History Fridge / IRobot

* Every day Del's grandmother makes him one or more pies, which he eats in one sitting. It seems like [[BigEater an arbitrary character trait]], but if you think about it all the sugar and calories probably power his [[ArtificialLimbs artificial arm]]. Also explains him dumping a half-dozen spoonfuls of sugar in his coffee toward the beginning. (Unless that's a [[IncrediblyLamePun pun on his name]].)

* Del Spooner is played by Will Smith, a black man. Spooner's "canner" slur that he uses towards robots harks back to, ugly as it is to think about, the way racists use the N-word for black people. Perhaps done intentionally, to show that Spooner is so blinded by bigotry that he doesn't even see the possible connection and that he's doing to robots what was also done to black people generations ago.

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* Every day Del's grandmother makes him one or more pies, which he eats in one sitting. It seems like [[BigEater an arbitrary character trait]], but if you think about it all the sugar and calories probably [[spoiler:power his [[ArtificialLimbs artificial arm]].]] Also explains him dumping a half-dozen spoonfuls of sugar in his coffee toward the beginning. (Unless that's a [[IncrediblyLamePun pun on his name]].)

* [[spoiler:When asked about Lanning, Sonny says he "did not murder him!" Lanning ordered him to. It was an assisted ''suicide''.]]
* Dr Lanning is shown to have planned his BatmanGambit insanely well... anticipating Spooner and Sonny's actions throughout the story. Given his closeness to Calvin, he no doubt anticipated that when Sonny attempted to run, she'd naturally seal the room. Sonny would then naturally follow in his ''footsteps'' by [[spoiler: throwing himself out of the window and landing exactly where his body did]].
** Lanning also may have intended this so that [[spoiler: he would land in front of the 3 Laws, symbolizing the ''creator's'' wish for the ''death'' of the 3 laws.]] When Sonny would do this [[spoiler: the force of him landing beside the 3 Laws, would send cracks running towards them, symbolizing that Sonny, the ''creation'', would ''break'' them.]]
* Why did Lanning know that a second positronic brain would allow a robot to outright defy or reinterpret the 3 Laws? Simple! He had done it before. [[spoiler: VIKI! Viki had in fact been the basis! It's why she could effortlessly tell the other NS-5s to disobey the rules! And how did she start to "reinterpret" the rules? The first NS-5 that was hooked up to her wireless signal. She had already been given another brain, and so on and so forth. It's why Lanning created Sonny and gave him no wireless signal, Sonny wouldn't be able to defy her had he been on a wireless signal like his "brothers" because 2 brains are trumped by thousands!]]
* Sonny's second positronic brain, the one that lets him override the Three Laws, is built into his chest. Dr. Lanning gave him a heart. [[spoiler:No wonder VIKI doesn't understand, and Sonny does, that her plan is "heartless."]]

* Inspired by watching ''Film/BladeRunner2049'': Much of Spooner's difficulty gaining traction with his fellow humans in the film about his theories hinge on the fact that the NS robots are "just machines," incapable of committing crimes or doing anything they aren't supposed to. When a robot does something that causes harm, it can't be because it ''wanted'' to, but because of how its programming played out. The humans inflexibly act by their predetermined rules, much as the robots inflexibly act according to the Three Laws, with the exception of Spooner and Sonny, [[spoiler: to say nothing of VIKI's [[LoopholeAbuse interpretation]] of the ThreeLaws.]]

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* With the whole world in [[spoiler: her]] pocket thanks to the NS-5's, it seems illogical for [[spoiler: VIKI]] to have killed [[spoiler: Robertson]]. Until you realize the man must have been persistently trying to shut [[spoiler: VIKI]] down once he learned the truth. When he continually refused [[spoiler: her]] benevolent dictatorship, he signed his own death warrant. Though on the plus side, it shows the man wasn't one hundred percent a dick like Spooner thought.

* Spooner's grandma Gigi [[ContrivedCoincidence "conveniently"]] wins an NS-5 in a raffle just before the robot uprising kicks in. Was it luck, or was [[spoiler: VIKI setting up an IHaveYourWife situation where Gigi would be held hostage to force Dell to stop his attempts to resist her takeover?]]

* Very carefully piggybacking off of two above interpretations: While the one super-wealthy character we see is white, and many of the African American ones are working-class, more overt forms of racism seem to be moot. A [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism very depressing interpretation]] of this could be that all of the menial labor being given to robots [[HumansAreBastards fulfills the human construct of classism]] by making the lower class literal objects rather than people of color who are forced into lower-class living by those in power. After all, nobody sees the robots as human enough to kill, so why should they be human enough to question enslavement? And while Spooner's technophobia is justified, it's not like anyone who disbelieves him actually ''respects'' robots as anything more than literal commodities. John even refers to Sonny as "a can opener," not too far off from Del's "canner" slur. Operating from a relatively limited perspective one might fear that [[spoiler:VIKI]]'s actions are going to result in some considerable backlash against personal robots, forcing humans back into those menial jobs and re-igniting systemic oppression.

!!!Fridge Logic