History Characters / MurderDrones

* TeenGenius: She build a new weapon able to kill Disassembly Drones in a single shot all by herself.

* FourIsDeath: Neda possibly as they're mentioned to be 'Corrupted'.

* YouAreNumberSix: From what we can tell, every Test Subject had a number assigned to them with there at least being 106 of them. The console Tessa examines in "Mass Destruction" lists up through a Matt/128, with a possible 129th listing obscured by the bottom of the screen.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Uzi's railgun exploding destroys most of its "Eldritch J" body, something that happened because it disarmed Uzi and stabbed the gun's power source.

* YouAreNumberSix: Was known as Subject 017.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her only real appearances are a brief glimpse of V killing her and her stopping Nori in "Mass Destruction". It's thanks to her however that Nori was able to survive the Absolute Solver's attempt at turning her into it's host, allowing her to meet Khan and have Uzi, and her death is what drives Doll to initially try to kill V before trying to figure out how to exorcise the Solver from herself, something that becomes useful to Uzi and N after Doll dies.

* B%ewareTheSillyOnes: As scatterbrained and kooky as he can be, it's easy to forget that he's still a Murder Drone who would have killed Uzi had she not shot his head off, and is entirely capable of going toe-to-toe with the likes of V when he needs to. This is most prominent when he has Tessa at sword edge upon learning about a patch that could remove the Absolute Solver's influence from Drones, and gives her a single chance to be straight with him on whether she knew about it prior. When Tessa tries to be condescending rather than give a straight answer, he ''immediately'' [[OffWithHisHead decapitates her]] without a seconds hesitation, her behavior already telling him all he needed to know.

* EvilCounterpart: As of "The Promening", she's revealed to be a dark mirror image to Uzi. Like Uzi, she's a teenage girl Worker Drone who has the Absolute Solver, lost parent(s) to the Murder Drones, and is out for revenge and answers on their condition. Unlike Uzi, who recognizes that the Murder Drones are merely manipulated pawns and protects the other Worker Drones (if only by circumstance), Doll directs her vengeance against the Murder Drones instead of the humans who manipulated them, and she's an outright SerialKiller who preys on her fellow Worker Drones. Uzi also goes out of her way to avoid harming the robot cockroaches, and even uses her Absolute Solver powers to revive one when she accidentally kills it in "Cabin Fever", while Doll is entirely willing to use her powers to blow one up and then lick off the remaining blood. Lastly, Doll's unwillingness to work with, rely on or open up to anyone but herself after "The Promening" parallels Uzi's own attitude -- whereas Uzi grows out of this over her character arc, Doll represents what could've happened to Uzi if she hadn't: it ultimately ensures that there's no-one to save Doll [[spoiler:from Cyn and gets her killed]].
** This is further shown in "Mass Destruction", in where her insistence on working alone and refusing to let go of her grudge with V allowed "Tessa" to find the server where the crucifix patch was stored and blow it up. When it is time to be disposed of, she doesn't have anyone to save her. Meanwhile, Uzi had both N and Nori to snap her out of her possession and save her.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: As scatterbrained and kooky as he can be, it's easy to forget that he's still a Murder Drone who would have killed Uzi had she not shot his head off, and is entirely capable of going toe-to-toe with the likes of V when he needs to. This is most prominent when he has Tessa at sword edge upon learning about a patch that could remove the Absolute Solver's influence from Drones, and gives her a single chance to be straight with him on whether she knew about it prior. When Tessa tries to be condescending rather than give a straight answer, he ''immediately'' [[OffWithHisHead decapitates her]] without a seconds hesitation, her behavior already telling him all he needed to know.

* EvilCounterpart: As of "The Promening", she's revealed to be a dark mirror image to Uzi. Like Uzi, she's a teenage girl Worker Drone who has the Absolute Solver, lost parent(s) to the Murder Drones, and is out for revenge and answers on their condition. Unlike Uzi, who recognizes that the Murder Drones are merely manipulated pawns and protects the other Worker Drones (if only by circumstance), Doll directs her vengeance against the Murder Drones instead of the humans who manipulated them, and she's an outright SerialKiller who preys on her fellow Worker Drones. Uzi also goes out of her way to avoid harming the robot cockroaches, and even uses her Absolute Solver powers to revive one when she accidentally kills it in "Cabin Fever", while Doll is entirely willing to use her powers to blow one up and then lick off the remaining blood.

* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: "Dead End" reveals that they were conducting foolhardy research on the [[DigitalAbomination Absolute Solver]], and suggests that this was actually responsible for plunging Copper 9 into EndlessWinter.

!The Drones

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: N does seem to be especially gullible. In the Pilot, he more or less unquestionably believes that Uzi is a fellow Disassembly Drone -- even though he was blind, she still has to use his nanite saliva to heal herself, which is extremely suspicious. Much later in ''Home'', he can't see that there's something '''[[DevilInPlainSight off]]''' about Cyn when every other Drone and human in Elliot Manor doesn't trust her.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Downplayed. N was just as bloodthirsty as the other Disassembly Drones prior to his HeelFaceTurn, but unlike with V or J the Absolute Solver wasn't able to rework his personality. Where J lost her softer side and V was made into a homicidal lunatic, N remained a gentle NiceGuy - just much more ruthless.

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** The disassembly drone as a concept in of itself is this. Especially for the purpose of mass extermination. Why [[OrbitalBombardment bombard the planet from orbit]] or blast the place with a planet-wide {{EMP}} and be done with it faster when you can send {{Drop Pod}}s full of costly, overly complex murderbots onto the surface? Add to the fact that they themselves are also sentient (thus is capable of rebelling themselves) and mutate into an uncontrollable material collecting monstrosity when they take severe enough damage makes them more of a danger to everyone involved than the worker drones that they were tasked to exterminate. Though it's revealed in "Dead End" that the Absolute Solver created the Disassembly Drones to prevent any further research being conducted on it.

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The five glowing bulbs on their foreheads are their real eyes; the face visor is just for show. You'd think it would be awkward to look around when your eyes are on top of your head. Strangely, N can see just fine in "Cabin Fever" even though his hat was covering all of those lights, either a case of SeriesContinuityError or the canon was dropped.
** His hat doesn't completely cover his eyes for the most part, and it's also possible that the visor ''can'' work like actual eyes for him and V since they were originally Worker Drones themselves as depicted in "Home".
* FaceMonsterTurn: For the mostly good or neutral Worker Drones, all got turned into Disassembly Drones and definitely changed their appearances during the process.

* ForcedIntoEvil: It's confirmed that they were or at least the majority of them were Worker Drones converted into Disassembly Drones against their will.

* ImAHumanitarian: Another seemingly intentional FatalFlaw instilled into them by [=JCJenson=], only for WordOfGod to confirm otherwise. They need to constantly consume oil in order to stop themselves from overheating, and the best means for them to ''get'' said oil is via killing and then ''eating'' Worker Drones. Once they run out of oil to cool themselves down however, they'll eventually die out. Under the guise of being done by [=JCJenson=], this spares them the trouble of terminating them. But under the truth of the Absolute Solver, this becomes a necessity to prevent the death of both host and their strain of the Solver via literal heat death.

* {{Irony}}: The reveal that they're products of the Absolute Solver can be considered this since the Absolute Solver seems to have the ''weakest'' influence on them, given that the most they do with it is regenerating, they're vulnerable to Worker Drones using the Absolute Solver on them, and it can't directly control them unless they're irreparably damaged. With that said, they've never been shown being actively affected by the Solver, just by things affected by it, as in "The Promening".
** Additionally, the Disassembly Drones (according to Nori's note in Mass Destruction at least) have "nerfed" strains of the Absolute Solver. And while Uzi does use her Solver to push N out of the church. She did NOT do so by directly taking control of or affecting him; merely performing something akin to the Force Push from Star Wars.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Each Disassembly Drone can be identified by their serial number, carried over from when they were Worker/Zombie Drones, typically being a single letter followed by a long alphanumeric code resembling binary. Due to how much of a mouthful that would be however, they tend to default to ''just'' the first letter, giving them a OneLetterName. For example, N's full name is "Serial Designation 'N-0X0010010'", but he introduces himself to Uzi as ''just'' "Serial Designation 'N'".

* KilledOffScreen: While her husband's death is shown, her death isn't.

!Others

* AnimalMotifs: N is frequently associated with dogs, especially golden retrievers, as he is an outgoing people pleaser with a kind, easygoing temperament that endears him to others. These parallels are lampshaded in ''Home'', where his first scene has him happily reading a book about dog breeds, with golden retrievers receiving the most focus.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Unlike Uzi, who starts out barely knowing how to control her Solver powers, Doll is a master at them and far more dangerous than any single Murder Drone. "Dead End" has her effortlessly get past Alice and Beau while at the same time seemingly having free reign to use her powers without worrying about the Solver taking over unlike Uzi.

* BlessedWithSuck: She seems to think of her absolute solver powers as this, as she's never depicted happy while using them, and she makes a pledge to help Uzi upon learning the latter also has the Absolute Solver.

* BodySnatcher: Might capable of doing so, if V's comment of "Different body, same horrors" is anything to go by, [[AmbiguousSituation though she might have been conflating Cyn with the Solver there.]]

* WillingChanneler: A FreezeFrameBonus of Cyn's visor during ''Home'' suggests Cyn made a [[DealWithTheDevil Deal with the Absolute Solver]] to become this. Though it looks like she didn't agree to being gradually taken over by the Solver.
* YouWillBeSpared: Despite only treating her marginally better, Cyn doesn't include Tessa in her "kill all humans" plans and even warns her to stay away from the Gala before going off to kill everyone else in the mansion.

* ArcVillain: She is the main antagonist of "Dead End", and only shows up in that episode.

* VillainOfTheWeek: She is the main villain in "Dead End", along with the Sentinels.

* KilledOffscreen: By the time of 'The Promenining', they've all have been killed by Doll.