Category:Fictional cyborgs: Difference between revisions

This category contains articles about fictional cyborgs.

This term may include fictional "cyborgs" created via emerging disciplines, such as: bioroids, biomechatronics, hybrots, plantoids, and replicants. A "cyborg" is loosely and deliberately defined here as a being with both "biological or organic" parts and "artificial or synthetic" parts, regardless of either source being "natural" or a "fabrication". This definition is not perfect and requires some "common sense" to be applied. For instance, the definition would seem to allow humans with a prosthesis to be considered "cyborgs" but this seems inappropriate (see Category:Fictional amputees). Furthermore, distinction between primarily robotic organism or primarily organic organism being is not made, neither is a beings' life-dependency on either organics or synthetics to function properly is made, nor is distinction made between a being whose intelligence and/or sentience is organic-based or synthetic-based.

Examples of quintessential cyborgs would be:

• Motoko Kusanagi from the Ghost in the Shell series, a cyborg with a functional central nervous system encased in synthetic gynoid-construct.
• T-800 from the Terminator series, a cyborg with a microprocessor-controlled/hyperalloy combat chassis encased in living human tissue.

Robots, androids, and synthetics are considered distinct from cyborgs and should be classified into Category:Fictional robots or Category:Fictional androids or Fictional artificial intelligences, respectively.