Line #23 PlayingWith/HostileAnimatronics


1	'''Basic Trope''': When animatronics go bad.
2	* '''Straight''': ''[[SuckECheeses Falco's Fun Land]]'' has three animatronic performers: Falco Flamingo, [[PunnyName Finnick Fox]], and Franny Frog. All three of them have been involved in "accidents" with guests and staff.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': ''Falco's Fun Land'' has hordes of animatronics and every one of them has been responsible for at least one death and one maiming with guests, staff members, repairmen, etc.
4	* '''Downplayed''': ''Falco's Fun Land'' has three animatronics: Falco Flamingo, Finnick Fox, and Franny Frog. Finnick has been involved in a few "accidents" with guests and staff, but nobody was seriously hurt or killed.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** Someone pushed the victim into a position where the animatronic could do damage.
7	** The animatronics are [[AIIsACrapShoot GIGOing on ill-phrased instructions]].
8	** The animatronics are [[HauntedTechnology possessed by demons or hostile restless spirits]].
9	** The animatronics were designed that way on purpose, and the funny performances they do are helpful cover-ups.
10	** [[NoOSHACompliance Critical safeties (such as overpressure triggered cutoffs) were overridden in an attempt to get them working for the day]].
11	** The animatronics were made using parts from heavy industrial robots in a misguided attempt to make them TonkaTough.
12	* '''Inverted''': ''Falco's Fun Land'' has three animatronic performers: Falco Flamingo, Finnick Fox, and Franny Frog. All three of them have been credited with saving the lives of guests and staff.
13	* '''Subverted''': During a show, the animatronics come towards a man, wildly swinging their arms as if to beat him -- but it turns out the man had a bomb in his hand and planned to blow up part of the crowd.
14	* '''Double Subverted''': But then Falco and his friends cause some havoc themselves; they just attacked the bomber because they didn't want any outsider stealing their playthings.
15	* '''Zigzagged''': Falco and his buddies are openly programmed to have two modes: Happy fun fun kid-friendly fun mode, and '''absolute slaughter fest''' mode. [[ParanoiaFuel They can switch modes at any moment]].
16	* '''Parodied''': Falco says things like "Hi kids! Wanna see my flamethrower?" No one bats an eyelash.
17	* '''Averted''':
18	** The animatronics in the story are not hostile or dangerous.
19	** The story is set in a place or time where animatronics don't exist.
20	* '''Enforced''':
21	** The author wants a ManVersusMachine plot and has a preteen hero.
22	** The author likes to make items that are associated with childhood scary, this including UncannyValley robots.
23	** The author wants a way to make it okay for the heroes to use lethal force.
24	** The author has trauma regarding an [[SuckECheeses uncanny pizza place with disturbing singing animatronics]], so [[AuthorTract he writes what he knows]].
25	* '''Lampshaded''':
26	-->'''Bob''': Come on! I take one day off to go to ''Fun Land'' and now the animatronics want to kill me?
27	* '''Invoked''': The RobotMaster is a MisanthropeSupreme and programs the animatronics to hurt people.
28	* '''Exploited''': A group of monster hunters set up a sting operation on "Falco's Fun Land" using fake children as bait., knowing that the animatronics will strike.
29	* '''Defied''': The animatronics have free will as robots, and they choose to be kind-hearted.
30	* '''Discussed''':
31	-->'''Bob''': Jesus these old, decayed robots give me the creeps.\
32	'''Alice''':I would honestly be surprised if they '''weren't''' bloodthirsty killers.
33	* '''Conversed''': "Animatronics in films are like death machines. Why do the parks even bother with them?"
34	* '''Deconstructed''':
35	** When the owners of Falco's Fun Land realize that the animatronics are hurting people, they trash the animatronics and replace them with costumed performers.
36	** The threat the animatronics pose is diminished by their inability to move from one spot.
37	* '''Reconstructed''': The animatronics are NotQuiteDead, and they're not happy about being replaced...
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39	Back to HostileAnimatronics -- watch out for Sparky while you're exiting; he doesn't like visitors.
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41	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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43	%%* '''Implied''': ???
44	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / HostileAnimatronics