History RidiculouslyHumanRobots / ComicBooks

** Superman, during UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}}, used to build several robots to assist him. They usually looked so much like himself that it was impossible to tell them apart (which often was the point). The ones he built ComicBook/PostCrisis were much less lifelike, but still resembled him, except for Kelex who looked quite different.

* Arguably justified to the point of deconstruction by ComicBook/MachineMan. The X-series robots are supposed to be, essentially, Terminators, but Abel Stack is convinced that a robot that can think as well as a human needs to think like a human; when the other fifty robots develop bizarre psychoses and X-51 remains sane, he's proven right, but X-51 also proves useless as a military device. Much later, in ''ComicBook/EarthX'', Uatu the Watcher claims that Abel made "Aaron" as an extension of himself, hoping to "live forever" in this way. Then ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' came along. Aaron Stack's 'sanity', even in the mainstream, can now be said to be somewhat suspect. Ironically, his increasingly 'robot pride' behaviour also came with him not using anything other than his human name as he finds codenames and serial numbers demeaning. This personality shift is the result of a HeroicBSOD following his abduction and then abandonment by the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Celestials]] at the end of his [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] series, ''X-51''.

!!Marvel

* ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}'s Life Model Decoys are meant to be completely indistinguishable from the people for whom they are body-doubles.
* Doombots, programmed to act like the real Characters/DoctorDoom in his absence. Arguably, it's not very difficult to achieve perfect resemblance to the real thing when the template himself dresses like a robot with a hood and cape...
** The resemblance is so perfect, various comic book writers have debated which appearances of Doom were [[ActuallyADoombot actually Doombots]]. I.e., they're so good at impersonating Doom, even the writer of the story might not know it's really a Doombot.
* Arguably justified to the point of deconstruction by ComicBook/MachineMan, in various Creator/MarvelComics tales. The X-series robots are supposed to be, essentially, Terminators, but Abel Stack is convinced that a robot that can think as well as a human needs to think like a human; when the other fifty robots develop bizarre psychoses and X-51 remains sane, he's proven right, but X-51 also proves useless as a military device. Much later, in ''ComicBook/EarthX'', Uatu the Watcher claims Abel made "Aaron" as an extension of himself, hoping to "live forever" in this way.
** ...And then ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' came along. Aaron Stack's 'sanity', even in the mainstream, can now be said to be somewhat suspect. Ironically, his increasingly 'robot pride' behaviour also came with him not using anything other than his human name as he finds codenames and serial numbers demeaning. This personality shift is the result of a HeroicBSOD following his abduction and then abandonment by the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Celestials]] at the end of his [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] series, ''X-51.''
* Both versions of the Vision from ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': the original was married to the Scarlet Witch; the new one spent a year traveling around the world finding himself, likes to be called Jonas in private, and is now dating [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Stature]].
* The Vision's "brother", [[spoiler:[[Comicbook/{{Runaways}} Victor Mancha]]]], looks and acts so much like a normal teenager that ''he himself didn't know he was a robot for years''. This was justified considering that [[spoiler: he was built as part of an elaborate plot that required him to pass as human for a while.]] In fact, he's built to become more human over time with nanotechnology until the two halves are indistinguishable from each other.

* ''ComicBook/MachineTeen'': The title character believed himself to be an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent and suffered from frequent seizures. He then finds out he's a robot, his seizures are caused by an internal logic error/feedback loop and has to escape capture from his father's former boss.

!!DC
* ComicBook/RedTornado, who assumed the identity of John Smith, married a human woman and adopted a child with her.
* The android ComicBook/{{Hourman}}, Matthew Tyler. He was even programmed with the 'geneware' of Rex Tyler, the original Hourman.
* L-Ron, Maxwell Lord's assistant when he was running the ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}}, fits into this trope perfectly, as does ComicBook/BoosterGold's robot companion Skeets.
* The ComicBook/MetalMen are visibly robotic, and don't have human physical needs like nourishment, but are otherwise very much human in their emotions -- in fact, they are all more emotional and sentimental than their creator, the stiff, dispassionate Dr. Will Magnus. This was an intentional bit of irony by writer Bob Kanigher.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** Superman, during UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}}, used to build several robots to assist him. They usually looked so much like himself that it was impossible to tell them apart (which often was the point). The ones he built ComicBook/PostCrisis were much less lifelike, but still resembled him, except for Kelex who looked quite different.
** Just before the ''ComicBook/New52'' reboot, in the storyline ''ComicBook/TheBlackRing'', Lex Luthor uses some kryptonian technology to build himself a Lois Lane robot that looks exactly like the real Lois (except that the robot has some non-human powers).
** In ''ComicBook/LexLuthorManOfSteel'', [[spoiler:Hope]] turns out to be a robot, so perfect that at first even ''[[TomatoInTheMirror she]]'' doesn't know it. She acts and looks just like a normal human woman.

* Shown and lampshaded in issue 4 of ''ComicBook/FallOutToyWorks'' with Tiffany having a cooldown smoke after an argument with Baron.
** In the same issue, Mr Moth gets 3000 channels and apparently makes the most of them, what with comparing Toymaker's HeroicBSOD with George Foreman after his match with Muhammad Ali.
** Another lampshading in issue 4, when Tiffany finds one of Baron's MechaMooks tending to flowers.
* ''ComicBook/MegaRoboBros'' has Alex and Freddy, the protagonists who are a pair of robots who have all the personality of a teenage and young boy, respectively.
** [[spoiler:There's also Robot 23, the BigBad of the first book.]]
* The Robot Masters in ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'' are advanced enough for humanlike emotional responses, such as love, enjoyment, fear, sadness, resentment (see Blues/Proto Man), existential crises (Proto Man again), and even PTSS (Quake Woman). They do have alien thought processes though, such as knowing [[YourDaysAreNumbered their days are numbered]] and wanting to be [[DeadlyEuphemism decommissioned]] when their designed function is not allowed. When Rock meets the canonically fully-emotional and sapient future counterpart VideoGame/MegaManX, it’s hard to really tell the difference between their behavior.
** The implications of this trope are so woven through the series that it’s actually [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] by characters, and one arc is called "Spiritus ex Machina" (Latin for “Soul from the machine”).

* L-Ron, Maxwell Lord's assistant when he was running the Franchise/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}}, fits into this trope perfectly, as does ComicBook/BoosterGold's robot companion Skeets.

** Superman, during UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, used to build several robots to assist him. They usually looked so much like himself that it was impossible to tell them apart (which often was the point). The ones he built ComicBook/PostCrisis were much less lifelike, but still resembled him, except for Kelex who looked quite different.
** Just before the ComicBook/{{New 52}} reboot, during ''ComicBook/TheBlackRing'' storyline ComicBook/LexLuthor used some kryptonian technology to built himself a ComicBook/LoisLane robot that looked exactly like the real Lois (except that the robot had some non-human powers).

** The implications of this trope are so woven through the series that it’s actually [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] by characters, and one arc is called “Spiritus ex Machina” (Latin for “Soul from the machine”).

* Every droid created in the XXIII century in ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures looks and feels exactly like a human. Despite that, they are just treated as tools. This is later deconstructed when a WellIntentionedExtremist droid tries to change history to make droids equal to humans. Later,with the "Droids Charter", they finally obtain rights.
** Issue 48 shows a significant flaw in building an Even More Ridiculously Human Robot body: the A.I. placed inside of must also be Ridiculously Human enough, otherwise [[RequiredSecondaryPowers it won't be able to use that body, becoming stuck without being able to move or perceive anything]].
* The Robots in ComicBook/{{Saga}} are without a doubt one of the most ridiculous examples in fiction history. If not for their [[TVHeadRobot TV heads]], it would be impossible to identify them as robots--not only are they fully sentient and sapient, but they can even have sex, bear children, contract diseases, use the bathroom...
* Subverted in ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy''. Mrs. Hargreeves has a human face but a transparent body and obviously artificial limbs. However it appears she also has a full system of working organs, [[{{Squick}} which can be seen through her transparent body]].
* ''ComicBook/LexLuthorManOfSteel'': [[spoiler:Hope]] turns out to be a robot, so perfect that at first even ''[[TomatoInTheMirror she]]'' doesn't know it. She acts and looks just like a normal human woman.

* The Robots in ComicBook/{{Saga}} are without a doubt one of the most ridiculous examples in fiction history. If not for their [[TVHeadRobot TV heads]], it would be impossible to identify them as robots--not only are they fully sentient and sapient, but they can even [[UpToEleven have sex, bear children, contract diseases, use the bathroom...]]

* Arguably justified to the point of deconstruction by Machine Man, in various Creator/MarvelComics tales. The X-series robots are supposed to be, essentially, Terminators, but Abel Stack is convinced that a robot that can think as well as a human needs to think like a human; when the other fifty robots develop bizarre psychoses and X-51 remains sane, he's proven right, but X-51 also proves useless as a military device. Much later, in ''ComicBook/EarthX'', Uatu the Watcher claims Abel made "Aaron" as an extension of himself, hoping to "live forever" in this way.

* Older than all the examples below is the original Human Torch. He's an android but he completely averted the RoboticReveal trope that was common in his day by being (synthetically i.e. ceramic bones) human to a cellular level. He was a universal donor and even had genetic material.
* SHIELD's Life Model Decoys are meant to be completely indistinguishable from the people for whom they are body-doubles.
* Doombots, programmed to act like the real ComicBook/DoctorDoom in his absence. Arguably, it's not very difficult to achieve perfect resemblance to the real thing when the template himself dresses like a robot with a hood and cape...

** ...And then ''Comicbook/{{Nextwave}}'' came along. Aaron Stack's 'sanity', even in the mainstream, can now be said to be somewhat suspect. Ironically, his increasingly 'robot pride' behaviour also came with him not using anything other than his human name as he finds codenames and serial numbers demeaning. This personality shift is the result of a HeroicBSOD following his abduction and then abandonment by the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Celestials]] at the end of his [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] series, ''X-51.''
* Both versions of ComicBook/TheVision from ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'': the original was married to the ComicBook/ScarletWitch; the new one spent a year traveling around the world finding himself, likes to be called Jonas in private, and is now dating [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Stature]].
* The Vision's "brother", [[spoiler:[[Comicbook/{{Runaways}} Victor Mancha]]]], looks and acts so much like a normal teenager that ''he himself didn't know he was a robot for years''. This was justified considering that [[spoiler: he was built as part of an elaborate plot that required him to pass as human for a while.]] In fact he's built to become more human over time with nanotechnology until the two halves are indistinguishable from each other.

* ''ComicBook/MachineTeen'': Title character believed himself to be an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent and suffered from frequent seizures. He then finds out he's a robot, his seizures are caused by an internal logic error/feedback loop, and has to escape capture from his father's former boss.

* The Robot Masters in ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'' are advanced enough for humanlike emotional responses, such as love, enjoyment, fear, sadness, resentment (see Blues/Proto Man), existential crises (Proto Man again), and even PTSS (Quake Woman). They do have alien thought processes though, such as knowing [[YourDaysAreNumbered their days are numbered]] and wanting to be [[DeadlyEuphemism decommissioned]] when their designed function is not allowed. When Rock meets the canonically fully-emotional and sapient future counterpart VideoGame/Mega Man X, it’s hard to really tell the difference between their behavior.

* Doombots, programmed to act like the real SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom in his absence. Arguably, it's not very difficult to achieve perfect resemblance to the real thing when the template himself dresses like a robot with a hood and cape...

* ''ComicBook/MachineTeen'': Title character believed himself to be an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent]] and suffered from frequent seizures. He then finds out he's a robot, his seizures are caused by an internal logic error/feedback loop, and has to escape capture from his father's former boss.