History YMMV / IRobot

* GeniusBonus: The exchange between Spooner and Sonny regarding CreativeSterility is paraphrased from an essay by IsaacAsimov entitled ''Our Intelligent Tools'':

* FairForItsDay: Asimov wrote his stories with Susan Calvin at a time when nearly all women were [[DistressedDamsel captured by the villain,]] or love interests. Still, he stuck mostly 50's gender roles in most of his stories. The short story "Liar!", which shows more of Calvin's personality, was rewritten a couple of times after Asimov realized his first version was terrible.
** In the 1950s, Calvin was hailed as a great SF example of a strong female character. In the light of the 21st century, she's misanthropic, can't get a man but is desperate for one ("Liar"), feels happiest when she can mother a "baby" robot ("Lenny"), and in general appears to be a man's idea of what a woman in a man's profession "must" be like: unfulfilled and mean.

* FauxSymbolism: The lone figure on the hill.
** It gets even better than that. The scene is a reference to one of Asimov's short stories, in which a robot designed to dream imagines himself standing on a hill and shouting "Let my people go!"

* MemeticMutation: This movie brought "AW HELL [[strike:NO]] NAW!" into our vocabulary.

* TheScrappy: Farber. If you removed him from the film, would anyone notice? What purpose does he serve the plot again?
** To point out the ProductPlacement.
*** And to be the PluckyComicRelief.

* GeniusBonus: The above mentioned exchange between Spooner and Sonny regarding CreativeSterility is paraphrased from an essay by IsaacAsimov entitled ''Our Intelligent Tools'':

* * GeniusBonus: The above mentioned exchange between Spooner and Sonny regarding CreativeSterility is paraphrased from an essay by IsaacAsimov entitled ''Our Intelligent Tools'':

** AnalogyBackfire: Quinn was right and Byerley was a liar ([[ForTheGreaterGood]] but still)...

* ExecutiveMeddling: "Hey, you remember those classic fifties sci-fi stories about how robots could only be as bad as humans programmed them to be? Let's make exactly that movie! Except, you know, with Will Smith in it. Also, the Susan Calvin character should be a supermodel instead of a boring old engineer. And casting the robots as tragic figures helpless before the laws of their own nature would require us to write some believable characters for them to react to, so, how about instead, they revolt?! That way we can have explosions and car crashes, which, as we all know, rock. Fans of the book will love us for our daring, and people who've never heard of the book will totally love the unexpected twist of a movie where robots turn on their creators!"

* ExecutiveMeddling: "Hey, you remember those classic fifties sci-fi stories about how robots could only be as bad as humans programmed them to be? Let's make exactly that movie! Except, you know, with Will Smith in it. Also, the Susan Calvin character should be a supermodel instead of a boring old engineer. And casting the robots as tragic Frankenstein-monsters helpless to the laws of their own nature would require us to write some believable characters for them to react to, so, how about instead, they revolt?! That way we can have explosions and car crashes, which, as we all know, rock. Fans of the book will love us for our daring, and people who've never heard of the book will totally love the unexpected twist of a movie where robots turn on their creators!"

* HarsherInHindsight: In "Evidence", Stephen Byerley, a liberal public prosecutor who really is doing things to stop crime and redeem criminals, is a candidate for mayor of NYC who is accused of being a robot, which would disqualify him from the election. Quinn, the political boss who propagates the rumor, is a conservative SleazyPolitician who admittedly couldn’t care less for the civil rights of his people, and so his subordinates. The premise seems kind of silly and it's hard to believe that so many people would believe that Byerley is a robot based on such flimsy evidence. Fast forward to 2008, when people are arguing that President BarackObama wasn't born in the United States (and the principal promotor of that idea was DonaldTrump), and it seems much more plausible.
** AnalogyBackfire: Quinn was right and Byerley was a liar ([ForTheGreaterGood] but still)...

* RecklessGunUsage: The main page features a listing of this trope, referencing the scene in which Spooner taps his own temple with the barrel of his pistol after a nightmare. However, his finger wasn't anywhere near the trigger, and I believe it's extremely unlikely that a gun would accidentally discharge from light tapping

* HilariousInHindsight: Really? ShiaLaBeouf hates [[{{Transformers}} robots]]?

* HilariousInHindsight: Yes, "Aw, Hell no." DID appear in one of Asimov's robot stories.

* NightmareFuel: The look G.G.'s NS-5 gives Spooner over its shoulder while chopping up a cucumber. Brr.

* ItWasHisSled: "Hey, you saw ''I, Robot'' yet? [[spoiler:Yeah, it's a ZerothLawRebellion movie."]] Yes, even on this very website.
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The look G.G.'s NS-5 gives Spooner over its shoulder while chopping up a cucumber. Brr.

* NightmareFuel: The look G.G.'s NS-5 gives Spooner over its shoulder while chopping up a cucumber. Brr.

* HarsherInHindsight: In "Evidence", Stephen Byerley, a liberal public prosecutor who really is doing things to stop crime and redeem criminals, is a candidate for mayor of NYC who is accused of being a robot, which would disqualify him from the election. Quinn, the political boss who propagates the rumor, is a conservative SleazyPolitician who admittedly couldn’t care less for the civil rights of his people, and so his subordinates. The premise seems kind of silly and it's hard to believe that so many people would believe that Byerley is a robot based on such flimsy evidence. Fast forward to 2008, when people are arguing that President BarackObama wasn't born in the United States (and the principal promotor of that idea was DonaldTrump), and it seems much more plausible.