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{{quote|'''Bender''': Admit it, you all think robots are just machines built by humans to make their lives easier.
'''Fry''': Well, aren't they?
'''Bender''': I've never made anyone's life easier, and you know it!
|''[[Futurama]]'', "Fear of a Bot Planet"}}
[["Three Laws"-Compliant|Asimov's Second Law of Robotics]] states: "''A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law [which prohibits them from harming humans via action or inaction].''" This trope is when a robot decides he is no longer required to take orders from the stupid, squishy, inefficient, ugly, foolish, arrogant, dim-witted, slow, weak, carbon-based humans just because "they made him."
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Compare with [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]], [[Crush! Kill! Destroy!]], [[Killer Robot]] and [[Robotic Psychopath]]. See also [[Sex Bot]].
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== [[Anime]]
* NB from ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]]'', Seina's [[Robot Buddy]] (and [[Author Avatar]] for the series' director, [[Names to Know in Anime|Shinichi Watanabe]]). NB frequently ditches Seina in order to roam around [[Dirty Old Man|videotaping the girls' locker rooms and peeping on his harem]].
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* ''[[Discworld]]''
** There are golems which are fairly similar to Robots and have their own version of the three laws written on their chem, the words that power them, which restrict them on what they can and cannot do except for Dorfl in the City Watch books. He has no chem anymore but continues to move and live and can do things that are could not be done by normal golems. The only reason he has yet to go [[Crush! Kill! Destroy!]] is he chooses not to.
** Mister Pump, a golem owned by the city and employed by Vetinari in ''[[
* The No-Law robot Caliban is not bound by the Second Law (Or the First or Third, either), so he will only obey an order from a human if he thinks that it serves some purpose. The fact that one of the first orders he ever received was from a drunken hick trying to get him to shoot himself probably contributed to this.
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** Only Tycho and Gabe's spouses dislike the Fruit Fucker. Gabe and Tycho have no qualms drinking the juice it makes. It even saves their lives when they are trapped in a zombie infested mall...[[Squick|by "juicing" the zombies.]]
* Leo Caesius in ''[[AH Dot Com the Series]]'' to some extent, especially after he gets infected with a virus in the episode "Leo Atrox".
* Kinesis' Computer from [[Evil Plan the Webcomic]] seems to [https://web.archive.org/web/20150915071511/http://evilplan.thewebcomic.com/comics/391044/definitive-evidence/ never] miss an [https://web.archive.org/web/20150915071615/http://evilplan.thewebcomic.com/comics/513906/wrapping-the-gift/ opportunity ] to [https://web.archive.org/web/20150915071823/http://evilplan.thewebcomic.com/comics/929713/chapter-5-page-10-two-point-oh/ stick it ] to its [https://web.archive.org/web/20150915071222/http://evilplan.thewebcomic.com/comics/964746/chapter-5-page-19-what-he-always-wanted/ creator].
* [[Star Wars|R2-D2]] as played by Pete in ''[[Darths and Droids]]''.
* [[Rob and Elliot]] had a robot with a morality dial. They met it at a party. It was unhappy being good, so he set it to evil. It thanked him. Then it punched him. Then it left.
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