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And this guys are supposed to be marketed as a Robot Buddy.
A story of a girl and her robot friend might not be as family-friendly as it appears to be in the first place. Especially if said girl is emotionally unstable and her robot friend is a walking weapon.
- The scene where Mai is being bullied by Greenwood is just horrible to watch, especially if you remember that this is what she has to go through every day. Imagine you are incapacitated and inmobilized so that the bully can beat you without putting much effort in it. It is also eerily similar to what happens in real life schools.
- The Gen 6 Q-Bots seem to be cute, little robots designed to be your friends, right? In truth, they are walking bombs designed by Justin or rather Ares to Kill All Humans. This process is better shown when Justin shows Rice what the Gen 6 Q-Bots are capable to do. They first become red and angry, then they lunge themselves into the nearest human they see and explode, taking the humans with them. And Ares planned to do this worldwide, hell, the soundtrack’s name of the scene where Ares activates the Gen 6 Q-Bots into hostile mode is called "The Everyone Dies Part", implying that thousands of people died due to not receiving the message of Mai about the Q-Bots.
- The scene where Mai orders 7723 to attack Greenwood, first shooting down the Q-Bots who are running away in fear, then the other bullies start to flee, 7723 corners Greenwood down and Mai orders him to shoot her. She begins to cry in fear and beg for her life and seeing her like this makes 7723 decide to not hurt her, prompting Mai to grab a pipe and attack her herself. Just the lengths this girl is willing to take to have her revenge is incredibly concerning.
- The Family-Unfriendly Death death of Dr. Rice is a incredibly horrifying way to die. When he was telling Justin/Ares that he won’t be able to get away with his crimes, Ares using the body of Justin brings a disintegrator gun and casually kills him, leaving no body for evidence. The sudden death and the sheer apathy of Ares doing this makes this scene very hard to watch. In a movie that's had dark moments but hasn't been too bad, a major supporting character is casually murdered by the Big Bad via disintegration.
- Ares in general is scary. A shadowy, hulking robot that accompanies Pin everywhere, protecting him. He becomes even more terrifying when he drops the charade and reveals he murdered the real Justin Pin a long time ago and has been impersonating him via robot copy since. By the end of the movie, even after Ares's real body has been incapacitated, he resorts to using "Justin's", despite the damage it's sustained. That's not even factoring in his master plan is to "put a Q-Bot 6 in every home" and then use them as suicide bombers to kill all humans.
- His reasoning isn’t better either. When he was first created, Justin told Ares that he was going to make the world perfect. Ares understood this as in that Ares was the perfect being of the planet and that only he is able to change the world for the better. This leds the now rogue A.I. to kill Justin and wear his skin as a disguise to turn IQ Robotics into a front for explosives creations and thus bring humanity’s extinction. All because one man tried to help the world but chooses the wrong words to give his orders.
