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9	->'''Tachikoma 1:''' Oh, now I get your drift. If we just act a little more robotic...\
10	'''Tachikoma 2:''' We might stand a chance of the Major liking us!\
11	'''Tachikoma 4:''' Exactly!\
12	'''Tachikoma 3:''' It's the ultimate robot strategy plan!\
13	'''All four Tachikomas, in unison:''' ''[monotone]'' We are robots. We are robots. We are robots.\
14	'''Tachikoma 3:''' Aaaaaah I can't do this anymore!
15	-->-- ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex''
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17	If a major robotic character [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots looks human]] (is an "android" in the looser sense of the term), there is a very good chance that they will [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots act robotic]], [[TheStoic being unemotional]] and [[CreativeSterility uncreative]], and given to RoboSpeak. On the other hand, if a major robotic character looks completely mechanical, there is a very good chance that they [[SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence think]] and [[PersonalityChip act quite human]], exhibiting plenty of emotion and saying quite human things even if they say them in a RoboSpeak accent.
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19	Apparently, major robotic characters can look human and act mechanical, or vice versa, but seldom show the same nature both inside and outside. This makes dramatic sense: an android that both looks and acts human is hardly different enough to be any fun; a robot that looks and acts mechanical is really more of a prop than a character, unless you put a lot of effort into inserting some interesting behavior, usually human but less obviously so, into the character.
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21	The SpaceshipGirl trope is a counter-trope, since she usually both looks and acts human; the audience is only reminded that she's not human when she refers or reacts to her status as a ship.
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23	!!Examples of androids that act mechanical:
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27	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
28	* R. Dorothy Wayneright from ''Anime/TheBigO''. Although she ''is'' capable of feeling anger/happiness/longing/etc., she is unable to express these emotions to a great degree. Thus, she comes off as a very mechanical DeadpanSnarker. However, it's suggested that this isn't a shortcoming of her programming or construction, but the effect the death of her "Father" had on her, which would be a ''very'' human reaction.
29	* ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'''s androids pretty much act completely robotic. This is discussed with the Tachikomas in that the justification for giving an advanced AI to something that's not humanoid is that giving an android an advanced AI would immediately result in the UncannyValley.
30	* Subverted in ''Anime/TimeOfEve'': In public, androids have holographic rings over their heads, act quite unemotional, and tend to only follow commands. Thinking of androids as or treating them similar to human beings is considered at least nerdy, or highly taboo. However, in the Time of Eve cafe, where the rule is not to distinguish between humans and androids, it is impossible to tell who is which, and their true personalities are let loose.
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33	[[folder:Comic Books]]
34	* ComicBook/TheVision always looks like just an oddly-colored human being, but his personality flip-flops with the trope; there have been times when he acts like a human, there was a time when he became a cold machine, and finally the writers settled for having him as a robot with feelings, but talking in terms that imply a monotone voice (as much as it can be implied in written media).
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37	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
38	* Subverted by Ash in ''Film/{{Alien}}'', who successfully passes for a human who is ''as stiff and unemotional as'' an android.
39	* Chip from ''Film/NotQuiteHuman'', a robotic teenager. Although he averts the classic behavior to some degree (he has free will, understands emotions and can use subterfuge to trick people), he exhibits many robotic quirks, such as limited facial expressions, twitchy movements, and decorating his dorm room with posters of famous robots. His robotic girlfriend Roberta qualifies even more, since she lacks Chip's experience and free will. For instance, she was not the least surprised that he too was a robot, since a statistical extrapolation of her limited social group back in the lab would suggest that roughly one in five persons was a robot.
40	* The T-800 (Mark II) in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' slides along the scale. When he first shows up looking just like a normal BadassBiker, he is almost as inhuman as his predecessor from [[Film/TheTerminator the first film]]. As the film progresses, the more banged-up he gets, with his robotic half showing, the more human he starts to act. {{Justified\|Trope}} in a [[ExecutiveMeddling deleted scene]] where John and his mother take out his [[PersonalityChip CPU]] and reset the switch, allowing him to learn and function as more than just an automaton.
41	* In ''Film/{{Toys}}'', there is a gynoid who, while looking human, doesn't really act like a robot at all. She doesn't really act ''normal'', either. She acts like... well... a crazy person? Crazy in the dumb funny way.
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44	[[folder:Literature]]
45	%%* R. Daneel Olivaw from ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel'' and later ''Literature/RobotSeries'' works.
46	* Inverted in the ''Literature/HumanxCommonwealth'' novel ''Cachalot'', in which a stiff-necked, unpersonable government official is rightly judged ''not'' to be an android, because any decent android would've been programmed to act more friendly than that. In short, he's "too mechanical to be mechanical".
47	%%* Miss Willow, a "femiquin" ([[SexBot prostitute robot]]) from Creator/FritzLeiber's novel ''The Silver Eggheads''. Contrast with Zane Gort and Miss Blushes from the same novel, in the next list.
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50	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
51	%%* Hymie in ''Series/GetSmart''.
52	%%* Eve Edison in ''Series/MannAndMachine''.
53	%%* Rhoda the Robot in ''Series/MyLivingDoll''.
54	%%* Vicki, the little android girl (little gynoid?) in ''Series/SmallWonder''.
55	* Lt. Cmdr. Data of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' is presented this way, to explain his slightly off appearance, lack of emotion and inability to use contractions. The reasoning why is even explained in-universe: while his predecessor, Lore, still had the white skin and yellow eyes, he had full emotions (and the ability to use contractions)... and [[AIIsACrapshoot immediately used them for evil purposes]]. Data was made deliberately ''less'' human in an attempt to compensate, the idea being that he'd instead gradually gain humanity through experience and thus hopefully turn out, well, ''not'' evil.
56	%%* Cameron of ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' -- and for that matter the rest of the Terminators, but especially Cameron. Subverted by "[[BecomingTheMask Allison from Palmdale]]".
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59	[[folder:Video Games]]
60	* ''VideoGame/ApexLegends'': Ash and Revenant are both Simalcrums (human minds uploaded into cybernetic bodies) with human-like faces. Both are also cold-blooded killing machines.
61	* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'''s Murakumo Units look completely human when not in their PoweredArmor but play with this to varying degrees. Nu-13's the most obvious case, what with speaking with RoboSpeak and MachineMonotone ([[{{Yandere}} unless she's near Ragna]]) and exhibiting an emotionless demeanor, but as the series progresses, she's shown to be rather [[AxCrazy batshit insane]] and is quite a MoodSwinger. Lambda-11's a much straighter example ''a la'' [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Data]], and Mu-12 initially starts off of this courtesy of Terumi's influence, but once she regains her sense of self, she acts normal.
62	* In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', this applies to the coursers, particularly potential companion X6-88: they look human enough to infiltrate human settlements, but even a brief conversation with a courser makes it clear that they are [[LackOfEmpathy devoid of empathy]]. The constant CreepyMonotone does not help.
63	* Orianna from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is a RobotGirl (the result of a human being slowly replaced by {{Magitek}} parts as her body failed her). When she gave up her heart to save her father, she lost her humanity. Orianna serves as a Foil to Blitzcrank, a distinctly mechanical Steam Golem who has a personality and just generally seems more ''alive''.
64	* Aigis from ''VideoGame/Persona3'', though she slowly acts more human as the story progresses thanks to CharacterDevelopment.
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67	[[folder:Western Animation]]
68	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E15IDatedARobot I Dated a Robot]]", we find out that the appearances and personalities of celebrities can be uploaded onto "blank robots". The results look like their human counterparts but lack individuality and lapse into RoboSpeak. It's a strong contrast to Bender and the other RidiculouslyHumanRobots in the show, down in the next list.
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71	!!Examples of mechanical-looking robots that act human:
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73	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
74	* Again in ''Anime/TheBigO'', we have the piano-playing robot, who, unlike Dorothy, speaks exactly like a human and shows the full emotional range that a human would have. He was built to play the piano so well that he taught Dorothy how to play with subtle nuances. In the second season, we then come across a mechanical detective; he has built-in equipment for forensics, but aside from that, he approaches cases in the same way a human would. He also takes on this particular episode's case for personal reasons. While there are other androids and gynoids disguised as humans, neither of these two attempt to hide what they are and are treated as professionals in their fields.
75	* Mechazawa from ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'' is a TinCanRobot who acts exactly like a human student, and [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight people treat him like one at almost all times]].
76	* The {{Mon}}s of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' are actually [[LivingProgram computer programs]], and are all shapes and sizes, from fluff-balls to HumongousMecha to {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, but act very human (or at least, display a human level of mannerisms and emotions).
77	* The Tachikomas in ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' are sentient ''tanks'' that manage to act cute and human, despite looking like giant blue mechanical crabs on wheels with multiple eyes around their bodies. In the episode "[[Recap/GhostInTheShellSACS1Episode15 MACHINES DÉSIRANTES]]", this trope comes up as a subject of conversation among the Tachikomas themselves. One of them theorizes that as advances in cybernetics technology blur the lines between humans and machines, humans are becoming nervous about any robots that seem too human. Thus, any robots which require a human-like appearance (in order to interact with human environments) are given less advanced [=AI=]s so they're not perceived as a threat, while more advanced [=AIs=] are confined to obviously non-human bodies.[[note]]What originally sparks this philosophizing is the worry that Major Kusanagi is displeased by the Tachikoma's emerging self-awareness. She is, but not for the reasons they think: the Major simply thinks that it would be a liability to have robots on the battlefield [[ContemplateOurNavels navel-gazing]].[[/note]]
78	* [[RobotGirl Gynoid]] Chachamaru from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' starts with a pseudo-skin face, but antenna ears and visible joints make it obvious she's a robot, at least to those without a WeirdnessCensor. She gets a full body pseudo-skin cover later, though, but retains her antenna ears. She's gone so far as to [[DoAndroidsDream develop a crush on the main character]].
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81	[[folder:Comic Books]]
82	* The title character of ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'' is a humanoid robot whose head is a smooth, rounded lump of metal -- his most expressive features are his eyes (he gets a lot of mileage out of his eyelids). Despite this, he acts like a snarky, down-to-earth guy whose job just happens to involve mad scientists, talking dinosaurs and other weirdness. We even see his pop-culture-filled "adolescence" growing up with Nikola Tesla.
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85	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
86	%%* Carl and DOR-15 (Doris) from ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons''.
87	* All the robots from ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' fall here with the exception of the security bots, which are [[FacelessGoons interchangeable mooks]] that the protagonists can [[WhatMeasureIsAMook smash, shoot, and zap without guilt]].
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90	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
91	%%* HAL 9000 (rather subtly), the psychotic ship's computer in ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' and ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact''.
92	* ''Film/TheBlackHole'': V.I.N.CENT looks like [[TinCanRobot a multipurpose tin can]] but has a rather [[DeadpanSnarker distinct]] personality.
93	* ''Film/IAmMother'': The eponymous Mother is a mechanical robot with the voice of Creator/RoseByrne. Given that [[RaisedByRobots its role is to raise children]], a more gentle, empathic voice is needed. [[spoiler:The movie leaves it ambiguous whether Mother really does feel an emotional connection to her 'daughter' or is just a RoboticPsychopath.]]
94	* ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'': The robots look like someone gave [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Monoliths]] the ability to move, but they're BenevolentAI with rather charming and helpful personalities. TARS in particular cracks jokes and develops a rather snarky friendship with Cooper over the course of the film.
95	%%* Number Five, later Johnny Five, from ''Film/ShortCircuit'' and ''Film/ShortCircuit 2''.
96	* ''Franchise/StarWars'': Played with in C-3PO and R2-D2. Threepio is specifically designed to be an "interface" between humanoids and roboty-robots, and thus is more human-looking and -acting than most droids. Artoo, by contrast, is entirely inhuman and speaks in beeps, but has a much more relatable personality.
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99	[[folder:Literature]]
100	* In the futurist book ''2081'', there are laws that prohibit making androids that can be mistaken for people, mostly for safety reasons (e.g. so rescue workers will know to save the humans first). How ''much'' different they need to look varies from country to country.
101	* The ''Literature/{{Bolo}}'' stories all revolve around tanks that start about the size of houses and move up from there. Their [=AIs=] are modelled to be courteous WarriorPoet types, to offset the fact that ''one'' of them could sterilize a planet. You don't ''want'' strange, alien mindsets running around with your guns, after all. It's to the point that they are usually more moral, ethical, and all-round better people than the flesh-and-blood humans who give them orders.
102	* Marvin the Paranoid Android from ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', along with almost every other computer, robot or happy vertical people transporter; their designers give robots and other mechanical things that speak "Genuine People Personalities" which are copies of people's personalities.
103	%%* Just about all of the robots in the ''Literature/RobotSeries'' '''except''' R. Daneel Olivaw, but especially Robbie from the short story "Literature/{{Robbie}}".
104	* Zane Gort and Miss Phyllis Blushes, robot lovers from Creator/FritzLeiber's novel ''The Silver Eggheads''. The dichotomy is rationalized by Zane, who tells the human hero that if you tried to cram all the AI circuitry of a real robot like himself into the same chassis with all the human-mimicry devices of a "femiquin", the result would have to be 10 feet high or as fat as a circus fat lady.
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107	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
108	* Orac in ''Series/BlakesSeven'' is a cuboidal Perspex box of circuitry and flashing lights, but has an entirely organic-sounding and very expressive voice and a ridiculously human personality. He's the possible UrExample of SecondLawMyAss, being arrogant, anti-human, amoral, lazy and sarcastic.
109	%%* TWIKI from ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury''.
110	* K9 in ''Series/DoctorWho'' is a boxy RobotDog, and is prone to sarcasm and ego.
111	%%* KITT, the robotic car from ''Series/KnightRider''.
112	%%* The Bots from ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
113	* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
114	** Kryten looks like a partly melted shop window dummy, and is prone to irrational jealousy and getting worked up over petty annoyances, even if he can't master other human skills like lying and insulting people. It eventually transpires that his personality is a sort of parody of his creator's ex-boyfriend.
115	** The Skutters are [[InTheFutureWeStillHaveRoombas utility droids]] comprising boxes with three-fingered claws and aren't even able to speak, but enjoy watching Westerns and playing at being cowboys, and are {{Silent Snarker}}s whose claws are well designed for [[FlippingTheBird flipping V signs]] at Rimmer.
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118	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
119	* This is the point of the Reforged philosophical movement of warforged in ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}''. Warforged are 'living constructs', [[MechanicalLifeforms mechanical beings that are metaphysically and magically a bit closer to biologicals]], and the Reforged goal is to embrace their living side, so they do things like pick a gender identity, wear clothing, try to figure out ways to handle eating food, etc.
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122	%%[[folder:Toys]]
123	%%* Most of the characters in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' and ''Toys/HeroFactory''.
124	%%* Any robot in ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', with two exceptions listed below.
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127	[[folder:Video Games]]
128	* ''VideoGame/ApexLegends'': Pathfinder is a cheerful, happy-go-lucky CyberCyclops, in contrast to the aforementioned sociopathic androids Ash and Revenant.
129	%%* Robo from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' was made of this trope and, ironically, BecomeARealBoy (the type that wants to be human in the "ways that count").
130	* In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', this applies to all the clearly robotic companions: Curie and Codsworth are Mr. Handy robots, [[StarfishRobot floating spheres with three eyes and three arms]], while Nick Valentine is late-model Gen-2 synth[[note]]He suspects he's a prototype for Gen-3 synths' intelligence and neuro-copying as "Nick Valentine" was a police detective from before the war[[/note]], fundamentally humanoid but with gray skin, mechanical eyes, and chunks of his face missing to reveal wiring beneath. They're also three of the most consistently good and decent individuals you'll meet in the Wastelands. Curie is even [[spoiler:a [[{{Robosexual}} romantic option]], albeit only after being uploaded to a [[RobotGirl gynoid synth]] body and becoming [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots essentially human]].]] Codsworth and Curie appear to be Mr. Handy/Ms. Nanny robots with higher-end robot brains, as many other such robots of the same model series are less intelligent than them.
131	* Robo-Ky from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXX'', particularly in ''Accent Core Plus'', besides his ridiculously RoboSpeak vocabulary, has a very {{Jerkass}} personality, an identity complex involving Ky Kiske (whom he was based on), and quite the libido. [[spoiler:The one that shows up in ''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXrd -Revelator-'''s story mode (which is set several years later) on the other hand is shown to have a more heroic personality.]]
132	* HK-47 and T3-M4 in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', as deliberate echoes of R2 and 3PO. Of course, HK-47's "human half" is a kill-crazy psycho... Other examples are B4-D4 and T1-N1, from the Czerka office. Both are uncannily similar to 3PO and R2, except for being quite sociopathic.
133	* Blitzcrank from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is a huge steam golem who possesses free will. Blitzcrank became a very popular celebrity in the city of his creation, to the point that when he petitioned for personal autonomy he received overwhelming public support. It only took a few weeks for the government to recognize him as an independent sentient being.
134	* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'':
135	** [=GLaDOS=] has quite the personality, but her body is just a tangle of wires and computers. [[spoiler:Justified as having once been a human, with her {{brain upload\|ing}}ed.]]
136	** While most sentry guns have a limited (still makes you want to spare them) set of responses, the defective ones in ''VideoGame/Portal2'' just don't get enough time to show their personality.
137	--->'''Defective turret:''' I'm different.
138	** However, a non-defective turret in the last co-op level yells a unique and coherent statement, and they all can apparent make an opera.
139	** Some of the personality cores have a surprisingly human behavior. If they aren't chanting MadnessMantra, that is.
140	** Wheatley, despite being literally a ball, has a very developed personality.
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143	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
144	* VideoGame/MetalGear Mk. II from ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'' has a very cute, emotional personality and is capable of enjoying food, forgetting to perform tasks that it intended to do, and even having ''orgasms'' -- and looks like a scaled-down version of the [[AMechByAnyOtherName bipedal walking tank with his name]].
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147	[[folder:Webcomics]]
148	* The planet Jean in ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' is being {{terraform}}ed and overseen by half a billion robots, many of whom are running sophisticated neural nets that let them develop human-like intelligence and personalities. Enter Sawtooth Rivergrinder, the robot shaped like a giant beetle who engineers waterways for a living and cosplays as Sherlock Homes for fun.
149	* The more advanced clanks from ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' often have complex personalities, like the AxCrazy [[GeniusLoci Castle Heterodyne]] or Anevka Sturmvoraus. Agatha's 'dingbots' go so far as to be [[MadScientist Sparks]].
150	* Pretty much any of the Robots from ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''. The only known exception are [[MechanicalLifeforms the TicTocs]], which look and act like birds.
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153	[[folder:Western Animation]]
154	* Practically any robot in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', most notably main character Bender, tend toward a TinCanRobot look and are RidiculouslyHumanRobots to varying degrees.
155	%%* Rosie the Robot, the family maid from ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons''.
156	%%* C.A.R.R. from ''WesternAnimation/StrokerAndHoop''.
157	%%* Every engine, carriage, truck, and many other vehicles and machinery in ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''.
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160	!!Aversions:
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162	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
163	* Averted in ''Manga/AstroBoy'' with the eponymous RobotKid. He wouldn't make a very good ReplacementGoldfish without being able to pass, after all...
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166	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
167	* David, the android boy in ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'', looks and acts perfectly human, especially after his [[InstantAIJustAddWater ability to love gets irrevocably turned on]]. However, he doesn't act particularly ''[[CreepyChild normal]]''...
168	* Averted by Bishop in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', whom neither Ripley nor the audience would've realized was a synthetic (all right, ''artificial person'') if he hadn't [[RoboticReveal cut his finger]].
169	%%* Daryl, another android boy, from ''Film/{{DARYL}}''.
170	* Robbie the Robot in ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'' is very definitely mechanical both in form and manner -- though his polite, robotic personality is not without its charms.
171	* Tony Stark's robot helpers in the ''Film/IronManFilms'' are plain mechanical arms with no dialogue, a few sound effects, and minimal expressiveness. They get most of their character from how Stark interacts with ''them''.
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174	[[folder:Literature]]
175	* The Chee of ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' look like bipedal mechanical dogs without their holograms, but act human. Turn on the hologram, though, and no one can tell the difference, meaning they usually both look and act human except where violence is involved: they're hardwired to be unable to harm a living creature (restraining is still possible though), and the one time it happens [[spoiler:Erek]] the Chee begs for the Animorphs to get rid of the MacGuffin that allowed it because he doesn't want any other Chee to live through that.
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178	[[folder:Toys]]
179	* Exceptions in ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' include Soundwave, who talks in RoboSpeak, and Shockwave, who speaks with MachineMonotone. Both have relatively inhuman-looking faces, especially the latter, who is a CyberCyclops.
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182	[[folder:Video Games]]
183	* ''VideoGame/TwentyXX'' has a downplayed version with its two main contractors. Both of them look and act ''pretty'' human, even kicking back on the beach when you win the game, but Nina -- who could pass for a human in PoweredArmor -- is more calculating and professional, "robotic", while Ace -- who has an LED display for a face, making him look less human -- is more "human" in behaviour, being given hints of a reckless and sloppy attitude. This is made clearest looking at their rooms: Nina has her name neatly printed on a rectangular plate, while Ace has carved his name into the door in a scrawl and carved a kill tally right next to it. Averted with most of the other robots, however, which act more like furious animals than either humans ''or'' robots -- even the bosses do things like giving a RoarBeforeBeating.
184	* Comprehensively averted in ''Franchise/MegaMan'', as most of the named robots act pretty human, but ''especially'' the most human-like ones, who tend to be protagonists and major characters -- Mega Man, X and Zero are the most prominent (in that they have their own series), but Proto Man and Bass aren't exactly coldly logical themselves.
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187	[[folder:Webcomics]]
188	* Al and Sulla from ''Webcomic/OHumanStar'' both look and act completely human. Brendan's Gimel 75 butler plays it straight, though; he looks robotic but acts fairly human.
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191	[[folder:Western Animation]]
192	* The plot of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E1Rebirth Rebirth]]" involves [[RobotMe robot versions]] of Leela and [[spoiler:Fry]] being created by uploading their personalities and appearances from security footage at Planet Express. These robots are indistinguishable from the originals in looks and personality, to the point that [[TomatoInTheMirror both believe themselves to be the originals]] until injuries [[RoboticReveal reveal the gears and wires]], [[spoiler:and Fry's robot was able to live in the original's place without his friends noticing the difference]].
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