples: Babylon 5 G'Kar: While being held by Centauri forces, G'Kar lost his left eye after a Centauri guard cut it out. After being freed by Londo Mollari in the wake of the insane Emperor Cartagia's death, G'Kar was fitted with a replacement eye by Dr. Franklin. Initially, he had a human blue eye, this was later replaced with a red eye that looked like a natural Narn eye. RoboCop In the first RoboCop film, Detroit police officer Alex Murphy was shot numerous times by a group of criminals and mortally wounded. His body was taken by OCP scientists - who then took his brain, eyes, peripherous nervous system and possibly other portions of his body and installed them inside an artificial, titanium-armored humanoid body. As intended, he became the cyborg Robocop. In the second film, criminal leader and drug addict Kane underwent a similar treatment; he became the hulking and nearly indestructible Robocop II, but was still psychotic and addicted to the drug Nuke. In Evil Dead, the main character Ash Williams has a chainsaw hand and later receives a robot hand in Army of Darkness. In the myriad of Peter Pan stories and franchises, Captain Hook has a hook replacing his right hand which was eaten by a crocodile. In Flannery O'Connor's story Good Country People, the character Joy Hopewell/Hulga had her leg blasted off in a childhood hunting accident and used a wooden leg instead that becomes important to the plot. In The Fugitive television series and subsequent film, the fugitive Dr. Richard Kimble searches for the one armed man who killed his wife. In the film version, the one armed man also received a transplant (who was played by Andreas Katsulas). As a result, this would be another role in addition to his Babylon 5 role in which he received a prosthetic device. In the anime Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward Elric loses his left leg just above the knee and his entire right arm and has them replaced with metal limbs called automail. Dear Egyptian Mail readers, Your comments and/or contributions are welcome. We promise to publish whatever is deemed publishable at the end of each series of articles. [email protected]
