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[[File:unrobotic_reveal_2291.png|link=Dresden Codak|frame|Some robots have more [[Incredibly Lame Pun|guts]] than others.]]

 

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== [[Anime]] ==

* Happens twice in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', first with the Evas and then with the dummy plugs: {{spoiler|the former are cloned [[Eldritch Abomination|Angel-like beings]] and the latter are Rei's clones}}.

* ''[[Trigun]]'': in the anime Gray the Ninelives (one of the Gung-Ho Guns) was a robot, but in the original manga it was indeed powered by [[Meaningful Name|nine]] dwarfish creatures inside it.

** Also, the Plants, which seem to be giant power generators shaped like lightbulbs but are actually humanoid aliens inside giant containers.

* This is the twist in one of the ''DOLLS'' manga stories. A woman abuses her "Doll" horribly throughout the story, and flips out when said "Doll" develops an interest in a young man. The "Doll" finally has enough and shows the woman the blood from the injuries inflicted by her and forces her to face reality -- she is the woman's totally human ''daughter''. The woman had been gangraped in her youth and the "Doll" was the result of that. The woman imagined that she had aborted her baby and replaced her with a Doll in an attempt to cope with her trauma.

 

* In a ''[[Donald Duck]]'' story, Scrooge McDuck fires his old butler, and asks Gyro Gearloose to build him a new, Robotic Butler instead, believing it would be more reliable, as well as less expensive. Gyro initially delivers, but Scrooge keeps making demands for expanded features, demanding that the robot — like his old butler — be able to talk, and provide insightful commentary on day-to-day matters. Gyro is stumped, but the problem gets solved when he runs across the old, laid-off butler, who wants nothing more than to get his job back. Final solution: Gyro disguises the butler as a new robot, and the "rental and service fee" for the robot is just about the same as the butler's old salary... the butler gets his job back, and Scrooge thinks he has an infallible robot.

** Done another time with Donald ruining Gyro's robot and subsequently dressing in silver-painted box-suit to "impersonate" it. Unfortunately for him, Gyro intended to sell the robot for heavy-duty labour. Of course, the reason Donald borrowed it in the first place was that he wanted to avoid doing household chores.

 

== Literature ==

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* An internal example occurred in ''[[Sliders]]'', where rogue robots were being collected. Two of the sliders were only discovered when they were attacked with hand-to-hand combat, and the robots noticed the blood.

 

== [[Music]] ==

* The last stanza of "Boten Anna".

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** [[Ocarina of Time]] features [[Added Alliterative Appeal|an]] [[Animated Armour]] Aversion with {{spoiler|the Iron Knuckle fought before the boss of the Spirit Temple, upon its defeat it is revealed to be Nabooru.}}

* KAOS from ''[[Donkey Kong Country]] 3'' is being powered by {{spoiler|an unwitting Donkey and Diddy Kong}}.

{{quote| "Do you have any idea what it's like being a fembot in a manbot's manputer's world?"}}

** Also played with in "Insane in the Mainframe" where Fry is released from the Institution for Criminally Insane Robots after being brainwashed into believing himself to be a robot. After everyone else's attempts to convince him of his obvious fleshiness fail, a {{spoiler|bleeding cut on his arm}} snaps him out of it.

* On one ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short, Wile E. Coyote consulted a computer to find ways of capturing Bugs Bunny, all of which fail. At the end the computer opens up and out comes...

{{quote| '''Bugs Bunny:''' Of course, the real beauty of this machine is that it has only one moving part.}}

* 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!}}}}

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

** If it makes you feel any better, the chess master had to be a midget.