List of fictional cyborgs

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Literature[]

  • In Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Man That Was Used Up" (1839), the narrator visits a heroic General at his home, and discovers that most of his body has been destroyed in a war and replaced by a collection of prostheses, so that his body must be assembled piece by piece.
  • In the story "The Ablest Man in the World" (1879), by Edward Page Mitchell, a computer (said to be inspired by 'Babbage's calculating machine', presumably the real-life difference engine designed by Charles Babbage) is inserted into a man's head, turning him into a genius.
  • The Tin Woodman from L. Frank Baum's Oz books (at least before he became entirely metal).
  • Gaston Leroux, the author of The Phantom of the Opera, wrote a 1923 story titled La poupée sanglante – La machine à assassiner (translated as The Machine to Kill in the English edition) in which the brain of a guillotined murderer is inserted into a "clockwork man".
  • The Clockwork Man (1923), a novel by E.V. (Edwin Vincent ) Odle. Human in the future have clockwork devices implanted inside their head, which allow them to travel through time and space.
  • "The Machine Man of Ardathia" by George Henry Weiss (published under the name Francis Flagg, a pseudonym for Weiss[1]), which appeared in the November 1927 issue of Amazing Stories, featured a time-traveling descendant of humanity from 28,000 years in the future, who lived inside of a transparent cylinder filled with machinery that had been integrated into his body, and who commented that among his people each embryo is placed inside such a cylinder and "the various tubes and mechanical devices are introduced into the body by our mechanics and become an integral part of it."
  • The Mi-go aliens in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, first appearing in the story "The Whisperer in Darkness" (1931), can transport humans from Earth to Pluto (and beyond) and back again by removing the subject's brain and placing it into a "brain cylinder", which can be attached to external devices to allow it to see, hear, and speak.
  • In "The Jameson Satellite" by Neil R. Jones, *Amazing Stories* July 1931, a man named Professor Jameson has his body preserved in a space capsule after his death, and millions of years in the future his brain is revived and placed inside a robotic body by aliens whose own brains similarly function in robotic bodies. Professor Jameson, a cyborg pulp hero by Neil R. Jones, and his allies and benefactors, the Zoromes.
  • Deirdre, a famous dancer who was burned nearly completely and whose brain was placed in a faceless but beautiful mechanical body, in C. L. Moore's short story of 1944, "No Woman Born". Collected in "The Best of C. L. Moore" in 1975
  • Haberman and Scanners from Scanners Live in Vain (1950) by Cordwainer Smith.
  • In Martin Caidin's novel, Cyborg (1972), a test pilot named Steve Austin is rebuilt after a horrendous crash, given new "bionic" limbs, and becomes a superspy. Followed by several sequel novels and also adapted as the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.
  • Caidin's retelling of the Buck Rogers story, Buck Rogers: A Life in the Future (1995), has Rogers being partially rebuilt as a cyborg after his hibernation, and includes a reference to Steve Austin.
  • Jonas the (star) sailor in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun (1980–1983). His near light speed ship had been gone so long that on its return to Urth, there were no space port facilities any more, and it crashed. Other crew members patched him up from available parts. (However, he started out as fully robotic, and was repaired with human parts, rather than the more usual reverse).
  • Molly Millions, Henry Dorsett Case, and Peter Riviera all have some sort of cybernetic augmentation in William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy (1984-1988).[2]
  • Marge Piercy's He, She and It presents a rather feminist view on the cyborg issue with Yod who, however, is provided with some male attributes.
  • Anne McCaffrey wrote short stories and novels known as The Ship Series (1961–) where otherwise crippled humans live on as the brains of starships and large space stations.
  • The genetically engineered and prosthetics-ready warriors of the planet Sauron in the CoDominium series of short stories and novels initiated by Jerry Pournelle and also written by guest authors.
  • Angus Thermopyle, The Gap Cycle.
  • The Comprise, a computer-mediated hive mind which has taken over Earth, in the novel Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick.
  • Linda Nagy, a.k.a. Ellen Troy, who has wetware in her brain, spines in her fingers (for linking with computers) and an antenna that lets her shut down machine remotely from the Venus Prime (1987-1991) by Arthur C. Clarke and Paul Preuss
  • Rat Things in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (1992). They are attack-programmed guard dogs whose long hairless tails make them look less like dogs and more like rats. They are powered by nuclear engines that will fatally over-heat if they stop. Technology invented by Mr. Ng and, evidently, made exclusively for the defense of the franchise Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong.
  • In William C. Dietz's Legion of the Damned the Legion is made up of a combination of humans and heavily armed cyborgs (human brains in mecha forms).
  • Kage Baker has written a series of novels about The Company in which orphans from various eras (who fit certain physical requirements) are recruited by a time-traveling corporation, augmented and turned into immortal cyborgs, and trained to rescue valuable artifacts from history.
  • Shrike in Dan Simmons novel series Hyperion.
  • Hannes Suessi from David Brin's Uplift novels is transformed into a cyborg by the time he re-appears in Infinity's Shore
  • Catherine Asaro's Saga of the Skolian Empire prominently features cyborgs called "Jagernauts", who are empaths or even telepaths, who serve as elite fighter pilots. Many prominent members of the Ruby Dynasty ruling the Skolian Empire are jagernauts.
  • Jessamyn 'Krokodil' Bonney, protagonist of Kim Newman's Demon Download series was extensively augmented by Dr. Simon Threadneedle, also a cyborg.
  • The main protagonist of Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles, Linh Cinder, is a cyborg.
  • Xris Cyborg, the leader of Mag Force 7 in a series of the same name by Margaret Weis, was "borg'ed" after severe line-of-duty injuries as a galactic Federal (police) agent.
  • The main protagonist of Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon, Takeshi Kovacs, is a cyborg soldier who changes bodies, or sleeves. He is chemically and neurologically enhanced as an Envoy mercenary.

Comics and manga[]

1940s[]

  • Robotman - (DC Comics character, debuted in 1942.)

1950s[]

1960s[]

  • 8 Man (1963)
  • The Brain - DC Comics (1964)
  • Cyborgs 001, 002, 003, 004, 005, 006, 007, 008, and 009 from Cyborg 009 (1964)
  • Robotman - (DC Comics character, debuted in 1963.)

Cybermen Doctor Who The Tenth Planet episode October 29[3][circular reference]1966

1970s[]

  • Deathlok from Marvel Comics (1974)
  • Rom and other Spaceknights from Marvel Comics (1979)
  • Beilert Valance from Marvel Comics (1978)

1980s[]

1990s[]

2000s[]

2010s[]

  • The Egg Army featured in Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog properties, replacing the Dark Legion and Dark Egg Legion following a continuity reboot.
  • Genos from One-Punch Man.
  • Katie Cooper - Cyborg Studies
  • Sy Borgman from Harley Quinn

Movies (including television movies)[]

1950s[]

1960s[]

  • from film (1962)
  • Dr. Julius No from James Bond film Dr. No (1962)
  • Garth and the two Tracers from the future, from the film Cyborg 2087 (1966)

1970s[]

  • Steve Austin from Six Million Dollar Man TV movie (1973) and TV series (1973 to 1978)
  • Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader from the Star Wars series (1977)
  • Gigan from the Godzilla franchise
  • from the film Terror of Mechagodzilla
  • The Gunslinger from westworld (1973)

1980s[]

1990s[]

2000s[]

2010s[]

  • Frankenstein from Death Race 2050
  • Ramona Flowers from Scott Pilgrim
  • Platyborg, an alternate version of Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension, and cyborg versions of other animal secret agents introduced in a later episode of the series.
  • A.R.C.1 from (2012)
  • Max Da Costa from Elysium (2013)
  • Metalbeard, a robotic pirate and a Master Builder in The Lego Movie (2014)
  • Ava from The Machine (2013)
  • Alex Murphy from RoboCop (2014)
  • Briareos Hecatonchires, from Appleseed XIII (2011-2012), (2014)
  • James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes (Winter Soldier), from Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
  • Charles "Charlie" Hesketh, from Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
  • Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader from the Star Wars series (2016)
  • Victor Stone from Justice League (2017)
  • Grace from Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
  • Killian from Spies in Disguise (2019)
  • April from the Sharknado_(film_series)

Television series[]

1960s[]

  • Daleks from Doctor Who series (1963)
  • Cybermen from Doctor Who series (1966)

1970s[]

1980s[]

  • The Borg from the Star Trek series
  • Doc Terror from The Centurions
  • Inspector Gadget from Inspector Gadget series (1983)
  • Krang from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Hacker from The Centurions
  • Trap-Jaw from Masters of the Universe
  • from "Mann & Machine"
  • Jiban from Kidou Keiji Jiban
  • Quintessons from Transformers
  • Man-E-Faces from He-Man
  • X-Ray from Rambo: The Force of Freedom
  • Shinya Takeda from Dennou Keisatsu Cybercop (TV series 1988-1989)]
  • Thirty/Thirty the cyborg equine from Bravestarr (TV series, 1987)

1990s[]

  • Astronema from Power Rangers in Space
  • Dr. Gero from Dragon Ball Z
  • Android 17 and 18 from Dragon Ball Z
  • Gadget Boy from Gadget Boy & Heather
  • Haxx from Extreme Dinosaurs
  • Taurus Bulba from Darkwing Duck (1991)
  • Mr. Freeze from The New Batman Adventures
  • Richard Nixon from Futurama (1999)
  • Dr. Robotnik from the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon, its associated comic series, and Sonic Underground.
  • Bunnie Rabbot from the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon and comic series.
  • Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager
  • Jet Black from Cowboy Bebop
  • The various Evangelion units from Neon Genesis Evangelion have the appearance of humanoid mechas but are actually cyborgs.
  • Toadborg from Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars
  • Mukuro from YuYu Hakusho is a demon with robotic parts.
  • Steerminator from Darkwing Duck
  • Targetman from Doug
  • Various unis in Swat Kats

2000s[]

2010s[]

  • Adam Davenport from Lab Rats
  • Lieutenant Commander Airiam from Star Trek: Discovery
  • Badgerclops from Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart
  • Baron Von Steamer from Big Hero 6: The Series
  • Barry Dylan from Archer
  • Ben and Gwen Tennyson from Ben 10 episode Ben Again and Again (2018)
  • Commander Forge Ferrus from Max Steel (2013-2016)
  • Conway Stern from Archer
  • Bob from Lab Rats: Bionic Island
  • Bree Davenport from Lab Rats
  • Black Heron from DuckTales
  • Blitz Borgs from
  • Chase Davenport from Lab Rats
  • Colonel Leland Bishop/Silas/C.I.L.A.S. from Transformers Prime, a human connected to a deceased Decepticon body.
  • Cybear from Ben 10
  • The Cybergs from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Cyborg Raccoon from Robot Chicken
  • Daniel from Lab Rats: Bionic Island
  • Darth Maul from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, who is shown to have survived his apparent demise at the end of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and is shown with multiple sets of mechanical legs.
  • Delaney Pilar from Pandora
  • Della Duck from DuckTales (2017 TV series)
  • Dutch from Archer
  • Evil Cyborg Julian from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Dr. Blowhole from The Penguins of Madagascar (2010) (Has only a cyborg-type right eye)
  • Finn Mertens from Adventure Time
  • Future Barbara Gordon from DC Super Hero Girls
  • Future Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb
  • Future Barry Allenfrom DC Super Hero Girls
  • Gary Goodspeed from Final Space
  • General Rubbish from Major Lazer
  • Gwen Tennyson from Ben 10 (2016 TV series) episode Ben Again and Again (2018)
  • Hannibal McFist from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Iron Baron from Masters of Spinjitzu
  • The Iron Terror from Speed Racer: The Next Generation
  • Liborg from Axe Cop
  • James Ironwood from RWBY
  • Kate from Lab Rats: Bionic Island
  • Katya Kazanova from Archer
  • Kraven the Hunter from Spider-Man
  • Leo Dooley from Lab Rats
  • Lord Boxman from OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
  • Maahox' from Voltron Force
  • Mercury Black from RWBY
  • Major Lazer from Major Lazer
  • Manchine from Kroll Show
  • Megahertz from Mighty Med
  • The Mechanic from Ninjago
  • Moe Szyslak from The Simpsons episode Mr. Lisa's Opus
  • Mr. Fischoeder from Bob's Burgers episode Sliding Bobs
  • Pickles from Futurama
  • Professor Paradox from Ben 10: Omniverse
  • Ray Gillette from Archer
  • Robo Dino from SuperMansion
  • Robo-Stache from Bob's Burgers
  • Red Action from OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
  • S-1 from Lab Rats
  • Scar Man from Teen Titans Go!
  • Sebastian from Lab Rats
  • Shiro from Voltron: Legendary Defender
  • Spin from Lab Rats
  • Tiger Claw from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series)
  • Techmo from Regular Show
  • Tiffany from Adventure Time
  • Wells 2.0 from The Flash
  • Wallow from Bravest Warriors
  • Yang Xiao Long from RWBY
  • Vandata from The Venture Bros.
  • Verminator Rex from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series)
  • Victor Krane from Lab Rats
  • Violet Evergarden from Violet Evergarden
  • Vrak from Power Rangers Megaforce
  • Briareos Hecatonchires from Appleseed XIII
  • Genos from One Punch Man
  • Robot from Lost in Space (2018)

Video games[]

  • Adam Jensen, Anna Navarre, Gunther Herrman, Jaron Namir, Lawrence Barrett, Yelena Fedorova, and several other characters in Deus Ex and its prequel, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, are augmented with cybernetics.
  • Amber Torrelson, one of the four player characters in Project Eden, is a cyborg Urban Protection Agent; her body has been rebuilt within a giant robotic frame after sustaining fatal injuries in a train accident.
  • Barret from Final Fantasy VII
  • Berle, Ruprecht, Shigeo, and Vesper of the Ten Wise Men from Star Ocean: The Second Story.
  • Biological Engineering Project 154, the protagonist of the Thing Thing series.
  • Brad Fang from Contra: Hard Corps
  • Bryan Fury from the Tekken series
  • Cap'n Hands and F.U.B. from Loaded
  • Captain Tobias Bruckner from Turok: Evolution
  • CATS, the Main antagonist from the game Zero Wing
  • The Combine from Half-Life 2 base the core of their fighting forces on synths, cyborgs made from members of various previously enslaved species. Whenever they subjugate a world, the dominant species of the planet is turned into cyborgs, giving the Combine an army that can be deployed in any kind of planetary environment; the most prominent ones seen are Dropships, Gunships, Striders and Hunters. With Earth as their newest acquisition, an unknown number of humans (mainly dissidents and Civil Protection volunteers) have been cybernetically enhanced into Overwatch Soldiers. Dissidents unsuitable for conversion are instead turned into Stalkers, heavily dismembered torsos with crude metallic limb replacements. Overwatch Elites are implied to have received more augmentations than ordinary Soldiers and various content cut from the game's final version includes even more radical designs such as humans fused into bulky, biomechanical powered armor.
  • Commander Shepard, the protagonist of Mass Effect, is extensively implanted with cybernetics in an effort to bring him/her (Shepard's gender is chosen by the player; as such, there is no canon gender) back from the dead.
  • Experimental Cyber Soldier Program, or Direct Neural Interface, which may cause the death of the test subjects, from Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
  • Cyberdemon, a boss in the Doom game franchise
  • Cyborg, Cyborg Reaper and Cyborg Commando, cyborg soldiers developed by Brotherhood of Nod in Command and Conquer 2 and its expansion pack Firestorm, who later went rogue with the renegade Nod AI CABAL (Computer Assisted Biologically Augmented Lifeform) to fulfill its world domination. All of these cyborgs are superior to their human counterparts, and the strongest of them, the Cyborg Commando, can even defeat a Mammoth Mk.2 superheavy walker in a one-on-one showdown.
  • Cyborg infantry from Command and Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath, utilized by Nod subfaction Marked of Kane, which, led by CABAL's reincarnation LEGION, bears a striking resemblance to CABAL's army in the previous war. The Awakened serve as Marked of Kane's basic infantry, Tiberium troopers as close range anti-infantry/anti-structure support, and Enlightened as elite anti-ground troopers.
  • Doctor N. Gin from the Crash Bandicoot series
  • Dr. Crygor from the WarioWare, Inc. series
  • Dr. Raoul from Master X Master
  • ECO 35-2 from Rise of the Robots
  • The Electrocutioner from Batman
  • Fulgore from the Killer Instinct series
  • Gar'Skuther, the villain of Spore Creatures
  • Genji, an advanced cyborg ninja who appears as a playable character in Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm.
  • Gray Fox & Raiden from the Metal Gear Solid series
  • The Grox are a race of cyborg carnivores creatures, that rule most of the Galaxy in Spore, and the main antagonists.
  • Hung Lo, Lo Wang's evil brother from Shadow Warrior: Twin Dragon
  • Iji, the titular character from the indie game Iji.
  • Jake, from Night Slashers
  • Cyrax, Sektor, Smoke, and Cyber Sub-Zero from the Mortal Kombat series
  • Lopers from Return to Castle Wolfenstein
  • The Marathon Trilogy's protagonist
  • Martha, and M. Blaster from The Combatribes
  • The Masked Man from Mother 3
  • Matthew Kane from Quake 4
  • Maxima, a character from The King of Fighters series.
  • Nathan Spencer From the Bionic Commando series
  • Necrons, a race from the Warhammer 40,000 universe, are led by what seem to be intelligent machine organisms. The Obliterators of the Chaos faction fuse their weapons and armor directly into their flesh.
  • Plant Contra from Neo Contra
  • R.A.X. Coswell, a kickboxing cyborg from Eternal Champions and Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side
  • Revenant from Apex Legends
  • Rex, a cybordog from Fallout: New Vegas
  • Sergeant Rex "Power" Colt, the protagonist from Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
  • Cyber Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue
  • Spartans from the Halo series receive extensive physical augmentations, including ceramic plated bones in order to resist the stresses of using their MJOLNIR powered armor that can lethally injure unaugmented humans with a wrong move.
  • Starkiller from The Star Wars Series.
  • The Strogg from the Quake series are a warlike cybernetic race. The Strogg systematically replace their ranks with prisoners of war, "stroggified" and assimilated through the modification of their bodies with mechanical weaponry and prosthetics. The games Quake II (1997) and Quake 4 (2005) feature Strogg cyborg enemies in many shapes and variations.
  • Steve Hermann from Shatterhand
  • Super Soldiers from Return to Castle Wolfenstein
  • Symbionts from Supreme Commander
  • Many of the enemies, along with the protagonist from System Shock and its sequel, System Shock 2.
  • Yoshimitsu from the Tekken and Soulcalibur series.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Bleiler, Everett Franklin, and Bleiler, Richard. Science-fiction: The Gernsback Years (1998), p. 122.
  2. ^ Gibson, William. Neuromancer
  3. ^ Cyberman
  4. ^ TMNT Adventures #36, "Steel Breeze", 1992
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