The human body is so flimsy - full of barely-functioning organs that can fail at the drop of a hat. In the future, we'll trade in our shoddy organic parts for fancy metal and plastic replacements, converting our bodies into cyborgs. We've seen some excellent examples of cyborgs in movies, TV shows, comics and video games, and in this feature we'll spotlight the best cyborgs of all time. Hopefully you can get some inspiration for your own post-human transformation here.
Best Cyborgs Of All Time
The day is very soon coming when real-life cyborgs will walk the earth. We already have artificial hearts, limbs, and other organs. It's only a matter of time before somebody goes all the way. When they do, why not model them after the best cyborgs of all time?
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By K. Thor Jensen September 15, 2011 |
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| 6 | Ash Williams |
Most of the cyborgs on this list have been created through pretty high-tech means. Unfortunately, sometimes you don't have the best and brightest scientists on call and you have to wing it. Ash Williams, the protagonist of the Evil Dead series, gets his machine parts the hard way. After seeing his hand possessed by a "deadite," he cuts it off with his trusty chainsaw and mounts the machine to his stump, transforming him into a gore-spouting murder machine of the highest caliber. Eventually he makes a metal hand to take its place, but the chainsaw is really the pimp gear.
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| 5 | Rom |
Probably the best toy tie-in comic of all time, Rom: Spaceknight took a doomed Hasbro action figure and spun a world of star-spanning adventure around it. The planet Galador was under attack by the rapacious Dire Wraiths, so brave Galadorians chose to be transformed into Spaceknights, cold steel warriors built to combat the powerful foes. Rom was sent to Earth to continue the fight, where us dumb-ass humans treated him like he was the bad guy - mainly because the Wraiths could shapeshift to human form. Alas, because of copyrights the series will never be reprinted.
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| 4 | Trap Jaw |
If you look back objectively, He-Man was kind of a tool. Prancing around in his furry underwear and bondage gear, riding a cat into battle - it's all a little suspect. In contrast, Skeletor and his henchmen seem pretty awesome. Case in point: Trap Jaw. A villain from another dimension, he hooks up with Skeletor early in his career and makes a name for himself with his metal jaw that can bite through anything. The more metal he eats, the stronger he becomes, which makes him a great role model for the kids out there.
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| 3 | Gray Fox |
One of the most badass characters in the Metal Gear Solid series is Gray Fox. When we meet him in the first game, he's in the guise of a cyborg ninja who appears at helpful intervals to wreck stuff - but is he friend or foe? His real name is Frank Jaeger, and he was once one of Solid Snake's compatriots in FOXHOUND. He comes to a particularly grisly end, but his trademark battle armor shows up on a few other characters throughout the series. The ninja really hammered home the fact that Snake wasn't a superhuman protagonist in his own game, but a vulnerable meatbag who needed to be smart to survive.
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| 2 | Adam |
One of my favorite Buffy big bads was Adam, the final product of the demon-hunting group known as the Initiative. Created by Maggie Walsh as an attempt to build the perfect organism, Adam is half human, half demon and half machine. Yes, I realize that that's three halves. He's just that much of a badass. After his first act - killing his creator - he set out into the world to make more creatures like himself. Despite having a built-in grenade launcher among other armaments, Adam's greatest weapon is his computerized intelligence and demonic charisma. Buffy and crew barely manage to stop him, and that's pretty tough.
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