Category Archives: Cyborg

Rottweiler Police Dog

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2004 (2018)

  • a dog had been fatally shot
    -cybernetically enhanced Rottweiler
    – made into a nightmarish, ruthless cyborg with jaws of steel
  • giant Rottweiler robot police dog
    – programmed to kill

“EAT. SLEEP. FETCH. KILL.”

Rottweiler (2004)

Borg

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1996 (2063)

We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile

  • Cyborgs linked in a hive mind called “the Collective”
    – linked to the collective by a sophisticated subspace network
  • both mechanical and biological body parts
  • Individual Borg are referred to as drones
    – almost zombie-like
    – Individual Borg rarely speak
  • commonly have one eye replaced with a sophisticated ocular implant
  • usually have one arm replaced with a prosthesis
  • drones have different roles

“Resistance is futile”

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Inspector Gadget

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1983

  • cyborg police inspector
  • thousands of high-tech gadgets installed in his body

security guard John Brown
– always dreamed of becoming a police officer
– badly injured in an explosion (during a break-in at the lab)
– dressed with a khaki raincoat, black necktie, and hat

Dr. Claw and his organization, M.A.D

Inspector Gadget (1999)

86 episodes over two seasons
1983-1985

Tin Man

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1939

The Tin Woodman

originally born human as Nick Chopper
– after many accidents with his axe
– he replaced all of his body parts and limbs with tin