Briareos Hecatonchires
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Briareos Hecatonchires is a character from Masamune Shirow's Appleseed manga. He is one of the two protagonists of the series, the other being Deunan Knute. Briareos is a trained SWAT officer, his point man is Deunan. They met in her father's SWAT unit before World War III broke out. Briareos and Deunan are lovers and have been involved since before the war.
Since moving to Olympus with Deunan, they have joined the ESWAT unit (Extra Special Weapons And Tactics).
He is named after Briareus the Vigorous, one of the Hecatonchires (hundred-armed giants) of Greek mythology.
[edit] Cybernetics
Briareos has an extensive amount cybernetic implants, resulting in his body being mostly artificial. He has 5 eyes mounted on his head, a large main one and 4 in the corners. In addition to this he has two rabbit-like "ears" complete with their own servo controls. The ears can be use by him to look around corners with their built in cameras. His cybernetics controller, the Hecatonchires system, is name after the same 100 handed giant from Greek mythology. It is capable of controlling dozens of limbs or other cyborg bodies with no additional strain on the user.
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| Manga: | Appleseed | |||
| Films: | Appleseed • Appleseed EX Machina | |||
| Television & video: | Appleseed • Appleseed OAV | |||
| Video games: | Appleseed • Appleseed EX • Appleseed the Online | |||
| Characters: | Briareos Hecatonchires • Deunan Knute | |||
| Technology: | Bioroid • Landmate | |||
| Other: | Masamune Shirow | |||
