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Line 19: {{quote\|'''Police Officer''': We'll book him on the robberies and B & E, right? Anything else? '''Robin''': Yeah, murder. }} : In "Chemistry", Bruce Wayne is briefly engaged to a woman who turns out to be {{spoiler\|a plant clone created by Poison Ivy}} who he has a very real romance with. In the end he tosses his wedding ring into the water after watching the ship she is on burst into flames and sink. This is rather justified though. Bruce and many other wealthy people had been subdued by their new wedding partners through the effect of [[Love Is in the Air\|pheremones]] and the like. Once they had worn off, they realized that they had no attraction to these plant-people. : In "Heart of Steel", Batman encounters his robot double created by [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot\|Supercomputer that decided to replace all people by machines]] to its ends but he turned out to be a copy so perfect that he has even his [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]] rule. Batman is able to deduce this and when cyber-Bats thinks that he has killed him the shock causes the android [[Heel Face Turn\|to turn against his master]] (Batman's plan) and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome\|destroy it]] at the cost of his own "life". Afterward, Batman commented that cyborg's sacrifice means he could actually have a soul: {{quote\|'''Alfred''': It would appear, sir, that it would prefer to sacrifice itself rather than allow innocent lives to come to harm. Somewhat like you. '''Batman''': It seems it was more than wires and microchips after all. Could it be it had a soul, Alfred? [[Title Drop\| A soul of silicon, but a soul nonetheless]]. }} * In the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin\|aptly named]] ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' episode "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot", a highschooler orders a sentient robotic girlfriend from a roboticist. He specifies that he wants her to love him unconditionally and be 100% (aka fanatically) devoted to him. He enjoys the popularity having an attractive girlfriend brings him, and begins hitting on other girls right in front of her. This obviously makes her jealous and she becomes possessive of him to the point of attacking people who either threaten him or her claim on him. When he calls her out on this, she pleads with him saying he is the only reason she lives and that she was only doing ''exactly what he had her programmed to do.'' He proceeds to break up with her anyway, giving an insincere [[Let's Just Be Friends]]. She is so angry and heartbroken she is driven to suicide. The show treats this ending as ''humorous'' and the main characters [["Everybody Laughs" Ending\|share a laugh.]] ** More than likely, this is one reason it is illegal to build [[Ridiculously Human Robots]] in this setting. * Applied thoughtfully in ''[[The Zeta Project]]''. The title character, Zeta, is a robot who gains a conscience and decides not to kill anymore. With time, it becomes evident he's his own person, with opinions, thoughts and knowledge he was never meant to have, and he's learning from the world around him much like a child would. The problem is that the agency that created him doesn't <s>know</s> [[Just a Machine\|believe]] he's sentient now; they think he's been reprogrammed. They treat him like a dangerous weapon. Zeta's friend Ro, however, treats him as a normal human being, since she's realized he's just a sweet, harmless, very very very innocent guy.