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== [[Anime]] ==

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Ur-example: ''[[Astro Boy]]'' was built to replace a grieving scientist's young son, and is equipped with a 100,000-horsepower engine, rocket feet, and ''[[Author Appeal|a machine gun that comes out of his butt]]'', among other things. Either Dr. Tenma is very strange, or his son was even stranger. [[Hand Wave|Hand-waved]] by having him simply retool an existing 'ultimate robot' model to look like his son, or claim that he will not only make his son a robot, but the 'best robot ever'.

** The 1960s series explained it by saying he was originally a military robot that the Doctor was working on, and was altered at the last minute at great haste; Tenma had rather snapped after his son's death, and didn't care beyond annoyance that he was a death machine.

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** In chapter 253, Haruna uses [[Green Lantern Ring|her Artifact]] to make a [[Mobile Suit Human]] for [[Our Ghosts Are Different|Sayo]] so Sayo can kiss Negi for a Pactio, complete with [[Flight]], [[Eye Beams]], a [[Rocket Punch]], a [[Gatling Good|gatling gun]]...

* Averted in ''[[Outlaw Star]]'' with Melfina and the numerous helper robots that Gilliam II uses around the ship. Melfina is very similar to humans with respect to her physical strength, and the helper robots can't even lift most objects unless the ship is in space. Gilliam II's helper robots are tiny; no bigger than a small rodent or so.

** Melfina is quite similar to humans in physical capability because she's a "bio-android" rather than a robot, which basically means "genetically engineered human built to a specific purpose with certain programming hardwired into their genes". Possibly her skeleton is inorganic as well but the point is her muscles are essentially human muscles.

** Melfina is quite similar to humans in physical capability because she's a "bio-android" rather than a robot, which basically means "genetically engineered human built to a specific purpose with certain programming hardwired into their genes". Possibly her skeleton is inorganic as well<ref>But most likely not - if she had artificial bones, she would have no way to make new blood cells.</ref> but the point is her muscles are essentially human muscles.

** One episode actually shows a scan of her that outright confirms this. Later in the series it's revealed that other than the modifications that allow her to interface with the Outlaw Star she's pretty much as human as anyone else, though artificially created.

* It is never really clarified whether the 'Humaritts' of ''[[Najica Blitz Tactics]]'' are robotic, cybernetic, genetically-altered, or a combination of those... but they still definitely fall under this. While some of them are stated to have been outright designed for combat - and show appropriately impressive competency at this - at least one of the humaritts encountered was designed to be a nursemaid/assistant type... capable of taking down an army of ninjas with a [[Double Weapon|Double-Bladed Sword]]. Clearly, when she says 'nappy-time', you NAP!

* ''[[Dominion Tank Police]]'': It's odd that a pair of former [[Sex Bot|sexbots]] should have super strength and military-grade targeting computers, but Anna and Uni probably have the excuse that their boss bought them the upgrades.

* Yuki Nagato from [[Haruhi Suzumiya]] is an [[Artificial Human]] built to observe. Fans describe her as the most powerful character ever made.

== [[Film]] ==