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* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' the Forerunner sentries are swarms of robots armed with lasers capable of cutting through steel. Later in ''{{Halo4}}'' the Prometheans are robotic units created to fight the Flood. The most notable examples are the Promethean Knights, which are bipedal heavily armed robots that can teleport anywhere at will. What makes the Prometheans unique are they're [[spoiler: made from humans converted into Prometheans]].
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* In ChronoTrigger, when your party is in the future, they will encounter a very large number of these, particularly in the optional sidequest [[spoiler:Geno Dome]]. In keeping with WhatMeasureIsANonHuman, you acquire a party member which is a RidiculouslyHumanRobot.
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* In the DarkTower novel [[spoiler:Wolves of the Calla]], a town is being threatened by very nasty opponents who steal children and obliterate any who resist. After listening to the one survivor of a direct encounter with them, Roland deduces this trope applies to the opponents. He also deduces how to defeat them but engages in deliberate misdirection so TheMole doesn't know.
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** Additionally subverted in one episode in which an episode is told through the perspective of a mecha-mook, and his very real, very human emotions are made painfully apparent to the viewer. Then he fights Jack and gets cut up like any other robotic malcontent.
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** Additionally subverted in one episode in which an episode is told through the perspective of a mecha-mook, and his very real, very human emotions are made painfully apparent to the viewer. (Apparently, the scientist who built him gave him emotions because [[ItAmusedMe "he was kind of funny that way".]] Then he fights Jack and gets cut up like any other robotic malcontent.
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* An unusual example of this trope occurs in A. Lee Martinez's ''The Automatic Detective''. Near the climax of the novel, the protagonist destroys a brigade of robots... but he is ''himself'' a robot, and those he destroys are physically identical to him except for the paint jobs. [[HeroicSociopath He doesn't]] [[RoboticPsychopath care, though.]]
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* An unusual example of this trope occurs in A. Lee Martinez's ''The Automatic Detective''. Near the climax of the novel, the protagonist destroys a brigade of robots... but he is ''himself'' a robot, and those he destroys are physically identical to him except for the paint jobs. [[HeroicSociopath He doesn't]] doesn't [[RoboticPsychopath care, though.]]
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** Flint even used the incompetance of these androids to mock Cobra Commander in one episode, asking the villain if he had programmed them himself.
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If one wants something a bit more up the ladder in terms of "kill-tasticness" and "[[EliteMook non-suckitude]]", look at MechanicalMonster. If you want the guy ''building'' the mooks, that's the RobotMaster. If you want an ''individual'' robot who is a full-fledged villain or hero all on his own, you want a BadassAutomaton.
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If one wants something a bit more up the ladder in terms of "kill-tasticness" and "[[EliteMook non-suckitude]]", look at MechanicalMonster. If you want the guy ''building'' the mooks, that's the RobotMaster. If you want an ''individual'' robot who is a full-fledged villain or hero all on his own, you want a BadassAutomaton.
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* Employed by the [[SpacePolice Triple-I]] in WebComic/CommanderKitty [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/04/04/i-can-goes-back-now/ to pilot their fighters]].
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'''Hammer:''' What, why '''"drone better"'''? Ivan, I got an order for '''suits''', not '''drones!'''\\
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1) Upon being defeated, [[MadeOfExplodium they will explode]]. Always. Usually into a fireball, leaving nothing behind but a few patches of burning earth. This will usually happen no matter how they were defeated, even if it was something like [[CutTheJuice turning off]] their power source.
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*The mass-produced Lin Kuei Cybers featured in ''Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm'' were basically this. Unlike Cyrax, Sektor and Smoke, they were entirely mechanical, which allowed the normally violent Earthrealm Warriors to go to town with them.
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* The Trashtors from [[http://alaxr274.deviantart.com/gallery/37280372 Hottie 3: The Best Fan Fic in the World]]
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* German versions of computer games, notably in ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life}}'', where all soldiers are replaced by robots, The [[{{Contra}} Probotector]] series, ''Carmageddon'', or fighting games, where blood is recoloured green or black. This is because of censorship in Germany (''UCK'' board) disallowing displaying [[NeverSayDie human deaths]].
** In the German version of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Generals'', the "real world" GLA soldiers were replaced with cyborg clones that bleed green. Referenced in ''AHDotComTheSeries'', which has The Germans (a mercenary group of recurring characters) use "Cyborg Robots with Green Blood" as their disposable muscle.
** Most (probably all) earlier Versions of ''C&C'' did the same, with soldiers being cyborgs with black "blood" (supposed to be oil) and also cyborg guard dogs... even in the booklets the pictures of these units were crossed with a bar noting "top secret" so you couldn't see the faces... in the GAME itself tho those faces were still used as the build icons, so one must wonder what that was all about.
* ''{{Marathon}}'' has "Cyborgs," which were in the scary faceless humanoid monster gig before slenderman was cool. Instead of feet, they have treads, and Bungie refers to them as "Tank Guys." Some of them are weak, others are some of the strongest enemies in the game. All of them self-destruct upon death. According to {{Word of God}}, they used to be human space colonists.
** In the German version of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Generals'', the "real world" GLA soldiers were replaced with cyborg clones that bleed green. Referenced in ''AHDotComTheSeries'', which has The Germans (a mercenary group of recurring characters) use "Cyborg Robots with Green Blood" as their disposable muscle.
** Most (probably all) earlier Versions of ''C&C'' did the same, with soldiers being cyborgs with black "blood" (supposed to be oil) and also cyborg guard dogs... even in the booklets the pictures of these units were crossed with a bar noting "top secret" so you couldn't see the faces... in the GAME itself tho those faces were still used as the build icons, so one must wonder what that was all about.
* ''{{Marathon}}'' has "Cyborgs," which were in the scary faceless humanoid monster gig before slenderman was cool. Instead of feet, they have treads, and Bungie refers to them as "Tank Guys." Some of them are weak, others are some of the strongest enemies in the game. All of them self-destruct upon death. According to {{Word of God}}, they used to be human space colonists.
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* German versions of computer games, notably in ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life}}'', where all soldiers are replaced by robots, The [[{{Contra}} Probotector]] the ''[[VideoGame/{{Contra}} Probotector]]'' series, ''Carmageddon'', ''VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}}'', or fighting games, where blood is recoloured green or black. This is because of censorship in Germany (''UCK'' board) disallowing displaying [[NeverSayDie human deaths]].
** In the German version of''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Generals'', ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals'', the "real world" GLA soldiers were replaced with cyborg clones that bleed green. Referenced in ''AHDotComTheSeries'', which has The Germans (a mercenary group of recurring characters) use "Cyborg Robots with Green Blood" as their disposable muscle.
**Most The same was done with most (probably all) earlier Versions of ''C&C'' did the same, ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' games, with soldiers being cyborgs with black "blood" (supposed to be oil) and also cyborg guard dogs... even in the booklets the pictures of these units were crossed with a bar noting "top secret" so you couldn't see the faces... in the GAME itself tho those faces were still used as the build icons, so one must wonder what that was all about.
*''{{Marathon}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' has "Cyborgs," which were in the scary faceless humanoid monster gig before slenderman was cool. Instead of feet, they have treads, and Bungie refers to them as "Tank Guys." Some of them are weak, others are some of the strongest enemies in the game. All of them self-destruct upon death. According to {{Word of God}}, they used to be human space colonists.
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** This is parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' episode "Samurai Quack", where Dodgers, in the role of Jack, is about to attack a person until he loudly announces that he is not a robot.
-->'''Dodgers:''' You are lucky I didn't cut you to ribbons.\\
'''Guy:''' Not with a Y7 rating, you won't.
-->'''Dodgers:''' You are lucky I didn't cut you to ribbons.\\
'''Guy:''' Not with a Y7 rating, you won't.
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--->*Dodgers jumps at aperson until he loudly announces that he is not stranger with his sword raised*\\
'''Stranger:''': Stop! Not arobot.
-->'''Dodgers:'''robot! NOT A ROBOT!!!\\
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'''Dodgers:''' You are lucky I didn't cut you to ribbons.\\
'''Guy:''' '''Stranger:''' Not with a Y7 Y-7 rating, you won't.
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'''Dodgers:''' You are lucky I didn't cut you to ribbons.\\
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In many of these shows, a common sequence has the heroes fighting the mooks [[ThouShaltNotKill as normal]], until one of them hits one a little ''too'' hard, [[RoboticReveal revealing]] it to be a robot. At which point, things [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman start to get really]], ''[[GoodThingYouCanHeal really]]'' [[JustAMachine messy]], as the heroes [[TheUnfettered decide they don't have to hold back anymore]].
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In many of these shows, a common sequence has the heroes fighting the mooks [[ThouShaltNotKill as normal]], until one of them hits one a little ''too'' hard, [[RoboticReveal revealing]] it to be a robot. At which point, things [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman [[NotEvenHuman start to get really]], ''[[GoodThingYouCanHeal ''[[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman really]]'' [[JustAMachine messy]], as the heroes [[TheUnfettered decide they don't have to hold back anymore]].
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* In the French animated series ''WesternAnimation/TheLittlePrince'', [[ClockPunk clockwork]] mooks are used as police troops by the inhabitants of the Planet of Winds.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'', XANA's various monsters can count as the virtual version of Mecha-Mooks. They do appears robot-like the two times some are materialized in the real world. Then in season 4, the BigBad is busy constructing a whole army of robots to conquer the Earth.
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** Then in season 4, the BigBad is busy constructing a whole army of robots to conquer the Earth.
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** There's also [[spoiler: Z's Shiro Kumas in ''Anime/OnePieceFilmZ'', who seem to be [[PaletteSwap basically white-colored Pacifistas]]]].
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This often is a form of PragmaticAdaptation when the series is based on an earlier source which was more realistically violent, but showing that would invoke the ire of MediaWatchdogs. When you've got an action-based children's show where NobodyCanDie, expect Mecha-Mooks to pick up the slack. After all, they're [[JustAMachine Just Machines]]. Should they ''not'' explode, then at the least you will see EyeLightsOut. On a related note, if they should be [[HackingMinigame hacked]] or reprogrammed their GlowingEyesOfDoom will have a ConvenientColorChange.
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This often is a form of PragmaticAdaptation when the series is based on an earlier source which was more realistically violent, but showing that would invoke the ire of MediaWatchdogs.[[MediaWatchdog Media Watchdogs]]. When you've got an action-based children's show where NobodyCanDie, expect Mecha-Mooks to pick up the slack. After all, they're [[JustAMachine Just Machines]]. Should they ''not'' explode, then at the least you will see EyeLightsOut. On a related note, if they should be [[HackingMinigame hacked]] or reprogrammed their GlowingEyesOfDoom will have a ConvenientColorChange.
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** The humans have some of these of their on their colony ship. They are notable for being possibly the first AI controlled allies in any game. They float above the ground and also explode upon death (Bungie has a thing for that) and are armed with machine pistols. Some of them have grenade launchers, but the ones with grenade launchers go rampant and attack anything in sight, alien or human. Similarly, in the sequels, there are "Hummers," alien-made robots that are used for recon and often [[GoddamnedBats respawn indefinitely]]. When they sight you, they make a very irritating electronic noise before attacking, hence the name. Some of them are taken over by a human-made AI and help you, and are conveniently much stronger, but they only appear twice in the whole trilogy.
** The humans have some of these of their on their colony ship. They are notable for being possibly the first AI controlled allies in any game. They float above the ground and also explode upon death (Bungie has a thing for that) and are armed with machine pistols. Some of them have grenade launchers, but the ones with grenade launchers go rampant and attack anything in sight, alien or human. Similarly, in the sequels, there are "Hummers," alien-made robots that are used for recon and often [[GoddamnedBats respawn indefinitely]]. When they sight you, they make a very irritating electronic noise before attacking, hence the name. Some of them are taken over by a human-made AI and help you, and are conveniently much stronger, but they only appear twice in the whole trilogy.
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->''"If you are looking for an unstoppable army of killing machines unhampered by such weaknesses as mercy and compassion, robot warriors are for you."''
-->-- '''Neil Zawacki''', ''[[http://evil-guide.tripod.com/ How to Be a Villain]]''
In many American cartoon series, the extraordinary violence is blunted by having the [[FacelessGoons nameless bad guys]] (or {{Mooks}}) be, in fact, robots. This allows the protagonists to [[WhatMeasureIsAMook dismember, mutilate, and otherwise mess-up armies of faceless goons]], in a manner [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence unacceptable if said bad guys were squishy and red on the inside]].
In many of these shows, a common sequence has the heroes fighting the mooks [[ThouShaltNotKill as normal]], until one of them hits one a little ''too'' hard, [[RoboticReveal revealing]] it to be a robot. At which point, things [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman start to get really]], ''[[GoodThingYouCanHeal really]]'' [[JustAMachine messy]], as the heroes [[TheUnfettered decide they don't have to hold back anymore]].
Mecha-Mooks are [[StrongFleshWeakSteel surprisingly fragile]]. In extreme cases the heroes will demolish them with their fists. Mecha-Mooks go to the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy, since it would be awkward if the heroes had their brainstems [[GunKata targeted perfectly by Mooks running a predictive kinetic model]] [[ComputersAreFast much faster than real time]]. Expect them to be programmed to march in eerie unison using MarionetteMotion (and in a pinch [[SummonBackupDancers provide back-up for dance numbers]]).
Two governing rules of Mecha-Mooks seem to be:
1) Upon being defeated, [[MadeOfExplodium they will explode]]. Always. Usually into a fireball, leaving nothing behind but a few patches of burning earth. This will usually happen no matter how they were defeated, even if it was something like [[CutTheJuice turning off]] their power source.
2) Said explosions never produce shrapnel. A hero can be five feet from a Mecha Mook, blow him up, and somehow not be cut to pieces by the flying shards of metal. ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' is particularly guilty of this, with mooks constantly exploding in Jack's face.
This often is a form of PragmaticAdaptation when the series is based on an earlier source which was more realistically violent, but showing that would invoke the ire of MediaWatchdogs. When you've got an action-based children's show where NobodyCanDie, expect Mecha-Mooks to pick up the slack. After all, they're [[JustAMachine Just Machines]]. Should they ''not'' explode, then at the least you will see EyeLightsOut. On a related note, if they should be [[HackingMinigame hacked]] or reprogrammed their GlowingEyesOfDoom will have a ConvenientColorChange.
{{Anime}}, has a second, more [[HumongousMecha literal]] type: RealRobot series' will usually have at least one class of {{mecha}} that basically acts as [[RedshirtArmy the "Grunt" unit]] for the bad guy's army. This mech is usually simply constructed, probably with a basic ranged weapon ([[GatlingGood machinegun]] or [[FrickinLaserBeams energy weapon]] or two, a close-combat weapon, and may have the option of carrying a [[{{BFG}} bigger gun]], depending on how much tougher the hero's armor is. These will act just like regular Mooks ''or'' Mecha-Mooks, depending on how much the writers want you to empathize with the enemy. There's usually a very good chance that the Hero's Rival will at least start out by riding in an AceCustom version of this mecha.
If one wants something a bit more up the ladder in terms of "kill-tasticness" and "[[EliteMook non-suckitude]]", look at MechanicalMonster. If you want the guy ''building'' the mooks, that's the RobotMaster.
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* The multitude of (live) enemy troopers who would get mowed down in most episodes of ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' were [[{{Macekre}} recast]] as RidiculouslyHumanRobots in some of its various US incarnations (e.g., ''Battle of the Planets'').
* Pretty frequent the ''Anime/MazingerZ'' universe. Most of the {{Mook}}s were {{Cyborg}}s, but several of them were RidiculouslyHumanRobots such like the Gamia sisters, [[spoiler:Erika, Lorelei or the Robot posed like Kouji.]] JustAMachine was subverted: When Kouji killed the Gamia, they were so human-looking he felt sickened and disturbed. And he felt sad when some of they died. Also, they were or were not MadeOfExplodium depending on the robot [[spoiler:Erika did not explode; Kouji robot did, though.]]
* A subversion is featured in ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}''. The creepy white DeathRay-wielding Shapes appear to be Mecha-Mooks, but are in fact humans who have (voluntarily or otherwise) undergone full-body Texhnolyzation. Their heads, concealed beneath [[CyberCyclops monocular faceplates]], as well as the rest of their organs, stuffed in a green cone in their chest, are all that remains of their original bodies.
* A subversion of this trope are the Pacifistas in ''Manga/OnePiece'' [[spoiler:as they are cyborgs modified to be human weapons by the evil World Government, and they are anything but as it took the Straw Hats everything they had to beat just one of them pre-timeskip.]]
* ''[[Anime/UchuuSenkanYamato Star Blazers]]'' was infamous for, as an American adaption of anime, having enemy soldiers who were killed described as "robots".
* The Jovians employ millions of the suckers in ''Manga/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', ranging from drone scouts to automated {{Wave Motion Gun}}s, to the point where [[TheReveal we don't see a live Jovian until halfway through the series]]. There are several reasons for this, including some justified OffscreenVillainDarkmatter and how the TeleportersAndTransporters [[AppliedPhlebotinum Phlebotinum]] works, but mostly it allows the ship's mostly civilian crew to [[StuffBlowingUp blow stuff up]] indiscriminately, [[spoiler: and allow for drama when actual human enemies appear]].
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' makes this a major plot point with the introduction of Mobile Dolls, mecha controlled by an AI program rather than a human pilot. Its introduction widens the pre-existing ideological fissure within OZ, between [[WorthyOpponent noble-minded soldiers]] who hate them for dehumanizing war, and [[WarForFunAndProfit heartless war profiteers who love them for being good business]], which results in an outright civil war between the supporters of Treize (who is the former) and Duke Dermail (the latter).
* Jail Scaglietti's AntiMagic Field protected Gadget Drones in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. Precia also had her own small army of Mecha-Mooks protecting the Garden of Time.
* ''Franchise/{{Zoids}}''
** Numerous small Zoids, such as the Molga, Godos, Zabat, Scissor Storm and Laser Storm. The most infamous, however, would have to be the Rev Raptor. While the aforementioned Zoids were depicted as being reasonably formidable in their introductory episodes, the Rev Raptor is completely pathetic right from its introduction and is *never* given an opportunity to shine, except for in one episode where Van pilots one... and uses it to destroy ''other Rev Raptors'' before getting quickly shot down himself.
** Subverted and ultimately ignored in ''Zoids Genesis''. The Digald empire uses legions of mass-produced Zoids piloted by robots. However, [[spoiler: it is revealed that the robots are powered by human souls]]. Unfortuntely, this revelation is never explored and appears to be completely forgotten within a few episodes, used only as a cheap plot device for a Heel Face Turn for the rival.
** Rev Raptors get so ripped to shreds in ''Anime/ZoidsNewCentury'' that they're mostly relegated to ''StockFootage''.
* Partially subverted in the ''Anime/{{Zegapain}}'' anime, as the Gardzorm seem to use animal-like mech designs against the main characters, when one is blasted open, they see that it's piloted. Later still, several altered humans are seen boarding the blue aerial Gardzorm mechs, though it's implied their level of awareness is significantly less than human.
* The Bugmechs from the ''Vipers Creed'' anime.
* Black Shadow uses them in the ''VideoGame/{{F-Zero}}'' Anime. You [[PlayerMooks can actually race as them]] in the anime based F-zero climax.
* The Grimoire units from the ''Manga/RideBack'' anime.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has the Tanaka-sans and the [[SpiderTank Spider-mechs]] and all the other robots that made up [[spoiler:[[MadScientist Chao Lingshen]]'s]] Martian Robot Army in the Mahora Festival StoryArc.
* The American release of the Vehicle Team ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' had just about every enemy unit, and most friendly units, as robots. The number of "robot attack ships" and "android stormtroopeers" was staggering. This was done to follow the "nobody can die in cartoons" standard against animated violence on TV at the time.
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* ''TabeltopGame/MagicTheGathering''
** The Myr from the ''Mirrodin'' block. They're essentially a ''[[TheSwarm swarm]]'' of Mecha-Mooks with a HiveMind community.
** There's also the terrifying Phyrexians, who are [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombie cyborgs]] who want to assimilate everyone.
* ''[[Tabletopgame/YuGiOh Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'': The aptly-named Meklord ''Army'' monsters from ''Extreme Victory'' are these for the Meklords, with the Meklord Emperors being, obviously, [[KingMook Emperor Mooks]].
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* In ''ComicBook/FallOutToyWorks'', Baron has several, including one he changes into a MechanicalMonster [[spoiler:in Toymaker's dream sequence in issue 3.]] In issue 5, the Toymaker combines this trope with CuteMachines to storm Baron's compound.
* Spoofed in ''ComicBook/TomStrong'', where Timmy Turbo realizes that "We can be as violent as we like with these teachers, because they're just ''robots''!"
* One of Lex Luthor's plans to take over the United States relied upon him unleashing a horde of GI Robots that were technically property of the US army. Since Franchise/{{Superman}} was apparently dealing with Brainiac that week, Franchise/{{Batman}} ended up taking out all except one -- that Bats had reprogrammed with the Geneva Convention. Really.
* Codified in an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'', when Mimic reflects that superheroes really, really love fighting robots for the sheer pleasure of unfettered destruction.
* The robotic aliens who hunt the title character in ''OmegaTheUnknown''.
* DoctorDoom's Doombots -- both the RobotMe Doombots, and the more straightforward purple-and-gray Mecha-Mook Doombots. Oddly, the two designs rarely appear together in a story.
* Franchise/{{Superman}} is one of the few ''good guys'' to keep a contingent of Mecha-Mooks, the Superman Robots in the Fortress of Solitude. In the Silver Age, he mainly used them as [[RobotMe decoys]] to preserve his secret identity, and occasionally to pinch hit for him when he'd been incapacitated by Kryptonite or some such. A [[DroppedABridgeOnHim bridge got dropped]] on the bunch of them in the BronzeAge, but they were reintroduced in the [[PostCrisis modern era]] and occasionally appear in the present day.
* The minor Franchise/{{Spider-Man}} villain Armada was a RobotMaster who liked to build little flying robots to attack enemies with. The interesting thing is that he ''cared'' about their welfare, and would [[BerserkButton freak out]] when they inevitably started getting destroyed.
* Through the law of ConservationOfNinjutsu, The [=OMACs=] from ''Countdown To ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' [[BadassDecay fell from]] KillerRobot to MechaMooks pretty quickly
* A major plot point in ''{{Savage}}'' from about 2007 onwards is the introduction of robot soldiers by both sides in the war. It began with the Allies deploying Hammersteins in Wales, which were so effective that the Volgans had to develop their own robots, the depraved Blackbloods, to compensate. These robots invert the normal rules of mecha-mooks by being much stronger and tougher than human soldiers, what with being made of metal and all.
* Doug Moench's ''[[MoonKnight Electric Warrior]]'' has a [[HeelFaceTurn refomed]] Mecha-Mook as the main character.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Megalex}}'', the Shock Troopers are intelligent and evil robots.
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* The mechanical soldiers (that are controlled by an AI mainframe) that were being built by the VillainProtagonist in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' fanfic ''The Council Era'' qualify, as well as EliteMooks, as their programming is comparable to a veteran soldier in terms of skill.
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* Subverted in the feature-length anime ''Anime/{{Steamboy}}'' -- what appear at first to be combat robots deployed by the O'Hara Foundation turn out, to the horror of the Foundation's 13-year-old heiress, to be men in PowerArmor.
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* ''Franchise/StarWars''
** Both ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' and ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' blew up ''acres'' of battle droids. The kid-friendliness goes away a little when you reflect they still scream as they die. The use of battle droids seems to revolve entirely around the fact that the prequels featured Jedi action scenes. Such scenes involved plenty of decapitation, bisection, and outright mutilation of said battle droids using lightsabers, all of which would have been unacceptable in theaters had the victims been living sentient beings instead.
** Before their predecessors the clones were shown, it was popular to speculate that the Imperial Stormtroopers in the original trilogy were Mecha-Mooks, in spite of the fact that Luke Skywalker and Han Solo were capable of dressing up as them. Talk about FacelessGoons.
** The droids vary highly by model. The basic B1 units (the "roger-roger" droids) are the most harmless and safe to kill, and ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' portray them as outright comic relief. The B2 and B3 (the super battle droids, from the page picture) are somewhat more dangerous, qualifying as DoomTroops. And the most advanced models like the Droideka and the [=MagnaGuard=], qualify as {{Mechanical Monster}}s.
* The Golden Army in ''HellboyII''. Clockwork Mecha-Mooks that put themselves back together upon being destroyed.
* ''Film/IronMan 2'':
-->'''Vanko:''' [[MemeticMutation Dhrone bettuh.]]\\
'''Hammer:''' What, why '''"drone better"'''? Ivan, I got an order for '''suits''', not '''drones!'''\\
'''Vanko:''' [[FunetikAksent Peppol mek problum. Trhust meh. Dhrone bettuh.]]
** The problems so averted are threefold: 1. no longer a squishy thing in the middle of the machine, which Hammer's suit design proved it had a problem working with; 2. the recovered space can be used for more processing power and more ammo; 3. there is no cognitive dissonance when our heroes blow them up. Oh, and 4: [[spoiler:they make it easy for Vanko to betray Hammer, since he's the one programming them.]]
* The ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' movies depict a future where the world has been taken over by Mecha Mook armies. Subverted in that ''these'' robots are incredibly tough and not the least bit fragile.
* ''Film/TheMatrix'': The Sentinels, squid-like robots that come in the millions.
* The Synthetics in the ''Film/TotalRecall2012'' remake. The movie is somewhat original in that they're used more as bulletproof Elite Mooks rather than guilt-free disposable cannon fodder (although they are used for a couple of the more "gory" kill scenes to get the PG-13 rating).
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* An unusual example of this trope occurs in A. Lee Martinez's ''The Automatic Detective''. Near the climax of the novel, the protagonist destroys a brigade of robots... but he is ''himself'' a robot, and those he destroys are physically identical to him except for the paint jobs. [[HeroicSociopath He doesn't]] [[RoboticPsychopath care, though.]]
* In ''TheKingdomKeepers'', the Overtakers' mooks are all Audio-Animatronics from [[DisneyThemeParks Disney World]] rides brought to life. "It's a small world" is a lot less cute when the dolls are trying to kill you.
* ''TheStainlessSteelRat'' is an ActualPacifist who would never hit a fellow sentient with anything worse than a stun dart... but against robots he gleefully [[MoreDakka unleashes the dakka]].
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* ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaClassic''. The Cylons were originally meant to be aliens in body armor, and were rewritten as robots to appease the censors. The remake calls them Centurions, and actually, they die at the same rate as fellow "skinjobs" a.k.a. the humanoid models. A similar fate seems to be with Raiders, until [[spoiler:it is shown, through Starbuck, that they are biological beings]]. Regarding Centurions, it turns out that [[spoiler:they have a personality and some degree of authority once they are freed from restrictive modules]]. In the end, the Rebels [[spoiler:let them go off and find their own destiny, despite worries that they'll come back and try to destroy humanity. They think not, as they will most likely remember being freed and left to their own devices, rather than fighting their way out of slavery and still living with a plausible threat.]]
* About half of the time, the {{Mooks}} in ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' are robots, including the Cogs (though the Putties of ''[[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Mighty Morphin]]'' were actually golems). Robot or not, however, ''Power Rangers''' mooks are almost never shown to be killed, instead teleporting away once they have been incapacitated.
** ''[[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Operation Overdrive]]'' changes this, however, with a nearly unprecedented level of mook destruction, and at least one of the two sets of mooks are indeed alive. Quite a few Rinshi in ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' got reduced to purple dust, too. ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'' goes back to having more durable grunts.) The same courtesy is seldom extended to the MonsterOfTheWeek.
** In a bit of a retcon, Divatox's mooks in the ''[[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Turbo]]'' movie were quite clearly humanoids in fish-styled armor (we even see several of them with their faceplates off), but for the series, they've been downgraded to a non-humanoid fishlike race. The "tron" in "Piranhatron" suggests they're Mecha-Mooks, but they make squishy sounds when hit.
** The majority of Mooks in {{Toku}} tend to be either Mecha-Mooks or else mystical beings, rarely humans, except in cases where they disguise as humans such as the ''[[MetalHeroes Space Sheriff]]'' trilogy.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''
** The Robot Santas from the episode "The Runaway Bride" were robots under the control of the Queen of the Racnoss. They also appeared in "The Christmas Invasion", although there they were working by themselves.
** Also, while the Doctor might pay lip-service to {{Wangst}} over killing those poor defenceless rampaging armies of death that are Cybermen and Daleks, imagine the difference if organic beings were killed off in similar numbers. [[FridgeLogic Despite the fact that, under the armour, they are organic beings.]] For the record, he ''does'' regret killing even Daleks in some episodes, especially when said Dalek may be the last of its kind. This is in spite of them being AlwaysChaoticEvil by design. The Cybermen, while organic underneath, have had their emotions and feeling removed because of the constant horrific and intense pain their existence entails. It could literally be seen as putting them out of their misery.
** The Second Doctor fought [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators the Dominators]] and their army of Mecha-Mooks, the Quarks. The spiky-faced little dudes seem to have made an impression: when the Time Lords put him [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames on trial]], the Doctor mentions the Quarks alongside the Daleks and Cybermen in his list of cosmic evils who need to be fought.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
** The Necrons aren't really so much {{mooks}}, as they are [[TheJuggernaut unstoppable]] torrent of an ancient [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot undead robot]] {{determinator}}s, marching at you like [[MadeOfIron unflinching]] metallic death.
** Played straight with Tau Gun Drones, though they are only used in a supporting role to the living Tau Fire Caste soldiers.
** Imperial Servitors are this to any Techpriest. Their biological components are more or less used to support their technological ones, rather the other way around for conventional cyborgs.
* Unmanned combat drones are ''everywhere'' in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''. From spy-cameras disguised as pigeons to robot tanks.
* These are the main troops of the genocidal human civilization Wreathe in ''TabletopGame/{{Mortasheen}}'', all modeled after Pre-Cambrian creatures. In a subversion, these are usually more powerful than lower level characters.
* The ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' setting of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has an interesting variation with the Warforged. They were made to be this, but ended up developing sapience and now have to deal with integrating into a post-war society.
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* The Vahki robots in ''Franchise/{{Bionicle}}''. Greg Farshtey, writer of the storyline, has professed a dislike of Vahki. It's extremely common for Vahki to be destroyed in downright cruel and unusual ways, particularly during the '05 arc.
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* German versions of computer games, notably in ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life}}'', where all soldiers are replaced by robots, The [[{{Contra}} Probotector]] series, ''Carmageddon'', or fighting games, where blood is recoloured green or black. This is because of censorship in Germany (''UCK'' board) disallowing displaying [[NeverSayDie human deaths]].
** In the German version of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Generals'', the "real world" GLA soldiers were replaced with cyborg clones that bleed green. Referenced in ''AHDotComTheSeries'', which has The Germans (a mercenary group of recurring characters) use "Cyborg Robots with Green Blood" as their disposable muscle.
** Most (probably all) earlier Versions of ''C&C'' did the same, with soldiers being cyborgs with black "blood" (supposed to be oil) and also cyborg guard dogs... even in the booklets the pictures of these units were crossed with a bar noting "top secret" so you couldn't see the faces... in the GAME itself tho those faces were still used as the build icons, so one must wonder what that was all about.
* The Novus in ''UniverseAtWar: Earth Assault'' are a heroic example, a race of Mecha-Mooks {{Laser Guided Tykebomb}}s working with the AncientAstronauts Masari against the PlanetLooters Hierarchy.
* The [[StarfishAliens Ceph]] from ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'' use an army of tentacled [[PoweredArmor exosuits]] and small man-sized octopus robots to take over the Lingshan Islands. They all explode upon death (with [[MacGuffin one]] notable exception), but it has more to do with preventing humans from acquiring alien technologies than with dealing damage.
* ''GodHand'' has a great deal of robot enemies in the fourth level. They aren't too different from the regular type, but it helps emphasize the level's mechanical theme (as opposed to Western, wasteland, or circus, the themes of the preceding levels). The boss of the level is a mecha GiantMook, Dr. Ion.
* Disney's extraordinarily "kid-friendly" {{MMORPG}} ''VideoGame/ToonTownOnline'' solely features an ever-replenishing army of robots as your enemies -- whom you destroy with ''jokes''.
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'' has an entire army of Robotic Operating Buddies in Subspace Emissary, only they're anything but friendly -- arm swipes, missiles, and laser fire are the norm for them. They do have a measure of AI not seen in most Mecha-Mooks, as they are at least capable of expressing sorrow; [[spoiler:this is demonstrated when the Ancient Minister, the alpha R.O.B., looks down with regret before seeing two more disappear into the detonation of a Subspace Bomb.]] Nevertheless, the only one who [[spoiler:doesn't submit to Ganondorf's -- and subsequently Tabuu's -- reprogramming is the alpha himself, who becomes playable after the former villain sees it fit to have him punished for questioning authority.]]
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'' has the Geth, an entire race of these. The sequel adds a series of cheap, mass-produced robotic security troops (called "Mechs" in-universe, natch), that are roughly on-par with an Imperial Stormtrooper in terms of intelligence and accuracy, though Imperial Stormtroopers never had robotic dogs and giant missile-firing robots backing them up. Unlike the Geth the Mechs do not use true AI, and may even be more in-line with the trope's definition as they do not think for themselves, are surprisingly resilient - blowing off a limb only slows them down, doesn't stop them (they actually have a taser-like device on their non-gun arm. Even if you take off its legs it'll still crawl towards you with the intent to self-destruct in your face. Usually encountered in hordes.\\\
The Geth themselves seem to be a slight subversion of the trope. They have a smooth organic appearance, bleed some sort of white blood-equivalent, give off odd electronic death-squeels when shot, and don't explode upon death. This doesn't stop the heroes from mowing them down by the score without batting an eyelid, however. The sequel reveals that the Geth are nearly immortal, as they simply upload back into their mainframes when the humanoid frames are disabled. Destroying these mainframes can kill thousands of them with a few bullets, however. Their "death-screams" are actually them transmitting themselves to a new mainframe. Also, all the geth the heroes kill have already crossed the MoralEventHorizon in spectacular fashion.
* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' [[NeverSayDie generally uses the ambiguous term "defeated"]] regarding human enemies, but the robots used by various factions all explode spectacularly when defeated. The exception is the Clockwork, who usually just slump over, but that's because [[spoiler:they're not really robots, but metallic constructs animated by a powerful telekinetic BrainInAJar]]. Even some of the cyborg enemies explode upon defeat, most notably the Arachnos Tarantulas.
* ''DinosaurKing'' has the Alpha Droids, who act as servants and guards for the Alpha Gang in the anime (often carrying out orders which lead to their own destruction), and as RandomEncounter enemies in the DS game.
* There are quite a few examples in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series, but the Mecha Koopa enemies from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' onwards are the most obvious examples. Some other examples include the entire population of The Factory/Smithy Factory in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', Wizzerds in ''VideoGame/PaperMario 2'' and Mechawfuls in ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''.
* One of the first signs you aren't in Kansas anymore with the last two ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}}'' games is when your sword-and-sorcery party runs into their first Savant robot armed with a laser lance. Fully fledged battle droids also make an appearance towards the very end of ''VII''.
* Subverted and used in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' series, as times goes on, it shifts from fighting human pilots (which most of the time will get a chance to escape) to battling AI versions of robots due to the bad guys sharing AI technology since manpower gets smaller with the huge killcount our men racks up in the battlefield. In the OVA, the ATX and SRX had discovered the shocking revelation of the Bartool's [[PoweredByAForsakenChild ODE system]] and had concerns about killing more innocent captured civilians but during the final push later on, they were unmanned with no human core inside which allowed a more liberal course of destruction.
* ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank'' invariably features hordes of robots. While there are usually organic opponents in there as well, they will be vastly outnumbered by robots. [[spoiler: In ''[[RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal Up Your Arsenal]]'', most of your organic opponents are turned ''into'' robots by [[AWizardDidIt the Biobliterator]], simply to show how severe a threat Dr. Nefarious is.]]
* The Scarabs, and the raven-like UAVs accompanying Raging Raven in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots''.
* [[http://fear.wikia.com/wiki/Unmanned_Aerial_Vehicles Unmanned Aerial Vehicles]] from ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon''.
* The ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' games feature, as the primary enemy, tons of {{mooks}}. ''DynastyWarriorsGundam'', of course, changes this to use various grunt suits (and some variants) from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'', and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char's Counterattack]]''.
* The mooks in the Fielder's Challenge in ''[[VideoGame/BackyardSports Backyard Baseball]]'' are robots.
* The [=MTs=] in any of the ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'' games are this with few exceptions, especially if they're the armless "chickenwalker" variety.
* Many ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' games have you fighting numerous generic or nameless enemy chassis (the Armada game, called simply "Transformers" in the states, coined them as "Decepti-clones"). Different from the TV shows in that every character shown was given a name.
* The WhatMeasureIsANonHuman part got a nice Lampshade Hanging in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheIncrediblesTheIncredibles The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer]]'', where Mr. Incredible spots the first robot enemies in the tutorial stage and quips, "I guess that means we don't have to play nice!"
* Without [[TheIgor Klungo's]] aid to raise her army of monsters in ''[[{{VideoGame/Banjo-Kazooie}} Nuts & Bolts]]'', [[BigBad Gruntilda]] resorted to create her own band of MechaMooks with the Gruntbots. Thanksfully, those crud-looking mechanical mischief makers are more a nuisance than a real threat to the bear and bird duo.
* ''VideoGame/SDSnatcher'' gives Gillian a large variety of Metal Creatures to do battle with.
* ''VideoGame/SeriousSam 2'' has the Floaters, Spawners, Rollers, Rhino Cybertoys, Rocket Turrets, Fatso Fighter Planes, Seagull Bombers, and Giant Cyborg Spiders which are usually mixed in with the various other enemy types, primarily zombies, aliens, and bio-machines.
* ''VideoGame/MiniRobotWars'' has the evil-looking Machines. Also inverted as the good guys units are also mecha mooks of sorts, except cute-looking.
* With the sole exception of [[spoiler:Faye]], you ''never'' fight a single human opponent in ''VideoGame/BinaryDomain''; opponents are all MechaMooks or {{Mechanical Monster}}s. With the exception of the bosses (excluding the ''Tsar Runner''), all of them explode shortly after being 'killed'.
* ''VideoGame/HyperPrincessPitch'' pits the protagonist against Mecha-Santa, his robot Elves, and toys.
* The Mann versus Machine update to ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' added a cooperative game mode where the mercenary soldiers face off against hordes of incoming mechanical counterparts of themselves, and depending on server setting, ranging from your usual punchable-weak-toy-soldiers to outright Nightmare fuel.
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* Inverted in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' where the Dig-bots who get bloodlessly massacred are the good guys, and the very human Hereti-Corp agents doing the massacreing are the baddies.
* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' storyline "Death Volley," Doc is very pleased when he discovers the palace guards are robots, so he can go completely berserkers on them without compunction. Then he learns that one of the guards is actually [[spoiler: his disguised ex-girlfriend, Hortense]].
* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'', when Riboflavin escapes from his prison ship, he destroys a robot guard. He expresses disappointment that the guard was not sentient, and therefore could not feel pain. Riboflavin is not a nice man.
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* Parodied in ''WebVideo/AskANinja'', where the ninja says that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evkMVb839Lc robots are no fun to kill.]]
* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' example: in "Ayla and the Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy" and "Ayla and the Birthday Brawl", Team Kimba are going through a Team Tactics course. Their first 'pop quiz' is against robots and mechanical weapons. Their big 'invading the supervillain lair' simulation includes an armada of Mecha-Mooks. In neither of these are there tons of exploding robots, except where Tennyo and Fey unleash their powers.
* Doctor Infanto of the ''GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' is a hyper-intelligent mutant toddler who commits crimes using remote-controlled MechaMooks (among other high-tech devices).
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* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
*** In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'', Doofenshmirtz-2 has an army of these, based off of Norm.
** An early episode of has the boys construct their own horde of robot clones of themselves to increase productivity, in a rare non-violent use of this trope. [[spoiler: They fulfill this trope better in the movie, where they're used to fight the previously mentioned Normbots.]]
* An early instance is the 1941 [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons Superman cartoon short]] "Mechanical Monsters", which climaxes with Supes whaling on some big ass robots. This may be the UrExample.
* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''
** The show has perhaps the most famous TV mecha-mook, Dr. Zin's robot spy. It's a spider-like robot that can take an incredible amount of punishment, as the Quest family learns when it makes its escape from a military base. They throw small arms, flamethrowers and tanks at it, and nothing makes it more than momentarily pause.
** A whole army of them appeared in the ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' episode "The Robot Spies".
** Modern audiences may remember this as the Walking Eye from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. Walking Eye!
** Though in general the original ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' series [[MoralDissonance didn't have many problems killing off human Mooks]] as long as it wasn't ''too'' graphic, like the two frogmen crushed by the leaping motorboat in the title sequence.
* The original ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'' cartoon turned the [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage original comic's]] Foot Ninja into a robotic army with unlimited numbers. In the Turtles' first battle with the Foot, they were evenly matched with the robot ninjas until one of them was sliced open. Then began the dismemberment.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''
** Heavily subverted: although Jack only ever cut the Mecha-Mooks (or DemonicInvaders) with his sword, they always seemed to be RidiculouslyHumanRobots, either outside or internally ("veins" and "bones" in the interior of a roach-robot Jack cut in two, for instance). This allowed the show to get away with the HighPressureBlood trope and other extreme scenes of carnage, because [[SymbolicBlood it was just oil]]. ''Really.''
** Additionally subverted in one episode in which an episode is told through the perspective of a mecha-mook, and his very real, very human emotions are made painfully apparent to the viewer. Then he fights Jack and gets cut up like any other robotic malcontent.
** Also averted at least once. Jack strikes several people with his sword in the episode where the bounty hunters team up to beat him (and one gets blown up), and they're not revealed to be robots afterwards... ''But'' when fighting organic opponents the fights are noticeably [[BloodlessCarnage bloodless]].
** This is parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' episode "Samurai Quack", where Dodgers, in the role of Jack, is about to attack a person until he loudly announces that he is not a robot.
-->'''Dodgers:''' You are lucky I didn't cut you to ribbons.\\
'''Guy:''' Not with a Y7 rating, you won't.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers''
** The regular Mecha-Mooks, the Martian Centurions, are something of a subversion in any case, being [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Human]] {{Punch Clock Villain}}s.
** In an episode, due to AppliedPhlebotinum Cadet is transformed into a gruff, testosterone-fueled, hulking ActionHero and viciously blows up two enemy fighter ships.
-->'''Dodgers:''' Uh..., those were just ''robot''-piloted ships, right?\\
'''Cadet:''' Yeah, "robots". ''(laughs maniacally)''
* ''Franchise/GIJoe'', when there are B.A.T.s or S.N.A.K.E.s involved, the Sky B.A.T.s in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeSigma6'' as well as the Zaps and Skyrenes in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeExtreme''. All five kinds of Mecha-Mooks are the only bad guys that the Joes seem to be able to hit [[ATeamFiring on the first try.]] Not that they did them any good since B.A.T.s just keep coming and only anti-tank weapons can take them down. Or in case of the B.A.T. Mark I, a [[AttackItsWeakPoint rifle-shot to the weak spot]] (which on the action figure's [[AllThereInTheManual filecard]] is noted as the back, but inexplicably in the Sunbow cartoon, was the large window in the middle of their chest). Or Sgt. Slaughter's fists, which proved to be the most effective anti-B.A.T. weapon ever seen.
* The Jackbots in ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', nevertheless the egregious use of TheHitFlash was deemed necessary anyway.
* A variation on this is in ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', where ''every'' character is a robot; this allowed it to do things like, say, [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Death kill off]] main characters in TheMovie to [[MerchandiseDriven make place for new ones]]. This didn't keep the scenes where it happens from being quite disturbing to younger viewers who idolized the fallen, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim original Prime]] and [[HeroicSacrifice Dinobot]] being the best examples.
** In episodes that aired before the movie, an important distinction was sometimes made between sentient and nonsentient robots. Several episodes involve the characters encountering armies of identical, literally faceless robots (as opposed to the individualized sentient Transformers) usually described as "drones" or some such, which were mindless and could be blasted to bits with moral impunity. The episode "Sea Change" even went so far as to establish that Transformers have souls like human beings, while the Mecha-Mooks they were fighting in that particular episode did not. The Vehicon drones of ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' are the closest to a traditional army of Mecha-Mooks.
** In the case of the aforementioned Vehicons, the common Mecha-Mooks are simply Spark-less drones often under the control of the [[KingMook larger]] Vehicon generals. Naturally, this makes the Vehicon drones the most [[CannonFodder blown-up, dropped, disemembered or crushed]] mooks in Transformers history.
** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' also has Vehicons, but they are intelligent enough to talk to one another and are just as disposeable as their predecessors. Bulkhead even disembowels one of them (to protect Miko). And tells Miko to look away before he does it (to protect Miko in a different way). She doesn't, but that says more about Miko than it does about the Vehicons.
** There's also the Terrorcons from the five-part pilot, robot zombies whose on purpose in unlife was to get gloriously dismembered by Optimus Prime and Ratchet.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}}'' animated series as often as not had the title heroes battling the robotic Sentinels and all manner of mechanical foes, rather than organic bad guys. Indeed, only two characters (good, bad, or background) are directly shown to die at any point in the series, and both eventually come BackFromTheDead.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''
** Although most of the villains in are human, "The Last Laugh" features a robotic henchman to SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, called Captain Clown. In an interview, the producers admitted this was done specifically so that Batman wouldn't have to hold back in the fight.
** Another instance, with better in-universe justification, occurs in the second part of "Heart of Steel."
* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand''. Hornets. Interestingly enough, the RobotBuddy protagonist is the target of more violence than any villain, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal since he's capable of being rebuilt from ridiculous amounts of damage.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'', the "robot" protagonists are actually [[BrainInAJar cyborgs,]] living beings despite their mechanical appearance. However, the villains used nonsentient, inorganic HumongousMecha called Zods which the heroes could destroy without any ethical quibbles.
* Both the 1970s {{Filmation}} animated ''WesternAnimation/FlashGordon'' and the 1980s ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'' gave [[BigBad Ming the Merciless]] armies of Mecha-Mooks. Interestingly, in the Filmation series, good guy {{Red Shirt}}s would get killed all the time (usually a very tidy and bloodless disintegrator shot, or else an exploding manned vehicle). Presumably because killing people is, after all, what makes the villains ''villains''. The good guys got to fight Mecha-Mooks.
* Referenced in ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', a series famous for averting NeverSayDie (at least in the earlier seasons, before ExecutiveMeddling came in full force). In the first season episode "Bearskin Thug", villain Steelbeak's trained bear turns out to be a robot. Upon learning this, Darkwing says "Then I can take off the kid gloves!"
* The Brigadiers from ''WesternAnimation/{{Skyland}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' has a surprisingly wide variety of Mooks, but some definitely fall into this category. Slade's robots from the first two seasons are clearly there just to get blown up (though they serve the dual purpose of allowing him to HannibalLecture his enemies remotely from the comfort of his own home). Brother Blood in the third season uses human soldiers at first, but then switches over to [[EliteMooks Elite]] Mecha-Mooks based on Cyborg, which are actually quite tough, especially when there's a lot of them. In season four, the mooks are [[TheLegionsOfHell demons]], which while not technically robots blow up just as nicely and painlessly. The fifth season, however, features [[TheChessmaster the Brain]] using a pretty even mix of mechanical and human Mooks. Very nearly done in ''TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo'', too. In fact it would have been, had they been robots instead of living ink.
* WesternAnimation/ThundarrTheBarbarian would often slice an enemy in half or lop off a limb, see the sparks and yell "Ookla! Ariel! They are ma chiiiiiiiines!" Note that lopping first is Thundarr's favored tactic, but he knows it would make a difference to ''Ariel'' -- who arguably packs more firepower than he does, if she doesn't hold herself back.
* Averted very subtly in ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers''. The Crown Agents look and sound like robots. However, they take bribes, argue, go rogue, scream and throw up their hands when their plane crashes into a tower, etc. More damning is that the Ranger {{Technopath}} Doc Hartford ''never'' used his powers against them, though he could subvert most any technology with ease. "Lord of the Sands" topped it by having Zach admit "''As far as we know,'' Crown Agents are some kind of robot..."
* Deuce's robot army in ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed''.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' was [[DependingOnTheWriter inconsistent about this.]] In some episodes, the Horde Troopers appeared completely sentient, and were defeated non-lethally by the heroes. In other episodes, they didn't get any dialogue, and could be smashed to pieces without any compunction.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'', when Matrix and Turbo are confronted by some infected Guardians, Matrix asks if their drones "have personality chips". As soon as they heard a No, both of them shot the robots, destroying them easily.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' has the good guys reprogramming a trio of battle droids to aid them in infiltrating a Separatist prison. These droids seemed to [[RuleOfEmpathy live much longer]] than ordinary battle droids by sheer virtue of being on the good side. However once the situation got dicey, these droids were promptly ordered to sacrifice themselves to buy time for their organic masters to escape.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'', XANA's various monsters can count as the virtual version of Mecha-Mooks. They do appears robot-like the two times some are materialized in the real world. Then in season 4, the BigBad is busy constructing a whole army of robots to conquer the Earth.
* In ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible: [[TheMovie So The Drama]]'', Kim and Ron fought against an invasion of Diablos, mini-robots distributed by Drakken as free toys inside Bueno Nacho's Kids Meals, programmed to grow into giant mecha-robots when triggered by a radio signal.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}'', {{Cyborg}} MadScientist Doc Terror had several varieties of mecha-mooks to pit against the titular heroes.
* Dr. Robotnik's Swat Bots from ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehog''.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': Degaton's robotic army in "The Golden Age of Justice!"
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