r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Better_Ad_512 • 9h ago

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

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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/ElMonoEstupendo 9h ago

EDI from Mass Effect 3.

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u/NuclearTheology 8h 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 7h ago

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

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u/OnlyAdvertisersKnoMe 5h ago

Every being in the galaxy turned into an organic/synthetic hybrid just so one dude can bang his robot gf

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u/KlausVonLechland 4h ago

As it should be.

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u/dimwitf 3h ago

Not just for him, but for her... And all the Geth. I just finished saving them in a cool reconciliation with their makers! Why would I turn around and destroy them when there's a better option?

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u/makemeking706 7h ago

Functional bones all around, amirite? 

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u/Sailor_Lunatone 4h ago

Synthesis is probably the best outcome, but it doesn’t narratively feel like the best ending, IMO.

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u/Elmoulmo 8h 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 5h ago

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

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u/Elmoulmo 2h ago

I was mostly making a comment on not really fitting the trope. The prompt was "no reason" amd EDI does have a reasoning to be attractive at least.

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u/The_Elder_Jock 8h ago

The amount of "fans" that conveniently miss that little fact when its time to dump on EDI for her design is disappointing.

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u/Own_Perspective4825 8h ago

Yeah if you're going to dump on Edi it should be regarding the fact that despite being a super strong gynoid she can only use pistols or submachine guns. 

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u/dcooper8662 8h ago

I think that’s a class restriction since she’s a tech, otherwise she’s too op

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u/Major_incompetence 4h ago

She could, just really doesn't want to.

Makes it much funnier that way

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u/Ok-Elevator-5523 6h ago

So the people who designed her created a justification for her to be hot. I don’t see why criticizing that makes you a “fan”.

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u/The_Elder_Jock 5h ago

Found one!

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u/Ok-Elevator-5523 4h ago

Don’t you feel clever.

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u/Busy-Big2109 5h ago

Yeah the robo cleavage is essential to her disguise, bro

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u/dgatos42 6h ago

Man I like her too, but I rolled my eyes when Hideo Kojima said “she has to breathe through her skin” so I won’t pretend this is different.

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u/Elmoulmo 2h ago

Not really defending horny robot design. But hers actually does make sense in the story.

Machine pretending to be human, gets burned into revealing endoskeleton like terminator. Different machine takes over the killer gynoid. And then we end up with EDI using the body as a portable vessel. Mostly cause she wants to feel like part of the crew.

Makes a lot more sense to justify that over "This is a reason to have her nude at all times" Kojima. Great story, questionable horniness at all times

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u/dgatos42 2h ago

I don’t disagree that it makes sense in story. But also let’s be honest, it was pandering to horny fans (I was one of them too)

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u/PurpleMTL 4h ago

Also elusive man's first sex toy so...

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u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs 9h ago

Joker has good taste

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u/SupraDan1995 9h ago

Best amswer

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u/RAMRODtheMASTER 6h ago

And you know she’s also played by Tricia Helfer probably for a reason…..

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u/Smart-Experience7187 3h ago

for a moment i thought she was hanging massive hog but then i realized that was just the design on her leg

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u/Principle_Napkins 2h ago

Also: Legion, also from Mass Effect

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u/DanFarrell98 1h ago

And then the pilot guy actually ended up fucking her right?

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u/D0CTOR_Wh0m 39m ago

I don't like how far down I had to scroll for EDI