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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic]](1978 TV series)|The original ''Battlestar Galactica'']]. The Cylons were originally meant to be aliens in body armor, and were rewritten as robots to appease the censors. The remake calls them Centurions, and actually, they die at the same rate as fellow "skinjobs" a.k.a. the humanoid models. A similar fate seems to be with Raiders, until {{spoiler|it is shown, through Starbuck, that they are biological beings}}. Regarding Centurions, it turns out that {{spoiler|they have a personality and some degree of authority once they are freed from restrictive modules}}. In the end, the Rebels {{spoiler|let them go off and find their own destiny, despite worries that they'll come back and try to destroy humanity. They think not, as they will most likely remember being freed and left to their own devices, rather than fighting their way out of slavery and still living with a plausible threat.}}
* About half of the time, the [[Mooks]] in ''[[Power Rangers]]'' are robots, including the Cogs (though the Putties of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Mighty Morphin]]'' were actually golems). Robot or not, however, ''Power Rangers''' mooks are almost never shown to be killed, instead teleporting away once they have been incapacitated. ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive|Operation Overdrive]]'' changes this, however, with a nearly unprecedented level of mook destruction, and at least one of the two sets of mooks are indeed alive. Quite a few Rinshi in ''[[Power Rangers Jungle Fury]]'' got reduced to purple dust, too. ''[[Power Rangers RPM|RPM]]'' goes back to having more durable grunts.) The same courtesy is seldom extended to the [[Monster of the Week]].
** In a bit of a retcon, Divatox's mooks in the ''[[Power Rangers Turbo|Turbo]]'' movie were quite clearly humanoids in fish-styled armor (we even see several of them with their faceplates off), but for the series, they've been downgraded to a non-humanoid fishlike race. The "tron" in "Piranhatron" suggests they're Mecha-Mooks, but they make squishy sounds when hit.