The core mental aspects of what makes us human has been a staple of science fiction films, particularly since the 1980s. "Blade Runner" examined what made an organic-creation a human, while the "RoboCop" series saw an android mechanism fitted with the brain and reprogrammed mind of a human to create a cyborg. The idea of brain transfer was not entirely new to science fiction film, as the concept of the "mad scientist" transferring the human mind to another body is as old as "Frankenstein" while the idea of corporations behind mind transfer technologies is observed in later films such as "Gamer", "Avatar", and "Surrogates".