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{{quote| '''Leela:''' Doctor, what is 'robophobia'?<br />▼
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'''Doctor:''' It's an unreasoning dread of robots. You see, most living creatures use non-verbal signals. Body movement, eye contact, facial expressions, that sort of thing.<br />▼
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'''Leela:''' Body language!<br />▼
| preceded by = [[Doctor Who/Recap/S14/E04 The Face of Evil|"The Face of Evil"]]
| followed by = [[Doctor Who/Recap/S14/E06 The Talons of Weng Chiang|"The Talons of Weng Chiang"]]
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▲'''Doctor:''' It's an unreasoning dread of robots. You see, most living creatures use non-verbal signals. Body movement, eye contact, facial expressions, that sort of thing.
'''Doctor:''' Exactly. But while these robots are humanoid, presumably for aesthetic reasons, they give no signals. [[Uncanny Valley|It's rather like being surrounded by walking, talking dead men]]. }}
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Taren arrives and damages D84, but the robot is able to activate the Doctor's device to destroy a killer robot, knowingly sacrificing itself in the process (Dead Body #6...[[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|ish?]]). Leela releases the helium gas, causing Taren's voice to become high-pitched and squeaky, and Taren is killed by SV7 when it fails to identify his voice. The Doctor then destroys SV7 with a laser probe. The Doctor spends about 20 seconds explaining some [[Fridge Logic]] (Why didn't the Doctor's voice go all squeaky? What's going to happen to Toos and Uvanov, or hell, the entire civilization) and then enters the TARDIS. Cue credits.
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* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: It's stated by Poul that Uvanov left Zilda's brother out to die ten years before because he didn't want to waste time and money. Later, Uvanov reveals that he in fact tried to save him when he came down with robophobia and panicked. The boy's father didn't want the boy thought of as a coward and had the records altered.
* [[Androids and Detectives]]: D84 and Poul.
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* [[Everyone Is a Suspect]]
* [[Evil Gloating]]
* [[Freak-Out]]: Poul suffers a really horrible one when he finds a deactivated robot with fresh human on its fingers.
* [[Helium Speech]]
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: D84.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Taren Capel.
* [[Hollywood Science]]: the Doctor's explanation to Poul that bumblebees fly even though that's "impossible" is an urban legend which has been traced back [[wikipedia:Bumblebee#Flight|to at least 1934]] if not earlier and is based on applying equations to bumblebee flight that were known to be the wrong ones even back then.
* [[Informed Ability]]: Leela's knife 'throwing skills' only work when she doesn't try throwing a knife on screen (as it's actually a useless prop, it just clunks to the ground in front of her target).
* [[Jerkass]]: Uvanov. At first, he seems to care about little more than getting as much sand (read: money) as possible. Of course, this is before he realizes how truly screwed he is.
** [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: When he tells the story of what Happened to Zilda's brother it's clear he's haunted by the memory, and tries to keep Poul calm.
* [[Just Between You and Me]]: Subverted:
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'''Taren Capel''': Oh no Doctor. I’m going to burn out your brain. Very very slowly. }}
* [[Machine Monotone]]: Much less severe than usual for the show. The result is somewhat sing-song-y, which just makes it that much creepier.
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* [[The Speechless]]: The robots are divided between "Dums" that cannot speak and "Vocs" that can. In addition, "Super Vocs" like SV7 have advanced intelligence and command the lesser 'bots.
** [[Lampshaded]] by D84 near the end of part 3:
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* [[Spin-Off]]: [http://www.kaldorcity.com/ Magic Bullet Productions] have produced plays centered around this civilization and their robots. Russell Hunter reprised his role of Uvanov for them.
* [[Starship Luxurious]]: The mining ship is quite luxurious, despite being crewed by people desperately hoping for a good strike.
* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]
* [[Ten Little Murder Victims]]
* [["Three Laws
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: The robots themselves, with their blank expressions and creepy sing-song voices. The Doctor [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] on this: see the page quote.
* [[Undercover Cop Reveal]]
* [[The X of Y]]
* [[Your Head Asplode]]: The effect of the "final deactivator" on nearby robots.
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