Unrobotic Reveal: Difference between revisions

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Inversion of the [[Robotic Reveal]], where a machine that was assumed to be a robot turns out to hold a [[Man in The Machine]] or some other living creature powering or controlling it. A [[Mobile Suit Human]] may allow this trope to be ''preceded'' by a [[Robotic Reveal]] as a [[Red Herring]] as there's a lot of machinery to expose before the actual pilot is revealed.

== [[Anime]] ==

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* Everyone who knows the truth about the Big Guy in ''[[Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot (Animation)|Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot]]'' are careful to keep it secret from the general public, who believe the Big Guy to have a fully-functioning AI instead of simply being [[Powered Armor]]. Even Rusty, the Big Guy's sidekick, an actual AI, does not know the truth. When Legion Ex Machina build a duplicate of the Big Guy, they are shocked to discover the truth when the mechanics expect a hatch to open in the "Big Guy's" back.

* In one episode of ''[[Phantom 2040]]'', one biot turns out to be a disguised human... right after Phantom shoots her, much to his distress since he [[Mecha Mooks|never kills]]. She survives.

* Eric Cartman manages to fool not just Butters, but every adult he comes to contact with (outside of the Stotches) that he is a friendly household robot from Japan in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "AWESOME-O". No one else suspects the [[Paper Thin Disguise|cheap cardboard disguise]] until, at the very end, {{spoiler|Eric farts.}}

* Eric Cartman manages to fool not just Butters, but every adult he comes to contact with (outside of the Stotches) that he is a friendly household robot from Japan in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "AWESOME-O". No one else suspects the [[Paper-Thin Disguise|cheap cardboard disguise]] until, at the very end, {{spoiler|Eric farts.}}

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Butters:''' Hey! Robots don't fart!}}}}