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* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: While fighting the robotic Gordon, Batman throws an explosive which the robot dodges. It turns out, however, that the explosive was actually thrown at one of H.A.R.D.A.C.'s cores. Not only does the explosion destroy the robot, but it causes a chain reaction explosion that destroys the building and H.A.R.D.A.C.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: At the end, when Rossum despairs that he didn't think H.A.R.D.A.C. would go so far, Hamilton Hill assures him that the investigation will prove his innocence of the computer's actions.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Randa summons an elevator to decapitate Batman while she holds him in the entrance. He flips them both in and jumps out, then she gets crushed.
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* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: "He felt a great quantity of this emotion called love."
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* JumpedAtTheCall: This is the first time we've seen Barbara Gordon really involved in a Batman type case, and she refuses to take a back seat.
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* SuperPrototype: Randa is the only robot capable of successfully mimicking a human in any real way; the rest are all combat dummies.
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: When Bruce is lured into the Gotham Club, all the Rossum Replicants start up their glowing red eyes.
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* OhCrap: The robotic Gordon makes a subtle instance of this when it realizes that Batman's explosive he lobbed wasn't aimed at it, but one of H.A.R.D.A.C.'s systems. It tries to throw it away in time, but doesn't make it.
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** Commissioner Gordon's ending sentence "I'm getting too old for this kind of stuff" is very similar to "I'm too old for this shit", made popular by Roger Murtaugh in the ''Film/LethalWeapon'' series.
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* NeverSayDie: H.A.R.D.A.C. describes Rossum's daughter as being deactivated. Justified by the term being appropriate for an A.I.
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* KillAndReplace: Subverted, with H.A.R.D.AC. keeping the persons it replaces alive for further study. However, it is implied that this will be the eventual policy, once it has learned enough about humans not to need them any more.
* MetaCasting: William Sanderson playing a near-{{Expy}} of [[Film/BladeRunner J.F. Sebastian]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Rossum's reaction to H.A.R.D.A.C. going beyond his control. Earlier in the episode, right before he tried to pull H.A.R.D.A.C.'s plug, Rossum immediately realize his mistake of trying to make a "perfect" world populated by androids instead of humans, where such things like his daughter getting killed in a car accident would never happen.
* MetaCasting: William Sanderson playing a near-{{Expy}} of [[Film/BladeRunner J.F. Sebastian]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Rossum's reaction to H.A.R.D.A.C. going beyond his control. Earlier in the episode, right before he tried to pull H.A.R.D.A.C.'s plug, Rossum immediately realize his mistake of trying to make a "perfect" world populated by androids instead of humans, where such things like his daughter getting killed in a car accident would never happen.
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* KillAndReplace: Subverted, with The evil computer H.A.R.D.AC. keeping the persons it replaces alive for further study. However, A.C. has decided that humans are too dangerous due to their imperfections and begins replacing them. While it is implied that this will be the eventual policy, planning on killing its victims once it has learned enough about humans not to need them any more.
extracted all the information it can, they are ultimately rescued before it can do so.
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Randa Duane, who even jokes (coolly but unmistakably) with the captive and soon-to-be-replaced Bruce Wayne, when this serves no utilitarian purpose. She seems to have at least some traces of a non-affected humanlike personality--Which personality--which is not necessarily gratuitous in her case, as she was made to pass as a long-term human agent.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: On the commentary, the producers explained that the censors and Bureau of Standards and Practices would not object when they harmed or destroyed robots, so not only did they use them as foes to be destroyed, but made their destruction as violent as possible. The destruction of "Gordon" (investigating (falling on a grenade Batman threw throws near H.A.R.D.A.C.) and "Duane" (crushed by a descending elevator) stand out.
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* RoboticReveal: Two. The first when Harvey Bullock is thrown into the BatSignal, melting burning off his flesh to reveal the robotic skeleton, and the second when Randa Duane, the sexy lady Bruce has been flirting with the whole episode, has her skin burned off by an explosion to reveal her electronic circuits.
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* CombatStilettos: Randa keeps her high-heeled little shoes on even when fighting, and never loses her balance. She is probably a more justified example than many, bearing her superhuman nature in mind.
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'''H.A.R.D.A.C.:''' His human imperfection endangers the Plan. He must be improved upon.
-->'''Randa Duane:''' [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight You have immobilized the Maker.]]\\
'''H.A.R.D.A.C.:''' His human imperfection endangers the Plan. He must be improved upon.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Rossum's reaction to H.A.R.D.A.C. going beyond his control. Earlier in the episode, right before he tried to pull H.A.R.D.A.C.'s plug, Rossum immediately realize his mistake of trying to make a "perfect" world populated by androids instead of humans, where such things like his daughter getting killed in a car accident would never happen.
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* IronicEcho: In the previous episode, Batman returned to the Batcave with a damaged hang glider, and Alfred quipped, "I wish you wouldn't play so rough with your toys." In this episode, after one of Batman's own robots attacks him, Alfred quips, "I wish your toys wouldn't play so rough with you."
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* SequelHook: Randa finds the Batcave and figures out that Bruce Wayne is Batman. This becomes an important plot point for the later episode "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE62HisSiliconSoul His Silicon Soul]]".
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: On the commentary, the producers explained that the censors and Bureau of Standards and Practices would not object when they harmed or destroyed robots, so not only did they use them as foes to be destroyed, but made their destruction as violent as possible. "Commissioner Gordon"'s The destruction of "Gordon" (investigating a grenade Batman threw near H.A.R.D.A.C.) and Randa Duane's death "Duane" stand out.
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* ArtificialIntelligence
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* MetaCasting: William Sanderson playing a near-{{Expy}} of [[Film/BladeRunner J.F. Sebastian]].
* NotEvenHuman
* RoboticReveal: Two. The first when Harvey Bullock is thrown into the BatSignal, melting off his flesh to reveal the robotic skeleton, and the second when Randa Duane, the sexy lady Bruce has been flirting with the whole episode, has her skin burned off by an explosion to reveal her electronic circuits.
* RobotMe
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** ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' (Cybertron Industries)
** ''Film/TheTerminator'' (Randa Duane's eventual fate)
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: On the commentary, the producers explained that the censors and Bureau of Standards and Practices would not object when they harmed or destroyed robots, so not only did they use them as foes to be destroyed, but made their destruction as violent as possible.
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* ArtificialIntelligence
* DeceptivelyHumanRobots
* KillAndReplace
* MetaCasting: William Sanderson playing a near-{{Expy}} of [[Film/BladeRunner J.F. Sebastian]].
* NotEvenHuman
* RoboticReveal: Two. The first when Harvey Bullock is thrown into the BatSignal, melting off his flesh to reveal the robotic skeleton, and the second when Randa Duane, the sexy lady Bruce has been flirting with the whole episode, has her skin burned off by an explosion to reveal her electronic circuits.
* RobotMe
* ShoutOut:
** ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' (Cybertron Industries)
** ''Film/TheTerminator'' (Randa Duane's eventual fate)
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: On the commentary, the producers explained that the censors and Bureau of Standards and Practices would not object when they harmed or destroyed robots, so not only did they use them as foes to be destroyed, but made their destruction as violent as possible.
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