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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]'' has weapons to solve nearly any situation it can find (although it helps Mazinger is piloted by a quick-thinking [[Genius Ditz]] is able of devising new strategies -or ways to get himself out of trouble- on the fly), and throughout the series it gets upgraded equiped to combat at any enviroment. His sucessors (''[[Great Mazinger (Anime)|Great Mazinger]]'' and ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer (Anime)|UFO Robo Grendizer]]'') are similarly well-equipped. Great Mazinger has [[This Is a Drill|drilling]] [[Rocket Fist]], swords, boomerangs, heat rays, electric rays, a [[Freeze Ray]], generators of hurricane winds and MORE, and is piloted by a [[Hot -Blooded]] [[The Determinator]]. Grendizer is both a space ship and a [[Humongous Mecha]], is equipped with all kind of beams, missiles and bladed weapons and it can get attached to devices let it fight at all enviroments.
* Even among Super Robots, ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Gurren-Lagann]]'' is legendary for this, being able to create unlimited amounts of matter and energy from MANLY SPIRIT.
* ''[[Getter Robo|Shin Getter Robo]]'' rivals even ''[[Megas XLR]]'' in terms of ''do anything-ness,'' except it's rarely played for comedy. Need to stop a nuke from harming anything, destroy a bunch of ''truly'' humongous mecha, save Earth from an extinction-level event and completely terraform Mars, all in mere minutes? Shin Getter is your tool of choice! To be fair, it expended itself in the effort.
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* Amazo from DC Comics is an android that can copy any superpower of any superpowered being it comes in contact with, and thus becomes incredibly versatile and capable of doing just about anything. Considering Superman himself can do an inordinate amount of things with his array of superpowers, Amazo is a nightmare.
** Same for Marvel's Amazing Android and Super-Adaptoid.
* Almost any highly-advanced comic book robot or character in [[Powered Armor]] can do this, given enough time. A great example is the [[Legacy Character|latest version of]] [[Blue Beetle]]. His alien armor can sprout energy weapons out of his forearms, or turn his entire arms from the elbows down into energy weapons if he needs something of a higher caliber. Also saw blades, gripping claws, [[Shout -Out|a]] [[Gurren Lagann|giant drill]], and smaller extra arms when he needs to grasp more than two things at a time. He can fly by wings, by a rocket mounted on his back, or, in a heavy storm, by [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|a surfboard attached to his feet]].
* [[The Authority|The Engineer]] is this [[Up to Eleven]].
* Both versions of X-O from the Valiant/Akklaim comics were effectively this. The original X-O was an sentient alien power armor that responded to the desires and needs of its wearer and could adapt defenses and weapons in response to his needs. The second version was referred to as a multi-purpose omni-tool (and was bonded to a scientific and engineering genius,) capable of producing pretty much anything required by its partner. It was only used as a weapon/power armor because the aliens who originally possessed it used it as such and everyone else since then simply thought that was all it was for until the end of the series.
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* Kryten in ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'', to some extent. Described as "a robot designed purely to clean lavatories," he nevertheless has a translation mode, an egg whisk, a vaccuum cleaner, radio reception, the ability to display videos, eyes with split-screen, zoom and quantel modes and, in a deleted scene, a cigarette lighter. Sadly, much of this is attached to his groinal socket. This is before we've got on to abilities he's picked up as a result of breaking his programming. And it's stated in a few episodes that he's pretty clunky.
* Viki from [[Small Wonder]]
* Averted pretty hard by K-9 in ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', who had a do-anything scanner, a dinky blaster built into his nose and a printer output for a tongue, but other than that seemed pretty useless. Among his "features" were a keyboard on his back that nobody ever used, a screen on his side that never showed anything, let alone anything useful, and tiny, tiny wheels that required a perfectly smooth surface to work. Most of this was related to the cheapness and unreliability of the prop.
* Played straight by the ubiquitous sonic screwdriver, though... unless you're dealing with wood.
* ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]''. Although not a robot, Seven of Nine's nanoprobes or cyborg implants were often used to solve the crisis-of-the-week.
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** Some games also have Robo-Ky II, a [[Palette Swap]] of the original that can be configured to mimic most of the other character's attacks on his own toybox way.
* Huitzil (Phobos in Japan), of the ''[[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Darkstalkers]]'' series.
* ''[[Mega Man (Video Game)|Mega Man]]'s'' [[Cool Pet|robo-canine]] Rush has had quite a few different modes since his debut in ''[[Mega Man 3 (Video Game)|Mega Man 3]]''. He initially started off with the [[Sky Surfing|Rush Jet]], the Rush Marine, and the Rush Coil. When ''[[Mega Man 6 (Video Game)|Mega Man 6]]'' came around, he was able to [[Powered Armor|turn into two different armor suits]] [[Fusion Dance|for Mega]]: a suit for powerful punches (Power), and the other (Jet), providing a jet-powered [[Double Jump]]. ''[[Mega Man 7 (Video Game)|Mega Man 7]]'' fused the two armors of its predecessor into one. The driving game spinoff ''Battle & Chase'' has Rush turn into a car so Mega Man can go [[Go -Karting With Bowser|go karting with Wily]] (or maybe it was just a car that looks Rush, I can't recall).
* Thursday, the multi-purpose robot from ''[[Disgaea]]'', is shock full of weapons, sensors, and handy functions, plus a sassy personality and electronic voice. He was built by a kid genius, too. The Defenders of Earth are pretty much a 60's [[Raygun Gothic]] pastiche, so it fits.
* EDI in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''. Though, actually, she's a "Do-Anything AI". Try taking a drink every time Shepard says, "EDI, do something!" and she infallibly solves the current problem. ...Or better yet, don't. [[TV Tropes]] does not want to be responsible for homicides.
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