History Main / ClockworkCreature

Welcome, welcome, welcome to Smith & Tinker's Garden of Clockwork Delights! Here you'll find all sorts of magnificent sights, from [[HumongousMecha mechanical monstrosities]] to [[{{Nanomachines}} Lilliputian machines]] of supreme beauty. All of them are powered by patented Babbage engines with Antikythera brains. Watch as they [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots mimic]] [[MechanicalLifeforms life]]![[hottip:*:(The faint hearted may [[UncannyValley wish to avoid]] the exhibits with MarionetteMotion, though)]] See their [[AIIsACrapshoot powerful brains]] thinking with each turn of the gears! Don't try to feed them any [[LogicBomb logical quandries]], lest you make their gears clog and smoke pour out them.

* {{Pokemon}} [[PokemonBlackAndWhite Black and White]] has Giaru that is two gears that becomes more gears as it evolves.

* Used quite a bit in AmericanMcgee'sAlice

* {{Bionicle}} has the Vahki police robots being elaborate clockwork creations of the Matoran.

Welcome, welcome, welcome to Smith & Tinker's Garden of Clockwork Delights! Here you'll find all sorts of magnificent sights, from [[HumongousMecha mechanical monstrosities]] to [[{{Nanomachines}} Lilliputian machines]] of supreme beauty. All of them are powered by patented Babbage engines with Antikythera brains. Watch as they [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots mimic]] [[MechanicalLifeforms life]]! See their [[AIIsACrapshoot powerful brains]] thinking with each turn of the gears! Don't try to feed them any [[LogicBomb logical quandries]], lest you make their gears clog and smoke pour out them.

** Also the [[HumongousMecha Cyber King]] in "The Next Doctor".

** The character of Olympia stems from E.T.A. Hoffmanns tale (hence the name of the opera) "Der Sandmann", where she is also the (tragical) love-interest of the main character.

* Clockwerk, the antagonist in the first two games of ''SlyCooper: Thievous Racoonus'', which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

** -So! Do you like how he screws you, or it's just that's him doing the screwing?

* The Japanese drink-serving automaton in ''The Difference Engine''. Notably, it was made entirely of non-metallic components, such as springs made from baleen. So essentially a BambooTech ClockworkCreature .

A virtual requirement for ClockPunk settings, and very often found in SteamPunk as well.

* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' has constructs, which are powered by magic.
** Most extreme example are the Warforged from the {{Eberron}} setting: sentient, "living" constructs who are (usually) more or less humanoid in shape and are available as a player character race.

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modron Originally]] depicted as nonmechanical, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modron_%28Dungeons_&_Dragons%29 modrons]], the dominant [[http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Races race]] of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanus Mechanus]], the LawfulNeutral [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_%28Dungeons_&_Dragons%29 plane]] in [[http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/whatisdnd Dungeons & Dragons]], became more [[http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/ps/ps-modron.htm mechanical]] over time before being replaced by [[http://www.iwozhere.com/SRD/monsters/FORMIAN.html formians]] and [[http://annex.wikia.com/wiki/Inevitable_%28Dungeons_&_Dragons%29 inevitables]], another [[ClockworkCreature mechanical race]].
** ''{{Spelljammer}}'' has the "clockwork horrors", a common mechanical threat.
*** Also basically friendly but [[AiIsACrapshoot unpredictable]] [[OurGnomesAreWeirder clockwork gnomes]].

* [http://tozocomic.com Tozo]]has his chatty companion Klikker.

* In [UnknownArmies], one of the oldest kinds of magick is Mechanomancy, a magickal school from the industrial era based on making clockwork creatures, from near-perfect replicas of your dead loved ones to bulldozer-tanks that run on human blood to little lunchbox-sized replicators that can eat a scrapyard overnight. Making the bigger stuff has a steep price, though, paid in memory and history - unwary mechanomancers tend to end up even more soulless and machine-like than their creations.