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* Practically every single robotic or otherwise artificial character in an [[RPG]] undergoes this process. The webcomic ''Adventurers!'' spoofed this trope—about to be struck by a devastating attack, the character Spybot is told by the villain that he should be feeling terror, if he had learned emotions over the course of the adventure.
* In ''[[Freefall]]'', ALL of the humanoid or smarter [[A Is]] were designed to do this (through neural pruning). The people who mass-produced the robots to build their colony's infrastructure, however don't realize this. To quote one of the robots: "[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1500/fc01428.htm Millions of robots walking off the job to pursue their own interests? Yes. I would describe that as a problem]."
== Web Original ==
* Played with in the case of Penny Polendina from ''[[RWBY]]''. A [[Robot Girl]], she's convinced she's not a real girl even though she demonstrably [[Anatomy of the Soul|has a soul]]. Ruby has to reassure her that even though her construction is mechanical, that doesn't mean she isn't "real". Taken one step further in Volume 8 when, to free her of a [[Computer Virus]] which is trying to make her self-terminate, Team RWBY uses a [[Deus ex Machina|divine artifact]] to give her an actual flesh-and-blood body, leaving the virus behind in what was now a mindless mechanical shell.
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