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**For bonus points the Trope is actually discussed very early in the play.
--->'''Helena:''' Perhaps it’s silly of me, but why do you manufacture female Robots when—when—\\
'''Domin:''' When sex means nothing to them?\\
'''Helena:''' Yes.\\
'''Domin:''' There’s a certain demand for them, you see. [[RobotMaid Servants]], saleswomen, stenographers. People are ''used'' to it.
--->'''Helena:''' Perhaps it’s silly of me, but why do you manufacture female Robots when—when—\\
'''Domin:''' When sex means nothing to them?\\
'''Helena:''' Yes.\\
'''Domin:''' There’s a certain demand for them, you see. [[RobotMaid Servants]], saleswomen, stenographers. People are ''used'' to it.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: By the end of second act all of humanity save for one man is killed by the robots. However since the formula necessary for creation of more robots has been burned, robots are too doomed to die since they killed all people capable of re-creating it.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: By the end of second act all of humanity save for one man is killed by the robots. However since the formula necessary for creation of more robots has been burned, robots are too doomed to die since they killed all people capable of re-creating it.
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* [[ApocalypseHow/Class3a Apocalypse How - 3A:]] By the end of the play all but one human was eradicated by robots who themselves are doomed to die within twenty years, due to life-formula being lost and anyone capable of re-creating it dead.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: By the end of second act all of humanity save for one man is killed by the robots. However since the formula necessary for creation of more robots has been burned, robots are too doomed to die since they killed all people capable of retreating it.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: By the end of second act all of humanity save for one man is killed by the robots. However since the formula necessary for creation of more robots has been burned, robots are too doomed to die since they killed all people capable of retreating re-creating it.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: By the end of second act all of humanity save for one man is killed by the robots. However since the formula necessary for creation of more robots has been burned, robots are too doomed to die since they killed all people capable of retreating it.
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A play by [[Creator/KarelCapek Karel Čapek]], set mostly in an island where they manufacture [[ArtificialHuman artificial people]] called robots, which was released in book form in 1920 and premiered in [[OlderThanTelevision 1921]]. ''R.U.R.'' -- a.k.a. ''Rossum's Universal Robots'' -- tells a story we might be familiar with.
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A play by [[Creator/KarelCapek Karel Čapek]], set mostly in an island where they manufacture [[ArtificialHuman artificial people]] called robots, which was released in book form in 1920 and premiered in [[OlderThanTelevision 1921]]. ''R.U.R.'' -- a.k.a. ''Rossum's Universal Robots'' -- [[OnceOriginalNowCommon tells a story we might be familiar with.
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The play is most notable for featuring [[TropeNamers the very first use of the word "robot"]], taken from the Czech word for serf labor[[note]]or, more precisely, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvee compulsory unpaid labour in a feudal system]][[/note]]. (Capek credited his brother Josef for coming up with the new word). The term took off like wildfire through numerous languages, despite the play's own robots being quite different from the modern concept of the term.
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The play is most notable for featuring [[TropeNamers the very first use of the word "robot"]], taken from the Czech word for serf labor[[note]]or, more precisely, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvee compulsory unpaid labour in a feudal system]][[/note]]. (Capek (Čapek credited his brother Josef for coming up with the new word). The term took off like wildfire through numerous languages, despite the play's own robots being quite different from the modern concept of the term.
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* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Inverted. The leader of the robot government, Damon, asks Alquist to vivisect him in order to find out how to make more robots. Alquist tries it, but breaks down in the middle. He threatened to do this to Helena and Primus to test how they would react.
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* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Inverted. The leader of the robot government, Damon, asks Alquist to vivisect him in order to find out how to make more robots. Alquist tries it, but breaks down in the middle. He threatened later threatens to do this to Helena and Primus to test how they would react.
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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: The robots can only be manufactured following a recipe that is kept secret by the company. Harry wanted to use this to their advantage. The rebellion itself, along with the subsequent genocide, was rendered pointless because the robots [[HoistByHisOwnPetard killed the very people that ran the facility they were manufactured in.]]
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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: The robots can only be manufactured following a recipe that is kept secret by the company. Harry wanted to use this to their advantage. The rebellion itself, along with the subsequent genocide, was rendered pointless because the robots [[HoistByHisOwnPetard killed the very people that ran the facility they were manufactured in.]]
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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup:
** The robots can only be manufactured following a recipe that is kept secret by the company. Harry wanted to use this to their advantage.
** The rebellion itself, along with the subsequent genocide, was rendered pointless because the robots [[HoistByHisOwnPetard killed the very people that ran the facility they were manufactured in.]]
** The robots can only be manufactured following a recipe that is kept secret by the company. Harry wanted to use this to their advantage.
** The rebellion itself, along with the subsequent genocide, was rendered pointless because the robots [[HoistByHisOwnPetard killed the very people that ran the facility they were manufactured in.]]
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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup:
**NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: The robots can only be manufactured following a recipe that is kept secret by the company. Harry wanted to use this to their advantage.
**advantage. The rebellion itself, along with the subsequent genocide, was rendered pointless because the robots [[HoistByHisOwnPetard killed the very people that ran the facility they were manufactured in.]]
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** The rebellion itself was rendered pointless because the robots [[HoistByHisOwnPetard killed the very people that ran the facility they were manufactured in.]]
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** The rebellion itself itself, along with the subsequent genocide, was rendered pointless because the robots [[HoistByHisOwnPetard killed the very people that ran the facility they were manufactured in.]]
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Apparently, the robots lacked the ability to sense pain, something which was really counterproductive when robots ended up unintentionally destroying themselves. So they were redesigned to feel exactly that. And then the governments of the world decided that they'd make great soldiers. Outside the island, a rogue robot, Damon, organizes a rebellion. By the time Harry, Helena, and the staff find out... well...
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Apparently, the robots lacked the ability to sense pain, something which was really counterproductive when robots ended up unintentionally destroying themselves. So they were redesigned to feel exactly that. And then the governments of the world decided that they'd make great soldiers. Outside the island, a rogue robot, Damon, organizes a rebellion. By the time Harry, Helena, and the staff find out... well...
[[KillAllHumans well...]]
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* MeaningfulName: Rossum is derived from the Czech "rozum" meaning "reason". Domin is derived from the Latin "dominus" meaning "master of the house." Robot is derived from the word "robota" which was forced labor for ordinary people on the fields of the nobility (the English equivalent would be "Corvée or Socage").
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* MeaningfulName: Rossum is derived from a real surname, but also a hidden pun, hinting at the Czech "rozum" word ''rozum'', meaning "reason". Domin is derived from the Latin "dominus" ''dominus'' meaning "master of the house." house" or "lord". Robot is derived from the word "robota" ''robota'' which was forced labor for ordinary people on the fields of the nobility (the English equivalent would be "Corvée or Socage").Socage") and later became a more general colloquialism for "labour" (work in general) or "drudgery" (exhausting work). Karel Čapek originally wanted to name the play's artificial humans ''laboři'' (a neologism for "labourers"), but found it boring or cheesy, and according to legend, his busy-with-painting brother Josef suggested ''roboti'' ("robots") instead.
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* OrganicTechnology: Sort of. The robots in the play are artificial humans made of a synthetic substitute to protoplasm, simplified in function to the point that they acted like machines. They're still assembled like machines as opposed to grown like most examples of clones and [[MeatsackRobot meatsack robots].
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* OrganicTechnology: Sort of. The robots in the play are artificial humans made of a synthetic substitute to protoplasm, simplified in function to the point that they acted like machines. They're still assembled like machines as opposed to grown like most examples of clones and [[MeatsackRobot meatsack robots].robots]].
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* OrganicTechnology: Sort of. The robots in the play are artificial humans made of a synthetic substitute to protoplasm, simplified in function to the point that they acted like machines. They're still assembled like machines as opposed to grown like most examples of clones and [[MeatsackRobot]]s.
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* OrganicTechnology: Sort of. The robots in the play are artificial humans made of a synthetic substitute to protoplasm, simplified in function to the point that they acted like machines. They're still assembled like machines as opposed to grown like most examples of clones and [[MeatsackRobot]]s.[[MeatsackRobot meatsack robots].
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* OrganicTechnology: Sort of. The robots in the play are artificial humans made of a synthetic substitute to protoplasm, simplified in function to the point that they acted like machines. They're still assembled like machines as opposed to grown like most examples of clones and MeatsackRobots.[[MeatsackRobot]]s.
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* OrganicTechnology: Sort of. The robots in the play are artificial humans made of a synthetic substitute to protoplasm, simplified in function to the point that they acted like machines. They're still assembled and treated like machines as opposed to grown like most examples of clones and MeatSackRobots.
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* OrganicTechnology: Sort of. The robots in the play are artificial humans made of a synthetic substitute to protoplasm, simplified in function to the point that they acted like machines. They're still assembled and treated like machines as opposed to grown like most examples of clones and MeatSackRobots.MeatsackRobots.
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* OrganicTechnology: Sort of. The robots in the play are artificial humans made of a synthetic substitute to protoplasm, simplified in function to the point that they acted like machines. They're still assembled and treated like machines as opposed to grown like most examples of clones and MeatSackRobots.
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Duh. But the end result was a process.
** Rossum the elder, an avowed Atheist, was obsessed with the idea of creating one on purpose to prove the point that God wasn't involved in the creation of man. This attempt failed.
** Rossum the younger, who inherited his uncle's work, decided to avert the trope by creating organic machines that are simplified facsimiles of humans that had no desires and free will to speak of. At first, they weren't even given pain receptors and thus ended up unwittingly destroying themselves.
** It was during Harry's tenure as head of RUR that the problem was averted by introducing the robots to pain. Ostensibly mean to get the robots to avoid self-destructive behaviors, it was then that they truly became ridiculously human, even if the manufacturers themselves didn't think so.
** Rossum the elder, an avowed Atheist, was obsessed with the idea of creating one on purpose to prove the point that God wasn't involved in the creation of man. This attempt failed.
** Rossum the younger, who inherited his uncle's work, decided to avert the trope by creating organic machines that are simplified facsimiles of humans that had no desires and free will to speak of. At first, they weren't even given pain receptors and thus ended up unwittingly destroying themselves.
** It was during Harry's tenure as head of RUR that the problem was averted by introducing the robots to pain. Ostensibly mean to get the robots to avoid self-destructive behaviors, it was then that they truly became ridiculously human, even if the manufacturers themselves didn't think so.
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* RoboRomance: In the final act, a robot named Primus and a robot girl named Helena fall in love with each other. This leads Alquist to realize that robots aren't just machines, and while humanity might be extinct, intelligent life will continue to flourish.
* RoboticPsychopath: Radius is arguably an example.
* RoboticPsychopath: Radius is arguably an example.
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* RoboRomance: In the final act, a robot named Primus and a robot girl named Helena fall in love with each other. This leads Alquist to realize that robots aren't [[JustAMachine just machines, machines]], and while humanity might be extinct, intelligent life will continue to flourish.
* RoboticPsychopath: What the scientists presumed "Robot Tick" was, especially as displayed by Radius. Averted, as while Radius himself isarguably an example.prone to violence, he's not actually devoid of empathy. He spares Alquist because he sees him as one of them, a manual laborer.
* RoboticPsychopath: What the scientists presumed "Robot Tick" was, especially as displayed by Radius. Averted, as while Radius himself is
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* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Inverted. The leader of the robot government, Damon, asks Alquist to dissect him in order to find out how to make more robots. Alquist tries it, but breaks down in the middle.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The TropeCodifier.
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* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Inverted. The leader of the robot government, Damon, asks Alquist to dissect vivisect him in order to find out how to make more robots. Alquist tries it, but breaks down in the middle.
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* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The TropeCodifier.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The TropeCodifier.
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The robots spare Alquist because he does manual labor like them. The robots then found out that the formula for their manufacture was lost (it was destroyed by Helena; Harry wanted to use that as a bargaining tool). Lacking the knowledge to manufacture themselves, with a lifespan of only 10 years, and relying solely on the only human left, the robots (and thus, all intelligent life on Earth) seemed doomed... but [[spoiler: we learn they are capable of falling in love with one another, and it is implied that the robots will be able to breed a new race the old fashioned way.]]
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The robots spare Alquist because he does manual labor like them. The robots then found out that the formula for their manufacture was lost (it was destroyed by Helena; Harry wanted to use that as a bargaining tool). Lacking the knowledge to manufacture themselves, with a lifespan of only 10 years, and relying solely on the only human left, the robots (and thus, all intelligent life on Earth) seemed doomed... but [[spoiler: we learn they are capable of falling in love with one another, and it is implied that the robots will be able to breed a new race the old fashioned way.]]
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She also meets the human staff of the factory: physiologist and inventor Dr. Gall, robot psychiatrist Dr. Hallemeier ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS or]] [[WhatdoyouMeanItsNotSymbolic Hellman]]), clerk of the works Alquist (the only guy sensible enough to work with his hands), the chief engineer, and managing director Jacob Berman. They're the only other humans in the factory.
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She also meets the human staff of the factory: physiologist and inventor Dr. Gall, robot psychiatrist Dr. Hallemeier ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS or]] [[WhatdoyouMeanItsNotSymbolic or Hellman]]), clerk of the works Alquist (the only guy sensible enough to work with his hands), the chief engineer, and managing director Jacob Berman. They're the only other humans in the factory.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process
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It opens up in the island where Helena Glory, a member of the League of Humanity, pleads with Harry Domin (or Domain; the General Manager of R.U.R.) for rights for the robots, believing they are people being enslaved. He reveals to her that [[UncannyValley the robots aren't human, although they look convincingly like them]].
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It opens up in the island where Helena Glory, a member of the League of Humanity, pleads with Harry Domin (or Domain; the General Manager of R.U.R.) for rights for the robots, believing they are people being enslaved. He reveals to her that [[UncannyValley [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots the robots aren't human, although they look convincingly like them]].
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* UnbuiltTrope: To RobotWar; the robots do rebel and kill humanity, but the robots are treated very sympathetically - their first act of "rebellion" was simply asking to be treated better and forming work unions, but humanity kept on escalating and cracking down harder until the robots came to the conclusion the only solution was a GuiltFreeExterminationWar. The fact the robots win and learn how to create more of themselves is treated as an overall happy ending, because they will no longer be oppressed.
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** [[invoked]] The work is the TropeNamer for {{robot}}, but the robots in question are of flesh and blood rather than machinery. This is because the Czech language defined the term "robot" as a worker or slave, with no mention that said workers had to be mechanical.
** It is also one to RobotWar. The robots do rebel and kill humanity, but the robots are treated very sympathetically- -- their first act of "rebellion" was simply asking to be treated better and forming work unions, but humanity kept on escalating and cracking down harder until the robots came to the conclusion the only solution was a GuiltFreeExterminationWar. The fact the robots win and learn how to create more of themselves is treated as an overall happy ending, because they will no longer be oppressed.
** [[invoked]] The work is the TropeNamer for {{robot}}, but the robots in question are of flesh and blood rather than machinery. This is because the Czech language defined the term "robot" as a worker or slave, with no mention that said workers had to be mechanical.
** It is also one to RobotWar. The robots do rebel and kill humanity, but the robots are treated very sympathetically
