Line #21 RidiculouslyHumanRobots/ComicBooks


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9	!!Creator/DCComics:
10	* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'':
11	** ComicBook/RedTornado, who assumed the identity of John Smith, married a human woman and adopted a child with her.
12	** The android ComicBook/{{Hourman}}, Matthew Tyler. He was even programmed with the 'geneware' of Rex Tyler, the original Hourman.
13	** L-Ron, Maxwell Lord's assistant when he was running the Justice League, fits into this trope perfectly, as does ComicBook/BoosterGold's robot companion Skeets.
14	* 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.
15	* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
16	** Superman, during MediaNotes/{{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.
17	** 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).
18	** 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.
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20	!!Creator/MarvelComics:
21	* Both versions of ComicBook/TheVision 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]].
22	* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Doombots, programmed to act like the real Doctor Doom 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 that 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.
23	* ''ComicBook/TheInvadersMarvelComics'': 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) [[ArtificialHuman human to a cellular level]]. He was a universal donor and even had genetic material.
24	* 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 [[MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] series, ''X-51''.
25	* ''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.
26	* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'': The Vision's "brother", 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.
27	* ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}'s Life Model Decoys are meant to be completely indistinguishable from the people for whom they are body doubles.
28	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Peter's parents, Richard and Mary Fitzpatrick-Parker, claimed to not have been killed in an airplane crash, and ended up staying with Peter for a while. It turned out they were robot impostors.
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30	!!Other
31	* ''ComicBook/FallOutToyWorks'': Shown and lampshaded in issue #4 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, again in that same issue, occurs when Tiffany finds one of Baron's MechaMooks tending to flowers.
32	* 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 {{discussed\|Trope}} by characters, and one arc is called "Spiritus ex Machina" (Latin for "Soul from the machine").
33	* ''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.]]
34	* ''NYC Mech'' is set in an alternate universe where everything is exactly the same as in our world, except everyone's a robot. While these robots have hair, they don't appear very human outwardly, with visible hinges and wires, but they eat, sleep, smoke, have sex, age, etc. That the characters are robots is so immaterial to the plot, one suspects that element was added at the last minute to give the series a unique hook.
35	* 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]].
36	* 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...
37	* Subverted in ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy''. Mrs. Hargreeves has a human face but a transparent body and obviously artificial limbs. However, it appears that she also has a full system of working organs, [[{{Squick}} which can be seen through her transparent body]].

Context RidiculouslyHumanRobots / ComicBooks