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Machine Empathy
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Machine Empathy is the trope where a character can diagnose the state of a machine just by its "feel", such as how it vibrates or the noises it makes. Comparisons between the machine and a living person are often invoked. Unlike the Technopath, no supernormal abilities are involved; a character develops Machine Empathy simply from firsthand experience or knowledge of the hardware. This is a popular talent for Mr. Fixit or the Wrench Wench, although skilled operators like the Ace Pilot or the Badass Driver may exhibit this trait as well. It's also a convenient excuse for why a well-placed smack instantly resolves the Plot-Driven Breakdown. Contrast with Technopath, the phlebotinum-enhanced version of this trope. Also see Techno Wizard and Walking Techfix. |
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An implied ability of The Fonz, who could start or stop almost any device with a well-placed smack. | |
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Souichi Sugano of éX-Driver has a knack of understanding automobiles. When Lisa first drove her Stratos without fully understanding how to control it, Souichi straight up says the car was "crying" being pushed by Lisa's driving. | |
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Forge from the X-Men sometimes exhibits this ability, depending on the writer. | |
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The Empire Strikes Back: During the escape from Hoth when the Falcon is powering up. Han goes to the cockpit and the lights (and other power noises) die. A well-placed thump takes care of that. Subverted. The Millennium Falcon's hyperdrive repeatedly fails despite Lando Calrissian's insistence that it's fixed. The subversion is he's right, the hyperdrive itself is fixed. An Imperial tracking device planted on the ship is interfering with its proper operation. |
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In Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, the Endrinmasters are the greatest members of the Kharadron Overlords' Endrineers Guild, able to find and fix a single broken element in an aether-endrin on intuition alone. | |
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In the Honor Harrington short story Fanatic the Chief Engineer of a Superdreadnought is able to tell that the ship is underway by feeling a vibration in the wall from the machinery that generates the impeller wedge. It's noted however that the cabin they are in is very close to the impeller rooms and even then he didn't notice until someone else bought it up (at which point he used the vibrations to confirm it). | |
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The Simpsons: At one point in "Realty Bites", Homer drives the Lil' Bandit, Snake's car, by Springfield Penitentiary, and Snake says that the car is "in pain" from the way Homer guns the engine. He also takes a whiff of the exhaust fumes as Homer drives away and is able to determine that Homer is using regular gasoline instead of premium. | |
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Dean from Supernatural seems to have this in regards to his Impala. Not surprise, it's been the boy's literal home for many a year. In fact, this concept becomes very important as the show goes on. |
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Spike of Cowboy Bebop averts this, much to the disgust of the mechanic that gave him the Swordfish. He actually first reveals his insensitivity when he destroys a malfunctioning Betamax player by kicking it. | |
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BattleTech Expanded Universe novels often have pilots describing the 'feel' of their BattleMechs, though this is in part due to experience with a machine and partially due to the Brain/Computer Interface in the neurohelmet pilots wear. One pilot even describes being transferred to a new machine as akin to starting a new relationship; you have a basic idea of what to expect, but you won't get all the nuances until you've spent time interacting with it. | |
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In Star Trek: Insurrection, Captain Picard detects that the ship's torque sensors are slightly out of alignment because "they don't sound right." Justified when we find out in the next movie that Picard once suffered from an illness that cranks up the sufferer's sensitivity to the point that every minor sound was agony. He got it cured, but it stands to reason that it left him with extremely acute hearing (by human standards). | |
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In ApocalypseWorld, this is implied to be how The Savvyhead class fixes things - their important stat isn't Sharp, but Weird. | |
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Zak Arranda in Galaxy of Fear has a measure of this... though he tends to overestimate it. At the start of The Swarm he causes the ship to become nonfunctional because he was messing around with the engines and connected something in a spot he thought would just improve thrust. | |
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Characters in Sin City often determine the state of the cars they're in, including the engine types, just by starting them. | |
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The Venture Bros.: Brock Samson has demonstrated the ability to sense when someone's in his car even if he's not physically present. Hank, upon witnessing a demonstration of this talent (which, despite the presence of superpowers and magic in this setting, seems to be purely mundane), comments to another character "I've seen him do that from a continent away." | |
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In the Farscape episode "Back and Back and Back to the Future", the following exchange occurs between Zhaan and Rygel. Though Moya is a living being, the fact that she's a ship means Zhaan would have to have a certain level of Machine Empathy to detect the problem. | |
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Wedge Antilles is very, very good at this, as well as possessing Improbable Piloting Skills. These factors together make some people in-universe question the Normal part of his Badass Normal status. He can hear if his X-wing's engines have drifted out of alignment. (This may also have something to do with the Incom T-65's standard engines, which are mentioned in several EU sources as having a unique and almost musical sound — this being the case, perhaps what Wedge is noticing is that the engines have literally gone out of tune.) | |
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Joker exhibits this in Mass Effect towards both incarnations of the Normandy. In the second game, he frequently gets into heated arguments with EDI over all the changes he implements whilst flying, which run contrary to the design specifications, simply because that's how "his baby" works best. Keep in mind, since EDI is the artificial intelligence operating the ship, he's effectively telling her he knows her "body" better than she does! Still, EDI only knows what her sensors tell her, and her definition of "best" may vary from Joker's. At the end of the second game, they come to the conclusion that the Normandy functions best when they work together. | |
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Eureka Seven has Eureka, who is in tune with the Nirvash's feelings. She also treats every machine as a living thing, implying this empathy extends to all machinery. | |
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Part of the powerset of children of Hephaestus in Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus. | |
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In Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Valdi, nominal commander of Colony 30, spends the majority of his time building and maintaining Levnises, which are the setting's equivalents to robots and tanks. He treats and speaks to his creations as friends rather than devices, and the main turning point that got him to turn on his colony's Consul was when said Consul hijacked a Giant Mecha that Valdi had been constructing, and used it to destroy Mechafriend. | |
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Scotty from the original Star Trek regularly invoked this trope. As did Kirk, once. He claimed to recognize every noise the ship could make, even if damaged. When Scotty appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation, he pointed out that he didn't like the Enterprise D because it doesn't cause the vibrations that his Enterprise had. Picard did this once, too, able to tell by the sound when (insert TNG techspeak here) was off by three microns (that's really small.) However, it was revealed later that he'd had a genetic illness in which his senses were heightened to the point that every small sound was agony to him, presumably dealt with by Trekkian super-science later. You have to wonder if it's an intentionally-invoked Harsher in Hindsight moment - was it a captain's ship senses tingling, or do we know now that all along he's had this painful affliction that's less "gone away" and more "gone from agonizing down to just bearable?" |
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This is a trait that Ratchet from the Ratchet & Clank games has, thanks to him being part of a species noted for being highly skilled with tech. In fact, it's probably how he was able to bond with Clank so quickly. | |
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In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, the Jedi Exile discovers they have this talent. Not only can they sense the presence of droids and ships through it's unique energy patterns, this allows them to immediately detect and diagnose any mechanical problem it's suffering. | |
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Lowe Guele invokes this in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray, going on to tell Rondo Ghina Sahaku that the reason the Gold Frame locked up on him was because the machine wasn't one for war. | |
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On Young Sheldon Sheldon's older brother Georgie can do this with tires, finding holes just by holding them and listening to them. This is a Call-Forward to his appearance in "The Big Bang Theory" in which he runs a tire store chain called Dr. Tire.(A title he uses himself, which annoys his P.H.d brother to no end) Oddly, while he got his start in the business patching tires, his advice as Dr. Tire is, "Never patch, always buy new." | |
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Techpriests in Warhammer 40,000 can do this, by feeling the machine spirit's pain. It's theorized that Orks don't so much empathize with machines as just yell at them and beat them until they work. | |
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Implied with the Mechanic non-player character in the Shadowrun second edition rulebook. She is described as someone who prefers the "company" of machines over humans because they don't talk back and she understands them. Come fourth edition and this becomes a playable archetype. A Technomancer is someone born with a strange ability that essentially allows one to use the rules for Magic to replicate the abilities of a Hacker... or a Rigger. A Technomancer is able to control vehicles, drones and computers with their willpower, compile artificial intelligences called Sprites, and even go into strange, unimaginable Resonance Realms. A Technomancer Rigger can have a genuine and intense bond with their vehicle, their weapons, and any other piece of machinery that enables them to perform far beyond what they ought to be capable of. |
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Both Herman Yandell and Elmer Snell from the second episode of MS IGLOO 2: The Gravity Front claim to have very temperamental machines (a tank and a Zaku, respectively) that break down despite regular maintenance saying they should still run. This seems to imply that the machines are empathic to their pilots, since it serves to tell them that the enemy they're looking for is not in the battlefield they were going to, and they want to save their strength for their fated encounter. | |
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Doctor Who The Doctor feels this towards his TARDIS (a.k.a. "You Sexy Thing"), of course, this is because the TARDIS is a living thing. The TARDIS felt the same way towards the Doctor. The Doctor didn't steal the TARDIS, it was the other way around. | |
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Blake's 7. Jenna (a smuggler and Ace Pilot) can tell the hyperdrive of the Prison Ship they're being transported on "needs restressing, by the feel of things." We see the ship's captain griping about the lack of proper maintenance, so she appears to be right. | |
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During one dogfight on Star Wars Rebels, Hera scrapes the Phantom against a rock and can immediately tell that something was damaged, even though the instruments don't initially show anything wrong. A full diagnostic later confirms her suspicions. | |
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The title character from Tommy, being blind and deaf, develops the ability to play pinball by feeling the vibrations the machine makes through the table. | |
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William Adama has a very personal relationship with the Battlestar Galactica, which goes beyond the relationship a captain has with his vessel. This is especially noticeable in the last episodes of season 4, when Adama refuses to use Cylon tech to repair the ship, not only because of the security risks involved, but also because it would turn the ship into something not entirely his — and not entirely hers; his comment on the matter is that "[s]he won't know what she is anymore." Boomer's comments about the mechanics of a Cylon raider are obvious (to the audience) allusions to her own Cylon nature, but definitely fall along the vein of this trope. (Perhaps more naturally so than most, in fact; Boomer might well have Machine Empathy with the Raider because she's from the same 'family' of machines. Chief Tyrol, too.) Chief Tyrol exhibits this in the season 2 episode, "Final Cut". Lt. Katraine (callsign "Kat") is anxious to get into her Viper again, but Tyrol refuses to release it from inspection even though it had been gone over twice, because "something doesn't feel right." His suspicions are confirmed when a hydraulic hose suddenly bursts on the forward landing strut. |
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In Top Gear, the presenters often have this for cars, even ones they've only just bought and driven for the first time. It's just experience with driving cars for a living, but they can tell because of whatever fault or engine noise that the car is broken in a very specific way. | |
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Chakona Space gives us Chakat Goldfur, one of the Star Corps' best technicians. Hir Talent even gets lampshaded at different points. Hir abilities in this area reach for, but don't quite hit Technopath territory. | |
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Jake Holman from The Sand Pebbles feels more comfortable around machines than around people. Given the way he affectionately speaks to the ship's steam engine, it almost qualifies as Cargo Ship. | |
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James Rollins introduces a character in the Sigma Force series who gives himself an artificial machine sense. A super tech nerd and hacker, he surgically implants tiny magnets in his finger tips connected to his nerve endings, which allow him to "feel" the electromagnetic fields that surround electronics.note This is based off of a real life body mod which some people do. Its effects however are dubious at best. | |
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In Star Wars Legends, it is stated that many pilots turn down their Inertial Dampening so that they can get a feel for space flying. Wedge Antilles is very, very good at this, as well as possessing Improbable Piloting Skills. These factors together make some people in-universe question the Normal part of his Badass Normal status. He can hear if his X-wing's engines have drifted out of alignment. (This may also have something to do with the Incom T-65's standard engines, which are mentioned in several EU sources as having a unique and almost musical sound — this being the case, perhaps what Wedge is noticing is that the engines have literally gone out of tune.) In one of the EU novels the Millennium Falcon gets a complete overhaul by New Republic techs (estimating that they replaced nearly 20% of the ship). Han spends the next several hours going through the ship and loosening bolts, stripping wires and generally messing things up, because "Those rattling noises are how he knows he's pushing her too hard". Zak Arranda in Galaxy of Fear has a measure of this... though he tends to overestimate it. At the start of The Swarm he causes the ship to become nonfunctional because he was messing around with the engines and connected something in a spot he thought would just improve thrust. |
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In Firefly, Kaylee has a Machine Empathy relationship with Serenity; she can instinctively know just by looking, hearing or feeling what the ship is doing and what's wrong with it. The Captain Mal and the Ace Pilot Wash have expressed similar sentiments, as has The Empath River. Not for nothing is Serenity considered part of the crew. | |
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In the live-action Speed Racer movie, Rex teaches Speed to "drive, not steer" by listening to the feel of the car. Speed later uses this ability to intuitively jump-start the Mach 6 in the middle of the final Grand Prix. | |
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Though he usually doesn't do repairs himself, Sousuke of Full Metal Panic! has a knack for quickly diagnosing mechanical issues an Arm Slave might have, a talent which he exploits to quickly get into Nami's good graces and secure a job. In a more literal sense, he's also learned to predict maintenance requests made by his Arm Slave's AI, Al (spelled with an L), comparing it to recognizing when your dog wants to go out for a walk. | |
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When Scotty appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation, he pointed out that he didn't like the Enterprise D because it doesn't cause the vibrations that his Enterprise had. | |
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