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'''Secretary:''' (thinking) ''When they bring in doughnuts, they have names.''|''[[Freefall (Webcomic)|Freefall]]''}}
Authors and characters in [[Speculative Fiction]] have oft pondered whether robots, AI's, clones, and other [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|human-like entities]] can become sapient, and if so, if they also carry a [[Our Souls Are Different|soul]]. [[Do Androids Dream?]]
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.
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It can get pretty odd when the machines themselves claim this is the case.
Compare [[Not Even Human]]. [[Sub
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** 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 (Literature)|Brave New World]]''. This is what Uranus believes, at least - Hades is just a racist.
* [[The Big O (Anime)|Roger Smith]] flip flops between believing this or [[Ridiculously
** 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.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In ''[[
* 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.}}
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'''Clark:''' [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|You're not a man]]. }}
** 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
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** 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.}}
** ''[[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].
* [[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
* [[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.
* [[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.]]
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