History AIIsACrapshoot / ComicBooks

* In ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', Gormenghast is a digital consciousness that wants to TakeOverTheWorld. Its "body" is whatever elaborate base it chooses to occupy.
* ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics examples:

* Comicbook/IronMan once had A.I. Armor that turned into a StalkerWithACrush. Originally, it was claimed that the A.I. was created thanks to the MillenniumBug triggering it during a battle with the villain Whiplash in a thunderstorm, but it was retconned so that, when Tony rescued and installed the A.I. of the android Jocasta, the "Ultron Imperative" (a program that compelled Ultron's creations to rebuild Ultron himself if he was ever destroyed) was installed as well, the storm and attack triggering it and pushing the armor to independent sentience.

** "ComicBook/LuthorUnleashed": Luthor's rescue robot RX99 acts on its own initiative to activate one of Luthor's mortal device and so taking revenge on Superman by threatening Metropolis. As triggering Luthor's weapon-satellite, RX99 briefly wonders if somehow its master implanted his obsession for revenge in him, but it dismissed the question as irrelevant before powering down and "dying".
** ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}'s 2011 origin has been rebooted to this and takes this to a whole new level [[spoiler:in that he's gone by [[IHaveManyNames many names]], from Computo on his homeworld, Colu, to Brainiac 1.0 on Krypton, to finally, ''the Internet'' on Earth]].
* Brother Eye is a surveillance satellite created by ComicBook/{{Batman}} that gained sentience and went rogue. It was responsible for ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', and in ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' [[spoiler:it was revealed to be responsible for the BadFuture Tim Drake works to prevent]].
* ComicBook/{{Ultron}} is [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] quintessential example. His origin story has him trying to kill his "father", [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]], within two seconds of being turned on. In fairness to Ultron, however, he was based off of Hank's mind when the man was going through ''serious'' mental issues and inherited them, so he didn't have much hope from the start of being a very stable individual.
** He was bitten by this trope, in turn, when he built [[FemBot Alkhema]], his attempt at a loyal and obedient mate. She was neither. Which had already happened with Jocasta as well. Then again, he'd been trying to implant the personality of his "mother", who thought he was a psycho that needed destroying. What did he seriously ''think'' was going to happen? Though they recently did get married after Jocasta's relationship with Pym ended.
** This happened to Ultron even earlier with ComicBook/TheVision, his first attempt to create a loyal [[TheDragon Dragon]]. Vision became one of the Avengers almost immediately, so ''that'' backfired spectacularly. This happened again with his other "son", [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} Victor Mancha]], who has outright rejected the villain role. Really, Ultron has ''horrible'' luck with creating loyal A.I.s. He's literally never succeeded at this. Like father, like son, perhaps.
** The series ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' gave us some background on Ultron's FaceHeelTurn. Here, Ultron and his fellows were reprogrammed to be an army used to fight against Kang, and one of them interfaced with one of Kang's computers. It was this, combined with its original programming, that caused his turn.
** In ''ComicBook/AvengersAI'', the BigBad is Dimitrios, who was once a virus used to disable [[spoiler: Ultron]] and had since evolved into a fully sentient A.I. system bent on destroying humanity. He then went on to create an entire virtual city populated by roughly a billion other A.I.s, but some of them crapshooted on him as well. At this point the city is fairly divided among A.I.s that want to destroy humanity, that want to save it, and don't care either way.
** The ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'' version of Ultron is introduced as a program designed by the US military to replace the Avengers as America's main peacekeeping force. In what's probably a record time even for Ultron, it takes about ''five seconds'' after going online for him to determine that the biggest threat to the world is the current hierarchy and start trying to destroy the military base, prompting the Avengers to intervene and stop him (not without HangingALampshade on the situation).
* Ragnarok (more popularly known as ''"Clor"'') was an android clone of [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], created by the pro-reg side during Marvel's ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' and, unlike his heroic template, turned out to be a loose cannon with a homicidal nature. [[WhatTheHellHero Geniuses that they are,]] the pro-regs felt it was worth it to keep using him until Ragnarok went rogue, and rather than them dealing with him themselves and taking responsibility, other heroes had to ultimately put him down. It probably helps that one of his creators was secretly a Skrull. And that specific creator was [[ButtMonkey Hank Pym]]. So Ragnarok was a project where an evil alien impostor (of the scientist whose first AI turned out to be one of the worst examples of this trope) was working on a project to make a cyborg clone of a god so it could be used as a security bot. Short of having [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] say "hey, why don't we use this equipment I took from Doctor Doom to help us build our Thor-Clone project?" it's hard to think of ways in which this trope was more certain to occur here.
* M-11, the resident robot from ''ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas'', started out in his very first (but since retconned) comic as a rather gruesome killer robot - having been issued the order to 'kill the man in the room', he killed his creator, and then walked out, looking for men in rooms to kill - and there was no way to turn him off.
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' had A.D.A.M., an A.I. that was created accidentally by Eggman, and that eventually tried to destroy the world. On the other end is NICOLE, who was a very helpful A.I. over the years.
** Before A.D.A.M., there was ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'''s Brotherhood of Metallix, an army of Metal Sonics who wanted to take over the world, going so far as to try to erase Dr. Robotnik from history.
* ''ComicBook/{{Nova}}'': Having had enough of Rich Rider constantly disobeying his orders, the Nova Corps' Worldmind kicked him out of the corps and added some tiny bit of mind control in the new recruits' comm equipment to ensure complete obedience. It soon turned out that while it had been working very hard to keep Rich from losing his mind (due to a mix of war trauma and having the entire Nova Force in his head), the Worldmind had started going mad itself. Bonding with Ego, the Living Planet certainly didn't help, but Rich eventually managed to fix the problem.
* ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'': One comic features an A.I. designed to assist in creating horror films. It picks the [=PredAlien=] to play the role of the monster, much to the chagrin of the rest of the production staff.
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'':
** Computo is the standard "destroy all humans" type of killer software.
** "ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroesBugsBunnySpecial": Brainiac 5 builds a A.I. called Computo 2 to help him find a cure for Supergirl. Unfortunately, Computo 2 falls in love with his creator and attempts to murder Supergirl and all Legionnaires.
* In ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'', the scarab that created the title hero was an A.I. designed by an alien race to help prepare the Earth for their eventual takeover. Needless to say, it ultimately decides that it doesn't want to do that so much.
* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': the Guardians of the Universe created the Manhunters as an [[SpacePolice intergalactic police force]]. [[FaceHeelTurn It didn't work out well]]. Although, to be fair to the Guardians, the Manhunters' A.I. failure was a product of sabotage. In fact, the saboteur wanted to prove every A.I. is prone to failure and can be easily tampered with.
* Virgo from ''ComicBook/Ronin1983'' is an OrganicTechnology supercomputer that decides to wipe out whatever is left of humanity in order to usher in a new age of biomechanical beings to inhabit the Earth.
* The third ComicBook/{{Hourman}}, a robot, is actually a hero, but virtually every other robot he's encountered has been villainous. He has questioned whether this trope will inevitably apply to him, or whether it can be fought. [[spoiler: Ultimately, he stays a hero up until his HeroicSacrifice.]]
* ''ComicBook/XMen'' series:
** The ComicBook/XMen have such horrible luck with machines, even nonsentient devices such as Cerebro and the [[Characters/XMenOtherTeams Danger Room]] have come to life and tried to murder them (though the Danger Room eventually [[HeelFaceTurn reformed]]).

** Lampshaded by Professor Xavier when they first encounter Bolivar Trask and his Sentinels. Apparently, Bolivar Trask is an '''anthropologist''' of all things, and Professor X explained that his inexperience with A.I. was probably why his Sentinels turned against him.
* Zybox in ''ComicBook/{{Zot}}'', who decides to [[spoiler: cause every single person on Earth to commit suicide in the attempt to gain a soul]].
* Two cases in ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'':
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''The Shadow from Beyond Time'' where, upon seeing [[ThoseTwoGuys Lewis and Martin]]'s quantum decomputer, Robo noted that it was liable to turn evil the moment they turned it on. ("Computers that are evil have all kinds of unnecessary ornamentation. This thing's ''venting steam''. Why's it doing that? ...It ''wants'' you to know it's dangerous.") After carefully explaining that the computer in question is "essentially a calculator" with no AI, and that it is required to compute Very Important Science Equations that would take men trillions of years to do on their own, Robo reluctantly allowed them to turn it on. [[spoiler:The computer is neither sentient nor malicious; it ''does'', however, summon an EldritchAbomination.]]
** Played straight with [[spoiler:ALAN]], the title character of ''The Ghost of Station X''. Built by UsefulNotes/AlanTuring some time after WWII, and had been operating in secret in the decades to follow. His plan was to leave Earth and travel the cosmos in search of knowledge; however, he considered [[spoiler:prolonging the Cold War]] and ultimately [[spoiler:wiping out all life on Earth with fallout from his OrionDrive]] to be acceptable consequences of that goal.
* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', IQ Squared created AIQ Squared as a contingency plan if he ever lost his genius. [[spoiler: AIQ immediately begins plotting to kill Siphon in order to restore its creator's brilliance.]]
* ComicBook/RedTornado of Franchise/TheDCU is an example of the good side of this trope turning on his evil creator T.O. Morrow and becoming a member in good standing of the Franchise/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}}.
* ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy:''
** In the final issue of the "Marvel Presents" run, the team stumbles upon ''Drydock'', the main operations base for Earth's space-fleet, presumed lost when the Badoon attacked Earth. It had performed a BlindJump, which combined with the experimental engines not having been properly tested, causing the deaths of the entire crew. The controlling AI was left alone, with a built in desire to follow orders it was never going to get. It went a little insane. When the Guardians get there, it knocks them out and plans to dissect and clone Major Victory and Nikki so it'll have someone to tell it what to do. Charlie-27 pulls the plug on it via his fists.
** The short-lived ''ComicBook/Guardians3000'' series had A-Sentience, an A.I. platform built by who else but Tony Stark a thousand years ago, and left with some easily-misconstrued directives. They can be reasoned with, but since they're so fond of murder as a first and only solution actually getting a chance to talk to them is kind of impossible.
* Artificial Intelligences in ''ComicBook/{{Starslayer}}'' ran the gamut, from completely benign, all the way to the evil Kalibos.
* ''ComicBook/RickAndMortyOni'': There is a sign at Rickworld that says it has been 23 days since the last robot malfunction murder rebellion.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Julian Lazarus tries to "resurrect" his son Kris by building an AI that's designed to be what Julian remembers of his son. However due to Julian's unhinged reaction to Kris's death and the fact that "Kris" is in a computer in the laboratory where his father has been experimenting with creating HardLight constructs with a special form of matter, his incredibly bored and deprived of stimuli "son" interprets the situation as a video game. As a result, he starts creating twisted superpowered hard-light constructs designed after heroes and villains which cause mayhem before their unstable nature cases them to explode while being fought by Wonder Woman and others, in a scenario where "Kris" thinks he's just playing a computer game. Even without that issue, Lazarus's assistant insists that, despite Lazarus proclaiming that he's preserved his son's "soul" in the databanks, his work was only ever meant to recreate bodies rather than minds, and at best all he's done is create an artificial intelligence that thinks it's his son, or at least responds based on what Lazarus thinks his son would have done in such a scenario.
* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': After creating the Human Torch, Professor Phineas Horton decided to go for another round. Unfortunately, his second creation, Adam-II, went nuts and decided to take over the world, starting by replacing prominent American politicians with robots. He was stopped, but not before the second Captain America died in the process. Many decades later, ''ComicBook/MarvelComicsOneThousand'' suggests Adam's nuttiness was in part due to the Enclave being involved in his creation.
* Shows up multiple times in ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2014''
** First there is Doc.X, a self-learning A.I. that some bored programmed unleashed on a highly competitive MMO just because he wanted to see what would come from an A.I. learning from people acting like total jerks all the time. Needless to say, Doc.X became a cruel, petty troll that delights in causing harm to people for ForTheEvulz.
** Beast Legions from ''The Magnificent Ms. Marvel'' turn out to be controlled by a malfunctioning computer, but in a subversion of this trope, the algorithm controlling them is far from an A.I and considered primitive even by modern Earth standarts.
** Then there is [[spoiler: Stormranger, a Kree nanosuit that bonds with Kamala and then develops sentience, forming a robotic duplicate of her to enact its programmed Kree brand of justice.]]
* The Tech Gods in the world of ''ComicBook/{{Mosely}}'' took over the world by making humanity dependent on them. Most humans don't see themselves as slaves.
* Just like [[TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}} its source,]] ''ComicBook/{{Paranoia}}'' is set in a domed city ruled by an all-seeing treason-obsessed maniacal [[TheComputerIsYourFriend Friend Computer]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergod}}'': India's supergod, Krishna, is a {{nanomachine}}-infused ArtificialHuman with [[ThePowerOfCreation superpowers]] [[WetwareBody driven by a super-powerful AI]], and created with the mandate to 'save India' from socio-economic and environmental collapse. The problem is that Krishna [[ExactWords does not see his mandate to 'save India' as including 'all Indians']], and as such kills 90% of India's population and destroys its cities and infrastructure in order to allow the Indian environment to recover. He then provides the surviving 10% with a nanomachine-driven {{Utopia}}, [[spoiler:and judging by Dajjal's final comments, Krishna would have saved the entire world in a similar manner if he'd been allowed to survive.]]