Cyborgs in Fiction - Television

Television

• Astronema from Power Rangers in Space
• "The Cyborg" episode 4 season 2 from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965)
• Steve Austin, The Six Million Dollar Man. Originally based on Martin Caidin's novel, Cyborg. The series was very successful, spawning followups The Bionic Woman (Jaime Sommers), and Max, the bionic dog. Another version of the cyborg Jaime Sommers is featured in a remake series, Bionic Woman, broadcast in 2007.
• The Daleks, Cybermen and Toclafane from Doctor Who. NOTE: Daleks are a marginal case, in that the artificial portions are actually vehicles for small and physically degenerate beings.
• Inspector Gadget, who is a cyborg with various "gadgets" built into his anatomy, such as Binoculars, Umbrella, Copter, Cuffs and so on.
• Cash from Ben 10: Alien Force
• Kraab from Ben 10
• Krang from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Haxx from Extreme Dinosaurs
• Richard Nixon from Futurama
• Dr Robotnik from Sonic the Hedgehog
• Bob Oblong from The Oblongs
• Agent Z from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
• Cybergirl Cybergirl is a cyber replicant prototype 6000, a "cyborg" from a distant planet who ran away to explore the beings she was created after, human beings.
• The Rat King from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• Emperor Zurg from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
• Max Tennyson from Ben 10
• Bizarro Debbie and Bizarro Marco from Sealab 2021
• Dillon from Power Rangers: RPM
• The Borg from Star Trek, including Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager, a human who was assimilated into a drone and later severed from the collective.
• Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation, who was born blind and uses optical implants combined with a removable unit called a VISOR, to see. The VISOR was twice replaced temporarily with biological eyes and, in the films, permanently replaced with ocular implants.
• Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation, whose natural heart was irreparably damaged in a bar fight when he was younger and replaced with an artificial heart, which was later replaced twice due to defect or damage. However, the artificial heart is not a major part of his identity and is seldom mentioned, so that most viewers would not consider him a cyborg. He was also at one point briefly conscripted into the Borg (see above).
• A cyborg secret agent was featured in the "Fumble on the One" episode of The Misfits of Science.
• Jonas Venture Junior from The Venture Bros.
• Master Billy Quizboy from The Venture Bros.
• Mr. Freeze from The New Batman Adventures
• Curt Conners from The Spectacular Spider-Man
• The Jokerz from Justice League Unlimited
• Gadget Boy from Gadget Boy & Heather
• Morticon from Power Rangers: Mystic Force
• Adam in the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who is part human, part demon and part robot.
• In Neon Genesis Evangelion the Evangelion mecha are not robots but clones of aliens outfitted with cybernetics to allow their human pilots (or a backup computer, as in the Mass Production Eva series) to control them.
• Edward Elric (anime series and manga Fullmetal Alchemist) has two prosthetic limbs - the right arm and the left leg - the technology used to create them is called automail. Frank Archer and Paninya also have automail parts.
• Similar to above mentioned Edward Elric, Folken Fanel from the anime series The Vision of Escaflowne has a prosthetic right arm based on an unnamed technology of the Zaibach Empire.
• Pickles from Futurama
• Kidou Keiji Jiban, a metal hero show in Japan, was influenced by RoboCop. The main difference is that Naoto Tamura can transform between his detective identity and his Jiban/Perfect Jiban identity on his own.
• The Humanoid Cylons, from the series Battlestar Galactica. Their synthetic brains are nearly indistinguishable from humans, but can transmit their programs to new bodies. The Cylon Raider craft also have organic components.
• Spike Spiegel and Jet Black, respectively bearing a prosthetic eye and arm, from the Cowboy Bebop anime and manga series.
• Various characters from The King of Braves GaoGaiGar and The King of Braves GaoGaiGar Final
• Casshern (formerly known as Tetsuya Azuma) from the Shinzo Ningen Casshern 1973 anime series and the 2004 live action movie.
• Bionic Six.
• Stan Smith from American Dad!
• Technomages, from the Babylon 5 universe, employing a high degree of "organic technology"
• Alan Gabriel, The Big O.
• Mechanikat, a villain from Krypto the Superdog.
• Antoine, Suspected Cyborg of the Upright Citizens Brigade.
• Bunnie Rabbot, in the Sonic The Hedgehog SatAM TV series and US comic books.
• The Irkens from the Nicktoon Invader Zim.
• Simulants from Red Dwarf, as well as Kryten, whose brain is part-organic.
• "Riders" from the "Ishinomori era" of the Kamen Rider franchise.
• Taurus Bulba in the "Steerminator" episode of Darkwing Duck.
• In the cartoon series Biker Mice from Mars, Modo has a cybernetic arm, Throttle artificial eyes and Stoker a cybernetic tail, all the product of Doctor Karbunkle's experiments. One of the villains, 'Lectromag, was also a Cyborg.
• In the anime series Afro Samurai, Afro's childhood friend Jinno returns years after his "death" as Kuma, a cybernetic samurai with a teddy bear mask.
• Kondoru no Joe (Joe Asakura) in the anime series Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman, who is mortally wounded during the final battle of the first Gatchaman series and rescued by the mysterious Dr. Rafael, and returns to the team as a cyborg in the early episodes of Gatchaman II.
• In Smallville the character Victor Stone is incarnation of the comic book superhero Cyborg, appearing in two episodes.
• Technically, the entire Exofleet personnel in Exosquad were cyborgs, as special cybernetic implants were necessary to pilot combat E-frames. More extensive cybernetic enhancements were also seen in the series (e.g. James Burns in episode 2.18).
• In the Trapper Keeper episode of South Park a cyborg named Bill Cosby is sent back in time to prevent Cartman's Trapper Keeper from taking over the world. Also Chef like Vader was rebuilt into Darth Chef.
• Cameron Phillips, a new-model of Terminator featured in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a 2008 television series, is explicitly referred to on screen several times as a cyborg, although it has not yet been made explicit that she has living tissue over her robotic endoskeletons like other Terminators.
• Blackarachnia, Waspinator and Sari Sumdac from Transformers Animated
• Debbie Burwick from Phil of the Future
• Simmons from the machinima series Red vs. Blue
• Codename: Asero
• Mr. Kat from "Kid vs. Kat". In the "Nip/Duck" episode an X-ray reveals that the alien cat is mostly mechanical, apart from his two brains and his three lungs; it's not clear if his paws are mechanical or not, but they probably are since Mr. Kat has a lot of robotic gadgets inside his hands.
• Jeremiah Gottwald, a character in the anime series Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, is enhanced with extensive cybernetics after being grievously wounded in battle. His body ultimately comes to feature a highly reactive neural interface and blades in his arms, among other features.
• Lord Dread and his Bio Dread army from Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future
• In the anime Towa no Quon, there is the cyborg army WTOC, which consists of 5 human beings who have gotten operations to turn their bodies into cyborgs.