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This trope also makes quite a bit of sense from a pure engineering standpoint: the bipedal human skeleton is a rather efficient infrastructure. Placing processing power and sensors in a compact, heavily armored box at the top of the body minimizes lag and provides the best vantage point possible, the ribcage centralizes and protects important components, and an upright bipedal stance allows both great strength and dexterity in the upper limbs[[note]]By placing the arms directly over the feet, the upright stance ensures that the weight of any object being held by the arms is as close to being directly over the base of support as possible. This greatly increases balance when holding heavy objects, allowing for greater feats of strength and precision.[[/note]] while also making us one of the few animals that can survive prolonged high-speed travel.[[note]]Two legs are always more efficient than four, provided you have the brainpower and coordination to use them. For instance, an average horse would either lose an ultramarathon to an average human or die winning.[[/note]] Eliminating excess weight by replacing muscle with systems of cables or servo motors and organs with compact power supplies would let you strip the body down to, well, the bare bones essentials.

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This trope also makes quite a bit of sense from a pure engineering standpoint: the bipedal human skeleton is a rather efficient infrastructure.structure. Placing processing power and sensors in a compact, heavily armored box at the top of the body minimizes lag and provides the best vantage point possible, the ribcage centralizes and protects important components, and an upright bipedal stance allows both great strength and dexterity in the upper limbs[[note]]By placing the arms directly over the feet, the upright stance ensures that the weight of any object being held by the arms is as close to being directly over the base of support as possible. This greatly increases balance when holding heavy objects, allowing for greater feats of strength and precision.[[/note]] while also making us one of the few animals that can survive prolonged high-speed travel.[[note]]Two legs are always more efficient than four, provided you have the brainpower and coordination to use them. For instance, an average horse would either lose an ultramarathon to an average human or die winning.[[/note]] Eliminating excess weight by replacing muscle with systems of cables or servo motors and organs with compact power supplies would let you strip the body down to, well, the bare bones essentials.
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* The ''{{Franchise/Transformers}}'' toyline: "War for Cybertron: Kingdom" has the Fossilizers, skeletal robots that can turn into fossilized prehistoric animals and can disassemble themselves to be turned into weapons for other Transformers.
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* Most robots from the comic ''ComicBook/MagnusRobotFighter: 4000 AD'' are somewhat subtly skeletal. They have flatly mechanical faces or faceless heads, thin limbs, and chests joined to hips by nothing more than a thick cable.

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* Most robots from the comic ''ComicBook/MagnusRobotFighter: 4000 AD'' are somewhat subtly skeletal. They have flatly mechanical faces or faceless heads, thin limbs, and chests joined to hips by nothing more than a thick cable.



** Metallo, at least in his ComicBook/PostCrisis version, as a direct ShoutOut to the T-800.
** The mid-80's version of Brainiac.

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** Metallo, at least in his ComicBook/PostCrisis Metallo late 80's version, as a direct ShoutOut homage to the T-800.
** The mid-80's version of Brainiac."ComicBook/BrainiacRebirth": Brainiac's original human-like body is destroyed and replaced with a more dangerous and more fearsome [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brainiac.PNG skeletal form]].



* Some later versions of Warlock from ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' have played with this trope, by having him look [[http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh60/Arkakoira/warlock_new_mutants.jpg very skeletal]] when in low energy, and much fuller and human-like when in full power.

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* ''ComicBook/NewMutants'': Some later versions of Warlock from ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' have played with this trope, by having him look [[http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh60/Arkakoira/warlock_new_mutants.jpg very skeletal]] when in low energy, and much fuller and human-like when in full power.

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