History WebAnimation / MurderDrones

* BigBadEnsemble: While Doll isn't quite a "BigBad" she is still an active threat to the heroes and has goals that conflict with the Absolute Solver's.

** Uzi imposes an exile on herself at the end of "Pilot", setting out to kill all humans in revenge. "Heartbeat" shows that her exile is not taken seriously at all and she openly returns to Outpost 3. Her human genocide, however, is shoved into the background [[spoiler:in favor of investigating the Absolute Solver and what exactly [=JCJenson=] was really doing on the planet. Not to mention, there are no working ships for her to use anyway. "Dead End" eventually revealed that Earth was already destroyed by the Absolute Solver by the time of the present and heavily implied that Tessa may be one of the only survivors of its destruction, more or less making Uzi's original plan AllForNothing. It is implied however there is at least [[LastBastion one last planet]] inhabited by humans via the badge on Tessa's shoulder having all but one dots crossed out. So Uzi's goal technically could still happen, but given all the crap that's happened around her and the Absolute Solver, it's likely a very low priority for her at this point. However, even humanity's survival at that point is out into question when "Mass Destruction" reveals that Tessa's actually been DeadAllAlong and the Absolute Solver was using her corpse to trick N and the other Disassembly Drones.]]

* AfterTheEnd: The series takes place on the snowy exoplanet Copper 9, where a core collapse reduced the whole world to a wasteland littered with frozen human skeletons, leaving its robotic labor drones to form their own society, with the Disassembly Drones trying to wipe them out. [[spoiler:"Dead End" takes it even further with the reveal that Earth has supposedly been destroyed by the Absolute Solver by the present and Alice heavily implying that Copper 9's destruction may have been intentionally caused by Uzi's mother Nori.]]

The pilot premiered on the GLITCH Channel on October 29, 2021. A total of seven episodes have been released as of March 29, 2024.

*** ''Mass Destruction'', with its focus on ReligiousHorror, references films like {{Film/The Exorcist}}, especially since there's a ClarkesThirdLaw style attempted containment of a "demonic" presence (the Absolute Solver), this episode features features what is pretty much the climax of Uzi's possession by the Solver and [[spoiler: Tessa's Absolute Solver form skuttles around like a possessed Regan.]]

The pilot premiered on the GLITCH Channel on October 29, 2021. A total of six episodes have been released as of August 18, 2023, with the seventh episode being planned to come out in March 29, 2024.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: With humanity gone on Copper 9, [=JCJenson=] has no incentive to let the Worker Drones run free, prompting them to send the Disassembly Drones to eliminate them. Uzi points out to N that's almost certainly the case for the Disassembly Drones as well, as their purpose will be completed once all the Worker Drones are dead, and the pod they arrived in was one-way only. N himself observes that the main reason Disassembly Drones are driven to kill Workers is that they have to ingest oil from their kills to avoid overheating, implying that Disassembly Drones have an intentional flaw that will result in their destruction once all the Workers have been destroyed and no more oil is available. [[spoiler:"Dead End" later reveals that the company itself never sent the Disassembly Drones to the planet or even created them for that matter. Instead, it was actually the Absolute Solver who sent them with the apparent intention of reclaiming the research done by the company on the Absolute Solver on Copper 9.]]

* CharacterCatchphrase: Uzi's signature "Bite me!" line.

* HumanResources: [[spoiler: Absolute Solver J]] appears heavily biological, and is faced in an abandoned cryosleep lab. While it's unclear how much of that was even real, it's possible that the [[spoiler: Absolute Solver]] may have used the former occupants for raw materials. [[spoiler:Potentially the Disassembly Drones themselves, seeing as how J's wreck had already contained pieces of human tissue.]]

* WhamEpisode: A whole lot goes down in the appropriately-titled "Dead End", which also takes steps towards resolving several of the series' main mysteries. [[spoiler:[[TheReveal It's revealed]] that the Absolute Solver is responsible for the deployment of the Disassembly Drones and has caused [[EarthThatWas the destruction of Earth]], Cabin Fever Labs were being used for [[JustThinkOfThePotential research into the Absolute Solver]], Alice heavily implying that Uzi's mother Nori [[AmbiguouslyEvil destroyed Copper 9's core and left her fellow test subjects to die]] as a result, the Absolute Solver has increased its hold over Uzi to the point that she's in danger of being [[DemonicPossession supplanted entirely]] whenever she uses its powers, and V seemingly commits a HeroicSacrifice to help Uzi, N and Tessa reach the lower levels of the labs]].

* EvilVsEvil: "Pilot" sets up the series' conflict as Uzi, who wants to KillAllHumans, versus [=JCJenson=] and their Disassembly Drones, who are equally as genocidal towards worker drones like her. Uzi does come across as ALighterShadeOfBlack despite it all, though. [[spoiler:As season 1 progresses however, it's implied that [=JCJenson=] might have actually been involved with something [[DarkSecret much more sinister]] due to the presence of the [[EldritchAbomination Absolute Solver]]. By "Dead End", it's revealed that Earth has supposedly already been destroyed by the Absolute Solver and that the company experimented on it on Copper 9 with drones like Uzi's mother Nori.]]

** Uzi imposes an exile on herself at the end of "Pilot", setting out to kill all humans in revenge. "Heartbeat" shows that her exile is not taken seriously at all and she openly returns to Outpost 3. Her human genocide, however, is shoved into the background [[spoiler:in favor of investigating the Absolute Solver and what exactly [=JCJenson=] was really doing on the planet. Not to mention, there are no working ships for her to use anyway. "Dead End" eventually revealed that Earth was already destroyed by the Absolute Solver by the time of the present and heavily implied that Tessa may be one of the only survivors of its destruction, more or less making Uzi's original plan AllForNothing. It is implied however there is at least [[LastBastion one last planet]] inhabited by humans via the badge on Tessa's shoulder having all but one dots crossed out. So Uzi's goal technically could still happen, but given all the crap that's happened around her and the Absolute Solver, it's likely a very low priority for her at this point.]]

** Uzi imposes an exile on herself at the end of "Pilot", setting out to kill all humans in revenge. "Heartbeat" shows that her exile is not taken seriously at all and she openly returns to Outpost 3. Her human genocide, however, is shoved into the background [[spoiler:in favor of investigating the Absolute Solver and what exactly [=JCJenson=] was really doing on the planet. Not to mention, there are no working ships for her to use anyway. "Dead End" eventually revealed that Earth was supposedly already destroyed by the Absolute Solver by the time of the present and heavily implied that Tessa may be one of the only survivors of its destruction, more or less making Uzi's original plan AllForNothing]]. It is implied however there is at least [[LastBastion one last planet]] inhabited by humans via the badge on Tessa's shoulder having all but one dots crossed out. So Uzi's goal could still be renewed should Tessa do something to piss her off...

Not the type to sit still and cower, one angsty teenage Worker Drone named Uzi (Creator/ElsieLovelock) opts to take the fight straight to the Murder Drones themselves. But when she meets the happy-go-lucky yet dim Murder Drone "N" (Creator/MichaelKovach), they find they're both just as disposable to their corporate overlords, and begin plotting a way off Copper 9 to get back at humanity on Earth. This plan gets derailed, though, when strange and often deadly things start to happen not just to the drones, but to Uzi herself. As the mysteries and bodies start to pile up, Uzi sets out with N and his unhinged, bloodthirsty co-worker V (Nola Klop) to decrypt the answers about the Murder Drones' true nature, and if there's something more they're after on Copper 9...

* AssholeVictim: Tessa's parents treat both the worker drones and their own daughter as utter crap. It's appropriate to say that they had it coming when Cyn slaughters them.

* TheWorfEffect: The normally threatening Disassembly Drones are not so scary when the even scarier Absolute Solver infected Worker Drones come into play. [[spoiler:Uzi shows this best in "Cabin Fever" when she's corrupted to the point of behaving very identically to a Disassembly Drone ''with'' Absolute Solver manipulation powers]]. This applies even more in episode 6 where [[spoiler:dozens of dead Disassembly Drones are seen strewn through the lab of the Cabin Fevers lab, showing how much of a threat the sentinels are.]]

* OhCrap: N has this when J [[PercussiveMaintenance slaps him]], causing him to realize that 1) the "new recruit" he was talking to was actually Uzi, the Worker Drone who shot his head off with a lethal weapon and 2) he let her escape with the weapon.

* AxCrazy: Oh boy, this show is brimming with them. First there's the titular Murder Drones enjoying slaughtering their Worker Drones. Preceding his character growth even N had shades of this and V is bloodthirsty even by ''their'' standards, displaying childish glee whenever she has the opportunity to rip somebody apart.

* AxCrazy: All the Murder Drones have shades of this, but V is bloodthirsty even by ''their'' standards.

The pilot premiered on the GLITCH Channel on October 29, 2021. A total of six episodes have been released as of August 18, 2023, with the last two episodes of the season planned to release starting in Spring 2024.