Cyborgs in Fiction - Comics and Manga

Comics and Manga

• Jeremiah Gottwald from Code Geass becomes a cyborg when he barely survives the Battle of Narita and is turned into one when a team of government scientists operate on him experimentally. This results in a half-machine appearance. In R2, most of his mechanical parts are internalized.
• 8 Man, a manga and anime superhero created in 1963 by writer Kazumasa Hirai and artist Jiro Kuwata. He is considered Japan's earliest cyborg superhero, before even Kamen Rider (the same year, Shotaro Ishinomori created Cyborg 009), and was the inspiration for RoboCop.
• The Major in the Hellsing manga has recently been discovered to be a cyborg
• The characters Haine Rammsteiner in the manga Dogs and Dogs/ Bullets & Carnage was experimented on as a child, leaving him with augmented regenerative abilities as well as increased reflexes.
• Baxter Stockman from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• The Brain in DC Comics
• Cyborgirl
• Cyberforce is a group of mutant cyborgs in Image Comics.
• Many of the members of Section 9 in the Ghost in the Shell universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintenance; there are several manga (or graphic novel) and artbooks set in the GitS universe, as well as two feature-length anime films, three television series and three video games.
• Masamune Shirow's other major work, Appleseed also contains a multitude of cyborg characters, with one of the main characters, Briareos Hecatonchires, the mercenary Sokaku Tatara and his war buddies, and the Mumna Holy Republic diplomat Kainisu, from the fourth chapter, are just a few.
• Vash the Stampede from Trigun has a prosthetic left arm, which he acquired after his brother Millions Knives shot it off. The arm has an automatic weapon inside.
• Cyborg of the Teen Titans comic book series is a superhero with massive implants and prosthetics. He also appeared in the animated TV series. Not to be confused with Superman supervillain Cyborg Superman, a technopathic entity who prefers cybernetic forms, who is occasionally referred to as merely "The Cyborg."
• Cy-Gor from the Spawn series
• Many of the characters of Battle Angel Alita (also known in Japan as GUNNM) are cyborgs, including the lead, Alita (Gally, Yoko). Cyborgs are a major way of life in the GUNNM universe, with sports, such as Motorball (and crimes, such as spine-stealing), contributing to a culture of cyborgs.
• The Metabarons.
• Metallo from DC Comics
• Omega Red from Marvel Comics
• In WE3, a group of animals are turned into sentient living weapons.
• Cyborg 009 features a group of humans unwillingly turned into cyborg weapons by a crime syndicate.
• The Reavers, a group of villains that regularly clashes with the X-Men. They are led by Donald Pierce.
• Deathlok, the Demolisher, a series of military cyborgs in Marvel Comics. The original Deathlok was a former soldier in a dystopian future.
• All members of The Authority have a networking implant that allows for radio-telepathy, head-mail and other communication functions.
• Android 17 and Android 18, along with Android 20 from the anime-manga series Dragon Ball Z. Despite their confusing English dub names, they are indeed cyborgs. In the original Japanese version, these three (along with the rest of Dr. Gero's artificial creations) are referred to as jinzouningen, which is a blanket term in Japanese science fiction applying to robots and androids, as well as cyborgs. Jinzouningen is usually translated by fans to "artificial human". Frieza is also a cyborg after his defeat on Namek and is saved and rebuilt by his Father King Cold.
• Franky (also known as Cutty Flam), of the manga One Piece by Eiichirō Oda, rebuilt most of his body with scrap metal after sustaining serious injuries. Giving him abilities ranging from (but not limited to) air cannons in his hands and rear end, guns in his wrists, and the ability to extend the front part of his lower body outward, making him look like a backwards centaur. However, as Franky did these adjustments to himself, only the front part of his body is cyborg. His backside (which he couldn't reach) is as vulnerable as any human back, rendering this his weak point. His cyborg abilities are powered by cola, stored in a refrigeration unit in Franky's stomach.
• Henrietta, Triela,Rico, Claes, Angelica,Elsa de Sica, and Elizaveta from Gunslinger Girl are adolescent girls who are made into cyborg assassins to fight for the government. They have adults known as 'handlers' who train them for battle.
• Death's Head II, MINION, Marvel Comics
• Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, from Hellboy
• Supremor, the Kree Supreme Intelligence, of Marvel Comics
• Spartan WildStorm Comics
• Tony Stark, better known as Iron Man injected himself with techno-organic virus "Extremis", which installed a computer interface into his nervous system and an Iron Man armor interface into his body. This allows him greater control of the armor. Stark can also remotely operate his armors (more than one Iron Man active at a time).
• Victor Mancha is an artificial life form with organic parts in Runaways.
• Cable, a mutant from the future in Marvel Comics. Roughly a third of his body is a "techno-organic" mesh.
• The Ultimate Marvel version of Deadpool is a cyborg.
• Bunnie Rabbot in the Sonic the Hedgehog Saturday morning TV series and US comic series.
• Several characters in Spriggan such as the Trident Corporation's agents (except Iwao Akatsuki), including ex-Machiner's Platoon agent Ironarm, have prosthetic limbs. These give them an advantage in combat since the limbs are outfitted with offensive weapons.
• One group of major antagonists in the manga Blame! are Silicon Creatures, humanoids of a silicon base that are similar to cyborgs.
• Transmetropolitan features many cyborgian ideas and characters. Spider Jerusalem himself is a cyborg especially when he takes the phone trait.
• Pinoko from Black Jack is technically a cyborg; as a living Teratoma, she is mostly organs: most of her body was crafted by Blackjack from synthetic fiber.
• The comic series Concrete (1986-) revolved around the life of an ordinary human whose brain had been placed in a large artificial stone body by aliens.
• Rom the Space Knight (1979)
• Axel Pressbutton created by Steve Moore in (1979)