History Main / UnroboticReveal

* In the FailedPilotEpisode of ''Film/WEIRDWorld'', Dr Noah's secretary Dianne is believed to be one of his robotic creations after her arm is accidentally torn open to reveal machine parts. However, Noah quickly reveals that the arm's just a prosthetic he made for her after she lost the original arm in an accident, and Dianne is otherwise completely human. [[spoiler: The ''real'' robot in disguise is Noah himself, a FullConversionCyborg complete with his own RoboticReveal.]]

* In "WesternAnimation/ToHareIsHuman", [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]] consults a computer to find ways of capturing WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, all of which fail. At the end, the computer opens up and out comes...
-->'''Bugs Bunny:''' Of course, the real beauty of this machine is that it has only one moving part.

* Played for horror with the {{golem}}s of ''Franchise/DragonAge'', who used to be [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves]] until a MadScientist encased them in rock and poured molten [[GreenRocks lyrium]] through the slits in the case until they stopped screaming.

* Played for horror in ''Franchise/MassEffect''. The Reapers are initally portayed as incredibly powerful and ancient sentient spaceships. Then we find out how Reapers are created: millions of people taken from the dominant race during a Reaper Cycle are ''liquefied'' into technorganic slurry that is fed to a Reaper superstructure. Worse, it's implied that the minds of the victims live on inside the Reaper and act as a MindHive. When Sovereign claimed that each Reaper was a nation, he wasn't kidding.

** Also spoofed in "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E1AmazonWomenInTheMood Amazon Women in the Mood]]", in which the Femputer that rules the planet Amazonia turns out to be operated by a fembot, who in turn had escaped from a planet ruled by a male bot operating a male computer. Leave it to the geeks at ''Futurama'' to have a machine pretending to be a different machine.

* In ''Film/TheWolverine'', Wolverine rips off the Silver Samurai's head to reveal [[spoiler:Ichirō Yashida inside]].

* Blog/HorseEbooks, Website/{{Twitter}} sensation and purveyor of WordSaladHumor, was eventually revealed to have been under human control since 2011. It was a true spambot before then.

* Horse_ebooks, Website/{{Twitter}} sensation and purveyor of WordSaladHumor, was eventually revealed to have been under human control since 2011. It was a true spambot before then.

* The ending of ''Anime/KeyTheMetalIdol'' reveals that [[spoiler:Key had been human all along]].

** Daleks are not really this, as they get revealed early on as mutants encased in mobile battle armour.

** Similarly, in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', when Kylo Ren removes his mask to reveal that, unlike Vader, he's completely human, and seemingly only dresses like Vader for the sake of dressing like Vader.

Inversion of the RoboticReveal, where a machine that was assumed to be a robot turns out to hold a ManInTheMachine or some other living creature powering or controlling it. They may also be an ostensibly RidiculouslyHumanRobot who turns out to be an actual human after all. A MobileSuitHuman may allow this trope to be ''preceded'' by a RoboticReveal as a RedHerring as there's a lot of machinery to expose before the actual pilot is revealed. For reveals involving a machine who ''used'' to be a living creature, see WasOnceAMan.

-->-- '''Sideshow Mel''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

** A planet populated entirely by robots made a horror movie where the twist ending reveals the killer is actually a human. The human (played by a robot actor) even opens his chest panel to show off his squishy internal organs.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' episode "The Edge", the red leader of the robotic gargoyles created by David Xanatos turns out to be Xanatos himself wearing an exo-frame.