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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: The patrons of the flesh fair cheer as machines are horribly disfigured and destroyed. But They are appalled that the operator would want to kill a child, machine or not.
* [[Eye Awaken]]: When Monica activates David's seven-word code in the trailer. Very slowly.
* [[Failsafe Failure]]: Shortly after Martin is cured, he's having a party with his friends, and the kids decide it would be a hilarious idea to test David's personal safety subroutines. [[What an Idiot!|Right next to the pool]]. They do this by gently approaching his arm with a knife, at which point he takes a death grip on Martin and begs him to "Keep me safe", which freaks out Martin, overbalancing them both into the pool and nearly drowning Martin. Granted, David is meant to mimic a child, but holy crap -- howcrap—how did the potential for this sort of thing to go wrong ''not'' come up in testing?
** David is a prototype, and laboratory tests never work out all the problems. Granted, this is a fairly major problem, but also a rather specific one (robot is threatened near a pool and the person he feels responsible for his safety just happens to be wearing a heavy and awkward exoskeleton on his legs). And again, David's a prototype. The whole movie basically is his testing period.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Of the most chillingly inhumane kind.
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* [[The Hero Dies]]: David, but he lived long enough to find his happy ending.
* [[History Marches On]]: In the movie, the World Trade Center is still standing in the ice-choked ruins of New York after two thousand years. In [[Real Life]], this movie was released only a few months before 9/11.
* [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]]: Gets a slight aversion at the end of the flesh-fair, when {{spoiler|Lord Johnson Johnson is exhorting the crowd to kill David and they turn on him instead.}}
** {{spoiler|Mainly because he looks like a little kid and he's begging for his life - the mechas never begged for their lives before.}}
** The only reason David was spared was because the crowd couldn't be convinced that he was a robot.