P.S.: Cyborg Showdown

Thank you. It is extremely helpful. It not only brought up cyborgs that O had forgot about, it settled a question I was on the fence about Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. I will include more later. Especially Doc Oct and Neo! Oh and the reason why I am not including the terminators is also the same reason why l’m not including Daryl from “D.A.R.Y.L.”, a film I’d dearly liked - under the strict definition of cyborg, the brains of the cyborg would have to be human or alien. The terminators had robot computer brains and robotic skeletons covered with “living tissue”. And in “D.A.R.Y.L.”, he had a computer for a brain surrounded by a cloned body grown in a laboratory.

Thanks dan.

Name and movie please. I don’t know this character.

Judge Dredd, starring Sylvester Stallone.

dgranger,

This is where a Google image search come in handy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Machine_Angel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxaAC8AN6g

Judge Dredd (1995)
Christopher Adamson: Mean Machine
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113492/characters/nm0011478

The current images on IMDb do not seem to be adequate.

Good point. My apologies.

You could define cyborg as a human who has seamless prosthetic substitutes for his or her body parts (except for the cerebrum) or additional parts (like how Otto Octavio is or maybe how Geordi La Forge is), which is the common parlance surrounding "cyborg" anyway.

Sorry for taking so long to answer you. This a subject that I got heated over. As a freindly gesture, I’m warning you may not like this answer. How do I start this. It seems that the defining point of a cyborg versus a robot using synthetic skin is the brains and intelligence. If the brain is organic and the intelligence is resulting from an organic brain, then it is a cyborg. Of the brain is a computer and the intelligence is a very elaborate Artificial Intelligence program, then it is a robot or android.
Now I’m going to name two films that I own in my film collection. One is popular that you know of, the orginnal “The Terminator” movie with the T- 800, and the other is a lesser known hard core science fiction movie made to look like a family freindly kid movie, D.A.R.Y.L. (1985). ( If you are going to look up “D.A.R.Y.L.” On the IMDb, you have to type in the periods after every letter or the IMDb search engine with not find it.) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088979/...
Now, in the film, “The Terminator”, it is explained that the T- 800’s skin was artificially grown and that it is just a wrapper or envelope encasing the robot/ android. The t-800 did not need the skin to continue to still exist and continue it’s mission unless it was going to time travel. That point is proven throughout the film as the artificial skin is slowly and totally destroyed by the end of the film and only the robot is left at the end of the film and it is still attacking Sarah Connor. The T-800 did not need the skin to exist. That is directly opposite of a cyborg since a cyborg needs both the mechanical and biological parts in order to exist. And it was stated that the t-800 brains were a machine or computer. But yet many people like to mistakenly call him a cyborg. He isn’t. But people still call him that - mainly because he is a popular character.
But when it comes to a lesser known film and character like D.A.R.Y.L. (Data Analysing Youth Lifeform), they do not consider him a cyborg eventhough only his brain is a micro-processor and his prersonality is the result of an elaborate Artifical Intelligence program too. The rest of his body is genetically and artificially grown in a laboratory. Daryl needs that body to move and receive information through the human eyes, ears, touch, smell and taste. He needs those human legs to move. He needs human hands and arms to operate. He does not have a metal skeleton like the T-800. Yet he is consider a robot or an Android. If you think I’m wrong look at the lists act one and Dan had suggested. He is not on ether one. Go ahead and pull up the keyword list for the film “D.A.R.Y.L.”. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088979/... At of the time of this posting, the word “Cyborg” is not on that list, but the words “robot”, “Boy Robot”, “artificial intelligence”, “artificially created boy”, and “robot as pathos” are all there. People recognize him as a robot but not as a cyborg that your definition of it would make hims as if the T-800 is. In fact, in the 2nd act of the film, the two main scientists debate weather or not Daryl had crossed the line from robot to human. And one of the scientists disputes that point by citing it is all apart of his learning artificial intelligence programming. All the ideas in the film where also covered in the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode The Measure of a Man https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708807/...
If D.A.R.Y.L. Is considered a robot because his brain is a computer and his personality is the result of A.I. programming, then T-800 is too. The popularity of the characters should not be a factor that one is a cyborg and the other isn’t because D.A.R.Y.L. has more living human tissue and is more dependent on that tissue in order to exist than the T-800 does.