History Main / KillerRobot

* ''VideoGame/{{ULTRAKILL}}'': V1 (the game's blue, [[WingedHumanoid winged]], bloodthirsty, [[CyberCyclops one-eyed robot]] protagonist) literally runs on blood to the point of healing when [[BloodSplatteredWarrior showering in it]], and they will slaughter the entirety of {{Hell}} if it means to keep running. The other robots invading Hell, such as Swordsmachine (a yellow [[ChainsawGood chainsword-wielding]] robot), V2 ([[MirrorBoss a durable red version of V1]]), and especially Mindflayers (cyan tentacled robots that can teleport and [[EnergyWeapon fire laser beams]]), are no slouch either.

* ''VideoGame/{{ULTRAKILL}}'': V1 (the game's [[WingedHumanoid winged]], bloodthirsty, robot protagonist) literally runs on blood to the point of healing when [[BloodSplatteredWarrior showering in it]], and they will slaughter the entirety of Hell if it means to keep running. The other robots invading Hell, such as Swordsmachine, V2, and especially Mindflayers, are no slouch either.

[[AC: Comic Books]]

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Professor Menace builds a killer Wonder Woman robot, which functions just as he'd intended until Wondy shorts it out in a fight.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/TheTercentenaryIncident": Edwards expresses concern that a robot, [[ThreeLawsCompliant bound by the Three Laws]], has found a way to circumvent the First Law by getting an accomplice to [[KillAndReplace kill the President so that he can replace them]].

* In ''Literature/RamaII'' The cosonauts [[spoiler: especially REggie]] discover that the crab biots can be killer robots if attacked. The crab biots (along with centipede and other biots) perform maintenance on the spaceship. When Brown goes ahead with a capture plan that was hasty, after the biots resisted his initial capture by hunkering down, [[spoiler: the robots go after Sabatini]], and [[spoiler: Reggie]] drives his vehicle into one to protect them. For all his troubles, since he gets stuck in the vehicle and it is destroyed, he is torn apart, alive, by the crab biots which are none the worse for wear.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay Hasta la vista, baby.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[AC:[[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay Hasta la vista, baby.]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[AC:[[http://www.robotuprising.com/ Crush! Kill! Destroy!]][[note]][[WebAnimation/PonyDotMov Swag!]][[/note]]]]]]

In Literature/RamaII The cosonauts [[spoiler: especially REggie]] discover that the crab biots can be killer robots if attacked. The crab biots (along with centipede and other biots) perform maintenance on the spaceship. When Brown goes ahead with a capture plan that was hasty, after the biots resisted his initial capture by hunkering down, [[spoiler: the robots go after Sabatini]], and [[spoiler: Reggie]] drives his vehicle into one to protect them. For all his troubles, since he gets stuck in the vehicle and it is destroyed, he is torn apart, alive, by the crab biots which are none the worse for wear.

* CrushKillDestroy

[[caption-width-right:350:[[AC:[[http://www.robotuprising.com/ Crush! Kill! Destroy!]]]]]]

->-- Robot Stand-Up Comedian, ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents''

A {{robot}} or other physically autonomous machine guided by a [[AIIsACrapshoot level of intelligence]] and a homicidal urge to KillAllHumans. Prone to ending sentences with exclamation points as well as SpockSpeak. Killer Robots are so common because AIIsACrapshoot.

Although the traditional versions of this trope were robots built in a MadScientistLaboratory who TurnedAgainstTheirMasters, today a more common plot involves the villain finding and [[MoralityDial turning the switch]] on a kid's RobotBuddy from "good" to "evil", forcing the cast to destroy them. Especially [[NightmareFuel scary]] because this was a good friend who has become completely heartless and bent on death.

* Berserker