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* Vicky and Vanessa's sibling rivalry on ''SmallWonder'', though Vicky uses RoboSpeak and misinterprets things and is generally not an example of this trope.
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* Vicky and Vanessa's sibling rivalry on ''SmallWonder'', ''Series/SmallWonder'', though Vicky uses RoboSpeak and misinterprets things and is generally not an example of this trope.
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The entire purpose of Soong\'s designs was to mimic humans, to it definitely falls on the very low end of the \"ridiculous\" scale.
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** There is, ultimately, no good reason for 's Lt. Commander Data to be "fully functional". Perhaps Data's creator deliberately set out to create an android as human as possible, setting a usable wang as a higher priority than basic emotional intelligence. Typical.
** Data created his own daughter, Lal, an even more ridiculously human robot than himself or his brother. Looking flawlessly human, she developed actual emotions which rapidly overwhelmed her positronic brain, eventually destroying her.
** Data created his own daughter, Lal, an even more ridiculously human robot than himself or his brother. Looking flawlessly human, she developed actual emotions which rapidly overwhelmed her positronic brain, eventually destroying her.
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** There is, ultimately, no good reason for 's Lt. Commander Data to be "fully functional". Perhaps Data's creator deliberately set out The "ridiculous" part is mostly averted with Data, as Soong's entire goal was to create an android that was as human as possible, setting a usable wang as a higher priority than basic emotional intelligence. Typical.
complete with the ability to have sex, should the need arise.
** Data created his own daughter, Lal, in aneven more ridiculously human robot than himself or attempt to improve upon his brother.own design. Looking flawlessly human, she developed actual emotions which rapidly overwhelmed her positronic brain, eventually destroying her.
** Data created his own daughter, Lal, in an
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* The humanoid Cylons in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' are the definition of robots being ridiculously human -- most notably, "robot religion". And robots having robot or [[HalfHumanHybrid half-robot]] kids. Justified in that the series then asks ''all'' the philosophical questions about the nature of both sides.
** Also notable that Doctor Cottle, upon having to do a Caesarian section on a Cylon, ''bitches her out'' for her race deciding to be so Ridiculously Human. As he puts it, even if they were gonna insist on having bodies that could pass for a fully functional human, there's no reason why they couldn't have made some basic upgrades to the "plumbing".
** Also notable that Doctor Cottle, upon having to do a Caesarian section on a Cylon, ''bitches her out'' for her race deciding to be so Ridiculously Human. As he puts it, even if they were gonna insist on having bodies that could pass for a fully functional human, there's no reason why they couldn't have made some basic upgrades to the "plumbing".
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* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'':
** The humanoid Cylonsin ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' are the definition of robots being ridiculously human -- most notably, "robot religion". And robots having robot or [[HalfHumanHybrid half-robot]] kids. Justified in that the The series then asks ''all'' the philosophical questions about the nature of both sides.
** Also notable thatsides. Doctor Cottle, upon having to do a Caesarian section on a Cylon, ''bitches her out'' for her race deciding to be so Ridiculously Human. As he puts it, even if they were gonna insist on having bodies that could pass for a fully functional human, there's no reason why they couldn't have made some basic upgrades to the "plumbing".
** The humanoid Cylons
** Also notable that
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** Since the Cylons' entire goal from the start was to artificially '''be''' [[ArtificialHuman Human]], potential weaknesses and all, this example actually isn't that ridiculous.
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* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "The Lonely", a convict, alone on an asteroid, is given a robot companion. He becomes so attached [[spoiler:he insists she's a real person and needs to be brought on the rocket with them when he's given parole, until the police officer who gave him the robot just destroys it to get him to come along.]]
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
** In''Series/TheTwilightZone'' the episode "The Lonely", a convict, alone on an asteroid, is given a robot companion. He becomes so attached [[spoiler:he insists she's a real person and needs to be brought on the rocket with them when he's given parole, until the police officer who gave him the robot just destroys it to get him to come along.]]
** In
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* There is, ultimately, no good reason for ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'''s Lt. Commander Data to be "fully functional". Perhaps Data's creator deliberately set out to create an android as human as possible, setting a usable wang as a higher priority than basic emotional intelligence. Typical.
** Given his older brother, Lore, had basic emotional intelligence and [[AIIsACrapshoot was a sociopath]]; it was easier to mold a working wang than create a stable emotion matrix.
*** Vibrators have been in existence for almost a hundred years. If a future genius wants to stick one on a robot it wouldn't seem that hard.
**** [[IncrediblyLamePun But it probably would be]].
** Given his older brother, Lore, had basic emotional intelligence and [[AIIsACrapshoot was a sociopath]]; it was easier to mold a working wang than create a stable emotion matrix.
*** Vibrators have been in existence for almost a hundred years. If a future genius wants to stick one on a robot it wouldn't seem that hard.
**** [[IncrediblyLamePun But it probably would be]].
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** There is, ultimately, no good reason for''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'''s 's Lt. Commander Data to be "fully functional". Perhaps Data's creator deliberately set out to create an android as human as possible, setting a usable wang as a higher priority than basic emotional intelligence. Typical.
** Given his older brother, Lore, had basic emotional intelligence and [[AIIsACrapshoot was a sociopath]]; it was easier to mold a working wang than create a stable emotion matrix.
*** Vibrators have been in existence for almost a hundred years. If a future genius wants to stick one on a robot it wouldn't seem that hard.
**** [[IncrediblyLamePun But it probably would be]].Typical.
** There is, ultimately, no good reason for
** Given his older brother, Lore, had basic emotional intelligence and [[AIIsACrapshoot was a sociopath]]; it was easier to mold a working wang than create a stable emotion matrix.
*** Vibrators have been in existence for almost a hundred years. If a future genius wants to stick one on a robot it wouldn't seem that hard.
**** [[IncrediblyLamePun But it probably would be]].
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** He was never actually intended to be so ridiculously human, but ''Voyager'''s situation pushed his programming to the limits, which caused him to develop in all sorts of ways he wasn't supposed to be able to.
** In the last episode he gets married. To a flesh-and-blood woman.
* Parodied in ''Series/RedDwarf'' with Kryten, whose circuitry includes a guilt chip, a belief chip, a good taste chip which is sometimes bypassed by his humor circuits, etc. He also has more depending on which episodes require it: he has a "connoisseur chip" which is never mentioned again after "Legion," etc. He also has a Lie Mode and a Panic Mode.
** ''Series/RedDwarf'' is probably mostly an {{aver|tedTrope}}sion, though. In the episode "Out of Time", the crew pass through [[RealityIsUnrealistic unreality pockets]]. One of these makes them think that Lister is a droid, which is apparently plausible. He is supposedly an "earlier model":
** In the last episode he gets married. To a flesh-and-blood woman.
* Parodied in ''Series/RedDwarf'' with Kryten, whose circuitry includes a guilt chip, a belief chip, a good taste chip which is sometimes bypassed by his humor circuits, etc. He also has more depending on which episodes require it: he has a "connoisseur chip" which is never mentioned again after "Legion," etc. He also has a Lie Mode and a Panic Mode.
** ''Series/RedDwarf'' is probably mostly an {{aver|tedTrope}}sion, though. In the episode "Out of Time", the crew pass through [[RealityIsUnrealistic unreality pockets]]. One of these makes them think that Lister is a droid, which is apparently plausible. He is supposedly an "earlier model":
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* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
**He was never actually intended to be so ridiculously human, but ''Voyager'''s situation pushed his programming to the limits, which caused him to develop in all sorts of ways he wasn't supposed to be able to.
** In the last episode he gets married. To a flesh-and-blood woman.
*Parodied in ''Series/RedDwarf'' with Kryten, whose circuitry includes a guilt chip, a belief chip, a good taste chip which is sometimes bypassed by his humor circuits, etc. He also has more depending on which episodes require it: he has a "connoisseur chip" which is never mentioned again after "Legion," etc. He also has a Lie Mode and a Panic Mode.
**''Series/RedDwarf'' is probably mostly an {{aver|tedTrope}}sion, though. In the episode "Out of Time", the crew pass through [[RealityIsUnrealistic unreality pockets]]. One of these makes them think that Lister is a droid, which is apparently plausible. He is supposedly an "earlier model":
**
** In the last episode he gets married. To a flesh-and-blood woman.
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** He states in one later episode that he's quite proud of the character flaws he has (with Lister's help) deliberately developed.
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** He Kryten states in one later episode that he's quite proud of the character flaws he has (with Lister's help) deliberately developed.
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** Also partially subverted; robots in the ''Series/RedDwarf'' universe have their own religion, but this is revealed to be a method of control programmed into them by their creators; 'good' robots, who obeyed their human masters unquestioningly, went to Silicon Heaven when they died. Even Kryten has no wish to stop believing in Silicon Heaven, even after he's used his newfound ability to lie to short-circuit another robot by telling him that Silicon Heaven doesn't exist.
*** This may have been intended as a TakeThat to Christianity, considering Lister's revulsion and horror when he hears about it. Also has elements of {{hypocri|ticalHumor}}sy because Lister, when Kryten tells him about it, insists that the idea of Silicon Heaven is "completely wacko" but then asks Kryten if it's the same place as human Heaven -- to which Kryten answers, "Don't be silly! Humans don't go to Heaven! No, someone just made that up to prevent you from all going nuts!"
** ''Red Dwarf'' actually plays with this concept -- and the UncannyValley -- quite a lot. Kryten (along with Holly, and Hudzen-10) have suffered a bit of silicon rot and gone a bit crazy after 3 million years of existence... but all in very human ways, e.g. a quivering pile of neuroses (Kryten), general senility (Holly), homicidal psychopathy (Hudzen). The design of Kryten's head (and in a lesser way Hudzen, though he wears a helmet and mask most of the time) was apparently based upon that of his in-series creator's ex-husband (presumably the guy on the sales video introducing his replacement Hudzen), as she found him "ridiculous," but then further corrupted to look distinctly artificial and non-human (largely flat panels and angles) to avoid the creepiness effect (and we can probably assume his "funny walk" is for the same reason). During an episode where their perception of reality is being altered, and it is "discovered" that Lister is an android, Kryten reveals that the model series prior to his own actually looked completely human, Terminator style, and were withdrawn for being just too darn creepy. This therefore makes Lister, technically speaking, an inferior model (and subordinate) to the more angular "novelty condom head" Kryten, as well as a fugitive from the recall. (This turns out to be untrue, as it was only their perception and Lister still is human). They also play a bit with various personality-related parts burning out, like guilt/conscience chips (several times, as it's Kryten's main trait, including on purpose by Lister and via the wholly ridiculous action of a Polymorph "sucking" it out of him, with reactions such as him smoking cigarettes or "clearing his exhaust tubes in public"), negative emotion drives, and even a "metaphysical dichotomy" over the "lie" of Silicon Heaven existing... when as we all know, even calculators and talking toasters have sufficient quasi-human AI to be allowed entry.
*** Actually, Talkie Toaster fits this trope almost to a T -- the toaster can sing, expresses opinions on religion, and several times appears to be more intelligent than the actual ''crew'' -- e.g. having a better understanding of the effects of lightspeed travel than the crew does and calling them "bozos" and such. The downside to having such an intelligent toaster is that it drives Lister up the wall, and he ends up [[BumblingSidekick hitting it in a few episodes]] -- including once fatally. Based on the above criteria, it probably ''does'' genuinely have enough intelligence to get into Silicon Heaven. Why it needs to, however, is another question entirely.
*** One of the Red Dwarf books explains that Talkie Toaster was given intelligence and a personality with the intention that it would provide its owner with polite banter and stimulating conversation over the breakfast table. This failed when the AI turned out to be pathologically obsessed with getting people to eat toast.
* In ''[[SuperSentai Gekiranger]]'''s fourth episode, Geki Red, Jan, gets poisoned. In a rare case of a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Human Robot]] that is not sentient, the antidote to the poison is administered by ''injecting it into the arm of the giant robot'' that everyone is piloting.
** They weren't piloting a robot, though. They were piloting a [[AnimalBattleAura combined manifestation of their own fighting spirit]]. Jan's portion makes up the entire upper body, including the arm that the antidote was injected into.
*** This may have been intended as a TakeThat to Christianity, considering Lister's revulsion and horror when he hears about it. Also has elements of {{hypocri|ticalHumor}}sy because Lister, when Kryten tells him about it, insists that the idea of Silicon Heaven is "completely wacko" but then asks Kryten if it's the same place as human Heaven -- to which Kryten answers, "Don't be silly! Humans don't go to Heaven! No, someone just made that up to prevent you from all going nuts!"
** ''Red Dwarf'' actually plays with this concept -- and the UncannyValley -- quite a lot. Kryten (along with Holly, and Hudzen-10) have suffered a bit of silicon rot and gone a bit crazy after 3 million years of existence... but all in very human ways, e.g. a quivering pile of neuroses (Kryten), general senility (Holly), homicidal psychopathy (Hudzen). The design of Kryten's head (and in a lesser way Hudzen, though he wears a helmet and mask most of the time) was apparently based upon that of his in-series creator's ex-husband (presumably the guy on the sales video introducing his replacement Hudzen), as she found him "ridiculous," but then further corrupted to look distinctly artificial and non-human (largely flat panels and angles) to avoid the creepiness effect (and we can probably assume his "funny walk" is for the same reason). During an episode where their perception of reality is being altered, and it is "discovered" that Lister is an android, Kryten reveals that the model series prior to his own actually looked completely human, Terminator style, and were withdrawn for being just too darn creepy. This therefore makes Lister, technically speaking, an inferior model (and subordinate) to the more angular "novelty condom head" Kryten, as well as a fugitive from the recall. (This turns out to be untrue, as it was only their perception and Lister still is human). They also play a bit with various personality-related parts burning out, like guilt/conscience chips (several times, as it's Kryten's main trait, including on purpose by Lister and via the wholly ridiculous action of a Polymorph "sucking" it out of him, with reactions such as him smoking cigarettes or "clearing his exhaust tubes in public"), negative emotion drives, and even a "metaphysical dichotomy" over the "lie" of Silicon Heaven existing... when as we all know, even calculators and talking toasters have sufficient quasi-human AI to be allowed entry.
*** Actually, Talkie Toaster fits this trope almost to a T -- the toaster can sing, expresses opinions on religion, and several times appears to be more intelligent than the actual ''crew'' -- e.g. having a better understanding of the effects of lightspeed travel than the crew does and calling them "bozos" and such. The downside to having such an intelligent toaster is that it drives Lister up the wall, and he ends up [[BumblingSidekick hitting it in a few episodes]] -- including once fatally. Based on the above criteria, it probably ''does'' genuinely have enough intelligence to get into Silicon Heaven. Why it needs to, however, is another question entirely.
*** One of the Red Dwarf books explains that Talkie Toaster was given intelligence and a personality with the intention that it would provide its owner with polite banter and stimulating conversation over the breakfast table. This failed when the AI turned out to be pathologically obsessed with getting people to eat toast.
* In ''[[SuperSentai Gekiranger]]'''s fourth episode, Geki Red, Jan, gets poisoned. In a rare case of a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Human Robot]] that is not sentient, the antidote to the poison is administered by ''injecting it into the arm of the giant robot'' that everyone is piloting.
** They weren't piloting a robot, though. They were piloting a [[AnimalBattleAura combined manifestation of their own fighting spirit]]. Jan's portion makes up the entire upper body, including the arm that the antidote was injected into.
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** Also partially subverted; robots in the ''Series/RedDwarf'' universe Robots have their own religion, but this is revealed to be a method of control programmed into them by their creators; 'good' robots, who obeyed their human masters unquestioningly, went to Silicon Heaven when they died. Even Kryten has no wish to stop believing in Silicon Heaven, even after he's used his newfound ability to lie to short-circuit another robot by telling him that Silicon Heaven doesn't exist.
*** This may have been intended as a TakeThat to Christianity, considering Lister's revulsion and horror when he hears about it. Also has elements of {{hypocri|ticalHumor}}sy because Lister, when Kryten tells him about it, insists that the idea of Silicon Heaven is "completely wacko" but then asks Kryten if it's the same place as human Heaven -- to which Kryten answers, "Don't be silly! Humans don't go to Heaven! No, someone just made that up to prevent you from all going nuts!"
** ''Red Dwarf'' actually plays with this concept -- and the UncannyValley -- quite a lot. Kryten (along with Holly, and Hudzen-10) have suffered a bit of silicon rot and gone a bit crazy after 3 million years of existence... but all in very human ways, e.g. a quivering pile of neuroses (Kryten), general senility (Holly), homicidal psychopathy (Hudzen). The design of Kryten's head (and in a lesser way Hudzen, though he wears a helmet and mask most of the time) was apparently based upon that of his in-series creator's ex-husband (presumably the guy on the sales video introducing his replacement Hudzen), as she found him "ridiculous," but then further corrupted to look distinctly artificial and non-human (largely flat panels and angles) to avoid the creepiness effect (and we can probably assume his "funny walk" is for the same reason). During an episode where their perception of reality is being altered, and it is "discovered" that Lister is an android, Kryten reveals that the model series prior to his own actually looked completely human, Terminator style, and were withdrawn for being just too darn creepy. This therefore makes Lister, technically speaking, an inferior model (and subordinate) to the more angular "novelty condom head" Kryten, as well as a fugitive from the recall. (This turns out to be untrue, as it was only their perception and Lister still is human). They also play a bit with various personality-related parts burning out, like guilt/conscience chips (several times, as it's Kryten's main trait, including on purpose by Lister and via the wholly ridiculous action of a Polymorph "sucking" it out of him, with reactions such as him smoking cigarettes or "clearing his exhaust tubes in public"), negative emotion drives, and even a "metaphysical dichotomy" over the "lie" of Silicon Heaven existing... when as we all know, even calculators and talking toasters have sufficient quasi-human AI to be allowed entry.
*** Actually, Talkie Toaster fits this trope almost to a T -- the toaster can sing, expresses opinions on religion, and several times appears to be more intelligent than the actual ''crew'' -- e.g. having a better understanding of the effects of lightspeed travel than the crew does and calling them "bozos" and such. The downside to having such an intelligent toaster is that it drives Lister up the wall, and he ends up [[BumblingSidekick hitting it in a few episodes]] -- including once fatally. Based on the above criteria, it probably ''does'' genuinely have enough intelligence to get into Silicon Heaven. Why it needs to, however, is another question entirely.
*** One of the Red Dwarf books explains that Talkie Toaster was given intelligence and a personality with the intention that it would provide its owner with polite banter and stimulating conversation over the breakfast table. This failed when the AI turned out to be pathologically obsessed with getting people to eat toast.
* In ''[[SuperSentai Gekiranger]]'''s fourth episode, Geki Red, Jan, gets poisoned. In a rare case of a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Human Robot]] that is not sentient, the antidote to the poison is administered by ''injecting it into the arm of the giant robot'' that everyone is piloting.
** They weren't piloting a robot, though. They were piloting a [[AnimalBattleAura combined manifestation of their own fighting spirit]]. Jan's portion makes up the entire upper body, including the arm that the antidote was injected into.exist.
*** This may have been intended as a TakeThat to Christianity, considering Lister's revulsion and horror when he hears about it. Also has elements of {{hypocri|ticalHumor}}sy because Lister, when Kryten tells him about it, insists that the idea of Silicon Heaven is "completely wacko" but then asks Kryten if it's the same place as human Heaven -- to which Kryten answers, "Don't be silly! Humans don't go to Heaven! No, someone just made that up to prevent you from all going nuts!"
** ''Red Dwarf'' actually plays with this concept -- and the UncannyValley -- quite a lot. Kryten (along with Holly, and Hudzen-10) have suffered a bit of silicon rot and gone a bit crazy after 3 million years of existence... but all in very human ways, e.g. a quivering pile of neuroses (Kryten), general senility (Holly), homicidal psychopathy (Hudzen). The design of Kryten's head (and in a lesser way Hudzen, though he wears a helmet and mask most of the time) was apparently based upon that of his in-series creator's ex-husband (presumably the guy on the sales video introducing his replacement Hudzen), as she found him "ridiculous," but then further corrupted to look distinctly artificial and non-human (largely flat panels and angles) to avoid the creepiness effect (and we can probably assume his "funny walk" is for the same reason). During an episode where their perception of reality is being altered, and it is "discovered" that Lister is an android, Kryten reveals that the model series prior to his own actually looked completely human, Terminator style, and were withdrawn for being just too darn creepy. This therefore makes Lister, technically speaking, an inferior model (and subordinate) to the more angular "novelty condom head" Kryten, as well as a fugitive from the recall. (This turns out to be untrue, as it was only their perception and Lister still is human). They also play a bit with various personality-related parts burning out, like guilt/conscience chips (several times, as it's Kryten's main trait, including on purpose by Lister and via the wholly ridiculous action of a Polymorph "sucking" it out of him, with reactions such as him smoking cigarettes or "clearing his exhaust tubes in public"), negative emotion drives, and even a "metaphysical dichotomy" over the "lie" of Silicon Heaven existing... when as we all know, even calculators and talking toasters have sufficient quasi-human AI to be allowed entry.
*** Actually, Talkie Toaster fits this trope almost to a T -- the toaster can sing, expresses opinions on religion, and several times appears to be more intelligent than the actual ''crew'' -- e.g. having a better understanding of the effects of lightspeed travel than the crew does and calling them "bozos" and such. The downside to having such an intelligent toaster is that it drives Lister up the wall, and he ends up [[BumblingSidekick hitting it in a few episodes]] -- including once fatally. Based on the above criteria, it probably ''does'' genuinely have enough intelligence to get into Silicon Heaven. Why it needs to, however, is another question entirely.
*** One of the Red Dwarf books explains that Talkie Toaster was given intelligence and a personality with the intention that it would provide its owner with polite banter and stimulating conversation over the breakfast table. This failed when the AI turned out to be pathologically obsessed with getting people to eat toast.
* In ''[[SuperSentai Gekiranger]]'''s fourth episode, Geki Red, Jan, gets poisoned. In a rare case of a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Human Robot]] that is not sentient, the antidote to the poison is administered by ''injecting it into the arm of the giant robot'' that everyone is piloting.
** They weren't piloting a robot, though. They were piloting a [[AnimalBattleAura combined manifestation of their own fighting spirit]]. Jan's portion makes up the entire upper body, including the arm that the antidote was injected into.
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* [[Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles Cameron]] shows some ''very'' interesting quirks, not the least of which is her odd affinity for ballet. This is discussed in the episode "The Demon Hand," where Sarah talks about how machines cannot do human things like appreciate beauty or create art, and adds that if they could, they won't need to destroy humanity, as they will ''be'' human. This monologue is spoken while Cameron is practicing ballet for no readily apparent reason other than because she ''wants'' to.
** And the episode "Allison from Palmdale" shows her switching over to a normal human personality to ''disturbing'' effect. It is made even ''more'' disconcerting when [[spoiler: we see in flashback that Cameron ''killed'' the woman who her personality was based on.]]
** The question of her humanity is brought up from time to time within the series as well; Cameron will sometimes existential questions, and seems preoccupied with the idea of suicide and her inability to do so if she loses control of herself, along with worries about her own mental stability. At one point, she even asks if Sarah believes in the Resurrection, as it relates to Cameron's own "redemption" by John Connor, who is humanity's supposed savior.
** She even develops humanlike possessiveness. In "The Brothers of Nablus" she gets upset [[EmotionlessGirl (well, as upset as she can get)]] when her leather jacket gets stolen, and even goes so far as to single out the thief who stole said jacket.
** And the episode "Allison from Palmdale" shows her switching over to a normal human personality to ''disturbing'' effect. It is made even ''more'' disconcerting when [[spoiler: we see in flashback that Cameron ''killed'' the woman who her personality was based on.]]
** The question of her humanity is brought up from time to time within the series as well; Cameron will sometimes existential questions, and seems preoccupied with the idea of suicide and her inability to do so if she loses control of herself, along with worries about her own mental stability. At one point, she even asks if Sarah believes in the Resurrection, as it relates to Cameron's own "redemption" by John Connor, who is humanity's supposed savior.
** She even develops humanlike possessiveness. In "The Brothers of Nablus" she gets upset [[EmotionlessGirl (well, as upset as she can get)]] when her leather jacket gets stolen, and even goes so far as to single out the thief who stole said jacket.
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* [[Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles Cameron]] ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'':
** Cameron shows some ''very'' interesting quirks, not the least of which is her odd affinity for ballet. This is discussed in the episode "The Demon Hand," where Sarah talks about how machines cannot do human things like appreciate beauty or create art, and adds that if they could, they won't need to destroy humanity, as they will ''be'' human. This monologue is spoken while Cameron is practicing ballet for no readily apparent reason other than because she ''wants''to.
** And the episode "Allison from Palmdale" shows her switching over to a normal human personality to ''disturbing'' effect. It is made even ''more'' disconcerting when [[spoiler: we see in flashback that Cameron ''killed'' the woman who her personality was based on.]]
** The question of her humanity is brought up from time to time within the series as well; Cameron will sometimes existential questions, and seems preoccupied with the idea of suicide and her inability to do so if she loses control of herself, along with worries about her own mental stability. At one point, she even asks if Sarah believes in the Resurrection, as it relates to Cameron's own "redemption" by John Connor, who is humanity's supposed savior.
**to. She even develops humanlike possessiveness. In "The Brothers of Nablus" she gets upset [[EmotionlessGirl (well, as upset as she can get)]] when her leather jacket gets stolen, and even goes so far as to single out the thief who stole said jacket. The episode "Allison from Palmdale" shows her switching over to a normal human personality to ''disturbing'' effect. It is made even ''more'' disconcerting when [[spoiler: we see in flashback that Cameron ''killed'' the woman who her personality was based on.]] The question of her humanity is brought up from time to time within the series as well; Cameron will sometimes existential questions, and seems preoccupied with the idea of suicide and her inability to do so if she loses control of herself, along with worries about her own mental stability. At one point, she even asks if Sarah believes in the Resurrection, as it relates to Cameron's own "redemption" by John Connor, who is humanity's supposed savior.
** Cameron shows some ''very'' interesting quirks, not the least of which is her odd affinity for ballet. This is discussed in the episode "The Demon Hand," where Sarah talks about how machines cannot do human things like appreciate beauty or create art, and adds that if they could, they won't need to destroy humanity, as they will ''be'' human. This monologue is spoken while Cameron is practicing ballet for no readily apparent reason other than because she ''wants''
** And the episode "Allison from Palmdale" shows her switching over to a normal human personality to ''disturbing'' effect. It is made even ''more'' disconcerting when [[spoiler: we see in flashback that Cameron ''killed'' the woman who her personality was based on.]]
** The question of her humanity is brought up from time to time within the series as well; Cameron will sometimes existential questions, and seems preoccupied with the idea of suicide and her inability to do so if she loses control of herself, along with worries about her own mental stability. At one point, she even asks if Sarah believes in the Resurrection, as it relates to Cameron's own "redemption" by John Connor, who is humanity's supposed savior.
**
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** And [[spoiler:Weaver]] directly claims to have emotions. Admittedly when she was about to shove a blade through someone's head, but...
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** And [[spoiler:Weaver]] directly claims to have emotions. Admittedly when she was about to shove a blade through someone's head, but...
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* ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' had Cheesoid, a cylinder-vacuum / tea-urn-esque contrivance made by an ex-robotics engineer and ex-soup-chef (just go with it) to replace his sense of smell lost in an assault, which inexplicably has rudimentary but quite human AI and some kind of self awareness. And a sense of smell as bad as its creator, only being able to semi-randomly "identify" (generic) Cheese, and "Petril", in a whiny electronic voice. It gets increasingly vocally depressed about its lot, until after a calamitous mistake (serving petrol on toast, and filling a car's tank with brie) it attempts to commit suicide ... by covering itself in cheddar and attempting to light it, succeeding only in creating a philosophical quandary for itself. "Why petril not burn? Why Cheesoid exist?".
** It's not even semi-randomly. He has a switch on the side, when set to "Petrol" everything smells like petrol. When set to "cheese", everything smells like some variety of cheese. But... yes, most depressing character ever.
** The pathos of that character... Poor Cheesoid... Oh, the pain!!
** It's not even semi-randomly. He has a switch on the side, when set to "Petrol" everything smells like petrol. When set to "cheese", everything smells like some variety of cheese. But... yes, most depressing character ever.
** The pathos of that character... Poor Cheesoid... Oh, the pain!!
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* ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' had Cheesoid, ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'':
** Cheesoid is a cylinder-vacuum / tea-urn-esque contrivance made by an ex-robotics engineer and ex-soup-chef (just go with it) to replace his sense of smell lost in an assault, which inexplicably has rudimentary but quite human AI and some kind of self awareness. And a sense of smell as bad as its creator, only being able to semi-randomly "identify" (generic) Cheese, and "Petril", in a whiny electronic voice. It gets increasingly vocally depressed about its lot, until after a calamitous mistake (serving petrol on toast, and filling a car's tank with brie) it attempts to commit suicide ... by covering itself in cheddar and attempting to light it, succeeding only in creating a philosophical quandary for itself. "Why petril not burn? Why Cheesoidexist?".
** It's not even semi-randomly. He has a switch on the side, when set to "Petrol" everything smells like petrol. When set to "cheese", everything smells like some variety of cheese. But... yes, most depressing character ever.
** The pathos of that character... Poor Cheesoid... Oh, the pain!!exist?".
** Cheesoid is a cylinder-vacuum / tea-urn-esque contrivance made by an ex-robotics engineer and ex-soup-chef (just go with it) to replace his sense of smell lost in an assault, which inexplicably has rudimentary but quite human AI and some kind of self awareness. And a sense of smell as bad as its creator, only being able to semi-randomly "identify" (generic) Cheese, and "Petril", in a whiny electronic voice. It gets increasingly vocally depressed about its lot, until after a calamitous mistake (serving petrol on toast, and filling a car's tank with brie) it attempts to commit suicide ... by covering itself in cheddar and attempting to light it, succeeding only in creating a philosophical quandary for itself. "Why petril not burn? Why Cheesoid
** It's not even semi-randomly. He has a switch on the side, when set to "Petrol" everything smells like petrol. When set to "cheese", everything smells like some variety of cheese. But... yes, most depressing character ever.
** The pathos of that character... Poor Cheesoid... Oh, the pain!!
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** All we know is - he's called The Stig.
* [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot]] are so utterly described by this trope one doesn't know where to start, although the fact that they are often seen eating and drinking seems like a good place. All of this, of course, falls under both the RuleOfFunny and the MST3KMantra.
* Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer had to deal with the robotic kidnapper, Ted, and the two sexbots built by Warren Mears: April, and the [=BuffyBot=]. Ted is particularly impressive considering he was built in the '50s.
** April and the Buffybot were both studies in the UncannyValley; in fact, April was set up to be a MonsterOfTheWeek, but turns out to just be tragic. Buffy stays with her while she shuts down. They don't try to fix her, though, since her whole AI is devoted to Warren and he doesn't want her anymore.
*** And the [=BuffyBot=] was milked for all kinds of humor even after they took out the sexbot programming, but her 'death' was carefully designed to have an emotional kick--on the other hand, Buffy's friends treated her ''terribly'' when they thought she was the 'bot.
** WordOfGod states that the only reason the androids work is because of the Hellmouth's power: they are all {{Magitek}}. So they aren't just machines.
* [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot]] are so utterly described by this trope one doesn't know where to start, although the fact that they are often seen eating and drinking seems like a good place. All of this, of course, falls under both the RuleOfFunny and the MST3KMantra.
* Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer had to deal with the robotic kidnapper, Ted, and the two sexbots built by Warren Mears: April, and the [=BuffyBot=]. Ted is particularly impressive considering he was built in the '50s.
** April and the Buffybot were both studies in the UncannyValley; in fact, April was set up to be a MonsterOfTheWeek, but turns out to just be tragic. Buffy stays with her while she shuts down. They don't try to fix her, though, since her whole AI is devoted to Warren and he doesn't want her anymore.
*** And the [=BuffyBot=] was milked for all kinds of humor even after they took out the sexbot programming, but her 'death' was carefully designed to have an emotional kick--on the other hand, Buffy's friends treated her ''terribly'' when they thought she was the 'bot.
** WordOfGod states that the only reason the androids work is because of the Hellmouth's power: they are all {{Magitek}}. So they aren't just machines.
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* The DRN-series police robots in ''Series/AlmostHuman'' were designed to be as human-like as possible with their "Synthetic Soul" programming. However, the attempt to use them for police duty proved disastrous, and they were all "retired" (it's later revealed that most have been reassigned to SpaceStation duty). The [=DRNs=] were replaced by the utterly logical MX-series robots. When Detective Kennex wakes up after his 2-year coma, he is initially partnered up with an MX, before getting annoyed at the robot and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman throwing him out of the moving vehicle]] to be crushed by a truck. DaChief pulls a DRN out of retirement and forces Kennex to partner up with him. While Kennex and Dorian (the robot's name) are frequently at odds, the partnership proves beneficial, and the two are slowly becoming friends. The the series gets ScrewedByTheNetwork.
** There's also a subplot developing about Dorian remembering events that never happened to him. A tech determines that the memories were placed in his memory core years ago for an unknown purpose.
** There's also a subplot developing about Dorian remembering events that never happened to him. A tech determines that the memories were placed in his memory core years ago for an unknown purpose.
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* ''Series/AlmostHuman'':
** The DRN-series police robots in''Series/AlmostHuman'' were designed to be as human-like as possible with their "Synthetic Soul" programming. However, the attempt to use them for police duty proved disastrous, and they were all "retired" (it's later revealed that most have been reassigned to SpaceStation duty). The [=DRNs=] were replaced by the utterly logical MX-series robots. When Detective Kennex wakes up after his 2-year coma, he is initially partnered up with an MX, before getting annoyed at the robot and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman throwing him out of the moving vehicle]] to be crushed by a truck. DaChief pulls a DRN out of retirement and forces Kennex to partner up with him. While Kennex and Dorian (the robot's name) are frequently at odds, the partnership proves beneficial, and the two are slowly becoming friends. The the series gets ScrewedByTheNetwork.\n** There's also a subplot developing about Dorian remembering events that never happened to him. A tech determines that the memories were placed in his memory core years ago for an unknown purpose.
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* In the Outer Limits episode "Demon With a Glass Hand" is Trent, the last man on Earth after all other humans disappear during an alien invasion. He has escaped back in time to our present and [[spoiler: it turns out he is a robot created to carry the human race (in digital form) inside him until the aliens are destroyed by a virus released in his own time. He was programmed to think that he was human.]]
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* In the Outer Limits ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' episode "Demon With a Glass Hand" is Trent, the last man on Earth after all other humans disappear during an alien invasion. He has escaped back in time to our present and [[spoiler: it turns out he is a robot created to carry the human race (in digital form) inside him until the aliens are destroyed by a virus released in his own time. He was programmed to think that he was human.]]
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** Robot doppelgangers of the main characters who are so ridiculously human that they think they ARE the humans and have a rude awakening when they find out. When the Teal'c one died, he even said to the real Teal'c, "For our father!"
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** Robot The robot doppelgangers of the main characters who are so ridiculously human that they think they ARE the humans and have a rude awakening [[RoboticReveal when they find out.out]]. When the Teal'c one died, he even said to the real Teal'c, "For our father!"
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* ''Series/StargateSG1'' has robot doppelgangers of the main characters who are so ridiculously human that they think they ARE the humans and have a rude awakening when they find out. When the Teal'c one died, he even said to the real Teal'c, "For our father!"
** Fifth also counts as one of these, since he's a human-form replicator who wants revenge, falls in love, and even has a creepy stalker obsession with Carter.
** Fifth also counts as one of these, since he's a human-form replicator who wants revenge, falls in love, and even has a creepy stalker obsession with Carter.
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* ''Series/StargateSG1'' has robot ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** Robot doppelgangers of the main characters who are so ridiculously human that they think they ARE the humans and have a rude awakening when they find out. When the Teal'c one died, he even said to the real Teal'c, "For ourfather!"
** Fifth also counts as one of these, since he's a human-form replicator who wants revenge, falls in love, and even has a creepy stalker obsession with Carter.father!"
** Robot doppelgangers of the main characters who are so ridiculously human that they think they ARE the humans and have a rude awakening when they find out. When the Teal'c one died, he even said to the real Teal'c, "For our
** Fifth also counts as one of these, since he's a human-form replicator who wants revenge, falls in love, and even has a creepy stalker obsession with Carter.
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*** The Human-Form Replicators, which were designed from Rees/from which Reese was designed (Depending on which galaxy you're in), are probably the most aggressive things you'll ever encounter - but they are nevertheless believably human.
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* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Played for laughs in "Be All My Sins Remembered". Rodney [=McKay=] devises a plan to destroy the Asuran homeworld by introducing a [[{{Nanomachines}} nanite-made]] weapon, but the "simple" design proves so much more difficult to construct from the ground up than the more complex "humanoid" one (for which the machine already has blueprints) that he creates FRAN, a sentient, living weapon RobotGirl. She enthusiastically helps with the planning and is joyous that she'll be destroyed in the mission, which seriously creeps out [=McKay=].
-->'''[=McKay=]:''' I should never have given it speech.
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* The humanoid Cylons in ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'' are the definition of robots being ridiculously human -- most notably, "robot religion". And robots having robot or [[HalfHumanHybrid half-robot]] kids. Justified in that the series then asks ''all'' the philosophical questions about the nature of both sides.
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* The humanoid Cylons in ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'' ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' are the definition of robots being ridiculously human -- most notably, "robot religion". And robots having robot or [[HalfHumanHybrid half-robot]] kids. Justified in that the series then asks ''all'' the philosophical questions about the nature of both sides.
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* In the Outer Limits episode "Demon With a Glass Hand" is Trent, the last man on Earth after all other humans disappear during an alien invasion. He has escaped back in time to our present and [[spoiler: it turns out he is a robot created to carry the human race (in digital form) inside him until the aliens are destroyed by a virus released in his own time. He was programmed to think that he was human.]]
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* ''ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' had the Cheesoid, a cylinder-vacuum / tea-urn-esque contrivance made by an ex-robotics engineer and ex-soup-chef (just go with it) to replace his sense of smell lost in an assault, inexplicably has rudimentary but quite human AI and some kind of self awareness. And a sense of smell as bad as its creator, only being able to semi-randomly "identify" (generic) Cheese, and "Petril", in a whiny electronic voice. It gets increasingly vocally depressed about its lot, until after a calamitous mistake (serving petrol on toast, and filling a car's tank with brie) it attempts to commit suicide ... by covering itself in cheddar and attempting to light it, succeeding only in creating a philosophical quandary for itself. "Why petril not burn? Why Cheesoid exist?".
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* ''ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' had the Cheesoid, a cylinder-vacuum / tea-urn-esque contrivance made by an ex-robotics engineer and ex-soup-chef (just go with it) to replace his sense of smell lost in an assault, which inexplicably has rudimentary but quite human AI and some kind of self awareness. And a sense of smell as bad as its creator, only being able to semi-randomly "identify" (generic) Cheese, and "Petril", in a whiny electronic voice. It gets increasingly vocally depressed about its lot, until after a calamitous mistake (serving petrol on toast, and filling a car's tank with brie) it attempts to commit suicide ... by covering itself in cheddar and attempting to light it, succeeding only in creating a philosophical quandary for itself. "Why petril not burn? Why Cheesoid exist?".
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** Then there's Simon, the contestant on Wordwang who's "from a factory and made from a special metal". It's implied that he has killed someone.
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** Then there's Simon, the contestant on Wordwang who's "from a factory and made from a special metal". It's implied metal", and who casually admits that he has killed someone.
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* Alpha-class prototype androids in ''TotalRecall2070''. This is in explicit contrast with ordinary androids in the series.
* Geoff Peterson on ''TheLateLateShow'' didn't start off this way at all, but got there by stages of CharacterDevelopment (and also by getting a human voice actor).
* Geoff Peterson on ''TheLateLateShow'' didn't start off this way at all, but got there by stages of CharacterDevelopment (and also by getting a human voice actor).
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* ''Series/TotalRecall2070'': Alpha-class prototype androids in ''TotalRecall2070''.androids. This is in explicit contrast with ordinary androids in the series.
* Geoff Peterson on''TheLateLateShow'' ''Series/TheLateLateShow'' didn't start off this way at all, but got there by stages of CharacterDevelopment (and also by getting a human voice actor).
* Geoff Peterson on
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** Subverted in "The Robots of Death", where a person who thinks that robots should be free of human rule is a maniac and the villain of the story. And is pursued by a secret agent robot. It's a dangerous step to go from "Robots should be free" to "I must kill all my fellow humans to free the robots", but that villain takes it. The robot society is also portrayed as having three classes of robot - Dums which are basic machines with human form but no intelligence, Vocs which can speak and Supervocs (like previously mentioned secret agent detective robot) which are intelligent and can make reasoned decisions, possessing something close to free will other than being programmed ThreeLawsCompliant.
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** Subverted in "The Robots of Death", where a person who thinks that robots should be free of human rule is a maniac and the villain of the story. And is pursued by a secret agent robot. It's a dangerous step to go from "Robots should be free" to "I must kill all my fellow humans to free the robots", but that villain takes it. The robot society is also portrayed as having three classes of robot - Dums which are basic machines with human form but no intelligence, Vocs which can speak and Supervocs (like previously mentioned secret agent detective robot) which are intelligent and can make reasoned decisions, possessing something close to free will other than being programmed ThreeLawsCompliant.ThreeLawsCompliant and still being much less perceptive than even a below average human. The Supervocs struggle with certain modes of perception (as they can't recognise humans, they have a kludge based on voice patterns, which the villain [[CompellingVoice was able to exploit]]) and D84, the most intelligent robot in the story and possibly in the whole setting, still makes blatantly obvious logic mistakes in its reasoning that the Doctor points out as being typical robot psychology mistakes.
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** For the record, Lore (Data's prototype) was what happens when you get a robot who's both too ridiculously human and not ridiculously human enough. While he had emotions like Data, he was found to be dangerously unpredictable, and [[UncannyValley was deactivated and taken apart because he was actually sorta creepy.]]
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** The Cybermen are part human, but actually ''die'' if you give them back their emotions. They can't be this trope because being able to feel (being Ridiculously Human Robots) allows them to be horrified at being Cybermen, causing them to die.
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** The new series Cybermen are part human, but actually ''die'' if you give them back their emotions. They can't be this trope because being able to feel (being Ridiculously Human Robots) allows them to be horrified at being Cybermen, causing them to die.die.
** "Deep Breath" has a case where the relative humanity of the robot is up for question and significantly alters the outcome of the moral puzzle at the end of the plot - if the robot was, like the Doctor said, virtually human, then the Doctor probably [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath convinced it to commit suicide]], while if it was still more robot than human, as it insisted, than the Doctor probably directly murdered it.
** "Deep Breath" has a case where the relative humanity of the robot is up for question and significantly alters the outcome of the moral puzzle at the end of the plot - if the robot was, like the Doctor said, virtually human, then the Doctor probably [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath convinced it to commit suicide]], while if it was still more robot than human, as it insisted, than the Doctor probably directly murdered it.
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* ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'', the ship, has full-fledged sentience like all High-Guard ships. Indeed, an episode opens with a quote from the High-Guard, where they say, "Who would want a ship incapable of loyalty? Or of love?" The episode in question deals with a High-Guard ship that fell in love with its captain and [[spoiler:murdered him and its crew with a planet-busting weapon.]] Maybe that's part of the reason the High-Guard were overrun by the Nietzscheans.
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* ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'', the ship, has full-fledged sentience like all High-Guard ships. Indeed, an episode opens with a quote from the High-Guard, where they say, "Who would want a ship incapable of loyalty? Or of love?" The episode in question deals with a High-Guard ship that fell in love with its captain and [[spoiler:murdered him and its crew with a planet-busting weapon.weapon rather than carry out an order to sacrifice herself in a combat situation, upset that he would tell her to do such a thing after all his romantic promises.]] Maybe that's part of the reason the High-Guard were overrun by the Nietzscheans.
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* Subverted in at least one ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode, where a person who thinks that robots should be free of human rule is a maniac and the villain of the story. And is pursued by a secret agent robot.
** It's a dangerous step to go from "Robots should be free" to "I must kill all my fellow humans to free the robots", but that villain takes it.
** And "Victory of the Daleks" features a [[spoiler:robot who's basically just a meek, sensitive, geeky Scotsman. Justified in that a major part of his purpose is that he be indistinguishable from a human.]]
** It's a dangerous step to go from "Robots should be free" to "I must kill all my fellow humans to free the robots", but that villain takes it.
** And "Victory of the Daleks" features a [[spoiler:robot who's basically just a meek, sensitive, geeky Scotsman. Justified in that a major part of his purpose is that he be indistinguishable from a human.]]
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** PlayedForDrama: In "Robot", the K-1 is intended as an experimental machine to do work too dangerous to humans, such as working in radioactive areas or down mines. Yet it also clearly has emotions, displaying love, pain (both physical and emotional), fear, what the Doctor calls an "OedipusComplex", etcetera. No-one besides Sarah Jane (and by extension the Doctor) notices or respects this, and it leads to the poor thing being [[BreakTheCutie driven mad]].
** Subverted inat least one ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode, "The Robots of Death", where a person who thinks that robots should be free of human rule is a maniac and the villain of the story. And is pursued by a secret agent robot.
**robot. It's a dangerous step to go from "Robots should be free" to "I must kill all my fellow humans to free the robots", but that villain takes it.
it. The robot society is also portrayed as having three classes of robot - Dums which are basic machines with human form but no intelligence, Vocs which can speak and Supervocs (like previously mentioned secret agent detective robot) which are intelligent and can make reasoned decisions, possessing something close to free will other than being programmed ThreeLawsCompliant.
**And K-9 often claims to have no emotions or capacity to lie, but he is probably lying. The other characters constantly remark on this.
** "Victory of the Daleks" features a [[spoiler:robot who's basically just a meek, sensitive, geeky Scotsman. Justified in that a major part of his purpose is that he be indistinguishable from a human.]]
** PlayedForDrama: In "Robot", the K-1 is intended as an experimental machine to do work too dangerous to humans, such as working in radioactive areas or down mines. Yet it also clearly has emotions, displaying love, pain (both physical and emotional), fear, what the Doctor calls an "OedipusComplex", etcetera. No-one besides Sarah Jane (and by extension the Doctor) notices or respects this, and it leads to the poor thing being [[BreakTheCutie driven mad]].
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** "Victory of the Daleks" features a [[spoiler:robot who's basically just a meek, sensitive, geeky Scotsman. Justified in that a major part of his purpose is that he be indistinguishable from a human.]]
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* The DRN-series police robots in ''Series/AlmostHuman'' were designed to be as human-like as possible with their "Synthetic Soul" programming. However, the attempt to use them for police duty proved disastrous, and they were all "retired" (it's later revealed that most have been reassigned to SpaceStation duty). The [=DRNs=] were replaced by the utterly logical MX-series robots. When Detective Kennex wakes up after his 2-year coma, he is initially partnered up with an MX, before getting annoyed at the robot and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman throwing him out of the moving vehicle]] to be crushed by a truck. DaChief pulls a DRN out of retirement and forces Kennex to partner up with him. While Kennex and Dorian (the robot's name) are frequently at odds, the partnership proves beneficial, and the two are slowly becoming friends. The the series gets ScrewedByTheNetwork.
** There's also a subplot developing about Dorian remembering events that never happened to him. A tech determines that the memories were placed in his memory core years ago for an unknown purpose.
** Other robots are also shown, including the Sams, middle-aged-looking androids designed as avatars of {{Smart House}}s, providing personal security. Naturally, a hacker ensures that they go rogue.
** There's also a subplot developing about Dorian remembering events that never happened to him. A tech determines that the memories were placed in his memory core years ago for an unknown purpose.
** Other robots are also shown, including the Sams, middle-aged-looking androids designed as avatars of {{Smart House}}s, providing personal security. Naturally, a hacker ensures that they go rogue.
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** Continuing the trend, Data's creator Dr. Soong created an android to transfer the mind of his wife Juliana into, after her true body was mortally wounded as a result of the Crystalline Entity's attack. Her android body was so perfect that even ''she'' still believed she was human, and no-one knew the truth until years later, when she and Data met, and an accident damaged her (rendering her unconscious). Data discovered a holographic interface chip inside her brain, and after installing it in the holodeck, was able to speak to Soong, who explained the full story, pleading with Data to keep it a secret and let her have her humanity. Knowing that [[PinocchioSyndrome this was his own greatest desire]], Data chose to honor that request, telling her only, "My father told me that he had only one great love in his life. And that he regretted never telling her how much he cared for her. I am certain he was referring to you."
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** An InvokedTrope in the episode "In His Image." Miserable genius Walter Ryder Jr. creates robot lookalike [[spoiler: Alan Talbot]] specifically as an improved version of himself, with a nervous system that will function just like a human one. The chief glitch is [[spoiler: Talbot's uncontrollable urge to kill.]]
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* ''ChoujinSentaiJetman'''s Grey. Looks completely robotic. Acts very humanlike, which includes liking wines, smoking, listening to music and having the closest thing to 'love' for fellow Vyram Maria. When you notice that most Vyrams are inhuman, Grey ends up being the resident NobleDemon, who acts quite humanly.
** The {{Toku}} genre had robots like this as allies often. To this day you have situations like Navi from ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' (temperamental, emotional, in ways that make getting information out of him/her harder.) More robots than not show emotions that you wouldn't expect to have been included, or are acted upon in a way that inhibits doing their job (any time one gets annoyed and storms off, or Peebo from ''ChoudenshiBioman'' being so terrified of Bio Hunter Silver she could hardly do anything.) Anri in ''KyojuuTokusouJuspion'' takes it to "you ''sure'' that's supposed to be a robot?" level, looking and acting completely human in every way at almost all times, to the point that you wonder why the writers chose to ''call'' her a robot. (However, on one occasion, an evil computer takes her over and makes her attack Juspion.)
* Series/{{Andromeda}}, the ship, has full-fledged sentience like all High-Guard ships. Indeed, an episode opens with a quote from the High-Guard, where they say, "Who would want a ship incapable of loyalty? Or of love?" The episode in question deals with a High-Guard ship that fell in love with its captain and [[spoiler:murdered him and its crew with a planet-busting weapon.]] Maybe that's part of the reason the High-Guard were overrun by the Nietzscheans.
** The {{Toku}} genre had robots like this as allies often. To this day you have situations like Navi from ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' (temperamental, emotional, in ways that make getting information out of him/her harder.) More robots than not show emotions that you wouldn't expect to have been included, or are acted upon in a way that inhibits doing their job (any time one gets annoyed and storms off, or Peebo from ''ChoudenshiBioman'' being so terrified of Bio Hunter Silver she could hardly do anything.) Anri in ''KyojuuTokusouJuspion'' takes it to "you ''sure'' that's supposed to be a robot?" level, looking and acting completely human in every way at almost all times, to the point that you wonder why the writers chose to ''call'' her a robot. (However, on one occasion, an evil computer takes her over and makes her attack Juspion.)
* Series/{{Andromeda}}, the ship, has full-fledged sentience like all High-Guard ships. Indeed, an episode opens with a quote from the High-Guard, where they say, "Who would want a ship incapable of loyalty? Or of love?" The episode in question deals with a High-Guard ship that fell in love with its captain and [[spoiler:murdered him and its crew with a planet-busting weapon.]] Maybe that's part of the reason the High-Guard were overrun by the Nietzscheans.
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* ''ChoujinSentaiJetman'''s ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'''s Grey. Looks completely robotic. Acts very humanlike, which includes liking wines, smoking, listening to music and having the closest thing to 'love' "love" for fellow Vyram Maria. When you notice that most Vyrams are inhuman, Grey ends up being the resident NobleDemon, who acts quite humanly.
** * The {{Toku}} genre had robots like this as allies often. To this day you have situations like Navi from ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' (temperamental, emotional, in ways that make getting information out of him/her harder.) harder). More robots than not show emotions that you wouldn't expect to have been included, or are acted upon in a way that inhibits doing their job (any time one gets annoyed and storms off, or Peebo from ''ChoudenshiBioman'' ''Series/ChoudenshiBioman'' being so terrified of Bio Hunter Silver she could hardly do anything.) anything). Anri in ''KyojuuTokusouJuspion'' ''Series/KyojuuTokusouJuspion'' takes it to "you ''sure'' that's supposed to be a robot?" level, looking and acting completely human in every way at almost all times, to the point that you wonder why the writers chose to ''call'' her a robot. (However, on one occasion, an evil computer takes her over and makes her attack Juspion.)
*Series/{{Andromeda}}, ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'', the ship, has full-fledged sentience like all High-Guard ships. Indeed, an episode opens with a quote from the High-Guard, where they say, "Who would want a ship incapable of loyalty? Or of love?" The episode in question deals with a High-Guard ship that fell in love with its captain and [[spoiler:murdered him and its crew with a planet-busting weapon.]] Maybe that's part of the reason the High-Guard were overrun by the Nietzscheans.
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* Geoff Peterson on ''TheLateLateShow'' didn't start off this way at all, but got there by stages of CharacterDevelopment (and also by getting a human voice actor).
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** The series even gives a good, yet subtle, reason why the RoboCam is used when Cameron glitches into the Allison personality and forgets she's a machine. Right before that happens, the HUD from her visual input vanishes. With that HUD, she wouldn't have started thinking she was human, which means that the RoboCam is there to remind the Terminator ''that it's a machine.''
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* ''TheDukesOfHazzard'': The episode "Robot P. Coltrane" has the featured character - a robot hired by Boss Hogg to replace the mistake-prone Rosco – look very much like a human being, despite the attempt to make it look like a robot.
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* Alpha-class prototype androids in ''TotalRecall2070''. This is in explicit contrast with ordinary androids in the series.
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** And [[spoiler:Weaver]] directly claims to have emotions. Admittedly when she was about to shove a blade through someone's head, but...
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** In the last episode he gets married.
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** In the last episode he gets married. To a flesh-and-blood woman.
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** WordOfGod states that the only reason the androids work is because of the Hellmouth's power: they are all {{Magitek}}.
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** WordOfGod states that the only reason the androids work is because of the Hellmouth's power: they are all {{Magitek}}. So they aren't just machines.
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** WordOfGod states that the only reason the androids work is because of the Hellmouth's power: they are all {{Magitek}}.
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* ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' has robot doppelgangers of the main characters who are so ridiculously human that they think they ARE the humans and have a rude awakening when they find out. When the Teal'c one died, he even said to the real Teal'c, "For our father!"
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* ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' ''Series/StargateSG1'' has robot doppelgangers of the main characters who are so ridiculously human that they think they ARE the humans and have a rude awakening when they find out. When the Teal'c one died, he even said to the real Teal'c, "For our father!"
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** More importantly, HOW is a robot that is hardly intelligent or human looking an example of this trope? :/
*** The Cheesoid is intelligent and acts human-like. It may not be very smart, and that human it's like may be a paranoid emotionally distraught wreck, but it's still an example.
*** The Cheesoid is intelligent and acts human-like. It may not be very smart, and that human it's like may be a paranoid emotionally distraught wreck, but it's still an example.
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* Twiki and Crichton in ''BuckRogersInThe25thCentury'' Crichton at least in behavior if not appearance.
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* Twiki and Crichton in ''BuckRogersInThe25thCentury'' ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'' Crichton at least in behavior if not appearance.
