C3PO can probably talk with trees

[nancylebov]

Droid: a droid is a robot. Not to be confused with android, which means an artificial person. Just to be clear on this point: the Vision is an android, whereas Machine-Man is a robot. Robotman, on the other hand, is a cyborg. Cyborg is also a cyborg, not to be confused with Deathlok, who is also a cyborg, but more badass. Wonder Man is not a cyborg, but an energy being shaped like a man, whereas Adam Warlock is an artificially created human, therefore an android, but he is not a warlock. Doctor Strange is, however, a warlock, but no longer a doctor, due to a crippling accident. Doctor Druid is not a doctor, but he is a druid, a member of a pagan nature religion, not to be confused with droid. As far as can be determined, there are no droid druids. Superman is a space alien, whereas Brainiac is a space alien robot. In his Fortress of Solitude, Superman often makes robot duplicates of himself, so these are robots of a space alien. Doctor Doom also makes robot duplicates of himself, which are manlike in shape, and therefore can be called andriods, but not droids. Syndrome made a battlerobot called an Omnidriod, but it was shaped like a rollerball with tentacles. There were no robots, droids, androids, or space aliens in Rollerball, but it starred James Cahn, and I think it is an underrated movie. James Cahn is not to be confused with Khan, or, as we fans like to call him KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN.

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Comments

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Ergo, android = golem?

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Hm. On further consideration, exepct in the cases of dreaming of electric sheep - and even then not necessarily - androids don't have souls - either from humans or from deity, do they. Though it would seem the difference between android and golem is thin at best.

[jonbaker.livejournal.com]

And Choppah Fawh can see through fawg!

[thette.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I always thought droid was a shortening of android.

Also, would that be Robotman from the Robotman (later Monty) comic by Jim Meddick? I think that Robotman is pretty well established to be a robot and not a cyborg, but it wouldn't surprise me a bit to find out it's some other Robotman he's talking about.

[avram]

Probably Robotman from the Doom Patrol.

[thette.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you!

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

James Cahn is not to be confused with Khan, or, as we fans like to call him KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN.

I believe you meant James Caan (http://www.imdb.com/find?q=James%20Caan;s=nm). Who is not to be confused with Dalek Caan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypeRzDDIejk&feature=related).

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

The animating ... "mechanisms" ... are different. Androids are science (fiction). Golems are fantasy (legend, theology).

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

"Droid" is a shortening of "android", but Lucas, who coined the word, used it for robots of any shape.

Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody

[dglenn.livejournal.com]

I have to agree that Rollerball is underrated.