History Main / AmbiguousRobots

* The Geckos in ''MetalGearSolid 4'' appear to be giant organic legs with an [[StarWars AT-ST]] head on top. They bellow like cattle when entering combat and spew black fluid when "killed".

* In ''EurekaSeven'', the LFO's (Light-Finding Operation) and KLF's (Kraft Light Fighter) are similar to the EVA-units, except for their design, or at least this can be assumed to be the case. Only Nirvash TypeZero (and the Spec2, Spec3 and Spec4) and TheEND are revealed to be Korals in armor to allow humans to control them.
** Actually, it's only the TypeZero, that's outright claimed to be a Koral. Anemone just says several times that the TypeZero is the same as her TheEND. The other LFO's and KLF's are never clarified.

* To a certain extent, [[MetroidPrime Meta Ridley]] also qualifies, as there's nothing to indicate how much of him is still living and how much is robotic.

* [[StarWars General Grievous]] has shades of this.

** Goes back a little further to [=MGS2=]. The automated Metal Gear RAYs in the Arsenal Gear actually bleed out red "lubrication fluid" when shot.

* Deconstructed in ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', where the {{giant mecha}}s turn out to be not only organic but also forcibly trapped in the mech suits.

* ''HalfLife'': Pretty much ''all'' the Synths used by the Combine. The Strider are probably the MostTriumphantExample.

* On the opposite side of graceful vs horrible life-likeness is [[NightmareFuel BigDog]] by Boston Dynamics. The movement of the legs is the most eery part, it looks as if it had four human legs with the knees facing each other. The video in which it gets kicked on a side and tries to remain balanced combines all the evils of CreatingLife with literally [[KickTheDog kicking the dog-deer-hideous-cyborg-creature]]. If there are comic book villians in RealLife count the guys who manufactured this ambiguous robots in. [[ForScience Also, it's for science of course!!]]

* On the opposite side of graceful vs horrible life-likeness is [[NightmareFuel BigDog]] by Boston Dynamics. The movement of the legs is the most eery part, it looks as if it had four human legs with the knees facing each other. The video in which it gets kicked on a side and tries to remain balanced combines all the evils of CreatingLife with literally [[KickTheDog kicking the dog-deer-hideous-cyborg-creature]]. If there are comic book villians in RealLife count the guys who manufactured this ambiguous robots in. [[ForScience For science of course!!]]

* On the opposite side of graceful vs horrible life-likeness is [[NightmareFuel BigDog]] by Boston Dynamics. The movement of the legs is the most eery part, it looks as if it had four human legs with the knees facing each other. The video in which it gets kicked on a side and tries to remain balanced combines all the evils of CreatingLife with literally [[KickTheDog kicking the dog-deer-hideous-cyborg-creature]]. If there are comic book villians in RealLife count the guys who manufactured this ambiguous robots in.

* Somo possible examples exist if you take into account the "perhaps move in a fashion too animalistic to be considerd robotic." clause of this article. FESTO produces beautiful aquatic creatures that either float in the air or swim throught the water with incredible grace. The Aqua Ray and Aqua Penguins in particular are very lifelike, and look leathery on their skin as they swim. Most people at first glance would think they are actual animals.

* On the opposite side of graceful vs horrible life-likeness is [[KillItWithFire BigDog]] by Boston Dynamics. The movement of the legs is the most eery part, it looks as if it had four human legs with the knees facing each other. The video in which it gets kicked on a side and tries to remain balanced combines all the evils of CreatingLife with literally [[KickTheDog kicking the dog-deer-hideous-cyborg-creature]]. If there are comic book villians in RealLife count the guys who manufactured this ambiguous robots in.

* On the opposite side of graceful vs horrible life-likeness is [[KillItWithFire BigDog]] by Boston Dynamics. The movement of the legs is the most eery part, it looks as if it had four human legs with the knees facing each other. The video in which it gets kicked on a side and tries to remain balanced combines all the evils of CreatingLife with literally [[KickTheDog kicking the dog-deer-hideous-cyborg-creature]].
If there are comic book villians in RealLife count the guys who manufactured this ambiguous robots in.

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* ''{{Lost}}:'' The 'smoke monster' seems both artificial and beastly in nature ([[MindScrew didn't it turn out to be Satan?]]).

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* ''{{Bionicle}}'': For the first few years, it seemed that most of the characters were Mechanical Lifeforms, but they were later revealed to have some organic components such as muscle and lung tissue (meaning they're technically cyborgs). It is now known that the inhabitants of the Matoran Universe are roughly 85% mechanical and 15% organic.
* ''ShadowOfTheColossus'': The Collosi are either gigantic robots of stone, or huge hairy monsters. The mechanical faces of the Colossi are clearly artificial, but parts of their bodies are quite biological. Again, this contributes the mysterious and hanting nature of the work.

* ''{{Spinnerette}}'': Mecha Maid has been stated to be wearing a PowerArmor, yet she shows a HyperspaceArsenal that doesn't leave enough space for a body, and her hands look very robotic rather than gauntlet-like.

** There ''used'' to be a species of humans of ambiguous mechanical-biological ratio in MegamanZX, after they combined into one species with Reploids (they were called "humans" for short, as far as we can tell in the Legends backstory), but those went extinct long ago, leaving behind artificial creations and [[AIIsACrapshoot several superpowered killer robots designed to wipe out all the Carbons]] [[CrapsackWorld periodically to keep them at a low level of development and presumably to make them better servants for the now-extinct human-reploid hybrids]].
* Deconstructed in ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', where the {{giant mecha}}s turn out to be not only organic but also forcibly trapped in the mech suits.
** Also played straight, what with the external power sources and lack of any clear definition of where the Eva ends and the cybernetic bits begin.

* Necrons from ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'': They look like [[SkeleBot9000 skeletal robots]], but are apparently more HauntedTechnology or metal golems, or whatever.
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* ''MegaManLegends'': The "carbons". The best anyone has been able to tell, they're robots that reproduce sexually or something.
** [[AllThereInTheManual ZX explains they're the result of humans and androids evolving into a single race of semi-organic cyborgs.]]

* ''HalfLife'': Pretty much ''all'' the Synths use by the Combine. The Strider are probably the MostTriumphantExample.