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What are your favorite fictional robot/AI characters? (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll start off by listing mine:

The T-800, Terminator 2: "I know now why you cry, but it's something that I can never do." Gets me every damn time.

ADA, Zone of the Enders: I think I'm the only one who played this game more than the MGS2 demo that came with it. I will never not laugh at the exchange of "You may speak like a human, but you're still a heartless computer, aren't you?" "That is correct. What is the problem?"

Codsworth, Fallout 4: He survives the nuclear holocaust despite not having a bunker and waits 200 years for you to come back. When you look at what changes his relationship with you, he mostly just wants you to be nice to people. I never swapped him out as my companion.

B.O.Y.D., Ducktales 2017: He's adorable. 'nuff said.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's a boring choice but: Data and Lore from Star Trek data-outdoor-cat

I also love every robot from the Portal series.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Have you seen much of Isaac from the Orville? He's like a Valentine to Data with a few decades of refinement in the writing, in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I did appreciate that they didn't chicken out on actually exploring what a romantic relationship between an artificial life form and a human would look like, too

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They even get married and it's adorable hyperflush

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Spoiler tag for those that haven't seen The Orville yet, please. NOOOOO

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Spoilered, sorry. I just love this shit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Me too. All the way to the finale, where

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the Kaylon leader asks if they should send the entire Kaylon armada to the wedding reception and Isaac replies in his own calculated enthusiasm "that would be appropriate." No one trolls like the Kaylon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Hey, they're family

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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It wasn't even trolling, it was entirely appropriate according to the wedding customs that were explained to him

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Accidental trolling can be the best trolling, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I haven't seen that yet, I want to finish DS9 first. But I will!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

The Orville is very good, and is a genuine Trek show

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isaac and the Kaylon generally are very good. Even Charly admitted that

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killing the builders was entirely justified and she was specifically there to be the Dr. Pulaski to Isaac's Data.

Speaking of which, what did you think of Charly? I've seen that the fandom's reaction to her is generally very negative, and I think it's because as a younger, hotter Pulaski she gets the hate Pulaski did but magnified by the Gamergate lens.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I thought Charly was a very cool character overall.

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I liked her time travel adventure with Isaac especially.

As a weird coincidence, she looked almost exactly as I mentally visualized the first main protagonist from my novel trilogy, and had some personality quirks to match,

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except of course my character used her machine affinity with sympathy with machines and a bit of a mild contempt for other human beings after the hard life she had been through as a post-American-empire-collapse refugee.