History Manga / Cyborg009

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Surprisingly {{Averted}}. Every cyborg has their own advanced powers. Despite that 009 is the most advanced make of the cyborgs, he actually ''doesn't'' render them useless; even 002, despite having a [[ObviousBeta early prototype]] of 009's accelerator, can still fly. If anything, 001 can overshadow ''everyone'' with how he seems to have near unlimited PsychicPowers... [[HeavySleeper when he's awake, that is]]. 002 proceeds to avert this even more. Out of the 1st Generation Cyborgs, he was the only one who did not need to be fixed in order to work.

* AbortedArc: In the manga, the "Angel" arc (originally serialized in Adventure King), which Ishinomori later attempted to resume and retell in the "Battle of the Gods" arc (serialized in COM)... which also ended abruptly, leading to a hiatus which lasted a few years.

* TheAce: Parodied in the 2001 series, with 002 befriending a young child from his old neighborhood in the Bronx, and presenting himself as a GaryStu-like hero in his recollections of the 00-Cyborgs' adventures.

* BadassNative: 005, who is Native American. He can fight as well as the other 00-Cyborgs and still come out okay.

** The manga chapters following the Yomi arc lacked an overarching BigBad beyond the occasional ArcVillain, although leftover Black Ghost [[TheRemnant remnants]] would sometimes pop up as villains. In the late [=1970s=] and early [=80s=], the Neo Black Ghost organization were the backers behind the schemes of several villains and effectively served as the new {{Big Bad}}s during the manga's run in Weekly Shonen Sunday, as well as the 1979 anime adaptation. The conflicts in the “Golden Triangle”, “Arctic Ghost” and “Pharaoh Virus” arcs are shown to be their doing and they're implied to be behind the plots of several other chapters, including the “Bizarre Machine” one shot, although many chapters featured independent antagonists or [[NoAntagonist no villains at all]].

* BittersweetEnding: For the 2001 series, unless you count the "God's War" OVA arc as canon, as well as volume 10 of the manga: [[spoiler:Black Ghost is finally defeated once and for all, presumably averting the nuclear war they were about to set off, but Jet and Joe burn up in the atmosphere upon their descent to Earth, and are mistaken for a shooting star by two children, with the older sister wishing for "world peace". On top of that, the surviving Cyborgs have lost their home and the Dolphin, they failed to save anyone in the Underground Empire before Black Ghost nuked it and 004 had to watch a woman he loved die in his arms for the second time in his life]]. However, in the case of the manga, this was averted by a fan outcry which led to Ishinomori resuming the story and throwing in a retcon.

* BroughtDownToNormal: Francoise once loses her powers while in the mountains, and under certain conditions as well.

* CompositeCharacter: Helena and Helen tended to be merged into one character in some media, such as the 1967 film "Monster Wars", as well as the 1993 Sega CD video game. This was probably part of why Helena was changed to "Artemis" in the 2001 anime. Tokyopop's translation of the manga even changed one of Joe's lines to [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on Helen's resemblance to Helena, with him saying "Hey, I remember you!".

* CreepyTwins: [[spoiler:Cyborg assassins 0010+/- are twin brothers, yet they're utterly psychotic and homicidal. Unfortunately for the 00-Cyborgs, they're the first enemies they have to fight after escaping Black Ghost.]]
* CurbStompBattle: During the final battle between [[spoiler:009 and Scarl, Scarl spends most of the battle beating the crap out of 009, but then [[AndyourLittleDogToo he stupidly taunts Gilmore]] about how [[ForcedToWatch he'll "make him watch]] as [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo I burn them in the furnace"]], causing poor Gilmore (who is AmbiguouslyJewish) to break free and turn the anti cyborg weapon on him. Scarl becomes distracted by the pain, allowing 009 to tackle him and knock him into the reactor, where the explosives kill him]]

** 002 was a teenage delinquent who lived on the streets to survive, and became a fugitive of the law either due to committing AccidentalMurder (Manga, '79 anime, Archaia novel) or getting into violent street fights (2001 anime). [[spoiler:The 2001 anime also reveals that 002 saw other street children being bullied by criminals yet he did nothing to help them, and the guilt from his inaction stayed with him for many years. From the same series, the episode "Black Ghost Lives" shows Jet during his days as a prototype 00-Cyborg, and it's implied that out of the the nine people who became 00 Cyborgs, Jet stayed with Black Ghost the longest. No wonder the poor guy's so messed up.]] In addition, earlier adaptations depicted him as becoming a gang leader while still a teenager, [[FridgeHorror which brings up more implications about his home life.]]

** 006 was a farmer who lost everything (the manga depicted him as a pig farmer whose livestock ran way and was taxed to oblivion, while the '79 anime had him suffer from years of bad crops), making him cross the DespairEventHorizon and try [[DrivenToSuicide hang himself]].Later adaptations depicted him as a restaurant owner who either burned down his own restaurant with a botched fire-breathing trick (2001 anime) or was forced to close it down (Archaia novel). In addition, the Archaia novel depicted 006 as a formerly married man whose wife left him after his business failed.

** 004 is {{Pride}}, viewing himself as so above other living beings that he kills a bird on a whim.

** 007 is {{Gluttony}}, choosing to sit around and drink himself into a stupor.

* ShooOutTheClowns: In 'God's War', [[spoiler:006 is the first to die.]]

** 008 is {{Envy}}, taking annoyance at 002 being able to have fun while he's in depression.
** 005 is {{Wrath}}, venting his anger by destroying things, in stark contrast to his regular GentleGiant demeanor.

* 003, a French ballerina named Francoise Arnoul. Pretty much TheChick, though latter adaptations make her a bit more of an ActionGirl (sometimes [[FauxActionGirl Faux]], sometimes a genuine one) and TeamMom. There was a bit of a romantic subplot between her and 009. Power: [[SensorCharacter surveillance]], thanks to enhanced hearing and sight. {{Technopath}}y added in the 2001 adaptation, along with escalating her super-senses to Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}-level echolocation.

** Albert, on the flip side, mixed a bit of BloodKnight with a hint of DeathSeeker and a lot of BlackHumor about his situation. He had [[KnightInSourArmor no illusions about the fact they were meant to be weapons]], was cold and pragmatic... and also willing to activate the nuke inside his body if he felt [[HeroicSacrifice it would save the others]]. The 2001 version, meanwhile, was more of a [[TheSmartGuy thoughtful]] SugarAndIcePersonality who openly grappled with the question of whether or not [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul his enhancements made him less human]], also taking up the BigBrotherMentor role towards [[FieryRedhead 002]], [[TheChick 003]] ''and'' [[TheHero 009]].

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All but 5 episodes of the 2001 series were aired on Cartoon Network's Creator/{{Toonami}} block during the mid-2000's, however those episodes were finally available in the US for the first time thanks to Creator/DiscotekMedia [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.cc/news/2017-08-13/discotek-licenses-cyborg-009-the-cyborg-soldier-tomorrow-joe-project-arms-niea_7-lupin-iii-the-legend-of-the-gold-of-babylon/.120065 has rescue licensing the series]].

All but 5 episodes of the pretty good most recent series were aired on the Cartoon Network a few years back, and now those episodes will be seen in the US for the first time since Creator/DiscotekMedia [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.cc/news/2017-08-13/discotek-licenses-cyborg-009-the-cyborg-soldier-tomorrow-joe-project-arms-niea_7-lupin-iii-the-legend-of-the-gold-of-babylon/.120065 has rescue licensed the series]].

* CutAndPasteTranslation: The Tokyopop translation of volumes 1-10 took ''quite'' the liberties with the original source material at times, with some dialogue being far from what Ishinomori originally wrote.
** One example included some retconning/softening of a later retelling of 004's origin to have him state that he was contacted by Dr.Gilmore and gave himself up willingly to him after the accident. 002's origin meanwhile, was "punched up" to have his fellow gang members refer to the Sharks as "Spics" and "PRs", while in the original, the other boys were supposed to simply be cheering Jet on. 0012 and Hera were also misgendered within the translation, as was Kubikuro (who then had his gender corrected mid-chapter).
** 002's line of "God, I'm praying to you for the first time..." in the Yomi arc also found itself changed, to him saying "Luck, if I ever needed you, it's right now!". The rest of the dialogue in the ending sequence also underwent revision, with it being a key point in the original that nobody referred to 009 as "Joe" up until his fall to Earth. In Tokyopop's translation, he's called "Joe" by 002 and others beforehand, which loses the impact.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The new designs for the 2012 series aim for a more modern and somewhat realistic character design, which is specially favorable to [[http://takigawa.tumblr.com/post/21790989702/009-005 005]] (his also minimizes the UnfortunateImplications a bit), [[http://takigawa.tumblr.com/post/21791051185/009-re-cyborg-009 007]], [[http://takigawa.tumblr.com/post/21791068037/o-o-009-re-cyborg-009 008]] and [[http://takigawa.tumblr.com/post/21791154662/009-re-cyborg-009 009]]. In a subversion, while [[http://takigawa.tumblr.com/post/21791154662/009-re-cyborg-009 002]]'s design is quite bishonen-like, fans tend to [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks dislike it]] instead since it ''drastically'' reduced his iconic GagNose.

* IllBoy:
** [[spoiler:001/Ivan was born with a serious illness (2001 anime, Archaia comics).]]
** [[spoiler:Seth/0018 from the ''009 vs. Devilman'' OVA was made sickly and put in a coma by Black Ghost's experiments. His older twin sister, Eva/0015, made a DealWithTheDevil with Dr. Adam, who was looking for a test subject to do his demonic-cyborg hybrid experiments on, under the belief that being fused with a demon will cure Seth/0018. It didn't work, instead going GoneHorriblyRight (at least for Dr. Adam).]]

* AdaptationExpansion: The cyborgs' time at Dr. Kozumi's house is elaborated on a little more in the early episodes of the '01 series. 0012 was also given a backstory and identity, while in the manga she was only witnessed as a BrainInAJar and never had any indication of what she was before.

** The manga chapters following the Yomi arc lacked an overarching BigBad beyond the occasional ArcVillain, although leftover Black Ghost [[TheRemnant remnants]] would sometimes pop up as villains. In the late [=1970s=] and early [=80s=], the Neo Black Ghost organization were the backers behind the schemes of several villains and effectively served as the new {{Big Bad}}s during the manga's run in Weekly Shonen Sunday. The conflicts in the “Golden Triangle”, “Arctic Ghost” and “Pharaoh Virus” in particular are shown to be their doing and several other chapters, including the “Bizarre Machine” one shot, imply them to be the ones responsible, although many chapters featured independent antagonists or [[NoAntagonist no villains at all]].

* CanonDiscontinuity: Ishinomori himself did not consider "Empty War", "The Man with the Expensive Castle", or the retconned origin in the prologue to the Underground Empire to be canon. The first is due to the fact that he re-wrote it as "A New Type of Bomb" (most manga releases include both versions alongside each other), and the latter two examples have to do with his distaste for having to rewrite 007 into being a child to tie into the changes that were made in the first film adaptation. There's also a visual discrepancy within that origin; while the narration mentions Joe having been captured on his escape from Kurihama, the artwork depicts an ambulance carrying him off (much like the one in the film, that carried him off after his racing accident).

* DownerEnding: The "Snow Carnival" arc ends with [[spoiler:both daughters, who were victims of their father's mad experiments, dying. The 00 Cyborgs can do nothing but lament that they knew of little outside of their father’a captivity.]]

** Black Ghost are this for the stories following the FinalBattle in the “Yomi” arc, particularly the Monster Island and Middle East arcs, which saw the 00 Cyborgs going up against surviving remnants of Black Ghost. They also serve as this for the “Deinonychus” arc where it’s revealed that despite their defeat in Yomi, much of the leadership is still active and pulling the strings from the shadows.
*** Black Ghost also serve as this for ''Anime/Cyborg009VSDevilman'', with Van Vogt in particular being the one who gave Dr. Adams the resources needed to perform his experiments.

* TheRemnant: Though the 00 Cyborgs eventually defeat Black Ghost in the Underground Empire of Yomi arc in the manga, leftover cells of the organization continue to pop up in later arcs as antagonists. The remnants of Black Ghost eventually fully reorganize into "Neo Black Ghost" in both the manga and the 0079 anime.

* ShoutOut: The British 00-Cyborg is codenamed "007" and changes shape. Who do ''you'' [[Film/JamesBond think he's based on]]?

* ThoseWackyNazis: The villains of the "Man or Machine" arc are a Neo-Nazi organization based out of the Antarctic.

** The manga chapters following the Yomi arc lacked an overarching BigBad beyond the occasional ArcVillain, although leftover Black Ghost [[TheRemnant remnants]] would sometimes pop up as villains. In the late [=1970s=] and early [=80s=], the Neo Black Ghost organization were the backers behind the schemes of several villains and effectively served as the new {{Big Bad}}s during the manga's run in Weekly Shonen Sunday, although many chapters featured independent antagonists or [[NoAntagonist no villains at all]].

* DemotedToExtra: 002, 004, 005, and 008 all experienced this in the '68 series- 'specially 002 and 004, while 008 at least managed to get a spotlight episode.

* DownerEnding: The "Snow Carnival" arc ends with [[spoiler:both daughters, who were victims of their father's mad experiments, dying and 00 Cyborgs lamenting that they knew of little outside of that.]]

* AdaptationNameChange: Helena of the Mythos cyborgs became "Artemis" in the 2001 series, and also received a design overhaul to distinguish her from the similar Helen (of the Pu'Awak sisters).

* BigBad: The Black Ghost organization, led by Skull, in most chapters of the manga and its 2001 anime adaptation. The 00 Cyborgs would not have even received their powers [[CreateYourOwnHero if not for them]].

* NebulousEvilOrganisation: Black Ghost are a consortium of {{arms dealer}}s with a globe-spanning reach and their fingers in nearly every major armed conflict.

* NumberTwo: 004, usually, due to always being able to bring out some big guns when needed ''and'' keep his wits more or less cool while using them. The rest of the cyborgs have yet to be shown functioning as a full-fledged team without him. [[spoiler: Black Ghost halted the entire program for the guy for 40 years. Not to mention 002 and 009 are all but stated die in the final dubbed episode.]] Even villains as high as Black Ghost tend to notice (far more than some viewers) about the role 004 plays. The [[spoiler: 1st]] fight with 0010[[spoiler: -]] leaves everyone else unconscious (save for 003). Pre-battle, 004 is the lead tactician (with 008 as the strategist)He has several character-enhancing discussions with other entities; machines, cyborgs, people. He's the backbone of the team, which is ironic considering he's all machine except for his brain and spinal cord.

* SeriesFauxnale: The Underground Empire arc was intended to wrap up the series, but the fans didn't agree with its ending. The manga resumed soon enough with "Monster Island", which included a retcon to explain that two of the characters ''didn't'' die.

* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler:In 'God's War', 006 is the first to die.]]

* TeamDad: Dr. Gilmore, sometimes 006.

* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: In the 2001 series, the 00-Cyborgs must convince a bunch of powerful psychic alien children to fight against the ones who want to enslave them. [[spoiler:In the end, it's ''[[{{Delinquents}} Jet/002]]'' who succeeds, by pleading with them to stand up for themselves until he breaks down crying.]]

* WhamLine: Near the end of the Mythos arc, Dr. Gaia (who built the Greek god cyborgs) reveals that [[spoiler:he is still loyal to Black Ghost, even though Black Ghost was seemingly destroyed before the start of the arc.]]

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* BigBad: The Black Ghost organization led by Skull in most chapters of the manga and its 2001 anime adaptation. The 00 Cyborgs would not have even received their powers [[CreateYourOwnHero if not for them]].

* GrandFinale: "Conclusion: God's War", at least as far as the manga goes. An earlier adaptation of the concept used for the 2001 anime could also be considered such, although the OVA [[PostScriptSeason wasn't originally planned to be made]], with the Underground Empire arc serving as the actual intended ending. The anime also treats their adaptation of "God's War" as a "prologue", leaving off on a cliffhanger.

* MadScientist: LOTS of Black Ghost-affiliated people, specially [[AGodAmI Gaia]], [[AbusiveParent Gamo]] and [[ProfessorGuineaPig Van Bogoot]]. [[spoiler:Dr. Gilmore in the 2001 series CLAIMS to be a ReluctantMadScientist, but the episode "Black Ghost Lives" subverts his claims with the reveal that he joined to satisfy his quest for knowledge and knew full damn well what he was getting into, something that his own subconsciousness won't let him forget before he ultimately decided to make his HeelFaceTurn.]]

** [[spoiler:At the end of the "Underground Empire of Yomi" arc, Skull is revealed to be reporting to [[BrainInAJar three brains]] residing inside of the Demon Statue.]]
** In the anime, [[spoiler:Dr. Gaia is this to the Mythos Cyborgs / Greek Gods, having created them and used them as part of his plan to become a god himself]].

* PostScriptSeason: The chapters following the "Underground Empire of Yomi" arc are this. Yomi was originally intended to be the finale, but fan outcry led Ishinomori to continue the manga.

* Big Bad: Black Ghost in most installments of the manga and anime (not named in the dub, but referred to as "Skull-sama" in the original Japanese). In the 2001 remake, he is seen 30 seconds into the episode.

* DubNameChange: While the dub of the 2001 anime mostly kept characters' names, there were a few changes. Gamo Whisky had his surname changed to "Asimov", thus making Ivan have that surname as well. Von Bogoot has his name romanized as "Van Bogoot" (though [[SpellMyNameWithAnS the spelling seems to give a lot of trouble]]). The Pu'Awak sister Dinah had what appeared to be pronounciation trouble with being called "Deena" in one episode and by "Dinah" in the following one. Two of the Psychic Assassins also had their names altered slightly; Nichol became "Nicholas" and Mii became "Mai".

* PhlebotinumRebel: The Cyborgs, and Ishinomori Shotaro's trademark.

* TheRemnant: Though the 00 Cyborgs eventually defeat Black Ghost in the manga, remnants of the organization continue to pop up.

** 004 was trying to escape East Germany during the Cold War with his fiancee Hilda so they can have a future together, but 004 botched it up, alerting authorities, and during their attempt to flee both were heavily injured, with Hilda dying. The 2001 anime cranked that part UpToEleven by having 004 lie to Hilda about successfully escaping so her heart wouldn't be broken over the fact they failed. The Archaia novel, however, switched it up by having 004 being unable to legally Hilda due to her being a foreigner, so he tried to smuggle her into country by plane. [[TearJerker It went as well as you'd expect.]] [[spoiler:The 2001 anime also revealed that Black Ghost's extensive cybernetic modifications were ''extremely painful'', to the point where he was immediately put out of commission after using them for the first time. It's a wonder he didn't commit suicide after all that crap.]]

Originally a manga by Creator/ShotaroIshinomori, ''Cyborg 009'' has been adapted into four movies, as well as three anime series in 1968, 1979, and 2001.

* MailerDaemon: The 2001 series features the supercomputer, Sphinx, who develops a crush on 003 and kidnaps her with the intent to brainwash and make her his girlfriend. [[spoiler:Its programming was actually based on the mind and memories of the deceased Carl Eckermann, who suffered from such huge mommy issues and extreme ParentalNeglect at the hands of his own father, who was also his boss, that he latched onto 003, who happened to resemble his long-dead mother.]]

* WhatCouldOfBeen: An InUniverse example when Professor Gilmore draws a picture of 0013 wearing their uniform.

All but 5 episodes of the pretty good most recent series were aired on the Cartoon Network a few years back, and now those episodes will be seen in the US for the first time since Creator/DiscotekMedia [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.cc/news/2017-08-13/discotek-licenses-cyborg-009-the-cyborg-soldier-tomorrow-joe-project-arms-niea_7-lupin-iii-the-legend-of-the-gold-of-babylon/.120065 has rescue licensed the series]]

* CharacterDevelopment: All of the Cyborgs escaped the EthnicScrappy label thanks to their pretty good backstories, specially in the 2001 anime. Like... [[spoiler:002, the ex-Delinquent who bemoaned his inability to save street children from becoming rotten like he almost did; 003, the ex-ballerina who wishes she was an genuine ActionGirl but her [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway enhancements and powers]] don't let her; 004, the thoughtful German who's forcefully given a cyborg body chock-full of weapons and is traumatized by [[StuffedIntoTheFridge the death of his fiancée]]; 007, the ex-theater celebrity star who abandoned his girlfriend when he reached stardom and later became an alcoholic out of guilt; 008, the ex-guerrilla warrior/ex-slave who then gets involved in his war-torn homeland's struggle; etc.]]