What Measure Is a Non-Human?/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

** Still, the extent of carnage and violence Tartakovsky indulged in under sole excuse of this trope is unsettling. It's not just that robots can be killed on-screen - they can be killed in ''horrifying'' ways on-screen. They are burned, dissolved in acid, disemboweled in slow-mo, cannibalised and ''devoured alive by a huge monster''. At this they sometimes clearly express emotions, namely pain and horror, and other times they look exactly like living beings right until the moment of death.

* In the penultimate episode of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', this issue became a plot point in more ways than one since the subject in question is both a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] ''and'' a clone:

'''Danny''': Fine! Destroy ghosts! But can you really take part in destroying a ''human''? }}

** Also called up in Danielle's premiere episode- Vlad became [[Moral Event Horizon|fully irredeemable]] when he treated her as less than human in the climax-