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*** Alternatively, the food Alice consumes leads to chemical reactions that produce electrical energy to make her systems work.

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*** Alternatively, the ** The food Alice consumes leads to chemical reactions that produce electrical energy to make her systems work.
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* '''Played for Horror''': Alice decides that people are made of meat, are therefore edible and starts hunting humans.

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* '''Played for Horror''': Alice decides that that, since people are made of meat, they are therefore edible and starts hunting humans.

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* '''Played for Laughs''':

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* '''Played for Laughs''':Laughs''': Alice needs to eat to sustain herself, but has the dinnertime manners of a BrattyHalfPint with a bad case of KidsHateVegetables.


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* '''Played for Horror''': Alice decides that people are made of meat, are therefore edible and starts hunting humans.

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* '''Subverted''': Alice ''tries'' to eat, but finds she cannot.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Alice ''tries'' to eat, but finds she cannot.cannot.
** [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland Alice]] #5 is an [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Audio-Animatronic]] placed at a dinner scene, it only looks like she's eating.
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* '''Enforced''':

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* '''Enforced''':'''Enforced''': ???

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** '''Inverted''':

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** * '''Inverted''':



** Alice is a cyborg who can plug in a power cord to have one of her subsystems synthesize blood sugars and organic nutrients.



* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':

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* '''Deconstructed''':
'''Deconstructed''': Food doesn't make a very good source of energy compared to fuels and lacks the logistical eases of electrical power.
* '''Reconstructed''':'''Reconstructed''': However so long as Alice doesn't get too much water within her digestive system she can extract energy more efficiently than a biological system as she may run hotter due to not having to worry about proteins denaturing.
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* '''Played for Drama''':

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* '''Played for Drama''':Drama''': Alice relies on food as a power source, and stops eating.

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* '''Inverted''':

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* *** Alternatively, the food Alice consumes leads to chemical reactions that produce electrical energy to make her systems work.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice actually needs to eat more than the humans.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice actually needs to eat even more than the humans.



** Alice is a cyborg and still has a digestive system.

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** Alice is a cyborg and still has a human digestive system.



** Alice is a machine who makes food from her energy.
** Alice gets her energy from whatever her output is.



* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zigzagged''': Some robots can eat, some can't, and some can only eat certain foods.

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* '''Parodied''':
'''Parodied''': The robots eat, but the humans don't.
* '''Zigzagged''': '''Zig-Zagged''': Some robots can eat, some can't, and some can only eat certain foods.



* '''Defied''': Bob designs Alice to ''not'' be able to eat.

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* '''Defied''': Bob designs Alice to ''not'' to be able to eat.



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* '''Conversed''': "How are those cartoon robots eating?!"

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* '''Conversed''': '''Conversed''':
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"How are those cartoon robots eating?!"eating?!"
** "Isn't it convenient that I can share your fuel?" "It'd be more convenient if you didn't eat all my popcorn shrimp!"
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'''Basic Trope''': A {{Robot}} or {{Cyborg}} who eats.
* '''Straight''': Alice the robot eats just like the humans.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice actually needs to eat more than the humans.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Alice ''[[EatingOptional can]]'' eat, but she doesn't ''need'' to.
** Alice can only eat certain foods.
* '''Justified''':
** Alice is a cyborg and still has a digestive system.
** Alice eats fruit and vegetables, which get converted to bio-fuel inside her body to make her systems work.
* '''Inverted''':
* '''Subverted''': Alice ''tries'' to eat, but finds she cannot.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** Bob rewires her so that she can eat.
** However, Charlie, another robot, can eat.
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zigzagged''': Some robots can eat, some can't, and some can only eat certain foods.
* '''Averted''':
** There are no robots or cyborgs.
** Robots and cyborgs can't eat.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''': "How are you eating that?! You're a robot!"
* '''Invoked''': Bob designs Alice to be able to eat.
* '''Exploited''': Alice can pass as human.
* '''Defied''': Bob designs Alice to ''not'' be able to eat.
* '''Discussed''': "Could a robot eat?"
* '''Conversed''': "How are those cartoon robots eating?!"
* '''Implied''': Alice is seen being served food, then later it's gone.
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* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Played for Laughs''':
* '''Played for Drama''':
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