Line #17 PlayingWith/RoboticSpouse


1	'''Basic Trope''': Non-robotic individual has a robot for a spouse.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob's wife Alice is a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot fully functional]] gynoid.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is married to the [[RobotGirl robot girls]] [[TheThreeFacesOfEve Alice, Beth, and Carol]].
4	* '''Downplayed''':
5	** Bob is currently dating Alice.
6	** They're FriendsWithBenefits
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** Alice is a fully sentient, humanlike being so it isn't ''weird'' she and Bob would want to marry if in love.
9	** Alice wasn't always a RobotGirl, having been married to Bob prior to her [[EmergencyTransformation accident]].
10	** Bob didn't even ''mean'' to marry Alice, though he never expected her to be so [[ManicPixieDreamGirl interesting]] to begin with.
11	** Alice and Bob are in an ArrangedMarriage.
12	** Alice and Bob married over TheMetaverse before realizing the others' nature.
13	* '''Inverted''': Gynoid Alice created [[ArtificialHuman Bob]] to be her husband.
14	* '''Subverted''': Alice seems to be a gynoid, but [[UnroboticReveal eventually]] is revealed as human.
15	* '''Double Subverted''': ...Bob, however, [[RoboticReveal turns out]] to be an android.
16	* '''Parodied''': Alice is blatantly mechanical and unalive, yet Bob acts like she has a vibrant personality and the most beautiful looks around.
17	* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice seems to be a gynoid, until its revealed ''Bob'' is the robot in the relationship- Except he's actually a techno-organic cyborg, not a robot. Then it comes to light Alice is, truly, a {{Mechanical Lifeforms}}. Yet she eventually becomes a real human, but even then...
18	* '''Averted''':
19	** Humans and mechanical life simply do not marry each other.
20	** Alice and Bob are nothing more than friends.
21	* '''Enforced''': "We need to prove Bob really ''is'' progressive in this [[FantasticRacism racist]] society. Let's have him marry the gynoid Alice!"
22	* '''Lampshaded''': "Geez man, how much ya have to program her to think you're attractive?"
23	* '''Invoked''': Bob, firmly believing that artificial lifeforms are inherently pure, creates Alice to be his wife.
24	* '''Exploited''': Drake swaps out Bob's wife Alice with a doppelganger to get him killed.
25	* '''Defied''': "Hell no, I'm not gonna plug into a robot's socket! I'm going to romance a ''real'' woman!"
26	* '''Discussed''': "Hey, I've been hearing a lot about these new [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot insanely humanlike robots]], just what kind of rights do they have?" "Well, given how extremely humanlike they ''are'', I imagine they would be allowed to marry humans for one example."
27	* '''Conversed''': "I can't ''believe'' this show is including robot wives too! It makes me so ''sick'' seeing that crap." "Sorry, are you telling me just because they're gynoids and androids the marriage is fake or invalid? Even if they aren't alive, everyone has needs and better robots than something more dire."
28	* '''Implied''': Bob's wife Alice suffers from bizarre joint problems where her arms or legs occasionally lock up, but nobody seems to know why.
29	* '''Deconstructed''': Nobody around Bob treats his marriage with Alice seriously, and the few who "do" thinks their relationship is entirely about sex. They're thus disrespected and mistreated, frequently getting pointed towards places of perversion, and regularly approached by black market dealers.
30	* '''Reconstructed''': Though others don't initially treat the marriage seriously, Bob and Alice's affectionate love for each other eventually makes it clear the relationship is genuine. Even if nobody does, Bob and Alice only care ''they'' know they're in love, calmly dealing with the problems that come their way.
31	* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob and Alice are obvious SickeninglySweethearts who make proclamations of their undying love whenever having to split up to do something.
32	* '''Played For Drama''':
33	** Whenever Alice tries to leave their marriage, Bob hacks into her memory to delete these thoughts, thus making it nigh-impossible for her to file for divorce.
34	** Bob is allowed to abuse Alice ''because'' nobody thinks she's truly alive.
35	** Alice and Bob are very much in love but become pariahs due to [[MalignedMixedMarriage prejudice against their "unnatural union"]].
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