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<blockquote>"We will restore justice and bring about the dawn of a new age!" - The Mechanist's Eyebots</blockquote>The main antagonists of the ''Automatron'' DLC, although they're mostly active in the first and last thirds of the story (respectively, before ''and'' after the Rust Devils are taken care of). This consists of both the various hordes of mechanized monsters released upon the Commonwealth by the Mechanist and the "Robobrains", advanced Pre-War robots with [[Wetware CPU|human and animal brains serving as their CPUs]] that are the commanders of specific squads of the robots. Oddly, while they go around killing anything in their path, they're also followed by Eyebots talking about how the robots shouldn't be feared and how they will bring about a new era of peace and safety in the Commonwealth.
* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: With a horrifying twist. Thery ARE following their directives to do what's best for the Commonwealth, but HOW they interpreted those orders is another story: {{spoiler|They figured humans are gonna die off so easily they might as well [[Mercy Kill]] them before anything else in the Commonwealth gets to them first}}. It's still technically making the Commonwealth safer, since part of the aforementioned spoiler is making the Commonwealth more dangerous.
* [[Badass Army]]: They're surprisingly tough in a fight, ''especially'' at a lower level.
* [[Badass Automaton]]: What they all are.
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* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Alas, the Robobrains are actually ''intelligent'' when fighting against the Sole Survivor and Ada.
* [[Decapitated Army]]: Zig-Zagged.
* [[Exact Words]]: What triggers the entire conflict of the DLC.
* [[Expy]]: The Robobrains have been reworked into being loose Expies of the Daleks from [[Doctor Who|Doctor Who]].
** To be more specific, the Robobrains are (like the Daleks) robots with organic brains {{spoiler|taken from murderous psychopaths}} as their central processor with a single, cold, calculating eye mounted up front. They also move around on a tracked chassis and can't help, but look like giant salt shakers. They interpret all orders given to them as a license to kill both anyone and any''thing''. Finally, their voices are electronically synthesized. A pity the Robobrains don't ''also'' scream "EXTERMINATE!".
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: The antagonist robobrains can be charmingly polite, even as they make it clear they want you dead.
* [[Foil]]: The Robobrains are this to the Synths. Both are a synthesis of biology and machinery, and are used as soldiers by their creators. Both also engage in independent thinking in ways that their inventors never intended. However, Robobrains were implanted with human brains so as to just enhance their mechanical functions, while Synths were designed to resemble humans because the Institute wanted them to be even more efficient than humanity itself. Robobrains are also obviously robots, while the newer generations of Synths are virtually identical to humanity.
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: The Mechanist's armies are following their directives and orders a bit ''too'' well, and too literally to boot.
* [[Grew Beyond Their Programming]]: The Robobrains most certainly have - and '''not''' in good directions.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: At least the mass majority of the ones whose brains were put in robotic shells.
* [[Jerkass]]: At best, this is what most of the Robobrains are that are remotely aware.
* [[Just a Machine]]: The majority of the forces count as this. Averted with the Robobrains, who serve as commanders and thusly have more self-awareness in order to properly come up with strategies for battle.
* [[Mercy Kill]]: {{spoiler|How the Mechanist's armies interpreted their orders to help the humans of the Commonwealth}}.
* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]
* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]
* [[Mythology Gag]]
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: What the minions of the Mechanist have become. {{spoiler|To the Mechanist's credit, though, this they were not aware of and are horrified to discover.}}
* [[Shout Out]]: As seen in the various experiment logs, the vast majority of subjects reacted to {{spoiler|being forced into a robotic body}} by [[Driven to Suicide|committing suicide]]. Additionally, only the [[Humans Are Bastards|most depraved examples of humanity]] were able to {{spoiler|withstand the implantation process}}, and even then became murderous {{spoiler|without routine control measures}}. All of the above is a [[Homage]] to ''[[RoboCop|RoboCop 2]]''.
* [[Small Role, Big Impact]]
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: The Robobrains have done this by ''far'' in comparison to the versions of them seen in previous games.
* [[The Unintelligible]]: Most of the non robobrain mechs speak in mechanical noises.
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: The Robobrains seem to like using poisonous smoke grenades and [[Shock and Awe|Tesla rifles]] in combat.
* [[Wetware CPU]]: The Robobrains are a machine with a human brain in biogel as it's core.
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