Robot Girl Narrator

Basic Trope: Attractive artificial or cybernetic women. Straight: AL1C3 is a sexy cute gynoid. Exaggerated: AL1C3 is effectively a Humongous Mecha and yet also the most beautiful lady around. Ridiculously Human Robot Downplayed: AL1C3 is an artificial cyborg. Fembot AL1C3 have some cute humanoid features but is otherwise clearly robotic and would never be able to pass as human. Justified: AL1C3 was built to be a Ninja. AL1C3 was created as a robot copy of Princess Alice to be offered as the Standard Hero Reward instead of Alice herself. AL1C3 was made by Trope Co. in order to exploit Sex Sells. Alice, now AL1C3, was formerly a supermodel before becoming a cyborg. AL1C3 is a Replacement Goldfish of the attractive Alice. AL1C3's female shell was a last-minute decision in order to release the robotic entity earlier than intended. AL1C3 is a cybernetics model. AL1C3 was built for a job that involves a lot of human interactions, such as old age care or companionship, and thus a non-threatening human design is right for the job. AL1C3 is the A100000 for the new Alice in Wonderland ride opening in 2055. Inverted: Alice is a horrifying naturally born woman. Alice is a Slime Girl. Gender Inverted Robot Boy: AL3X is an android modelled after a pretty hunky guy, perhaps a Bishōnen. Subverted: AL1C3 is actually just a Robot Girl fan who indulges in a made-up persona. Double Subverted: ...Until she's forced to become a full-body cyborg. Parodied: ??? Zig Zagged: AL1C3 is just a fangirl with a Robot Girl persona, until forced to become one for real. However, she eventually returns to organic life, but comes to miss some of her roboticness. Thus AL1C3 becomes a sexy cute cyborg, but even then... Averted: Robots either don't exist or nobody uses the technology to make attractive women. Enforced: "Too many feminists are complaining about the show, but the whole point is that there are no women. Hmm, why not introduce robot girls?" Lampshaded: "It's bad enough you design a killbot, but why the hell does it have to have such a huge rack too?!" Invoked: Bob, fed up with dating, constructs AL1C3 to have a sweet and pure girl to romance instead. Exploited: Evulz has AL1C3 use her sex appeal to completely disarm her targets before assassinating them. Defied: Bob refuses to use his revolutionary technology to make sexy cute robot girls, instead advancing robotics in general and other fields with his discoveries. Discussed: "Robotics technology has gotten pretty advanced, and we clearly know how to make female constructs so..." "Yes, I do think Robot Girls will soon be an emergent technology, though the ethics does make things complicated." Conversed: Person A: "What is up with people and making sexy cute machine girls!? That honestly just seems perverse and sexist to me!" Person B: "Yes, just as perverse and sexist as an organic girl being born. The Robot Girl herself decides what kind of person she'll be, not her fault men fetishize her species." Implied: Alice, a somewhat mysterious girl, frequently finds her limbs getting covered by magnets. Deconstructed: AL1C3 and other robot girls are seen as property & tools to be used by humanity. Thus AL1C3's people are treated as a Servant Race that humanity is racist towards, the average human seeing their enslavement as no less ethical than using any other item freely. AL1C3 spends most of her life alone, as she's too robotic to be appreciated by humanity and too human like to be appreciated by her fellow robots. Reconstructed: Though robot girls may be artificial lifeforms, it eventually becomes clear they are alive. Thus AL1C3's people gradually see more equality, until eventually their presence as a species becomes ubiquitous enough that nobody sees them as odd. The majority of robots are emotionless, and therefore do not discriminate against AL1C3 because they are incapable of hatred or disgust. Even so, AL1C3 feels she doesn't fit in because of her own emotions, and is still bothered by her inability to properly mimic humans, as that was what she was designed for. Played For Laughs: AL1C3, clearly a Robot Girl, nonetheless enjoys trying to be a Big Eater and Skinny Dipping- Emphasis on try, as she ends up adorably glitching out instead. Played For Drama: AL1C3, having always been uncomfortable with her artificial nature, falls into depression upon realizing she can't have children with her boyfriend Bob. AL1C3, though humanlike, comes to recognize the difference between her and real humans. Thus, poor AL1C3 is left feeling all alone. AL1C3 isn't treated at all as alive, and eventually finds herself being callously murdered because people refused to acknowledge her sentience.

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The title character Maico from Android Announcer Maico 2010 (Image◊) is a Robot Girl. But whenever referred to as a robot, she insists, "I'm not a robot." She prefers to think of herself as an android (which is also wrong, the correct term would be Gynoid). The Angels in Angelic Layer are similar, though they're about a foot tall and controlled by their users. The Angelic Layer manga is set in the same universe as Chobits and states that Angels were forerunners to persocoms. The Animatrix has an absolutely heartbreaking, and horrific scene during The Second Renaissance sequence featuring one. During the anti-machine movement, a robot girl made to look human is smashed to bits by a group of men who rip away her clothes, synthetic skin, and hair until there's nothing but a metallic skeleton left. All while sobbing that she's "real." Naomi Armitage and the other "Thirds" from Armitage III are a partial subversion since they easily can and do pass as fully human, to the point that they can even reproduce with humans. The "seconds" from which they descended were intentionally designed to fit this trope, however. Astro Girl/Uran from Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy franchise is the younger sister to the titular protagonist. In the 60s series, she was built by Professor Ochanomizu as a birthday gift to Astro. In later chapters/episodes, Ochanomizu creates robot parents for Astro with the introdution of Rin (Astro's robot mother) and Ethanol (Astro's robot father) so he won't feel lonely after Tenam neglects him. Nei from Avenger is one, or so she believes. She's actually the first human girl born on Mars - specifically outside of the colonies that have settled on the planet's surface. She's been acting like a ''Doll'' in order to avoid drawing attention to herself. Chobits has the Persocoms, of which the main character is one. While male persocoms are actually quite common, since the main human cast is male, the majority of persocom characters in the series are female. In Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou, the superhero Earth-chan is a satellite which transforms into a robot girl in order to aid people in distress. In Da Capo, the robotic clone of one of the girls is distinguished by a keyhole (for winding) in the back and occasionally spewing smoke. Of course, only the male lead learns that it's not the real girl. One of the earliest (and youngest) robot girls is Arale from Akira Toriyama's Doctor Slump, who in physical appearance is only around 12 years old, despite being 18 by the end of the run. That few others realize this is the series' main Running Gag. Annapuna and Unipuma - the Puma Twins from the Dominion Tank Police manga and anime series - were revealed, close to the end of the original manga, as androids - Ostensibly 'love dolls', although they take offense at this designation. In the second manga series, their android nature was on the table all the time, even becoming a plot point on at least two occasions. Interestingly, in the anime the issue was ignored completely, even as an implication. Doraemon have a one-shot gadget, a robotic girlfriend named Roboko which Doraemon produces after Nobita complains Shizuka doesn't care for him much. Everything went well initially, with Roboko beating the snot out of Suneo and Gian when they tried picking on Nobita, but then Roboko turns out to be a Clingy Jealous Girl who starts targeting Shizuka the moment she starts chatting with Nobita. Hilarity Ensues as usual. Riruru from Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops is a robot designed to look like a young human girl to infiltrate earth, and guide her robotic superiors to facilitate an invasion. But after being damaged and salvaged by the heroes before getting saved by Doraemon and friends, and especially befriending Shizuka, Riruru ends up having a change of heart. Android/Artificial Human#18 of Dragon Ball Z is a more destructive take on the trope, as she (and her siblings, most notably her twin brother #17) was built specifically to cause destruction. In an alternate timeline, she manages to eradicate the most powerful fighters in the world with her brother until they are both destroyed by Future Badass Trunks, who came back from the main timeline after helping the main cast destroy another android, the Big Bad of the saga Cell (it's not as confusing as it sounds). In the main timeline however, they are able to be subdued (mostly through the appearance of the Trunks from the future altering the timelines and Cell's interference) and she survives to marry one of the main cast. She does actually have biological parts (so she's more of a cyborg than an android), so is capable of producing a daughter and becomes a mother... An extremely powerful mother, but a mother nonetheless. El-Hazard: The Magnificent World features Ifurita, a wind-up weapon of mass destruction in the form of a curvaceous cutie. Her appearance and attitude vary wildly between the OVA and TV universes; in the former she evolves from an emotionless killer to a borderline Artificial Human, while in the latter she wavers between brainless and outright loony. Ropponmatsu #1 and Ropponmatsu #2 from Excel♡Saga. In the anime, they're two distinct entities, while in the manga, there is only one Ropponmatsu core switched between the two bodies. Iwata becomes one for a time when he gets cancer and his brain is put in the Ropponmatsu 1 body as a stopgap measure to keep him not dead. He's quite pleased because he's always liked Ropponmatsu 1, seeing as she's a tall, well-built adult woman, but he gets into an argument with actual Ropponmatsu in body number 2, who's always gotten on his nerves. Iwata gets ready to throw down...and falls over as Ropponmatsu mocks him because she always found body 1 to be clunky and unreliable, and reveals that her personality was different (read: nonexistant) in this body because all her processing power was taken up staying upright. He also ends up in 2's body for a short while, much to his extreme displeasure. Drossel from Fireball, interesting in that she doesn't look even remotely human beyond her basic body shape, but has an unusually human (and bitchy) personality. Nano-Nano Pudding from Galaxy Angel Rune and the game it's adapted from, Galaxy Angel II, is a living nanomachine Lost Technology taking the form of a young girl with a tail. Mechanical humans abounded in Galaxy Express 999 and its sequels thanks to various plots about humans abandoning their old flesh bodies for mechanical bodies as well as android characters. Some of the main female robot girls would be be Claire, Yuki, and Promethium. More examples of robot girls who are also Humongous Mecha: KouRyu and AnRyu from GaoGaiGar FINAL. Most of the fembots in Ghost in the Shell count, as do female full-body cyborgs, including the lead character, Major Motoko Kusanagi — the difference being that the former are still AIs which aren't truly intelligent, while full-body cyborgs are humans who have had most or all organic parts of their bodies replaced with mechanical substitutes, up to and including most of their brain. The Tachikomas also share a lot of the tropes associated with the archetype, despite the fact that they have tanks for bodies. In GunBuster 2, Nono is actually a Buster Machine. She is clearly stated to be gynoid (female android) even before that. In Haruhi Suzumiya, Yuki and the other Humanoid Interfaces arguably count, although Yuki has the good fortune of not getting picked for the maid job. Heaven's Lost Property: All the Angeloids are subservient android girls with wings, built for specific purposes and completely devoted to following their master's orders. HuGtto! Pretty Cure has Ruru. She starts off as a villain, but joins the Cures and eventually becomes one partway through. Pion of Humanity Has Declined. And Oyage is a Robot Boy. Though their true forms are deep space probes. Odette from Karakuri Odette, though she gradually develops human-like emotional traits that further qualify for Ridiculously Human Robots instead. A more straight Robot Girl would be Asia from the same. In Key the Metal Idol, titular character Key acts as a prototypical example of this trope: Key herself insists that she is a robot, and demonstrates very little emotional affect for much of the series, much to the concern of the characters who serve as her guardians. These characters are almost uniformly convinced that Key is not a robot but rather a deeply traumatized young woman who retreated into a robot persona, which they indulge as the only identity Key will respond with. Nevertheless, Key's past it intertwined with much mystery and phlebotinum-style weirdness, including mechanical automatons that hunt her, and scientists who are obsessed with her, so the truth of her nature remains somewhat in question until the end of the series: she is more or less what her friends believed her to be; a young individual who has survived prolonged human experimentation, the violent loss of her family, and other forms of trauma and has adopted the robotic persona as a coping mechanism. But while she may not be a robot, her actual identity is no less fantastical: she is instead a Psychic Child of almost Little Miss Almighty proportions. Her Quest for Identity takes the duration of the series, but in the end, she gets an at least somewhat happy ending and seems to be healing at last. Thus in the end, the story is a direct deconstruction and aversion of this trope. Mahoro and Minawa from Mahoromatic. Partially subverted in the series by having Mahoro constantly on the lookout for "dirty thoughts" on the part of Suguru Not to mention confiscating his porn collection. Being innocent herself, this creates a paradox. This argument happens in the series' second season, where Mahoro and Suguru's grandfather arguing the point, with the grandfather winning. This convinces Mahoro that she is perverted. The Gamia sisters, Erika, Lorelei... from Mazinger Z (and Minerva X in the Shin Mazinger Zero manga). Possibly Marquis Yanus from Great Mazinger is one as well, since the Mykene grafted their brains in robotic bodies to survive underground, but it is harder to say with her. In Mobile Suit Gundam 00, we have two examples — and surprisingly, neither is female (well, as far as can be proven). It is heavily suggested, if not stated outright that Tieria is not entirely, perhaps not at all, human. Then, during the series finale, Lichty of all people turns out to be at least part cybernetic. This still can't save him, sadly. The first season epilogue introduces Tieria's evil twin Regene, and the second season goes on to imply that they, Big Bad Ribbons Almark, and the rest of the "Innovators" are artificial constructs. And we see the first clearly female-bodied example: Anew Returner. It's also possible that they are cyborgs; while at least two of them are quite clearly part of mass cloning projects (Bring being the pilot of a very large number of kamikaze MS at one point, and Ribbons himself walking into the room and killing Regene while his own corpse bleeds on the floor) they are clearly capable of inducing Innovator traits in ordinary humans like Louise (who also has a cybernetic left hand). In Mother Keeper Syal and Mother are both robot girls. Syal is a battle cyborg and Mother is simply a computer made to look like a little girl. Both look ridiculously human though Mother doesn't seem to speak. Lila, is type of android called a Humaritt from the Ecchi action series Najica Blitz Tactics. She is tasked along with the main protagonist (Najica) to track down rogue Humaritts, which can be identified from behind by a 3 letter serial in the form of a tramp stamp. Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Chachamaru. Evangeline also has a number of Robot Maids serving in her resort. And to fulfill the hotness part of the trope, part of her Mid-Season Upgrade was an improved synthetic skin that essentially makes her look like a normal girl with robot ears. Naturally, there was a scene of her taking a bath soon after said upgrade. In an...interesting variation on the idea, Haruna uses her artifact to create a full size robot body for Sayo to use. Of course, Sayo can't actually possess it, but instead possesses a small doll that sits inside the robot body and pilots it like a Humongous Mecha. Being an Otaku Haruna naturally built so many guns into the thing that it's wonder that it's able to move. Nano from Nichijou is a robot who appears to be a perfectly normal human girl—aside from that huge Wind-Up Key sticking out of her back. The eight-year-old Professor who created her also likes to modify her body with useless additions, just for the heck of it, and the Professor refuses to remove the darn key "because it's cute." This doesn't always make Nano too happy, since she so much wants to come across as an ordinary girl. She eventually learns to love the key as part of herself in the end. Malfina from Outlaw Star is a bioroid who was created to serve as navigator for the titular ship as well as to be the maiden of the Galactic Lei Line. This causes her a great deal of distress to begin with, but Gene eventually convinces her that her artificial nature doesn't make her less human. Meika from Punch Line looks like a little girl but is a twenty year old robot. Being a robot doesn't give her any advantages over humans besides being very smart. In Queen's Blade Rebellion, the little elf Yuit creates Vante, a robot girl incapable of speech (beyond one sound), but apparently cognizant and emotionally aware. Arguably subverted in Real Drive, where android Holon clarifies that she isn't a woman in any real sense, and has no sexual identity beyond superficial programming meant to make her appealing for male users, and that she could change to a male body at any time without losing any sense of her real identity as a sentient machine. The Rozen Maiden are arguably a fantasy-based example, as opposed to straight(ish) science fiction. Specifically, they're dolls. They do have a clockwork mechanism that requires them to be wound up to be able to live, walk, talk and the like, but they also need a roza mystica, which would roughly translate to a soul to the dolls, and there's a lot of things they can do that clockwork engineering can't accomplish alone. The autoscorers of Symphogear, being alchemical machines with the forms and personalities of women. On a more abstract level, Shirabe has this trope as a personal motif. She’s not literally a robot, but her status as the cast’s Emotionless Girl combined with a techno leitmotif and the most mechanized arsenal of the main heroines do a lot to give this impression. In Totsugeki Pappara-tai Totsugeki! Pappara-tai, there was originally one, then three, then five, then eight, then was about to become seventeen in total through out the entire manga... (Also, Dr. Shooba. N. Einstain answered the excellent question of "Why do we make robot girl... and not robot guy?" in vol. 9.) Ai in Video Girl Ai, though since she was created by a VCR, she's not technically a robot. The same goes for Len in the sequel manga, Video Girl Len. The title characters of Wings of Vendemiaire are Steampunk automata that look like teenage girls. Alpha, Kokone, Maruko, and the other Alpha from Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (manga and OVA). Alpha also meets a robot boy. She asks him if there are others. He does not know, but he tells Alpha that male models are somehow weaker than female ones, which explains why the female-looking robots prevail. Dolores from Zone of the Enders: Dolores, i is very much a Robot Girl. Innocent, kind of ditzy, and occasionally clumsy. A scary combination in a 100-feet-tall almost-godlike Humongous Mecha.