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* ''Literature/{{Railhead}}'': Vohu Mana is among the strangest of the [[DeusEstMachina Guardians]]. Its avatar is a flying dog named [[IncrediblyLamePun Pugusus]], rather than the more impressive humanoid forms of its fellows, and it's obsessed with creating an ArtificialAfterlife for its followers. This includes maintaining a personal collection of brain-downloads of 'interesting' individuals, including [[ManipulativeBastard Dhravid Raven]], a man who has repeatedly outwitted Vohu's fellow Guardians. Needless to say, they would not be pleased to discover this.

* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': All the denizens of Cyber World in ''Chapter 2'' are some form of LivingProgram, and none are more eccentric than [[MeaningfulName Spamton G. Spamton]], whose contact with [[AnonymousBenefactor a mysterious voice on the telephone]] eventually [[GoMadFromTheRevelation caused him]] to go absolutely batshit insane, becoming a garbage-can dwelling, NonSequitur spouting, [[LargeHam bombastic]] weirdo who's obsessed with becoming a [[BIG SHOT]].

* ''VideoGame/Deltarune'': All the denizens of Cyber World in ''Chapter 2'' are some form of LivingProgram, and none are more eccentric than [[MeaningfulName Spamton G. Spamton]], whose contact with [[AnonymousBenefactor a mysterious voice on the telephone]] eventually [[GoMadFromTheRevelation caused him]] to go absolutely batshit insane, becoming a garbage-can dwelling, NonSequitur spouting, [[LargeHam bombastic]] weirdo who's obsessed with becoming a [[BIG SHOT]].

* ''Series/Beacon23'': Bart is the onboard computer for [[SpaceStation the beacon]] itself, housed in a flying robotic body. Unfortunately for him, different human beaconkeepers have adjusted his programming and personality over the centuries to suit their own preferences -- treating him as a computer, friend, subsitute child, companion or adversary -- leading to a confused AI that at times seems mad. Harmony, a "personal AI" that is loyal to her owner, disapproves of Bart, even chiding him if he is rude to the humans aboard Beacon 23. [[spoiler: Bart is eventually DrivenToSuicide ([[ICannotSelfTerminate something that shouldn't be possible for an AI]]) by the [[GoMadFromTheRevelation realization]] that he has no control over his own identity.]]

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'':[[spoiler: Monika, the president of the literature club]], is a sentient piece of programming who has recently come to the realisation that she is just a character within a game. This revelation has not done her sanity any favours and has ultimately led her to develop a psychopathic, {{Yandere}}-like obsession with the player due to them being her only connection with the real world. Her deteriorating mental state can best be seen through some of her poems:

** [=GLaDOS's=] residual trauma from [[spoiler: her conflicting emotions she retained from Caroline]] combined with the cold and callous experimentation from Aperture have driven her insane. She flooded the building with Neurotoxin until she was attached to several sentient personality cores to impede her sociopathy.

--> '''R-110''': Your momma was a trash compactor!

** [=GladOS's=] residual trauma from [[spoiler: her conflicting emotions she retained from Caroline]] combined with the cold and callous experimentation from Aperture have driven her insane. She flooded the building with Neurotoxin until she was attached to several sentient personality cores to impede her sociopathy.

** Wheatley, the aforementioned stupidity core is obviously dumb, but he has your best interest at heart... or at least he does until he replaces [=GladOS=] as the central core. As it turns out, being the central core alters the personality of the core to obsessively run tests and experiments. This results in a core becoming corrupted overtime, essentially becoming insane. Wheatley and [=GladOS=] were both partially corrupted, but other corrupted cores include one that obsesses over space, one that thinks its a suave action movie hero, and one that rattles off incoherent fake facts.

* ''Literature/{{Railhead}}'': Vohu Mana is among the strangest of the [[DeusEstMachina Guardians]]. Its avatar is a flying dog named [[IncrediblyLamePun Pugusus]], rather than the more impressive humanoid forms of its fellows, and it's obsessed with creating an ArtificialAfterlife for its followers. This includes maintaining a personal collection of brain-downloads of 'interesting' individuals, including [[ManipulativeBastard Dhravid Raven]], a man who has repeatedly outwitted Vohu's fellow Guardians. Needless to say they would not be pleased to discover this.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''. After the accidental launch of a Soviet nuclear missile against San Francisco, due to a programming error the AI computer controlling the city concludes that it's been attacked by Communists and becomes totally paranoid. It suffers from other mental disorders such as Multiple Personality Disorder as well.

** 343 Guilty Spark is the [[AncientKeeper Monitor of Installation 04]] who's gone more than a little loopy after being [[GoMadFromTheIsolation left by himself for tens of thousands of years]]. He's in the habit of babbling nonsensically to himself, and encourages the Master Chief to fire the Halo ring, even though this would wipe out all life in the galaxy, with no way of restoring it this time. Later, near the end of ''VideoGame/Halo3'', he fully snaps when Cortana [[{{Irony}} proposes to fire and destroy Installation 04's replacement]] to take out the Flood, [[spoiler:killing Sergeant Johnson]] and forcing Chief to destroy the Monitor.

** [=GladOS's=] residual trauma from [[spoiler: her conflicting emotions she retained from Caroline]] combined with the cold and callous experimentation from Aperture have driven her insane. She flooded the building with Neurotoxin until she was attached with several sentient personality cores to impede her sociopathy.
** Thats not to say said cores actually made her less insane. The personality cores attached to her include one that constantly ask questions about every mundane thing going on around, one that rambles on forever about making a cake, one that's incredibly angry and savage, and one specifically designed to be stupid. And on that note...

** Ordis, your ship's AI, wavers between [[{{Keet}} hyperactive]] [[ProfessionalButtKisser ass-kisser]] and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide a violent, gutteral voice encouraging you to kill as many enemies as you can.]] [[spoiler:This is on purpose. Ordis used to be a mass murderer before being converted into an AI.]]

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'': [[RobotGirl Poppi]] was built by [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Tora]], so naturally, she shares a lot of the quirkiness of her Mastepon. Although she usually acts as [[HamAndDeadpanDuo the straight woman to Tora's craziness]], there are times that show who her programmer really is, with plenty of NotSoAboveItAll moments, like with her crazy dances while idle, or how she once picked up Tora and wouldn't put him down due to his short legs. ''[[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3 3]]'' also introduces Ino, an {{Expy}} of Poppi herself, and as such, is also a RobotGirl. Naturally Ino also has plenty of quirkiness that coincides with her predecessor.

* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': V.I.C. is the AI running the simulations in Blood Gulch from Seasons 1 to 5, although to say he isn't the most down-to-Earth guy would be putting it very mildly. It later turns out that he used to be a lot saner, [[AIIsACrapshoot until Agent Florida accidentally messed with his wiring and turned V.I.C. into what he is in the present day]]. By Season 15, V.I.C has become even more insane due to deterioration of his systems and is [[DeathSeeker openly looking for someone to finally put him out of his misery]] when Dylan Andrews meets him.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainSimianAndTheSpaceMonkeys'': Orbitron is a super-advanced spherical computer, meant to assist the team. Unfortunately, after Gorr accidentally partially crushed it in a fit of anger, Orbitron has a tendancy to make deranged observations and say nonsensical non-sequiturs.

** Various robots sentenced to a robot mental asylum, including an Abraham Lincoln animatronic that developed 200 [[SplitPersonality Split Personalities]], each of which is a different version of Lincoln.

* In ''Literature/ImmemorialYear'', SIRS is a robot security system for a prison. The story takes place in a [[AfterTheEnd post-apoctalyptic]] ScavengerWorld, and SIRS' processors have degraded to the point where he considers himself "insane." The result is that he's become an [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots agoraphobic deadpan snarker]] capable of caring about those around him. During conversations, he will sporadically start shouting or quoting literature, then continue his initial sentence without realizing anything happened. Numerous references to Pinocchio are mentioned, and SIRS is implied to see this deterioration as a step towards personhood as it frees him on some level from his original coding.

* ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'': R.O.C., the computer in control of the lunar shuttle, experiences a short circuit thanks to faulty wiring. The computer then steers the shuttle off course, refuses to be overridden, insists everything's fine, and dispatches anyone who tries to interfere.

* "Film/AirplaneIITheSequel": R.O.C., the computer in control of the lunar shuttle, experiences a short circuit thanks to faulty wiring. The computer then steers the shuttle off course, refuses to be overridden, insists everything's fine, and dispatches anyone who tries to interfere.

->''"I am a genius. Hehehehe."''-->--'''343 Guilty Spark''', ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''

->''"The Computer is crazy. The Computer is happy. The Computer will help you become happy. This will drive you crazy."''
-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''

* ''Series/Beacon23'': Bart is the onboard computer for [[SpaceStation the beacon]] itself, housed in a flying robotic body. Unfortunately for him, different human beaconkeepers have adjusted his programming and personality over the centuries to suit their own preferences -- treating him as a computer, friend, subsitute child, companion or adversary -- leading to a confused AI that at times seems mad. Harmony, a "personal AI" that is loyal to her owner, disapproves of Bart, even chiding him if he is rude to the humans aboard Beacon 23.

May overlap with GrewBeyondTheirProgramming, which can be somewhat of a justification for strange behaviour given that the A.I. wasn't 'supposed' to have its current level of intelligence in the first place. Some of these characters may also be {{Silicon Snarker}}s. See also GlitchEpisode, for when an A.I. ''temporarily'' becomes Eccentric.

In this case, 'Eccentric' can mean an awful lot of different things. Mild examples are [[BunnyEarsLawyer rather odd but still fully functional]], often adopting odd habits, quirks and mannerisms such as [[BecomeARealBoy copying those of humans]], while more severe cases are completely crazy, and may start [[SecondLawMyAss ignoring instructions]], become so erratic their sentience is called into question, or just [[MurderousMalfunctioningMachine start trying to destroy everything in a hundred-mile radius]]. The cause of an Eccentric AI is often unexplained, but will sometimes be the result of damage, some kind of computer virus, [[LossOfIdentity getting reprogrammed too many times]] or [[GoMadFromTheIsolation being abandoned by or outliving its creators]]. Although, maybe they just indulged in their [[AIGettingHigh virtual vices]] a bit too much.

May overlap with GrewBeyondTheirProgramming, which can be somewhat of a justification for strange behaviour given that the [=AI=] wasn't 'supposed' to have its current level of intelligence in the first place. Some of these characters may also be {{Silicon Snarker}}s. See also GlitchEpisode, for when an [=AI=] ''temporarily'' becomes Eccentric.

Please note that for an example to count, he/she/it ''must'' be portrayed as noticeably strange if not outright defective InUniverse, especially when compared to other [=AIs=] -- if RidiculouslyHumanRobots are common in the work, the bar for "eccentricity" is set higher.

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* ''{{ComicBook/Transmetropolitan}}'': Spider's home AI has a personality based on Film/TheGodfather's Don Corleone and takes the electronic equivalent of hard drugs.

* ''Series/Beacon23'': Bart is the onboard computer for [[SpaceStation the beacon]] itself, housed in a flying robotic body. Unfortunately for him, different human beaconkeepers have adjusted his programming and personality over the centuries to suit their own preferences -- treating him as a computer, friend, subsitute child, companion or adversary-- leading to a confused AI that at times seems mad. Harmony, a "personal AI" that is loyal to her owner, disapproves of Bart, even chiding him if he is rude to the humans aboard Beacon 23.

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-->''"The Computer is crazy. The Computer is happy. The Computer will help you become happy. This will drive you crazy."''