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On a more cynical level, this can be down to [[Special Effects]] budget concerns. Animating your [[Robot Buddy]] takes a lot of effort, but it's worth it to flesh out ([[Fantastic Slurs|pardon the expression]]) a main character - but why put the same work into background characters when [[Ridiculously Human Robots]] require [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|just a bit of makeup]]?
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* The last part of the ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' episode ''The Last Day'' centres on this.
* In ''[[Power Rangers SPD]],'' the robot dog RIC (Robotic Interactive Canine.) Run down and broken, with replacement parts long out of production, he was given to making any sound ''but'' dog sounds, and annoyed the Rangers until he [[Taking the Bullet|jumped into]] [[Mecha Mooks]]' fire to save Syd. Though she had been first in line to just recycle him before, now Syd couldn't bear to, and got the tech-savvy Bridge and Boom to work on him. The result is a [[Do
* An episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' featured a down-on-his-luck boxer in an age when all boxing was done by prizefighting robots. His old Mark 3 boxer-bot was no match for the new Mark 7s that littered the profession, but darn it, the Mark 3 was ''his'' robot. {{spoiler|When his robot malfunctioned, he entered the ring himself pretending to be a robot. This did not end well for him.}}
** This episode was based on a short story by Richard Matheson. The story was later loosely adapted into a film called ''[[Real Steel]]''.
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