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** In the episode "Inquisitor", a version of Holly in an altered timeline has no inflection to her voice. "Unauthorized entry. Intruder alert, intruder alert..."
* The archetype would have to be the Cylons from the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' or Robot B9 from ''[[Lost In]] Space''.
* Daleks in ''[[
** The Cybermen from the same series aren't as bad, but they still don't use contractions, speak unemotionally in an electronically distorted voice, and overexplain everything they do.
*** In the very first appearance of the Cybermen way back in 1966, they had ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGsXq9LU-Y4 bizARRely INflecTED SING-song voiCES]'' because it was assumed by the production team that that was how computers would actually speak. Fortunately it was quickly realised how ridiculous that sounded, and their more well-known buzzing monotone voices were introduced from their second appearance.
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* ''[[No More Heroes]]: Desperate Struggle'': {{spoiler|Dr. Letz Shake.}} "Do you remember me. Question mark."
* ''[[Dystopia (Video Game)|Dystopia]]'' plays this for laughs. The heavies are actually human cyborgs, but they use Robo Speak and make jokes related to their more robotic tendencies.
* Malco in ''[[Cave Story (Video Game)|Cave Story]]'' SPEAKS ENTIRELY IN UPPERCASE LETTERS. So do other NPC robots which aren't [[Ridiculously
* ''[[Starcraft]] II'' has damaged Dominion Adjutant and Raven speaking like this.
* While not exactly a robot, Chaos Lord Ledgermayne of ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds (Video Game)|Adventure Quest Worlds]]'', who is a being made of living magic, speaks calmly and coolly in a computerized fashion. And that's not all, it also refers to itself as "we" or as "this form". It's kind of like a magi-borg!
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