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/martinjh99 9h 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 9h ago

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

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u/thecastellan1115 9h ago

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

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u/martinjh99 8h 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 8h ago

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u/Few-Improvement-5655 7h 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/gogoluke 4h ago

Because it's an actor in prosthetics right?

It's a bit like a feat boy toga party looks like ancient Rome.

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u/Prestigious_End_6455 5h ago

She looks like a gender bent Robocop. Alexa Murphy, probably.

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u/RickMixwid1969 2h ago

It was so much easier to get away with effects like that before color.

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u/AlwaysHappy4Kitties 7h ago

Metropolis is an mindblowind piece of art

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u/martinjh99 3h ago

It certainly is - When the news broke that they had found a more or less complete copy in Argentina albeit in a damaged state and the news was that they had restored the footage to add into the restored blu-ray restoration I had to get myself a copy...

This new version of the movie is now more or less the film that premiered in 1927.... There are a few scenes still missing that they couldn't restore from the Argentinian footage. There are nearly 30 minutes of restored new footage...

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u/Life_Temperature795 1h ago

Straight up masterpiece of early cinema

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u/Few-Improvement-5655 7h ago

She is the mother of all robots in sci-fi film and, as far as I'm aware, the first true gynoid.

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u/IGTankCommander 8h ago

Her name is Maria, if you didn't know.

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u/ineverusedtobecool 6h ago

I thought it was Futura

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u/IGTankCommander 6h ago

It's Maria, because she's the False Maria.)

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u/ineverusedtobecool 6h ago

Cool, my memory is bad at times and I hadn't watched the movie in over decade so makes sense I'd misremember something

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u/IGTankCommander 6h ago

I think there are some versions out there that change it to differentiate between the woman Maria and the robot, but IMHO it loses the impact of the end that way.

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u/ineverusedtobecool 5h ago

I mean I'd agree, Futura is a fun name but Maria and false Maria are much more meaningful

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u/The_Relx 7h ago

Huh...I wonder is Scorpio takes design inspiration from this? The resemblance is uncanny.

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u/TheLeechKing466 2h ago

Pretty sure SCORPIO and by extension the GEMINI series droids did take inspiration from Metropolis