Line #13 WebVideo/Kara


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2	[[caption-width-right:347:[[PlayingGod Would you like to give me a name?]] ]]
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4	"Kara" is a short film created by Creator/QuanticDream to showcase the new graphics engine they developed for ''Videogame/BeyondTwoSouls''. It starts off showing the assembly and activation of a RidiculouslyHumanRobot... who proves to be a little too human.
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6	Go watch it on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EvqiGm0wz8 YouTube]].
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8	For a tech demo, this short video is '''plot-heavy'''. Expect spoilers.
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10	Due to the positive reception of the tech demo and many people wanting to know how Kara's story continued--''and'' that David Cage himself grew frustrated that he didn't know what would happen after the events in the tech demo--''Kara'' was then announced for development into a full game by the name of ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman''.
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12	!!Contains examples of:
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14	%%* ArtificialHuman
15	%%* ArtificialIntelligence
16	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Operator is moved to let Kara live as a sentient android, but she still has to work as a slave-bot.]]
17	* CanonWelding: Information in Kara's bio in ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'' indicates that the Kara in this tech demo is the very same Kara the player controls in the game itself.
18	* ColorCodedEyes: Kara's eyes are a pale grey. They add to her waifish and distracted aura. The color also signifies that she is empty, a blank slate ready to be shape into her owner's will.
19	%%* CyberPunk
20	%%* DoAndroidsDream
21	%%* TheFaceless: The Operator.
22	* FemBot: Showing linguistic drift, Kara defines herself as an "android" (from the suffix -oid, "having form or likeness of", and the Greek root "andro," or "man") despite there already being a word for robots that have the form or likeness of a woman ("gynoid"). But would [[ViewersAreMorons audiences understand the more uncommon term]]?
23	* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:There are a few hints that she's becoming sentient before it's confirmed; the way she smiles after she's given a name, the look of wonderment as she uses her arms and legs for the first time, and the way she covers herself when she's naked speaks of more than just programming.]]
24	* InkSuitActor: Kara looks just like her voice/motion capture actress, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valorie_Curry Valorie Curry]]. According to the producers, that's because Valorie [[http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-07-introducing-quantic-dreams-kara "looked like an android already"]].
25	* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Subverted. Kara is initially naked but doesn't care because she doesn't have skin yet and at the moment has merely BarbieDollAnatomy. Once she's coated with skin, Kara covers herself with her hands until a machine gives her a bra and underwear.
26	%%* JustAMachine: To The Operator, anyway. [[spoiler: Kara disagrees.]]
27	%%* LimbSensationFascination: As the Operator asks her to take a few steps.
28	* MoodWhiplash: Starts off as just an ExcusePlot to show off a new graphics engine. Then it shifts into serious emotional territory.
29	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The Operator [[spoiler: as he lets the fully sentient Kara model go free, after coming very close to disassembling (i.e. killing) the fully-sentient Kara, who is begging for her life after being branded as 'defective'. Having her assume her role as a slave-bot despite her sentience and knowing that Kara's hopes for life may not be so great depending on where she's going.]]
30	* {{Omniglot}}: Kara's model comes packed in with 300 languages.
31	* OneWordTitle: "Kara".
32	%%* ProtagonistTitle
33	* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The Japanese song Kara sings is [[https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sakura_Sakura "Sakura Sakura"]].
34	%%* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Kara is this. Notable in that we see her assembly, complete with a thumping blue heart.
35	* RobotGirl: Starts off somewhere inbetween a {{Fembot}} and a SkeleBot9000 during the assembly, but skin and hair eventually projects itself over the metallic surface. [[spoiler: Then she turns sentient...]]
36	* RobotHair: Kara is designed to appear human in just about every way, including a head of short brown hair (which is seen being installed on her significantly more obviously mechanical-at first-body).
37	%%* RobotMaid: Seems to be her primary function.
38	%%* SerkisFolk
39	* SexBot: Kara mentions this as one of her functions in a throw-away line -- the story has other things to think about.
40	* WhamLine:
41	** [[spoiler: "I thought...I was alive."]]
42	** [[spoiler: Also, "Stop! I'm scared! (''disassembly stops'') I want to live. I'm begging you."]]
43	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: [[spoiler: "You're not supposed to think that sort of stuff. You're not supposed to think at all!"]]

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