r/TopCharacterTropes • • 8h ago

Characters (Loved trope) Thar robot doesn't have the right to be that hot

SCORPIO - Star Wars

Elesh Norn - Magic The Gathering

Wagon - Toqger

And i'm talking about robots that actually look like robots. Not "androids" with perfectly human looks.

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u/thegreatmaster7051 7h ago

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u/RedlandRabble 6h ago

Total sidebar but anytime I see someone reference Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars (2003) I'm morally obligated by my 8 year old self to mention how fucking rad the BARC Lancer Batallion was

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u/laurel_laureate 5h ago

I am also obligated to remind everyone of one of the best Jedi ever-

Sha'a Gi.

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u/Ncaak 6h ago

The whole battle of Muunlist was rad. I loved Ventress' starfighter and the Arc Troopers.

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u/nyitraibotond 6h ago

What even could be the context for this scene

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u/L3XAN 4h ago

He's just showing off his new gold plating. As for why he's doing it coquettishly, that's an outstanding question with no clear answer.

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u/mmm_spam_musubi 8h ago

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u/LordofThe7s 8h ago

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u/BabyPunter3000v2 2h ago

"Eat my ass, Chuck, I animated ELEVEN hands at once!"

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u/Dirk_Speedwell 3h ago

I just found out the other day that this trope (cat-calling wolf guy) started as a anti-mexican stereotype, around the time of the Zoot Suit Riots.

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u/CatLord8 7h ago

A woman like that you have to romance

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u/danius353 8h ago

I prefer the radiator lady from the radiator planet

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u/Background_Face 7h ago

That's just a radiator.

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u/MultiGeek42 6h ago

That shows up at Fry's funeral

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u/DOOP_Investigator 6h ago

Ahem. Is there a burn ward within ten feet of here?

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u/GalaxyPowderedCat 6h ago

You don't lust over her, you need to treat her as a lady.

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u/--GevaudanBeast-- 4h ago

But pa, I love him

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u/arcbeam 8h ago

YOO. HOO.

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u/zk3033 8h ago

BUT FATHER. I. LOVE. HIM.

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u/HalxQuixotic 7h ago

Thank you! There was a shameful lack of Crushinator in this thread. I’d settle down with that robot waifu and enjoy mashed chicken every night!

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u/ApartRuin5962 5h ago

Doctor Halsey never explains why the user interface for the military AI she developed has to be a hologram of a flirtatious young Halsey in various states of undress.

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u/sleestak96 3h ago

Whats funnier is there are other AIs that are different personalities/people. One of the other ones we see is a yellow orangish AI thats a middle aged, dad bod shaped dude in FULL sherpa winter gear. So you either get a half naked spring breaker, or a middle aged alpin explorer for your AIs.

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u/deadname11 2h ago

Look, all I am saying, is that if you took a brain scan of me and then allowed that scan to show whatever it wanted as an avatar? You are gonna get a hot lady with everything hanging out.

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u/sleestak96 2h ago

I feel like mine would just be an argonian

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u/Gaming_with_batman 2h ago

A lusty argonian maid perhaps?

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u/PainStorm14 3h ago

Or hot college girl from Halo Wars

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u/RadioLiar 3h ago

Other examples from the books include a talking cube, a grumpy old Chinese woman, a cowboy, and a Norse goddess (the latter two of whom had the hots for each other)

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u/Metal_Boot 3h ago

I think AIs in Halo choose what they look like, so...

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u/Neo-Bub 8h ago

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u/KinkSpectre 6h ago

Hajime Sorayama, the OG robosexual

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u/Timekeeper98 6h ago

The Protogenesis of modern Robot women. Ahould have kept design to this, we had already peaked.

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u/Fistricsi 5h ago

His art was actually one of the inspirations for Robocop.

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u/martinjh99 8h ago

The Robot from the 1927 movie Metropolis....

It did turn into the evil version of the heroine but that was part of the plot...

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u/The-Manque 7h ago

Without the Maschinenmensch, there’s no C-3PO. She danced so he could totter.

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u/thecastellan1115 7h ago

The sheer costume design that went into that... in 1927!

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u/martinjh99 7h ago

Definitely - The actress who played her said it was very hard to move around in...

Built out some form of wood I think...

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u/Kinitawowi64 7h ago

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u/Few-Improvement-5655 6h ago

It's funny how this doesn't look that different from a behind-the-scenes of a modern film with an actor in heavy prosthetics.

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u/drordan 8h ago

You can't tell me she's not hot

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u/JoshTheBard 8h ago

So Cave Johnson had his assistant/successor Caroline's "essence" extracted to create GLADOS and delete audio files suggest it was against her will.

There's a theory that her design reflects the fact she was bound to the facility, even more a prisoner than Chell.

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u/Skullface95 6h ago

In the second game he stats that they figured out how to put the human mind into a computer, but with him being too sick from the moon rocks he says to put Caroline in instead, and while she'll be "modest" about it but to "make her". So it is sort of canon.

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u/WildBad7298 4h ago

There are also unused sound files in the game's code of Caroline fearfully protesting and begging someone not to do something to her and saying that she doesn't want it. It's really creepy.

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u/Sailer_Moon 7h ago

This picture was an awakening for me when I was a teen

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u/Reese_Slitherspoon 7h ago

Considering it's literally porn that makes sense

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u/Reese_Slitherspoon 8h ago

The problem with this theory is that Glados's tits are clearly hanging downwards.

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u/JoshTheBard 7h ago

That was the image from the wiki page about the theory. Does this one make more sense?

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u/Reese_Slitherspoon 7h ago

Oh I'm just fetishizing a bondage robot theory I don't actually care about it.

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u/JoshTheBard 7h ago

Oh, well in that case... Carry on.

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u/TheMuseThalia 8h ago

She was literally designed after what a woman in hanging bondage looks like. They knew

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u/MeanWinchester 6h ago

That's what I'm talking about! OP talking about hot robots and it's just human-shaped machines. Like if you're gonna be a robot fucker at least be interesting about it!

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u/Chaitywatt 8h ago

Assaultrons - Fallout

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u/MGDull 8h ago

Especially that 1 Assualtron that's a weapons vendor in Good Neighbor.

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u/HYPER_BRUH_ 7h ago

"I'm a woman baby."

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u/EnvironmentUnhappy62 6h ago

"Can't ya tell?"

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u/Cal_PCGW 7h ago

KLEO.
All other Assaultrons are fucking terrifying.

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u/Fuckyfuckfuckass 6h ago

Fun fact: Cut dialogue would've let you go on a date with an Assaultron (whether that was KL-E-0 or another one I'm unsure), and it would've been a whole quest where some people try to kill you, and she asks your thoughts about marriage.

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u/Cal_PCGW 5h ago

Ah but my heart belongs to Fisto.

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u/Krelliamite 8h ago

Giving the protectron the assaultron legs so it has a booty

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u/MGDull 7h ago

And making the mistake of thinking that it's less dangerous without legs, only to find out it crawls really fast.

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u/OGgronch0 6h ago

"i assure you, sir, giving the robot a butt shaped back plate was absolutely neccessary"

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u/xSPYXEx 7h ago

Fun fact in 76 there's a CAMP companion assaultron called Adelaide that gives you the Lover's Embrace buff.

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u/TheMuseThalia 8h ago

Is Elesh Norn a robot?

I mean absolutely im down so fucking bad for her, but would you classify phyrexian physiology as robotic in nature? Biomechanical for sure, but idk if robot.

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u/warukeru 8h ago

She's still partially organic so maybe more a ciborg than a robot 

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u/LinaValentina 7h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/UIJmxUqWZEF6WXFYyx
ULTRON omggggg

For a human-hating robot, he sure is hot

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u/ccReptilelord 6h ago

They new what they were doing giving him James Spader's voice.

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u/Nephyness 5h ago

That guy could read me the ingredients off of an oatmeal packet I would still get moist because of his voice. I cannot recall a single person I can say that about and it's weird to me. Lol

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u/someone-else3583 5h ago

i could definitely say that about Keith David too

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u/Callmeklayton 8h ago

Ultron

A lot of his depictions are hot but I especially like how he looks in Marvel Rivals.

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u/MrGilLogic 7h ago

I couldn't stop staring at his super defined musculature in Age of Ultron

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u/Elmoulmo 7h ago

Many takes were ruined in Age of Ultron cause the actors couldn't focus on the tennis ball. James Spader was on set with a tennis ball attached to a pole extending from his back to mark where Ultron's face would be.

And because Ultron was so unbelievably tall. That meant Spader's face ended up near crotch level. Clearly Ultron was packing and they couldn't stop getting a quick glance at it.

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u/PhanThief95 8h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3gf5NFtORkvIlLG5vA

And there’s also the MCU where he’s played by Robert California

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u/zk3033 8h ago

That’s just Raymond Reddington with a different backstory

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u/ZELYNER 8h ago

Twins from Atomic Heart

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u/eawilweawil 7h ago

Well considering those ballerina robots are canonically used for sexual services, and the twins look like exactly like ballerinas...

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u/ImmaAcorn 4h ago

I assure you, having the twin robotic ballerinas look like supermodels was ABSOLUTELY necessary

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u/Blackstaff72 5h ago

"You are a coward wearing the facade of a revolutionary "

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u/mechrelatedbreakcore 6h ago

if i was part of the dev team for that game i would be proud the biggest impact my game had were 2 bad af robots.

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u/KuipersGlasses 2h ago

And aren't they the only reason the game hyped?

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u/JAOC_7 7h ago edited 6h ago

I once again shall return attention to this picture of Hot Rod

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u/Background_Face 6h ago

Shaking his hips like that, it's more like Thot Rod

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u/The_HueManateee 3h ago

God bless hayato sakamoto

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u/ElMonoEstupendo 8h ago

EDI from Mass Effect 3.

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u/NuclearTheology 7h ago

This is why Synthesis is the only correct ending as it gives Joker functional bones to pork his hot robot girlfriend

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u/teh_adry 6h ago

I choose that ending only for him. Dude deserved a win.

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u/Elmoulmo 7h ago

She does have a reason though. Her body is a stolen body of a spy android impersonating a human. And that spy was using the fact of her attractiveness to distract her marks.

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u/AnalConnoisseur69 4h ago

Here's the trick, you can always work backwards from she's hot and that's fine.

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u/Ook397 8h ago

Gonk Droid - Star Wars

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u/ruddthree 8h ago

Gonk wants to bonk

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u/MrGuirinious1237 8h ago edited 8h ago

Also most Transformers can probably be counted here.

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u/Active-Ad-2527 8h ago

Soundwave has had so many other Transformers inside him

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u/1958-Fury 8h ago

The works of illustrator Hajime Sorayama.

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u/odysseushogfather 8h ago

I only know this image

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u/zk3033 8h ago

C’mon, it’s not even subtextuaply sexy! It’s just full on text!

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u/ThirdLifeLucky 8h ago

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u/necrofi1 7h ago

The litreally OG

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u/Better_Ad_512 8h ago

Great take! The only reason for her to not make into the post is because she was the inspiration for SCORPIO so i thought it'd be redundant.

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u/ChemyChems 7h ago

I think a better MTG representation of hot robot would be this card here.

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u/Shaeress 2h ago

Can't believe you didn't use the German version of the card

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u/charm59801 3h ago

Maybe it's just me, but Echo from overwatch has curves in all the right robot places lol

https://giphy.com/gifs/C6uvOBqV0gI2sYg9Kx

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u/ContestDangerous 2h ago

I feel like her hero portrait does her so dirty

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u/orc_mode666 6h ago

THIS ISNT A CHARACTER TROPE YOU JUST WANT TO FUCK ROBOTS

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u/misfitofscience76 6h ago

Don’t we all

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u/T8-TR 5h ago

Lucy from R1999. She has a variant that has a human face, but it doesn't hit the same.

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u/Yedrick 5h ago

Robots wearing long coats or ponchos or similar is one of my favorite visuals in fiction, you love to see it.

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u/cash-or-reddit 7h ago

That sexy droid from the Star Wars game. It makes more sense in video.

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u/Scorkami 5h ago

Droids who wear accessories like belts, ponchos, trenchcoats or loose scarfs are a missed opportunity for star wars.

Fun fact, there is a bounty hunter droid in the old republic, BH-7X, and i think his design makes fine use of the "came from a factory, but has definitely lived a life" vibe

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u/MapleLamia 6h ago

He's got drip, he's got a scar, he has confident posture, BX Droids are renownedfor their combat prowess. Basically everything you could want from a man. 

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u/Dont_Pay_The_Elves 3h ago

BXs already made sense but that jacket does wonders for him

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u/ZoidsFanatic 6h ago

It’s the belt and duster. Everyone digs that combo.

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u/loki2113 8h ago

Most of the Warframes in the game lol

https://giphy.com/gifs/RHV3yRBpyIH4O4W0bC

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u/Hungry-Luck-5481 7h ago

One of the skins for the pictured frame.

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u/CriticismVirtual7603 8h ago

What do you mean "most"

All of em are hot

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u/Recruit75 7h ago

Anyone trying to find an exception to your statement gonna be in a world of shock when they see Warframe community lol.

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u/Hyksus2 8h ago

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u/guymine123 7h ago

"I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees."

".... that was a joke."

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u/the_gaffinator 8h ago edited 2h ago

Exo Stranger from Destiny

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u/Abject-Cash7799 7h ago

Courtney gears from ratchet and clank 3

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u/SpectreBrony 8h ago

Arcee (ROTB).

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u/MrGuirinious1237 7h ago

That one time, when someone stole a Arcee cutout from this promotional stand of Rise of the Beasts.

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u/CriticismVirtual7603 8h ago

From Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon CEL-240

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u/KeengGeedra 8h ago

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u/Phantom_r98 7h ago

Had to scroll way to far to see my goat. He can make me suffer anytime...

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u/aNewPattern 8h ago

Very surprised nobody mentioned Warframes, in particular the Heirloom cosmetic skins that are unbelievably close to being just nude models or something.

"Tenno, it is IMPERATIVE you pilot the hot mommy frame."

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u/lightningstrxu 8h ago

I remember a bunch of people absolutely begging to be crushed by the thighs of the robot from lost in space

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u/notnotDIO 7h ago

Elesh Norn is making me act unwise

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u/shosuko 5h ago

Okay its weird, but seriously - the emoting these two bots do, hella cute. Its not entirely visual, its their whole presentation but Wall-e got that sexy awkward nerd energy, and EVE was like cool tech chick...

These are datable - pls don't hate

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u/itsFinekkk 8h ago

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u/muad_did 7h ago

the real waifu is the rapist fridge...

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u/Hungry-Luck-5481 7h ago

I can’t get over the one with the jacket.

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u/AlbatrossStraight228 8h ago

Are Pyrexians robots? I thought they're aliens of some sort!

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u/EvilWarBW 7h ago

In 'Raised by Wolves' Mother is the ultimate destroyer of worlds. I couldn't find a gif of her in robot form but I'm sure I can add a image as a reply.

https://giphy.com/gifs/4tlhtkqSyqq3m2h4vB

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u/Riverwind0608 7h ago

Adjutant (Starcraft)

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u/Lenxecan 7h ago

KL-E-0, a named, non-hostile Assaultron who works as an arms dealer in the town of Goodneighbor in Fallout 4. She has this very sultry but murderous vibe. "I'm all woman, baby."

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u/Commonwealth1325 7h ago

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u/GalaxyPowderedCat 5h ago

I realized that they bothered drawing her a bit of cake, she could be flat like a fridge but the didn't let her be like that.

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u/TheRealGamingWhovian 4h ago

Drossel Juno Vierzehntes Heizregister Fürstin von Flügel (Fireball)

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u/SpartanCobalt 4h ago

Nobel Gundam (Mobile Fighter: G Gundam)

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u/Aphasus 8h ago

I have no idea how to post pictures in comments on mobile, but Arcee from Transformers Prime.

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u/Dangerous-Action-919 8h ago

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u/Better_Ad_512 8h ago

No kinkshaming bro

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u/Hyksus2 8h ago

Not kink shaming. Just kink questioning why (especially any phyrexian)

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u/Better_Ad_512 7h ago

Because they're hot.

Especially Elesh.

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u/EvilDuckOfD00M 4h ago

Specifically this art of Elita 1 from the TF comics.

Does something for me

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u/Fish_Head111 6h ago

Ramattra (from overwatch) my beloved 🥰

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