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* Appears twice in ''The Two Faces of Tomorrow'' by Creator/JamesPHogan.
** The supercomputer ''Spartacus'''s drones are designed with a "carotid loop": a cable that carries power and control signals to the robot brain that goes outside the body and can be easily cut with a set of heavy wire-cutters, disabling the drone quickly and cleanly. The first sign of major trouble with controlling ''Spartacus'' is when it starts building drones that don't have carotid loops, and require much stronger measures to destroy them.
** After the situation aboard the space station starts getting out of control, the humans shut down ''Spartacus'' by cutting off its supply of power from the station's solar panel array. [[spoiler:Or rather, they try to do that. Unknown to them, ''Spartacus'' has already arranged a backup power supply for itself from a secondary power plant that it wasn't supposed to even know about.]]
** The supercomputer ''Spartacus'''s drones are designed with a "carotid loop": a cable that carries power and control signals to the robot brain that goes outside the body and can be easily cut with a set of heavy wire-cutters, disabling the drone quickly and cleanly. The first sign of major trouble with controlling ''Spartacus'' is when it starts building drones that don't have carotid loops, and require much stronger measures to destroy them.
** After the situation aboard the space station starts getting out of control, the humans shut down ''Spartacus'' by cutting off its supply of power from the station's solar panel array. [[spoiler:Or rather, they try to do that. Unknown to them, ''Spartacus'' has already arranged a backup power supply for itself from a secondary power plant that it wasn't supposed to even know about.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/MonaTheVampire'': One episode has the trio facing off against a malfunctioning robot that proves to be immune to all their attacks. It's eventually defeated by Mona simply yanking the batteries out, rendering it inoperable.
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* The ''Film/MysteriousDoctorSatan'' has put a remote-controlled ExplosiveLeash on a KidnappedScientist, so the hero convinces the chief of police to do a citywide power blackout for thirty seconds, in order to knock out the power to the control panel Doctor Satan is using. It's just enough time for him to remove the bomb and throw it away before the power comes back on.
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* The ''Film/MysteriousDoctorSatan'' has put a remote-controlled ExplosiveLeash on a KidnappedScientist, so the hero convinces the chief of police to do arrange a citywide power blackout for thirty seconds, in order to knock out the power to the control panel Doctor Satan is using. It's just enough time for him to remove the bomb and throw it away before the power comes back on.
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* The ''Film/MysteriousDoctorSatan'' has put a remote-controlled ExplosiveLeash on a KidnappedScientist, so the hero convinces the chief of police to do a citywide power blackout for thirty seconds, in order to knock out the power to the control panel Doctor Satan is using. It's just enough time for him to remove the bomb and throw it away before the power comes back on.
