Cyborgs in Fiction - Film

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  • The Borg from the film Star Trek: First Contact. Interestingly, the android character Data is transformed into a cyborg in the film too by having organic components integrated into him (the reverse of the Borg, who were organic beings who had synthetic components made part of them).
  • Blind Mag in Repo! The Genetic Opera.
  • Various characters in Star Wars saga, notably Darth Vader, General Grievous, Dengar, Lobot, and Luke Skywalker.
  • Doctor Claw in Inspector Gadget
  • Dr. Julius No in the James Bond film Dr. No.
  • The wives from the 2004 film version of The Stepford Wives. In the original book and film, they would be closer to androids or gynoids.
  • Ria and various characters from Natural City.
  • The girlfriend in Cyborg She.
  • Del Spooner, from the movie I, Robot
  • Various characters in the Matrix trilogy of movies
  • Gigan from the Godzilla series
  • Isaac from the film Cyborg Soldier.
  • Wang the Perverted from the film Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (or as he's known for most of the film, "Evil Presence") was brought back from the dead with many cybernetic body parts including a hand that spontaneously flips the bird due to a malfunction
  • Elgar in Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
  • RoboCop
  • The Terminator
  • Zigesfeld, a henchman from the film If Looks Could Kill
  • Kiryu, aka Mechagodzilla 3
  • Cyborg, a film featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, tells the story of a post-apocalyptic Earth due to a nuclear disaster, and has a female cyborg as a central character. The sequel, Cyborg 2, stars Angelina Jolie as another cyborg. The second sequel Cyborg 3: The Recycler has Khrystyne Haje replacing Angelina Jolie.
  • SkekTek the Skeksis scientist in The Dark Crystal
  • Dr. Arliss Loveless from Wild Wild West is a steampunk cyborg, along with one of his minions
  • Lt. Parker Barnes from the film Virtuosity.
  • John Silver in Disney's Treasure Planet is an alien cyborg. His robotic parts include an eye with enhanced vision, an arm with tools and weapons stored inside, a leg which stores a mini cannon, and a device where his ear should be. This character is based on Long John Silver from the book Treasure Island.
  • Mr. Igoe, a killer from the movie Innerspace who has an artificial hand.
  • Batty Koda from the animated feature FernGully: The Last Rainforest.
  • Edward Steam, from the anime movie Steamboy, has various parts of his body replaced by machinery following an industrial accident.
  • Jason Voorhees is transformed into a cyborg by a nanotechnology-based medical procedure after being mortally wounded in the latter half of the science fiction/slasher film Jason X.
  • Armitage in the movie Armitage III is a "Third Type" cyborg which was an all female line of cyborgs designed to have conscience, free will and the ability to procreate as a way for a Mars-colony to better sustain a population and thus be able break away from Earth. When Earth and Mars became more united, the Third Types were eliminated by a seeming psychotic so as to avoid offending the feminist-leaning Earth.
  • The Kaalium from Moontrap. They are scavenger pods that build bodies and spaceships for themselves from both mechanical and biological components.
  • In The Colossus of New York (1958), a father transplants the brain of his recently-deceased son into a large robotic body.
  • Griff Tannen (and possibly fellow gang members) in Back to the Future Part II.

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