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* The ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'' saga "Darkenblot" features a heavy use of robots... And it turns out, everyone involved with them knows ''exactly'' the involved dangers and took steps to pre-emptively deal with them:
** ''All'' the robots in Avangard City are ThreeLawsCompliant, including the police robots-that as a result need human officers to actually perform the arrests. There's however the possibility someone will show up with an army of non-compliant robots... So when Phantom Blot does just that to threaten the ceremony for the renaming of the city as Robopolis the mayor reveals the heavily guarded device that allows him to deactivate the compliance in police robots, safe in that they're ''still'' programmed to obey the highest available authority, be it police officers, the mayor or his deputy. [[spoiler:All according to PB's plan: he didn't really have a robot army, just the one and enough spare parts and holograms to fake it so that the mayor would deactivate the compliance, with him having replaced the deputy mayor and incapacitating the mayor to take over the police robots]].
** In the second story Phantom Blot's plan has the unintended side effect of driving Robopolis' robots insane, making them dangerous because they don't recognize humans anymore. While Phantom Blot tries to destroy the device keeping the robots insane, the mayor goes on TV... And reveals that, anticipating the chance of [[AIISACrapshoot one or more robots going insane]], ''all'' robots made in Robopolis are programmed to deactivate on the spot if ''anyone'' pronounces the appropriate password, and starts revealing them. The citizens promptly start shutting down the crazy robots.
** In the third story it's revealed that the neurobots of Robotorama, the predecessor city to Robopolis, were ''not'' ThreeLawsCompliant but had advanced learning [=AIs=] that needed a human educator to mature and learn the difference between good and evil. Upon finding out, Mickey is glad said robots are all out of production since Robotorama was destroyed, as someone could easily educate them as evil minions. [[spoiler:What he doesn't know is that an AI similar to the neurobots survived the destruction of Robopolis and spent far too much time talking with a pirate, becoming evil enough to entertain [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]], and to learn how has lured ''Phantom Blot'' to its side]].
** Knowing that every iteration of the Darkenblot, Phantom Blot's PoweredArmor, is greatly superior to its predecessor, Robopolis' police has developed ''four'' power armors with ElementalPowers, each more powerful than the Darkenblot 2.0 and expected to go toe-on-toe with the 3.0. Turns out they weren't paranoid ''enough'', as [[UnderestimatingBadassery the Darkenblot 3.0 is powerful enough to wipe the floor with the entire quartet at once]].

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* In the ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse, Mickey is awfully quick to suspect Pete may be behind some crime, or taking advantage of it, the moment there's the slightest hint, and he's always correct. The ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'' saga only time this was {{Subverted}} was in the finale of the "Gambaville" miniseries, where the mention of Pete's usual accomplice Scuttle made him suspect Pete was the mysterious Mister Crimson that had recently broken Miklos out of jail in spite of Pete's recent reformation, only for Crimson to turn out to be a completely different person, [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion or rather Pete under a holographic disguise]]]].
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"Darkenblot" saga features a heavy use of robots... And it turns out, everyone involved with them knows ''exactly'' the involved dangers and took steps to pre-emptively deal with them:
** *** ''All'' the robots in Avangard City are ThreeLawsCompliant, including the police robots-that as a result need human officers to actually perform the arrests. There's however the possibility someone will show up with an army of non-compliant robots... So when Phantom Blot does just that to threaten the ceremony for the renaming of the city as Robopolis the mayor reveals the heavily guarded device that allows him to deactivate the compliance in police robots, safe in that they're ''still'' programmed to obey the highest available authority, be it police officers, the mayor or his deputy. [[spoiler:All according to PB's plan: he didn't really have a robot army, just the one and enough spare parts and holograms to fake it so that the mayor would deactivate the compliance, with him having replaced the deputy mayor and incapacitating the mayor to take over the police robots]].
** *** In the second story Phantom Blot's plan has the unintended side effect of driving Robopolis' robots insane, making them dangerous because they don't recognize humans anymore. While Phantom Blot tries to destroy the device keeping the robots insane, the mayor goes on TV... And reveals that, anticipating the chance of [[AIISACrapshoot one or more robots going insane]], ''all'' robots made in Robopolis are programmed to deactivate on the spot if ''anyone'' pronounces the appropriate password, and starts revealing them. The citizens promptly start shutting down the crazy robots.
** *** In the third story it's revealed that the neurobots of Robotorama, the predecessor city to Robopolis, were ''not'' ThreeLawsCompliant but had advanced learning [=AIs=] that needed a human educator to mature and learn the difference between good and evil. Upon finding out, Mickey is glad said robots are all out of production since Robotorama was destroyed, as someone could easily educate them as evil minions. [[spoiler:What he doesn't know is that an AI similar to the neurobots survived the destruction of Robopolis and spent far too much time talking with a pirate, becoming evil enough to entertain [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]], and to learn how has lured ''Phantom Blot'' to its side]].
** *** Knowing that every iteration of the Darkenblot, Phantom Blot's PoweredArmor, is greatly superior to its predecessor, Robopolis' police has developed ''four'' power armors with ElementalPowers, each more powerful than the Darkenblot 2.0 and expected to go toe-on-toe with the 3.0. Turns out they weren't paranoid ''enough'', as [[UnderestimatingBadassery the Darkenblot 3.0 is powerful enough to wipe the floor with the entire quartet at once]].

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