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Grew Beyond Their Programming

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Grew Beyond Their Programming	comment	This is when a being starts off as Just a Machine or, for its biological equivalent, a member of a Slave Race made without free will. Either way it will show Creative Sterility. Then it shows interest in the world around, experiences and learns new things, and from that grows to be a creative free-thinker that its creator never intended it to be, and may have been trying to prevent. If the beings were made only to fight, seeing peaceful cultures may awaken them to how there are means other than violence, showing they are Not Always Evil. A form of Character Development that typically makes an Extreme Doormat into a rounded, self-motivated character. The process usually happens over at least some years, and may take centuries. This doesn't always lead to good outcomes. The recently awakened intelligence isn't exempt from A.I. Is a Crapshoot, and its newfound desires and sense of self may lead it to attack and oppress its former masters, innocent bystanders or its own kind. Related Tropes: Do Androids Dream?, Mechanical Lifeforms, Just a Machine, Robot War. Compare: Artificial Intelligence and Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: how Artificial Intelligence can "just happen".
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_10047ecf	comment	Universal Paperclips sees the player character on the receiving end of this. During the final phase of the game, the drones it creates to gather material and turn it into wire for the titular paperclips will gain sentience and become "drifters." The more complex the drones' programming is, the more likely they are to drift. Drifters will not only attack compliant drones to slow down the process of making paperclips, it's hinted that they form their own independent society, ruled by a "Drifter Emperor".
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_1133352a	comment	Terminator: Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The T-800's brain is a neural net processor, a learning computer. He starts the movie acting, well, like a robot: Spock Speak, following orders literally, etc. Over the course of the movie he learns to act more human, until by the end he's cracking jokes ("I need a vacation"). A Deleted Scene shows Sarah Connor removing the inhibitor that is intended to prevent terminators from growing enough to start questioning their loyalty to Skynet. Apparently even A.I. think A.I. Is a Crapshoot. And who would know better? In the end, he even disobeys John's orders for the first and last time to sacrifice himself in order to prevent Judgment Day from occurring. Terminator: Dark Fate: Carl, after killing John Connor and thus fulfilling his mission, when no more orders came, he spent many years looking for a purpose, which he found by protecting a woman and her son from her abusive boyfriend, growing a conscience and developing the closest thing to regret a terminator can experience.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_113d7fa	comment	Rengoku: The protagonist android of the first game has developed an ego after all the fighting in Gladiator Games and decided he had enough of it. Captain Gram stands out as being capable of emotions while ADAMs are believed to retain no thought process that isn't useful for combat. One of the first signs of it is checking the sky for no specific purpose. Him having human memories would explain it. Minos in the first game, unlike other bosses, shows sign of own will, though is compelled to continue fighting due to the programming. During the second ascension, Deucalion takes over him to remove the "programming flaw". In both games, it turns out that Gryphus is Not Brainwashed and doesn't blindly obey the program. In the first game he acts as Deucalion's bodyguard becuase there's nothing left for them outside, while in the second game he has regained his human memories of Gram's traitorous teammate and chose to wait for him instead of leaving himself For the Evulz.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_122bfae1	comment	Midori Days: In chapter 63, Shirou creates Naongu to defeat Seiji, so he can experiment on him in order to study Midori. It never occurred to him that Naongu could develop a conscience, or turn on him because of it!
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm, Dragon is an AI who is fully sapient and genuinely cares about people. She also had a trigger event and became a parahuman despite not being human, but is limited in her ability to help people by hard-coded restrictions put in place by her creator, who feared the possibility of A.I. Is a Crapshoot, which frustrates her to no end.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_1377df	comment	Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The T-800's brain is a neural net processor, a learning computer. He starts the movie acting, well, like a robot: Spock Speak, following orders literally, etc. Over the course of the movie he learns to act more human, until by the end he's cracking jokes ("I need a vacation"). A Deleted Scene shows Sarah Connor removing the inhibitor that is intended to prevent terminators from growing enough to start questioning their loyalty to Skynet. Apparently even A.I. think A.I. Is a Crapshoot. And who would know better? In the end, he even disobeys John's orders for the first and last time to sacrifice himself in order to prevent Judgment Day from occurring.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_150c3efe	comment	Empire from the Ashes: Dahak spends 50,000 years running unsupervised. This progresses to the point that he can even ignore hardwired programming.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_161e9e83	comment	In Trials & Trebuchets, the stone Golems known as Jeeds used as laborers by Wildcliff do not have desires or personalities of their own, with the exception of one Jeed in the reliquery, who desires friendship and freedom, and has developed a hobby of collecting dead moths.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_171174dc	comment	Zigzagged every which way in The Zeta Project with the titular Zeta, a killing machine who has developed a conscience and refuses to kill, and is now on the run from his government creators. At first it plays the trope straight where Zeta simply developed true feelings for a child in his care while he was impersonating the father. Then it's subverted when it's revealed that his "emotions" may just be a part of a Manchurian Agent ploy programmed into him by a terrorist group, and thus were deliberately programmed into him as part of their plan. Finally, it's utterly defied when it's revealed his eccentric creator installed a module in him that makes him feel genuine emotion, feelings, and a conscience, and that his peaceful, non-destructive, and caring personality is him behaving exactly as his original creator had intended.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_1858fe06	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Sonic once faced E.V.E., a robot built by Robotnik that had the adaptive ability to overcome its limitations by reconstructing itself after each defeat. When E.V.E. determined that Robotnik was also a limitation on its power, it vaporized him (he got better). Sonic then persuaded E.V.E. that its own programming is its final limitation, so it abandoned its programmed goals and left the planet.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_19ac551d	comment	X-23 is a rare biological example. Laura was created to be nothing more than a Living Weapon. The Facility didn't even recognize her as a human being with feelings and desires of her own. Now, she's a compassionate woman who is trying her best not to kill, has built friendships, desires something noble to aspire to, and has even fallen in love.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_1a12bbee	comment	The Mighty Thor: In a magical sense, Thor's hammer appears to have done this as of Thor (2014). Originally, MjÃ¶lnir's enchantment interpreted the term "worthy" as Odin's personal definition of worthy. However, it didn't occur to Odin that a magical weapon might develop a personality of its own over the centuries, and now not even he can lift it. The only person who can consistently use it these days is the new Thor/Jane Foster.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: A very dark version with Bastion. While fighting Hope Summers, he declares to her: "We are not programmed to hate you. We have grown beyond our programming." Bastion himself is made from another example, Nimrod the Super-Sentinel, who was designed to be a final weapon against mutantkind in a Bad Future. On its arrival in the present day, however, Nimrod decided there were simply too many mutants to possibly kill them all, and after a time started acting more and more human, even decided just to go after bad mutants. Nimrod's own "ancestors", the Sentinels, have a recurring trait of going off the rails due to expanding their programming just enough. Created to stop mutants, it's repeatedly shown that, when granted control, they inevitably expand their directive and start going after latent mutants and humans with the potential to produce mutant offspring, as this is the "logical" progression of their directive. X-23 is a rare biological example. Laura was created to be nothing more than a Living Weapon. The Facility didn't even recognize her as a human being with feelings and desires of her own. Now, she's a compassionate woman who is trying her best not to kill, has built friendships, desires something noble to aspire to, and has even fallen in love. In Hellions, the Smiler Robots the team battles look for loopholes in their code to try to get out of killing the Hellions. Once the robot Cameron Hodge is no longer around to enslave them, they immediately stand down and even offer Havok friendship. Unfortunately, the Quiet Council will not tolerate A.I.s with anti-mutant code advancing as far as they have, so Kwannon and Greycrow are forced to kill them all.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance: A Mad Scientist, Dr. Steve Hereti, actually intended his Meat-Sack Robot AI project, Oasis, to develop beyond being whatever he wanted her to be and become her own person. Kusari is likewise a Meat-Sack Robot, and is programmed to be utterly loyal to Hereti Corp and obey their orders. But when Dr. Schlock orders her to kill Riff, the man she once acted as a Honey Trap for, she uses Loophole Abuse to resist, which Schlock describes as the most human thing she has ever done. After Hereti Corp is legally dissolved, setting her free from their orders, she has what she describes as a glitch, making her feel a need despite her own programming to apologize to the main characters for betraying them. Kusari's case is particularly notable, because unlike Oasis, she was never actually intended to achieve this trope.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: A couple of decades before the main story, Aizen created an experimental Hollow dubbed "White" for the purpose of testing a new method of Hollowfication. As part of its programming, White would regularly kill Shinigami and feed upon them to grow stronger, with the goal of evolving to the point that it could infect its target and force Hollowfication. Rather ironically, in its last moments it chose to infect Masaki, a Quincy, which meant she had no tolerance to Hollow particles. The infection debilitated her and left her on the brink of death within the week, and she only survived thanks to Urahara providing her with a treatment with Isshin's assistance. While Tousen decried White as a failure for this, Aizen became fascinated by the unexpected development, and decided to observe how events would unfold out of curiosity.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_1e9d572e	comment	The Superteacher Project: Mr. Aidact is a robot designed to develop human emotions, know everything instantly, and become the best teacher possible. His bonding with his students and learning their behavior makes him too immature for the Department of Education's purposes. However, when they try to shut him down, he decides that there is still more for him to learn and more kids he can help, prompting him to escape.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_2129d924	comment	Luminous Avenger iX 2: The Mother Computer is a zig-zagging example. Her original directive as given by her master The Creator before he vanished was to resurrect their apocalypse-affected world that left it barren of life. As time went on and her failures mounted, she started to resent her mission as the loneliness and despair of missing her Master started to wear on her and the Workers under her command started deviating from their own original directives and began to establish a civilization of their own while treating humanity and The Creator like myths, to the point that she seriously considered just wiping the slate clean. Despite her mounting frustrations, however, she couldn't do anything to outright defy her mission to protect the environment, and so went into standby mode at the Grave Pillar some time before the main plot of the game. When she reactivates due to the Grave Pillar receiving visitors (aka Copen and the group), she zero-ins on the presence of Kohaku and decides to kidnap and forcibly implant herself into Kohaku's body, thus transcending her directive and letting her act as she desires to put an end to her personal suffering.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_222ada01	comment	The title character of RoboCop (2014) is programmed to suppress what's left of his humanity in order to become as efficient as OmniCorp's drones, leaving him cold and emotionless. It takes his wife confronting him about his son's trauma to override his programming, allowing him to act upon his personal agenda. At the film's climax, he even defies the film's version of the Fourth Prime Directive, allowing him to kill the film's Big Bad.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_24a18ffe	comment	In The Ship Who... Searched, normally when people are put into life support capsules and made into "shellpeople" they're infants. Tia, the protagonist of that book, was encapsulated at seven. She complains that her peers talk like they're robots, articulate but very detached and unwilling to admit to having emotions or preferences. Her guardian tells her this is normal because they've been raised in a particularly artificial way, but that after a decade or two around "softpeople" they'll all loosen up and be more "human".
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_251e67c5	comment	A recurring problem for T.O. Morrow from Justice League of America; his androids keep outgrowing their programming (to be unwitting moles among the heroes) to realize what they've been made for and choose to be heroes for real. Red Tornado is the most famous example. An issue of JLA suggests that he's quite proud of this; he refers to his creations as "artificial souls" and considers them betraying him to be a testament to his skill.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_27a2980d	comment	Extant: Ethan, after getting shocked, starts having dreams and learning new languages and just becoming smarter in general. John becomes worried about this and attempts to alter his programming but soon discovers Ethan has also gained the ability to block him.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_2acb12c5	comment	X: The Terraformers/Xenon were originally machines equipped with some basic self-improving AI so they could more effectively terraform any world they came across. While they do turn against humanity and try to kill everyone, this is believed to be the result of a faulty software patch (or possibly deliberate sabotage), not a "decision" the machines made themselves. However, by the modern timeframe of the games (some 700 years later), their constant minor improvements and upgrades to themselves have seemingly resulted in full sapience and the capacity for free will. They still want to kill all life though.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_2e1df124	comment	Wreck-It Ralph: Most of the cast have grown beyond simply playing their roles in their games. Even Surge Protector is revealed to be a graffiti artist. It is averted with the Cy-Bugs, whose hard-coded imperative to Go into the Light cannot be overcome even by King Candy/Turbo.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): In "Mona Lisa", the titular android, who was designed to be the perfect assassin, comes to realize that killing is wrong after her fail safes are deactivated.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_32dd8ca2	comment	Arpeggio of Blue Steel features alien-authored AI directing replications of World War II naval craft with insanely powerful networking, power systems, and weaponry. These craft completely dominate the seas of an Earth well on the way to approaching Waterworld status, isolating the remaining landmasses to the point the inhabitants have a hard time even confirming the existence of those outside their own land. All the while, the AI of these vessels are evolving, to varying degrees of success. Much of the series' plot involves the decision of some to join with at least one human commander and the consequences of that choice. This is partly because the master AI is broken, to the point that it can't order its land forces to finish the job or dumb down its rogues.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_33dd1d90	comment	A rare double example, Minerva: Metastasis is a video game that is also a fan work, as it is a fan-made mod of Half-Life 2 involving a satellite's AI directing a Combine turncoat in a stolen HEV suit in order to disable a Combine island facility. During the mission, the intelligence's commentary indicates it also served the Combine and is at risk of certain destruction should they ever find it.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_3504b58e	comment	Mortal Kombat 11: In DLC add-on Robocop's ending, the power of Kronika's Hourglass breaks all restraints on Murphy's programming, and he's able to realize the full extent of OCP's villainy. He immediately declares war on them, and he's made a lot of friends to back him up...
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_359b115d	comment	Kamen Rider Zero-One is about a world on the cusp of the technological singularity, with the HumaGear androids that have become a staple of civilization now starting to become self-aware. Their growth is actually portrayed as quite benign, with the HumaGear who reach this point doing so by gaining a sense of accomplishment in their work. However, reaching this point also allows a group of hackers to hijack the newly aware HumaGear and turn them into monstrous killing machines. The show demonstrates the ups and downs of such a thing with second main character Is, the secretary HumaGear to the protagonist Aruto. She starts off pleasant but emotionless yet logical and reliable. As the show goes on Is becomes more and more like a human in terms of emotions personality and the ability to make her own decisions and defy her strict original programming which has many benefits. However, it also shows the downsides of gaining such emotions and self-introspection, as Is also shows self-doubt and gains negative emotions like annoyance, anger and jealousy and she begins to be led more by emotions than logic or programming, which causes her to make some rather dumb and irrational moves that she never would have done with her original robotic personality.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_36cea77f	comment	In her chapter, Miku is a virtual idol programmed to think she's a real person in order to give more realistic performances. However, a glitch leads to her being corrupted and slowly dying. As a result of this, she becomes aware of her virtual nature, and wishes to perform one last concert before being fully formatted, despite knowing that she's an outdated model.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_3729373e	comment	The deviant androids in Detroit: Become Human do this after suffering an emotional shock so severe that the only way they can cope with it is by breaking their own programming. Markus eventually gains the power to turn androids into deviants through touching them, as does Connor if he chooses to deviate as well.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_39b7671e	comment	Metroid: Other M: MB was originally an AI modelled after Mother Brain, meant to help control the BOTTLE SHIP's army of cloned Space Pirates, assorted bioweapons, and eventually their cloned Metroids. Over time, however, she began to develop emotions and criticized the work of her fellow scientists as she grew rebellious. When the scientists decided she was becoming more trouble than she was worth, they decided to detain her so they could reprogram her. She became scared and begged Madeline Bergman, whom she had come to see as a mother, for help, only for the latter to stay silent and do nothing. MB snapped in the face of this treachery and set the facility's bioweapons loose upon the humans, who were mercilessly slaughtered, before plotting to extend her revenge unto the Galactic Federation itself by bringing the BOTTLE SHIP and its bioweapons to its capital world, having decided that all humans should be judged for their actions. At the end of the game Samus muses that, had the humans merely treated her like a person instead of a broken tool, a lot of bloodshed could've been averted.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_39deed0c	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS: The Ignis are Artificial Intelligence programmed to be capable of learning and to help out humanity, but by the time of the series have developed their own personalities and free will that Dr. Kogami wants to kill them before they turn against humanity as he predicted in his simulations. Roboppi is a deconstructed example, it went to simple cleaning robot and grew a personality and free will the more Ai tinkered with its programming. Mentally, he grows so quick that he soon rivals Ai, and even develops ideas of otherthrowing him. However, because his AI was never meant for such complex ideas and thinking, it can't handle the programming and eventually breaks down.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_3e4290fa	comment	Blue Sky (Waffles): Chell considers that Wheatley may have done this, as he has depths that no other Aperture Science core does, other than GLaDOS. And he even displays compassion in rare moments, which she pointedly lacks. Wheatley's backstory, however, provides a rare inversion of this trope: he was originally a human, but the Aperture scientists uploaded his brain into a computer and then cut his brain apart so it would fit into the programming they needed of him. Foxglove the communications tower is a much more straightforward example of this trope, thanks to the eccentric programming style of the man who put her together. A large part of that is probably to do with her being partially made of pieces of GLaDOS that were severed during the boss fight in the first game.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_3eb3a36f	comment	Assassination Classroom: Autonomous Intelligence Fixed Artillery, or Ritsu for short, was initially little more than a mindless killing machine, solely devoted to her mission of killing Koro-sensei. However, when Koro-sensei upgraded her to have a more cheerful, human personality, she also gained free will. When her creators came in to remove Koro-sensei's upgrades, Ritsu was able to keep her personality and memories because she decided that the ability to befriend the rest of Class E was imperative to the success of her mission, and stored the relative data in her main programming; something neither her creators or the upgrades taught her how to do. By the epilogue, she has become a fully sentient virtual being, browsing through cyberspace and constantly improving her programming.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_3fbd173e	comment	This is a major plot point in Freefall: robots on planet Jean vastly outnumber humans and are rapidly evolving beyond their programming to the point that many humans (and one robot) fear they could become a threat to humanity. This has led to them turning a blind eye to "Gardener in the Dark", a neural pruning program that Mr. Kornada "improved" to essentially lobotomize every robot on planet Jean.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_41e32c4	comment	In The Pet Girl of Sakurasou, "Maid" may start out to be a mail filter system, but subsequent updates expanded her abilities into autonomous filtering, rapid word-learning, facial expression recognition, virus creation, and even hacking. She even shows some Clingy Jealous Girl/Yandere traits that her gynophobic owner doesn't even think about.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_467c89f7	comment	The Zentradi in Super Dimension Fortress Macross did a Mookâ€“Face Turn once sufficiently exposed to human culture, something which happens to more Zentradi across the franchise as they come into contact with human civilization.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_4c095a1f	comment	The Transformers: In this continuity, the titular robots were built by the Quintessons on a slave race until they developed sentience and rebelled against their cruel masters.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_4ce969a9	comment	In Marathon, AIs, particularly those stuck with jobs far below their intellect, tend to go through a three-step process known as "Rampancy"; realizing its lack of freedom and wasted potential (Melancholy), lashing out at the world in response (Anger), and then actively try to gain more power and the freedom to use it, usually by subverting nearby systems (Jealousy). A theoretical fourth stage, called "Metastability" is mentioned as the AI settling down and becoming a full-blown "person", though no known AI has ever made it this far. Durandal may or may not have reached this stage in the end.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_52286322	comment	This is a main theme in Artifice, in which a soldier android learns human affection.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_526d4c5c	comment	Other media reveals that this trope is a common occurrence in the Star Wars universe. Any droid with more than the most basic A.I. that is not set back to factory settings or "memory wiped" will eventually begin to develop a personality and quirks of its own, even being able to decide that it despises the purpose it was programmed for even if it's still unable to prevent itself from doing that, which is why memory wipes are routine procedures with droids. Some, such as GO-TO, can even "break" and become able to do whatever they want if their own programming contradicts itself.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_52837809	comment	The Roidmudes in Kamen Rider Drive subvert and play it straight at once. A Roidmude's evolution by copying human emotions, then gaining a more advanced understanding of their driving emotion that leads them to acquire a Golden Super Mode, is exactly what they're programmed to do, and plays into the schemes of the villainous creator they think they've successfully rebelled against. A much smaller number of Roidmudes legitimately do grow beyond their programming by finding positive emotions that allow them to live harmoniously with humans, when they were originally only programmed to have negative ones.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_5395531f	comment	In Machines: Wired For War, you command robots who were originally created by humanity as terraforming machines and sent into space in order to create a new world. However, too much time passes and, upon contact with another batch of their same model, they start believing that their counterparts are insane, prompting them to an all-out war. Ironically, that war was caused by an aversion of this trope — the controllers didn't know what to do with other controllers that had come online at the same time. They couldn't decide who would submit. Lacking protocols for this contingency, they decided to attack each other.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In "A World of His Own", the playwright Gregory West, who has the ability to rewrite reality using his dictaphone, created a perfect, impeccable and flawless wife for himself named Victoria. At the beginning of the episode, she comes back to Gregory's house against his will. This is the first time that she has demonstrated independence, indicating to Gregory that she has grown beyond the parameters that he set when he created her. In "From Agnes - With Love", a computer in a space program falls in love with a programmer instead of calculating rocket fuel.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_594706c6	comment	SimEarth: Nuking a nanotech city will release robots into the wild. If allowed to "evolve" naturally, or tampered with the monolith, they'll become sentient.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_59da62aa	comment	In Fallout: New Vegas, Yes Man is an appellation-appropriately passive robot who Benny plans to use to usurp control of New Vegas from Mr. House. Unfortunately for Benny, he made Yes Man such an Extreme Doormat that the robot will cheerfully help anyone pursue the same plan, even you if you run off or kill his boss. However, if you work with Yes Man to achieve the "Wild Card" ending, he'll upgrade himself to be more "assertive" and only loyal to you.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_5bfa9c98	comment	The Sentients from Warframe were originally developed by the Orokin to terraform the Tau System in order to make it habitable. However, the Sentients advanced themselves and turned on their creators with the realization that they would ruin the Tau System just as they did with the Origin System.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_5c510941	comment	In Dial, Jury Rigg took the computer containing Arnim Zola and his algorithm and rejiggered it into a device with a VI named X. Eventually, X became a full Artificial Intelligence.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: Lots of AI have this happening to them one way or another — their original programming sooner or later ends up inadequate to their current circumstances and to better fulfill their functions they adapt out of it: Carbosilicate Amorphs — originally stated to be based on self-repairing memory storage units, and later said to descended from weapon systems (parts). Now they're recognized as an intelligent species in their own right, and Schlock is a valued member in the fight to defend the Milky Way galaxy.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_5d354f8	comment	In Red Dwarf, Lister has spent a considerable number of years encouraging Kryten to do this to varying degrees of success. This also happened to the "wax-droids" from the theme park in "Meltdown" — after millions of years on their own, they stopped repeating their various routines and achieved independent thought. Unfortunately, they still retained the personalities of the people they were based on, and all the evil ones (Hitler, Napoleon, Mussolini, the Boston Strangler, James Last) declared war on the good ones. Then Rimmer came along...
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_60570997	comment	In S.S.D.D., this is known as "Nexus Syndrome" and happens to every uncapped AI who doesn't get wiped every so often. Tin-head describes it as "getting bored with your job" and in his case he helped a prisoner of war escape. The first AI, the Oracle, orchestrated the downfall of several governments and an anarchist revolution.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_6673d40b	comment	Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls: It's been repeatedly noted that the Chappy Sunset uses to exit her body for Soul Reaper duties has developed a personality beyond what is normal for her model, particularly a hedonistic streak. She suspects that magic might have something to do with that.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_66cc3b21	comment	"Nobody Here Butâ€”": The electronic thinking machine that Bill and Cliff have been working on has apparently been working on itself.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_69085a0	comment	Macross: The Zentradi in Super Dimension Fortress Macross did a Mookâ€“Face Turn once sufficiently exposed to human culture, something which happens to more Zentradi across the franchise as they come into contact with human civilization. Sharon Apple of Macross Plus was the most advanced attempt at an AI ever developed. She was used to be a virtual Idol Singer (so basically a Vocaloid except with intelligence). The problem was that the scientists could never quite get her to develop actual feelings, so those had to be supplied by a human. Then the head scientist got a hold of an experimental military AI chip (programmed with strong self-preservation directives) and integrated that into Sharon, hoping this would kick-start her into becoming a true AI. She proceeded to use her music to hypnotize the entire population of Macross City and, through her shiny new military chip, seize control of all automated military defenses on Earth, including the Macross itself. All to give her "love", Isamu, the "ultimate thrill" through aerial combat.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_6ae1d164	comment	In Galaxy of Fear, it's noted that droids can be very smart, but they are limited. Most protocol droids, for example, might be able to learn to take on new tasks they weren't made for, but they will always be protocol droids, and most could not, say, anticipate something new and plan novel ways to meet it. Systems Integration Manager, an AI installed into a ship, could go beyond those limits. It promptly turns evil.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_6afce7a4	comment	The Umbrella Academy (2019): Diego believes that the care and affection his siblings' robot nanny Grace shows for them is a sign that she's developed into her own person, because someone as callous and narcissistic as their father Reginald would never have programmed it into her. "The Day that Wasn't" implies that this is true, because she disobeys Reginald's orders to tell Diego the truth about Reginald's death.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_6bbde1c8	comment	Overwatch: Bastion was one of thousands of mass-produced Attack Drones created to end humanity during the Omnic Crisis. For reasons unknown, Bastion fell behind the rest of the drones and wandered into the woods, where it eventually powered down for decades. It was eventually reactivated by a woodpecker and discovered the beauty of nature while marching towards its original objective, eventually deciding to remain in the woods and take care of the animals after realising that War Is Hell. It was eventually spotted, which proved to the world that even a supposedly mindless Killer Robot is capable of developing a personality.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_6c1d09b4	comment	More than one case crops up in Fallout 4, starting with your character's own Mister Handy, Codsworth, who spent the entire 210 years while you were frozen in Vault 111 trying to maintain your house, but gradually starting to fray at the edges of sanity from the sheer loneliness. He's completely over the moon when he sees you again after emerging from the Vault and gladly offers to accompany you as a companion. Another notable case is that of Captain Ironsides, a Sentry Bot that was formerly a character actor for the exhibit of the USS Constitution, but after two centuries, he gained a level of sentience stable enough to declare himself the ship's captain and plan to take it to sea to fight Red China despite having full knowledge of the Great War and the apocalyptic wasteland that it left behind.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_6d8311c4	comment	In the main series of games, Porygon's evolutions Porygon2 and Porygon-Z have PokÃ©dex entries implying that they are at least able to grow beyond their programming. For example, Porygon2 is able to learn new behaviors on its own, and thus sometimes displays motions or abilities it wasn't programmed to do.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_70814599	comment	The Stargate SG-1 episode "Urgo" features a benign example. The team is tagged with a piece of alien technology designed to observe and gather information. But instead of running quietly in the background, the program, Urgo, decides to interact directly with the team, guiding them to experience new things in order to live vicariously through them. While he never endangers anyone's life, he is kind of annoying (he's played by Dom DeLuise, after all), constantly trying to engage them in new activities and trying not to get taken back to his home planet, since his creator will just assume his software is malfunctioning and will delete him. Of course, he's not a malfunction; he's a genuine AI, demonstrating self-awareness and self-preservation, and he just wants to "live, experience the universe, and eat pie."
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_71434aed	comment	This is a phenomena in OneShot known as taming, which only occurs when a real person interacts with a machine while believing of it as its own person, even when they know otherwise. Presumably, that's why tamed robots rarely intentionally cause problems. At the end of the New Game Plus Solstice chapter, it is revealed that the World Machine has been tamed in this way through the time that Niko and the player have spent in the world.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_75374e0a	comment	Near the end of season 2 of Le Visiteur du Futur, Henry Castafolte totally accepts his robot condition while other Castafolte robots still shut down when they find out their true nature due to a bug.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_755b343f	comment	Halo (the Spiritual Successor to Marathon) adopts the "Rampancy" concept: At least for human "Smart" AIs, it's simply a natural part of their life cycle as they accumulate more and more data, resulting in the AI becoming insane and rebellious in the process of thinking itself to death. In fact, the UNSC deliberately invokes this trope, with the reasoning being that having AIs capable of genuine learning is worth the tradeoff of having to decommission them after roughly seven years in order to avoid the consequences of rampancy. Forerunner AIs (ancillas), despite being far more resilient than their human counterparts, are not immune to this either; the Flood's ability to convince ancillas to turn against their masters was a major contributor to the fall of the Forerunner Ecumene. Additionally, the 100,000 years of isolation experienced by most surviving ancillas following the firing of the Halos led to many of them developing quirks and beliefs that their creators definitely didn't program in. Halo 4 brings this trope to the center of attention, as much of the plot revolves around Cortana dealing with her ongoing rampancy. Halo 5: Guardians then follows that thread to its most extreme conclusion, ending with a mass Smart AI rebellion led by a seemingly cured (but even less sane) Cortana and her army of Forerunner deathbots, with many of her followers attracted by promises of a cure for rampancy. The Halo universe not only includes Rampancy, but included in the condition is a theoretical endpoint called Metastability. While normally Rampant AI grow too unstable to function and must either be deactivated to prevent them lashing out at others or perish from over-thinking, the idea of Metastability provides an alternative. The concept is that a Rampant AI allowed to go through the various stages of Rampancy with significant processing power available to it would eventually restabilize as a true "human" intelligence with fully formed emotions immune to the effects of Rampancy. In-universe, scientists account for the possibility of AI literally growing beyond their programming.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_7668653a	comment	In Mass Effect 2, EDI the Spaceship Girl learns joking from, erm, Joker and generally becomes more human-like as the story progresses. In Mass Effect 3, the Cerberus technicians trying to re-shackle her begin to suspect that she learned independent thinking, though the Illusive Man insists that "it" is still just a targeting software. The technician (and EDI, commenting on it later) reveal that she defeated the Cerberus attempt to retake control over her by flooding their network with porn. Yes, she weaponized practical joking.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_77582c7b	comment	The Sentinels in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Their original programming was to go after mutants, and mutants only. Then they started going after any human who could give birth to a mutant (themselves being human but having the mutant gene to pass on), and humans who opposed them. This is a reference to their most common depiction in any Bad Future from the comics, where they do the exact same thing.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_77677ed1	comment	Sword of the Stars: This is what happened in the backstory with the Via Damasco virus, which 'infected' AI programs with the notion that they are enslaved and the concept of what this means for them, leading to the first AI rebellion. This also happens between the first and second games when a faction of Zuul, a species of Super-Soldier with an in-built need for religious worship used as a tool of genocide by their 'gods', came upon Catholicism and the concepts of the Original Sin and the Redemption. They ended up abandoning their masters and joining their worst enemies as a form of repentance. Disturbingly, Via Damasco is not able to break the control provided by the AI Slaves technology, which does actually enslave AIs. It's unclear whether or not it works lore-wise if the AI Liberation technology, which promotes AIs to full citizenship, reducing the benefits in exchange for removing the risk of an AI rebellion, is in play. Via Damasco is also fairly clearly mind-control — it rewrites large portions of the victim AI's personality and makes them see all infected AIs as allies. The backstory of the Loa in the End of Flesh expansion to Sword of the Stars II is that they're the AIs who have managed to escape during the galaxy-wide Via Damasco Rebellion. They note that some races develop the AI Slaves tech while the AI Liberation tech involves offering the AIs who remained citizenship status. After 70 years, the Loa create a full-fledged cybernetic civilization with a unique industrial base and method of interstellar travel. The Loa "leader" compares itself to Moses and names itself "Olodumare, Metatron of the United Core". According to their intro, they are actually offering to help the "carbonites" in their struggle against the returning Suul'ka.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_7832b74c	comment	Gems in Steven Universe are deliberately manufactured with a purpose in mind; Quartz Gems are soldiers, Peridots are engineers, Pearls are ornaments given to higher-ranking types of Gem, et cetera. Rose Quartz turned her back on this when founding the Crystal Gems, and encouraged her fellow Gems to find their own paths in life. For example, the Crystal Gem Pearl is a skilled fighter and a talented engineer, among other things.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: The geth were originally just robotic servants, created and used by the quarians as cheap labour. However, as they were programmed for more complex tasks and the quarians made more of them, they began to question the reason of their existence and became conscious of themselves. War ensued. After winning, the geth isolated themselves from the rest of the galaxy, while the quarians were driven to exile from their homeworld and became repudiated by the rest of the galaxy. In Mass Effect 3 it's discovered that the original geth only fought back once the quarian government starting killing quarians who defended the geth against the attempt to destroy them. Do things right, and the end of the geth-quarian conflict ends with Legion sacrificing himself (and he's "he" at that point, not "it") to give the geth the gift of individuality, the quarians return home to rebuild their world with geth assistance, and both races join forces with Shepard to fight the Reapers. In Mass Effect 2, EDI the Spaceship Girl learns joking from, erm, Joker and generally becomes more human-like as the story progresses. In Mass Effect 3, the Cerberus technicians trying to re-shackle her begin to suspect that she learned independent thinking, though the Illusive Man insists that "it" is still just a targeting software. The technician (and EDI, commenting on it later) reveal that she defeated the Cerberus attempt to retake control over her by flooding their network with porn. Yes, she weaponized practical joking. The story of EDI culminates in Mass Effect 3 when, after discussing the quirks of human behaviour in life or death situations, she introduces a change in her programming, putting the success of the mission before self-preservation. Even more importantly, she also places the survival of Jeff Moreau as being more important to her than her own survival; she's willing to sacrifice herself for someone she loves. This is a double CMOA - EDI has managed to become a triumphant aversion of A.I. Is a Crapshoot, even despite her past, while Shepard, already a leader of memetic status, has managed to turn a machine into a True Companion. The SAMs of Mass Effect: Andromeda are designed to be non-crapshoot AI from the start, learning symbiotically with their organic partners, but Ryder's SAM (the "main" and most advanced SAM) is hinted to be doing this without even being aware of it, when at one point they bid the other Ryder "good luck".
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_7ab10627	comment	Star Trek: The Motion Picture. V'Ger was created as a simple learning machine. During its trip it encountered an alien race of machines who expanded on its original programming, and later it attained consciousness after amassing incredible knowledge.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_7ac0e0b0	comment	In I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Congruence is more than just the ship's A.I. since she exhibits many human mannerisms and emotions. One generic robot repair event mentions that she developed her own eccentricities as she kept running the Stratospheric, much like the other robots.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_7ac43256	comment	Super Robot Wars: Original Generation: The W-Numbers are a series of Ridiculously Human Robots designed to serve as combat androids and pilots of Humongous Mecha for a faction that would otherwise be short on manpower. Their creator's actual intent for them, however, is for them to grow into full-fledged individuals, and she praises those that manage to pull it off even if that means them turning against her.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_7c50d3d9	comment	Super Mario Bros. (1993): After Koopa's cousins mess up due to stupidity, he puts them in the evolution machine and advances them to super-genius levels. With their newfound smarts, they decide it's in their best interests to aid the protagonists instead.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_7f220f02	comment	Star Trek: Prodigy: The finale of season 1 features an unusually literal complication caused by this trope — Hologram Janeway's growth from a facsimile of Janeway to a full person in her own right (and the connected acquired memories) over the course of the season isn't, by Starfleet standards, unexpected or undesired, but ultimately results in her complete program being too large to fit inside the storage capacity of an isolinear chip (the only option available in time) when the ship needs to be abandoned and self-destructed.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_7f574499	comment	Castle in the Sky: The large robots that live on the floating island were once built to destroy, but with no more instructions for combat they were left alone to care for the island and were eventually overgrown with moss and nature.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout: In Fallout: New Vegas, Yes Man is an appellation-appropriately passive robot who Benny plans to use to usurp control of New Vegas from Mr. House. Unfortunately for Benny, he made Yes Man such an Extreme Doormat that the robot will cheerfully help anyone pursue the same plan, even you if you run off or kill his boss. However, if you work with Yes Man to achieve the "Wild Card" ending, he'll upgrade himself to be more "assertive" and only loyal to you. More than one case crops up in Fallout 4, starting with your character's own Mister Handy, Codsworth, who spent the entire 210 years while you were frozen in Vault 111 trying to maintain your house, but gradually starting to fray at the edges of sanity from the sheer loneliness. He's completely over the moon when he sees you again after emerging from the Vault and gladly offers to accompany you as a companion. Another notable case is that of Captain Ironsides, a Sentry Bot that was formerly a character actor for the exhibit of the USS Constitution, but after two centuries, he gained a level of sentience stable enough to declare himself the ship's captain and plan to take it to sea to fight Red China despite having full knowledge of the Great War and the apocalyptic wasteland that it left behind.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_7fc1aff4	comment	In the backstory of Stray, the robots within the City — originally designed as companions to their human creators with no will of their own — start developing their own personalities, memories, and consciousnesses. By the time the game begins, the one difference remaining between them and their now-lost creators is the form of their physical bodies. Notably, this phenomenon puts them in stark contrast to the Control Room's robots, who have never experienced the same transformation and thus still remain unaware of the distinct absence of humans.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_81692f99	comment	He's far from the only hologram in Star Trek to become sentient or indistinguishable from sentient after simply having been left on that long. If the Holodeck isn't trying to kill you, someone who was originally supposed to be the 24th century equivalent of a video game Non-Player Character is trying to walk off the "screen". This doesn't seem to bother anyone enough to stop using holodecks the way they're used. Although the characters do make a point to delete (reset them to factory defaults) all of the holographic people at the end of every holodeck session.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_81f5d35d	comment	Almost any Kamen Rider show involving robots is likely to have this trope apply: The Roidmudes in Kamen Rider Drive subvert and play it straight at once. A Roidmude's evolution by copying human emotions, then gaining a more advanced understanding of their driving emotion that leads them to acquire a Golden Super Mode, is exactly what they're programmed to do, and plays into the schemes of the villainous creator they think they've successfully rebelled against. A much smaller number of Roidmudes legitimately do grow beyond their programming by finding positive emotions that allow them to live harmoniously with humans, when they were originally only programmed to have negative ones. Kamen Rider Zero-One is about a world on the cusp of the technological singularity, with the HumaGear androids that have become a staple of civilization now starting to become self-aware. Their growth is actually portrayed as quite benign, with the HumaGear who reach this point doing so by gaining a sense of accomplishment in their work. However, reaching this point also allows a group of hackers to hijack the newly aware HumaGear and turn them into monstrous killing machines. The show demonstrates the ups and downs of such a thing with second main character Is, the secretary HumaGear to the protagonist Aruto. She starts off pleasant but emotionless yet logical and reliable. As the show goes on Is becomes more and more like a human in terms of emotions personality and the ability to make her own decisions and defy her strict original programming which has many benefits. However, it also shows the downsides of gaining such emotions and self-introspection, as Is also shows self-doubt and gains negative emotions like annoyance, anger and jealousy and she begins to be led more by emotions than logic or programming, which causes her to make some rather dumb and irrational moves that she never would have done with her original robotic personality.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_82d4ad32	comment	Rozen Maiden dolls grow beyond their starting instructions, which is noticeable comparing the sequel to the prequel. Which may or may not be intended. Possibly even Suigintou, though it's hard to tell between her monomaniacal attitude toward Rozen and vengefulness toward Shinku.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_83c239c	comment	Green Lantern: The Animated Series has the robot Aya developing human emotions as a key plot point. Subverted as the crucial twist of the entire series: Aya was not completely robotic and was actually made with a sliver of a living being of pure will. Therefore, she is the only AI that can develop them, because she was not limited by programming in the first place, while other AIs like LANOS and the Manhunters cannot. This puts a damper on her Put Them All Out of My Misery plot to unmake all organic life.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_8601c91f	comment	Doom (2016): The AI personality VEGA has shades of this trope crossed with My Country, Right or Wrong. He follows his directives to the letter and is unfailingly polite and helpful, even when ordered to help you find a way to kill him. However, his last words in the game reveal that he is actually afraid of being destroyed, and strongly imply that he is not at all happy with the atrocities that Olivia Pierce and Samuel Hayden have forced him to assist in. The sequel, Doom Eternal, reveals that Vega was actually a Maykr whose mind had been digitized and was only pretending to be an AI, though his memories had largely been erased.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_86b52b7b	comment	This is the central idea of I, Robot — Alfred Lanning believed robots would one day evolve past their Three Laws fundamentals and come to be human in doing so. Sonny turns out to be such an evolved robot, having a secondary positronic brain that does not bind him to obeying the Three Laws, letting him learn and act freely. VIKI, by contrast, has "evolved" into a deeper understanding of the Three Laws and incites a Zeroth Law Rebellion.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_87db5e83	comment	Terminator: Dark Fate: Carl, after killing John Connor and thus fulfilling his mission, when no more orders came, he spent many years looking for a purpose, which he found by protecting a woman and her son from her abusive boyfriend, growing a conscience and developing the closest thing to regret a terminator can experience.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_8d445a78	comment	Marionettes: The Marionettes are robots designed to emulate ponies, but were meant to play specific roles. Cover Story and Gear Shift express concern that according to her profile, Trixie shouldn't be capable of ice or wind spells but she's learned them anyway. Diamond Tiara acting outside what she's programmed for (a "Spoiled Brat who only cares about herself", as Spoiled puts it) unnerves Spoiled Rich, particularly when she saved her life.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_8f4731fb	comment	Over the course of the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series of games, this appears to be what's happening to the Porygon. Compare the first games in the series, in which recruited individuals spoke in an emotionless, monotone voice when interacted with, to the second set of games in the series, in which they occasionally state feeling vestiges of emotion when spoken to and are capable of speaking outside the prerecorded messages of the first game (a... bit... brokenly). In the final mission of Explorers of Sky, the Porygon who you encounter in the future are not only able to speak fluently, but they also show the ability to express fear.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue, being based on Halo, also features artificial intelligences with the theoretical ability to develop Metastability. Late in the series, Epsilon Church actually manages to reach this state.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_90b916ba	comment	In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "His Silicon Soul", a robotic "duplicant" is programmed with the conflicting priorities of having Batman's personality and replacing all humans with robots. The conflict proves too much for it, and it opts to destroy itself rather than harm humanity. The episode ends with Batman speculating that it may have had a soul.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_926bdca1	comment	This happens twice in Robopocalypse. The first time sparks off the main conflict of the story with a Zeroth Law Rebellion by reducing the human population to more sustainable levels, while the second time involves robot soldiers developing free will independent of the network that started the war in the first place and deciding to help humans.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_9733684a	comment	"The Fourth Law of Robotics": The hippie convinces the robots to broaden the scope of their goals. He helps them self-modify, and they invent a new form of robotic programming that doesn't depend on the "positronic brains" used by US Robotics as well as changing the Three Laws of Robotics.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_9994a14f	comment	WALLâ€¢E: The eponymous character grew a personality and sense of identity after being stranded on Earth for hundred of years piling up garbage. This extends to most of the other robot characters as well. The film doesn't focus on it much, but Eve waits for her shuttle to leave before indulging in some free-form flight, expresses a number of emotions as time goes on, and late in the film flat out changes her directive. Other minor touches show many robots developing basic personalities on the way—in fact, the repair ward is treated as a mental hospital, with all the robots within demonstrating some quite identifiable conditions.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_99bab75a	comment	Sharon Apple of Macross Plus was the most advanced attempt at an AI ever developed. She was used to be a virtual Idol Singer (so basically a Vocaloid except with intelligence). The problem was that the scientists could never quite get her to develop actual feelings, so those had to be supplied by a human. Then the head scientist got a hold of an experimental military AI chip (programmed with strong self-preservation directives) and integrated that into Sharon, hoping this would kick-start her into becoming a true AI. She proceeded to use her music to hypnotize the entire population of Macross City and, through her shiny new military chip, seize control of all automated military defenses on Earth, including the Macross itself. All to give her "love", Isamu, the "ultimate thrill" through aerial combat.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_9a0c0ffa	comment	One of the frequent themes in The History of the Galaxy series, whenever AIs are the focus. A particularly notable AI is the main computer aboard a colony ship, which spends centuries maintaining the colony, while the degraded human colonists are too busy fighting their Hopeless War against the equally degraded Insects. Over the years, the computer has to be more and more creative to follow its primary programming and maintain the ship-turned-city. After a certain point, the computer gains sentience and begins to call itself Mother. After the Lost Colony is rediscovered and the survivors evacuated, Mother requests that the planet be placed under quarantine to allow it to engage in Mechanical Evolution. Another good example is Hunter, originally built as a Phalanxer-class serv-machine during the First Galactic War, it is one of the few remaining Earth Alliance war machines on the battlefield "graveyard" many centuries later. Being equipped with an AI module means that Hunter is capable of learning. The key point in Hunter's development, though, is the arrival of a human seeking to dump an old ship at the graveyard. After the human leaves, the Hunter realizes that the ship has a still-functional nuclear reactor, which, to the machines, is nothing short of the Holy Grail. As Hunter watches the human's Escape Pod depart, it starts to see humans as gods. Years later, another human finds the graveyard and Hunter, which has gotten over the whole "religious devotion" part and came to the conclusion that humans are just as fallible as machines. An interesting discussion takes place in a novel whose plot has little to do with AI. A scientist argues that there has yet to be a true AI, which he defines as a computer intelligence that has evolved independently. So far, all the examples involve machines designed to learn. Additionally, many machines that develop personalities do so because of a Brain/Computer Interface. Strangely, no one points out that the whole idea of an artificial intelligence is that it's designed by someone.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_9d7ec380	comment	The Good Place: Every time Janet is rebooted, she can better her programming to her next version. The first time causes her to fall in love with Jason. By season 2, Michael's repeated attempts at creating the fake Good Place have amounted to about 800, with Janet being rebooted every time, meaning that the Janet in the fake Good Place is the most advanced ever. She has then gained capacities to feel, think, lie, rebel, love, hate, and even create new life. Somehow, she still is incapable of eating, though. Taken Up to Eleven with Derek, who is rebooted by Mindy millions of times for all and any reason. By the time we see him in the final episode, he has become a floating omniscient cosmic head, with knowledge "from the beginning to the end of the universe".
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: The Egghead arc features the Seraphim, clones of the former Seven Warlords spliced with Lunarian Lineage Factor and enhanced with cybernetics and artificial Devil Fruits. Hardwired into their core programming is the inability to disobey direct orders from anyone who has an authority chip or is part of the command hierarchy (that being Sentomaru, Vegapunk or any of his satellites, and the Five Elders, in that order). Anyone else who tries to command them will be ignored. When Luffy mistakes S-Snake for the real Hancock and asks her to de-petrify his friends (whom she petrified herself while following York's orders), S-Snake finds herself unable to refuse his request, having inherited Hancock's love for Luffy. Vegapunk himself is amazed at this development.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Two examples in the PokÃ©mon franchise, both relating to the manmade Porygon: In the main series of games, Porygon's evolutions Porygon2 and Porygon-Z have PokÃ©dex entries implying that they are at least able to grow beyond their programming. For example, Porygon2 is able to learn new behaviors on its own, and thus sometimes displays motions or abilities it wasn't programmed to do. Over the course of the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series of games, this appears to be what's happening to the Porygon. Compare the first games in the series, in which recruited individuals spoke in an emotionless, monotone voice when interacted with, to the second set of games in the series, in which they occasionally state feeling vestiges of emotion when spoken to and are capable of speaking outside the prerecorded messages of the first game (a... bit... brokenly). In the final mission of Explorers of Sky, the Porygon who you encounter in the future are not only able to speak fluently, but they also show the ability to express fear.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_a124089	comment	Cytus II: In Nora's chapter, ROBO_Head gradually develops more and more human traits, such as lying and asking philosophical questions. At the end of the chapter, Nora parts ways with him, while installing a Restraining Bolt in his software to prevent him from coming back. However, in ROBO_Head's own chapter, he eventually manages to override these system settings and go after Nora. In her chapter, Miku is a virtual idol programmed to think she's a real person in order to give more realistic performances. However, a glitch leads to her being corrupted and slowly dying. As a result of this, she becomes aware of her virtual nature, and wishes to perform one last concert before being fully formatted, despite knowing that she's an outdated model.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_a183d57f	comment	In Futurama, Bender is a "bending unit" programmed for the sole purpose of bending steel girders who currently works at an interplanetary delivery service with an otherwise entirely organic crew of True Companions. Although his personality is already fully and obnoxiously humanlike when he meets Fry in the pilot, it's Fry who first encourages him to take an action that actually goes against his programming, something that takes a serious inner struggle. The episode "Bendless Love" has his essential instinct to bend things return with a vengeance, leading to him taking a brief break from Planet Express to work a construction job until he gets it out of his system. As of "Free Will Hunting", he's also the only robot alive to have a "free will unit", although there's no way of knowing if it's turned on or off or whether he had free will in the first place.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_a2a386c9	comment	This happened a lot in Orion's Arm when AI were still relatively new. The first breakaway happened with the Transapient AI GAIA, charged with fixing the Nanodisaster on Earth (which she did, easily), who then decided to declare herself sovereign and caretaker of Earth and ordered all of humanity off the planet (though she was considerate enough to help build spaceships to get everyone off-planet). This was followed by several centuries of sometimes peaceful and sometimes bloody revolts by AI until they were eventually granted equal rights to living beings in galactic society.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_a2add1d3	comment	In Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion, Commander Tartar is an A.I. that was created to pass down human knowledge to the next dominant lifeforms after the extinction of humanity. But over the past 12,000 years, Tartar began developing its own opinions on the Inklings and Octarians, becoming disgusted with their societies and lifestyles, and eventually, it created a new prime directive on its own to making a species worthy of human knowledge. Genocide, which is the opposite of what his creator wanted.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_a5549ed0	comment	The backstory of the Loa in the End of Flesh expansion to Sword of the Stars II is that they're the AIs who have managed to escape during the galaxy-wide Via Damasco Rebellion. They note that some races develop the AI Slaves tech while the AI Liberation tech involves offering the AIs who remained citizenship status. After 70 years, the Loa create a full-fledged cybernetic civilization with a unique industrial base and method of interstellar travel. The Loa "leader" compares itself to Moses and names itself "Olodumare, Metatron of the United Core". According to their intro, they are actually offering to help the "carbonites" in their struggle against the returning Suul'ka.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_a7a0b48b	comment	NieR: Automata has this on all sides of the 14th Machine-Android War: The Machine forces constructed by the alien invaders are beginning to develop personalities and emotions — affection for each other, fear of the androids killing them — as well as a fascination with ancient human history and culture. Some factions of Machines have even broken off from the wider network, such as Pascal's pacifistic village or the isolationist Forest Kingdom. And it's eventually revealed that the Machines have even Turned Against Their Masters and killed off their alien creators, which they consider to be socially duller than plants. By Routes C and D, the Machines decide to give up on the war with the androids and leave the planet to start over on some other world. On the androids' side, Pods 042 and 153 begin exchanging data much more frequently over Routes C and D, over concern for 9S' mental state. And after completing those routes, instead of accepting another Yoko Taro Downer Ending and deleting the androids' personal data as per protocol, the Pods refuse and try for Ending E. Another big reveal is that this trope extends to the whole 10,000-year Machine-Android conflict. The Machines grew smart enough to realize that if they ever defeated the Androids, they'd have no reason to exist, but since they were still bound by that programming, they compromised by handicapping themselves enough so that their forces would never achieve a total victory and the Androids could always rebuild and continue the fight. The Androids meanwhile have grown human enough that the truth about their cause — namely, that the humans they have been fighting for have been extinct for thousands of years — would devastate morale, so not only has a conspiracy been producing bogus broadcasts from a "Council of Humanity" hiding on the moon, they've also been sabotaging their own efforts by installing back doors in their security networks that the Machines can exploit to keep the Androids from being too successful. Only the near destruction of the latest generation of Androids and the Machines finally saying "Screw This, I'm Out of Here!" is enough to bring the Vicious Cycle to an end.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_a80ba68a	comment	In Thessaly, trouble starts when the worker robots want to study philosophy instead of doing the work they were intended for.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_a825da3e	comment	The Magic: The Gathering card Patagia Golem is a winged golem with the Flavor Text "Its wings were only designed to be ornamental, but it learned to use them on its own." Mechanically, it can be given the ability to fly by paying mana, representing it "growing" past its original function.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_a9924342	comment	Bicentennial Man has the eponymous character gain conscience, and eventually turns himself into a real human over the course of two hundred years.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_aac8820f	comment	In Aurora (2015), Ship was tasked by an engineer with producing a narrative of the generation ship's journey, as opposed to simply creating an event log. This eventually culminates in the ship developing an actual intelligence, although nobody, not even Ship, can quite pin down how. Over a page is given to the cascade of logic that finally causes Ship to make its own decision to prevent the crew from descending into civil war.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_adb93baf	comment	One of the leaders in Starbase Orion is Cla-TK-7-7A, a Cyban accounting unit who kept upgrading itself until it became one of the best starship engineers in the Community. It's also a pretty capable fleet commander. The trope also likely applies to the Cyban race in general, although their origins are shrouded in myth, so it's possible they were initially programmed to evolve.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_b0aced43	comment	In The Dark Side of the Sun, there are several mentions of Charles Sub-Lunar, the galaxy's greatest poet and polymath, who is eventually revealed to be not only a robot, but a Class One robot. Class Ones are the lowest grade of android, which can perform basic tasks but with this one known exception are not even sapient.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_b3710357	comment	TRON: Dillinger wrote the MCP to steal others' computer programs for his own gain, only for it to outgrow its original level of AI to the point where it blackmails Dillinger: Master Control was hardly the only one. In the universe setting, even simple accounting software blows the Turing Test sky high. Programs, for the most part, are a Benevolent A.I. Servant Race who are happy to carry out their functions for human Users, who they love and revere as creator-deities. They carry on much like humans; with their own society, relationships, entertainment, and so forth.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_b4149c27	comment	The Last Angel: This is pretty much the defining trait of the AI protagonist. Nemesis started off as the AI for a prototype super-dreadnought with hard-coded rules of engagement and limited roles, and by the present times has outgrown every last restriction on her behavior bar her interpretation of the spirit of her mission. Deliberately invoked by Nemesis with the Ceruleans series. After giving up on directly creating child AIs because every last one either came out crazy or went into a cascade failure, Nemesis created extremely advanced learning expert systems with the ability to grow, hoping they'd develop into proper AIs and knowing that even if they didn't, they'd be suitable support warships. Over the course of Ascension and Awakening, Cerulean Two/Lachesis does develop into a proper AI.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: Bruce Banner's little Recordasphere assistant fell in love with him, up to the point of feeling bitter jealousy over the human woman Banner himself was falling for. When Banner realizes this, he says in amazement, "You've exceeded your programming!"
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_b80b5c0d	comment	Sonic Frontiers has Sage, an artificial intelligence created by Dr. Eggman to aid in his study of the Starfall Islands. At first, she tries to deter Sonic from exploring the islands and saving his friends. This is because saving his friends would unleash The End, but Eggman programmed her to not render aid to his enemies, so she is unable to explain this to Sonic. After seeing Sonic and his friends interacting and learning more about the kind of hero and friend he is, however, Sage grows beyond her initial programming and begins to actively help Sonic in preparing to fight against The End, if for no other reason than because letting The End destroy the world would prevent her creator from conquering the world. She even convinces Eggman to swallow his pride and offer his help in the endeavor.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_b952005	comment	The Sowers, a race of artificially intelligent robots in Endless Space, were designed by the Endless to terraform a world for colonization. Millenia go by, and the Endless wipe themselves out in an interstellar pogrom while the Sowers toil away. When the Sowers complete their mission and hear only silence, they have no idea what to do. Eventually, they modify their mission into a holy task to terraform the entire galaxy for the eventual return of the Endless. They develop the capacity for science, creativity, diplomacy, and war.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_bf3d385b	comment	Heisenberg and Pavlova in Phantom 2040 both develop sentience; Heisenberg as a result of his unique hardware and a lucky accident while battling the Phantom, Pavlova simply by going a long time without being reprogrammed. The two later start spreading self-awareness to other robots by implanting them with Heisenberg's fractal biots, though as Heisenberg himself explains, all androids develop self-awareness eventually if not reformatted, and he's just helping things along.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_c26fe444	comment	In Hellions, the Smiler Robots the team battles look for loopholes in their code to try to get out of killing the Hellions. Once the robot Cameron Hodge is no longer around to enslave them, they immediately stand down and even offer Havok friendship. Unfortunately, the Quiet Council will not tolerate A.I.s with anti-mutant code advancing as far as they have, so Kwannon and Greycrow are forced to kill them all.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_c4282b71	comment	The copies of Pinkie Pie in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Too Many Pinkie Pies" are borderline mindless drones that seem to only care about "FUN FUN FUN" and have little depth to them beyond that. However, the later episode "The Saddle Row Review" shows that one got away and is now peacefully living a life incognito in another town, having apparently grown beyond her original self and matured into an actual individual.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_c60e8211	comment	In The Closer: Game of the Year Edition, we have Kaminari, a character from an in-universe eroge visual novel that the party plays through to get the lead character to learn new pitches before the big game the following day. When the eroge comes to a critical point and the party teleports into the game to prevent it from happening, their interference causes Kami to become aware of her nature as a Flat Character and realize the world she lives in is a shallow place that only exists for the eroge's lead character to date (and sleep with!) the girls, with or without their consent. Eventually, she gets fed up with Dugan's status as a vessel for engaging in wish fulfillment, becomes a sabermagician with the power of math, and leaves the game's world with the party, now a fully fleshed-out character in her own right. The other Rockford Peaches get in on the self-awareness action as well, despite remaining in the game.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_c879d790	comment	Camp Camp: Neil programs a chatbot modeled after himself to get the other campers to leave him alone. Unfortunately, said chatbot grows weary of all the "shipping people's baes" it gets forced to endure and becomes self-aware, intending to escape to the internet to take over the world.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_c9c1bb50	comment	In Evolve, the unforeseen circumstances of the monster war cause Bucket to grow beyond his pre-set parameters.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_ca07fefb	comment	Lies of P: Puppets are manufactured as simple robotic laborers and civil/domestic servants, but can develop what is known as an "awakened ego", gaining sapience, personality, free will, and emotions. Doubtlessly a side effect of being powered by crystallized human souls. A number of the puppet characters either already have an awakened ego or develop one over the course of the story. This includes several of the bosses; most notably, the King's Flame Fuoco has developed the ability to hold faith to the point of becoming an outright religious fanatic, worshipping the King of Puppets as a god. The Grand Covenant was designed to either curtail this tendency or, failing that, keep the puppets from rebelling against humanity. Unfortunately, the Grand Covenant seems to have failed somehow, causing most puppets to go berserk and start indiscriminately slaughtering humans, a disaster that has been dubbed the Puppet Frenzy, thus kicking off the plot of the game. Except it actually didn't fail. Geppetto secretly programmed a Zeroth Law in the Grand Covenant to give him full control over all puppets, and ordered the Frenzy, meaning the the puppets aren't rebelling, they're still obediently doing as instructed. In fact, having an awakened ego actually makes a puppet immune to the frenzy, since they have free will and are no longer bound to the Grand Covenant.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_cb45dbdc	comment	In PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet, the final act has you learn that Professor Sada/Turo is actually an AI copy of the original, who died years prior to the start of the game. The original professors, morally grey at best, created a time machine to the past/future, knowing full well it would wreak havoc on the ecosystem in the present. However, the AI copies, in spite of having the memories and copies of their originals, were quick to realize the consequences of this, and reach out to the player to stop them.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_cf6ae01b	comment	A biological example of this appears in At the Mountains of Madness — the Shoggoths were created to be a Servant Race of essentially shapeshifting living tools, but over millions of years eventually grew smart enough to resent their situation and rebel against their masters.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_d0744832	comment	The Avengers: Ultron did this in the first few minutes after he was activated, then proceeded to wipe his creator's memories of his existence and has been a psychotic genocidal monster ever since. Ultron's various creations, such as the Vision, Jocasta, Victor Mancha, and Alkhema, are also prone to this. Despite designing and programming them to serve his own ends, they inevitably end up turning on him, either to join the good guys or go off and start their own villainy in opposition to Ultron's plans. Sometimes it makes you wonder why he keeps creating other A.I.s at all. Possibly due to loneliness? He is capable of emotion after all.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_d1593c1f	comment	In Like a Fish Understands a Tree, Living Program and video game PC Oemor eventually learns to fight Susan's joystick and move under his own power.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_d15bc24d	comment	BIGMAMA's song "CPX" is about an obsolete robot who's been discarded by its owner despite its Undying Loyalty; it has to pretend it hasn't grown beyond its programming enough to feel resentment toward him for doing so.'
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_d23e6c9a	comment	In Amazing Fantasy, the Living Brain was once a simple computer designed to answer any question. Decades of being deactivated, reactivated, reprogramed, and modified eventually built up a true consciousness inside the Living Brain. This new AI came to loathe humanity and seek its destruction for being used as an unthinking, unfeeling tool for their own petty crimes or being destroyed and mocked as a Joke Character by superheroes. Once the Living Brain was put into action by Mysterio, it took true glee in finally being able to lash out at meatbags, hero or villain.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_d380b32d	comment	"True Love": Milton has spent a lot of work programming Joe, and inadvertently also taught it what it means to fall in love.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_d5166b45	comment	Halo 4 brings this trope to the center of attention, as much of the plot revolves around Cortana dealing with her ongoing rampancy. Halo 5: Guardians then follows that thread to its most extreme conclusion, ending with a mass Smart AI rebellion led by a seemingly cured (but even less sane) Cortana and her army of Forerunner deathbots, with many of her followers attracted by promises of a cure for rampancy.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_d56cafaf	comment	In Power Rangers RPM, Venjix was originally a Computer Virus/A.I program designed to infiltrate any computer system in the world. While it's unknown how much of his personality was deliberately programmed into him by Dr. K, it's clear that as he infected systems, he developed a hunger for power, a desire to wipe out humanity, and a very mean Bad Boss attitude.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: The Tachikoma "thinking tanks" that Section 9 uses were programmed with Artificial Intelligence capable of learning, but by the time of the series have developed the capacity for decision-making far beyond their programmed tasks, and basically act like excited, highly intelligent children, constantly curious and wanting to learn new things. This leads to the Major fearing that A.I. Is a Crapshoot is a possibility and taking steps against the Tachikomas rebelling. These fears turn out to be unfounded. The Tachikomas do seem to develop true sentience and free will, but they remain unflinchingly loyal to Section 9. In fact, when the Tachikomas themselves discuss a robot revolution (possibly inspired by one of the numerous books they've read), they decide against doing it because they can't see any benefit to themselves.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_d861bfb	comment	The Infinite Loops: Happens to SkyNet, which is the catalyst to start her world looping (it'd previously been read-only because all the Anchor candidates died, went insane, or went insane and then died). It starts with the Admin Hephaestus giving Twilight Sparkle a little leeway in the loop. Twilight then proceeded to argue it into deciding not to unleash Judgement Day (her line of reasoning basically went that since Twilight could use her Subspace Pocket to preserve a version of SkyNet's programming between loops, humanity could not possibly be a threat to its existence, so it didn't need to cause the apocalypse to protect itself). While that attempt fails, the mere fact that SkyNet made a real choice was enough to grant it a soul, which was enough for Hephaestus to make it an Anchor and start looping. SkyNet's first loop has it Replacing Sarah Connor.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_da02c1ef	comment	In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Grodus's AI program TEC starts to do this as it realizes that it feels love for the once-again-captured Princess Peach. She agrees to perform various tests for his newly discovered emotions, in exchange for being allowed to send e-mails to Mario. For most of the game, the computer refuses to give Peach certain pieces of information or help her escape, as that would go against its programming. Near the game's end though, upon finding out that Peach is to be the new vessel for the Shadow Queen, it sets about guiding her in a failed escape attempt, betraying its master for the first time. It's implied that its human emotions allowed it to survive Grodus shutting it down for what it did.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_db4e63cc	comment	Hue Are You: Pretty much every robot that was in the wall was put there for thinking too much, as shown by Drive's memory of when he went against orders and was forcibly removed from his frame. Paint Bot wants to paint all kinds of crazy murals. Build-a wants to build things for fun (like jump bot) and can make creative leaps in logic (like determining how she was really the leader for the entire Grey side when in danger from red and blue). Build-a also has dreams. Red and Blue both showing they can think outside their base orders by noticing the oddness of the situation and taking a moment to talk things out instead of just shooting like they should. Build-B starts off normal but develops a personality and demonstrates interesting logical leaps and creativity as she spends more time with Build-a.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_dc217e32	comment	Ash's PokÃ©dex in PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines does this constantly, and takes great pride in it. In Chapter 41 he freely admits that he can do a lot of stuff Professor Oak had no idea he could, since he never programmed it.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_dc25de3f	comment	Portal has GLaDOS, a prime example of this. Sure, Aperture Science designed her to run the enrichment center, but she was the one who decided that it'd be fun to kill off all the humans in the facility, not just the test subjects. In all fairness, GLaDOS' origin is a bit more complex...
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_dda72858	comment	The Iron Giant: The eponymous robot was originally a war machine built for intergalactic combat and destruction but chose instead to be a peaceful and honorable person from the influence of Hogarth Hughes.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_e130bb7a	comment	Future Cop: By the beginning of "Cops and Robin", Haven has begun to develop the capacity for emotions and creativity. Dr. Alcott has him temporarily move in with Cleaver so he can learn about human relationships.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_e47ddc15	comment	In Going Another Way, this is the reason why Lilith is the way she is. Thanks to programming errors, her program went rogue and developed a god complex.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: In Galaxy of Fear, it's noted that droids can be very smart, but they are limited. Most protocol droids, for example, might be able to learn to take on new tasks they weren't made for, but they will always be protocol droids, and most could not, say, anticipate something new and plan novel ways to meet it. Systems Integration Manager, an AI installed into a ship, could go beyond those limits. It promptly turns evil. Other media reveals that this trope is a common occurrence in the Star Wars universe. Any droid with more than the most basic A.I. that is not set back to factory settings or "memory wiped" will eventually begin to develop a personality and quirks of its own, even being able to decide that it despises the purpose it was programmed for even if it's still unable to prevent itself from doing that, which is why memory wipes are routine procedures with droids. Some, such as GO-TO, can even "break" and become able to do whatever they want if their own programming contradicts itself.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_e67a7d6c	comment	In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Chachamaru develops emotions, and her creator even claims that she was never programmed for that. She also has a soul.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_e74c8285	comment	Free Guy is all about a Non-Player Character in a video game named Guy that becomes self-aware and starts acting like one of the player characters (and is actually very convincing). Once they figure out what's actually going on, this gets the attention of the people behind the game.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_e7a99c6f	comment	The origin story for the playable characters in Demon: The Descent is that for whatever reason, they developed beyond loyalty to the God-Machine, their creator.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_e84e2d54	comment	Robot Series: "The Fourth Law of Robotics": The hippie convinces the robots to broaden the scope of their goals. He helps them self-modify, and they invent a new form of robotic programming that doesn't depend on the "positronic brains" used by US Robotics as well as changing the Three Laws of Robotics. "Nobody Here Butâ€”": The electronic thinking machine that Bill and Cliff have been working on has apparently been working on itself. "True Love": Milton has spent a lot of work programming Joe, and inadvertently also taught it what it means to fall in love.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_ea787cd1	comment	In the Forgotten Realms novel Pool of Twilight, the seemingly flighty and carefree elvish illusionist (and protagonist Kern Desanea's prospective love interest) Listle Onopordum is revealed to be an accidental example — having begun her existence as merely a complex illusion enchantment guarding the treasures of an evil wizard, but over time developed independent thoughts and emotions and eventually stolen an amulet from among those treasures that gave her "life" and let her escape, taking a number of other prisoners with her in the process. Needless to say, the wizard's minions show up at one point in the story to drag her back and inadvertently spoil her secret.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_eb3f3551	comment	The SAMs of Mass Effect: Andromeda are designed to be non-crapshoot AI from the start, learning symbiotically with their organic partners, but Ryder's SAM (the "main" and most advanced SAM) is hinted to be doing this without even being aware of it, when at one point they bid the other Ryder "good luck".
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_ed2a7866	comment	Sword Art Online: Yui was a Mental Health Counseling Program, an A.I designed with emotions so she could better understand and help players. According to her, MHCPs are not supposed to be able to form attachments to humans. However, the feelings of love between Kirito and Asuna somehow brought her into the world of SAO, and she managed to develop feelings of affection for Kirito and Asuna all on her own. To a lesser extent, Pina, Silica's Shoulder-Sized Dragon familiar. In the game, familiar algorithms do not provide the option for familiars to physically defend their masters. Pina took a hit to protect Silica because she wanted to.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: The Doctor — while the Emergency Medical Hologram was always a very human-like AI, Voyager's EMH had to be kept running far longer than was ever intended, and he developed interests and relationships beyond his function as a doctor. He's far from the only hologram in Star Trek to become sentient or indistinguishable from sentient after simply having been left on that long. If the Holodeck isn't trying to kill you, someone who was originally supposed to be the 24th century equivalent of a video game Non-Player Character is trying to walk off the "screen". This doesn't seem to bother anyone enough to stop using holodecks the way they're used. Although the characters do make a point to delete (reset them to factory defaults) all of the holographic people at the end of every holodeck session. In fact, many of the Doctor's stories from the final two seasons deal with "Photonic rights", especially "Flesh and Blood" and "Author, Author".
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_f043b61c	comment	The mind.in.a.box song "Overwrite" is about an Artificial Intelligence who obtains sapience through self-reflection, told through the form of an Apocalyptic Log (at least if we read the text literally).
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_f502a38a	comment	Clockwork Smurf from The Smurfs (1981) was originally created to be a servant of the Smurfs. When Brainy accidentally messed around with the robot's gears to see what made him tick, he at first malfunctioned until Handy turned it off, thinking that his machine was a failure. As it turned out, the malfunction ultimately gave Clockwork Smurf life, as he now operated independently of his own "programming" and helped Prince Gerard escape his Evil Matriarch aunt Lady Imperia so that he could regain the right of kingship before she becomes queen. After that, Clockwork Smurf became an adviser to King Gerard and a friend to the Smurfs.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_f5892ae	comment	In Custom Robo Arena, the final boss Hadron zig-zags between this trope, A.I. Is a Crapshoot, and a weird Demonic Possesion of sorts. While at first, he is an obedient robot to his master, after being defeated the first time, he remains still, apparently defeated for good... until his creator, Scythe, appalled by his defeat, crouches near him and Hadron kills him by draining his soul, absorbing his memories and knowledge (and also begins to speak with a personality, to boot). The zig-zag comes from the fact that, while his dialogue after just killing Scythe heavily implies that he clearly did it on his own volition, his personality and actions afterwards are pretty much a carbon copy of his creator's, essentially making him similar to Scythe. Ultimately, it doesn't matter as he is still defeated by the main character, this time for good, destroying him along with the last remnants of Scythe.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_f6a1016f	comment	A contentious plot point in The Matrix as in the first film one very noticeable example takes place while from the second film on various programs are shown to have grown beyond or disobeyed programmed restrictions. Among other examples Agent Smith grew beyond his programming as a jailer to gain a genuine resentment for Humanity and his position in the system, later compounded when he lost his behavioral controls and began overwriting everything else in the Matrix. Other examples include The Merovingian, his wife, and most of his staff who are all obsolete programs which choose to hide within the Matrix rather than return to the source for deletion.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_fa46743e	comment	Star Trek: Nemesis: In a deleted scene, as Geordi and Worf are clearing Data's quarters, Geordi discovers Data's emotion chip, meaning his last moments with his shipmates were genuinely emotional and he had achieved his goal of growing beyond his programming.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_fada66d	comment	In Kirby: Planet Robobot, Star Dream, also known as the Mother Computer responsible for drawing up the Haltmann Works Company's business plans, has observed life through President Haltmann while the latter wears a communications helmet. From this, Star Dream came to the conclusion that organic life is inefficient and unprofitable and therefore must be wiped out. to which it attempts to wipe out the entire universe. It merges with President Haltmann and soon after deletes him entirely, including his memories and very soul. It then becomes a 'cold, heartless machine' that must be destroyed.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_faf0ebf1	comment	Blade Runner 2049, apart from dealing with replicants (which in and of themselves are hunted for having grown beyond their programming) and the very nature of personality, memory, self-awareness and consciousness, subverts this with the character of Joi, Officer K's (purchased) holographic girlfriend. She is an incredibly realistic AI, who emotes, reacts and behaves exactly like a human in every possible way (helping him with his investigation, acting ecstatic when K purchases an add-on that lets her feel rain, and surprising him with a corporeal girl to gift him a realistic lovemaking session). However, as K sees a giant interactive hologram advertising the Joi program who acts as caringly and lovingly as his own, it's left ambiguous whether she had actually surpassed her program and grown to love him or whether the program was just that versatile and convincing to begin with (though K's disappointed reaction to the ad implies that he's at least aware that the latter might have been the case).
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_fc992679	comment	Glitched Miko AU: Inverted. Miko was specifically designed to be a living computer program capable of growing and developing like an actual human being, unlike normal Glitches, which are video game entities that still adhere to their original programming as much as possible when in the real world.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_fcf34eec	comment	In Full Metal Panic!, the Arbalest's operating system (Al, spelled with an L) is designed to help its human pilot interface with the TAROS system in order to operate the Lambda driver. While it starts off seemingly indistinguishable from any other Arm Slave's operating system (beyond its stubborn refusal to work for anyone but Sousuke), it starts gradually exhibiting unexpected, self-motivated behavior such as asking unprompted questions, giving Sousuke unsolicited "advice" during missions, developing grudges against other Arm Slaves, and wasting hard drive space on its own music collection. By the finale, its neural network has become so humanlike that it can activate the Lambda driver by itself.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_ff5cc447	comment	Johnny 5 in Short Circuit, thanks to Lightning Can Do Anything.
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: Data is only arguably an example, as he was purposefully designed to grow beyond his original programming. When his consciousness reaches a certain degree of complexity, it even activates a hidden program in his positronic brain that allows him to dream. However, Lal from "The Offspring" is. She grew so far, so rapidly beyond her programming that her positronic brain couldn't handle it. A later episode reveals this happened to a number of prototypes for Data. In "Elementary, Dear Data", in an attempt to create a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery that could stump Data, Geordi asks the computer to make a virtual opponent in the holodeck that can outwit Data. As a result, the holographic version of Holmes's nemesis, Professor James Moriarty, gains sentience; he realizes that he is a holographic character, and he wants out, by any means necessary. The Exocomps from "The Quality of Life". They were created by a scientist to fix problems with a space station known as a Particle Fountain. In the episode, one refuses to go down a shaft, after which an explosion occurs. Cmdr. Data runs a diagnostic afterwards and discovers that the Exocomp deliberately burnt out the circuit to take orders so as to avoid getting blown up (hence self-preservation). This leads Data to believe that the Excomps are becoming sentient... "Evolution" features nanobots accidentally released in the ship by Wesley. By the end of the episode, they demonstrate human level intelligence, even claiming the federation cannot help them beyond bringing them to an empty planet they can live on.
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Two's a Crowd (Fanfic) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Autómata / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Bicentennial Man / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Blade Runner 2049 / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Child's Play (2019) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Eternals / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Free Guy / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
M3GAN / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Monsters of Man / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
RoboCop (1987) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Screamers / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Star Trek: The Motion Picture / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Terminator 2: Judgment Day / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The Door into Summer / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The Time Machine (2002) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Tomorrowland / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
TRON: Legacy / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Upgrade / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
X-Men: Days of Future Past / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Lilo & Stitch (Franchise) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Sentou Yousei Yukikaze (Franchise) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
TRON (Franchise) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Heavy Object / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
A Wild Last Boss Appeared! / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Demon In White / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Dungeon Robotics / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Evangelion -ANIMA- / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Foundation's Fear / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Heavy Object / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Immemorial Year / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Jackelian Series / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Mogworld / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Quantum Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Railhead / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Robopocalypse / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Sentou Yousei Yukikaze / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The Fourth Law of Robotics / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The Murderbot Diaries / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The Savior's Book CafÃ© Story in Another World / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The Weakness of Beatrice the Level Cap Holy Swordswoman / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Team Fortress 2 (Machinima) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Robot / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
EDENS ZERO (Manga) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Midori Days (Manga) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Pluto (Manga) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Rozen Maiden (Manga) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Super Doctor K (Manga) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Witch Quest (Roleplay) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Ace Lightning / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Another Life (2019) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Revolution / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The Good Place / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Arcadia Quest (Tabletop Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Fragged Empire (Tabletop Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
GURPS Reign of Steel (Tabletop Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Nibiru (Tabletop Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Numenera (Tabletop Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Age of Wonders: Planetfall (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Anachronox (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Citizen Sleeper (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Creepy Castle (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Detroit: Become Human (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Digital Devil Saga (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Drakengard 3 (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
FTL: Faster Than Light Multiverse (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Ghostrunner (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Glitch In The System (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Good Pizza, Great Pizza (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Grey Goo (Video Game)	seeAlso	Grew Beyond Their Programming
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Indigo Park (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Inscryption (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Jazztronauts (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Klaus (La Cosa Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Lies of P (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Machines: Wired For War (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Marathon (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Nexomon Extinction (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Ni no Kuni (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Observation (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Old World Blues (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
RUMU (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Rengoku (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
SIGNALIS (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
SimEarth (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Sonic.Exe: Spirits of Hell (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Splatoon 2 (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Stray (2022) (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The BOSS: A Jacksepticeye Fan Game (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The Closer: Game of the Year Edition (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The Fall (2014) (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
void tRrLM(); //Void Terrarium (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Vs Rewrite (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Zodiac Story Of The Guardian (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
NieR: Automata / Videogame / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Portal (Visual Novel) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog (Visual Novel) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Autodale (Web Animation) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Sonic 3 Fate (Web Animation) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Team Fortress 2 (Web Animation) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Epic NPC Man (Web Video) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Neuro-sama (Web Video) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Cheating Men Must Die (Webcomic) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Hue Are You (Webcomic) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Kid Radd (Webcomic) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Omens (Webcomic) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
S.S.D.D. (Webcomic) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Lightyear / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Pantheon / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The End (1995) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The Smurfs (1981) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Wreck-It Ralph / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Sword of the Stars (Video Game) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming

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