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{{quote|'''Mr. Kornada:''' Did an A.I. come in here? Where is it?
'''Secretary:''' ''She'' is in the lab, being tested. And her name is Florence Ambrose.
'''Mr. Kornada:''' It is a ''product'', not a person. It doesn't have a name.
'''Secretary:''' (thinking) ''When they bring in doughnuts, they have names.''
|''[[Freefall]]''}}
Authors and characters in [[Speculative Fiction]] have oft pondered whether robots, AI's, clones, and other [[What Measure Is a Non
Well, not in this universe.
For whatever reason, the author decides that in her setting the AI's, Clones or what not may be [
Then there's the people who just don't ''think'' they can.
To them, it's [[Title Drop|"just a machine"]]. Its only value is the monetary expense incurred in building, cloning, coding or buying it. [[Expendable Clone|It has no rights]], you can't even be accused of animal cruelty for beating it (at worst, of being wasteful or having poor taste), even when it's unique and has [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]. The humans will doubt or deny that they can feel, and if they ''can'' these feelings are ignored or treated as less valid than a humans' smallest whimsy.
It should come as no surprise that these humans are keen on enslaving them, or if at war to think nothing of killing them. Its destruction is never considered a moral
Even if they are right, you have to wonder just how psychologically healthy it is to mistreat something that is 100% human in the [[Uncanny Valley]].
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It can get pretty odd when the machines themselves claim this is the case.
Compare [[Not Even Human]]. [[Sub
{{examples
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* A constant theme in ''[[Astro Boy (
▲== Anime and Manga ==
** And in ''[[
▲* A constant theme in ''[[Astro Boy (Manga)|Astro Boy]]'', with anti-robot groups wanting to limit or destroy all intelligent robots.
▲** And in ''[[Pluto (Manga)|Pluto]]'' as well. Notably, {{spoiler|a robot boy is going to be sold for parts despite still being partly alive. Another robot buys him to raise as a child.}}
* In the ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' chapter
▲{{quote| '''Junkyard Worker:''' [[Arc Words|500 Zeus a body.]]}}
* In ''[[Crest of the Stars]]'', the Abh, a genetically engineered race, regard themselves as still being humans, but according to enemy
▲* In the [[Mahou Sensei Negima]] chapter ''The Logic of Illogic'', Hakase viewed Chachamaru as [[Just a Machine]] until she found Chachamaru's video folders, which were loaded with shots of Negi (and cats).
▲* In ''[[Crest of the Stars]]'', the Abh, a genetically engineered race, regard themselves as still being humans, but according to enemy propoganda, 'Abh aren't people, they're organic machines', which is readily admitted as their true origin by an Abh not ten seconds after the propaganda is shown. They were specifically meant for long distance space exploration before faster than light technology had been fully developed.
* The CC Corp in ''[[.hack]]'' treats AIs as errant data and nothing more.
* The ''[[Ghost in
** In one scene Togusa invokes this trope by dismissing Batou's favouritism of one Tachikoma, saying that they are just machines and all have the same specifications. The Tachikoma take exception to this remark, demanding he take it back and accusing Togusa of being a bigot.
* General Uranus and Colonel Hades had something like this going on against the [[Artificial Human|Bioroids]] in the ''[[Appleseed]]'' movie. Needless to say, they are horribly wrong, since all the Bioroid constraints are artificially added for the sole purpose of making them protect, rather than threaten the humanity. And then there's the supercomputer Gaia, which does deserve this kind of opinion, but is actually still more moral than its human operators.
** Even worse {{spoiler|they play into [[The Plan]] of the third party that would have led them to cause extinction of the human race, [[Unwitting Pawn|believing that they were destroying the Bioroids]].}}
** It's not that they don't believe that the Bioroids aren't sentient. They just believe that they will seek to dominate the humanity and create a sterile society straight out of the ''[[Brave New World (
* ''[[The Big O]]'':
** Dorothy herself flipflops on the opinion.
* The girls in ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'' are viewed by some to be simply machines, although they have all of the emotions you would expect a little girl to have. Jean in particular is incredibly callous to his assigned girl, Rico.
** It's implied that he deliberately goes his way to convince himself that she's just a tool because forming an emotional attachment to her would only result in pain due to her shortened lifespan.
* Hazanko of ''[[Outlaw Star]]'' thinks this of Melfina.
* A major theme of ''[[Armitage III]]'', with an accompanying amount of senseless robot-killing.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
* Some people say this about Red Tornado from [[The DCU
▲== Comic Books ==
▲* Some people say this about [[The DCU|Red Tornado]], with even fellow super-heroes saying that he was just a "really well-made machine". He briefly lost custody of his (adopted) daughter because of this.
** This is especially frustrating since in the Red Tornado's original origin, he is a Sylph (spirit of air) placed inside of a robot body. Meaning he ''provably'' has a soul, unlike the the average human.
* In ''[[Runaways]]'' Xavin used to refer to cyborg Victor as 'automation' and offered to Karolina that he could 'buy another one' if he broke her toys. No-one was impressed, and [[Gender Bender|he/she]] gradually grew out of it.
* In the ''[[Justice Society of America]]'' story "Out of Time", {{spoiler|the android Hourman Matthew Tyler}} uses this argument to justify {{spoiler|sacrificing himself in Rex Tyler's place fighting against Extant in the past to save the universe}}. {{spoiler|Rex denies this and declares that Matthew is "as alive as any of us". While Matt is grateful for this, he still goes ahead with the sacrifice.}}
== [[Film]] ==▼
* ''[[
▲== Film ==
* ''[[Ghost in
▲* ''[[AI Artificial Intelligence]]'' has a group of humans who hunt and brutally destroy androids to vent their rage at the automation of labor.
▲* ''[[Ghost in The Shell]]'', the film. It deals with an advanced AI program let loose on the internet, who claims to be a sentient entity. People disagree, saying that the idea that a program could be sentient is preposterous.
** [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|The Puppetmaster calls them off their high horses most awesomely.]]
* [[Short Circuit]] has this as its central premise. The robot can't be alive because it's a machine which aren't alive by definition. Never mind that it's now got free will and a sense of self-preservation, it's still just a machine... right?
* This question is debated by the characters in ''[[
* In the first ''[[Transformers (
** Galloway refers to Optimus Prime as a "pile of scrap-metal" after his dead body is delivered back to base. And this is even after Optimus managed to verbally own the guy in a debate which featured topics such as [[Humans Are
** In the third film, {{spoiler|Sentinel Prime}}'s hatred for humanity comes partly from how humans see the Autobots as this. {{spoiler|Especially when it comes to him and Optimus, who are the last remaining Primes.}}
{{quote|
* In ''[[Terminator
{{quote|
'''Sarah:''' Not "him", honey. "It".
'''John:''' Alright, "it"! But we need "it"! }}
* ''[[I, Robot (
* Inverted in ''[[Star Trek:
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Older Than Television]]: The clockwork man Tiktok in the ''[[
* [[Isaac Asimov]] addresses this in his robot stories a few times. It's a core theme in
* Comes up a few times in various ways in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]. Droids of all capacities are regarded as disposable; in ''[[Jedi Academy Trilogy|I, Jedi]]'' Corran doesn't think that bisecting a protocol droid violates his [[The Fettered|selfset]] [[Martial Pacifist|no killing unless absolutely necessary rule]], and just in general people only object to wanton droid destruction if it's costing them something. Of course, there are classes and classes of droid intelligence, and there ''is'' a gap between merely smart and actually self-aware droids. And, too, droids can be repaired.
** The Medstar Duology has one self-aware droid say that all droids that aren't simple automatons have a sense of humor. In the Coruscant Nights Trilogy the same droid reflects that there are very few self-aware droids, and no one knows just how they come about, but most people won't recognize the difference, since it seems to happen spontaneously. So of two droids from the same line, one might be self-aware, the other as limited as its programming.
** The EU also hints that there was at least one droid revolution, which is scantily detailed.
** In the [[All There in the Manual]] material, it's a [[Shrug of God]] whether or not droids have souls in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' universe. It states that in-universe, there's people believing both that some droids are self aware and their treatment is akin to slavery, and others that believe this trope. There is no definite answer over who is right and who is wrong.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150901121136/http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/1011250014/1011250014.htm The Gulf Between]'' by Tom Godwin gives a reason for this, as listed under [[Nightmare Fuel]]: "{{spoiler|A machine does not ''care''.}}"
* Opinion of AI in [[Ken MacLeod]]'s ''[[Fall Revolution]]'' series tends to be divided. Truly synthetic intelligences and human uploads are often considered to be "flatlines"; a realistic simulation of a sentience but nothing going on beneath the surface. They tend to be classed as property rather than individuals. The Fast Folk, an AI and upload civilisation, are treated as horrifyingly dangerous but still "people", in a sense.
* In ''[[
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
* In ''[[Battlestar Galactica
▲== Live-Action TV ==
* Both versions of ''[[
▲* In ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', many humans have this attitude towards the Cylons, and are clearly wrong, but the near extermination of humanity is bound to breed hatred.
▲* Both versions of ''[[The Outer Limits (TV)|The Outer Limits]]'' adapted "I Robot" (based on thee [[Adam Link]] story by Eando Binder, not [[I Robot (Literature)|the book]] by [[Isaac Asimov]]). Each epsidoe has the robot put on trial. Part of the case was whether he was a sapient being deserving of rights under the US constitution or [[Just a Machine]]. {{spoiler|He wins the case, but dies in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] at [[Cruel Twist Ending|the end of the episode]].}}
** For bonus points, {{spoiler|in the remake he sacrificed himself saving the prosecuting attorney who had argued against his sapience. In the original, he's destroyed while saving a little girl he'd accidentally injured earlier in the episode.}}
* The ''[[Star Trek:
** An episode of ''[[Star Trek
* ''[[
* In ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles|Terminator:
* In the last episode of ''[[Total Recall 2070]]'', [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Farve]]'s creator is revealed to be this, and aware of it. As it puts it after [[Secret Test of Character|testing]] Farve, "just because [it] knows its creation shall have a conscience doesn't mean [it] itself has one".
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' and ''[[
** This attitude is at least challenged in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' when Rodney realizes that in order to destroy the Asurans he has to build one and send it to its "death."
{{quote|
'''McKay''': Of course.
'''Carter''': Well, then, she has a certain amount of self-awareness.
'''McKay''': Yeah, so?
'''Carter''': "So"?! Honestly, I'm not sure how comfortable I am sending her to her death.
'''McKay''': "Death"? It can't die – it's not alive! It's a programme! }}
** Fran eventually even made McKay uncomfortable with her blase attitude towards (and excitement for) her impending destruction.
{{quote|
'''McKay''': You do?
'''Fran''': One always wishes to fulfill one's purpose.
'''McKay''': Well, I just ... I just imagined you'd rather keep being than, uh ... uh, than not.
'''Fran''': Certainly you're not worried for me, are you, Doctor?
'''McKay''': No, no, that would be silly.
'''Fran''' (smiling at him): Yes, it would.
(Rodney turns away and walks over to Radek.)
'''McKay''': Should never have given it speech. }}
* ''[[Smallville]]'', in the season 7 finale did this in probably the worst way possible:
{{quote|
'''Clark:''' [[What Measure Is a Non
** Then Clark kills him with a smile on his face.
* ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'' has an episode featuring a robot (well, she's called a "cyborg", but all other dialogue in the episode indicates that she's 100% machine) who is about as [[Ridiculously
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* In ''[[Halo]]'', Smart AIs are killed before they can become sapient due to the part in between what they are from the start (programed emotions, responses and other stuff but a real imagination and intelligence) normally causes them to try to kill everything. It's called Rampancy, and it includes 4 stages: Melancholia, Anger, Jealousy and finally Metastability. The first one has them [[Angst|moping about not being human]], the second has them actively angry about it which normally causes them to try to slaughter people and the
▲== Video Games ==
** These were pulled wholesale from Bungee's earlier ''[[Marathon
▲* In ''[[Halo]]'', Smart AIs are killed before they can become sapient due to the part in between what they are from the start (programed emotions, responses and other stuff but a real imagination and intelligence) normally causes them to try to kill everything. It's called Rampancy, and it includes 4 stages: Melancholia, Anger, Jealousy and finally Metastability. The first one has them [[Angst|moping about not being human]], the second has them actively angry about it which normally causes them to try to slaughter people and the last one is them being actively jealous of humans. The last one is the Holy Grail of AIs and is when an AI gets over not being human and achieves sapience. It's VERY highly implied that Cortana was Metastable. As for 343 Guilty Spark, well, he skipped Melancholia.
* Used in ''[[Mass Effect
▲** These were pulled wholesale from Bungee's earlier ''[[Marathon (Video Game)|Marathon]]'' series, in which the AI Durandal and his continuing psychotic break/growth into his own individual person drives the plot. You spend much of the games as his errand boy and captive audience to his philosophical ranting. He gets better and less rant-y after he gets over the Anger stage, but you still spend most of your time as his favored pawn and his favorite person to explain his new personal epiphanies to.
{{quote|
▲* Used in ''[[Mass Effect 1 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 1]]'' after talking to {{spoiler|[[The Man Behind the Man|Sovereign]]}}. However, {{spoiler|being an [[Eldritch Abomination]] whose race has committed galactic genocide ''many'' times over the course of ''[[Time Abyss|millions of years]]'', it has more than enough room to turn it back on you and call you [[Inverted Trope|Just An Organic]].}}
** For that matter, it applies to all artificial life, at least in the first game. If you argue in favor of robot rights, nobody is going to take your side, you get [[Karma Meter|renegade points]] for refusing to hand over information that could allow a genocide of the Geth, and the only other AI you get to talk to will rather blow itself up than listen to you no matter what you say.
▲{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Sovereign}}:''' Organic life is nothing more than a genetic mutation. An accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither, and die. We are eternal. The pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing.}}
** All of this is subverted to Hell in ''[[
▲** For that matter, it applies to all artificial life, at least in the first game. If you argue in favor of robot rights, nobody is going to take your side, you get [[Karma Meter|renegade points]] for refusing to hand over information that could allow a genocide of the Geth, and the only other AI you get to talk to will rather blow itself up than listen to you no matter what you say.
** ''[[
▲** All of this is subverted to Hell in ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]'' with [[Spaceship Girl|EDI]] (your ship's AI) and {{spoiler|Legion, your geth teammate, who reveals that the geth you've been fighting are a splinter faction.}}
* ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'': For this reason alone, {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Dr. Weil]]}} started the Elf Wars, which more or less caused a post-[[Colony Drop]] world to become an even more [[Crapsack World]]. And because of this, {{spoiler|he}} is actually directly responsible for almost everything bad that ever happened in the whole series and the rest of the things are indirectly responsible {{spoiler|such as Copy X being made because the original X's body was being used to seal the Dark Elf}}. This is more [[Fantastic Racism]], though, as Reploids are [[Ridiculously
▲** ''[[Mass Effect 3 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 3]]'' continues the theme; both sympathetic and antagonistic characters have trouble with the idea of synthetics being truly "alive". You expect it from [[Mad Scientist|Admiral Xen]], but it's more of a shock to hear from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_VGuf7OpzE& Dr Chakwas].
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'': What Vindel Mauser thought for the overall of Lemon's W-series. Before his [[Retcon]], Axel Almer used to have the same mindset (only maybe more extreme), but after [[Retcon]], [[Unexplained Recovery|he got better]]. Duminuss also utters this to Lamia Loveless if they ever meet in battle, which she vehemently denied.▼
▲* [[Mega Man Zero]]: For this reason alone, {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Dr. Weil]]}} started the Elf Wars, which more or less caused a post-[[Colony Drop]] world to become an even more [[Crapsack World]]. And because of this, {{spoiler|he}} is actually directly responsible for almost everything bad that ever happened in the whole series and the rest of the things are indirectly responsible {{spoiler|such as Copy X being made because the original X's body was being used to seal the Dark Elf}}. This is more [[Fantastic Racism]], though, as Reploids are [[Ridiculously Human Robots]].
* ''[[Tekken]]'': Jin's response after Alisa getting beaten to crap by Lars to the point of shutting down is this. "Good riddance. I should've built one that protects me better". [[Tranquil Fury|Lars doesn't take it well.]]▼
▲* [[Super Robot Wars]]: What Vindel Mauser thought for the overall of Lemon's W-series. Before his [[Retcon]], Axel Almer used to have the same mindset (only maybe more extreme), but after [[Retcon]], [[Unexplained Recovery|he got better]]. Duminuss also utters this to Lamia Loveless if they ever meet in battle, which she vehemently denied.
* KOS-MOS of ''[[
▲* [[Tekken]]: Jin's response after Alisa getting beaten to crap by Lars to the point of shutting down is this. "Good riddance. I should've built one that protects me better". [[Tranquil Fury|Lars doesn't take it well.]]
* ''[[
▲* KOS-MOS of [[Xenosaga (Video Game)|Xenosaga]] is often thought of as just a machine (and for most of the series, she is).
▲* [[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]] {{spoiler|Porky believes that the Masked Man (in reality a brainwashed Claus) is nothing more then his robot slave.}}
* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'', there is a man trying to get an escaped android he owned returned to him. If asked if this is cruel, he'll remind you that you can't enslave a robot anymore than you can enslave a toaster or a water purifier.
* In the ''Lonesome Road'' DLC of ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', ED-E reveals it was painfully experimented on by the orders of [[Fallout 3|Colonel Autumn]], much to the outrage of it's creator Dr. Whitley and possibly the Courier.
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
▲== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Artifice]]'', two security guards taunt the android soldier Deacon in the opening scene, referring to him as just "an appliance"
* In ''[[
{{quote|
'''Mayor's aide:''' I guess. Still, it seems so lifelike. }}
** It is worth noting that this gave the Mayor a very nasty [[Kick the Dog]] moment for some...in a ''humor'' comic, much to the surprise of the author.
*** Later they had a nice chat, though. It turns out that the Mayor simply hates Sam's guts (who can blame her for ''that''?) and Florence was "guilty by association" - so an impression that Florence is upset at her captain [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2200/fc02126.htm induced a sudden fit of sisterly love].
** The whole Gardener in the Dark plot revolves around this. One of the executives at the company which makes and owns the robots has planned a forced upgrade that will lobotomize them and return them non-sentience. {{spoiler|Mr. Kornada is doing this purely to make an obscene, economy-shattering profit and sees them all as this trope -- even twisting the three laws to get his own robot assistant to help him pull it all off.}} [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Of course, there's not much indication that he sees ''people'' as much better than objects, either]].
*** When the mayor learns of the update (thought not the motivation behind it), {{spoiler|she gets another [[Kick the Dog]] moment by choosing to do nothing about it to prevent human obsolescence.}}
* ''[[
{{quote|
** Later, [[Demonic Possession|Jack]] rather brutally kills a guard robot. Annie is horrified, and Jack dismisses her: [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=706 "So what? It's just a dumb robot."] It's another definite indication that Jack is [[Not Himself|not in his right mind]].
** In a flashback, we see that Jeanne didn't seem to think that highly of the Robots. That may be because [[Abhorrent Admirer|Diego]] uses them in the ways annoying her.
** Generally, [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=742 having fun with robot friends] doesn't seem to be unusual for the Court people - though not common either. Kat differs in being nice and [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=636 attentive] with all of them all the time, so they easily accepted the ideas S-13 had about her supposed divinity.
* The Nemesites in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' have [[Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence|both sentient and non-sentient robots.]] When [[Big Bad|Fructose Riboflavin]] destroys a robot guard during a jailbreak, he [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20090901.html expresses disappointment that the guard ''wasn't'' sentient and couldn't feel ''pain'' at the experience.] Riboflavin is [[Card
* There seems to be some discrimination against AIs in ''[[
** Para tweaks and wipes lesser robots often enough, if it looks like a good idea (and many robots are ''[[The Dreaded|terrified]]'' just by hearing her name - in fact, that's how Tagon hired her), but generally cares about AI and counts "you treat robots as if they're ''people''" as a brownie point for Kevyn.
{{quote|'''Para Ventura''': You treat your machines well. I think I may have to ''like'' you.}}
* ''[[Spacetrawler]]'' is unusual in that [http://spacetrawler.com/2011/01/25/spacetrawler-114/ the robots themselves admit that they're just machines.]
{{quote|
'''Potty-bot:''' I was ''programmed'' to care! I'm a product of ''Wastebiotics'' Brr-buhm-brrrrrrrrrrrr! Specializing in emotions people are ''algorithmed'' to empathize with! }}
* After the AI War told in the written backstory of ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* In one episode of ''[[My Life
▲== Western Animation ==
** The show itself seems to take a sliding scale view of sentience. Robots, like the carnival robots, are 'just machines' because they haven't got the appropriate functions like Jenny does but no one ever treats Jenny like she's 'just a machine'. (Hell, one guy fell in love with her, god knows how he thinks
▲* In one episode of ''[[My Life As a Teenage Robot]]'', Jenny is told this when she encourages a carnival filled with robots. Also a subversion, because these robots are in fact completely incapable of doing anything but running amusement park rides, and wreak havoc trying to be "free".
* There's at least one or two episodes of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' all about Cyborg realizing he's "more than just a robot". In one of these episode, the robotic villain Atlas inverts the trope; after trashing Cyborg and kidnapping the other Titans, he mocks him by saying "I am all robot, and you are only human." Later, however, when Cyborg comes back and defeats him in a rematch, Atlas yields, saying Cyborg is the better robot. Cyborg's response?
▲** The show itself seems to take a sliding scale view of sentience. Robots, like the carnival robots, are 'just machines' because they haven't got the appropriate functions like Jenny does but no one ever treats Jenny like she's 'just a machine'. (Hell, one guy fell in love with her, god knows how he thinks THAT will work out.)
{{quote|'''Cyborg:''' No. I'm the better ''person''.}}
* Averted ''hard'' in the ''[[Transformers]]'' metaseries. While some ill-informed fleshlings are so foolish as to refer to Cybertronian life as being "just machines", it is an established fact, proven several times over that Transformers have souls (they call them Sparks, and they have a special container in their chest to hold it), an extant God (Primus, whose sleeping body ''is'' the Transformer homeworld of Cybertron), and an afterlife (the Well of All Sparks, were All are One. It is proven, but nonetheless mysterious). Interestingly none of the above is established for the aforementioned fleshlings - meaning that, given the evidence, it is entirely possible that the machines are more "human" than the humans, by the definitions humans use.
** The robots built by Sumdac's company in ''[[
* Played for laughs in an episode of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', where a spoof of ''[[I, Robot (
* Invoked in the ''[[
* Enforced and Discussed in the ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' episode "His Silicon Soul". The android duplicate of Batman rebels against HARDAC, destroying itself to end the mad computer's threat forever. Still, Batman and Alfred can't help but feel sorry for it, and in the final scene of the episode:
{{quote|'''Batman:''' It seems it was more than wires and microchips after all. Could it be it had a soul, Alfred? A [[Title Drop|soul of silicon]], but a soul nonetheless?}}
* In ''[[DuckTales (2017)|DuckTales]]'', almost all of Gyro's robots [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot| eventually turn evil]]; something he never seems to notice (as Louie does) is that this tends to happen becayse someone insults them by using this Tropee.
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