History Main / TVHeadRobot

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* ''Film/RoboCop2''
** A variation with Cain; after he's forcibly converted into Robocop 2, he has a screen that deploys from his body instead of being a constant feature.
** The first of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=timfETD-N4o&feature=player_detailpage#t=43s failed Robo prototypes]] has a screen covered by a metal faceshield.

%%* WEEBO in ''Film/{{Flubber}}'', but the monitor flips up; she uses it whenever she needs to [[DeadpanSnarker snark]].

* ''[[Animation/TheMindsEye Odyssey Into The Mind's Eye]]'' features characters with televisions for heads, although whether they are actually robots is up for debate.
* The Ghost of Christmas Future in ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'' has only a TV monitor under its cowl, showing either static or a skull-like face.
* The robot GERTY in the movie ''Film/{{Moon}}'' has a screen displaying an emoji in lieu of a face.

** Tee Vee returned to Lego as "Seymour Tee Vee" in a 2020 WesternAnimation/HiddenSide set once again an updated take on its original 2001 form as a walking TV set with legs. A 2021 WesternAnimation/Ninjago set continues the Seymour Tee Vee design with two Wu Bots that are also walking TV sets with the same build style as Tee Vee

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%%* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': Securitron. The face depends on their purpose (and which AI is currently running it). The majority broadcast the picture's bulb-nosed cop, or a soldier if the player takes certain actions, Victor has a stereotypical cowboy, and Yes Man is a smiling face.

"I am Overlooker Zet of the Central Hierarchy of the Array," announced the face on the android phone.

%%* ''Film/RoboCop2'':
%%** The BigBad Cain, after he is turned into a cyborg.
%%** One of the failed Robo prototypes ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=timfETD-N4o&feature=player_detailpage#t=43s]]).

* Popo from the Korean show TELEMONSTER is a robot with the ability to turn its mouth into a television screen which it has the ability to [[TrappedInTVLand suck people into]].

%%* ''Webcomic/ThePropertyOfHate'''s [[NominalHero RGB]] is, if not an actual robot, at least a [[SurrealSymbolicHeads TV-Headed]]... [[MysteriousPast Something]].

* Neon J. of ''VideoGame/NoStraightRoads'' is a cyborg who has a sonar screen for a head from surviving grievous wounds in the Border Wars. Oddly enough, he's still capable of breathing despite having no visible nose or mouth, as seen when having a coughing fit after 1010's defeat.

* The reoccurring character of Tee Vee in various Franchise/LEGO themes. Tee Vee first appeared in 2001 in the Toys/LEGOAlphaTeam theme as a walking television set with legs, before becoming an automated submersible with a TV face in the following release wave. The final iteration of Tee Vee in Alpha Team though was in an android body losing the TV face.

* ''VideoGame/MetallicChild'': Pan, one of [[PlayerCharacter Rona]]'s friends aboard [[SpaceStation the Life Stream]], Pan, has a screen that he uses to make eye expressions.

%%* Monimon, Monitamon, [[spoiler:Shonitamon]] & [[spoiler:Hi-Vision Monitamon]] from ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars''

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%%* Lord Canti of ''Anime/{{FLCL}}''

%%* The Block bots from ''Anime/PokemonDestinyDeoxys''.

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* Ibor, Synonamess Botch's GiantMook, in ''Film/TwiceUponATime''. Unlike most other examples of this trope, it possesses little to no sentience, strictly following Botch's orders without question. Most of the time, it uses its screen to display clips from old movies or other cartoons reflecting some other character's emotional state.

* ''Literature/TVsFriend'' by Taro Gomi is about a robot with a TV head.

* A variant in ''VideoGame/{{Observer}}''; [[spoiler when Dan Lazarski connects to the mind of the killer that stalked him through most of the game, one of the first things he sees is a group of people staring at him with boxy [=TVs=] for heads, all showing twitching human mouths in black-and-white.]]

* [[PunnyName Monita]], the host of ''VideoGame/NintendoLand'', has a monitor for her face. Her look is that of a more modern flatscreen, and somewhat resembles a UsefulNotes/WiiU [=GamePad=].

%%* The Lord Of Games in VideoGame/BanjoKazooieNutsAndBolts is one

* [[PunnyName Monita]], TheHost from ''VideoGame/NintendoLand'', has a monitor for her face. Her look is that of a more modern flatscreen, and somewhat resembles a UsefulNotes/WiiU [=GamePad=].

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Lord Canti of ''Anime/{{FLCL}}''
* ''Anime/DeadLeaves'' has Retro, who may not be all robot.
* The Block bots from ''Anime/PokemonDestinyDeoxys''.
* Monimon, Monitamon, [[spoiler:Shonitamon]] & [[spoiler:Hi-Vision Monitamon]] from ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars''
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* Several of the [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/spdrslyr.htm Spider-Slayers]] have this, including the first.
* Telly, the "son" of Tank and Booga, in ''ComicBook/TankGirl''.
* Dr. [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Arnim Zola]], who's preserved himself in a robot body. His face is displayed on a screen in his chest.

* Walter from ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''. When he's distressed, his face projects static.

* ''Film/RoboCop2'''s BigBad Cain, after he is turned into a cyborg.
** Also in the same film, one of the failed Robo prototypes ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=timfETD-N4o&feature=player_detailpage#t=43s]]).
* The Walking TV from ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs''.

* TV from ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'', who apparantly has a short, balding man for a face.
* WEEBO in ''Film/{{Flubber}}'', but the monitor flips up; she uses it whenever she needs to [[DeadpanSnarker snark]].
* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' has the First-Person Shooter in ''[[FictionalVideoGame Hero's Duty]]'', which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin doesn't appear at all to the player]] but is visible as a TV Head Robot to game characters and does have a personality (although not a voice) when the player isn't controlling it.
* ''[[Animation/TheMindsEye Odyssey Into The Mind's Eye]]'' features characters with televisions for heads (although whether they are ''robots'' is up for debate). This is the ''least'' strangest thing that gets used as a head.

* Sheldon of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' tries to become one of these, controlled from his bedroom, to avoid sickness, danger, etc.
* iTeacher from ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide''.
* 790 from ''Series/{{Lexx}}'', whose head mostly consists of three screens.
* Datas from ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'' is pretty much an arcade machine with arms and legs. The screen is his face by default but can also show anything (such as communications, or whatever the MonsterOfTheWeek is up to once detected.)
* Holly from ''Series/RedDwarf'' normally appears as just a face on a screen, but has on occasion moved around the ship in the form of a wheeled robot with a television screen for a head (most notably in the episode "Queeg", where Holly is usurped and given the duty of night watchman).

[[folder:Music]]
* One of these appears in the music video for the Music/{{Muse}} song "The 2nd Law: Unsustainable" from their album ''The 2nd Law''. It's kinda [[http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/heartlight/avatars/gabgbaaeh.jpg creepy-looking]].

[[folder:Theater]]
* The ''Music/AmericanIdiot'' musical often has images of people with televisions for heads painted in the background.
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* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'': In one first-person area, at the end of a hallway is a Joker mannequin with a TV for a head. [[spoiler: It's actually him.]]
* The Lord Of Games in VideoGame/BanjoKazooieNutsAndBolts is one
* In ''VideoGame/TheDishwasher: Dead Samurai'', the pentultimate boss has a TV set for a head, and the achievement for beating him is "Smash Your TV".
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': The page picture is a Securitron. The face depends on their purpose (and which AI is currently running it). The majority broadcast the picture's bulb-nosed cop, or a soldier if the player takes certain actions, Victor has a stereotypical cowboy, and Yes Man is a smiling face.
* Everyone (except maybe player character) in ''VideoGame/MondoMedicals'' and ''VideoGame/MondoAgency'' fits this trope.
* The Bruiser from ''VideoGame/{{Doom 3}}: Resurrection of Evil'' has a TV ''mouth''.
* The Squarians in ''VideoGame/LevelUp''.

* One of Metalhead's costumes in ''VideoGame/GuitarHero III'' is one.
* These show up as an enemy in the N64 ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' game.
* Robots in ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic III: The Isles of Terra''.
* Telly from ''VideoGame/ChibiRobo'' is a ''RobotBuddy'' that takes his namesake from the fact that he is a tiny flying TV head.

** Mettaton is a big metal box on a wheel with a monitor that often shows a big "M". [[spoiler:Then you flip his switch, and [[BishonenLine he ditches this trope]].]]

* A variant in ''VideoGame/{{Observer}}'' [[spoiler: when Dan Lazarski connects to the mind of the killer that stalked him through most of the game. One of the first things he sees is a group of people staring at him with boxy [=TVs=] for heads, all showing twitching human mouths in black-and-white.]]

* One of the late-game enemies in ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'' is a robot with a CRT monitor for a head. However, the screen is used only to display its BlackBeadEyes (actually yellow eyes on black screen, but the principle is the same).

* Some versions of ''VideoGame/SpaceStation13'' have these as a playable race named the Integrated Positronic Chassis. Their positronic brain is uniquely placed inside their chest rather than their head. Not to be confused with [[ArtificialHuman synths]] or the station AI's worker cyborgs.
* Everyone in ''VideoGame/JobSimulator'' appears to be some kind of hovering computer monitor with a digital face on the screen and a coffee cup welded to the side.

* ''Webcomic/RiceBoy'' has The One Electronic (T.O.E.), a bit of an unusual example. Instead of pictures drawn by the author, he projects scenes from movies and television shows much more like, well, an actual TV. [[FridgeLogic He also smokes.]]
* The [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/09/25/dark-science-05/ TV cat]] [[note]]last couple of frames[[/note]] in the ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'' StoryArc ''Dark Science''. As of yet, [[AmbiguousRobots the nature of this creature (robot? cyborg??) isn't clear, though]].
* ''Webcomic/ThePropertyOfHate'''s [[NominalHero RGB]] is, if not an actual robot, at least a [[SurrealSymbolicHeads TV-Headed]]... [[MysteriousPast Something]].
* Doctor from ''Webcomic/OnlyHuman''.
* The Objectheads in ''Webcomic/{{Pilot}}'' have electronic devices in place of heads. When it comes to what it is, they run the gamut; Some have old, box televisions, some have flatscreens, while others have phones.
** Jerry, while not an Objecthead, has a monochrome display instead of a face. It displays a question mark most of the time, but can display other things as well.
* Yuven Hubbub and Commander Andrew from ''[[http://mystereobot.smackjeeves.com/thecharacters/ My Stereo Bot]]''.
* ''Webcomic/{{Fortuna}}'': The first gen Apollo, Artemis, Eros and Hermes AI units have this, and later models are likely to have this.

* D-nerd from ''WesternAnimation/TheBotsMaster''
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' has Karen, Plankton's "computer-wife", sometimes. Most of the time her head's an old computer monitor placed on a thin pole attached to a base with wheels and occasionally she'll have arms as well. One episode has her and Plankton going through a rough patch in their relationship and Plankton upgrades to a newer, [[HartmanHips curvier]] computer bot with a sleeker monitor.
* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'' has TV Monster.

[[folder:Other]]
* [[http://www.hipsoul.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=77&products_id=699&hipid=740afac6f2df4c7b3c95485c95f73745 This T-shirt.]]
* [[http://www.bronze.co.jp/books/9784893093622/ This children's book]] by Taro Gomi is about a robot with a TV head.
* There actually are several cyborg or robot species popular in the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom that have this design. Probably the most popular species like is the Protogen, which looks like a furry cyborg with screen for a face that protrudes like a snout. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_wkbLL0fqM Here is a video of a real life protogen costume.]]
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* [[http://telepresencerobots.com/ Telepresence robots, for people to do work in two places at once]].
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* In ''VideoGame/{{SOMA}}'', a robot [[spoiler: with a brain scan of Catherine Chun inside]] uses a flat-screen monitor to communicate.

* ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' has the First-Person Shooter in ''[[FictionalVideoGame Hero's Duty]]'', which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin doesn't appear at all to the player]] but is visible as a TV Head Robot to game characters and does have a personality (although not a voice) when the player isn't controlling it.

* The Ghost of Christmas Future in ''Film/Scrooged'' has only a TV monitor under its cowl, showing either static or a skull-like face.
* The robot GERTY in the movie ''Film/Moon'' has a screen displaying an emoji in lieu of a face.