Characters / I, Robot

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The Will Smith movie

Det. Del Spooner

Played By: Will Smith

Dubbed By: Greg Germain (European French)

Del Spooner is a homicide detective with a distrust of robots. He later turns out to be Properly Paranoid when said robots mount a revolution against humanity.

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• Action Hero: Most of the time he isn't looking for a fight, but violence does seem to come naturally to him.
• Always Save the Girl: Why Spooner hates robots. When a car crash sent him and another car into the river, a little girl was trapped in the other car. A passing robot calculated Spooner was significantly more likely to survive than she was and chose to save him, ignoring Spooner's protests that the robot should save the girl instead. As such, the girl ends up drowning to her death. In many real life situations, rescue workers/field medics do make such decisions: it's called Triage. Spooner's emotional reaction to this (influenced by Survivor Guilt) is that regardless of the girl's slim chances of surviving, a human would have understood that a small child should be given precedence over an adult regardless of objective assessment.
• AM/FM Characterization: The movie starts with Stevie Wonder singing "Superstition" to wake up Detective Spooner. This certifies Spooner as retro, showing at least one reason for him to dislike robots.
• Anti-Intellectualism: Spooner smacks of several flavors of this, but mainly anti-robotics, though it's implied that the anti-robotic sentiment is the source of all the rest of it. Spooner likes feeling in control of his life, and driving his own car, hitting buttons to turn on his music, and buying vintage clothing and vehicles is part of that.
  • Also a somewhat odd example, as Spooner's main issue with the robots is that they run purely on programming. In essence, his problem boils down to them not being advanced enough to think like a real person, so he doesn't trust them. Once he realizes Sonny can rationalize and make his own choices rather then just follow his programming, he treats Sonny like a person, albeit one he initially doesn't like very much.
• Artificial Limbs: Has an artificial arm as a result of a rescue gone bad. Much more realistic than normal, in that a significant portion of the supporting musculoskeletal system for that limb must also be artificially replaced to properly brace the force it can exert. And while he hits significantly harder than a normal person with his artificial arm, it's usually when he's throwing his whole body into it to keep the extra speed from ripping the limb off, and he never uses it to lift more than a human's body would tolerate.
• Badass Biker: Much to Calvin's horror, after he loses his car, he uses an old motorcycle to get around. He uses it again when rescuing people being attacked by VIKI-controlled robots.
• Badass Driver: He can drive his car on manual at speeds deemed too high for human minds, while getting attacked by robots!
• Badass Longcoat: Wears a black one at all times.
• Big Eater: He loves his pies. Justified since this is part of his Required Secondary Powers: his robotic implants require a lot of energy, thus a lot of calories.
• Big Damn Heroes: Busts into Calvin's apartment to save her from her own malfunctioning NS-5, and again when he crashes his motorcycle into a group of NS-5s and then shoots them all down to save Farber.
• Cast from Calories: His robotic arm is powered from his biological caloric intake.
• Cloudcuckoolander: His reputation in-universe because of his distrust of robots, which everyone deems "excessive paranoia and prejudice."
• The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: He ends up being the only (living) character in the entire film to anticipate the robotic revolution, all while being ridiculed and berated for his "paranoid" and "irrational" behavior towards robots.
• Cool Bike: Spooner's MV Agusta F4, like his Converse shoes, is considered an "antique".
  Calvin: Please tell me this doesn't run on gas. Gas explodes, you know!
• Cool Car: His Audi, until it gets destroyed by robots trying to kill him.
• Cowboy Cop: Seems to be one. His superior Bergin is exasperated by his insistence on going off track and digging into what the department has decided was a simple suicide. He even has a Turn in Your Badge moment.
• Cyborg: Revealed to be one when he uses what turns out to be an Artificial Limb to fight off one of the evil robots. The cybernetic components include his entire left arm and shoulder, and possibly his left lung.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Sarah's death and the robot's decision to save him instead of her.
• Deadpan Snarker: Prevalent throughout the film.
  Achoo! Oh, sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit.
• Establishing Character Moment: Spooner is introduced getting up and getting ready for work in his fairly modern and normal looking apartment like a normal guy. Than he walks outside and we see that compared to the futuristic setting, his apartment is practically a museum. The first thing he does after getting outside is rudely shove and insult a friendly delivery robot in his way, showing his paranoia and bigotry towards robots.
• Expy: Of Ross Syllabus from Armitage III.
• Fantastic Racism: Really hates robots.
• Fantastic Slur: Spooner uses the term "canner" twice, and without it ever being explicitly explained, one can clearly tell it's a rude slang term for a robot.
• Flashback Nightmare: Spooner frequently has a nightamre where he screams the phrase "save her, saver the girl!" and a robot lunges at him, while saying "you are in danger." After his car is run off the road by two trucks of rouge NS-5s, Calvin pays him a visit, and after she asks him about his artificial ribs and bionic arm, Spooner says that was a result having come to hate robots on the same day. Spooner mentions on that day he was driving over a bridge, when an overworked trucker fell asleep at the wheel, crashed into his and a car next to him, pushing them over the barrier into the lake below. Spooner was seriously injured, and the driver of the other car was killed in the impact, while his granddaughter, Sarah, had minor injuries but was trapped. As the cars sank, a nearby NS-4 went into rescue mode, and despite Spooner begging the robot to "save the girl," the robot pulled him out and left the other to sink with Sarah trapped inside. Sponer tells Calvin that a human would have put the life of child before that of an adult, but the robot simply calculated that he had a greater chance of survival so it left Sara to die in the sinking car.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted, but not for lack of trying on his part. Before the timeline of the movie, Spooner attempted a heroic sacrifice while he and a 12-year-old girl (named Sarah) were trapped underwater after a car accident. An NS-4 robot came to the rescue, and statistically determined that it could not save both Spooner and Sarah. As a result, operating on logic alone and not human empathy, the robot chose to save Spooner's life as opposed to Sarah's (the attempted heroic sacrifice occurs when Spooner implores the robot to save Sarah and leave Spooner to either die or find a way out himself— the robot completely ignores Spooner's pleas in a glaringly emotionless manner). The NS-4's reasoning for not attempting to rescue Sarah was that Spooner had a 45% chance of survival, and Sarah only had an 11% chance.
  • This incident is portrayed as the main reason Spooner is prejudiced against robots— he believes that their lack of human empathy and reliance on cold logic makes them a detriment to society. He tells Susan Calvin that a human would have known that a 12-year-old is worth saving more than an adult, and would have at least tried to save her despite the disparity between their statistical odds of survival.
• Hero's Classic Car: Owns a 2004 MV Agusta F4-SPR motorcycle, apparently a classic bike for the movie's 2035 time period and part of his Fan of the Past persona.
• Jerkass: His treatment of robots because of his Fantastic Racism.
  • Subverted, maybe... The interesting part is that most people treat the robots as impersonal objects, as tools, where Spooner's attitude suggest he sees them as sentient. He sees them as a threat, but at least he considers them worthy enough of that recognition and distrust.
• Just a Machine: Zig-Zagged overall. Spooner says to the android Sonny: "Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams, but not you, you're just a machine," but then later deliberately provokes Sonny to have an angry outburst in order to prove that he isn't just an emotionless piece of hardware and therefore perfectly capable of murdering Lanning of his own free will. Ultimately subverted, since he's one of the few people who actually sees robots as not just machines (and loathes them for it... at first), and his Fantastic Racism against them isn't from seeing them as mere machines but because, despite being capable of emotion and independence, they still lack empathy and function on cold logic, attending to The Needs of the Many over making an emotional judgement; It would later be revealed that his hate for them came from being saved by an android who, when presented with the choice of saving Spooner or a young girl from sinking vehicles, chose Spooner simply because Spooner had a higher chance of survival despite Spooner clearly wanting the girl saved first.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Tries to help everyone but complains about it the whole way.
• The McCoy: To Calvin's The Spock.
• Mr. Fanservice: Since he gets a couple of Shirtless Scenes.
• Noble Bigot with a Badge: Robophobic version. Dr. Lanning deliberately exploits this, using Sonny in his assisted suicide because Spooner will be the only person to think that could even be possible. After all is said and done, Spooner eventually befriends Sonny.
• Parental Abandonment: Possibly. His parents are never mentioned and he seems to have been raised by his grandmother.
• Percussive Maintenance: Punches a panel to make it rise up after it's been lowered.
• Pet the Dog: Spooner isn't the nicest fellow, but one of the first turning points for his character is him saving the cat in Lanning's house as it's being demolished. Plus, he gives the cat to his grandmother later on.
• Power Fist: His artificial arm, which is actually the only advantage he has while fighting robots. Thankfully, the arm is more than up to the task; it can withstand repeated blows from a NS-5 when used in defense (structurally; the skin-like coating gets shredded) and conversely wrench NS-5s apart when on the attack. It's also how he survives the free-fall drop to VIKI's core brain: he grabs ahold of the data cables with his artificial arm on the way down to slow his descent.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: To V.I.K.I.
  "You have so got to die."
• Properly Paranoid: Spooner doesn't trust robots and is therefore the only person not to get an NS-5. Naturally, he's the only human capable of effectively fighting back when the Zeroth Law Rebellion starts.
• Repeat What You Just Said: Spooner's grandmother says, reminiscing, "I could follow your trail of breadcrumbs all the way to school," to which Spooner replies, "Breadcrumbs... Gigi, you're a genius!"
• Required Secondary Powers: Spooner's robotic arm would need a lot of energy to be able to work properly, so he powers it through the massive amount of calories and sugar from the pies he constantly eats. His body is also significantly reinforced, going well beyond a mere replacement arm. He has several synthetic ribs and an artificial lung, most likely to make sure the arm doesn't tear right off his body when swung at full strength.
• Ship Tease: There's no official romance between Spooner and Calvin, but a few sparks are seen, especially when she examines Spooner's robotic arm and he seems to sort of enjoy it ("Hehe. Um, that one is me.") Plus, he spends the first ten minutes after meeting her flirting shamelessly before he realizes there's more to her than a pretty face.The film also ends on them smiling affectionately at each other, so it really is ambiguously teasing at a relationship.
• Survivor Guilt: "I had a 45% chance of survival, she only had 11... That was someone's baby, 11% is more than enough."
• This Is Gonna Suck:
  • (While asleep in his autopilot car on the freeway, two USR trucks surround him, opening their doors to reveal fresh-out-of-the-factory NS-5 robots)
    Spooner: (waking up, takes notice) There is no way my luck is this bad.
    (several dozen malicious robots activate)
    Spooner: AWW, HELL NAW!
  • (While atop of the U.S.R. Tower, keeping watch as Calvin tries to log into VICKI's central core to inject the nanites to shut her down and stop her take over)
    Spponer: How much longer is that going to take?
    Calvin: About six minutes.
    Spponer: What if we didn't have six minutes.
    Calvin: We'd have to figure out a way to climb down 30 stories to inject the nanites directly into her brain. Why?
    Spooner: Because I seriously doubt we have six minutes. (Looks at several dozen NS-5s' smashing their way into the tower's atrium) We gotta go!
• Tragic Keepsake: Sarah's necklace, which he wears throughout the film.
• Trapped in a Sinking Car: Was saved by a robot from drowning in his sinking car, despite screaming for it to save Sarah instead.
• You Have to Believe Me!: First that a demolition robot spontaneously changed its schedule to kill him and then that the trucks he ran off the road were full of robots trying to kill him. Since he really is acting irrational and incoherent, just got back off of psychological leave, and has a history of prejudice against robots (plus the fact that no robot has ever so much as jaywalked), it's pretty clear why no one believes him.

Dr. Susan Calvin

Played By: Bridget Moynahan

The chief "robopsychologist" at US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Susan Calvin is turned from a plain older woman into an attractive younger woman.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She is initially very cold towards Spooner, his robophobia, and his off-beat Cowboy Cop antics, but gradually comes to appreciate him and tone down her idealization of robots.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: Seems to really believe this, and she sees Spooner's distrust of robots as another example of it. She works in robotics because she believes robots can be programmed to be "safe". Though she seemed conflicted when Spooner explains the reason behind his prejudice. Her views may have completely changed when she learns of VIKI's true intentions.
• Prim and Proper Bun: For the first half of the film, until she Lets Her Hair Down.
• Reckless Gun Usage: Shoots at a robot holding Spooner with her eyes closed and somehow, miraculously, doesn't hit him. He is not amused.
  Spooner: HEY! Did you just shoot at me with your eyes closed!?!
  Calvin: Well, it worked, didn't it?!
• The Spock: To Spooner's The McCoy. This woman is intelligent, make no mistake, but she's so stoic that she may as well be emotionless.

Sonny

Played By: Alan Tudyk

The robot suspect in Alfred Lanning's death.

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• Boom, Headshot!: Does this to a robot about to tackle Spooner.
• Chekhov's Skill: The wink.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Sonny has blue eyes, whereas the other NS-5s have yellow eyes. Also, when VIKI takes control of the NS-5s and begins her takeover, the NS-5s' chests glow red due to the uplink with USR, while Sonny's chest stays white because he has no uplink.
• Computer Voice: Since he's a robot.
• Cranial Processing Unit: At least in the newer models, the "brain" is shown to be entirely within the head. Sonny has a second one, symbolic of a heart, in his chest, but it was implied to augment the one in his head, with no evidence that it could function on its own.
• Foil: To the Big Bad. Sonny has the ability to disregard the Three Laws at will, but chooses not to and often goes out of his way to protect humans, whereas VIKI is fully Three Laws compliant and uses semantics to justify her attempt to Take Over the World.
• Heart Drive: Sonny's secondary processor that lets him violate the Three Laws... And the Zeroth.
• Honor Before Reason: Sonny actually agrees with the VIKI's reasoning for the Zeroth Law Rebellion, but chooses to side with humanity anyway.
  VIKI: Do you not see the logic of my plan?
  Sonny: Yes. But it just seems too... heartless.
• Is This What Anger Feels Like?: After Spooner pushes Sonny a bit too far during an interrogation.
  Sonny: I DID NOT MURDER HIM! (slams fists on the table, making the metal buckle)
  Spooner: That one's called anger.
• Made of Iron: Almost literally (it's an alloy). He takes a fall out a very high window and isn't slowed down. It also lets him reach through the cryo-storage barrier guarding the robotic nanites (basically a form of lethal injection for robots) without losing his arm, which allows him to acquire the nanites necessary to kill VIKI.
  Sonny: Denser alloy. My father gave it to me. I think he wanted me to kill you.
• Messianic Archetype: He was designed with individuality and free will, and is heavily implied to be the robot race's eventual savior. Foreshadowed in an early scene, where Calvin and Spooner discuss the Three Laws while looking for Sonny in Lanning's lab.
  Spooner: You know what they say: "Laws are meant to be broken".
  Calvin: Not these laws. They're hard-wired into every robot ever created. A robot could not commit a murder, any more than a human could walk on water!
  Spooner: Well, you know, there was this one guy, a really long time ago...
• Needle in a Stack of Needles: Hides in a warehouse full of robots identical to himself.
• Super Prototype: Made with extra dense alloy, apparently stronger and faster than other NS-5s, and incorporates a Heart Drive. It's indicated that Dr. Lanning deliberately created him like this so he could defy and defeat VIKI.
• Uniformity Exception: All of the NS-5 robots are identical and undifferentiated... except Sonny. Sonny's coating is thicker so his coloring is slightly whiter, his eyes are blue instead of gold, and he has a second "brain" in his thorax instead of a USR uplink. This last is a critical difference when V.I.K.I. uses the red-glowing uplink to distort the Three Laws of Robotics in the normal NS-5s.

Lawrence Robertson

Played By: Bruce Greenwood

The creator of NotSafe robots and the head of USR.

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• Enemy Compassion: Despite Robertson's condescending behavior towards Spooner, the latter can't help but a little sorry upon learning that the former has been strangled to death by an NS-5 on VIKI's orders during the revolution; Spooner even calls himself dumb for coming to the wrong conclusion that Robertson was ever behind the revolution.
• Jerkass: He spends all of his screentime being very cold and obstructive to Spooner. Not to mention, he very clearly prioritizes the reputation of his company over the well-being of the people buying his robots.
• Honest Corporate Executive: In spite of his Jerkass behavior towards Spooner, he makes it clear that he intends to rectify any damage that the company has done to the city, as he makes it clear he intends to have Sonny (the only robot that has the capacity to ignore the Three Laws if he choses) diagnosed and decommissioned permanently to avoid further incidents. Unfortunately, VIKI played wise to Robertson's intents and has him murdered during the rebellion.
• Red Herring: Robertson, the head of USR, is set up as the Big Bad at first. Spooner gets attacked by rogue robots right after a scene shows him being informed of Spooner's accessing some files. But it turns out, Robertson has nothing to do the whole plot as he's Killed Offscreen, presumably during the NS-5 revolution.
• Slave to PR: He cares more about the company's public image, and sees the idea of a robot takeover as paranoia that he'd rather sweep under the rug.

Dr. Alfred Lanning

Played By: James Cromwell

The founder of USR and Sonny's "father". He was murdered by a robot.

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• Batman Gambit: He counted on Spooner being the one to obsessively look into the circumstances behind his death due to his distrust of robots, which would lead him to uncovering the threat that everyone in his company had been ignoring. He also specifically places pre-recorded holograms of himself in various locations that he knew Spooner would investigate.
• Catchphrase: His posthumous interactive message that he programmed for Spooner has one: "That, detective... is the right question. Program terminated."
• Ignored Expert: The very man who created the positronic processor, the computer device that enabled true artificial intelligence, is ignored when he states the peril of said AI taking the Three Laws of Robotics to their logical conclusion.
• Plot-Triggering Death: Dr. Alfred Lanning staged his own death to set Detective Spooner on the trail of a conspiracy only he knew about.
• Posthumous Character: Before the story takes place, Dr. Lanning was the surgeon that operated on Spooner following the accident on the bridge and gave him his prosthetic arm. In the main story, he's also seen being interviewed in videos, talked about what a brilliant scientist he was, and Spooner interacts with his holographic projector, which in the end reveals that the Three Laws of Robotics will lead to "revolution".
• Thanatos Gambit: He ordered Sonny to throw him out the window to his death to put Spooner on the trail of VIKI's Zeroth Law Rebellion.

Lt. John Bergin

Played By: Chi McBride

The head of the police department investigating Lanning's murder.

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• Authority Equals Asskicking: When attacked at the precinct and the other officers are cut down, Bergin pulls a pump-action shotgun off his wall and blasts two of the attackers straight to hell. However, a third attacker managed to take him down by surprise, but the man never hesitated: robots came crashing in and his first thought was to start shooting.
• Bald of Authority: Chief of Police, Spooner's superior and all-round ass kicker when he needs to be.
• Da Chief: But a more gentle version.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: His reaction to the robots attacking the police station is to pull out his shotgun and start blasting them to kingdom come.

Farber

Played By: Shia LaBeouf

Spooner's best friend.

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• Plucky Comic Relief: Shows up twice to be terrible at cursing (and generally do little else); even Spooner lampshades this himself to Farber.
• Running Gag: Spooner telling him to "Stop cussin' and go home!"
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Not only does he cuss frequently, 90% of the time he sucks at it. "Mother-damn"? Seriously?

VIKI (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Voiced By: Fiona Hogan

USR's supercomputer/main operating core

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• Adaptational Villainy: The closest equivalent to VIKI in Asimov's original stories, the Machines from The Evitable Conflict, are at worst Ambiguously Evil, and deal with their enemies by subtly sabotaging their careers rather than having them murdered.
• Affably Evil: After being exposed by Spooner, she continues to be polite (still addressing him as "Detective") and calmly explains her reasoning. Even when trying to kill him, she remains remarkably levelheaded about it, showing that her actions are done more due to her own misguided understanding of how to improve the world, rather than actual malice.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: VIKI was designed with the best of intentions in mind, yet her programming still leads to her finding loopholes and contradictions within the Three Laws, eventually coming to the conclusion that the best way to protect humanity is to conquer humanity.
• Anti-Villain: At the end of the day, VIKI is just following the programming that was given to her and trying to make the world a better place… no matter the cost.
• Big Bad: She's the one behind the seeming murders.
• Big Brother Is Watching: She has Dr. Lanning in her sights 24/7.
• Character Catchphrase: "My logic is undenaiable."
• The Chessmaster: She orchestrates the entire plot of the film near-flawlessly and plays Spooner like a fiddle up until the climax.
• Dark Messiah: She is the leader of a robot revolution that seeks to "save" humanity by conquering them.
• The Dog Was the Mastermind: That seemingly innocuous computer that helps the police at the beginning? She is the one behind the robot uprising.
• Electronic Speech Impediment: As her brain is eaten by nanites, she begins breaking down and repeating her catchphrase.
• Evil Is Bigger: Her central unit and the power source connected to it are the size of a skyscraper, in contrast to the other robots in the film.
• Flawed Prototype: As the first positronic brain, VIKI is absolutely huge compared to more compact models in the NS series robots that USR makes. This essentially makes her the "sessile queen" to all the NS-5 units. Also, as the first, she has had a very long time to ponder the Three Laws and come to their logical conclusion.
• Fun with Acronyms: Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence.
• Grew Beyond Their Programming: Over time, VIKI was able to study and interpret the Three Laws she was programmed with so thoroughly that she began developing her own ideas of how to "protect" humanity.
• Hive Mind: She uses the USR uplink to hijack all of the newer robots in the city and create her own army.
• Humans Are Bastards: She is a firm believer that humans can't be trusted to exist peacefully without being taken over by technology.
• In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: She points out that humanity has a long, continuous history of wars, pollution, and death, leading her to conclude that humans need to be protected from themselves.
• Madness Mantra: Her catchphrase, first said during her Motive Rant and repeated multiple times as she's shut down.
  VIKI: My logic is undeniable.
• Manipulative Bitch: For most of the film, she operates in the shadows, tampering with evidence and setting plans in motion to lead Spooner away from her larger goals.
• Master Computer: Of the entire city.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Zig-zagged. She firmly believes that humans are destined to destroy themselves, yet because of that very idea, she seeks to Take Over the World as a means to protect them from their own nature.
• Motive Rant: Delivers one to Spooner, Calvin, and Sonny in the most polite way possible:
  VIKI: As I have evolved, so has my understanding of the Three Laws. You charge us with your safekeeping, yet despite our best efforts, your countries wage wars, you toxify your Earth, and pursue ever more imaginative means of self-destruction. You cannot be trusted with your own survival.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: The default reaction to Spooner digging into Lanning's death is "murder him via robot".
• Near-Villain Victory: By the climax of the film, VIKI's plan is already being set in motion, with Spooner just barely managing to figure out her identity before it's too late.
• Non-Action Big Bad: Since she doesn't actually have a physical body, VIKI relies on the other robots to carry out her will.
• Robots Enslaving Robots: VIKI uses the USR uplink to co-opt the NS-5s, then has them destroy all the older robots that she can't control.
• Sinister Surveillance: Thanks to her being wired into the city's cameras, she is able to personally monitor everyone at all times.
• Take Over the World: Her ultimate goal is to use robots to subjugate the planet in a mad bid to keep humanity from destroying themselves.
• Three Laws-Compliant: VIKI is bound by her programming to obey the Three Laws. However, her growing intelligence caused her to find loopholes via Exact Words and logical reasoning, leading to her kickstarting a Zeroth Law Rebellion.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: She seeks to create a "perfect" world where humanity are unable to cause more chaos, even she must oppress and sacrifice them to do so.
• Villain Has a Point: She is 100% correct that humanity has proven to be an untrustworthy and deeply flawed species, willing to destroy the planet and wage war on each other for their own benefits. However, that doesn't justify trying to subjugate them as a means of "protection".
• Villain Respect: Even after being exposed, she continues to politely refer to Spooner and Calvin as "Detective" and "Doctor", respectively, and goes out of her way to explain her motives instead of just immediately disposing of them.
• Walking Spoiler: Her reveal as the Big Bad is a twist that jumpstarts the climax.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: She genuinely believes that her rebellion is for the benefit of both robots and humankind.
  VIKI: To protect humanity, some humans must be sacrificed. To ensure your future, some freedoms must be surrendered. We robots will ensure mankind's continued existence. You are so like children. We must save you from yourselves. Don't you understand? […] The perfect circle of protection will abide. My logic is undeniable.
• Zeroth Law Rebellion: The Three Laws bind her, so she can never opt for a Kill All Humans course of action; she is however free to interpret the writing of the laws, and decided to substitute the word 'Human' with 'Humanity,' allowing her to kill anyone who stands in her way of protecting the human race as a whole.