What Measure Is a Non-Human?/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

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* Omnipresent in the "Buffyverse":

** Both instantiated and subverted in the episode "I Was Made to Love You" from season five of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', where, after chasing [[Robot Girl]] April for most of the episode with the intent of bringing her down, Buffy finally ends up staying with her as she slowly fades away, allowing April to "die" with dignity. Later, however, she does not show such concern for the worth of the "Buffy-bot" Spike has built for his amusement. Certainly, anyone would be [[Squick|Squicked]] over being the basis of somebody's -ahem- artificial stimulation, but the series had established that these robots are people too.

* ''[[The Tomorrow People]]'' have a barrier in their mind that keeps them from (knowingly) killing. In the second story of the original series, a captive boy says that he could kill Jedikiah by sending him into magma because Jedikiah is a robot so it doesn't count as killing.