What kind of being was Inspector Gadget?

[Quintin]

I was reminiscing about an old cartoon I used to watch on Nickelodeon as a kid called Inspector Gadget. Today it has me wondering just what the hell was this guy? Is he android, human, or a mix of the two? And who or what made him? His niece, Penny, was Gadget really an uncle towards her? Instances when he'd extend his metallic neck many feet into the air would have me puzzled. How can someone do this, and still manage to be alive as a human?

[MarkD]

I guess you'd call him a human cyborg. He's a person with robotic parts. Unless it was some secret to the story, Penny was his real niece and he was her legal guardian.

As to the extent of the gadgets, that's just the cartoon aspect, which like many cartoons, requires a good deal of suspension of disbelief.

[Nicholas]

human being

[Nicholas]

human being

[humerh]

he was a human who got into a horrid accident and got transforemed into an awesome detective with gadgets but its only a cartoon so yea...idk what category of beings he belongs to

[Nicholas]

human being

[Nicholas]

human being