@DRDMovieMusings said:

@Jetfire59 said:

@Innovator said:

@april422 said:

Cyborgs have living tissue over a metal exoskeleton.

Can it really be called an exoskeleton when its inside the body? Wouldn't it be an endoskeleton?

Quite correct, Innovator.

Actually, not necessarily. As far as SkyNet is concerned, their cyborgs are complete before the outer skin goes on. As such, before the skins go on, the exoskeleton is outside the body, and all its internal components are within it. Seen in this light, it's rather more chilling, because it does not at all factor the living tissue as a key part of its makeup.

Imagine, then, any other critter with an "exoskeleton" then putting on a costume. That costume is NOT a part of its body, its physiochemical functioning...it's just clothes for lack of a better term.

Weren't t-800+s referred to as "Endos" in The Terminator: Dawn of Fate and Terminator Genisys: Revolution? That would imply that others considered the internals being an endoskeleton. Also the models were always intended to have things put onto it, like armor panels, rubber and such. Therefore the intention was always the machines being the internal of the whole making them endoskeletons for all practical purposes.

Bottom line, guys. The movie misuses the term "cyborg". That was my original point.

@Jetfire59 said:

Bottom line, guys. The movie misuses the term "cyborg". That was my original point.

Yeah, in the second Terminator film Arnold aka the T800 tells the young John Connor and his future wife that he is a "cybernetic organism" when John calls him a robot. So they either use a different definition of the term, they just liked the sound of the term, or they messed up.