I just watched the fourth Rocky movie, the one where he fights the Russian boxer Drago.  Near the end of the movie when Rocky is training for his big fight with Drago there's a training montage (of the sort Rocky movies are famous for) where Rocky has been placed out in the wilderness of Russia in the middle of nowhere where he has no access to modern training equipment.  The montage is shots of Rocky training by doing things like chopping wood and hauling sleds full of equipment interspersed with shots of Drago using modern industrial equipment, there's a lot of metal and clanging sounds involved.  This serves to humanize Rocky and associating Drago with all the metal establishes him as a cyborg.  During the boxing match at the end of the movie, Drago is starting to lose the fight to Rocky and says to his trainer, "he is not a man, he is made of iron." So there's something going on with shifting the boundaries of the body making a person able to win.

Drago and his wife are never seen being affectionate, and Rocky and his wife are always shown kissing and hugging.  So, the way the two men relate to their wives establishes Rocky as more of a "human" as well.  Drago's wife being de-sexualized also changes (removes?) her gender and establisher her as a robo character.