History Main / RobotWizard

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': The season 3 episode "Madman's Paradise" features as its villain a Quintesson that had been banished by his fellows as a heretic because he practiced magic. Granted, [[AmbiguousRobots it's not clear]] if the Quintessons are fully MechanicalLifeforms like Cybertronians or {{Cyborg}}s.

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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'', Warforged can be wizards, sorcerers and even druids just as easily as their meatsack companions, barring any difficulties if [[ArmorAndMagicDontMix their plating is made of metal and/or heavy enough to count as armour]]. In their original 3.5e incarnation they also make above-average [[PsychicPowers psions]] and [[ThePaladin paladins]], since the ''repair damage'' psionic power and the paladin's [[HealingHands Lay on Hands]] are among the easiest ways to heal their semi-organic bodies.[[note]]This has extra synergy with the psion's ability to share powers with their Psicrystal, which is also a non-living construct and thus can be healed by ''repair damage'' as well; in conjunction with the ''share pain'' power (which splits damage evenly between two creatures) a psionic warforged can become surprisingly hard to kill.[[/note]] That said, specific character examples are hard to come by, and most of these characters are likely going to be [[PlayerCharacter PCs]]. The Lord of Blades, a warforged warlord, was statted in 3.5 as being an accomplished Artificer as well as a Fighter - Artificers being a class that don't cast spells directly, but are very good at [[ItemCrafting creating]] and [[ItemCaddy working with]] magic items.
* Shindroids in ''[[http://www.finalfantasyd20.com Final Fantasy D20]]'' require taking an alternate Racial Trait (''Magitek Device'') during character generation to be magicians, giving up ''Composite Plating'' (a trait that gives them a higher Natural Armor score than meatbags) and ''Part Robot'' (MachineEmpathy).
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Androids -- artificial humanoids with synthetic flesh and [[MachineBlood nanite fluid for blood]], and who are created from LostTechnology automated factories rather than being born -- can become spellcasters as easily as any natural race, and in fact tend to have keen interest in magic and spiritualism. The same is true in ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}'' with androids and [=SROs=] (Sentient Robotic Organisms).
* In ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated'', the Unfleshed are a kind of Promethean (a pseudo-living creature usually created from human corpses subjected to a specific ritual) arisen from broken machines rather than dead people. These can still use magic-like Refinements, using the Divine Fire imbued into their beings.
* Averted with the Necrons (RoboticUndead) of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': While they can do things that are considered magic by everyone else like time travel and non-Warp FTLTravel and teleportation, it's technological in nature as the Warp (the source of what everyone calls magic) is anathema to them.

** Smithy himself is a MechanicalLifeform whose second form can transform his head into various things, one of which is an entire upper half of a wizard (head, body, hands and all) that casts extremely powerful spells against Mario's party.

** Most of Smithy's lieutenants are robots created by him, but most of them are capable of casting powerful spells on the party.

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* ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors'' has Deadlock, a robot follower of the Khaos Religion that ''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock'' also follows and [[ReligionIsMagic which gives him magical powers]].

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* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': Despite being an artificial intelligence, Dragon was able to [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening Trigger]] as a parahuman.
* In the Literature/{{Discworld}}, HEX is a steampunk supercomputer designed to break complex spells down into their simplest possible elements and reassemble them into new forms at a rate of thousands of calculations per second. Over the stories, HEX evolves into a sentient robotic intelligence with a snarky sense of humour and is potentially the most powerful wizard at Unseen University.

* ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty]]'': Being a robot space pirate didn't stop Captain Darkwater from laying a curse on his treasure and binding his soul to his body.