Basic Trope: When animatronics go bad.
- Straight: Falco's Fun Land has three animatronic performers: Falco Flamingo, Finnick Fox, and Franny Frog. All three of them have been involved in "accidents" with guests and staff.
- Exaggerated: Falco's Fun Land has hordes of animatronics and every one of them has been responsible for at least one death and one maiming with guests, staff members, repairmen, etc.
- Downplayed: Falco's Fun Land has three animatronics: Falco Flamingo, Finnick Fox, and Franny Frog. Finnick has been involved in a few "accidents" with guests and staff, but nobody was seriously hurt or killed.
- Justified:
- Someone pushed the victim into a position where the animatronic could do damage.
- The animatronics are GIGOing on ill-phrased instructions.
- The animatronics are possessed by demons or hostile restless spirits.
- The animatronics were designed that way on purpose, and the funny performances they do are helpful cover-ups.
- Critical safeties (such as overpressure triggered cutoffs) were overridden in an attempt to get them working for the day.
- The animatronics were made using parts from heavy industrial robots in a misguided attempt to make them Tonka Tough.
- Inverted: Falco's Fun Land has three animatronic performers: Falco Flamingo, Finnick Fox, and Franny Frog. All three of them have been credited with saving the lives of guests and staff.
- Subverted: During a show, the animatronics come towards a man, wildly swinging their arms as if to beat him — but it turns out the man had a bomb in his hand and planned to blow up part of the crowd.
- Double Subverted: But then Falco and his friends cause some havoc themselves; they just attacked the bomber because they didn't want any outsider stealing their playthings.
- Zigzagged: Falco and his buddies are openly programmed to have two modes: Happy fun fun kid-friendly fun mode, and absolute slaughter fest mode. They can switch modes at any moment.
- Parodied: Falco says things like "Hi kids! Wanna see my flamethrower?" No one bats an eyelash.
- Averted:
- The animatronics in the story are not hostile or dangerous.
- The story is set in a place or time where animatronics don't exist.
- Enforced:
- The author wants a Man Versus Machine plot and has a preteen hero.
- The author likes to make items that are associated with childhood scary, this including Uncanny Valley robots.
- The author wants a way to make it okay for the heroes to use lethal force.
- The author has trauma regarding an uncanny pizza place with disturbing singing animatronics, so he writes what he knows.
- Lampshaded:Bob: Come on! I take one day off to go to Fun Land and now the animatronics want to kill me?
- Invoked: The Robot Master is a Misanthrope Supreme and programs the animatronics to hurt people.
- Exploited: A group of monster hunters set up a sting operation on "Falco's Fun Land" using fake children as bait., knowing that the animatronics will strike.
- Defied: The animatronics have free will as robots, and they choose to be kind-hearted.
- Discussed:Bob: Jesus these old, decayed robots give me the creeps.
Alice:I would honestly be surprised if they weren't bloodthirsty killers. - Conversed: "Animatronics in films are like death machines. Why do the parks even bother with them?"
- Deconstructed:
- When the owners of Falco's Fun Land realize that the animatronics are hurting people, they trash the animatronics and replace them with costumed performers.
- The threat the animatronics pose is diminished by their inability to move from one spot.
- Reconstructed: The animatronics are Not Quite Dead, and they're not happy about being replaced...
Back to Hostile Animatronics — watch out for Sparky while you're exiting; he doesn't like visitors.
