Basic Trope: A character is made mechanical against their will.
- Straight: Bob is turned into a robot by Emperor Evulz.
- Exaggerated: Emperor Evulz turns an entire city's population into robots by strapping them to conveyor belts.
- Downplayed: Bob is given an artificial heart (or, for style sake, a cybernetic hand!) after an accident without his consent.
- Justified:
- Emperor Evulz wants Bob as a minion, and Bob is terrified because of Cybernetics Eat Your Soul.
- Bob is not scared simply to trade meat for metal, but because he knows it means Evulz will be able to override his free will.
- Bob isn't against shiny new cyber limbs, per se, but the process is performed entirely without anesthesia and is both traumatic to witness and horrifically agonizing.
- Bob was unconscious and badly hurt. He wasn't able to give consent at the present moment.
- Inverted:
- A robot wants to be organic.
- Techtron is punished for his many crimes by being turned into what he hated most, a human.
- Bob wants to become a machine. Maybe more than he's ever wanted anything else in his life. It might be limited to wishful thinking, or he may be actively Working for a Body Upgrade, but either way, his fondest desire is to replace his meat with metal.
- Bob has his extensive cybernetics removed as punishment and to disarmnote him.
- Bob is horrified at being "purified" by an Evil Luddite against his will.
- Subverted:
- Bob looks scared as he's about to be robotized, but only because he knows the process is painful. He actually wants to be a robot.
- Bob wakes up like a cyborg and sees how extensively augmented he is. He begins to cackle in mad glee while admiring the play of servomotors, cogs, and girders in his new hands.
- Bob is seen robotized - it, however, turns out to be a mere mechanical doppelganger and the real Bob is still alive and organic.
- Bob is roboticized in his sleep, but instead of reacting in horror, he simply looks down at his new body, says "Cool!" and then runs off to see what sort of cool spy gadgets, wifi adapters, or mix-and-match body parts he can upgrade his cool new robot body with.
- Double Subverted:
- ...Until he sees the parts that's going to replace his organs, and changes his mind about wanting to become a robot.
- ...But then he realises that his new robot body can't do any of the cool things he expects it to do, and that most of its functions (e.g. flexibility, mobility, etc.) is worse than his original body, causing him to be depressed.
- Said double was actually made from a clone that got mechanized against his will.
- Parodied:
- Evulz attempts to turn people into a robot involves putting them into a trashcan with leg holes cut out and dryer vent leggings. Everyone regards this as a horrific fate. Except Sally who points out the ridiculousness of the situation.
- Rather than forcibly assimilating people, the Borg go door to door trying to persuade people to be roboticisised a la Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob at first doesn't want to be a robot, but then realizes how cool it would be, then thinks about how painful it could be, but changes his mind when he's told it's painless, but then changes his mind again when...
- Averted: It's impossible to convert anything living to fully robotic. And even if it was, it would be impractical to do so, since you could just build a regular robot instead.
- Enforced: "We want to make losing to Emperor Evulz a serious threat, but we can't have him kill anyone. What if he made people he beat into his robotic slaves?"
- Lampshaded: "Is this the part where I'm strapped to a table and get put through an auto-shop?"
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz builds his Robotinator early on to have a legion of loyal followers and to stomp out The Evils of Free Will.
- Exploited: Bob decides to use Emperor Evulz's technology against him, either by...
A) Employing his new weapons and abilities against the tyrant.
B) Reverse-engineering it with the help of his allies, to develop counter-measures for it and/or to apply it on their own machines.
C) Using a combination of the two previous options. - Defied:
- Emperor Evulz would never do something so inhuman to his opponents.
- The people that want to confer Bob with cybernetic upgrades ask for his explicit permission, but only after explaining him in full detail the risks and implications that such modifications carry along so that he might make a well-informed decision.
- Discussed: "What kind of sick freak turns people into his tin soldiers?!"
- Implied: a robotic version of an earlier character appears, but it's never stated whether or not they're the same person.
- Deconstructed: The process to convert an organic into an inorganic is time-consuming, wasteful to resources, and the machines barely last due to various complications. The idea gets scrapped.
- Reconstructed:
- After lots of refining and testing, robotizing becomes a streamlined evil emperor's dream-come-true and a hero's worst nightmare.
- The experiment is the point for Evulz's selfish vision or dogma. That they don't last is why he hasn't done it to himself but he is getting closer to his end goal, one victim at a time.
- Played For Drama: Bob became gravely injured while fighting Emperor Evulz, and the only way known to save his life was to undergo roboticisation. Alice, though, was the one who made the call because Bob was unconscious at the time. It turns out Bob is at best mixed about no longer being human even if he understands that there was no other way, and it weighs heavily on his relationship with Alice.
You monsters! You can do what you want to my body, but my soul will always be fr-WELCOME TROPER PLEASE RETURN TO Unwilling Roboticisation. AND HAVE A NICE DAY.
