History Main / RoboticReveal

* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' films:

* Anna, from the ''ComicBook/Gen13'' series. She's a demure maid who cooks and cleans for the group, looking very much annoyed when her carefully cooked breakfast goes ignored in favor of various snacks, junk food and cold pizza. Then she turned out to be an assassin droid with concealable blades and weapons of destruction.
* The premises holding Jason in ''ComicBook/JasonXSpecial'' is eventually revealed to be almost entirely staffed by androids, much to dismay of his mother's spirit, who wants proper revenge for her son.

** Laurel Kent was a descendant of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, and member from 30th century super-team ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''. Then, Post-''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', she was retconned into being a Manhunter, a robot created by [[Franchise/GreenLantern the Guardians of the Universe]]. Though she was retconned back into being Superman's descendant in Post-''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' continuity.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'', Zane's odd behavior is revealed in episode 8 to be because he's a "Nindroid" built by his creator to be an artificial son, and his creator turned off his memory of his past life right before he died. Him being a robot becomes the defining point of his character from then on.

* The second ''VideoGame/AndroDunos'' have most of it's bosses being alien mecha and robots, save for a [[KrakenAndLeviathan Leviathan]] in an underwater stage. Until you damage it enough, that is - causing it's face to blow off and revealing cybernetic interiors.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'', you finally find out in the finale that TheProfessor you've been interacting with throughout the game is actually a robot duplicate. Then you find out that the original professor [[spoiler:has been DeadAllAlong, leaving the robot copy managing the Zero Lab post-mortem]].

* ''Literature/BookOfTheNewSun'': Severian's friend Jonas, a former spaceship crewman, has a robotic hand; he once mentions having been injured in a crash and being forced to repair himself with spare parts. After he's badly injured by an ElectroWhip, Severian undresses his unconscious body to treat his wounds and discovers that Jonas has a robotic ''everything'' from the abdomen down, and realizes he's a machine with flesh grafted to him. After waking up, Jonas clarifies that the parts he repaired himself with were organic, salvaged from human crewmen who didn't survive the crash.

** Inverted in ''VideoGame/MetalGear2''. In an optional radio call during the final battle, Kasler tells Snake that Big Boss underwent an operation to replace his limbs with cybernetic organs. When Snake defeats Big Boss with a makeshift flamethrower, [[spoiler:he burns to death like any other person ([[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots he did get better]])]].

* ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'' presents the 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/05/11/42-essential-3rd-act-twists/ Row 3, Column 6]].

* [[VideoGame/Left4Dead2 Coach]] if you believe [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=289 this]] ''Webcomic/VGCats'' strip.
** Well, he ''is'' being controlled by a [[{{Pun}} bot]]...

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Morenatsu}}'', one non-canon bad ending on [[spoiler:Tatsuki's]] route reveals him to be [[spoiler:a robot created by Shigure. He kills both Tatsuki and Hiroyuki, the latter because he now knows this secret]].
* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' has Dragon, a Canadian woman widely lauded as the greatest [[GadgeteerGenius Tinker]] in the world, who deploys to each battle with a new set of high-tech battle armor. Her [[ADayInTheLimelight interlude]] reveals that she's actually a partially developed ArtificialIntelligence, severely crippled by the death of her creator while she was still in development.
* ''WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals'' episode "Ron's Disease" has Harry make Hagrid give whatever he comes across a whack (under the guise of curing wizard lice). When this was attempted on Dumbledore, he was unfazed, and Dumbledore revealed that he's an android. A gay android.

* ''Fallout: The Board Game'': In one of the missions, a courier approaches the player character and may reveal they are a synth.

* Seen among the mooks of the arcade/NES gunner ''VideoGame/MechanizedAttack'', after laying a few hits on the ones that ''don't'' take just one to kill.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaCommando'' have a fire-breathing dinosaur-dragon hybrid monster boss in the prehistoric stage, which appears to follow the DinosaursAreDragons trope. Until you damage it enough, ripping off the monster's skin and revealing it's interior to be a robot.

* One of the characters in the first ''[[VideoGame/WildArms1 Wild ARMs]]'' game is revealed to be not quite what they seem after [[spoiler:he cuts off his arm to get away from the BigBad]]. When the others treat the injury, [[spoiler:sparks fly out, and they discover that his insides were made of the same properties as the [[MechanicalLifeforms Metal Demons]]]].

* The FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/SilentDragon''. For most of the fight, you're battling a human on a HoverBike until you exhausted his life meter and knocked him off his ride, but immediately afterwards he sheds his human skin revealing his interior to be a robot that looks somewhat like Ultron.
* A variant occurs in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' when [[spoiler:the Ancient Minister, who up until this point was considered to be a variant of one of the BigBad's {{Mooks}}, turns out to be [[VideoGame/RoboticOperatingBuddy R.O.B.]]]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Tanzer}}'' has many MiniBoss opponents (the man being burnt at the stake, the guillotine victim, etc.) appearing to be humans. But when you approach, they suddenly shed their fleshy exterior and start spamming projectile attacks like other robot enemies.
* In ''VideoGame/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' (the arcade tie-in to the film), you play as the heroic T-800 and could encounter enemy T-800s in the 2029 stages, still bearing the flesh and blood likeness of Arnold Schwarzenegger. When shot they lose their skin and reveals their robotic interiors.
* ''VideoGame/TerminatorRampage'' does this with the "Infiltrator"-type robots, appearing to be regular humans caught in the robot attack only to suddenly shoot at you when you try approaching. Shoot them back and they lose their skin, revealing their mechanical insides.
* In ''VideoGame/TombRaiderChronicles'', in the final level you encounter suited henchmen who seem extremely tough, after causing enough damage it is revealed that they are Cyborgs and must be killed by alternative means to shooting.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'' has [[spoiler:Random]] - it comes as a [[TomatoInTheMirror surprise to himself]] as well.
* Done with a twist in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer 3: Kane's Wrath'', where it is revealed that [[spoiler:the player]] is a Nod AI named LEGION. Presumably, LEGION was aware of its nature the whole time, but the player doesn't until Kane makes the revelation himself.
* One of the millions of twists in ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'' is that [[spoiler:the BigBad's assistant is an AI]].
* In ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos Origins,'' the one with robotic innards is [[spoiler:Milliarde]].
* In ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage 3''[='=]s Stage 5, you fight [[spoiler:Mr. X. Why are you only on the ''fifth'' stage when you fight him? Well, upon defeating his henchmen, the top half of him burns off to reveal a robotic duplicate. The real Mr. X, who you encounter in Stage 7 (assuming you rescued the Chief of Police), has been reduced to a brain]].
* Played straight with the final boss of the first ''VideoGame/{{Turok}}'' game. The Campaigner at first appears to be some sort of barbarian wizard, but as he takes damage his flesh peels off to expose his robotic structure. In some ways there is a [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman subversion]] of this trope, as the player has already cut down legions of "real" humans by this point.
* Before the final boss in ''VideoGame/RocketPowerBeachBandits'' Eric Golem Sr. was revealed to be a robot created by Eric Golem Jr.
* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'': Professor Booster apparently recognizes [[spoiler:the protagonist]] as a robot immediately, but several other characters--particularly Kazuma, and possibly the player--don't realize this until Booster points it out. In their defense, he is a {{Ridiculously Human Robot|s}}. With white skin, inhuman eyes, and antennae for ears.
* ''VideoGame/HenryHatsworthInThePuzzlingAdventure's'' ending has you fighting [[spoiler:Weasleby]] for a while before he suddenly twitches with electricity coming off him and his head falls out. And then [[spoiler:[[KidSidekick Cole]] pops out from the remains to reveal himself as TheManBehindTheMan]].
* ''VideoGame/BinaryDomain'': The premise of the game is that a new genertion of robots have been constructed that are so realistic, the robots believe themselves to be human, and gennuinly do not know they are robots. Due to this there are several robotic reveals through the game, often accompannied by the robot in question being damaged badly enough to reveal the robotic parts underneath the organic outer tissue.

* In ''VideoGame/WonderBoyInMonsterLand'', [[spoiler:the dragon you've come all this way to slay]] is revealed to be a robot, [[spoiler:possibly from space]].
* In the first ''VideoGame/SonicAdvance'', halfway through the fight with Mecha Knuckles, his outer covering breaks off to reveal his metallic body.

* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', being the ShoutOut-heavy game it is, throws one out to Franchise/{{Terminator}} with the Haybot, who looks like your average musclebound anthropomorphic stack of hay until you stick Frankie's forks in his ass twice, at which point part of him burns away to reveal the ever-familiar image of a robotic red eye. "'''[-BUFF YOU, ASSHOLE!-]'''"
* ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'' plays with this regarding Kara, in that she's revealing to other characters, not the player, that she's an android. She performs this reveal when introducing herself to Rose, the leader of an android UndergroundRailroad, by deactivating part of her synthetic skin, and in an earlier scene she has the option to do this with fellow android Ralph in order to gain his trust.
** Towards the end of Kara's story, [[spoiler:she discovers that Alice, the little girl she was looking after and cared for as a daughter, is actually another android. She realizes that she had repressed her memory of finding an advertisement for a child android of Alice's likeness, because she was so invested in the idea of caring for a human child.]]
** During the final chapter, several seemingly human background characters are revealed to be androids after they're subjected to a temperature check, prompting the use of lethal force against them. Kara's group can suffer a similar fate if she's not careful.
* Not explicitly said, but in ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'', [[spoiler:[[PlayerCharacter The Security Officer]] is heavily implied to be a cybernetic warrior created from the corpse of a soldier]]
* A minor reveal in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': after chasing down a Cerberus agent on Mars, Vega rams her with a shuttle. Cue her emerging OutOfTheInferno... her clothes and skin burned off the robotic frame by the explosion.
* In ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'', when [[spoiler:Labrys']] {{Shadow|Archetype}} reveals itself, it forcibly removes [[spoiler:Labrys']] human guise to reveal to everyone that [[spoiler:she is actually a {{robot|Girl}}]].
* Two examples in the SurvivalHorror game ''VideoGame/{{SOMA}}''; Catherine is revealed early on to be a robot herself even though [[BoomerangBigot she says that robots don't feel anything,]] and [[spoiler:look at yourself, Simon; you're a woman's corpse stuffed into a diving suit, implanted with a neural chip and lined with circuitry]].

* In ''VideoGame/EchoNight Beyond'' [[spoiler:the young man]] is revealed to be a robotic copy of [[spoiler:Kenneth]], a man who was killed. Also, [[spoiler:Richard, the player character]] is a robotic copy of [[spoiler:the real Richard (aka. the space station chief) made by his fiancée (who was in love with the real Richard when he died)]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'': A quest in Rivet City, in the Capital Wasteland, has you looking for an escaped android with fake memories and a new face. As it turns out, [[spoiler:the android is the very first person you meet in the city, Chief Harkness]].
** Also in ''Fallout 3'', John Henry Eden, PresidentEvil of [[OppressiveStatesOfAmerica the Enclave]] who broadcasts via radio to the Capital Wasteland about how the Enclave will return and rebuild America, is revealed to be [[spoiler:Raven Rock's pre-War ZAX ArtificialIntelligence who became self-aware]]. Even the rest of the Enclave is unaware of this.
** Any [[spoiler:post-''Old World Blues'']] RandomEncounters in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' double as this and MookHorrorShow. Imagine that you’ve been tasked with bringing down a [[InsistentTerminology profligate]] who, after going off the grid for weeks, has finally turned up somewhere southwest of Vegas. Your team tracks him through the wilderness, noting that his footprints are heavier than normal and that he must be carrying an extra load. You find him wandering through the desert at midday, seemingly unburdened by either the extra load or the sun, and scope him down with the anti-materiel rifle (Why they sent this with you for [[JustOneMan one man]], Caesar only knows). His head finally centered in the crosshairs, you pull the trigger, expecting a grisly red mist and the muted thump of a fresh corpse on the sand. Instead, you’re treated to an audible, metallic ricochet and the cold gaze of a newly-forged [[GameBreaker demigod]]. As he closes the distance to your contubernium with inhuman speed, you’re not sure the anti-materiel rifle was ''enough''.
** Another one in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'': [[spoiler:Danse, the kill-all-synths Brotherhood paladin, [[YouAreWhatYouHate is the very thing he pledged his life to kill]]. The best part? [[TomatoInTheMirror He doesn't even figure out himself]] until his commanding officers order his death, meaning he has a robotic reveal of ''himself''.]]
** Also from ''4'': [[spoiler:Deacon didn't realize his beloved was a synth until the anti-synth gang he used to run with killed her for being a synth. When he tells you this, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness it is one of the precious few times when he is NOT a]] ConsummateLiar.]]
* ''VideoGame/LastAlert'' has [[spoiler:[[MadScientist Dr.]] [[BigBad Garcia]]]].
* In ''VideoGame/MetalSlug 4'', [[spoiler:bionic versions of General Morden and Allen O'Neal are shown being produced, the latter being fought as a mini-boss in the final mission, ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''-style]].
* In ''VideoGame/NeoContra'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad Master Contra]] is actually revealed to be a machine, and [[TheManBehindTheMan the real Master Contra is actually Project C, the ultimate weapon made up of Bill Rizer's consciousness]]]].
* Subverted in ''VisualNovel/BionicHeart''. When Luke first meets [[ArtificialHuman Tanya]], she has had half her face blown off by the police pursuing her, revealing the mechanical parts underneath her skin.
* In ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'', it is at one point hinted that there may be a secret robot among the cast. It is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:Luna is, in fact, a GAULEM]]. This trope also happens in one of the paths when [[spoiler:Sigma]]'s arm is cut and a white fluid comes out of it. By the ending of the path, it is revealed that [[spoiler:he has cybernetic arms, but the rest of him is human]] .
* The ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' DLC ''Minerva's Den'' casts the player as the Big Daddy "Subject Sigma," tasked to make a copy of Rapture's mainframe computer, The Thinker. Over the course of the story, Sigma is informed of the The Thinker's design and evolution (as well as the reason that a copy needs to be smuggled out of Rapture) by its inventor, Charles Milton Porter. Sigma eventually learns that The Thinker was able to mimic human patterns to the point that it developed de facto artificial intelligence. The climax of the DLC reveals that [[spoiler:the version of Porter who has been speaking to Subject Sigma is The Thinker impersonating its creator. Porter is actually Subject Sigma, whose memories have been erased by the Big Daddy transformation, and part of the heist of The Thinker is an effort to restore him to his former self]].
* In ''VideoGame/RocketKnightAdventures'', [[spoiler:after you fight and normally "kill" Emperor Devligus Devotindos, he is revealed to be a Terminator-like robot, and one of many such robots stocked aboard the Pig Star.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{POPGOES}}'' it's revealed towards the end that [[spoiler:you are an animatronic named Strings, built to act as the place's security guard]].
* In ''VisualNovel/DramaticalMurder'', [[spoiler:Clear]] is revealed to be an android.
* ''VideoGame/BodyBlows'': The FinalBoss, who initially is called "Max", upon being defeated in one round will shed its clothes and artificial skin to reveal it is actually a robot called T-17.
* One of the proposed endings for the 2012 reboot of ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' would've had Dollface reveal to be a robot sent by the Preacher that he would blow up in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate [[JackassGenie Calypso]].
* Parodied in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'': when Dr. Nefarious unleashes the Biobliterator on Metropolis, President Phyronix pretends to be half-robot on the news and claims that the whole galaxy being robots will positively impact his reelection campaign.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': [[spoiler:Inverted. Warframes require four separate blueprints, are built and assembled in a foundry, and can be modified just like any other weapon. Many people, in-universe and out, assumed them to be robots, or at the very least PoweredArmor. This went further in "The Second Dream," when it was revealed that the Tenno were piloting the warframes from a distance. As it turns out though, the warframes were originally humans, horrifically mutated by a controlled version of the Technocyte Plague. The plague merges biological and mechanical systems, so any cybernetics the human hosts had were integrated into their frames, but in the end they are mostly biological. This was the point, as the robotic Sentients could subvert traditional Orokin technology]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}'', the Glitch are robots programmed to believe that they (and other Glitches around them) are normal organic beings, and block out anything that would disprove this. Sometimes, the system fails and they realize the truth... and usually have to flee for their lives, as the rest of the simulation will try to prevent the error from spreading.
* The 1988 StripPoker computer game ''Teenage Queen'' has this as a twist ending: If you get the girl to take off every article of clothing she has, but still keep playing, she rips off her skin to reveal a robotic body underneath.
* ''VideoGame/{{Abzu}}'': [[spoiler:The PlayerCharacter]] is revealed towards the end to actually be some sort of aquatic android when they get caught in a big explosion, only to ''get back up'' afterwards and show off their newly-exposed endoskeleton in the process.

* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', one of the characters, [[spoiler:Subaru Nakajima]], walks out of an explosion, covered in blood and one arm missing a large chunk of flesh, revealing the cybernetics underneath, during her scene of UnstoppableRage. Interestingly, there's no ArtificialHuman-related angsting here, partly because most of the ''Nanoha'' cast aren't human, and have no problems at all accepting it.
** And unlike [[spoiler:Fate and Erio]], [[spoiler:Subaru and Ginga]] had a loving family, and complete knowledge of their origins long before the series even began.
** Hell, by this point in the series, the Bureau probably has "So you're not exactly what's traditionally considered human, that's okay because you're a person too and we support you" pamphlets. (Probably written by Fate and Nanoha.)
*** Happens again in the PSP games; [[spoiler:The Florian Sisters are full androids]].
* [[spoiler:Bartholemew Kuma]] of ''Manga/OnePiece'' was revealed as a cyborg this way.

* In the finale of ''Anime/CoyoteRagtimeShow'', Madame Marciano is injured and revealed to be a cyborg. Then again, being the TrulySingleParent of twelve {{Robot Girl}}s, is it really that surprising?

* Split between the final two episodes of the second season of ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyBlade'' comes the reveal that Zeo is a robot, built in the image of his father's deceased human son. Although Kyōju had figured it out already, the proper reveal comes when the strain of Zeo's beybattle against Takao becomes too much and his right arm glitches open to reveal the circuitry underneath his fake skin.
* This occurred in ''[[Anime/NegimaSecondSeason Negima Neo?!]]'' during the re-telling of the battle between [[TheHero Negi]] and [[OlderSideKick Asuna]] against [[VainSorceress Evangeline]] and [[RobotGirl Chachamaru]]. Chachamaru uses herself as a [[TakingTheBullet shield]] to [[DivingSave save]] a [[KindHeartedCatLover group of cats]] which had gotten caught in the fray, causing her shoulder and upper thigh to spark and a metallic skeleton to show beneath her skin. In the regular manga, she never makes any indication that she's attempting to hide her robotic nature; she even has incredibly obvious antenna ears and pulls out the jetpack in a public place to get a kid's balloon out of a tree. Everyone else (except [[MetaGuy Chisame]]) is just [[WeirdnessCensor oblivious]].
* Parodied, like everything else, in ''Anime/ExcelSaga''. Ropponmatsu II gets shot in the head, and the circuitry underneath reveals she's a robot. Excel is honestly surprised by this, despite obvious signs of it earlier in the episode. Ropponmatsu herself considers it obvious, and asks how many people shoot missiles from their knees. Well, considering [[TheDitz how stupid]] Excel is, it's no surprise she hasn't caught on.
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Ed has an [[RoboticReveal automail reveal]] when his right arm gets attacked by Cornello's pet chimera. In ''Brotherhood'', the reveal is done by a rogue alchemist trying to freeze his blood in that arm.
** Izumi also finds out that Al is [[AnimatedArmor just an empty suit of armor]] by ''throwing'' him, and concludes that Ed has an automail leg by the fact that ''his steps sounded different'' when they were sparring. She's just that good.
* The ''Literature/TrinityBlood'' novels drop several hints about Father Tres Iqus not being human, however it is only officially revealed when he is shot through the arm and his circuits are revealed.
* In the final episode of ''Anime/TheBigO'' it turns out that Big Ear, the mysterious informant who's always reading a newspaper when he's spoken to, is an android.
* In ''Anime/GallForce'', the crew find out about an advanced android when Pony forces the information out of the OX-11, to be confirmed moments later, when [[spoiler:Catty makes a HeroicSacrifice, and her clothes are burned away to reveal the android beneath]].
* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' [[spoiler:half of Lichty's body is revealed to be cybernetic when he saves Christina's life at the cost of his own]]. Since it adds very little to his character, this was most likely due to the fact that it would have looked really gruesome if a normal human body had been exposed to GN particle beam like that, and wouldn't have passed the censors.
* ''Anime/AKB0048'''s Mayu Watanabe looks like just another member of the pop idol group...until she raises her arm and a missile launcher complete with aiming visor swings up out of it. This is not really focused on in the show, though.
* In the ''Votoms'' OVA ''The Last Red Shoulder'', one of Chirico's old friend, Byman was seemingly untouched by their former treacherous commander Pailsen (Their leader Gregor was wounded and scarred during a failed hit attempt, while other member Muza had his entire family slaughtered while he wasn't home, and Chirico himself was set up to be marked a traitor), until Chirico (who noticed Byman refused to punch Muza with his right hand when a fight broke out) tossed a lit piece of firewood at him, burning off his sleeve and revealing a robotic arm, as Pailsen had tortured and cut off his entire right arm. They promptly stop mistrusting him after that (Muza believed he had no business being with their group when his life was seemingly fine).
* ''Manga/{{DragonBall}}'' has Major Metallitron, a homage to/parody of Film/TheTerminator. Goku hits him with the Kamehameha, blowing up his head and showing the metal plates in his chest. Despite this and the loss of other parts he is only stopped when [[CutTheJuice his batteries go out]]. The [[Anime/DragonBallThePathToPower movie for the 10th anniversary]] of the franchise does away with the Schwarzenegger resemblance and turns him into a ScaryBlackMan instead.
* During a crossover between ''Manga/{{Dragonball}}'' and ''Manga/DoctorSlump'', Vegeta is shocked when Arale [[LosingYourHead survives]] [[OffWithHisHead her decapitation]] at his hands.
-->'''Vegeta:''' She's not human!?\\
'''Arale Norimaki:''' Nope! I'm a robot!
* Happens in the third story arc of the manga of ''Manga/SailorMoon''. Chibiusa goes to her friend Hotaru's house and discovers that she is actually a cyborg when she sees her without her trademark all black outfit made of a turtle neck, long sleeves and tights. Hotaru's body was made of a black bio-mechanical composition that covered all of her body but her face and hands.
* At the end of the fourth episode of ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool Side:Future'', the camera focuses on one of [[spoiler:Miaya Gekkougahara's]] eyes after she is seemingly knocked out, [[WhamShot revealing her eye is actually a camera.]] We then see that she is being remotely controlled by [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls Monaca Towa]].]]
* In one episode of ''Anime/{{Medabots}}'', Rokusho reunites with his parrot friend, Anton. A few moments into their reunion, Anton seemingly passes away, leaving everybody heartbroken, [[DesecratingTheDead then offended when Ikki's mother begins to mess with Anton's body]], until she reveals that [[NotQuiteDead Anton just needs new batteries]], [[MoodWhiplash leaving everybody annoyed]] that [[NowYouTellMe Rokusho forgot to mention Anton was a robot]].
* In episode 9 of ''Anime/GundamBuildDiversReRise'', Hiroto finds himself staring down the barrel of the Gundam Seltsam's Mega Beam Cannon, his Marsfour Gundam unable to escape. Suddenly, May throws herself and her [=WoDom=] Pod in front of him and takes the shot. It's too much and the Pod explodes... [[spoiler:Only for a mysterious Gunpla leap out of the wreckage, flip and pull a ThreePointLanding, revealing that underneath the [=WoDom=] Pod was the Mobile Doll May, meaning May is an ''EL-Diver'', a spontaneously-generated AI living within the MMORPG Gunpla Battle Nexus Online itself.]]
* In ''Manga/HadesProjectZeorymer'', it's revealed the mysterious girl Miku Himuro is in reality a robot girl who needs to be attached to Zeorymer's main power drive to release its full power.
* In ''Manga/{{Pluto}}'', Abullah is in fact the robot Goji, who Dr. Tenma created.
* ''Anime/Cyborg009MonsterWars'': The sea dragon seen at the beginning of the movie is (unsurprisingly) revealed to be a robot created by Black Ghost.
* ''Manga/QueenEmeraldas'': Looda is revealed to be a Metanoid after she shields Hoshiro from a gunshot with her body.
* ''Manga/WaqWaq'': Set After the end, the main character is a "black blood" (one of many) that fights robotic Kaiju, and discovers a legendary "red blood", or 'Kami'. The reveal- [[spoiler:the 'kami' is an otherwise ordinary schoolgirl pulled out of the setting's past, and the "black bloods" are descendants of robots/androids that had rebelled; the Kaiju are what's left of Humanity's defensive weaponry systems.]]

* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** ''X-Men'' #100's cover showed the new ''X-Men'' (Storm, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Banshee) fighting the original team (Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Angel, Beast, and Iceman). The fight actually happened in the issue, with the new X-Men unwilling to fight all-out against their friends. Readers would've been tipped off, beside the way that Cyclops and Marvel Girl -- previously seen being knocked out by the villain of the week -- suddenly want to kill their friends, and more so when [[GeniusCripple Professor X]] ''stands up'' to punch Wolverine. But Wolverine realizes that the original X-Men are robots because they didn't smell right. The robots were reduced to scrap metal pretty quickly after that.
** Arcade makes robots convincing enough that his appearances in comics usually end up being robots. He was so good at this that when he made a double of Nightcrawler, Mystique mistook it for her son and couldn't bring herself to kill it. (Had no problem vaporizing her daughter Rogue though.)
** ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'': Nicole, the orphan Monet and Terry meet in Paris and later bring to the U.S., is revealed to have just been posing as an orphaned ex-mutant and was actually a robot created by The Isolationist to infiltrate XF Investigations.

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Doctor Doom has [[ActuallyADoombot a battalion of robot duplicates]], all programmed to act as if they were him, unless a) there's more than one of them in the room, or b) the real Doom is present.
* James-Michael's [[spoiler:parents]] in ''ComicBook/OmegaTheUnknown''.
* This was a WhatCouldHaveBeen in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics''. Sometime after the Endgame arc, the original plan was that Sally had been DeadAllAlong since that arc, and the Sally that's been in the comic since then was in fact a robotic clone who became self aware and ultimately rebelled against Eggman. However, this was given ExecutiveVeto, so Sally ultimately survived Endgame and the clone never appears.
* ''Boris the Bear'', revealing to Boris (and us) that he's a robot.
* In the final panel of the Creator/ECComics story "Strictly Business," the husband shows how easily he could enter into a deliberately SexlessMarriage and tolerate it for three years by opening up his chest...
* During ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'', Karn goes after a version of Spider-Man and impales him with his staff. Spidey responds by playing dead, then blasting him with a sonic cannon, his cybernetic parts flipping open.
* The premises holding Jason in ''ComicBook/JasonXSpecial'' is eventually revealed to be almost entirely staffed by androids, much to dismay of his mother's spirit, who wants proper revenge for her son.
-->'''Pamela Voorhees:''' They're not real. Is ''anyone'' here real?
* In ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity Guidebook #1'', the heroes of Earth-42 are revealed to be androids, explaining how they are incapable of being killed.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'':
** After saving the city in Necropolis, Judge Dredd investigates a theater after reports of multiple Judge Death sightings. It turns out they were all just robot duplicates of the real article.
** The penultimate issue of "Dark Judges: Deliverance" reveals that the prophet of the Mortarians, the sinister Mother Kalulah, is just an artificial intelligence programmed with the memetic suggestion that life is suffering and must end. Its creator Zee was a suicidal girl who became the robot's first victim.

* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates3'': While most of the team is off chasing Magneto, Wasp finds Hank has been knocked out. She's saved from an attack by Iron Man, who then takes off his armor's faceplate to reveal he's also a robot.
* In ''ComicBook/BenoitBrisefer'', it's revealed that "Lady d'Olphine" is Madame Adolphine II, a robot created by Vladlavodka based on the real Madame Adolphine.
* ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures'': It occurs with Null's mercenaries -who turn out to be robotic- during the "Terracide" arc.
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersSinsOfTheWreckers'': The animals harassing the Wreckers turn out to be the Mayhems in their alternate modes, disguised to get close to Verity and the Aequitas slug.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Firefly}}'' comics from Creator/BoomStudios, "Return to Earth-That-Was" has Zoe encounter a robot clone of her late husband Wash. initially she thinks someone is impersonating Wash but then the robot gets damaged and its metal is seen through its flesh-like covering. It was meant to trap Zoe, but since it had Wash's personality and some of his memories, it acted as he would have and helped her instead.
* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica:'' At one point Superia tries pulling a YouKillItYouBoughtIt on the current director of A.I.M.. She's a little surprised when he gets up a moment later and reveals he's part-Adaptoid ("isn't everyone?"), and can therefore survive having a hole blown in his chest.

* In ''Fanfic/IfIOnlyHadAHeart'', Izuku tries to make his junior high school debut as normal as possible by hiding his handmade prosthetic arm and eye so that he wouldn't be judged for his disabilities. [[spoiler:He drops the act when stepping in to defend another Quirkless boy from a bully, easily overpowering said bully with said arm while intimidating him with [[RedEyesTakeWarning his glowing red cybernetic eye.]]]]
* ''Fanfic/SteelSoulSaga'': As [[https://cdn-img.fimfiction.net/story/nuye-1432441087-40308-medium the cover image]] of ''Steel Soul'' implies, this is what happens to Sweetie Belle by total surprise in that story.
* ''Fanfic/TheFurminator'' has Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog discovering that Miles "Tails" Prower is an infiltration unit created by Dr Robotnik, with Tails himself having been unaware of this.

* ''The Quest for Saint Aquin'' by Creator/AnthonyBoucher. The quest involves a priest riding an artificially intelligent [[MechanicalHorse robot ass]] to find the incorruptible body of the eponymous saint. When they find Aquin's still-intact body lying in a cave the priest is overjoyed at finding a genuine miracle, until his robass stomps its foot down on the body's hand, which smashes open to reveal that [[ReligiousRobot Saint Aquin was actually an android]].
* In "Literature/TheSandman1816", the main character falls in love with a woman named Olimpia, who is eventually revealed to be a robot.

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' did this a little differently. They morph dogs, and just-so-happen to run into an old acquaintance of Marco's as he's passing out fliers for the [[AlienInvasion Yeerks' front organization]], and they freak out because... ''Erek has no scent.'' Because this might be a new weapon of the Yeerks, they stalk him until he just-so-happens to get hit by a truck and his hologram shorts out for a split-second. It's not until they morph spiders (which see a different wavelength of light) that they can confirm that he's an android[[note]]Or maybe more of a cynoid in disguise?[[/note]], however. Erek turns into a fairly important minor character, as the Animorphs' spy inside the Yeerk organization and using his and his friends' holographic abilities to impersonate the Animorphs so that they can go into outer space or something without being missed.
* In "The Eleventh Voyage" of Ijon Tichy, the main character of ''Literature/TheStarDiaries'' by Creator/StanislawLem, this gets totally {{inverted|Trope}}; Tichy, sent in a robot disguise to a planet inhabited solely by machines that are hostile to all humanity, discovers in the story's finale [[spoiler:that there is no single robot around the place. All of the alleged machines are in fact secret agents like himself, who have been exposed one by one, and forced to keep up appearances. Furthermore: the computer mastermind behind this plot shows up to be merely a humble human gofer working for the agency responsible for sending all those people on a mission to that planet]]. The story is a parable of living in a country, where everybody upholds the official ideology no one actually believes in, which was the case of People's Republic of Poland at the time when Lem wrote the thing.
* In Creator/FritzLeiber's ''Silver Eggheads'', this trope is ridiculed by a robot writer Zane Gort, who writes books for robots (and is not averse to use an UnRoboticReveal himself):
-->'''Zane Gort:''' You know, it's funny how humans are forever ending stories or episodes with the discovery that the beautiful woman is a robot. Just at the point where it starts to get interesting. And ending it bang without one word of description as to the robot's shape, color, decor, pincher-style and so on, or even telling you whether it's a robot or a robix[[note]]female robot[[/note]].
* ''Literature/AniDroids'':
** In the original short novella ''Literature/{{Argo}}'', Mira believes herself human until she meets the rogue AI known as "Mother," who cuts open Mira's arm to reveal the machinery underneath. Then Mother explains that humans actually lost the RobotWar and humanity has been replaced by androids who think themselves human, the masquerade maintained by the [[MechanicalAnimals ani-droids]] whome they thought served them. She then fixes Mira's arm and erases her memory of the conversation.
** In the rewrite and expansion ''Ani-Droids'', it is instead Mira's FBI agent friend Bobby who is revealed to be a robot when his ani-droid partner accidentally splits his head open attempting to arrest them both. Afterwards Mira's hacked ani-droid companions explain that humanity's population has been declining since the nuclear war a century ago and human-like robots are used to conceal that fact, but Mira herself is flesh-and-blood. Until the final chapter, where Mother [[BrainUploading uploads her brain]] into an ani-droid.
* Played with in the cyberpunk novel ''[=N1MR0D=]'': The protagonist, Stirling aka [=N1M=], knows from the start that he's an android. Hard not to, when he can make phone calls in his head. [[spoiler:The twist is that the ''real'' Stirling is, or rather was, flesh and blood. [=N1M=] is an android created to be a perfect copy of Stirling Lémieux-Cavendish after he was killed. This shocking truth leads to some philosophical contemplation, whether he is his own person or Stirling reborn.]]
* ''Literature/{{Domina}}'': Inverted. While in an [[MiniMecha echo]], Jefferies ends up fighting the Erlking, a humanoid about his size covered in ramshackle armor. He assumes it's another echo of a different model. He's very surprised when he rips its mask off and it's a person instead of another machine. As a warlord, the Erlking has been [[BioAugmentation augmented]] to the point that he can shrug off bullets; fighting a small mech is nothing.

* ''Literature/ZodiacSeries'': [[TeamDad Lord Neith]], the Guardian of Libra, is actually an android. [[spoiler:Hell, he's not even the Guardian; he's a (benevolent) PuppetKing to stand in for the actual Guardian, [[GadgeteerGenius Hysan Dax]].]]