Questions tagged [cyborg]
For questions about cyborgs, short for "cybernetic organism". Can either be biological bodies with mechanical parts or a mechanical body with biological parts. Use in conjunction with the relevant work tags.
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Old comic in which a guy is captured/enslaved by (aliens?) and turned into a cyborg hunter killer or something
I am trying to find an old comic about a killer cyborg. I think the comic is either from 1970s-1980s (could be VERY early 90s). I got the comic in a "mystery" bag with a bunch of DC/Marvel/...
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Sci-fi book where the survivor of a bombing is turned into a cyborg
I only remember parts of the book vaguely as I had it as a child. But I think it starts out in a city and there's a bombing or some other disaster and when the government come in to look for survivors,...
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Looking for specific episode of Cyborg 009 (1979) where Heinrich makes a difficult decision
In the late 70's and early 80s in New York City, Japanese programming would take over on Saturday evenings on UHF Channel 47 which normally ran Spanish programming. Shows like Yuusha Raideen, Ikkyu-...
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A sci-fi-ish movie about toys coming to life I saw on TV when I was a kid
I've been looking for this movie for probably two decades - not because it's brilliant or anything, but just because I can't leave a mystery unsolved.
It was a movie about a kid who loved toys and ...
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Japanese movie featuring a woman turning into a motorcycle
Sometime in the late 90s I saw a Japanese movie on video, then quite new, which I though was called Tetsuo. I don't remember much of the movie, except for a short fragment (1 or 2 minutes) in which a ...
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Movie about a cop fighting an organisation that uses cyborg ninjas
I saw this live-action movie in 1997, could be an 80s or 90s movie.
A cop is trying to fight criminal organisation that uses ninjas. They start using cyborg tech to transform the ninjas into killing ...
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Animated movie where there some people who fly with robotics suits
I don’t honestly remember much; it’s an animated movie I watched eight or so years ago.
The suits might have been a part of their body or not, I don’t remember. They allowed them to fly and were some ...
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Old Movie About a space ship flying into the black hole featuring villain with robotic hand [duplicate]
I am looking for a movie I saw on television when I was a young kid in the early 1990s. I saw it dubbed into Czech, but I am fairly certain it was produced in the United States. Judging by the visuals,...
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Movie with a scene where a robot hunter (I think) tells another person during dinner that you can recognize a cyborg by the creases in their fingers
The cop or cyborg hunter tells another person how you can recognize a cyborg/robot. The waitress in the dinner shows her hands and they have deep creases in the area behind the knuckles (I think), ...
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What is the relation Between Stand Alone Complex and Individual Eleven ideology?
Is it possible that Individual Eleven ideology is based on Stand Alone Complex?
By the way to be everything clear could you describe me what Stand Alone Complex is?
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Movie from the 70s or 80s that had a Cyborg
I've been looking for a movie that I saw when I was growing up. Here's what I remember from it:
There was a cyborg (or cyborgs)
I think at some point the main cyborg was conflicted between being the ...
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Story read in the 70s about a human who is transformed into a cyborg or Steve Austin type being
I read a sci-fi story about 50 years ago and I at times wonder what story it was.
The only elements I remember is the main character was enhanced like the six million dollar man, and I remember a ...
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Book where a girl discovers she's a cyborg
I read it years ago in high school & it's haunted me since.
I only remember a few things with clarity, but one of them is that she goes to a support group following an accident that destroyed her ...
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Trying to find this cyborg movie I watched sometime in early 2010s
I think the movie was released around that time (early 2010s, maybe late 2000s, I know it was at least before 2013) but I’m not entirely sure.
Basically all I remember is there was this boy and girl, ...
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Girl that unwillingly becomes a cyborg during a rainy night
I watched it once on TV. Not sure if it was a movie, or a TV show/series.
Some guy was trying to capture some bad guys (how much I can remember) and his girlfriend or maybe his female police partner ...
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Short science fiction story in which cyborgs are treated equally as humans
Last year I read a science fiction story online, but I forgot the name of the story.
Roughly, the story goes like this:
Imagine, in a futuristic society, where the cyborgs were treated equally as ...
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Horror movie featuring a Terminator-like female cyborg as the antagonist [duplicate]
It was a sci-fi / horror with a female cyborg. Same era as The Terminator, say early '80s.
Started with a commercial flight disappearing from radar, then reappearing, and when landing, a female cyborg ...
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Novel where a pregnant woman carrying a manipulated zygote is spirited away
I think the opening takes place in a lab manipulating a zygote; not sure if in vitro or vivo. Krebs cycle is mentioned. A woman carrying the embryo is spirited away. The elite class of maybe immortals ...
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90s or 80s Sci-Fi movie about a female cyborg / robot
Please help identify an old movie I watched as a kid.
Plot (vaguely remembered): a group of people are trying to escape a facility (probably underground) and are pursued by a hard-to-kill / ...
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Post-apocalypse animated movie involving cyborg and enhanced humans
I watched this movie 5-6 years back, I remember the story but not the title. This movie starts in a train with an AI heavyweight cyborg and a girl, both return after completing a mission. This is an ...
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Is Jason Bourne a cyborg?
I was recently surprised to find an entry on the Jason Bourne films on the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction website. These films, while exciting and extremely well made do not at first glance appear to ...
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Anime or cartoon where one of the main characters had a robotic/cyborg arm and was protecting a young woman
Apologies for the lack of details, but this was a long time ago.
I’ve got vague memory of watching an anime (or cartoon?) in the '90s or possibly early 2000s in the US (PA) on late night TV (possibly ...
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Title of 1980s novel involving alien messiah, nuclear war, cyborgs and mutations
So this novel I read - It concerned a messianic figure who was constructed here on earth from instructions received via radio from space.
Among the details I remember are a police chief who over the ...
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Trying to find a Sci-Fi Short Story called "Sarge"
I have a friend who is looking to find a short sci-fi story called "Sarge." The story I am looking for starts off as a letter or message to his adversaries. It is first person from the dog's point of ...
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What's the difference between cyborgs and androids?
On Star Trek, Commander Data is not human, he's an android, not a cyborg. I thought cyborgs looked human (like terminator) but droids looked more robot than human (like C3PO).
Is this an official ...
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Sci-Fi TV Series identification from 90's, set on a starship, with a man who is half machine [duplicate]
As a kid in 1993-1994, I watched some kind of Sci-Fi TV series about a guy who was turned into a machine. Or at least half of him was entirely a machine and the other was human, split vertically. I ...
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80's-ish sci-fi movie with guy/car saving a girl (cyborg?) and car chase at the end of the movie
It was either a guy had to stay with his car to stay alive (the car was how he recharged himself because he was part cyborg)—or—the car had a guy's consciousness in it.
The guy/car was trying to save ...
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Cartoon action series with suits that shoot grappling hooks to create ziplines across canyons
There was this 90s team action Cartoon on Cartoon Network back when the Power Zone would play with Swat Cats and Centurions. I just saw a few episodes and I don't think it lasted long.
It was similar ...
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Early 80s sci-fi movie, cyborg(?), shooting .. had this stuck in my mind for about 30 years
This is an incredibly vague scene depiction, but I'm trying to recall a sci-fi movie I watched as a very young kid. It would have been out perhaps early 80s.
I don't recall any of the story but the ...
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Scifi book with battle spaceships and humanoid cat people who have eyes that change colors with their mood?
Does anyone know this book? It starts with a space captain and his ship and crew being attacked by another ship. Eventually the ship was so damaged that they had to board another ship after fleeing (...
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Animated movie where a boy tries to climb beams/poles connected to a heaven-like floating island
There is this movie I saw with my dad back when I was still small (like 13 years ago or something). It's a relatively old animated movie, probably Japanese but can't remember to be honest.
What I ...
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Movie where a lady is shot and left for dead in some trees but is saved and turned into a robot
All I call remember of this film was a lady with dark hair was running through some trees and a few men were chasing her. They shot her a lot and left her for dead. Someone found her and in order to ...
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Made-for-tv(?) scifi movie. Scientist becomes prototype cyborg. Fights another cyborg
I remember seeing this a a boy. The main guy was a scientist. I think he was working on an adaptive suit or possibly a cyborg. He becomes the prototype. I do not remember it all but I know if he is ...
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Older space movie with a half-rotten cyborg prostitute in a vending machine?
All I can remember is that the group of main characters were running and decided to hideout in an abandoned spaceport/mining camp bar. One of them activates a cyborg prostitute "vending machine&...
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Movie with cyberpunk-like villain set in jungle
I am trying to find a movie which I watched long ago (somewhere in the 90s) as a kid on VHS tape. Another movie was copied over the movie I am searching for, and because of that, I only watched part ...
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Trying to find an old sci fi story: man injured in space and reconstructed as cyborg
I remember reading this story in the early 1980s but don't remember if it was a newer release at the time. I do know I didn't buy the used paperback.
A man is injured in a space construction job (I ...
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Is there any visual record of Major Kusunagi's real human form and what it looks like?
The Ghost in the Shell franchise is a long running cyber-punk manga and anime classic, which often blurs the lines between man and machine. While looking at its ensemble cast, the central character, ...
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An old anime featuring a teen transfer into a beastly armor
I saw this Japanese anime on TV anime channel with Chinese subtitles ( I live in Taiwan ) when I was very young ( in the early 90’s ) so the memories are pretty blurry.
Plots:
It was a long film ...
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Book about implanting minds in new bodies and a young woman who sells her body to an old woman and wakes up in a new one [duplicate]
I read this book sometime in the early 2000s, and I believe it was published around then too; definitely no later than 2007.
I vaguely remember the cover being minimalist blue with a naked woman's ...
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80's (?) sci-fi movie identification, cyborg, desert, isolation
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I would like to identify a movie.
Probably it's been created in 80's (might be 70's or even early 90's).
What I can remember:
There's a group of people stuck in some facility (...
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Early 2000's live action show about teenager who gets sent to a futuristic dystopian-type world and gets a robotic arm
This one is really vague, I know. I'll try to describe it the best I can.
It was a show airing in the early 2000s. A (either Canadian/American/English) male teenager (16+, I believe) gets teleported ...
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Did Darth Vader purposely modify his voice?
In the Star Wars: Rebels season 2 finale,
This got me thinking, was Vader's voice purposely modified for intimidation, disguise, or other purposes, or is his deep voice merely a side-effect of his ...
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Sci-fi movie about good and evil android on space ship
I'm searching for a Sci-Fi movie I saw in my childhood (late 80s - early 90s). The movie was about a crew on a spaceship with two similar looking androids or robots; one evil trying to kill the crew ...
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Looking for a movie with old man who was a robot/android and was recharging under stairs
This was a foreign movie or maybe a TV episode (German, possibly).
I remember an old man in a house who was a robot/android and he was going under the stairs to recharge. He turned a handle/knob on ...
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What makes a terminator a cyborg?
I was always under the impression that a cyborg was a being, partially robotic partially flesh. Wikipedia backs me up here:
A cyborg, short for "cybernetic organism", is a being with both ...
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Is Robocop immortal?
He's half man and half machine so he's gotta have a living flesh still in him. But considering he didn't age as time goes by later on in the series. Is he technically immortal then?
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Sci fi short story name about cyborg time traveling soldier [duplicate]
I have been trying to track down story I read in a middle school or high school class about a decade ago. It involves a soldier that was sent to "the end of time" in a gigantic battle for the universe....
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Pre 1985ish science fiction paperback with a metal-armed man on the cover and time-travel combat
I'm trying to identify a science fiction novel I remember reading as a young kid from my school's library. I only remember two things about it (apart from having a generally positive impression of it):...
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60s novel: bionic man exploring changed world post collapse for super computer
Paperback, written in English, from 1960s or 70s.
Starts off with a man waking up in cave or buried chamber. He receives info and instructions from a A.I. super computer . (Its been xx years 30? 60? ...
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Short Story- In future, implant-less holdout tries device that gives him experience of being optimized with brain implant
In a future time in which most people have chosen to have a procedure to have implanted in their brains a network of filamentous circuits (described as looking something like a silver spiderweb woven ...
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