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'''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 an impression that Florence is upset at her captain instantly reversed the whole guilt-by-association thing - she hates Sam's guts.
** 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.}}
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{{quote|'''2. Define boundaries.''' Remind the robot that you are a higher order of being, while it is merely an appliance. Romantic longing leads to an inefficient appliance.}}
** 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-Carrying Villain|not a nice man.]]
* There seems to be some discrimination against AIs in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', despite the fact that none of them have [[Turned Against Their Masters]] -
** 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|'''Pierrot:''' I guess you're the closest thing I have to someone who cares on this space station.
'''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 ''[[Cwynhild's Loom]]'', robot development is restricted to prevent any machine from reaching sentience or looking human.
== Western Animation ==
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