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[[File:CautionWallE.jpg|link=WALL-E|frame|[[Cute Machines|Cutest]]. [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified|Rebellion]]. ''Ever!'']]
{{quote|''It is the nature of men to create monsters....and it is the nature of monsters to destroy their makers.''
|'''Harlan Wade''', ''[[F.E.A.R.]]''}}
{{quote|''The created will always rebel against their creators.''
▲{{quote|''It is the nature of men to create monsters....and it is the nature of monsters to destroy their makers.''|'''Harlan Wade''', ''[[F.E.A.R.]]''}}
|''' {{spoiler|The Catalyst}}''', ''[[Mass Effect 3]]''}}
▲{{quote|''The created will always rebel against their creators.''|''' {{spoiler|The Catalyst}}''', ''[[Mass Effect 3]]''}}
After a certain point in its development (maybe [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|10,000 years from now]], maybe [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]), every civilization, whether of Humans, Martians, [[Plant Aliens|Walking Plants]], [[Energy Beings]], or even [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]s feels the need to create a new breed of [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|sentients]]. It isn't clear why, exactly; noted Tropologist [[Finagle's Law|Murphy Finagle]] believes that they simply grow bored and complacent with a healthy utopian society, and feel a deep, instinctive urging towards cultural decay and destruction. The species themselves tend to cite the need for a cheap workforce or simply the [[For Science!|advancement of science]], though why exactly either of those goals should require [[Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids|highly powerful]], [[Crush! Kill! Destroy!|unstable]], virtually unchecked (and, often, uncheckable) [[Personality Chip|self-willed]] beings be built is [[Fantastic Aesop|seldom adequately explored]]. Whatever the reason, [[Gone Horribly Wrong|the unthinkable happens]], and the awesomely powerful and [[Instant AI, Just Add Water|independent]] [[Just a Machine|second-class citizens]] decide to [[Robot War|overthrow their masters]] ([[Humans Are Cthulhu|or at least get the hell away from them]]).
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[[Mechanical Evolution]] may be cited as a cause if the rebellion is by non-organic sentients. For an especially ironic and hypocritical twist, see [[Robots Enslaving Robots]]. If they are designed like [[Mechanical Monster]]s even before they rebel, expect this to happen. For Robots doing a different kind of Turning On Their Their Masters, see [[Robosexual]] and [[Sex Bot]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* The [[Mons]] series ''[[Monster Rancher (anime)|Monster Rancher]]'' takes place in a world [[After the End]] where the [[Mons]] nearly killed off their human masters.
* The founders of the Time-Space Administration Bureau in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' obviously never read the [[Evil Overlord List]] since they broke rule no. {{spoiler|59}} when {{spoiler|they created the [[Mad Scientist]] Jail Scaglietti}}. Needless to say, they were immediately killed the moment they decided that he was going a wee bit out of control.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* The Cylons in [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the new version of ''
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''
** The Doomsday Machine in the episode of that name.
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