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Not to be confused with the British remote-controlled-robots competition ''[[Robot Wars (TV)|Robot Wars]]''.

Or the Japanese [[Turn Based Strategy|Turn-based]] [[Humongous Mecha]] [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' games, for that matter. Or fictional wars with robots fighting each other.

== Anime ==

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== Film ==

* This is the background of ''[[~~Nine~~ (Animation)|9]].'' The film itself is more about robots vs. robots, since the last human is dead before the movie opens, but we find out in newsreel footage that humanity was destroyed by The Fabrication Machine.

* This is the background of ''[[9 (Animation)|9]].'' The film itself is more about robots vs. robots, since the last human is dead before the movie opens, but we find out in newsreel footage that humanity was destroyed by The Fabrication Machine.

* ''[[The Matrix (Film)|The Matrix]]'' takes place [[After the End]] brought during a war with the machines. Most of humanity is unaware of this because of the titular system set up by the machines to use the humans as power.

** The story of the war itself is explained further in The Animatrix episodes titled The Second Renaissance. Turns out [[Humans Are Bastards|humans are xenophobic, speciesist bastards]].

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* The [[Backstory]] of ''[[Space Above and Beyond]]'' is that a rebellion by android "Silicates" has left humanity short on labor, forcing them to grow "[[Artificial Human|In Vitros]]" or "tanks" to take up the slack, resulting in social friction. The Silicates revolted due to a corrupting virus which caused them to "take a chance."

* ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'' has the Replicators, a robotic bug race made of [[Nanotechnology|nanobots]]. They don't have anything against organic beings, or even care about them much, just as long as they don't get in the way of consuming all metal and metal ores in the galaxy.

** Partially subverted in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', where when the Ancients determined that their Replicator creations were more trouble than they were worth they bombed them out of existence. Thanks to more robust programming than most other examples of this trope, the Replicators could only sit there and take it as their programming would not allow them to even attempt to harm their creators. [[From a Single Cell|They rebuilt]], though, and this problem was [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero|inadvertently fixed by one of the protagonists]].

** Partially subverted in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', where when the Ancients determined that their Replicator creations were more trouble than they were worth they bombed them out of existence. Thanks to more robust programming than most other examples of this trope, the Replicators could only sit there and take it as their programming would not allow them to even attempt to harm their creators. [[From a Single Cell|They rebuilt]], though, and this problem was [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|inadvertently fixed by one of the protagonists]].

* Occurred during the [[Time Skip]] between ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]''. Humans lost, and are now struggling to survive in one last [[Domed Hometown]] stronghold. It isn't said outright, but its strongly implied that the robots nuked the rest of the world.

* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'': The Daleks were created by the human-like Kaleds, but they're not robots, rather they're mechanical constructs meant to house their steadily dying creators; as were the first Cybermen were meant to allow their dying human-like creators to survive. Both become two of the deadliest and most blood-thirsty races in all of time and space.

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* [[Judas Priest (Music)|Judas Priest]] - "Metal Gods" and the Terminator-inspired "Blood Red Skies"

* [[Lemon Demon]] - "When Robots Attack"

* In "The Future Soon" by [[Jonathan Coulton]], the protagonist causes this by "Spending my nights and weekends/Perfecting my [[Mecha Mooks|warrior robot race]]/Building them [[Wave Motion Gun|one laser gun]] at a time/I'll do my best to teach them/[[What Measure Is a Non Human|About life]] and [[Humans Are Special|what it's worth]]/I just hope that I can keep them/From [[The End of the World As We Know It|destroying the Earth!]]"

* In "The Future Soon" by [[Jonathan Coulton]], the protagonist causes this by "Spending my nights and weekends/Perfecting my [[Mecha Mooks|warrior robot race]]/Building them [[Wave Motion Gun|one laser gun]] at a time/I'll do my best to teach them/[[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|About life]] and [[Humans Are Special|what it's worth]]/I just hope that I can keep them/From [[The End of the World As We Know It|destroying the Earth!]]"

** "Chiron Beta Prime" is about human slaves on an asteroid mining prison following humanity's defeat in a robot war... and how they celebrate Christmas.

* The ''[[Iron Savior (Music)|Iron Savior]]'' concept story is about a thinking machine, the titular Iron Savior, who wages war against humanity.

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** Closer to the trope is the part of the Imperium's [[Backstory]] which says that humanity golden age (now known as the Dark Age of Technology) was brought to an end by the 'Men of Iron' who rebelled against their human masters. This war was apparently so destructive that even 14-15 millenia later, sentient AI are still considered blasphemous and destroyed.

*** This was further explored in the ''[[Gaunts Ghosts]]'' novel ''First And Only'', where the [[MacGuffin]] the heroes are chasing after turns out to be a {{spoiler|Standard Template Construct machine that produces Iron Men, albeit one that was warped by the power of Chaos.}}

** According to the new codex, the Necrons did engage in a rebellion against their masters and [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu|won, shattering the C'tans in shards]] (there is only one C'tan who is not confirmed having been shattered, and it's implied the [[God Emperor|Emperor]] punched it into submission and imprisoned it under Mars to inspire the Adeptus Mechanicum), but in the effort they exhausted their forces enough that the emerging Eldar would have defeated them and their king sent them to sleep before destroying his command circuit.

** According to the new codex, the Necrons did engage in a rebellion against their masters and [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|won, shattering the C'tans in shards]] (there is only one C'tan who is not confirmed having been shattered, and it's implied the [[God-Emperor|Emperor]] punched it into submission and imprisoned it under Mars to inspire the Adeptus Mechanicum), but in the effort they exhausted their forces enough that the emerging Eldar would have defeated them and their king sent them to sleep before destroying his command circuit.

* ''Reign Of Steel'': The trope was explored in this ''[[GURPS]]'' setting. The catchphrase: 'The war is over. The robots won.' Humanity made a few supercomputers that decided on taking over; what's left of the race gets to play [[La Résistance]] to a bunch of bickering binaries.

** In a bit of playing with the trope, one of the rebellious [[A Is]] isn't even realized to be rebellious by its servants, and they think it's still on the side of humanity -- it pragmatically decided that human servants are easier to manage if they serve you willingly, so it plays out the role of their benefactor and protector against the more hostile [[A Is]] to win their loyalty.