Being software excludes them from this trope — gotta be mechanical lifeforms. And many Digimon don't count either for the same reason, so I narrowed that down to the robot Digimon.
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- Reboot features sentient computer programs who speculate that there is a mysterious "user" who is really responsible for the 'games' that keep dropping in.
- I don't believe the characters in Reboot count since they are not physical robots, merely bits of data projecting an image; like a hologram, or Agent Smith in The Matrix.
- If Digimon counts, so does ReBoot.
- I don't believe the characters in Reboot count since they are not physical robots, merely bits of data projecting an image; like a hologram, or Agent Smith in The Matrix.
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I'm wondering about the "Unknown creators" clause on this. There's a lot of things here that would otherwise qualify, but were explicitly created by a known race — humanity, or something else — rather than naturally occurring or made by forgotten precursors. So do we remove those examples, or rewrite the entry to include them?
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I don't think having "unknown creators" is necessary. The trope is about machines that go beyond Ridiculously Human Robots to the point of actually mimicking biological functions. If humans created such machines, I think they should still count.
I'm reaching for the random or whatever will bewilder me. —Tool, "Lateralus"
Does this trope apply to Horizon Zero Dawn, since it has robots acting like animals?