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== 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
** These were pulled wholesale from Bungee's earlier ''[[Marathon Trilogy|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.
* Used in ''[[Mass Effect (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]].}}
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* 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.
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