History RidiculouslyHumanRobots / Webcomics

* ''Webcomic/{{Castoff}}'' has [[spoiler: Frankie the cartographer]], a cheerful, YoungerThanTheyLook BandageBabe Cloudcuckoolander who shrugs off snake bites and CannotCrossRunningWater, because it makes him go haywire. If that wasn't for the water thing, we'd never have learned.

* Ping from ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' sleeps like an actual human when she's in idle mode, can use the chemical energy from sugar to recharge her batteries, and in one chapter, she angrily tells Piro that she has ''real'' feelings even though these feelings are simulated. However, she does have a couple of robotic quirks: when she sees Piro all mopey because he couldn't wind up the courage to call Kimiko, Ping misrecognizes his posture and attitude as being rejected by Kimiko, and suddenly goes into GenkiGirl mode. Not bad for a UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 accessory. She is also been explicitly stated to be "fully functional," and WordOfGod has even implied that she has a working uterus.

** Justified as a ''major'' plot point: Florence discovers fairly quickly that the locally-built robots, due to a manufacturing problem, use the same artificial neural structure [[UpliftedAnimal she herself does]], which is ''meant'' to emulate human-like sapience and behavior. And then they're still [[HumanResources recycled for parts when their service days are done]].
* The webcomic ''Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life'' has a cast consisting of nothing but Ridiculously Human Robots, who eat (and gain/lose weight somehow), drink (and get drunk), feel pain and even date and wed each other. It justifies this by explaining that the humans that built them [[spoiler:before humans went extinct]] wanted to make sure robots could better appreciate and interact with normally humans-only pleasantries, such as theme restaurants.

** Later on, Momo shows a more human and well rounded personality than most of the other cast, including things as complex as sadness for the plight of the first AI (it was stuck in a box for several years while it was tested) to gratitude and love for humans in general for accepting AI's so welcomingly.

-->'''Robot News Anchor:''' A massive search party is searching for the missing Secret Angel Princess-Princess as well as GOFOTRON's right arm. Our prayers go out for them both. But more for Secret Angel since she's a person and GOFOTRON's arm is a thing. But then again, I'm a thing, so who cares. Nobody cares about us things.\\
''[beat]''\\
'''Robot News Anchor:''' I hate you all.

* Dr. Robot in The Incredible and Awe Inspiring Serial Adventures of the Amazing Plama-Man not only seems to have an almost sociopathic sense of humor, but is also evil, both of which are decidedly human traits.

* Webcomic/BobAndGeorge plays this trope even straighter than Mega Man [[RuleOfFunny in the name of comedy]] with robots, Mega Man in particular, being capable of eating ice cream, getting drunk and vomiting.

* Stephanie in ''Groovy, Kinda'' is a robot that can actually drink... ''and get drunk.''
* ''Webcomic/NeverMindTheGap'' is an unusually [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard]] and {{justified|Trope}} example. The comic is about a town inhabited by a mix of humans and RidiculouslyHumanRobots, which are almost ''exactly'' like humans personality-wise (though obviously robotic in appearance). They have to go through a very human-like childhood as they mature, and can become romantically involved with each other and with humans. The explanation is that in this universe, AI researchers found no way to make an AI with human-level intelligence ''except'' for modelling the AI very closely on the human mind, and also giving it a fairly humanoid body. Every attempt to make a less human-like AI either failed or resulted in insanity. Intelligent robots were initially found to be useful for a variety of tasks, which explains why people bothered to build them, but eventually, predictably, they wanted to be treated as people; the comic is set in a time and place where they've largely won this fight, and so now they no longer need to be "useful," as such, other than as equal members of society. It's notable that there ''are'' also non-human-like "smart" devices and non-humanoid robots in this setting, but their intelligence and abilities are limited. The RidiculouslyHumanRobots are realistic in other ways -- for instance, the complexities and limitations of their humanoid bodies, and the associated maintenance costs, are explicitly addressed. The possibility of non-human robots is contemplated with the uplifted octopi, who could possibly make robots modeled after their own mind.

* Warmech from ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' is convinced it is an example of this, despite being a walking tank.

* Some of the most memorable characters in the comic ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' are robots, many of whom show quite human behavior.
--->'''[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1400/fc01315.htm Florence Ambrose:]]''' Can we at least try to solve this logically before you robots go all emotional?

-->'''Faye:''' ''Why is fainting even a thing she can do''

* [[ProtagonistTitle The titular character]] in ''Webcomic/{{Pilot}}'' is like this. Aside from his grey skin, one could easily mistake him for a human.

* Ping from ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' sleeps like an actual human when she's in idle mode, can use the chemical energy from sugar to recharge her batteries, and in one chapter, she angrily tells Piro that she has ''real'' feelings even though these feelings are simulated. However, she does have a couple of robotic quirks: when she sees Piro all mopey because he couldn't wind up the courage to call Kimiko, Ping misrecognizes his posture and attitude as being rejected by Kimiko, and suddenly goes into GenkiGirl mode. Not bad for a PlayStation2 accessory. She is also been explicitly stated to be "fully functional," and WordOfGod has even implied that she has a working uterus.

* There turns out to be a few of these in ''Webcomic/TheFarSideOfUtopia''; Ila certainly counts, as does [[spoiler:Mium]], though both have fairly obvious parculiar tendencies. Averted with the only character that looks a robot (Mir) seemingly not being a robot.

* There turns out to be a few of these in ''Webcomic/TheFarSideOfUtopia''; Ila certainly counts, as does [[Spoiler:Mium]], though both have fairly obvious parculiar tendencies. Averted with the only character that looks a robot (Mir) seemingly not being a robot.

-->'''[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1400/fc01315.htm Florence Ambrose:]]''' Can we at least try to solve this logically before you robots go all emotional?

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2252 a woman talking to Slick malfunctions, and Satan shows up to repair her. She's once again apparently human at the end.]]

* Ping from ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' sleeps like an actual human when she's in idle mode, can use the chemical energy from sugar to recharge her batteries, and in one chapter, she angrily tells Piro that she has ''real'' feelings even though these feelings are simulated. However, she does have a couple of robotic quirks: when she sees Piro all mopey because he couldn't wind up the courage to call Kimiko, Ping misrecognizes his posture and attitude as being rejected by Kimiko, and suddenly goes into GenkiGirl mode. Not bad for a PlayStation2 accessory.
** She is also been explicitly stated to be "fully functional," and WordOfGod has even implied that she has a working uterus.

* Pintsize in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' seems to have emotions (mostly schadenfreude and lust) and has even gone through a phase of questioning his gender/sexuality.

** And apparently Roombas are fully functional enough to [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1643 find mates and reproduce]].
** And Pintsize ended up with a laser because a government semi tried to mate with a Best Buy semi.

*** By contrast, several human characters seem excessively two dimensional on more than a few occasions.

* Various Robots from ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' display human-like personalites, and human-like comical incompetence. For example, they hide their presence by labeling their spare part storage room as "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial NO spare robot parts]]". Their gatekeeper, Doorbot, was fooled by Annie's PaperThinDisguise. And the Guardbots attempting to apprehend Annie [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy are completely flummoxed]] when she ''runs away from them''. A possible explanation for this arises later: the robots are {{magitek}}.
** Also, the latest arc features a Robot King (who draws emotions on 'his' face with markers), a Robot Society, in turmoil, nonetheless. And let's not even count the fact that the robots apparently have true emotions, are capable of being moved by a painting and upset by a wreckage. {{Magitek}} at its finest...

** Don't be ridiculous, he's ''clearly'' human. Just look at his human lip, and his [[EyeBeams human laser]]!

-->'''Robot News Anchor:''' A massive search party is searching for the missing Secret Angel Princess-Princess as well as GOFOTRON's right arm. Our prayers go out for them both. But more for Secret Angel since she's a person and GOFOTRON's arm is a thing. But then again, I'm a thing, so who cares. Nobody cares about us things.
-->''(beat)''
-->I hate you all.
* The Muses in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
-->'''Master Payne:''' The Muses were renowned as miraculous, beautiful machines -- but few would believe they were truly ''aware''. And maybe they're ''not''. It would certainly be ''easier'' to create machines that merely ''simulate'' emotion. However ... even if her grief is artificial, it is ''destroying'' her.

-->"Pain will help us cut maintenance costs." You didn't mention how much it would ''hurt''.

* ''Webcomic/NeverMindTheGap'' is an unusually [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard]] and {{justified|Trope}} example. The comic is about a town inhabited by a mix of humans and RidiculouslyHumanRobots, which are almost ''exactly'' like humans personality-wise (though obviously robotic in appearance). They have to go through a very human-like childhood as they mature, and can become romantically involved with each other and with humans. The explanation is that in this universe, AI researchers found no way to make an AI with human-level intelligence ''except'' for modelling the AI very closely on the human mind, and also giving it a fairly humanoid body. Every attempt to make a less human-like AI either failed or resulted in insanity. Intelligent robots were initially found to be useful for a variety of tasks, which explains why people bothered to build them, but eventually, predictably, they wanted to be treated as people; the comic is set in a time and place where they've largely won this fight, and so now they no longer need to be "useful," as such, other than as equal members of society. It's notable that there ''are'' also non-human-like "smart" devices and non-humanoid robots in this setting, but their intelligence and abilities are limited. The RidiculouslyHumanRobots are realistic in other ways -- for instance, the complexities and limitations of their humanoid bodies, and the associated maintenance costs, are explicitly addressed.
** The possibility of non-human robots is contemplated with the uplifted octopi, who could possibly make robots modeled after their own mind.

* Tentadora from ''Webcomic/{{Zoophobia}}'': At first, she looks like she might be human or at the very least, some humanoid creature, knowing the setting. But then she changes to [[http://www.zoophobiacomic.com/Zoophobia/?p=443 a more robotic look]], revealing herself to be a robot with a ridiculously humanoid form.

* Tentadora from ''Webcomic/{{Zoophobia}}'': At first, she looks like she might be human or at least, some humanoid creature. But then she changes to [[http://www.zoophobiacomic.com/Zoophobia/?p=443 a more robotic look]], revealing herself to be a robot with a ridiculously humanoid form.

* Tentadora from ''Webcomic/{{Zoophobia}}'': At first, she looks like she might be human or at least, some humanoid creature. But then she changes to [[http://www.zoophobiacomic.com/Zoophobia/?p=443 a more robotic look]] revealing herself to be a robot with a ridiculously humanoid form.

** Don't be ridiculous, he's ''clearly'' human. Just look at his human lip, and his [[ArmCannon human laser]]!

* [[BigBad Zenith]] from ''WebComic/CommanderKitty''. She wants a [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/04/25/plot/ biological boyfriend]], [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/07/04/nothing-like-a-good-rant/ has wild mood swings]], [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/09/12/table-for-blue/ may or may not be capable of eating]], [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/12/12/nothing-to-see-here/ gets tired easily]] and even [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2011/08/28/process-of-elimination/ cries]].

** "No one is sure who decided it would be a good idea to give [=AnthroPCs=] libido, but everyone agrees it would be more trouble than it's worth to remove it. Besides, the horny little bastards would revolt."