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Line 2: Life makes life, [[Pregnancy Tropes\|as we all know]]. In other cases, [[Creating Life\|life makes artificial life]]. This trope, however, continues that cycle as those artificial lifeforms make their own artificial lifeforms. There's a variation where the artificial lifeform ([[Organic Technology\|usually]] a machine) is [~~http://en.~~[wikipedia~~.org/wiki/~~:Self-~~replicating_machine~~replicating machine\|self-replicating]], a... [[Self Replicating Machine]], if you will. It's usually the domain of [[Nanobots]] everywhere, [[Grey Goo\|which is what makes them so dangerous]]. And just when you thought [[Turned Against Their Masters]] was an exclusive Human/Robot trope, this may also lead too [[Robots Enslaving Robots]]. Line 10: Has nothing to do with a [[Recursive Reality]] or [[Recursive Fanfiction]]. {{examples~~\|Examples~~}} == [[~~Comics~~Comic Books]] ==▼ ▲== [[Comics]] == * In the ''[[Marvel Universe]]'', the [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens\|Celestials]] created the Kree, who in turn created [[The Inhumans]]. Line 20 ⟶ 19: == [[Literature]] == * The plot of ''[[~~Discworld (Literature)/~~Feet of Clay (novel)\|Feet of Clay]]'' revolves around golems creating {{spoiler\|a "king" golem. It doesn't go so well.}} * The eponymous (and autonomous) spaceships of [[Fred Saberhagen]]'s ''[[Berserker (Literature)\|Berserker]]'' series. * The Hypotheticals from Robert Charles Wilson's novels ''Spin'' and ''Axis'' are of the Von Neumann type seen below * The short Novel ''Model II'' by [[Philip K. Dick]] has a handful of US Marines find out what has been happening since they gave the deadly robots built to fight off the new URSS the capability to reproduce simply because they were so dangerous nobody wanted to work on them anymore. It's not pleasant. == [[Live -Action TV]] == * There's a ''[[Star Trek: ~~the~~The Next Generation]]'' example, when the android Data creates its own android offspring, Lal. * Cylons in ''[[Battlestar Galactica]].'' It didn't turn out well for them, either. * The imaginatively-named Replicators of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''. Line 35 ⟶ 34: == [[Web Comics]] == * A ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' strip shows a couple of scientists coming to the conclusion that we are in a simulated reality. The last panel has a pair of alien scientists celebrating that our universe broke the record for how long it took a simulated reality to moon them. * ''[[~~Freefall (Webcomic)\|~~Freefall]]'s'' Mozart Boids (robot birds) are this. * [[Stanislaw Lem]]'s "constructors" (Mortal Engines ([[Mortal Engines\|not that one]]), ''[[~~The Cyberiad (Literature)\|~~The Cyberiad]]''). * The Dingbots from ''[[Girl Genius]]'' can create other Dingbots, but each successive generation is stupider and weaker. There are only about three originals ("Queenie Dingbot", "Prime A", and "Prime B") from which the best can be made directly. * Similarly, in ''[[~~Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)\|~~Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' the [[~~Golem\|golems~~golem]]s and then robots continued manufacturing more of themselves after their creator's death. Because many of his [[Super Prototype\|initial designs]] were beyond their understanding, subsequent generations were greatly simplified. * Acibek in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]: Oracle For Hire'' created his replacement before his [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. * In ''[[Spacetrawler]]'', this is how the Mihrrgoots mastered [[Nanomachines\|nanotechnology]]. {{quote\| '''King:''' For technology we simply build robots which build smaller robots which build smaller robots... and on until they can build machinery as tiny as we need.}} == [[Western Animation]] == * The ''Multiplicity'' example is [[~~Pun~~A Worldwide Punomenon\|replicated]] in a ''[[The Simpsons (animation)\|Simpsons]]'' [[Halloween Episode]], parodying the former. * A good one from ''[[Transformers]]'' Generation One. Wheeljack creates tbe Dinobots from scratch. Years later Grimlock, leader of the Dinobots created the Technobots from scratch. Arguably all of the Transformers count since they were given life by Vector Sigma, a computer, and built by the Quintessons. Not sure if they're fully machine though. == [[Real Life]] == * The entire idea behind [[The Singularity]] is that a chain of self-replication among machines of super-human computational ability will render the world completely unrecognizable. * The entire premise behind the [~~http://en.~~[wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_machine~~:Von Neumann machine\|Von Neumann machines.]] {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Trope~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Make My Index Live]] ~~[[Category:Recursive Creators]]~~ ▲[[Category:Trope]]