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* Topic. It is the only explanation for his survival, without prosthetics, throughout canon.

We couldn't ascend from bone-weilding apes to spacefaring humans in one step (never minding how the movie portrays this). Likewise, we can't ascend from meat-based lifeforms straight to godlike transdimensional energy beings in one-step. Like their {{Precursors}}, humans first have to ascend to cybernetic, then to completely android, only then can they move on to energy beings. Thus, the starchild that David Bowman was sent back to Earth as was actually a cyborg. At that point the human race began a slow ascent to cybernetic life, and cyborgs aka starchildren are becoming commonplace by the time Ghost in a Shell is set.

[[WMG: Gabriel was the ghost-hacked garbage man's dog.]]
Because leave it to Batou to adopt a dog from some poor berk who just found out his whole life is a lie.

[[WMG: The Franchise/GhostInTheShell franchise is the SpiritualSuccessor to three [[CreativityLeash unleashed]] {{Cyberpunk}} thrillers that were tragically [[MisaimedMarketing mis-categorized as children's movies]], thus [[HypeAversion annihilating any adult appeal]]: ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'', ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', and ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven''.]]

* In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' (1989), a 15 year old girl sold her voice, with her voice removed, not voice acting, and had her lower body replaced with prostheses. The protagonist is in her museum when she sings a song of [[HumanityIsInfectious anthropological ambition]], and her father uses an multiple rocket launching, individually portable weapon to destroy her museum, in a multiple rocket launching rage. Basically, he [[NoEndorHolocaust blew a confined, water-filled space to bits with them both inside]]. She tried to romance someone, and had to compete against someone that used [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell a full prosthetic body]] and ThePowerOfRock to manufacture sex appeal. The protagonist reneged on her agreement, and in the ensuing underwater, massive, ultra-destructive armed struggle, the most competent characters in the entire movie were killed by their own employer in one volley of gunfire. The firefight involved a [[HoistByHisOwnPetard powerful captured weapon]]. The protagonist grew up and had a [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18435_5-movie-romances-that-wont-last-according-to-science.htm doomed marriage]].
* Humanity is like a security blanket in ''Ghost in the Shell'' (GITS), and humanity helps protect against cyberbrain attacks. GITS has lots of existentialist philosophizing and humanity-supporting knickknacks, like The Major's wristwatch, for example. So both GITS and ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' have humanity as a virtue, existentialist philosophy, and humanity-knickknacks. Many characters in both works use fire based weapons, and at least two characters in each work use prostheses. Both types of equipment are very effective in both works. At the end of both movies, a main character is resurrected, and two characters in ''The Little Mermaid'' and ''Stand Alone Complex'' get coupled: Eric and Ariel get married to each other. Motoko gets in the body that she likes much better, and Motoko and Bateau stand around together barely clothed in an apartment. Guess what happens next.

[[WMG: The Franchise/GhostInTheShell franchise is the SpiritualSuccessor to three [[CreativityLeash unleashed]] {{Cyberpunk}} thrillers that were tragically [[MisaimedMarketing mis-categorized as children's movies]], thus [[HypeAversion annihilating any adult appeal]]: ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'', ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', and ''AllDogsGoToHeaven''.]]

* In the AllDogsGoToHeaven (1989) franchise, the protagonists prominently include two undead gangsters that cheat at least one of their human allies. [[CarFu A car is used as a weapon]]. They rely on pocket watches for their survival, and race against time in a fight for survival against impossible odds in a crime-ridden, poverty-stricken, filthy world. There was much alcohol, gambling, greed, gunfire, and risk of getting eaten alive. One of the dogs went to hell, not heaven.

The original GITS manga, like 'Appleseed', assumes the continued existence of the USSR--though ''not'' geographically as large as it was in, say, 1985, due to World War (practically no country is). The TV series explicitly refers to the SVR, an institution that emerged as a direct result of the August Coup that led to the transformation of the USSR into the CIS. However, there are still references to 'the Soviets'--by Kayabuki referencing the 'American-Soviet Alliance', the third player in North American (the other two being the remaining United States and the American Empire), interchangeably described as 'Russo-American Alliance' as well. It's a recognition of a tendency in the capitalist world to have use [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn to do the same thing.]] In ''Stand Alone Complex'', the formation of the CIS did happen at some point, but was later followed by a further supranational union (an extension of what exists in the real world), certainly between Russia, Belarus, Ossetia, and Abkhazia, and possibly included Armenia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Nagorno-Karabakhand, and perhaps Mongolia and Ukraine. "Soviets" simply means "council" in Russian, so if the the Union State is a parliamentary supranational federation, it's still 'technically' correct, and it might be more convenient, and familiar, than "Eurasian Union of Republics".

[[WMG: The Franchise/GhostInTheShell franchise is the SpiritualSuccessor to three [[CreativityLeash unleashed]] {{Cyberpunk}} thrillers that were tragically [[MisaimedMarketing mis-categorized as children's movies]], thus [[HypeAversion annihilating any adult appeal]]: ''TheBraveLittleToaster'', ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', and ''AllDogsGoToHeaven''.]]

These three movies were before ''Ghost in the Shell'', (1995) and are very similar to it. All four works are somewhere that someone would want to escape from. Possibly except for TheBraveLittleToaster, they are crime ridden, war torn, and poverty stricken places. In all four works, [[CrapsackWorld the world is dangerous and treacherous]], and parts and abilities of characters can be stolen and sold off. TheHero is human in none of these stories. In all except TheBraveLittleToaster, the ending is a vast firefight near, or in, a body of water.
* In TheBraveLittleToaster, (1987) a human abandons a group of [[SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids sentient appliances]], who then fight against impossible odds in a hostile world to win back their master. Then, in ''Stand Alone Complex'': MACHINES DESRANTES, The Major tries to have her loyal tanks vivisected. Some survive, and fight against impossible odds in a hostile world to win back their master.

[[WMG: Cyborgs are actually starchildren from TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey.]]

We couldn't ascend from bone-weilding apes to spacefaring humans in one step (never minding how the movie portrays this). Likewise, we can't ascend from meat-based lifeforms straight to godlike transdimensional energy beings in one-step. Like their {{Precursors}}, humans first have to ascend to cybernetic, then to completely android, only then can they move on to energy beings. Thus, the starchild that David Bowman was sent back to Earth as was actually a cyborg. At that point the human race began a slow ascent to cybernetic life, and cyborgs aka starchildren are becoming commonplace by the time Ghost in a Shell is set.

[[WMG:The world of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' is set on Earth in the {{Transformers}} universe after the Transformers had left earth.]]

* In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' (1989), a 15 year old girl sold her voice, with her voice removed, not voice acting, and had her lower body replaced with prostheses. The protagonist is in her museum when she sings a song of [[HumanityIsInfectious anthropological ambition]], and her father uses an multiple rocket launching, individually portable weapon to destroy her museum, in a multiple rocket launching rage. Basically, he [[NoEndorHolocaust blew a confined, water-filled space to bits with them both inside]]. She tried to romance someone, and had to compete against someone that used [[GhostInTheShell a full prosthetic body]] and ThePowerOfRock to manufacture sex appeal. The protagonist reneged on her agreement, and in the ensuing underwater, massive, ultra-destructive armed struggle, the most competent characters in the entire movie were killed by their own employer in one volley of gunfire. The firefight involved a [[HoistByHisOwnPetard powerful captured weapon]]. The protagonist grew up and had a [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18435_5-movie-romances-that-wont-last-according-to-science.htm doomed marriage]].