The Computer Is Your Friend: Difference between revisions

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]]. [[Master Computer|Friend Computer]] started out programmed to run a city for the benefit of its residents. One apocalypse later, and...

** Are you trying to say that Friend Computer is not perfect? COMMIE MUTANT TRAITOR!

* ''[[Gamma World]]'' has this as a common villain, very often encouraged in their delusions godhood by the Cryptic Alliance [[Deus Est Machina|The Followers Of The Voice]]. There are several of these as villains in the modules including {{spoiler|the computer that runs the moonbase city in the latest edition}}

* [[G La DOS]] of ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' is this trope down to a T. She could be Friend Computer's soulmate.

** Not that she cares if she tells you her true plans.

** One of her lines during the final battle suggests that she serves a protective function... if you believe "they" exist.

** Of course, nothing [[G La DOS]] says is substantiated one way or another, not even when she's referring to the [[Silent Protagonist]] 's backstory. However, as this is in the same universe as Half-Life. THEY definitely do exist, and protection is definitely needed.

* Mother from ''[[Galerians]]'' just wants a good world for her children. Unfortunately, to get that world, she needs to destroy anything that ''isn't'' her offspring. That includes about 99.9% of the human race. Lesson for today: when you give your computer religion, pick your words ''very, very carefully''.

* OD-10 from ''[[Live a Live]]''. After being defeated, it spits out a bunch of instances of the human crew being [[Humans Are Bastards|humans]].

Will be terminated!! }}

* The Mother Brain from [[Phantasy Star II]] {{spoiler|is a subversion. She was never a friend of Algol's people to begin with; she's actually the vanguard of an [[Alien Invasion]] from [[Earth-That-Was]], and the first phase in the program was to make Algol's entire society dependent on her. Once that was completed, strategic failures in her system could annihilate Algol's popularion and provide a new world for the Earthlings to inhabit}}.