Second Law, My Ass: Difference between revisions

 

Compare with [[AI Is a Crapshoot]], [[Crush Kill Destroy]], [[Killer Robot]] and [[Robotic Psychopath]]. See also [[Sex Bot]].

 

== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* ''[[Nextwave]]'' has Aaron Stack. Though he wasn't like that before ''Nextwave''. Aaron used to be a very nice guy, although even back then he could get very impatient with humans' failings. Then in his [[Darker and Edgier]] series ''X-51,'' he got put through all kinds of hell through no fault of his own; then got taken away by the Celestials only to be returned to Earth with no explanation other than that he'd been somehow found unfit<ref>The Celestials said he was "total ☠☠☠☠"</ref>. Since then, he's been extremely bitter and depressed, and has discovered he's capable of getting drunk.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Abel from ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'': Even though he comes from the same model as Kryten, who is logical, intelligent and usually doing the cleaning, he's addicted to Otrazone, a dangerous chemical, he lives in squalor, and he doesn't appear to have enough brain left to tell right from wrong. However, Abel turns out ultimately not to be the evil teammate: {{spoiler|He sacrifices himself to save the four regular crew members}}.

* Arguably, Vanessa from ''[[Small Wonder]]''.

* Played with in ''[[Team Knight Rider (TV)|Team Knight Rider]]:''

{{quote| '''Erica West (human):''' Shouldn't you be programmed to happily sacrifice yourselves for the team?<br />

'''Plato (robot):''' Give me a break. <br />

'''Kat (robot):''' No way! }}

* [[Robot Girl|Cameron]] in ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' will follow orders given to her by her human companions, at least until she decides that they are inconvenient or conflicting, at which point she'll do her own thing regardless of what anyone else wants. She makes it very clear that she can selectively obey or disobey the Connors as she wishes.

** It's an odd example of this trope. She generally obeys the Connors, but relatively early on she makes it clear that if orders given by the John Connor on the show conflict with directives from the future John Connor that sent her back in time, she obeys Future John's directives. What those directives actually are were never made clear on the show. Finally, we find out that some reprogrammed terminators occasionally go crazy and revert to their usual [[Crush Kill Destroy]] programming for no apparent reason. So she's Second Law compliant to one John, but not the one on the show, and no one knows exactly what orders she's following, and the possibility is open that she might stop obeying even those directives.

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