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Now, Kara will become a full game by the name of VideogameDetroit: Becoming Human.

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Now, Kara will become a full game by the name of VideogameDetroit: Videogame/Detroit: Becoming Human.
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Now, Kara will become a full game by the name of VideogameDetroit: Becoming Human.


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** As of the trailer to Detroit: Becoming Human, [[spoiler: this seems not the case.]]
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* HeyItsThatVoice: The Operator is voiced by Tercelin Kirtley, who voiced Nathaniel Williams, Andrew, Miroslav Korda, and other characters in ''HeavyRain''.
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* BaldWomen: Though she does get hair implanted later. [[spoiler:Twice.]]

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* BaldWomen: Though she does get hair implanted later. [[spoiler:Twice.]]



* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: There are a few hints that she's becoming sentient before it's confirmed; the way she smiles after she's given a name, the look of wonderment as she uses her arms and legs for the first time, and the way she covers herself when she's naked strikes of more than just programming.]]
* GrayEyes: Kara's eyes are a pale grey. They add to her [[WaifProphet waifish and distracted]] aura. The color also signifies that she is empty, a blank slate ready to be shape into her owner's will.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: There are a few hints that she's becoming sentient before it's confirmed; the way she smiles after she's given a name, the look of wonderment as she uses her arms and legs for the first time, and the way she covers herself when she's naked strikes speaks of more than just programming.]]
* GrayEyes: Kara's eyes are a pale grey. They add to her [[WaifProphet waifish and distracted]] distracted aura. The color also signifies that she is empty, a blank slate ready to be shape into her owner's will.
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* LimbSensationFascination: As the Operator asks her to take a few steps.
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** [[spoiler: Also, "Stop! I'm scared! (''disassambly stops'') I want to live."]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman

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** [[spoiler: Also, "Stop! I'm scared! (''disassambly stops'') I want to live. I'm begging you."]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHumanWhatMeasureIsANonHuman: [[spoiler: "You're not supposed to think that sort of stuff. You're not supposed to think at all!"]]
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* RobotHair: Kara is designed to appear human in just about every way, including a head of short brown hair (which is seen being installed on her significantly more obviously mechanical-at first-body).
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** [[spoiler: Also, "Stop! I'm scared! (''disassambly stops'') I want to live.]]

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** [[spoiler: Also, "Stop! I'm scared! (''disassambly stops'') I want to live.]]"]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: There are a few hints that she's becoming sentient before it's confirmed; the way she smiles after she's given a name, the look of wonderment as she uses her arms and legs for the first time, and the way she covers herself when she's naked strikes of more than just programming.]]

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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "I thought...I was alive."]]

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[[spoiler: "I thought...I was alive."]]"]]
** [[spoiler: Also, "Stop! I'm scared! (''disassambly stops'') I want to live.]]
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* GrayEyes: Kara's eyes are a pale grey. They add to her [[WaifProphet waifish and distracted]] aura. The color also signifies that she is empty, a blank slate ready to be shape into her owner's will.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Would you like to give me a name?" ]]
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Kara is this. Notable in that we see her assembly.

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* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Kara is this. Notable in that we see her assembly.assembly, complete with a thumping blue heart.
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For a tech demo, this short video is '''plot-heavy'''. Expect spoilers.
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*** And, in addition to the previous, his [[spoiler: having her assume her role as a slave-bot despite her sentience and knowing that Kara's hopes for life may not be so great depending on where she's going.]] If anything, it might actually all of the above at once.
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* RobotMaid: Seems to be her primary function.
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*WhamLine: [[spoiler: "I thought...I was alive."]]
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* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: The Operator is moved to let Kara live as a sentient android, but she still has to work as a slave-bot.]]
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* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Subverted. Kara is initially naked but doesn't care because she doesn't have skin yet and at the moment has merely BarbieDollAnatomy. Once she's coated with skin, Kara covers herself with her hands until a machine gives her a bra and underwear.
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*** Yet another way of looking at it is that the Operator was in awe of the concept of a [[spoiler: sentient robot. His reaction to Kara implies that he has never encountered such a machine before.]]
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* TearJerker: Particularly [[spoiler: when she says, "I'm scared."]]
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* TearJerker: Particularly [[spoiler: when she says, "I'm scared."]]
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Go watch it on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dou4Gy0p97Y YouTube]].

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Go watch it on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dou4Gy0p97Y com/watch?v=lhoYLp8CtXI YouTube]].
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* CerebusSyndrome
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"Kara" is a short film created by Creator/QuanticDream to showcase their new graphics engine. It starts off showing the assembly and activation of a RidiculouslyHumanRobot... who proves to be a little too human.

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"Kara" is a short film created by Creator/QuanticDream to showcase their the new graphics engine.engine they developed for ''Videogame/BeyondTwoSouls''. It starts off showing the assembly and activation of a RidiculouslyHumanRobot... who proves to be a little too human.
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**Could also be argued that [[spoiler: the Operator had felt guilty after coming very closely to dissembling (killing) the fully-sentient Kara, who is begging for her life after being branded as 'defective'.]]
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"Kara" is a short film created by [[HeavyRain Quantic Dream]] to showcase their new graphics engine. It starts off showing the assembly and activation of a RidiculouslyHumanRobot... who proves to be a little too human.

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"Kara" is a short film created by [[HeavyRain Quantic Dream]] Creator/QuanticDream to showcase their new graphics engine. It starts off showing the assembly and activation of a RidiculouslyHumanRobot... who proves to be a little too human.
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* TheWoobie: Kara... duh.
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* TheWoobie: Kara... duh.
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"Kara" is a short film created by [[HeavyRain Quantic Dream]] to showcase their new graphics engine. It starts off showing the assembly and activation of a RidiculouslyHumanRobot... who proves to be a little too human.

Go watch it on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dou4Gy0p97Y YouTube]].
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!!Contains examples of:

* ArtificialHuman / ArtificialIntelligence
* BaldWomen: Though she does get hair implanted later. [[spoiler:Twice.]]
* CharacterTitle
* CyberPunk
* [[spoiler:DoAndroidsDream]]
* TheFaceless: The Operator.
* HeyItsThatVoice: The Operator is voiced by Tercelin Kirtley, who voiced Nathaniel Williams, Andrew, Miroslav Korda, and other characters in ''HeavyRain''.
* InkSuitActor[=/=]SerkisFolk: Kara looks just like her voice/motion capture actress, [[http://coolspotters.com/actresses/valorie-curry Valorie Curry]]. According to the producers, that's because Valorie [[http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-07-introducing-quantic-dreams-kara "looked like an android already"]].
* JustAMachine: To The Operator, anyway. [[spoiler: Kara disagrees.]]
* MoodWhiplash: Starts off as just an ExcusePlot to show off a new graphics engine. Then it shifts into serious TearJerker territory.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The Operator [[spoiler: as he lets the fully sentient Kara-model go free.]]
* {{Omniglot}}: Kara's model comes packed in with 300 languages.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The Japanese song Kara sings is [[https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sakura_Sakura "Sakura Sakura"]].
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Kara is this. Notable in that we see her assembly.
* RobotGirl: Starts off somewhere inbetween a {{Fembot}} and a SkeleBot9000 during the assembly, but skin and hair eventually projects itself over the metallic surface. [[spoiler: Then she turns sentient...]]
* SexBot: One of her multiple functions.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman
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