Rogue Drone: Difference between revisions

== Film ==

* Agent Smith in ''[[The Matrix]]'' - originally a guardian AI in a simulated reality, he becomes something akin to a computer virus.

 

 

== Literature ==

* The author of the [[Metabarons Universe]] have another series in which an accident in the police officer-cloning factory results in one clone being [[The Giant|a giant]]. He only wants to serve like the others, but the system perceives him as a threat and tries to kill him, so he ends up joining [[La Résistance]].

* Mark from the ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'' might count. He's a {{spoiler|clone of Miles}} who manages to escape his programming, and become (mostly) a good guy.

* Played interestingly in the ''[[Codex Alera]]'' with the [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Vord]], where it's one of their ''[[Hive Queens]]'' who starts developing her own personality (leading the other queens to try to kill her to prevent her from "infecting" the rest of their race). Arguably deconstructed in that she stays a villain even while developing increasingly humanlike personality traits {{spoiler|although her death scene is [[Alas, Poor Villain|surprisingly moving]].}}

* In ''Lifelode'' by [[Jo Walton]], Hanethe spent some time as part of the goddess Agdisdis, whom she spends most of the book trying to escape due to a disagreement with the remainder of the goddess that led to Hanethe thwarting Agdisdis's plan.

 

 

== Live-Action TV ==

** Unimatrix Zero is a subcollective of drones who retain their individuality and can communicate when regenerating, who are eventually severed from collective control and start a civil war within the Borg in the finale of season 6. Seven of Nine was a member of Unimatrix Zero before being freed from the collective.

 

== Video Games ==

* Nordom from ''[[Vidoegame/Planescape Torment|Planescape Torment]]''. In the [[Planescape]] [[Dungeons and Dragons]] setting, Modrons are a race of pure [[Order Versus Chaos|law]], from the pure [[Lawful Neutral]] plane of Mechanus. They're rather robotic in their behavior, but those that experience a "glitch" in their "programming" (often caused via [[Logic Bomb]]) become rogue modrons and gain some independence. The Modron share lifeforce (whenever one dies, one of each rank below is promoted to fill the chain of command and one bottom rank modron is produced) so any discovered rebels get... recycled(this seems to be handwaved in the computer version - you can talk to other modron with Nordom in tow and they won't turn hostile). The first time the player encounters Nordom, the protagonist casually refers to him as a "backwards Modron", thus accidentally giving him a name allowing him to think of himself as an individual.

* {{spoiler|The Architect}} from ''[[Dragon Age]] Awakening'' was born unable to hear the song of the Old Gods, and thus possessing free will (unlike other darkspawn). He discovers a way to make other darkspawn into [[Rogue Drones]] as well, though this...doesn't always go well.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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