Some or all of of a character's skin is made of metal. A common feature of many [[cyborg|cyborgs]] and [[android|androids]] that aren't designed to look convincingly human, but it may also be the case with non-mechanical beings such as certain [[golem|golems]] or [[elemental_(creature)|elementals]].

Respect the "Tagging Guidelines":/wiki_pages/howto%3Atag and don't use this tag for characters that canonically have metal skin unless it actually appears to be made of metal. Seams, overlapping plates, and a lustrous finish are valid reasons to use this tag. Skin that is simply grey or yellow is not; that's what the [[grey skin]] and [[yellow skin]] tags are for. Shiny coverings that aren't actually metal might be [[scales]] or a [[carapace]].

This tag probably shouldn't be used for non-humanoid [[robot|robots]] or [[mecha]] since they aren't typically meant to have "skin" anyway.

h4.See also
* [[exoskeleton]]
* [[mecha musume]]
* [[mechanical parts]]
* [[robot joints]]
* [[shiny]]
** [[shiny skin]]