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[[File:megamanroll.jpg|link=Mega Man Powered Up|frame|And they're brother and sister too. Awwwww.]]
Although mechanical beings are not 'related' in any true biological sense, the concept of robots being 'family' is nevertheless a common trope in sci-fi. After all, if robots can [[Robotic Spouse|get married]], be [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|ridiculously human]], and be [[Robot Buddy|loyal friends]], it makes perfect sense that robots would [[Do Androids Dream?|develop]] their own sense of family.
How seriously this term is applied usually depends on [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|how human-like]] they are, how well characters [[Just a Machine|regard robots]], and how [[Lighter and Softer|light]] the source material is. Sometimes the robots love each other just as much as any human family. Other times it's just a technical term used by humans.
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* '''Robot family:''' In a series where robots are allowed to live amongst humans, many robots form their own real robot 'family', usually by having robot parents making or adopting their children. Sometimes the siblings will look like they're 'related' but sometimes they can be mismatched.
This trope is the most [[Incredibly Lame Pun|'family friendly']] kind of relationship that can happen between creators and fellow robots. Other kinds would be [[Thank the Maker|their creators being gods]], an empty technical term because the robots are [[Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence|barely sentient]], or the robot [[AI Is a Crapshoot|considers itself above]] such petty 'relations'.
Also compare [[Robotic Spouse]] for when a human has a romantic attachment to a robot, which can lead to a robot family when they adopt/make children. All of these types of robot family can include a [[Robot Kid]], often playing the role of "son" or "daughter".
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Astro Boy]]'': The [[Ur Example]], Astro has his sister Uran (and a brother named Cobalt in the manga) as well as his own robotic parents, not to mention his 'sibling' Atlas that was based off his blueprints/made by the same creator.
* Chii from ''[[Chobits]]'' has her sister {{spoiler|Freya}}.
* In ''[[Princess Resurrection]]'' each of the royal siblings have there own android who are also called siblings: [[
* ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' brought us the Autobot Brothers: Prowl, X-Brawn and Sideburn. Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus are also brothers.
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', [[Robot Girl|Chachamaru]] considers [[Perverse Puppet|Chachazero]] her older sister because both of them were created from Evangeline's magic. She also views all of the robots that her other creators (Chao and Hakase) made as her younger siblings. She also views her three creators as her parents.
* Machine People in the "Leijiverse" (featured in Galaxy Express 999 and many others) fall into this category; they're all transformed humans, for the most part, but sometimes we see scenes of things like in "Cosmo Warrior Zero" where robot mommies are running away from explosions holding their robot babies.
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== [[Film]] ==
* The [[Twentieth Century Fox]] movie ''[[Robots]]'' has this, most notably with a main character who has a mom and dad.
* In the movie continuity of [[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]] there are several nods to the robots having families. Optimus Prime and Megatron are implied to be brothers (whether literal or metaphorical isn't entirely made clear), the 3 Arcee bikes have been referred to as sisters by some sources, Jetfire mentions having a mother and a father (who was apparently "the first wheel"), The Fallen and the Dynasty Of Primes are all brothers and Optimus is a great descendent of one of them. Oh and The Twins, who are... [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|robot twins]].
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Data and Lore were "brothers" on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' and both acknowledged their creator Dr. Soong as their father. And later Data made an android of his own named Lal, who was his "daughter."
* In ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', {{spoiler|Kryten has a brother named Able}} and they were both created by the same woman.
* The villains of ''[[Chouriki Sentai Ohranger]]'' / ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]'' are an evil robot royal family.
* Signalman, a robot space policeman from ''[[Gekisou Sentai Carranger]]'', has a wife and son on his home planet. This ''wasn't'' carried over to his PR counterpart.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'': The next most famous example, Mega Man/Rockman, Roll, and Proto Man/Blues are all considered siblings, as it wasn't obvious from the [[Theme Naming]]. Doctor Light is usually consider to be a father to all of them.
*** Also, it was widely speculated that Dr. Light built the three in a sense that he actually wanted to have his own chidren.
*** Heck, the Robot Masters of ''1'', ''9'', and ''[[Mega Man Powered Up|Powered Up]]'' can count as well.
** ''[[Mega Man X]]'' also counts, both being a creation of Light as well as being carrying on Mega Man's 'legacy'.
** Iris and Colonel are considered brother and sister because they were supposed to be the same reploid, but were split into two. Also Techno and Midi, who shared the same CPU.
** If we're going by the '''same creator'''-type of family like Dr. Light, don't leave [[Big Bad|Dr. Wily]] out of it either. His family, however, is just as rebellious as ''he'' is. Take a look at Bass {{spoiler|and Zero}}, for starters.
*** {{spoiler|And in ''[[
** The Four Guardians in ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'' are regarded as siblings by some portions of the fandom for convenience, due to their common origin and purpose.
** In ''[[Mega Man X Command Mission]]'', Professor Gaudile is a recluse scientist who built the Force Metal Generator and Cinnamon, to whom he is an [[Overprotective Dad]], sheltering Cinnamon for most of her early life.
* In ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'', Robo and his fellow R-series robots are never actually called "brothers", but they do share a bond - or at least they [[Face Heel Turn|used to]].
* In ''[[Persona 3]]'', Aigis and {{spoiler|Metis}} are said to be sisters...
** Also, all of the anti-shadow weapons that were built with Aigis are referred to as her sisters.
* In ''[[Xenosaga]]'', MOMO's relationship with the 100-Series Realians who preceded her is also akin to sisterhood.
* The various members of the E-100 series in ''[[Sonic Adventure Series|Sonic Adventure]]'' are considered siblings. This becomes weird at the end of E-102's story, when {{spoiler|it turns out that the bird powering his body is part of the same family as the bird powering his older brother}}.
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* The plot of the ''K.O.L.M.'' series has yet to be fully explained, but the robotic protagonist regards his [[Voice with an Internet Connection]] as his "mother," and at one point says that the robots that're trying to kill him are his "brothers." {{spoiler|Subverted: In the end, he finally remembers "[[Brain Uploading|when I was made of meat]]," and in the second game his "sister" turns out to be human.}}
* The ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As Portable]]'' series has the Eltrian Gears, a.k.a, {{spoiler|Amitie and Kyrie Florian, who were created by an intelligient, bumbling scientist who accidentally overdid their personality chips and so decided to raise them as his daughters}}.
* According to ''[[Dungeons and Dragons Online]]'', [[Eberron|warforged]] often consider others from the same factory to be family of sorts.
== Webcomics ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'': Jenny has several "sisters" who are actually failed prototypes created by her inventor who have since been shut down and locked up in the basement.
* [[Transformers Generation 1|Original Transformers]] Sideswipe and Sunstreaker are considered brothers. Also, Optimus Prime and Elita One (who [[Brother-Sister Incest|are apparently romantically involved]]) consider Alpha Trion their father, as he rebuilt them from their previous civilian forms into their current states when they were damaged.
** Popular [[fanon]] states that Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp are brothers, due to their being [[Palette Swap|identical but for coloration]].
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*** Transformers in general has plenty of these. Of course, being [[Mechanical Lifeform|Mechanical Lifeforms]] as opposed to just simple robots helps. However, the Transformer life cycle is addressed on occasion, and as those tidbits add up, the Protoforms/Sparks/Matrix/Lifegiving [[MacGuffin]] stuff makes it ''extremely'' unlikely that the words "When two robots who love each other very, very much..." are involved, so how you get relatives is still a good question. [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Relatives See here for more info].
* One episode of ''[[Robotboy]]'' involved Robotboy finding out he had a prototype older brother ("Protoboy") that had to be shut down by Moshimo (their creator) after he was turned evil by Kamikazi and went [[Ax Crazy|insane]]. The episode revolves around the ever-naive Robotboy finding the deactivated Protoboy in Kamikazi's Rejects closet and turning him back on. The results aren't pretty.
** Similarly, a different episode involved Moshimo making a companion ("Robotgirl") for Robotboy. So Robotboy, Robotgirl and Protoboy are all siblings, technically.
* ''[[Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (animation)|Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot]]'' uses the "same creator" version, in that Rusty and the woman who built him have a mother/son relationship. When she explains to an older scientist that she based Rusty off his research, Rusty starts calling him "Grandpa".
* In ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'', [[Mad Scientist|T. O. Morrow]] considers his four element-controlling robots (Red Tornado, Red Inferno, Red Torpedo, and Red Volcano) to be his children, and they refer to him as "father", even though Tornado is no longer remotely loyal to him and {{spoiler|Red Volcano kills him and hijacks his world-domination plan}}. They also refer to each other as siblings.
* Skyquake and his [[Palette Swap]] twin, Dreadwing, from ''[[Transformers Prime]]'', are the closest to what can be considered robot relatives. Brothers in this case, as they share a split spark.
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