History Main / RobosexualsAreCreeps

[[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible Despite the name]], the mate the organic is attracted to doesn't have to a robot. If the nonhuman mate is artificial like a hologram or something else similar to a robot, it counts.

* In the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' universe, lifelike sex robots are both widespread and legal in Mega-City One. However, they're still just that: [[JustAMachine robots]]. One curious case Judge Dredd investigated involved a nerdy teenager whose rich parents bought him a sexbot because he couldn't get a real girlfriend subsequently murder his stepfather for using it without his permission and then attempted to run off with his "girlfriend". When it's destroyed in the process, he's heartbroken, much to the confusion of the judges.

* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' has a slight variant in the form of Creator/TimCurry's CreepyCrossdresser character [[DrFakenstein Doctor Frank-N-Furter]] creating an ArtificialHuman named Rocky to have sex with. In this case, though, Frank is portrayed not as a loser but as an [[EvilIsCool exciting]] [[EvilIsSexy deviant]].

Fiction commonly uses sexuality to show characters' negative qualities. Villains may be shown engaging in [[VillainousIncest incest]], {{paedo|Hunt}}philia, or and/or garden-variety {{rape|IsASpecialKindOfEvil}}, or their lack of sexual desire [[VillainousAromanticAsexual can be a sign that they are evil]]. Unlike those tropes, this one isn't a sign that the character is evil, just creepy.

Fiction commonly uses sexuality to show characters' negative qualities. Villains may be shown engaging in [[VillainousIncest incest]], {{paedo|Hunt}}philia, or garden-variety {{rape|IsASpecialKindOfEvil}}, or their lack of sexual desire [[VillainousAromanticAsexual can be a sign that they are evil]]. Unlike those tropes, this one isn't a sign that the character is evil, just creepy.

Fiction commonly uses sexuality to show characters' negative qualities. Villains may be shown engaging in {{rape|IsASpecialKindOfEvil}}, {{paedo|Hunt}}philia, or [[VillainousIncest incest]], or their lack of sexual desire [[VillainousAromanticAsexual can be a sign that they are evil]]. Unlike those tropes, this one isn't a sign that the character is evil, just creepy.

Fiction commonly uses sexuality to show characters' negative qualities. Villains may be shown [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty molesting captive women]], or their lack of sexual desire [[VillainousAromanticAsexual can be a sign that they are evil]]. Unlike those tropes, this one isn't a sign that the character is evil, just creepy.

* ''Anime/SaberMarionetteJ'': At least during the early series, Otaru was often seen as weird for treating his marionettes as human beings, though in his case, it was due to their Maiden Circuits giving them emotions and sentience. Somewhat justified given that, as Terra II only had biological men, most. [[spoiler:Played more dramatically with Otaru's sensei Soemon Obichi, who actually suffered discrimination (even violently) because he'd fallen in love with own marionette Koyuki]].

* ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'': Since RidiculouslyHumanRobots with burgeoing sapience are now commonplace throughout society, sexbots are also featured, and the game takes a rather dim view on them. During one of Connor's investigations, a dead customer found inside a robot brothel turns out to have basically been a SerialKiller who enjoyed destroying "Tracy" models, which caused one of them to snap and kill him in self-defense. North's DarkAndTroubledPast is that she used to be a privately-owned sexbot who was similarly abused before she ran off to join [[LaResistance Jericho]]. Hank further bemoans that people are no longer interested in human-to-human relations.

** William and his future brother-in-law, Logan, went to Westworld to have some relaxation. He meets and falls in love with Dolores, a beautiful host who lives on a ranch. However, Logan repeatedly warns him that Dolores is not human and reminds him that he's still engaged with his sister. Later on, William becomes obsessed with Dolores to the point of killing all the Confederate hosts and abandoning Logan in the middle of nowhere. When he saw Dolores again in the town, her memories are reset and she doesn't remember him. [[spoiler:This culminates William to become the Man in Black, a villainous guest who frequently goes to the park and torments Dolores. His obsession with the park and Dolores cause him to lose his grip on reality and ruin his marriage, resulting in his wife's suicide. As one character notes, William's repeated abuse of Dolores causes her to despise humanity to the point of wanting to destroy it.]]

* In the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' universe, lifelike sex robots are both widespread and legal in Mega-City One. However, they're still just that: [[JustAMachine robots]]. One curious case Judge Dredd investigated had a nerdy teenager whose rich parents bought him a sexbot because he couldn't get a real girlfriend subsequently murder his stepfather for using it without his permission and then attempted to run off with his "girlfriend". When it's destroyed in the process, he's heartbroken, much to the confusion of the judges.

Robosexuals Are Creeps is about works portraying [[{{Robosexual}} people attracted to robots]] as creeps, usually by having other characters get creeped out by it. This might be because the character is unable to convince actual people to date them, which might be why they screw robots, which disgusts everyone even more. These characters are usually socially inept. If they develop romantic feelings for the robot, the other characters will try to end the relationship now that its gone too far. If the robot gets destroyed, the robosexual will cry over it like they lost the love of their life, even though they have no reason to be sad since the robot can just be rebuilt.

''[[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Don't. Date. Robots!]]''

Robosexuals Are Creeps is about works portraying [[{{Robosexual}} people attracted to robots]] as creeps, usually by having other characters get creeped out by it. This might because the character is unable to convince actual people to date them, which might be why they screw robots, which disgusts everyone even more. These characters are usually socially inept. If they develop romantic feelings for the robot, the other characters will try to end the relationship now that its gone too far. If the robot gets destroyed, the robosexual will cry over it like they lost the love of their life, even though they have no reason to be sad since the robot can just be rebuilt.

* ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'': James Garret, a casino and brothel owner who hires the PlayerCharacter to recruit new staff for him, claims that some "disgusting robot fetishists" have been pushing him to add a {{sexbot}} to his roster, and that he wouldn't normally want a sexbot within 100ft of him.. but if he's going to make money out of it, he should be professional about it. If you do manage to find and recruit one for him, his dialogue suggests that he himself is a robosexual, and that he was trying to use IHaveThisFriend to hide the fact.

Robosexuals Are Creeps is about other characters viewing [[{{Robosexual}} people attracted to robots]] as creeps. This might because the character is unable to convince actual people to date them, which might be why they screw robots, which disgusts everyone even more. These characters are usually socially inept. If they develop romantic feelings for the robot, the other characters will try to end the relationship now that its gone too far. If the robot gets destroyed, the robosexual will cry over it like they lost the love of their life, even though they have no reason to be sad since the robot can just be rebuilt.

* ''Series/{{Westworld}}'': In Season 1, the titular park has human-like robots called hosts and they cater to the human guests who want to indulge with their fantasies without any moral consequences which include violent and sexual desires. Unlike [[Film/{{Westworld}} the 1973 film]] which the show is loosely based on, the main characters are the hosts and they experience repeated cycles of abuse, usually sexual. And there are already instances that the park employees take sexual advantage of hosts during maintenance. However, the guests and employees are unaware that the hosts are slowly gaining consciousness [[spoiler:which is exactly what the park's founder intended as he was disgusted with the guests' worst behavior, causing him to have a misanthropic view on humanity. By the end of the season, he eventually gives the hosts the means to take revenge on their abusers.]]

* ''Series/{{Westworld}}'': In Season 1, the titular park has human-like robots called hosts and they cater to the human guests who want to indulge with their fantasies without any consequences which include violent and sexual desires. Unlike [[Film/Westworld the 1973 film]] which the show is loosely based on, the main characters are the hosts and they experience repeated cycles of abuse, usually sexual. And there are already instances that the park employees take sexual advantage of hosts during maintenance. However, the guests and employees are unaware that the hosts are slowly gaining consciousness [[spoiler:which is exactly what the park's founder intended as he was disgusted with the guests' worst behavior, causing him to have a misanthropic view on humanity. By the end of the season, he eventually gives the hosts the means to take revenge on their abusers.]]

* ''Series/YearsAndYears'': The first episode establishes its TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture setting through a male side character who owns a roughly humanoid domestic service robot. When Rosie goes on a date with him, she discovers right as they're about to get it on at his place that the bot also has more carnal applications than its owner initially described. She ends the date right then and there and wastes no time regaling her extensive family with the story the next day. They all share her opinion that the guy is equal parts disgusting, creepy and hilarious.

* ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'': While Chi is [[spoiler:kidnapped and held captive]] Ueda confesses to Hideki that he was married to Yumi, his persocom. During his marriage he had to put up with friends and neighbors cracking jokes at his expense, and says that since his parents had passed away long ago, [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan they couldn't have objected]]. When she started to malfunction she couldn't be fixed, since she was a discontinued model, and he was devastated every time a persocom expert nonchalantly told him to just get a new one. After [[HeroicSacrifice Yumi "died" by pushing him out of the way of a speeding car]], Ueda held a funeral for her, [[BileFascination which became a media sensation]] due to the fact that anyone would mourn a broken down persocom as much as he did.

** "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E4PropositionInfinity Proposition Infinity]]": {{Subverted}}. Once robosexual marriage becomes a pretty clear gay marriage allegory, most characters become more accepting of robosexuality, with Farnsworth being the only member of the main cast unaccepting of robosexuals, and that's only because he is one who tried to suppress his robosexual urges after a robot lover of his cheated on him with another robot.

Whether this is actually justified or not depends on how sentient the robot is. If it is simply a programmed, unaware machine, then it's effectively just a very sophisticated sex doll, and would lead to the human being seen as somebody who is either too socially inept to have a sexual relationship with an actual human, or objectifies other people to an extreme degree. If the robot is sentient, then there may be concerns about whether it is consenting, or whether it has been forced in some way to be a SexSlave.

-->'''Jonny:''' Fuck the ship!
-->'''Nastya:''' I do.
-->'''Jonny:''' ''Ew''.

-->'''C8-42''': She... she tried to treat me as her dead husband. It was not healthy for her.
-->'''The Player''': Er... ALL the time?
-->'''C8-42''': You don't want to know...
-->'''The Player''': Um... probably not...

Fiction commonly uses sexuality to show characters' negative qualities. Villains may be shown [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty molesting captive women]], or their lack of sexual desire [[VillainousAromanticAsexual can be a sign that their evil]]. Unlike those tropes, this one isn't a sign that the character is evil, just creepy.