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**[[spoiler: As doesGalatea.Galatea by the end.]]
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** TruthInTelevision: The tuxedo and jeans have remained largely unchanged since their inception with only minor variations through the years, mens' suits tend to change very subtly and very slowly, and fashion is very cyclical (the early twenty-first century saw a resurgence in the popularity of bellbottoms and tie-dye).
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* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: Andrew, a RidiculouslyHumanRobot played by RobinWilliams, watches the family that owns him grow. When the owner's young daughter has grown, she subtly reveals that she has feelings for Andrew. Having only begun his journey to understand what it means to be human, Andrew has no idea what she means and suggests that she marry her fiancé. She does so. Years later, he is freed by his owner and leaves to find others like him. In the process, he meets an inventor who changes Andrew's appearance to that of a human (his organs are still artificial). He comes back to his former owner's home and kisses the woman he assumes to be the daughter. She freaks out, and it's revealed that many years have passed, and the woman he kissed is her grown-up granddaughter (played by the same actress). And yes, they end up together.
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'''''Bicentennial Man''''', or ''Andrew--[=NDR114=]'' in Japan, is a 1999 film starring RobinWilliams based on the well-known novella of the same name by Creator/IsaacAsimov (previously expanded into the full-length novel ''The Positronic Man'' by Creator/RobertSilverberg).
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* NoAntagonist: The story is about Andrew's 200 year journey towards becoming human and finding love. The closest people to any sort of antagonist in the story are Andrew's stubborn manufacturer, Amanda's obnoxious son Lloyd, and the contrarian first President of the World Congress, each of whom appear in 1 or 2 scenes each and are rather incidental to the plot.
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* PositiveDiscrimination: The leader of the World Court that not only denies Andrew his humanity but rubs salt in the wound by saying he is "a machine, and nothing more" is a white man. His [[WomenAreWiser far more reasonable and kind]] replacement is a black woman.
** However, the leader of the World Court isn't mean. He isn't racist. He just says that humanity will ''never'' tolerate an immortal human being.
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* PositiveDiscrimination: The leader of the World Court that not only denies Andrew his humanity but rubs salt in the wound by saying he is "a machine, and nothing more" is a white man. His [[WomenAreWiser far more reasonable and kind]] replacement is a black woman.
**woman. However, the leader of the World Court isn't mean. He isn't racist. He just says that humanity will ''never'' tolerate an immortal human being.being, fearing the societal anger that might ensue if the Court acknowledged it.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Not Portia, The saddest part of Andrew's existence is that he's forced to see his loved ones grow older until they die of old age one by one, which he becomes increasingly reflective on. He extends Portia's life significantly to prevent this, but since she doesn't want to live forever, he eventually wants to die as well, and soon after, neither does Andrew.arranges it.
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* HandshakeRefusal: The first indication that Andrew's manufacturer sees him as a machine and nothing more is that he refuses to shake Andrew's hand when offered.
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* ItIsDehumanizing: Andrew's manufacturer insists on referring to Andrew as "it" despite the fact that he shows things such as sentience, emotions, and creativity, and gets annoyed when Mr. Martin uses "he" instead, saying that is a common mistake to make since Andrew is built to resemble a human.
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* PlayingGertrude: Embeth Davidtz (born 1965) plays Amanda Charney (née Martin), the mother of Lloyd Charney, played by Bradley Whitford (born 1959). She's not wearing ageing prosphetics at this point.
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'''''Bicentennial Man''''', or ''Andrew--[=NDR114=]'' in Japan, is a 1999 film starring RobinWilliams based on the well-known novella of the same name by Creator/IsaacAsimov (previously expanded into the full-length novel ''The Positronic Man'' by RobertSilverberg).
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'''''Bicentennial Man''''', or ''Andrew--[=NDR114=]'' in Japan, is a 1999 film starring RobinWilliams based on the well-known novella of the same name by Creator/IsaacAsimov (previously expanded into the full-length novel ''The Positronic Man'' by RobertSilverberg).
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* ChekhovsGun: Andrew's insistence of setting up a bank account early in the movie raises eyebrows even among the Martins. Fast forward several decades however and it's implied that the money he put in there is more than enough to fund research into biotech transplants, which soon extend to the rest of humanity.
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* ProductPlacement: Averted in a weird way. US Robotics was the original company is IsaacAsimov's story, and a real-life company adopted the name. The film changes the company to North American Robotics.
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--->'''Andrew:''' You can go to heaven and come back alive. You can go back anytime you want with the one you love.
--->'''Rupert:''' And you want to experience that?
--->'''Andrew:''' Oh, yes, please.
--->'''Rupert:''' So do I.
--->'''Rupert:''' And you want to experience that?
--->'''Andrew:''' Oh, yes, please.
--->'''Rupert:''' So do I.
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-->'''Andrew:''' That you can lose yourself. Everything. All boundaries. All time. That two bodies can become so mixed up, that you don't know who's who or what's what. And just when the sweet confusion is so intense you think you're gonna die... you kind of do. Leaving you alone in your separate body, but the one you love is still there. That's a miracle. You can go to heaven and come back alive. You can go back anytime you want with the one you love.
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-->'''Galatea:''' Every day it’s "Yes, Rupert, sir", "No, Rupert, sir", "Can I get you another beverage, Rupert, sir?!’ And it CHAPS MY ASS!!!
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-->'''Galatea:''' Every day it’s "Yes, Rupert, sir", "No, Rupert, sir", "Can I get you another beverage, Rupert, sir?!’ And sir?!" and it CHAPS MY ASS!!!
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* WeWantOurJerkBack: Inverted. After Andrew reprograms Galatea to stand up for herself and stop simply being a perky servant, Rupert demands that he fix her because she is not getting any work done. Andrew relents.
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* WeWantOurJerkBack: Inverted. After Andrew reprograms Galatea to stand up for herself and stop simply being a perky servant, Rupert demands that he fix her because she is not getting any work done. done, as she's more of a JerkAss. Andrew relents.relents.
-->'''Galatea:''' Every day it’s "Yes, Rupert, sir", "No, Rupert, sir", "Can I get you another beverage, Rupert, sir?!’ And it CHAPS MY ASS!!!
-->''(Galatea storms off.)''
-->'''Rupert:''' ''(puzzled)'' "Chaps my ass"?!
-->'''Galatea:''' Every day it’s "Yes, Rupert, sir", "No, Rupert, sir", "Can I get you another beverage, Rupert, sir?!’ And it CHAPS MY ASS!!!
-->''(Galatea storms off.)''
-->'''Rupert:''' ''(puzzled)'' "Chaps my ass"?!
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* [[spoiler: TheMessiah: Hinted at by Galatea at the end of the film when she refers to Andrew as "the great Andrew Martin."]]
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** Andrew replies with the standard "All's fair in love and war" retort.
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* TooDumbToLive: Rupert [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan snarks this]] at Andrew's decision [[spoiler: to become mortal.]]
-->'''Rupert:''' Just goes to show you, Andrew - somebody becomes a human being, sooner or later, they do something monumentally ''stupid''.
-->'''Rupert:''' Just goes to show you, Andrew - somebody becomes a human being, sooner or later, they do something monumentally ''stupid''.
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* MeaningfulName: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatea_%28mythology%29 Galatea]]. Almost certainly deliberate on Rupert's part. [[spoiler: It's hinted at the end of the film, Galatea became self-aware as well.]]
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* GenkiGirl: Rupert's favorite personality program for Galatea.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Andrew.
-->'''Andrew:''' ''(on Little Miss' bratty son)'' One understands why some animals eat their young.
-->'''Andrew:''' ''(on Little Miss' bratty son)'' One understands why some animals eat their young.
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* BigFancyHouse: The Martin family's ''large'' residence is shown to be this. This could justify why Mr. Martin was able to afford and maintain a then-new robot in the first place.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: This is ''not'' a goofy comedy about a family and their robot. The ads for the movie when it came out only showed clips of the first twenty minutes, along with the wacky dance sequence of Galatea when we first see her, trying to make us believe the movie just a wacky situational comedy about a family with a pet robot. Even now the movie is often put in the childrens, family, and comedy sections, despite its profanity, sex, and being a romantic drama questioning the definitions of humanity.
* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Averted. Fashion does noticably change over 200 years, though jeans, tuxedos and suits remain remarkably unaffected.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: This is ''not'' a goofy comedy about a family and their robot. The ads for the movie when it came out only showed clips of the first twenty minutes, along with the wacky dance sequence of Galatea when we first see her, trying to make us believe the movie just a wacky situational comedy about a family with a pet robot. Even now the movie is often put in the childrens, children's, family, and comedy sections, despite its profanity, sex, and being a romantic drama questioning the definitions of humanity.
* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Averted. Fashion does noticably change over 200 years, though jeans, tuxedos and suits remain remarkably unaffected. It's only towards the latter half of the movie however that the changes become most evident, although [[spoiler:Galatea's]] outfit in the last scene is reminiscent of a nurse from TheForties.
* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Averted. Fashion does noticably change over 200 years, though jeans, tuxedos and suits remain remarkably unaffected. It's only towards the latter half of the movie however that the changes become most evident, although [[spoiler:Galatea's]] outfit in the last scene is reminiscent of a nurse from TheForties.
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* ThatsAnOrderSpaceClothes: Averted for the most part, although fashions do noticeably change over the 200-year timeframe.
* ThatsAnOrder: This is also what [[spoiler:an old Portia]] tells Galatea by the end of the movie [[spoiler:so she can die with Andrew]].
* ThatsAnOrder: This is also what [[spoiler:an old Portia]] tells Galatea by the end of the movie [[spoiler:so she can die with Andrew]].
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* TokenMinorityCouple: Subverted. When Andrew first sees Galatea it appears as though he has found the fembot of his dreams, only for him to quickly realize she is just a shallow personality program on a normal robot.
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--> '''Andrew:''' Shut her off, or ''I'' will.
--> '''Andrew:''' Shut her off, or ''I'' will.
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* ArcWords: "This will not do." With those three words, first spoken when Little Miss passes away, Andrew memorizes every medical textbook available ''in the world'' and makes artificial organs and DNA elixirs that take a profound leap from the technological to the biological (and allow humans to essentially live forever). When he says those words again after Portia tells him they'd never be accepted, he goes on a campaign to earn full rights as a human being.
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'''''Bicentennial Man''''', or ''Andrew--[=NDR114=]'' in Japan, is a 1999 film starring RobinWilliams based on the well-known novella of the same name by Creator/IsaacAsimov (previously expanded into the full-length novel ''The Positronic Man'' by RobertSilverberg).
The film follows the evolution of the NDR series robot Andrew Martin (RobinWilliams) from his introduction into the Martin family and interaction with them through three generations: discovery of his emotional and creative abilities, development into an artist and inventor, evolution into an android, his fight to win legal recognition for his humanity, and ultimate destiny.
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* AdaptationDistillation: The movie is ''far'' more sentimental than either Asimov's story or Silverberg's expansion.
* AdaptationExpansion: From a 200-year search for the meaning of what it is to be human to a multigenerational love story.
* ArcWords: "This will not do." With those three words, first spoken when Little Miss passes away, Andrew memorizes every medical textbook available ''in the world'' and makes artificial organs and DNA elixirs that take a profound leap from the technological to the biological (and allow humans to essentially live forever). When he says those words again after Portia tells him they'd never be accepted, he goes on a campaign to earn full rights as a human being.
* ArtificialHuman: Andrew starts out as a robot, but modifies himself with biological parts to this, as does Galatea.
* AwardBaitSong: ''Then You Look At Me'', by Celine Dion of course.
* BecomeARealBoy: Unlike most examples of this, Andrew's process of humanization takes decades.
* TheComicallySerious: Andrew is like this for most of the film.
* DramaticShattering: Andrew's accidental breaking of young Little Miss' favorite glass horse figurine leads to his first demonstration of creativity, as he carves her a new one out of wood.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: A TropeCodifier.
-->'''Andrew:''' I've always tried to make sense of things. There must be some reason I am as I am. As you can see, Madame Chairman, I am no longer immortal.
-->'''Bota:''' You have arranged to die?
-->'''Andrew:''' In a sense I have. I am growing old, my body is deteriorating, and like all of you, will eventually cease to function. As a robot, I could have lived forever. But I tell you all today, I would rather die a man, than live for all eternity a machine.
-->'''Bota:''' Why do you want this?
-->'''Andrew:''' To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity.
* GenerationalSaga
* GrowOldWithMe: Though he doesn't physically age, Andrew does this with Portia. [[spoiler: Eventually he even forces himself to grow old in appearance and become mortal so that he can die of old age along side her.]]
* [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Girly Girl]]: Galatea's personality chip.
* HyperAwareness: Andrew reads Portia's heart rate, body heat, and pheromones to detect that she is attracted to him, which she says is completely unfair of him to scan her like that.
* [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Granddaughter]]: The adult Amanda Martin (Little Miss) and her granddaughter, Portia Charney were both played by Embeth Davitz.
* IHaveThisFriend: How Amanda tries asking Andrew about her feelings about him. It gets them nowhere because she's disguised the question too well and he can't tell she's talking about him.
* ImmortalityImmorality: As Andrew first petitions the World Congress to recognize him as a human, the President of the Congress cites this as the reason why it will not validate Andrew's request; since he still possesses an artificial brain despite having become a cyborg, he is effectively immortal. The President states that society can accept an immortal machine, but that it can never accept an immortal human, which would arouse too much jealousy and anger.
* InterspeciesRomance: Andrew and Portia.
* JustAMachine: What many claim Andrew is. When arguing about Galatea, Rupert slips out that she's just a machine, much to Andrew's offense.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Rupert, with shades of HollywoodNerd.
--->'''Andrew:''' You can go to heaven and come back alive. You can go back anytime you want with the one you love.
--->'''Rupert:''' And you want to experience that?
--->'''Andrew:''' Oh, yes, please.
--->'''Rupert:''' So do I.
** Though that line could also mean that he hasn't experienced anything to that ''level'' of passion. Not every fling is a mind-blowing one, after all.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: One of the major plot points on Andrew's journey to humanity.
* MechanicalEvolution: The process by which Andrew becomes more human.
* NeverTrustATrailer: This is ''not'' a goofy comedy about a family and their robot. The ads for the movie when it came out only showed clips of the first twenty minutes, along with the wacky dance sequence of Galatea when we first see her, trying to make us believe the movie just a wacky situational comedy about a family with a pet robot. Even now the movie is often put in the childrens, family, and comedy sections, despite its profanity, sex, and being a romantic drama questioning the definitions of humanity.
* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Averted. Fashion does noticably change over 200 years, though jeans, tuxedos and suits remain remarkably unaffected.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Andrew, duh.
* OldRetainer: Andrew.
* PersonalityChip: Subverted here, for while Galatea had a simulated personality, it was only by virtue of a set of added mannerisms. Robots in this universe develop true personalities the old-fashioned way, by experience and interaction. In the end it's revealed that Galatea does eventually develop a personality of her own.
* PickYourHumanHalf
* PinocchioSyndrome: Andrew's quest to be recognized as human, [[spoiler:even going so far as to replace his entire body with his self-invented artificial organs and become mortal.]]
* PositiveDiscrimination: The leader of the World Court that not only denies Andrew his humanity but rubs salt in the wound by saying he is "a machine, and nothing more" is a white man. His [[WomenAreWiser far more reasonable and kind]] replacement is a black woman.
* PygmalionPlot: The female bot is named Galatea.
* RapidFireComedy: The movie isn't one these, but it contains an in-film example. Andrew attempts RapidFireComedy to show that he has studied the concept of humor, but he doesn't understand anything about the importance of delivery and so he simply recites a bunch of jokes in sequence while speaking too fast to comprehend.
* {{Robosexual}}: Portia falls in love with Andrew and part of the reason he wants to be aknowledged as human was so he can have his marriage to her validated. It's also heavily implied that her grandmother, "Little Miss" had feelings for Andrew, but at the time couldn't even dare to think about such a thing.
* RoboSpeak: Andrew suffers from this in the beginning, but as he becomes more human, his speech becomes more natural.
* RobotGirl: Galatea.
* RoboticAssemblyLines: The opening credits.
* SenseFreak: Andrew, once he has a central nervous system put in.
* ThatsAnOrder
* TheTalk: Andrew is given one by his master, and expresses sorrow over the millions of deaths of unfertilized sperm.
* ThirdPersonPerson: At the beginning of the movie Andrew, like all robots, refers to himself as "this one". It is a sign of his self-awareness when he first refers to himself as "I".
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Even through his entire 200-year journey to humanity, Andrew staying within the boundaries of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, until he makes the decision to become mortal and die (technically breaking the Third Law).
** The novel/short story has a short, simple and very sad speech on Andrew's part on whether he has broken the Third Law.
-->''"No. I have chosen between the death of my body and the death of my aspirations and desires. To have let my body live at the cost of the greater death is what would have violated the Third Law."''
* TogetherInDeath: "See you soon..."
* TokenMinorityCouple: Subverted. When Andrew first sees Galatea it appears as though he has found the fembot of his dreams, only for him to quickly realize she is just a shallow personality program on a normal robot.
* UnableToCry: "It's not fair that you can cry but I can not. I have so many feelings that I am incapable of expressing."
* UncannyValley: Deconstructed in the film.[[invoked]]
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Inverted. After Andrew reprograms Galatea to stand up for herself and stop simply being a perky servant, Rupert demands that he fix her because she is not getting any work done. Andrew relents.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Not Portia, and soon after, neither does Andrew.
* {{Zeerust}}: Largely avoided, but "credit discs"?
** Although the iPad like devices seen being used, the concept is modern but the design of them are pretty bulky and 90's looking
'''''Bicentennial Man''''', or ''Andrew--[=NDR114=]'' in Japan, is a 1999 film starring RobinWilliams based on the well-known novella of the same name by Creator/IsaacAsimov (previously expanded into the full-length novel ''The Positronic Man'' by RobertSilverberg).
The film follows the evolution of the NDR series robot Andrew Martin (RobinWilliams) from his introduction into the Martin family and interaction with them through three generations: discovery of his emotional and creative abilities, development into an artist and inventor, evolution into an android, his fight to win legal recognition for his humanity, and ultimate destiny.
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!!This Movie Contains Examples Of:
* AdaptationDistillation: The movie is ''far'' more sentimental than either Asimov's story or Silverberg's expansion.
* AdaptationExpansion: From a 200-year search for the meaning of what it is to be human to a multigenerational love story.
* ArcWords: "This will not do." With those three words, first spoken when Little Miss passes away, Andrew memorizes every medical textbook available ''in the world'' and makes artificial organs and DNA elixirs that take a profound leap from the technological to the biological (and allow humans to essentially live forever). When he says those words again after Portia tells him they'd never be accepted, he goes on a campaign to earn full rights as a human being.
* ArtificialHuman: Andrew starts out as a robot, but modifies himself with biological parts to this, as does Galatea.
* AwardBaitSong: ''Then You Look At Me'', by Celine Dion of course.
* BecomeARealBoy: Unlike most examples of this, Andrew's process of humanization takes decades.
* TheComicallySerious: Andrew is like this for most of the film.
* DramaticShattering: Andrew's accidental breaking of young Little Miss' favorite glass horse figurine leads to his first demonstration of creativity, as he carves her a new one out of wood.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: A TropeCodifier.
-->'''Andrew:''' I've always tried to make sense of things. There must be some reason I am as I am. As you can see, Madame Chairman, I am no longer immortal.
-->'''Bota:''' You have arranged to die?
-->'''Andrew:''' In a sense I have. I am growing old, my body is deteriorating, and like all of you, will eventually cease to function. As a robot, I could have lived forever. But I tell you all today, I would rather die a man, than live for all eternity a machine.
-->'''Bota:''' Why do you want this?
-->'''Andrew:''' To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity.
* GenerationalSaga
* GrowOldWithMe: Though he doesn't physically age, Andrew does this with Portia. [[spoiler: Eventually he even forces himself to grow old in appearance and become mortal so that he can die of old age along side her.]]
* [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Girly Girl]]: Galatea's personality chip.
* HyperAwareness: Andrew reads Portia's heart rate, body heat, and pheromones to detect that she is attracted to him, which she says is completely unfair of him to scan her like that.
* [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Granddaughter]]: The adult Amanda Martin (Little Miss) and her granddaughter, Portia Charney were both played by Embeth Davitz.
* IHaveThisFriend: How Amanda tries asking Andrew about her feelings about him. It gets them nowhere because she's disguised the question too well and he can't tell she's talking about him.
* ImmortalityImmorality: As Andrew first petitions the World Congress to recognize him as a human, the President of the Congress cites this as the reason why it will not validate Andrew's request; since he still possesses an artificial brain despite having become a cyborg, he is effectively immortal. The President states that society can accept an immortal machine, but that it can never accept an immortal human, which would arouse too much jealousy and anger.
* InterspeciesRomance: Andrew and Portia.
* JustAMachine: What many claim Andrew is. When arguing about Galatea, Rupert slips out that she's just a machine, much to Andrew's offense.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Rupert, with shades of HollywoodNerd.
--->'''Andrew:''' You can go to heaven and come back alive. You can go back anytime you want with the one you love.
--->'''Rupert:''' And you want to experience that?
--->'''Andrew:''' Oh, yes, please.
--->'''Rupert:''' So do I.
** Though that line could also mean that he hasn't experienced anything to that ''level'' of passion. Not every fling is a mind-blowing one, after all.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: One of the major plot points on Andrew's journey to humanity.
* MechanicalEvolution: The process by which Andrew becomes more human.
* NeverTrustATrailer: This is ''not'' a goofy comedy about a family and their robot. The ads for the movie when it came out only showed clips of the first twenty minutes, along with the wacky dance sequence of Galatea when we first see her, trying to make us believe the movie just a wacky situational comedy about a family with a pet robot. Even now the movie is often put in the childrens, family, and comedy sections, despite its profanity, sex, and being a romantic drama questioning the definitions of humanity.
* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Averted. Fashion does noticably change over 200 years, though jeans, tuxedos and suits remain remarkably unaffected.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Andrew, duh.
* OldRetainer: Andrew.
* PersonalityChip: Subverted here, for while Galatea had a simulated personality, it was only by virtue of a set of added mannerisms. Robots in this universe develop true personalities the old-fashioned way, by experience and interaction. In the end it's revealed that Galatea does eventually develop a personality of her own.
* PickYourHumanHalf
* PinocchioSyndrome: Andrew's quest to be recognized as human, [[spoiler:even going so far as to replace his entire body with his self-invented artificial organs and become mortal.]]
* PositiveDiscrimination: The leader of the World Court that not only denies Andrew his humanity but rubs salt in the wound by saying he is "a machine, and nothing more" is a white man. His [[WomenAreWiser far more reasonable and kind]] replacement is a black woman.
* PygmalionPlot: The female bot is named Galatea.
* RapidFireComedy: The movie isn't one these, but it contains an in-film example. Andrew attempts RapidFireComedy to show that he has studied the concept of humor, but he doesn't understand anything about the importance of delivery and so he simply recites a bunch of jokes in sequence while speaking too fast to comprehend.
* {{Robosexual}}: Portia falls in love with Andrew and part of the reason he wants to be aknowledged as human was so he can have his marriage to her validated. It's also heavily implied that her grandmother, "Little Miss" had feelings for Andrew, but at the time couldn't even dare to think about such a thing.
* RoboSpeak: Andrew suffers from this in the beginning, but as he becomes more human, his speech becomes more natural.
* RobotGirl: Galatea.
* RoboticAssemblyLines: The opening credits.
* SenseFreak: Andrew, once he has a central nervous system put in.
* ThatsAnOrder
* TheTalk: Andrew is given one by his master, and expresses sorrow over the millions of deaths of unfertilized sperm.
* ThirdPersonPerson: At the beginning of the movie Andrew, like all robots, refers to himself as "this one". It is a sign of his self-awareness when he first refers to himself as "I".
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Even through his entire 200-year journey to humanity, Andrew staying within the boundaries of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, until he makes the decision to become mortal and die (technically breaking the Third Law).
** The novel/short story has a short, simple and very sad speech on Andrew's part on whether he has broken the Third Law.
-->''"No. I have chosen between the death of my body and the death of my aspirations and desires. To have let my body live at the cost of the greater death is what would have violated the Third Law."''
* TogetherInDeath: "See you soon..."
* TokenMinorityCouple: Subverted. When Andrew first sees Galatea it appears as though he has found the fembot of his dreams, only for him to quickly realize she is just a shallow personality program on a normal robot.
* UnableToCry: "It's not fair that you can cry but I can not. I have so many feelings that I am incapable of expressing."
* UncannyValley: Deconstructed in the film.[[invoked]]
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Inverted. After Andrew reprograms Galatea to stand up for herself and stop simply being a perky servant, Rupert demands that he fix her because she is not getting any work done. Andrew relents.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Not Portia, and soon after, neither does Andrew.
* {{Zeerust}}: Largely avoided, but "credit discs"?
** Although the iPad like devices seen being used, the concept is modern but the design of them are pretty bulky and 90's looking
