Basic Trope: A robot that has a an outer covering of human-like skin and flesh.
- Straight: AL-4E is a robot that has an outer fleshy covering.
- Exaggerated: AL-4E can barely even be called a "robot" anymore because it's been largely replaced by human parts.
- Downplayed: AL-4E has patches of synthetic skin on its hands so it's less uncomfortable for it to touch people with them.
- Justified: AL-4E is built for working conditions that would corrode metal but are lighter on real skin.
- Inverted: AL-4E is a traditional cyborg, with robotic parts added to a normal human.
- Subverted: AL-4E claims to be this, but it later turns out that she's actually a regular human with enhancements.
- Double Subverted: Because her human body was recycled to cover a robot endoskeleton.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: There are no robots with this design.
- Enforced:
- The producers refused to pay for a big-budget robot costume, so this trope allowed a live actor without a costume to play a robot.
- The producers demanded the high-billed actress for AL-4E to prominently appear, so this allowed her to not be stuck in the costume.
- Lampshaded: "Well, they call her a robot, but she sure looks like a person to me."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The scientist who proposes this design instantly loses all the funding for this "abomination" of a project.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: AL-4E's flesh covering means she isn't especially more sturdy than a human, and thus less useful.
- Reconstructed: AL-4E is used in low-stress environments for circumstances in which a (seemingly) human touch is essential.
- Implied: "Alice" looks human, but she is occasionally hinted to be a robot.
- Played for Laughs: AL-4E's human exterior results in constant Toilet Humor and sex jokes about her physical body's needs.
- Played for Drama: AL-4E angsts about whether her appearance means she is human or a robot.
- Played for Horror: AL-4E is a Killer Robot who is completely indistinguishable from a human but very strong and deadly.
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