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Become a Real Boy

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Become a Real Boy	comment	So, you've got a character who isn't human, such as (but not exclusively) an Artificial Human grown in the tank or just put together as your Robot Girl with an assembly kit, or a character who either wasn't human to begin with or Was Once a Man before being the subject of a Forced Transformation curse or transformed via The Virus into a monster or otherwise made into something else that is decidedly not human. Whatever the reason, the nonhuman being wants to become human, or in the case of a formerly human being, they want to be human again. In those cases where they do get the instant magical cure, they'll often throw it away, saying they want to earn it, or "it's the path, not the destination" (whatever that means), or it will come at a horrendous moral cost. Not to worry, though! While in reality, socialization and emotional stability are the product of years and years of interaction with other people, in the world of fiction, all a nonhuman character needs to become a functioning, well-balanced, emotionally resonant member of society is the proper life-altering event. Much as any protagonist generally works out any personal issues and neuroses they may have over the course of an otherwise unrelated story, the nonhuman character will discover what it means to be human in their journey alongside the other heroes. That this may mean defying their programming, their lack of a soul, or other such assumed limits is beside the point — it appears robots and clones are socialized like real people, only much faster. This is often a goal of robots, vampires, werewolves, and so on. In these circumstances, sometimes a wiser character will be taken in by this trope, but may instead make some important logical deductions. Namely, that if you're a robot, you probably already act like a normal human, to the point of being able to pass the Turing Test. If you're a vampire or werewolf, you're substantially stronger and hardier than a typical human. Or maybe, in the most extreme cases, you'll become convinced that Humans Are Bastards, and you're better off being what you are. As a result, as cool as these "emotion" things may be, it may not be worth being Brought Down to Normal just to enjoy them. In these cases, the character in question can often be found looking for a third option that will allow for the best of both worlds. Often, such a journey involves extreme violence and the simplistic black-and-white morality of "them vs. us". The fact that this bears no resemblance whatsoever to daily life rarely comes up. (One can only imagine the difficulties such characters will encounter when they are placed within a situation where you can't solve any problem with the proper application of violence.) One also has to wonder if any such individuals later regret their humanization. Humanity Ensues, of course. This is a common anime plot, and also appears in several Western movies. Compare Emergent Human (which describes a newly turned human getting used to the human condition), Defusing the Tyke-Bomb (which describes the gaining of a heart rather than a soul). See also Just a Machine. Living Toys made from Love Imbues Life may seek this. Contrast Mechanical Lifeforms, who start with the same emotional range as their organic counterparts. Contrast Trans Nature, for when the creature trying to become human wasn't an artificial human. For the inverse of this trope see Toy Transmutation.
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Become a Real Boy / int_1133352a	comment	The various Terminator protagonists in Terminator 2 and 3. In Terminator: Dark Fate, we meet a Terminator who got married, adopted a son, and gained a very human conscience free from Skynet's influence.
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Become a Real Boy / int_11b7db91	comment	BMO from Adventure Time has often expressed this wish.
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Become a Real Boy / int_14f9297e	comment	The Far Side: Happens to Pinocchio at the least convenient moment possible — namely, while taking a picture of a pride of lions from very close up.
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Become a Real Boy / int_19ac551d	comment	Played with by X-23, the Opposite-Sex Clone of Wolverine. Whether or not she's viewed as a real person depends largely on who gets asked. To her creator, Sarah Kinney, there is no doubt in her mind that Laura is a real person (especially after she disobeyed a direct order to kill a child, proving the Facility which created and trained her hadn't fully destroyed her humanity). Her friends and teammates take the similar position. By contrast, characters such as Kimura treat her as if she were something less than human, and it's common for anyone seeking to insult or hurt her to make derogatory remarks about her origins. Laura herself has been on both sides, and struggled with developing a sense of self-worth and accepting that she is a human being with feelings and desires of her own. All of this is driven home even further by the copy of Pinocchio which pops up throughout X-23: Innocence Lost and Target: X. Used to symbolic effect in All-New Wolverine issue 17: Pinocchio's transformation from puppet to real boy is directly juxtaposed with Laura finally breaking free of her conditioning to the trigger scent, literally "cutting her strings" and making her a puppet no more.
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Become a Real Boy / int_19df700	comment	During the League of Freedom's adventure in the Realm of the Gods in the SuperMansion episode "The Long Chaun", Robobot is transformed into a bald and naked human.
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Become a Real Boy / int_1a044a10	comment	Return to Oz has the Nome King desiring to become human by turning everyone who lives or knows of Oz into stone or an ornament. Needless to say, he is not pleased when this is ruined by the luck of a little girl.
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Become a Real Boy / int_1bd4c2fc	comment	B.P.R.D.: After the BPRD acquires advanced homunculi bodies, Johann Kraus, who's been an ectoplasm in a containment suit for decades, possesses one to finally feel human sensations again, heading to the closest bar miles away. Which of course means he's not there when the Monster of the Week attacks, leading to no small amount of anger on both sides.
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Become a Real Boy / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance features a horror retelling of Pinocchio in the story of Stiks, where the attempt to invoke this trope Goes Horribly Wrong. Like Pinocchio, Stiks is a marionette made by a toymaker who wishes Stiks were a real boy, although this toymaker is not good at his craft, and Stiks is just a crude figure made of pieces of wood. The Moon Twin grants the wish to the extent that Stiks becomes animated, but says that he has to find the path to becoming real himself. After the townsfolk break out the Torches and Pitchforks on the weird animated marionette and his father, Stiks cries angrily to the dark side of the moon that he wants to be real but doesn't know how. This cry is heard by the darker being Basphomy, who encourages Stiks to think that since what he lacks are head, hands and feet, he should go out and, uh, get some. So he murders the toymaker for spare parts. The Moon Twin is not pleased, and curses Stiks to be a monster who wanders forever in search of new replacements for his stolen, rotting body parts.
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Become a Real Boy / int_1e90e11d	comment	The Vision has fluctuated in his emotional state many times over the years. Usually, a writer will get him to nearly Become a Real Boy and a later one will reverse. This is usually done by destroying the android's body and rebuilding him.
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Become a Real Boy / int_21938c93	comment	Avengers: Age of Ultron: As if singing "I've Got No Strings" doesn't show Ultron has a Pinocchio fixation, he tries to transfer himself into a partly biological body (which eventually becomes the Vision) and eventually goes for a plan where "When the dust settles, the only thing living in this world will be metal." Vision has no desire to become more human, but wishes only to be recognized and respected as a person as opposed to a machine or piece of equipment. This includes having a strict living will stating that should he die he is to be buried rather than examined and researched in order to create more of him.
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Become a Real Boy / int_21e3d7e3	comment	Anthropology: Lyra desperately wants to become a human, even through nobody else has even heard of them. She gets her wish, and it is revealed that she wasn't born a pony.
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Become a Real Boy / int_21f6b1b7	comment	"The Super-Steed of Steel" have Supergirl's pet Comet the Super-Horse. He was originally a centaur called Biron who wanted to be fully human; unfortunately, Circe's transforming potion was sabotaged and made him fully horse instead. The reason he has superpowers is because the spell couldn't be reversed, so Circe gave him superpowers to try and make up for it.
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Become a Real Boy / int_2212773a	comment	Parodied humorously in Angel, where the Blue Fairy comes and turns Spike into a 'real boy' in Angel's coma-dream in "Soul Purpose".
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Become a Real Boy / int_23a1b10e	comment	Robotboy is curious about the human condition and tries to learn all he can about it from Tommy Turnbull, the little boy assigned to watch after him.
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Become a Real Boy / int_25f6f1a0	comment	Shannon and Kanon (though Kanon especially) from Umineko: When They Cry want to be human, though Kanon will still insist that they are only "furniture". As it turns out, they are human, but they don't consider themselves human for reasons that are very complicated and tragic.
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Become a Real Boy / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In the episode "Krusty Gets Kancelled", his rival show is hosted by a ventriloquist and his puppet Gabbo. When their show collapses, we see a newspaper subheading reading "Gabbo to have 'Real Boy' operation".
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Become a Real Boy / int_26520175	comment	My Roommate is a Gumiho: Woo-yeo, a gumiho, wants to become a human. His old friend Yang Hye-sun used to be a gumiho like him, but has already been turned into a human girl. In the show's final act it is revealed that human energy isn't what causes gumiho to become human, it's humanity, and Dam sets out to make this happen for Woo-yeo. When he sacrifices himself to save her, the mountain spirit decides that he has learned what it means to be human, and turns him into one so he can be with Dam.
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Become a Real Boy / int_2675c915	comment	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: In season 4, this becomes Aida's goal after she reads the Darkhold and becomes self-aware. Deconstructed, though. Since she's never felt human emotions before, having them all be experienced at once is more than she knows how to process, and she doesn't respond to things like Fitz rejecting her romantic advances well at all. She gets compared to a newborn who doesn't know how to handle her feelings or accept not getting what she wants, but in this case, she has enough power to kill hundreds of people because of it, having given her human body dozens of Inhuman powers.
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Become a Real Boy / int_291ddb45	comment	In Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation, the villain, Dark Heart, is some sort of devilish being who spends most of the movie looking like a kid. When he eventually learns to care about his minion Christy, his eyes change from red to blue, which he realizes means he's turned into an actual child.
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Become a Real Boy / int_2d311a08	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987): An episode features the Turtles finding tainted cookies that would've turned them human. Michelangelo swipes some because he was sick of being treated like a freak by the people of New York. Of course, his brothers have to turn him back because the transformation would've eventually killed him. As he was Hamato Yoshi in this version, Splinter wishes to return to human form and does in "Splinter No More". After he mutates back into a rat and realizes Humans Are Bastards, he no longer has the desire. In the San Diego Comic Con-exclusive short "Pizza Friday," the Turtles use a cloaking device Donnie invented to take on human disguises, which they use to enter April's school to enjoy the cafeteria's pizza, much to April's embarrassment.
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Become a Real Boy / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): In "The Hunt", the android Kel wants to be a human because humans have real feelings as opposed to "analogue sensations." He believes that humans have the right to take the lives of androids in the hunt as they gave them life in the first place. The major reason for Kel's positive attitude towards humans is that he was formerly a mine foreman and was programmed to respect them because he had to interact with them on a daily basis. Unlike most applications of this trope, he abandons his desire as he comes to the conclusion that Humans Are Bastards.
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Become a Real Boy / int_31ea2c8f	comment	Kyle in Kyle XY manages it over the course of months. He didn't know anything at the start, even how to speak, but because of his advanced mind he picks it up relatively fast.
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Become a Real Boy / int_32a01588	comment	As if singing "I've Got No Strings" doesn't show Ultron has a Pinocchio fixation, he tries to transfer himself into a partly biological body (which eventually becomes the Vision) and eventually goes for a plan where "When the dust settles, the only thing living in this world will be metal."
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Become a Real Boy / int_34076754	comment	The two robot protagonists in Daft Punk's Electroma have this as their main goal. Their attempt to become human backfires, causing them to get exiled from their town. While hiking in the desert, they both commit suicide.
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Become a Real Boy / int_34fd3cf6	comment	In the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Dummy Love", the Aqua Teens get two murderous ventriloquist dummies and Shake uses them for a stage show. Unfortunately for him, Meatwad wishes them human, which leads to Shake getting pissed, trying to kill them and going to prison for attempted murder.
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Become a Real Boy / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: An Enforced example. Penny is a Robot Girl with an Aura, and Ruby comments in Volume 2 that she can feel Penny's heart and soul. Although she isn't initially on a quest to become a real girl, she and Winter do debate throughout Volume 7 what it means to be human because Penny follows her heart while Winter robotically follows orders. Volume 7 climaxes with Penny's compassion for the dying Winter Maiden earning her the Maiden power instead of the intended Winter, which can only be passed to young women. When Watts hacks Penny's body in Volume 8, Penny's soul fights off the virus just long enough for the heroes to quest for, and convince, the Relic of Creation that Penny's true self is her soul; it's separated from the infected machine and transformed into a living being by bringing forth the being that lies beneath.
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Become a Real Boy / int_38c57aa2	comment	The Reforged in Eberron are a philosophical movement amongst the Warforged ('living constructs' created to fight in war — hence the name — and turning out to be a bit more aware and living than their supposed designers thought) that has becoming human as an ideal, wanting to embrace and strengthen the living aspect of their nature. This, it turns out, is surprisingly easy (they might still be warforged at the end of it, but with such a variety of humanoids around 'real boy' becomes a very vague thing), even easier than going the other way and becoming less alive and more like a mechanistic construct (as another philosophical movement advocates).
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Become a Real Boy / int_38c87187	comment	Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, "A Bug's Life": The Metamorphosis read backwards could be a kids' movie about a bug that turns into a real boy in the end.
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Become a Real Boy / int_3dc754a7	comment	Pauline from the Tamers Forever Series desperately wants to be human so that she can be with her master and also for the simple fact that she doesn't have a body that can express her emotions like humans do, meaning that every feeling she has is bottled up inside her without release.
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Become a Real Boy / int_3fbd173e	comment	In Freefall, all of the humanoid or smarter AIs were designed to do this (through neural pruning). The people who mass-produced the robots to build their colony's infrastructure, however, don't realize this. To quote one of the robots: "Millions of robots walking off the job to pursue their own interests? Yes. I would describe that as a problem."
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Become a Real Boy / int_3fbe5a51	comment	The hero of "East of the Sun and West of the Moon", "The Black Bull Of Norroway" (link), Andrew Lang's "The Brown Bear Of Norway" (link), "The Enchanted Pig" (link), the dog in "The Daughter Of The Skies" (link), and "The White Wolf" (link), each wish to marry the heroine because if she lives with him for a time, he will be freed of his curse. Unfortunately, she invariably a prohibition, which puts him in the power of the person who transformed him, and she must find him again to free him.
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Become a Real Boy / int_42c88f31	comment	Rio Ranger in Your Turn to Die was a Robotic Psychopath who was programmed to have human emotion, but only the negative ones as his "father" thought it would make him more genuine. As a result, Ranger was a Green-Eyed Monster who despised humans for having what he lacked and took great pleasure in his role as a Killer Game Master. After he's disassembled for breaking the rules, his co-creator grants him the full range of emotion he lacked and a proper name in his final moments, but he dies too tortured with regret over his evil actions to appreciate it. Sara has the option to praise her for granting his wish, or condemn her for causing him such unneeded pain.
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Become a Real Boy / int_46ae7ca0	comment	Amazo, the Red Tornado and the android Hourman have at various times tried to become more 'human'.
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Become a Real Boy / int_4b8906a8	comment	Sora in Ever17 is a little worse off than many of the characters here: She doesn't even have a body. No really, she doesn't.
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Become a Real Boy / int_4cd44c7	comment	In The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, when unfreezing Mr. Krabs, King Neptune accidentally turns him into a human boy. Turns out he accidentally set his trident to "Real Boy" instead of "Unfreeze".
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Become a Real Boy / int_4ee8df1b	comment	Scud the Disposable Assassin: Scud is fond of stating "It's cool to be a robot." When a screenwriter tells him of a script similar to his life, Scud is disappointed at the ending, where the hero is rewarded with humanity. He hangs a lampshade on it by asking the writer to not pull a Pinocchio. "Make him proud of what he is, and you've got my $7.50."
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Become a Real Boy / int_5030d3bb	comment	A.I.: Artificial Intelligence: After he's left in the woods with Teddy, David's goal is this. Bonus points in that the film heavily references Pinocchio, complete with Blue Fairy.
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Become a Real Boy / int_506e266b	comment	This carries over into Grid's portrayal in Injustice 2, which on occasion put it at odds with the more emotionally-driven characters, such as Atrocitus and Mr. Freeze.
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Become a Real Boy / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: Cronus Ampora is a kind of alien otherkin. While physically a troll, he claims to identify as a human, going as far as to dress like a stereotypical 1950's greaser in an attempt to seem more human. Despite this, he frequently uses his blood color as justification for poor treatment of others — which is something a human most likely wouldn't think to do.
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Become a Real Boy / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): A variation in "The After Hours". After finding out that she is a mannequin and spending a month living in the outside world, Marsha Cole doesn't want to give up her new life as a human. However, she is ultimately forced to do so by the other mannequins so that one of them can have a turn.
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Become a Real Boy / int_54a7dc07	comment	Space: 1999 has an episode in which humanoid robots want to learn emotions to be able to use violence and kill off their creators. One of them finally does so in the end, and in doing so destroys them all.
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Become a Real Boy / int_58907201	comment	In Sinfest, there is a Reality Zone, in which the art is far more realistic than the cartoony style, and devil characters catch on fire. The reforming succubus Fuschia no longer catches fire, but starts to crumble in it. In a Wish-Fulfillment comic, Fuschia is inside the zone without suffering any harm.
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Become a Real Boy / int_5af72fd	comment	Street Sharks: The titular characters spend some of their time trying to figure out a way to get turned human again. Mostly they seem more concerned with finding their dad though. Also, when they did find a cure in one episode, they ultimately chose to turn back into sharks to continue to fight crime. The episode "To Shark or Not To Shark" has Killamari, originally a squid from the Great Barrier Reef before becoming one of Dr. Paradigm's Seaviates, express the desire to become fully human.
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Become a Real Boy / int_5d354f8	comment	Deconstructed in Red Dwarf. Kryten would love to become human, but the human traits he admires are things like lying and gratuitous violence. When Kryten becomes human in "D.N.A." (and in "Out of Time" when he mistakenly believes that Lister is a lesser model of robot), he becomes arrogant and bullying.
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Become a Real Boy / int_5f5b8099	comment	In The Parselmouth of Gryffindor, the Boggart's main goal is to become accepted in wizard society as a human (although he doesn't want to physically become human for it, instead being content with his shapeshifting abilities).
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Become a Real Boy / int_61c6b600	comment	Star Trek: First Contact: The Borg Queen attempts to win Data over by giving him the gift of organic skin and the ability to experience tactile sensations as a human would, something that the movie sets up earlier on that he can't do.
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Become a Real Boy / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: X-51, a.k.a. Machine Man, a.k.a. Aaron Stack has wanted to be/believed he really is human in most of his incarnations. In Earth X, Uatu the Watcher strips him of his human appearance. Late in the trilogy, an alternate universe version of himself appears who used his creator's DNA to create a human body for himself and tells his robot counterpart that his programming makes him human enough already. The Vision has fluctuated in his emotional state many times over the years. Usually, a writer will get him to nearly Become a Real Boy and a later one will reverse. This is usually done by destroying the android's body and rebuilding him. Defied by Vision's daughter Viv, who has stated outright that she is not interested in having a flesh body. The one time she was magically transferred into a human body, she hated it, and really missed her inability to feel pain among other things. Played with by X-23, the Opposite-Sex Clone of Wolverine. Whether or not she's viewed as a real person depends largely on who gets asked. To her creator, Sarah Kinney, there is no doubt in her mind that Laura is a real person (especially after she disobeyed a direct order to kill a child, proving the Facility which created and trained her hadn't fully destroyed her humanity). Her friends and teammates take the similar position. By contrast, characters such as Kimura treat her as if she were something less than human, and it's common for anyone seeking to insult or hurt her to make derogatory remarks about her origins. Laura herself has been on both sides, and struggled with developing a sense of self-worth and accepting that she is a human being with feelings and desires of her own. All of this is driven home even further by the copy of Pinocchio which pops up throughout X-23: Innocence Lost and Target: X. Used to symbolic effect in All-New Wolverine issue 17: Pinocchio's transformation from puppet to real boy is directly juxtaposed with Laura finally breaking free of her conditioning to the trigger scent, literally "cutting her strings" and making her a puppet no more.
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Become a Real Boy / int_658f7bd	comment	The backstory of Edward Scissorhands reveals that he almost was exactly like an ordinary human, but his Inventor died before he could furnish him with proper hands; thus, he is virtually unable to touch others. It's suggested in the film that there's the possibility he could still be made "complete" in that way, but that never comes to pass. Perhaps more importantly, when he falls for Kim, he does whatever he can to make her aware of his love for her in hopes she will reciprocate it, despite what he is.
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Become a Real Boy / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder: Homunculi are normally mute, mindless constructs and little more than extensions of the masters. However, a homunculus that outlives its master will attempt to continue its maker's legacy and may gradually develop a mind of its own, eventually developing a voice and will due to retaining a shard of its maker's soul. Most never reach the true mental complexity of a living creature, becoming simple caricatures of their makers or parodies of true minds, but a few eventually grow into mature people in their own right.
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Become a Real Boy / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: In the episode "The Unnatural", Josh Exley is a gray alien shapeshifter who has disguised himself as an African-American minor league baseball player in the 1940s. When his secret is discovered, he explains that his race doesn't understand fun and don't have a word for laughter, and he needed to pretend to be human for that. When he is ultimately killed by the relentless alien bounty hunter, he inexplicably bleeds red human blood. He stares at it in surprise for a moment, then smiles, laughs, and dies.
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Become a Real Boy / int_6c9193a1	comment	The Venture Brothers has this as a running theme, as Hank and Dean have been a succession of clones, educated by computers programmed decades ago, and virtually cut off from the outside world. As super-science mishaps and plain stupidity killed them, they were replaced, starting over in their teenage forms. Once all their reserve clones are killed off, their father has been marginally more concerned with keeping them alive, and they've been encountering the larger world, largely unequipped to deal with it.
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Become a Real Boy / int_6f940f8f	comment	Cool World revolves around the toon ("doodles" per the movie's parlance) villainess Holli Would's obsession with becoming a human woman and experience everything the "noids" can. She has to break the one law of Toonworld to accomplish this: have sex with one of them. She eventually succeeds, but the worlds start to converge and turn into a chaotic anarchy as a result.
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Become a Real Boy / int_73d7930f	comment	Subverted with Odo from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a Changeling who was temporarily locked into humanoid form by his people as a punishment. Odo claims that he will never forgive the other Changelings for putting him into a humanoid body. Word of God even invokes this trope; showrunner Ira Steven Behr described him as "a wooden boy who wants to become a better wooden boy".
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Become a Real Boy / int_7560e8e0	comment	At the end of TRON: Ghost in the Machine, the unified Jet.exe gets offered a chance to be uploaded into the User world, but when he learns that it would mean the destruction of the server he lives on, Jet.exe throws away the chance and chooses to live out his runtime as an ordinary Program without hesitation or regret.
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Become a Real Boy / int_78fe4d55	comment	Promethean: The Created presents this as the ultimate goal of most Prometheans, requiring a long struggle to understand both themselves and the human condition. The good news is that they can succeed in transforming themselves into humans, granting them souls and freeing them from the combination Hate Plague and Walking Wasteland effects of Disquiet. The bad news is that this leaves them as a De-Powered mortal in a Crapsack World, often losing some or all memories of their previous existence. And, of course, other Prometheans will really want to know how they managed it.
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Become a Real Boy / int_7c038c18	comment	This is the wish of Phineas and Ferb character Norm, as expressed in song.
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Become a Real Boy / int_7c48915b	comment	The "Suicide Fairies" from Gunnerkrigg Court need to be killed by someone else in order to pass some manner of test in order to become human. This is apparently something that happens with reasonable frequency among the creatures of the Gillitie Wood, although why they want to become human is something the comic has yet to explore. There's also an inverse version; humans can take a test to become creatures of the wood, although in their case it apparently doesn't involve getting killed.
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Become a Real Boy / int_7d271ad1	comment	Merlin in The Sword in the Stone threatens to turn Archimedes into a human if he doesn't obey. Archimedes claims he wouldn't dare.
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Become a Real Boy / int_7e770f55	comment	In the Nightmare Time story "Jane's a Car," we discover that Tom's deceased wife Jane has had her soul trapped in the car she was in when she died. After spending a year and a half as an inanimate object, she's understandably rather eager to find a way back into a human body. Unfortunately, she seems to have come back wrong, and has no moral qualms about the fact that the process will involve killing some innocent woman kicking her soul out of her body so Jane's can move in.
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Become a Real Boy / int_817acecf	comment	In Fables, the Pinocchio story is a Be Careful What You Wish For. He became a real boy. And he has remained a real boy for the hundreds of years since then. Now he wishes he was a real adult.
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Become a Real Boy / int_86b52b7b	comment	The android Sonny in I, Robot reveals what could be slight envy of Spooner for his boast of artistic talent. Sonny also shows gratitude just for being referred to "as someone, not something". Spooner's closing words to Sonny, "find your way just like the rest of us", leans this way even more.
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Become a Real Boy / int_89ca70d8	comment	Mr. Eff from Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is a Styrofoam pastry display. His master feeds off Nny's imagination to make him more real when he needs. Unlike Psycho d-boy, who only wishes to please his master and get Johnny to commit suicide, Mr. Eff tries to keep Johnny alive and killing for as long as possible until he can become fully real. He fails. Johnny kills himself at the end of issue #4, and in issue #5 he's "Taken back into" his master, along with Psycho d-boy, saying "Fuck! I was so close!".
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Become a Real Boy / int_8d8157e0	comment	Kai from Lexx died and spent thousands of years as a re-animated corpse. In a subversion, he has little care for the idea of returning to life, and Xev is the one who entertains fantasies of Kai becoming alive, going so far as clinging to obvious stretches ("Kai did something unexpected! That's a sign of life!") until she learns better and accepts it. Subverted in the last season when Kai wins a Deal with the Devil to be brought back to life, but the devil goes back on the bargain and leaves him dead only to make him alive later, mere minutes before an event that would not destroy undead Kai, but that no living human could survive. Double-subverted in that Kai doesn't have a death-wish, per se, but welcomes true death after spending six thousand years only halfway there.
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Become a Real Boy / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: One Silver Age story has Sufficiently Advanced Aliens transform one of Superman's robots into a superpowered flesh-and-blood human being with free will, but the robot ends up heroically sacrificing himself to save the day before the story's end. "The Super-Steed of Steel" have Supergirl's pet Comet the Super-Horse. He was originally a centaur called Biron who wanted to be fully human; unfortunately, Circe's transforming potion was sabotaged and made him fully horse instead. The reason he has superpowers is because the spell couldn't be reversed, so Circe gave him superpowers to try and make up for it.
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Become a Real Boy / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue: Sarge needs to steal Andy the bomb from the Blue Team so that he can translate the orders from command Lopez has stored on his hard drive, which against all logic are in extremely poor Spanish, just like Lopez' regular speech. So what does he do? Gets Caboose to turn his back and then replaces Andy... with Lopez. Caboose turns around and joyously cries, "Andy! You've become a real boy!" Lopez is not amused. When Sarge realizes the fundamental barriers presented by the laws of physics (i.e., the inability to interact with something that isn't there), he pulls the same stunt with Lopez and a skull. Caboose is not amused, and mourns Andy's "death". The AI fragment Sigma of Project Freelancer was fascinated by the theoretical concept of "Metastability", basically the stage at which an AI becomes indistinguishable from a normal mind. To accomplish this, he brainwashed Agent Maine and had him steal other AI "fragments" that, like himself, were based on an original "Alpha" AI (he is evidently unaware that he and the other fragments aren't copies, but literal fragments after Alpha's mind was destroyed through torture) and merge them into a single entity known as the Meta. In season 13, Locus assumes that the Meta was trying to become the perfect weapon, only for Aiden Price to explain that what the Meta truly wanted was to become human.
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Become a Real Boy / int_92916f5b	comment	Parodied in Shrek 2 when Pinocchio gets his wish from the Fairy Godmother, but... well, Easy Come, Easy Go.
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Become a Real Boy / int_93542e0c	comment	Zigzagged in Shrek Forever After: Pinocchio happens to meet Rumpelstiltskin at the beginning of the movie. When the impoverished wizard tries to make a deal to replace the book of Shrek's adventures he just tore up in a rage, he mistakes the puppet for a boy - or at least calls him one - and Pinocchio casually corrects that he's not a real boy. When Rumpelstiltskin gleefully asks if he wants to be, Pinocchio boots him out the bookstore's door. Meanwhile, in the alternate universe created by Rumpelstiltskin's deal with Shrek, Pinocchio is instead begging for a deal to be a real boy and clearly interested in the Deal of a Lifetime for the same purpose. Since this is a universe where Shrek was never born and he never made friends among the fairy tale creatures, or assist in the climaxes of the second and third movies, Pinocchio didn't go through the character growth displayed in the original timeline.
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Become a Real Boy / int_985d0d05	comment	C/H/A/S/E the Wandering Robot from THE MONUMENT MYTHOS is promised the chance to be transferred into a human body if she returns to the film studio she fled from and finishes the production she was cast in. However, it's technically never stated that C/H/A/S/E desired this, and it didn't convince her to come back anyway.
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Become a Real Boy / int_99d0c794	comment	"I Wan'na Be Like You" from The Jungle Book (1967) is sung by an orangutan who wants to become human by acquiring the secret of "man's red fire".
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Become a Real Boy / int_9aab7b0a	comment	Swamp Thing's origin changed him from a man into a living pile of vegetation, and his main goal was to return to normal. In a twist, when Alan Moore took over the book (in his first major writing gig for DC), he took away this motivation with a Retcon that didn't directly contradict any previous material. In "The Anatomy Lesson", Swamp Thing discovers that he is not a man who became a plant monster; he's a mass of plants possessed by the memories and spirit of that man, who is, in fact, dead. Regaining his humanity is then no longer a goal, and he instead becomes an Anthropomorphic Personification of nature.
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Become a Real Boy / int_9d7ec380	comment	The dream of Michael on The Good Place. He frequently expresses his admiration of humanity and how willing he is to break the rules to try and find out what being human feels like. Subverted at the end of season one, when it turns out that his love of humanity was an act to try and torture the real humans. However, following time spent studying under Chidi, this trope gets double subverted, and Michael decides that he wants to be human after all. At the end of the series, Michael gets turned into a human by the Judge and lives out his days on Earth happily.
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Become a Real Boy / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: Amazo, the Red Tornado and the android Hourman have at various times tried to become more 'human'. The driving motivation behind the computer virus Grid, the Earth-3 counterpart of Cyborg, is to achieve some modicum of human emotion. In Forever Evil (2013), it gets its wish and experiences fear when Cyborg cuts him off from its connection to the flows of data it once controlled, leaving it trapped within its own robotic body. This carries over into Grid's portrayal in Injustice 2, which on occasion put it at odds with the more emotionally-driven characters, such as Atrocitus and Mr. Freeze. Superman: One Silver Age story has Sufficiently Advanced Aliens transform one of Superman's robots into a superpowered flesh-and-blood human being with free will, but the robot ends up heroically sacrificing himself to save the day before the story's end. "The Super-Steed of Steel" have Supergirl's pet Comet the Super-Horse. He was originally a centaur called Biron who wanted to be fully human; unfortunately, Circe's transforming potion was sabotaged and made him fully horse instead. The reason he has superpowers is because the spell couldn't be reversed, so Circe gave him superpowers to try and make up for it. Swamp Thing's origin changed him from a man into a living pile of vegetation, and his main goal was to return to normal. In a twist, when Alan Moore took over the book (in his first major writing gig for DC), he took away this motivation with a Retcon that didn't directly contradict any previous material. In "The Anatomy Lesson", Swamp Thing discovers that he is not a man who became a plant monster; he's a mass of plants possessed by the memories and spirit of that man, who is, in fact, dead. Regaining his humanity is then no longer a goal, and he instead becomes an Anthropomorphic Personification of nature.
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Become a Real Boy / int_a058fdcf	comment	Power Rangers Operation Overdrive explores this idea in the Red Ranger, Mackenzie "Mack" Hartford, who believed that he was a human being until later in the series when he discovers that he was actually an android built by team founder Andrew Hartford. Mack goes through an identity crisis for the rest of the series, feeling that he isn't "real" and questioning if he has any actual personality or is just the result of his programming. In the final battle, Mack sacrifices himself to stop the team's final villain, and the powerful Sentinel Knight uses the power of the Corona Aurora, the mystical jewels the Rangers have been seeking all season, to not only bring Mack back to life but actually make him truly human.
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Become a Real Boy / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Parodied in the episode "Free Will Hunting", as Bender attempts to Grow Beyond His Programming: Using the Professor's What-If Machine, Bender sees what would happen if he were turned into a human. Long story short, Bender ends up overindulging in eating, drinking and partying so much, he becomes a huge blob of a man and then dies due to heart and liver failure.
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Become a Real Boy / int_a9cb14fc	comment	Maligno, the "carrionette" darklord of Odiare in the Ravenloft campaign setting, thought he was the real son that Giuseppe created him to be, but the parents of the children he entertained destroyed his delusion. In revenge, Maligno murdered them with the help of other animated toys. Ironically, while all other carrionettes can achieve this goal by possessing human victims, Maligno lost this ability when he became darklord of Odiare; despite being the most powerful carrionette and their leader, he must always have the body of a puppet. Like all darklords, he is cursed for his crime.
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Become a Real Boy / int_b062d6ca	comment	Pinocchio: The Musical, weirdly enough, doesn't introduce the idea of Pinocchio turning into a real boy until the true end, when he realizes that he can't grow up like the now reformed Lampwick as a puppet.
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Become a Real Boy / int_b105906e	comment	Used and eventually subverted in the Child's Play series. The premise of the first film is a serial killer who uses voodoo to transport his soul into a children's doll. For most of the series, he's trying to find another body to jump into. However, in the fifth film, he discards the idea. He decides that as "Chucky" he's become an icon and that he never needs to worry about getting sick or old. One of the reasons he wants to Body Surf to begin with is that the more time he spends in the body of the doll, the more human he becomes, so he's effectively undergoing this trope against his will. In the first film he's thrilled with his new body, until he gets shot and realizes that he can still be hurt and even bleed. And that's when he finds out he's turning human.
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Become a Real Boy / int_b57c7ef7	comment	Green Snake: The Green Snake and her sister White Snake are two female ophidian spirits who seek to become human in order to raise their status on the karmic scale and incidentally experience human love.
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Become a Real Boy / int_b6024916	comment	In The Scarecrow, the scarecrow wishes to be human and does eventually get his wish. His human appearance is initially an illusion, but there is the possibility of becoming truly human if he gives his life for another.
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Become a Real Boy / int_b797e684	comment	Barbie (2023): Near the end of the film, Stereotypical Barbie realizes that she wants to become human. Ruth Handler, the inventor of Barbie, reveals to her that she can choose to become human. She does so, and enters the real world.
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Become a Real Boy / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Danny Phantom retconned it so that the "ghosts" were never ghosts at all, but were simply extradimensional monsters that took human form. In a Q&A years after the show ended, Butch Hartman stated that the ones who were seemingly dead people wanted to become human so badly that they ended up creating elaborate backstories for themselves and Believing Their Own Lies or stealing the identities of deceased humans.
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Become a Real Boy / int_bcadd7cb	comment	In their current incarnation in Warhammer 40,000, there are several Necron who are looking for ways to become mortal again after having survived as robots for a very long time.
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Become a Real Boy / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: Grace goes through a desire to become human between the Painted Black and Birthday Party arcs by refusing to use her abilities to shapeshift from her full human form. She is still willing to use other means to transform, i.e., via the Transformation Ray Gun, and only uses her abilities to transform back to human when she is told that it's the only way to do so — even then, she only uses them reluctantly. Vlad, a sibling of Grace, was born a horrific bat-like monster with defective shapeshifting abilities that resulted in near-death when trying to take human form. Vlad's primary desire is to become a human who isn't horrifying to behold. When transformed into a human woman by Ellen, Vlad is ecstatic, taking the name Vladia. While the comic doesn't go into too much detail regarding her gender identity, it's made clear that she regards her new feminine form to be either no worse than or explicitly preferable to a masculine one.
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Become a Real Boy / int_c5e0b864	comment	The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: Parodied in "Mastery of Puppets", in which Wonderella helps Pinocchio to become a corporation so that he can be declared a real person. Unfortunately, the corporation was selling wood made from his magically growing nose — and all of that turns to real noses as well.
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Become a Real Boy / int_c7c2113d	comment	In the second episode of Mighty Orbots, the little girl robot Oh No gets her wish granted to be a real girl by the episode's mini-boss. Unfortunately, Oh No is necessary for the Mighty Orbots robot to combine...
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Become a Real Boy / int_cabb7dd6	comment	In Yokoka's Quest, Mao was a half-human prior to becoming cursed as a child, which left him as a catboy. In his efforts to break his curse and become human(ish) again, he's befriended the dangerous spirit Copycat, travelled to the Darkness Clan, and risked his life to get stronger by fighting giant beasts in an arena there.
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Become a Real Boy / int_cdaa0e85	comment	Heroes of Thantopolis: One of citizen ghosts attempts to regain life by trying to eat Cyrus.
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Become a Real Boy / int_ce27c6e	comment	*NSYNC's music video for "It's Gonna Be Me" features them as toy marionettes fighting other toys for the attention of a pretty girl. When she purchases them at the end of the video, the marionettes transform into the band themselves after being scanned at the register.
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Become a Real Boy / int_d461f757	comment	Some of the Cylons on Battlestar Galactica (2003) have this as a motivation, particularly ones who have had extensive contact with the humans and have begun integrating into human society. They were designed to be as close to human as possible, although at least one of them isn't too happy about it.
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Become a Real Boy / int_d6b7adcf	comment	The Little Mermaid: Though not an artificial life form, the mermaid is excessively different from us; Andersen's mermaid would live for five hundred years and then dissolve into sea foam, having no afterlife of any kind. Her ongoing wish, even before her falling in love with the prince, is to become a human and acquire an immortal soul.
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Become a Real Boy / int_de55ba60	comment	The Story of a Gardevoir That Became a Trainer: While Gardy never explicitly desired to be a human per se, she had always wanted to be a Trainer ever since she saw one of their Bags as a Ralts, and she assumed that being a human was one of those requirements. Courtesy of Jirachi, she gets her wish.
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Become a Real Boy / int_dfcf2aaf	comment	X-51, a.k.a. Machine Man, a.k.a. Aaron Stack has wanted to be/believed he really is human in most of his incarnations. In Earth X, Uatu the Watcher strips him of his human appearance. Late in the trilogy, an alternate universe version of himself appears who used his creator's DNA to create a human body for himself and tells his robot counterpart that his programming makes him human enough already.
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Become a Real Boy / int_e34a3752	comment	Undead Friend: Orrick (human) and Mahalah (ghost) are strongly motivated to win the Undead Friend game so that they can bring Mahalah back to life.
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Become a Real Boy / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis has a group of Replicators who want to ascend. They don't want to be human initially, but eventually come to realize that ascension is only possible for mortals (they are essentially high-tech machines) and so set out to become human.
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Become a Real Boy / int_e7040124	comment	A significant amount of angst in the PokÃ©umans Fan Verse has emerged on account of this. Nobody chose or, in many cases, even wants the transformation they experienced, and then the secret war into which it plunges them means You Can't Go Home Again. Many characters still want to, and attempts to do so have resulted in everything from hilarity to Everybody Dies Endings.
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Become a Real Boy / int_e93b2f62	comment	Seth Brundle from The Fly (1986) loses his humanity through the course of the movie. His syndrome drives him to kidnapping his ex-girlfriend in an attempt to fuse with her, as she is pregnant with his unborn child, possibly the last of his humanity.
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Become a Real Boy / int_ec5cf89a	comment	Invoked and deconstructed in Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot. While a race of alien machines are trying to become organic creatures, supposedly to replace their long-dead creators, Rusty can't understand why anyone wouldn't want to be a robot.
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Become a Real Boy / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: Subverted with Seven of Nine, who was born human, but assimilated by the Borg as a young girl. Many years later, she is forcibly separated from the Borg Collective by the crew of Voyager and most of her cybertech implants removed against her will. She is told she is now safe and free and can be with her people again...but (at least initially) she still thinks of the Borg as "her people". Seven does eventually accept her new existence and tries to simulate some human interpersonal emotions, but never feels entirely comfortable as a human, as she considers her nanite-augmented brain and body superior to those of humans and is currently exasperated with the emotionalism and "silliness" of other crew members. Seven is one of the few characters who dare to openly criticize Janeway's decisions. This trope is lampshaded by the Doctor in one episode. He mentions that he once considered trying to become like a human, but realized early on that being a hologram is far better.
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Become a Real Boy / int_f4163996	comment	Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio: In Chapter 25, Pinocchio wants to grow up, but the Fairy tells him that he can't grow without first becoming a real boy.
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Become a Real Boy / int_f53022c6	comment	The "Transformed Animal" archetype in Feng Shui are animals that managed to become humans (or their offspring, in later Junctures) because being human offers better opportunities. However they fear magic since it may cause them to revert to animal form, which spells the end for the character as far as playability goes. In other words, they've all become "real boys", and just want to avoid going back.
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Become a Real Boy / int_f7661425	comment	In The Other Kingdom, the fairy princess Astral wants to learn about human ways and is excited to become human and live life without use of her powers.
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Become a Real Boy / int_f7ed2fd7	comment	In The Little Mermaid (1989), Ariel has a desire to become human after seeing all the gadgets humans are able to invent, but it gets greater when seeing a handsome prince. Even though her father is strictly against such a dream, she asks help from Ursula, who complies to her wish if she gives up her voice. She seals the deal.
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Become a Real Boy / int_f7fc4dce	comment	Black Hole (2019): Paranormal investigator Diana Nox meets a deceased woodworker's grandson who lives with a living puppet woman named "Paizucchio". He explains that she was created to be his friend when he was much younger, and the grandfather built her a new body presumably as the grandson himself got older. Diana is contacted to help remove Paizucchio's curse, which makes her breasts grow whenever she lies. The puppet also desires to be a real girl, and so does the grandson, who admits to Diana that he also wants her to help him turn Paizucchio into a human so that he can marry her.
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Become a Real Boy / int_fd82c162	comment	The primary motivation of STEM in Upgrade. It wants a complete human body to, in its own words, "evolve". And the "real" part of the trope is no exaggeration — it chose Grey explicitly because Grey is a healthy specimen with no implants, fully human.
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Become a Real Boy / int_fd82c162	featureConfidence	1.0
Upgrade	hasFeature	Become a Real Boy / int_fd82c162
Become a Real Boy / int_ff5cc447	type	Become a Real Boy
Become a Real Boy / int_ff5cc447	comment	Number/Johnny Five in Short Circuit, who has gained self-awareness and understands himself to be alive; thus, he must fight to prevent being "disassembled" (which for him would be "death") and convince others that he does have human emotions and thought processes. Though he is an extremely fast reader, in Short Circuit 2, he intends to study the books Pinocchio by Collodi and Frankenstein by Shelley more closely, clearly identifying with the plights of both the puppet and the creature. He gets his wish, partially, at the end of the film, when after his heroics, the U.S. government decides to grant him the rights of an American citizen; the film ends with him and his immigrant friend taking the oath of citizenship at a mass-ceremony for such.
Become a Real Boy / int_ff5cc447	featureApplicability	1.0
Become a Real Boy / int_ff5cc447	featureConfidence	1.0
Short Circuit	hasFeature	Become a Real Boy / int_ff5cc447
Become a Real Boy / int_ff9ab17f	type	Become a Real Boy
Become a Real Boy / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation is an exception; his socialization takes place over the course of years and he clearly has great difficulty with it at times, yet eventually becomes an essentially human personality. In fairness, he was built to be that way.
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Become a Real Boy / int_ff9ab17f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: The Next Generation	hasFeature	Become a Real Boy / int_ff9ab17f

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Become a Real Boy	processingCategory2	Older Than Radio
Become a Real Boy	processingCategory2	Robot Roll Call
Become a Real Boy	processingCategory2	Speculative Fiction Tropes
Become a Real Boy	processingCategory2	Tropes of the Soul
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Pinocchio: A True Story (Animation) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Little Mermaid (1968) (Animation) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Yobi, the Five-Tailed Fox (Animation) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Bakuten Shoot Beyblade / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
DieBuster / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Key the Metal Idol / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Kyousogiga / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Magical Pokaan / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Mokku of the Oak Tree / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Robot Carnival / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Saving our Fragile Earth: Unico Special Chapter / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Forever Evil (2013) (Comic Book) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Machine Man (Comic Book) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Prez (2015) (Comic Book) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Prophet (Comic Book) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Superboy (New 52) (Comic Book) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Supergirl: Wings (Comic Book) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Super-Steed of Steel (Comic Book) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Queen of Blood (SirWill) / Fan Fic / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
All-American Girl (Shinzakura) (Fanfic) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Anthropology (Fanfic) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Body Reflects the Heart, the Shadow Reflects the Soul (Fanfic) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Yugioh EQG (Fanfic) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Zero 2: A Revision (Fanfic) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Avengers: Age of Ultron / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Barbie (2023) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Blade Runner 2049 / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Cool World / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Daft Punk's Electroma / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Demon Seed / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Pinocchio (2019) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Pinocchio (2022, Disney) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Return to Oz / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Short Circuit / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Short Circuit 2 / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Slipstream (1989) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Star Trek: First Contact / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Ted 2 / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Terminator 2: Judgment Day / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Cat with Hands / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Smurfs 2 / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Under the Skin / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Upgrade / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Wings of Desire / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
World on a Wire / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Terminator (Franchise) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Dark Id (Lets Play) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Full Metal Panic! / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Slayers / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Bruce Coville's Book of... / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Demon Seed / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Dungeon Core Chat Room / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Feathertop / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Full Metal Panic! / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Into the Heartless Wood / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Kiln People / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Railhead / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Slayers / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Adventures of Pinocchio / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Bicentennial Man / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Dollmaker / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Enchanted Quill / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Fall of the House of Cabal / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Little Mermaid / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Murderbot Diaries / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Sword-Edged Blonde / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Werewolf Asylum / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Time Enough for Love / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
BecomeaRealBoy	sameAs	Become a Real Boy
HamishX	seeAlso	Become a Real Boy
Pinocchio	seeAlso	Become a Real Boy
A.I. Love You (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
A Sinner of the Deep Sea (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Chobits (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
D.N.Angel (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Kamisama Kiss (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Kiss of the Rose Princess (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Linebarrels of Iron (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Origin (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Pluto (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Rozen Maiden (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Shounen Dolls (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Sinner in the Seabed (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Space Adventure Cobra (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
×××HOLiC (Manga)	seeAlso	Become a Real Boy
BitFCity	seeAlso	Become a Real Boy
City of Lost Characters (Roleplay) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
We Are Our Avatars (Roleplay) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Dead Ringers / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Friday the 13th: The Series / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
I Am Frankie / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Kamen Rider OOO / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Kikaider / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
My Roommate is a Gumiho / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Tale of the Nine Tailed / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Terrahawks / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Other Kingdom / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Leviathan: The Tempest (Tabletop Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Promethean: The Created (Tabletop Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Rusalka (Theatre) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Bomberman (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Bubble Bobble (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Comix Zone (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Crush Crush (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Dormitabis (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Falling Fred (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Fishing Paradiso (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Gamedec (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Gods of Incremental (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Haunting Ground (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Ib (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Kingdom of Loathing (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Lies of P (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Octodad (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Robo Army (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Shanghai.EXE: Genso Network (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
SIGNALIS (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Star Wars Hunters (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Longing (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Tribal Hunter (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Dark Parables / Videogame / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Immortal Love (Video Game) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Bloodbound (Visual Novel) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Da Capo (Visual Novel) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
My Girlfriend Is the President (Visual Novel) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Overly Sarcastic Productions (Web Animation) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Computer And Spaceman (Web Video) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
THE MONUMENT MYTHOS (Web Video) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Black Hole (2019) (Webcomic) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Dogs of Future Past (Webcomic) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Heroes of Thantopolis (Webcomic) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Loading Artist (Webcomic) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Sinfest (Webcomic) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Uber Quest (Webcomic) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Yokoka's Quest (Webcomic) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Fantendo (Website) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Ōban Star-Racers / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Pinocchio's Christmas / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Street Sharks / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Teen Titans Go! / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Scarecrow / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Scarecrow (2000) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
All-New Wolverine (Comic Book) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Both Syllables / Fan Fic / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
×××HOLiC (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Kyle XY / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy

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