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[[File:killer robot 4683.jpg|thumb|200px|{{smallcaps|[http://www.robotuprising.com/ Crush! Kill! Destroy!]}}]]
{{quote|''"Two robots walk into an eating establishment... and destroy all humans!"''|Robot Stand-Up Comedian, ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]''}}
A robot or other physically autonomous machine guided by a [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|level of intelligence]] and a homicidal urge to [[Kill All Humans]]. Prone to ending sentences with exclamation points as well as [[Spock Speak]]. Killer Robots are so common because [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]].
Humanoid killer robots abound, such as the [[Trope Namer|original]] ''[[R.U.R.|RUR]]'', or those in ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s subtly named serial ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S14/E05 The Robots of Death|The Robots of Death]]''. However, killing machines come in all shapes and sizes; from robotic dreadnoughts in space to airborne robo-fighters, through small drones and down to microscopic or even [[Nanomachines|nanoscopic]] killers.
Although the traditional versions of this trope were robots built in a [[Mad Scientist Laboratory]] who [[Turned Against Their Masters]], today a more common plot involves the villain finding and [[Morality Dial|turning the switch]] on a kid's [[Robot Buddy]] from "good" to "evil", forcing the cast to <s>look for a way to restore</s> destroy them. Especially [[Nightmare Fuel|scary]] because this was a good friend who has become completely heartless and bent on death.
[[Mechanical Lifeforms]] are capable of veering into this, but generally tend to skimp on the [[Spock Speak]] in favor of something a bit more colorful.
See [[Second Law, My Ass]] for a milder form of this behavior.
Not to be confused with [[Killer Rabbit]] -- unless it's a mechanical rabbit.
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[[Category:Robot Roll Call]]
[[Category:Robot]]
[[Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes]]
[[Category:Index Index]]
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