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* [[Dissimile]]: Fred explaining that he didn't "lose" Johnny Five. He just "[[From a Certain Point of View|misplaced]] him, y'know? Like your car keys."
** "'''''HOW ARE YOU MISPLACING A 700 POUND CAR KEY?!'''''"
* [[Do -Anything Robot]]: Let's see... Johnny has a parachute, "multi-frequency remote control" that allows him to control anything electric (within range), and a [[Swiss Army Weapon]] that extends to {{spoiler|cut through solid steel bank vault walls}}, unlock cars and unscrew their radios, and help build little toy robots.
* [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]]: Johnny, in the second movie. When he wants to push past someone (usually [[Con Man|Fred]]) he tends to toss him halfway across the room. Not to mention the trouble he gives the two police officers when they arrest him for trashing the bookstore.
{{quote| '''Johnny Five:''' ''I am NOT stolen goods!'' -slams fists on the table, yanking the police officers down- }}
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* [[Exact Time to Failure]]: Johnny Five's battery.
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Johnny during his quest for vengeance.
* [[Eye Scream]]: In this case: Robotic eye, meet axe. Ouch. See [[Family -Unfriendly Violence]].
* [[Failing a Taxi]]: Johnny launches a grapple magnet to [[Mundane Utility|capture a taxi]] for Ben.
* [[Fake Nationality]]: Fisher Stevens as Ben. Lampshaded when Newton asks where's he's from.
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'''Ben:''' Oh, them. Pittsburgh. }}
* [[False Friend]]: {{spoiler|Oscar}}. You really ought to see it coming, but he's so jolly that many viewers don't.
* [[Family -Unfriendly Violence]]: Johnny Five's {{spoiler|[[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|ridiculously graphic maiming]] at the hands of the bank robbers}}.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Johnny seems to believe this is the reason {{spoiler|Oscar tried to kill Johnny, but only locked Ben and Fred in a freezer. See [[Lock and Load Montage]] for the result.}}
* [[Fire -Forged Friends]]: Fred treats Johnny like he's his personal butler (partly because Ben kept him in the dark about Johnny's AI), then tries to sell him to some corporate bigwigs, prompting Johnny to unleash the white hot rage: "He is [[I Feel Angry|NOT]] my friend!" However, after Johnny is {{spoiler|nearly killed by Oscar's mooks}}, Fred [[Pet the Dog|scavenges the city]] for him and later [[I Owe You My Life|repairs]] him ''single-handedly''. By the end of the movie, they've become an [[Adventure Duo]].
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
** {{spoiler|Oscar's}} goons {{spoiler|destroying the No.5 replica}} early in the second film.
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{{quote| [[William Shakespeare|...If you prick us,]] [[The Merchant of Venice|do we not bleed?]]<br />
Yeah, battery fluid maybe. }}
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: All the military robots.
** In the sequel Johnny replaces his with a [[Utility Belt|Utility Pack]].
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Stephanie, and later, Johnny Five.
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* [[Genius Ditz]]: Newton Crosby and Ben, and later Number Five himself.
* [[Granola Girl]]: Stephanie. Takes in all manner of poor and homeless animals (and one sentient robot), runs a truck that she sells natural food out of, and expresses her deep displeasure with the military and their weapons.
* [[G -Rated Drug]]: Apparently, knowledge is this to a newly sentient robot. [[Played for Laughs]], of course.
{{quote| '''Number Five:''' [[Punctuated for Emphasis|Need! More! Input!]]}}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Howard Marner is hinted at undergoing one at the conclusion of the first film by {{spoiler|firing Schroeder}}.
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* [[Inkblot Test]]: Administered to Number Five by Crosby as part of a Turing test.
* [[Insane Proprietor]]: Manic Mike.
* [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]]
* [[Instant Expert]]: Number Five assimilates information at an insane speed, going through an entire dictionary within seconds. Notably, this doesn't help him learn morality; he's still got the mentality of a five-year old, just a very smart one.
* [[Jerkass]]: Stephanie's ex boyfriend from the first movie.
* [[Johnny McCoolname]]: Number Five gives himself the name "Johnny Five."
* [[Just Think of the Potential]]: When asked by a Senator about the SAINT project's origins, Crosby lets slip the fact that he intended them as a [[Sex Bot|marital aid]]. (Then again, he might've been trying to make a fool of Howard.)
* [[Law Enforcement, Inc.]]: NOVA's private military.
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: ''"Let's party."''
* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: A single bolt is all that stands between a sufficiently advanced robot and sentience.
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* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: Probably originally meant for combat mode, Johnny's back-lit red "eyes" are usually a telltale sign you've managed to tick off the normally happy-go-lucky pacifist robot.
{{quote| '''Johnny Five''': (catches crowbar midswing)'''''Bad humans!'''''}}
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Fred and Ben.
* [[Reference Overdosed]]: Johnny doesn't really know when to hold back. Then again, being as young as he is, he doesn't really have his own experiences to know anything beyond references.
* [[Ridiculously Human Robots]]: Personality-wise, not appearance-wise.
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* [[Voice Changeling]]: Johnny, like most [[The Terminator|self-aware robots from the Eighties]], can mimic anyone's voice.
* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: Newton calls out Howard Marner on this, claiming that back when they were both scientists, Howard would have realized the value of Johnny Five's sentience. Howard bluntly replies, "[[Only in It For The Money|I'm a businessman now.]] I'm not a scientist anymore."
* [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?]]: It takes a lot of convincing before the human leads will concede that Number Five is alive and not [[Just a Machine]]. This is the main moral premise of both films, leading to the end of the second movie in which Johnny is publicly declared a sentient being and made a citizen of the United States.
* [[Wild Goose Chase]]: Number 5 notices his [[Tracking Device]] and throws it into the pick up truck of an elderly couple. The soldiers in pursuit of him find the couple instead.
* [[You Are Number Six|You Are Number Five]]: He starts as just a number, but gives himself the name Johnny Five. Ben calls him "Number Johnny Five".
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