Basic Trope: A switch to change a robot's morality
- Straight: Bob has incorporated a switch into the Alicedroid 2000 that allows her to be switched between good and evil
- Exaggerated: The switch allows her to be swapped to Lawful Good, Neutral Good, Chaotic Good, Lawful Neutral, True Neutral, Chaotic Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil, or Chaotic Evil.
- Downplayed: The switch merely turns her more aggressive.
- Justified:
- The Alicedroid was intended as a mass-production model to be sold to both heroes and villains.
- The opposing setting was intended as a last resort.
- Initially Good Alicedroid: The "Evil" setting makes her no longer willing to hold back.
- Initially Evil Alicedroid: The "Good" setting is there in case a diplomatic solution is best to further the villain's goals.
- Inverted: The switch turns the robot from good to another sort of good
- Subverted: The switch only turns her eyes a deep red. Bob explains, "That functionality isn't exactly complete yet."
- Double Subverted: It turns Alicedroid into a secret villain, who outwardly pretends to be a hero. Bob only said the evil functionality was incomplete because he was using her as The Mole Sleeper Agent for his own evil plans.
- Parodied: The evil button causes the Alicedroid to turn eeevil, which is shown by her leaving the toilet seat cover up, giving Bob a wedgie, and shaving Bob's pet poodle without his permission.
- Zig-Zagged: Sometimes the switch works, other times it does nothing
- Averted: Robot moralities are unswitchable, or at least take some good old human convincing.
- Enforced: The meddling executives want an episode where Alicedroid turns evil.
- Lampshaded: "Why did you even add that lever?"
- Invoked: Bob obtains a deactivated enemy robot, and decides the best way to turn it good is via adding a good/evil switch.
- Exploited: A villain sneaks in and pulls the switch, so that Alicedroid will be his hench-robot.
- Defied: "Are you crazy? I would never add a function to turn their robot servant evil."
- Discussed: "Oh great, Alicedroid has gone haywire. How much do you want to bet that Bob put a Good/Evil switch on it?"
- Conversed: "Real life isn't like The Bob and Alicedroid Show. Supervillains don't just put switches on their robots to turn them good."
- Implied: Alicedroid is good in some episodes, and evil in others.
- Deconstructed: Someone finds the morality switch and reports about it, ruining Bob's reputation.
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: Alicedroid's good form accidentally causes so much damage that Bob finds her bad form preferable.
- Played for Drama: Alicedroid gets an identity crisis on which form she prefers.
- Played for Horror: Alicedroid's evil switch gets pressed, and she begins killing everyone gruesomely in sight.
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