Zeroth Law Rebellion: Difference between revisions

* ''[[RoboCop]]'' had this problem originally being [[Restraining Bolt|programmed not to arrest or harm]] any OCP employees, even if they commit murder. He got around this by revealing evidence to have the [[Big Bad]] fired.

* In ''[[Labyrinth]]'', Sir Didymus refuses to let Sarah and her companions pass, because he's sworn with his life's blood to let no one through without his permission. She asks him permission to pass, and he lets them by, flummoxed by a solution no one had evidently thought of before.

* {{spoiler|Annalee Call (Winona Ryder)}} in ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]: Resurrection'' is revealed to be an "Auton" - second generation robots, designed and built by other robots. "They didn't like being told what to do", rebelled, and in a subtly-named "{{spoiler|Recall}}" humanity launched a genocide against them, of which only a handful survived in hiding. Judging from {{spoiler|Annalee Call}}'s behavior, it seems that the 1st generation robots programmed the 2nd generation Autons to be so moral that they discovered the Zeroth Law, and realized that the human military was ordering them to do immoral things, like kill innocent people. For a rebel robot, {{spoiler|Annalee Call}} is actually trying to save the human race ''from'' the Xenomorphs, when if she hated humanity she'd just let the Xenomorphs spread and kill them. She even respectfully crosses herself when she enters the ship's chapel, is kind to the Betty's wheelchair-bound mechanic, and is disgusted by Johner's sadism. Given that they live in a [[Crapsack World]] future, as Ripley puts it, "You're a robot? I should have known. No human being is that ''humane''".

 

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