# Help me identify this movie. Cyborgs, kung fu, a widget? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 31, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-movie-cyborgs-kung-fu-a-widget/287684 "2005-01-31T23:12:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-movie-cyborgs-kung-fu-a-widget/287684/1 "2005-01-31T23:12:59Z")
I remember seeing this movie as a kid. So roughly mid-80s. 85 or 86. It’s live action. It’s about a cyborg guy who has a tank tread for a lower body. Kind of like Johnny 5 from Short Circuit. He teams up with a regular girl a Kung Fu guy and a flying little robot like Widget from Marvel’s Excalibur. The villain was another sort of Cyborg guy. I know this sounds like a “dream remembered as a movie” but I’ve described the movie to a few other people who also vaguely remember it, one of whom thought the title was The Defenders. I imdb-ed it and came up short. I remember as a kid noting a lot of similarities with the Centurions cartoon show. So much that I thought the cartoon was maybe based on this movie. Now I dismiss that notion. So anyone remember this movie? ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-movie-cyborgs-kung-fu-a-widget/287684/2 "2005-02-01T00:28:41Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > It’s live action. It’s about a cyborg guy who has a tank tread for a lower body. Kind of like Johnny 5 from Short Circuit. He teams up with a regular girl a Kung Fu guy and a flying little robot like Widget from Marvel’s Excalibur. I was thinking of this movie the other day and contemplated posting a message asking what it was. I have barely remember the movie but I remember the cyborg could switch from his treads to a regular pair of legs. Uh, as regular a pair as any cyborg can have I guess. I think it was kind of a mix of fantasy and science fiction. Marc ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-movie-cyborgs-kung-fu-a-widget/287684/3 "2005-02-01T06:29:54Z")
[Eliminators!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091003/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9ZWxpbWluYXRvcnN8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1) [Here’s a sarcastic review!](http://www.badmovies.org/movies/eliminators/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-movie-cyborgs-kung-fu-a-widget/287684/4 "2005-02-01T06:55:54Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [Eliminators!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091003/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9ZWxpbWluYXRvcnN8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1) > > [Here’s a sarcastic review!](http://www.badmovies.org/movies/eliminators/index.html) Thanks Miller. It had been so long since I’d seen it I didn’t even know what it was about. Looks like I might have been better off not remembering. Marc