Briareos Hecatonchires

Originally an African man from the Mediterranean, Briareos was used as a terrorist by the KGB while still a child.

He sought political asylum in the former USA after killing the unit's commander of operations - for which he was put on the international "most wanted" list as an assassin.

After meeting an agent from Special Security Forces, he began operating as a partner with the man's daughter, Deunan Knute.

Caught in an explosion, the 31 year old survived only by undergoing a full cyborg body replacement - and has been making modifications ever since.

Contrary to popular belief, "Hecatonchires" is not really Briareos' last name, but rather the class of the machine body he's contained in.

His original surname isn't known.

Three quarters machine, Briareos still maintains a cardiovascular and digestive system (revealed to us in Ex Machina), but appears to have lost his reproductive system, making him asexual (revealed in Appleseed (2004), though he is physically affectionate with Deunan in the manga).

He stills eats and drinks (frequently in the original manga), and has the ability to get inebriated to some extent.

Having somehow escaped brain damage during the wartime injuries that forced him to be rebuilt as a cyborg, he maintains all of his original human memories, and his personality.

His voice has changed somewhat, though the polyphonic speech synthesizer he now uses produces an accent quite similar to his former self.

Tereus, his clone, maintains his original voice.

His body mixes a combination of real and artificial skin, but relies upon what appears to be relatively unchanged human blood.

When shot multiple times by high powered guns in volume one of the manga, he bleeds considerably, and has to enter a sleep mode in order to prevent damage to both his biological and artificial brains.

Under his skin are multiple heat-transfer membranes, which allow him to sweat like a human.

Ultimately human, Briareos can still die of injury, illness, and age.

Although highly resilient to gunshot wounds (he boasts in volume two of the manga, "it'll take more than a nine millimeter [handgun] to stop me"), repeatedly taking rounds in the back from assault rifles nearly killed him in the first of the trilogy films.

In the second, a large explosion caused him to sustain significant, almost lethal, internal damage.

He's been repaired twice, but seems to believe his overall composition is weakening, leading him to reluctantly think that his clone Tereus might be better suited to be Deunan's wingman.

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