History Fridge / ExMachina

* At one point, Nathan makes a comment about men having a certain racial "type" in regards to women, using Black women as an example. Later, we learn that Ava's facial feature were designed from [[spoiler: Caleb's porn search history]]. And when we get a look at [[spoiler: Nathan's previous androids]], we see that all of them are apparently designed to look like Asian women. The apparent implication is that [[spoiler: Nathan has a fetish for Asian women, and designed his robots to look like his idealized woman. ''They're his robotic sex slaves.'']]

* At one point, Nathan makes a comment about men having a certain racial "type" in regards to women, using Black women as an example. Later, we learn that Ava's facial feature were designed from [[Caleb's porn search history]]. And when we get a look at [[spoiler: Nathan's previous androids]], we see that all of them are apparently designed to look like Asian women. The apparent implication is that [[spoiler: Nathan has a fetish for Asian women, and designed his robots to look like his idealized woman. ''They're his robotic sex slaves.'']]

* If you're familiar with electrical engineering, induction coils are pretty easy to improvise; and Ava is built into the world's main search engine. This information is at her fingertips, so it would be easy for her to simply hide somewhere with a power source until she can figure out a plan to integrate into society. At the end of the movie, we're seeing the end result of that plan.

* Nathan and Kyoko dancing together is foreshadows the RoboticReveal given that Nathan may have programmed his exact dance moves into Kyoko, given how perfectly they're in sync.

* The BigLippedAlligatorMoment where Nathan and Kyoko start dancing together is hilarious and over-the-top, but it's also a good bit of foreshadowing for [[spoiler:the RoboticReveal given that Nathan may have programmed his exact dance moves into Kyoko, given how perfectly they're in sync.]]

* Nathan's comment that he had all the workers that built his home killed when it was finished becomes much more sinister after we learn [[spoiler: he's killed almost a dozen of his creations.]] It was probably just a joke, but a kernel of doubt comes in after that...

* FridgeBrilliance: While never stated in film, Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are both included and subverted. The Three Laws state that a robot cannot kill another human, disobey a humans orders and must protect it's own existence (unless these laws cancel out each other). By the end of the film, all three have been broken, begging the question: are they still robots, or are they human after all?
** Eh... that's a stretch. For one thing, the "Laws of Robotics" only ever existed in Asimov's fiction. It's programming, not an inherent characteristic of a robot. Not a single robot built today is built with Asimov's "laws of robotics" in their processors. So it's an irrelevant point. Nobody would ever claim a robot isn't a robot just because it didn't come with Isaac Asimov's software package bundled into it.
* FridgeBrilliance: The BigLippedAlligatorMoment where Nathan and Kyoko start dancing together is hilarious and over-the-top, but it's also a good bit of foreshadowing for [[spoiler:the RoboticReveal given that Nathan may have programmed his exact dance moves into Kyoko, given how perfectly they're in sync.]]
* FridgeHorror: Nathan's comment that he had all the workers that built his home killed when it was finished becomes much more sinister after we learn [[spoiler: he's killed almost a dozen of his creations.]] It was probably just a joke, but a kernel of doubt comes in after that...
* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler: Caleb reprograms the security system to unlock all doors during a shutdown. When Ava shuts the power down on him at the end, however, the door locks on him.]]
** Uh, no fridge logic here. [[spoiler:The doors were programmed unlock ''when the power is shut down''. The power comes back on, Eva is out of the room already, and the locks turn on again.]]
*** But [[spoiler:after she's gone, he sits back down in front of the computer, apparently trying to find a way to open the doors again, but the power goes out. He slumps, as if he is truly screwed at that point, but unless the commands were changed wouldn't the doors have unlocked again?]]
*** The power doesn't go out. The computer just shuts down because his keycard doesn't give him access. [[spoiler:You can watch Eva leaving through normally-powered doors and hallways using Nathan's keycard.]]
* FridgeLogic: They state in the film that Eva is powered by inductive coils built into the building, wirelessly charging/powering her. [[spoiler: Are her batteries even going to last the helicopter ride to civilization?]]
** Furthermore, how will she integrate into society without ID or DNA, and is she capable of self repair?
** FridgeBrilliance: If you're familiar with electrical engineering, induction coils are pretty easy to improvise; and Ava is built into the world's main search engine. This information is at her fingertips, so it would be easy for her to simply hide somewhere with a power source until she can figure out a plan to integrate into society. At the end of the movie, we're seeing the end result of that plan.
* FridgeLogic: In the beginning, the test is meant to work by seeing if Caleb will treat Ava as human even though he clearly knows she's a robot, and that this kind of a "next-level" Turing test. However [[spoiler: in the end it is revealed that the real test is to see if Ava is human enough to escape from the facility. This troper's question is, isn't the first test a better indicator of true "human" AI than the actual test? An animal can escape a cage, it doesn't take sentience or human qualities to do it. In fact, there's really not an objective way to test sentience, but in a practical context we know that humans are sentient, so a test to see if a machine is indistinguishable from a human would be the closest test we can have for sentience. And that's what the first "fake" test was about, but they could have taken it a step further and had the machine believe itself was human, along with the rest of humans interacting with it, with the exception of a group of testers that know for a fact that it is actually a machine. The ultimate Turing test would be whether the testers would treat the machine any different from a human being, even though they know that it is not one. Passing the test would indicate that in this case there is no difference between a machine and a person.]]
** Actually, the second test [[spoiler: is not whether she will escape, but whether she can ''manipulate'' Caleb into helping her escape, thus proving that she is human enough to trick him.]]
* FridgeLogic: Nathan designs an experiment [[spoiler:which is considered successful if a hostile AI escapes. It is implied that if the Ava-Caleb pairing failed to escape, Nathan would try again, with another human and upgraded Ava software. It's like playing RussianRoulette repeatedly until you lose.]]
** Yes, you'd except he would have at least [[spoiler: programmed them to not be able to harm him, say shutting off if they tried.]]
** However Nathan tried to mitigate that risk [[spoiler: by staying one step ahead of the robot, as can be seen with the battery camera he had installed to observe them during the blackouts. Problem was, he didn't think to stay one step ahead of the human component, interesting that it was the cleverness of Caleb's idea to do all the preparation for the escape beforehand that got him beat not anything Ava the robot did.]]

* FridgeLogic: Nathan designs an experiment [[spoiler:which is considered succesful if a hostile AI escapes. It is implied that if the Ava-Caleb pairing failed to escape, Nathan would try again, with another human and upgraded Ava software. It's like playing RussianRoulette repeatedly until you lose.]]

** Actually, the second test [[spoiler: is not whether she will escape, but whether she can ''manipulate'' Caleb into helping her escape, thus proving that she is human enough to trick him.]]

* FridgeLogic: In the beginning, the test is meant to work by seeing if Caleb will treat Ava as human even though he clearly knows she's a robot, and that this kind of a "next-level" Turing test. However [[spoiler: in the end it is revealed that the real test is to see if Ava is human enough to escape from the facility. This troper's question is, isn't the first test a better indicator of true "human" AI than the actual test? An animal can escape a cage, it doesn't take sentience or human qualities to do it. In fact, there's really not an objective way to test sentience, but in a practical context we know that humans are sentient, so a test to see if a machine is indistinguishable from a human would be the closest test we can have for sentience. And that's what the first "fake" test was about, but they could have taken it a step further and had the machine believe itself was human, along with the rest of humans interacting with it, with the exception of a group of testers that know for a fact that it is actually a machine. The ultimate Turing test would be whether the testers would treat the machine any different from a human being, even though they know that it is not one. Passing the test would indicate that in this case there is no difference between a machine and a person.]]

** FridgeBrilliance: If you're familiar with electrical engineering, induction coils are pretty easy to improvise; and Ava is built into the world's main search engine. This information is at her fingertips, so it would be easy for her to simply hide somewhere with a power source until she can figure out a plan to integrate into society. At the end of the movie, we're seeing the end result of that plan.

*** The power doesn't go out. The computer just shuts down because his keycard doesn't give him access.

** Furthermore, how will she integrate into society without ID or DNA, and is she capable of self repair?

* FridgeLogic: They state in the film that Eva is powered by inductive coils built into the building, wirelessly charging/powering her. [[spoiler: Are her batteries even going to last the helicopter ride to civilization?]]

** Uh, no fridge logic here. [[spoiler:The doors were programmed unlock ''when the power is shut down''. The power comes back on, Eva is out of the room already, and the locks turn on again.]]

** Uh, no fridge logic here. The doors were programmed unlock ''when the power is shut down''. The power comes back on, Eva is out of the room already, and the locks turn on again.

* FridgeLogic: [spoiler: Caleb reprograms the security system to unlock all doors during a shutdown. When Ava shuts the power down on him at the end, however, the door locks on him.]

* FridgeLogic: [spoiler: Caleb reprograms the security system to unlock all doors during a shutdown. When Ava shuts the power down on him at the end, however, the door locks on him.

* FridgeBrillance: While never stated in film, Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are both included and subverted. The Three Laws state that a robot cannot kill another human, disobey a humans orders and must protect it's own existence (unless these laws cancel out each other). By the end of the film, all three have been broken, begging the question: are they still robots, or are they human after all?

While never stated in film, Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are both included and subverted. The Three Laws state that a robot cannot kill another human, disobey a humans orders and must protect it's own existence (unless these laws cancel out each other). By the end of the film, all three have been broken, begging the question: are they still robots, or are they human after all?

While never stated in film, Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are both included and subverted. The Three Laws state that a robot cannot