List of fictional cyborgs

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Literature

=Before 1920=

  • Edward Sydney from Samuel-Henri Berthoud's story "Prestige" (1831).{{sfn|Amartin-Serin|1996|pp=159-160}}
  • John A. B. C. Smith from Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Man That Was Used Up" (1839).{{sfn |Amartin-Serin |1996 |pp=160-162}}
  • Dubois from Eugène Mouton's story "L'Invalide à la tête de bois" (1857).{{sfn |Amartin-Serin |1996 |pp=162-165}}
  • Baron Savitch from Edward Page Mitchell's story "The Ablest Man in the World" (1879).{{sfn |Bleiler |1990 |p=509}}
  • Tin Woodman in the L. Frank Baum's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).{{cite web |title=SFE: Baum, L Frank |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/baum_l_frank |website=sf-encyclopedia.com}}
  • "The captain" in the André Couvreur's novel Caresco surhomme (1904).{{cite web |last1=Nevins |first1=Jess |title=The Necessary Evil (1899) |url=https://jessnevins.com/victoriana/necessaryevil.html |website=The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana}}
  • The Supermen from Gaston de Pawlowski's novel Voyage au pays de la quatrième dimension (1912).{{cite book |last1=Chapuis |first1=Alfred |title=Les automates dans les œuvres d'imagination |date=1947 |publisher=Éditions du Griffon |pages=119-122 |language=fr}}
  • Number 241 from the 1917 play Efficiency, by Robert Hobart Davis and Perley Poore Sheehan.{{sfn |Bleiler |1990 |p=675}}{{cite journal |last1=Macdonald |first1=Kate |title=The First Cyborg and First World War Bodies as Anti-War Propaganda |journal=Journal of War & Culture Studies |date=1 October 2016 |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=348–366 |doi=10.1080/17526272.2016.1185276 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17526272.2016.1185276 |issn=1752-6272}}
  • Lawrence Merly from Alex Pasquier's story "Le secret de ne jamais mourir" (1919).{{cite journal |last1=Alex |first1=Pasquier |title=Le cerveau électrique |journal=Nos Lettres |date=March 2020 |issue=Hors-série n° 1 |url=https://www.ecrivainsbelges.be/fr/fr-nos-lettres/fr-la-revue-nos-lettres/fr-2020/fr-2021}}{{cite web |title=sur l'autre face du monde - Pasquier Alex "Le secret de ne jamais mourir" |url=http://www.merveilleuxscientifique.fr/auteurs/pasquier-alex-le-secret-de-ne-jamais-mourir/ |website=www.merveilleuxscientifique.fr |language=fr}}{{cite web |last1=Pasquier |first1=Alex |title=Le secret de ne jamais mourir|url=https://www.idesetautres.be/upload/IEAhc39%20PASQUIER.zip |language=fr}}

=1920s=

  • Jean Lebris from Maurice Renard's novel L'Homme truqué (1921).{{sfn |Amartin-Serin |1996 |p=169}}
  • The Clockwork man from a novel of same name written by E.V. Odle in 1923.{{sfn |Bleiler |1990 |pp=570–571}}
  • Gabriel, real name Benedict Masson, from Gaston Leroux's novel La Poupée sanglante (1923).{{sfn |Amartin-Serin|1996 |pp=180-181}}
  • The Ardathian from Francis Flagg's story "The Machine Man of Ardathia" (1927).{{sfn| Bleiler |1998 |p=122}}
  • Hanley and the comet-people from Edmond Hamilton's story "The Comet Doom" (1928).{{sfn |Bleiler |1998 |p=160}}

=1930s=

  • The Mi-go aliens from H. P. Lovecraft's novella The Whisperer in Darkness (1931).{{cite web |title=SFE: Brain in a Box |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brain_in_a_box |website=sf-encyclopedia.com}}
  • Professor Jameson and the Zoromes from Neil R. Jones's story "The Jameson Satellite" (1931).{{sfn |Bleiler |1998 |pp=196–197}}
  • Nyctalope in the Jean de La Hire's novel L'Assassinat du Nyctalope (1933).{{cite book |last1=Zehr |first1=E. Paul |title=Inventing iron man : the possibility of a human machine |date=2011 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore |isbn=978-1421404882 |page=5}}

=1940s=

  • Simon Wright, from Captain Future stories (1940–1946), written by Edmond Hamilton.
  • Deirdre from C. L. Moore's short story "No Woman Born" (1944).{{cite book |title=The Cambridge companion to science fiction |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9780521016575 |page=133}}
  • Bart Quentin from Henry Kuttner's short story "Camouflage" (1945).{{cite book |last1=Bould |first1=Mark |last2=Vint |first2=Sherryl |title=The Routledge concise history of science fiction |date=2011 |publisher=Routledge |location=London; New York |isbn=0415435706 |page=68}}

=1950s=

  • Habermans and Scanners from Cordwainer Smith's story "Scanners Live in Vain" (1950).
  • The Immobs from Bernard Wolfe's novel Limbo (1952).{{sfn |Dinello |2005 |p=146}}
  • Lucas Martino from Algis Budrys's novel Who? (1958).
  • Dr. Julius No from a novel of same name written by Ian Fleming in 1958.{{cite book |editor1-last=Weiner |editor1-first=Robert G. |editor2-last=Whitefield |editor2-first=B. Lynn |editor3-last=Becker |editor3-first=Jack |title=James Bond in world and popular culture: the films are not enough |date=2011 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars |isbn=144382867X |page=274 |edition=2}}

=1960s=

=1970s=

=1980s=

=1990s=

=2000s=

=2010s=

  • Linh Cinder from Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles (2012–2015).
  • The Murderbot from Martha Wells's The Murderbot Diaries (2017-).{{Cite news |last=Sheehan |first=Jason |date=2019-01-27 |title=Sulky, Cynical 'Murderbot' Is One Of Sci-Fi's Most Human Characters |language=en |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/01/27/688354123/sulky-cynical-murderbot-is-one-of-sci-fis-most-human-characters |access-date=2022-06-11}}{{Cite web |title=The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells |url=https://marthawells.com/murderbot.htm |access-date=2022-06-11 |website=marthawells.com}}

Comics and manga

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Movies (including television movies)

=Before 1950=

  • "Q" - The Automaton from the serial The Master Mystery (1918){{cite book |last1=Gavaler |first1=Chris |title=On the origin of superheroes : from the big bang to Action Comics no. 1 |date=2015 |location=Iowa City |isbn=9781609383817 |page=98}}{{cite book |last1=Carper |first1=Steve |title=Robots in American popular culture |date=2019 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=9781476635057 |page=149}}{{cite book |last1=Baker |first1=Kage |title=Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Trainwrecks of the Silent Screen |date=2011 |publisher=Tachyon Publications |isbn=978-1-61696-074-2 |pages=26–28 |language=English}}
  • C. A. Rotwang from Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927){{cite book |last1=Sanders |first1=Steven M. |title=The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film |date=2007 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-3718-6 |page=259 |language=en}}
  • John Ellman from The Walking Dead (1936){{cite web |title=The Walking Dead (1936) – Lindbergh Heart Resurrects Boris Karloff |url=https://immortalephemera.com/44297/the-walking-dead-1936/ |website=Immortal Ephemera |date=29 October 2013}}

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Television series

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Video games

See also

Notes

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References

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  • {{cite book |last1=Bleiler |first1=E. F. |title=Science-fiction, the early years : a full description of more than 3,000 science-fiction stories from earliest times to the appearance of the genre magazines in 1930 : with author, title, and motif indexes |date=1990 |publisher=Kent State University Press |location=Kent, Ohio |isbn=9780873384162}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Bleiler |first1=E. F. |title=Science-fiction : the Gernsback years : a complete coverage of the genre magazines ... from 1926 through 1936 |date=1998 |publisher=Kent State University Press |location=Kent, Ohio |isbn=9780873386043}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Dinello |first1=Daniel |title=Technophobia! : science fiction visions of posthuman technology |date=2005 |publisher=University of Texas Press |location=Austin |isbn=0292709862 |edition=1st}}
  • {{cite book |editor1-last=James |editor1-first=Edward |editor2-last=Mendlesohn |editor2-first=Farah |title=The Cambridge companion to science fiction |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9780521016575}}

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