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== Live Action Television ==
* Cavil in ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' resents being trapped in a human form, and wishes he had been created as a machine--he wants to feel solar wind, see gamma rays...
** And still he just whines about it, instead of actually trying to augment himself, despite of all the technology at his disposal...
*** [[Word of God]] says Cavil probably wouldn't be happy as a full machine either. His resentment is directed at his creators themselves rather than having the form of a human (though it is certainly a factor). The "machine" business is mainly his way of justifying his hatred to himself.
**** Also, despite their technology, Cylons seem to have trouble successfully merging humans with machines. Thats why the creation process of Hybrids is so [[Nightmare Fuel|Nightmare Fuellerriffic]] and the results are so [[Mad Oracle|erratic]].
* The Borg in [[Star Trek]] believe their machine/flesh combo platter form is "perfect". The offshoot who left the Collective to follow Lore are trying to achieve a 100% machine form.
* This was the original rationale for the evolution of the Cybermen in ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', where a race on a dying planet began replacing their bodies with machines to survive, then decided to chuck out their emotions as well later on. Over the course of the series this got [[Flanderization|forgotten]] and the [[Lost in Imitation|new series Cybermen]] are examples of [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]] instead.
* In one episode of ''[[Captain Power and The Soldiers of The Future]]'', Lord Dredd was dictating what sounded like it was supposed to be a Bio-Dredd Bible.
{{quote| "Chapter 4: And the Machine was given unto Man. The Machine was perfect of line and elegant of form. And the Machine said, 'This is my gift to my people, that they may throw off the bonds of flesh.'"}}
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