Robo-Family: Difference between revisions

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Astro Boy]]'': The [[Ur Example]], Astro has his sister Uran (and a brother named Cobalt in the manga) as well as his own robotic parents, not to mention his 'sibling' Atlas that was based off his blueprints/made by the same creator.

* In ''[[Princess Resurrection]]'' each of the royal siblings have there own android who are also called siblings: [[Added Alliterative Appeal|Flandre, Francisca, Francette, Flanders and Franz]] - and probably several more.

* ''[[Transformers Robots in Disguise]]'' brought us the Autobot Brothers: Prowl, X-Brawn and Sideburn. Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus are also brothers.

* Machine People in the "Leijiverse" (featured in Galaxy Express 999 and many others) fall into this category; they're all transformed humans, for the most part, but sometimes we see scenes of things like in "Cosmo Warrior Zero" where robot mommies are running away from explosions holding their robot babies.

* Title robot Signal in ''[[Twin Signal]]'' considers Pulse to be his brother because they were created by the same man. He also considers the human little boy Nobu to be his little brother because, personality-wise, he was programmed to act that way--but he says he'd think of Nobu that way even if it ''wasn't'' in his programming.

== [[Film]] ==

* The [[Twentieth Century Fox]] movie ''[[Robots]]'' has this, most notably with a main character who has a mom and dad.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* Signalman, a robot space policeman from ''[[Gekisou Sentai Carranger]]'', has a wife and son on his home planet. This ''wasn't'' carried over to his PR counterpart.

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

*** Also, it was widely speculated that Dr. Light built the three in a sense that he actually wanted to have his own chidren.

*** Heck, the Robot Masters of ''1'', ''9'', and ''[[Mega Man Powered Up|Powered Up]]'' can count as well.

** Iris and Colonel are considered brother and sister because they were supposed to be the same reploid, but were split into two. Also Techno and Midi, who shared the same CPU.

** If we're going by the '''same creator'''-type of family like Dr. Light, don't leave [[Big Bad|Dr. Wily]] out of it either. His family, however, is just as rebellious as ''he'' is. Take a look at Bass {{spoiler|and Zero}}, for starters.

** Also, all of the anti-shadow weapons that were built with Aigis are referred to as her sisters.

* The various members of the E-100 series in ''[[Sonic Adventure Series|Sonic Adventure]]'' are considered siblings. This becomes weird at the end of E-102's story, when {{spoiler|it turns out that the bird powering his body is part of the same family as the bird powering his older brother}}.

* This can be done in [[The Sims]] of all places, particularly Sims2. Servo units are fully functional characters, just with an unusual look and weird wants/needs. They also inherit all their creator's talents. After making one Servo, the Servo can create others, easily filling a house. Since Servos are essentially immortal they will usually outlast their creators by a long shot. It's entirely possible to have a single servo and it's descendants max out the game (learning all skills et all) for you.

** The Sims 3 also has this. Any Simbot that is built will regard the person who built them as their parent. If the person who built the Simbot has any biological children, then the Simbot will regard as half-siblings. Simbots can also built their own Simbot children.

* The W-Numbers of ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]'' have varying degrees of "family" relationships. As (supposedly) the only one of the group to develop real human emotions, W17 starts to see her fellow androids as something like siblings, but only after defecting to the opposite side. As such, she's the first that their creator starts to see as a "daughter". But the closest sibling relationship between two W-Numbers is in the [[Gaiden Game]] ''[[Endless Frontier]]'', with W07 and {{spoiler|W00, who is actually an artificial human rather than an android. When his origins are first revealed, they teasingly refer to each other as "Brother Zero Zero" and "Sister Seven".}}

* According to ''[[Dungeons and Dragons Online]]'', [[Eberron|warforged]] often consider others from the same factory to be family of sorts.

 

== Webcomics ==

* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]”''-- Molly built a robot named Roofus who calls her "Mom."

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' had Jetfire and Jetstorm refer to each other as brothers. Unlike the likes of Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, an explanation is provided: they came from a single [[Our Souls Are Different|spark]] that split into two at 'birth'.

*** Transformers in general has plenty of these. Of course, being [[Mechanical Lifeform|Mechanical Lifeforms]] as opposed to just simple robots helps. However, the Transformer life cycle is addressed on occasion, and as those tidbits add up, the Protoforms/Sparks/Matrix/Lifegiving [[MacGuffin]] stuff makes it ''extremely'' unlikely that the words "When two robots who love each other very, very much..." are involved, so how you get relatives is still a good question. [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Relatives See here for more info].

* One episode of ''[[Robotboy]]'' involved Robotboy finding out he had a prototype older brother ("Protoboy") that had to be shut down by Moshimo (their creator) after he was turned evil by Kamikazi and went [[Ax Crazy|insane]]. The episode revolves around the ever-naive Robotboy finding the deactivated Protoboy in Kamikazi's Rejects closet and turning him back on. The results aren't pretty.

** Similarly, a different episode involved Moshimo making a companion ("Robotgirl") for Robotboy. So Robotboy, Robotgirl and Protoboy are all siblings, technically.

* Skyquake and his [[Palette Swap]] twin, Dreadwing, from ''[[Transformers Prime]]'', are the closest to what can be considered robot relatives. Brothers in this case, as they share a split spark.