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Although there are a variety of gynoids across genres, this list excludes female cyborgs (e.g. Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Voyager), non-humanoid robots (e.g. EVE from Wall-E), virtual female characters (Dot Matrix and women from the cartoon ReBoot, Simone from Simone, Samantha from Her), holograms (Hatsune Miku in concert, Cortana from Halo ...
Cyborg Noodle, the cyborg clone of Noodle from the virtual band Gorillaz who was created for the storyline of their album Plastic Beach (2010). "Selfmachine", titular character from the opening track of I Blame Coco's 2010 album The Constant. Rovix, K-pop group VIXX's robotic mascot (2012).
The Clockwork man from a novel of same name written by E.V. Odle in 1923. [11] Gabriel, real name Benedict Masson, from Gaston Leroux's novel La Poupée sanglante (1923). [12] The Ardathian from Francis Flagg's story "The Machine Man of Ardathia" (1927). [13] Hanley and the comet-people from Edmond Hamilton's story "The Comet Doom" (1928). [14]
In the year 2563, 300 years after Earth was devastated in a catastrophic war against the United Republic of Mars (URM), scientist Dr. Dyson Ido scavenges a disembodied female cyborg with an intact human brain in the Iron City scrapyard. He unites it with a new cyborg body and names her "Alita" after his late daughter. Alita wakes with no memory ...
Battle Angel Alita tells the story of Alita, an amnesiac female cyborg. Her intact head and chest, in suspended animation, are found by cyber medic expert Daisuke Ido in the local garbage dump. Ido manages to revive her, and finding she has lost her memory, names her Alita after his recently deceased cat.
The term gynoid was first used by Isaac Asimov in a 1979 editorial, as a theoretical female equivalent of the word android. [4] Other possible names for feminine robots exist. The portmanteau "fembot" (feminine robot) was used as far back as 1959, in Fritz Leiber's The Silver Eggheads, applying specifically to non-sentient female sexbots. [5]
In the original manga, "Gally"/"Alita" was the name of Ido's pet black cat, who died a month before he found the remains of cyborg girl in the Tiphares junkyard. Gally the cat was a male, and Ido's friend Gonzu comments that it is strange to name a female cyborg after a male cat.
Chun-Li (/ tʃ ʌ n ˈ l iː / ⓘ; Japanese: チュン・リー, Hepburn: Chun-Rī) is a character in Capcom's Street Fighter video game series. She first appeared in Street Fighter II: The World Warrior in 1991 and is the first female playable character to appear in a fighting game to gain mainstream recognition.