#Cyborg 17

[romantic-ageru-yo]

After all their years of shared suffering it must've been so good to finally see each other happy again

[tyote]

[acquired-stardust]

Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II Gameboy Advance 2003

[m00nb04rd5]

Can you please do Android 17 from Dragon Ball?

Android 17 (Dragon Ball)

[silvershewolf247]

I remember someone talking a while back about all the different types of movies you could make with dbz characters and can I just say.

Horror movie about 17/Lapis and 18/Lazuli getting kidnapped and turned into cyborgs would slap.

[silalcarin]

#17 and #18 need to stop being referred to as "Androids" or "Cyborgs"

It's been over 30 years since #17 and #18 made their official debut in the original Dragon Ball manga (1991) and its anime adaptation in Dragon Ball Z (1992), yet people are still referring to them as "Androids" or even "Cyborgs". However, the manga and its anime adaptation, the Daizenshuu guidebooks, and Toriyama's own statements all clearly prove that neither term is correct.

Here's this observation by Bulma when she and Dr. Brief are looking at #17's blueprints that were found in Dr. Gero's laboratory basement.

Dragon Ball Chapter 365, Page 12, official Viz translation:

Dragon Ball Z: Episode 145 — "The Secret of Cell's Birth! What Lies Below the Laboratory?!" (1992):

^ It's stated point-blank in canon that #17 and #18 are human-based. They were originally human before Dr. Gero found and kidnapped them. When he forcibly remodeled them, he did so with organic components, and it included reconstructing their existing organic matter (as confirmed in Daizenshuu 4). Essentially, he did NOT 'create' them; he modified them.

Therefore, #17 and #18 are still considered humans even up to this point. A better term to use for them would be either "super human" or "enhanced human" or "modified human" — but NOT Artificial Humans (which is translated from the word "Jinzoningen" in the Japanese text, and that term is used for literally all of the Red Ribbon 'Androids'), NOT Androids (mechanical-based, which is what #16 and #19 were), NOT cyborgs (which is what #20 was, since he was actually Dr. Gero but with his brain in a jar), and NOT robots (which is what Arale from Dr. Slump is).

[Side Note: I didn't include #8, because his exact type is inconsistent. According to Daizenshuu 7, he's human-based. However, according to a Q&A with Toriyama in 2014 (in Dragon Ball Full Color: Artificial Humans & Cell Arc), he's mechanical-based. I wouldn't be surprised if Toriyama simply forgot the previous information, considering he has a frequent tendency to do so.]

Anyways, #17 and #18 actually being "super humans" or "enhanced humans" or "modified humans" was reaffirmed later on in Dragon Ball Super, both the manga and anime, during the discussion of who will be recruited to Team Universe 7.

Dragon Ball Super Chapter 30, Page 27, official Viz translation:

Dragon Ball Super: Episode 83 — "Field the All-7th-Universe Team! Who Are the Mighty Ten?" (2017):

[Side Note: Sadly, though, finding "Number 17" and "Number 18" in the tags here on Tumblr is much harder than if you search for, say, "Android 18" or "Cyborg 18", at least in my experience; hence my inclusion of those tags in this post.]

TL;DR — #17 and #18 are NOT Artificial Humans, nor Androids, nor cyborgs, nor robots. They are NOT mechanical-based in any way, shape, or form. Based on both canon and Toriyama's statements in Daizenshuu 4, Daizenshuu 7, and Dragon Ball Full Color, they are actually "super humans" or "enhanced humans" or "modified humans", because they were originally human to begin with and all Dr. Gero did was upgrade them at the cellular level.

[pyr0frnzy]

birthday boy has dreams and one of those dreams is to meet sniperking from sniper island

[afrophunk]

The girl likes her pink 🤷🏾‍♀️

[mishellyuser]

Androids!

I know that they're all cyborgs, but when I say androids you instantly know what I'm talking about so no harm done

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[katscythe]

“So—”

Terra leaned back, perched on the desk next to the span of computer monitors. Her straight hair fell behind her shoulders as she twisted her head to the side to glance at Victor. “BB and Rae, what's the deal there?”

“Huh?” Vic looked up distractedly, his metal fingers tapping out sharply against the keyboard as he kept typing.

Terra smiled at him, her blue eyes twinkling as she sat up and leaned in towards the computer screen in front of him, and waved a brightly colored lollipop in front of his face.

“Gar and Raven,” she repeated.

“Oh, that.” He dragged his attention off of the complex lines of code crawling across the monitor.

“Yes, that,” she laughed lightly. “He trails after her like a lost puppy, and she's just—” She pulled an exaggeratedly morose face, then rolled her eyes. “And they bicker like an old married couple. Are they like, together, or something?”

“Uh…not exactly…”

Victor sighed, and finally gave up on his work. He rubbed his hands over his face, the metal of the prosthetics scraping faintly across the plates molded to the side of his head.

“So what's the deal?” She popped the candy back into her mouth, watching him curiously.

“He's an idiot, that's what the deal is,” he said with a laugh.

The spot where his spine joined with the artificial skeleton halfway down his back ached softly, and he reached his arms up over his head, trying to stretch out his muscles, his body stiff from sitting at the computer for so long these past few days, trying to figure out what the hell it was that had hit their systems. “And he apparently has a thing for girls that could kill him with nothing but their pinky.”

He shook his head, unable to stop the grin that spread across his face. “And Rae—well, for someone who 'doesn't like him' she sure puts up with a lot—I mean, she'll actually listen to him. At this point I just kind of tune him out.”

He stared up at her, completely deadpan, “Cause I don't know if you've noticed—but his jokes really aren't that funny.”

Terra giggled, the bright sound filling the computer room.

Vic twisted his chair towards her, bracing his forearm on top of the desk, her slim, bare legs dangling off the side in front of him, hiking boots swinging gently back and forth. “Why the sudden interest?” he teased. The mechanical half of his face clicked softly, the complex mechanisms mirroring the movements and expressions of his original features, his dark skin warped and puckered where it met the edges of the metal. “Please don't tell me you've got a crush on the little Green-Bean too.”

“What?” she scoffed. “No—”

[romantic-ageru-yo]

Marron - '... eh, close enough'

[tyote]

[sleepy-crocuta]

My movie verse au Neo metal sonic

[juridical-angel-blog]

Special Poster ''Dragon Ball GT - The Personages''!

[pastel-kaleesh]

running in the sunset

[i-want-to-commit-last-bath-bomb]

I think if there’s ever a Shadow equivalent to Surge and Kit then they should be a hot lady