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Ladies and Germs, in this corner, we have a man. A pathetic pile of a meatbag, with skin completely incapable of preventing major lacerations. Loaded with pain receptacles that will severely dampen his ability to keep up in an environment where the hurt will lay into them endlessly and mercilessly. Only the human spirit can give this pathetic creature any hope for survival. And in this corner, we have the automaton. Perfect in every conceivable way, invulnerable to the wear and tear so common in humans, working tirelessly as long as it can maintain a power source. The machine has no sense of remorse or mercy and will do whatever is commanded of it to the bitter end. Alas, the machine lacks one thing — Love. Who will win? Well, that's a question for the plot. Given that good guys almost always succeed, bet on that horse first — but more often than not it's the human we're supposed to be rooting for. Since God help us if the robot revolution comes and they really are better than us. Interestingly, the machines will sometime be said to "never get ill" and "never age". If that were true, there would be no need for repairmen nor scrapyards. This generally gets a pass because a machine sufficiently advanced to challenge man would by definition be capable of self-maintenance and, likely, self-improvement to the point it would outlast anything built by man. See Rock Beats Laser for this concept applied more broadly to technological disparities in general. This trope is concerned primarily with the struggle of human characters against robots specifically. An often necessary part of the Robot War. |
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Terminator is a franchise entirely about humans fighting to save themselves from extinction by robots. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog CD has Sonic being pitted against Dr. Robotnik's latest creation, his Evil Knockoff Metal Sonic. Sonic defeats him in a race in the Stardust Speedway level. They later have a similar duel in Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II. | |
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Magnus Robot Fighter is a Silver Age comic set in a far future where robots are a abundant and serve humans. One fears a Robot War, and raises a human, Magnus, to prevent such a war. | |
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The TaleSpin episode "From Here to Machinery" has an inventor introducing the Auto-Aviator, a robot pilot. To much fanfare, Baloo competes with the Auto-Aviator in a race; unfortunately, he loses to the tireless machine, with devastating results as the successful demonstration puts the Auto-Aviator in the limelight and many pilots out of a job. However, it turns out that the Auto-Aviator has a crushing weakness: its inability to deviate from its flight plan under any circumstances, even when the plane is in danger, and Shere Khan's own plane, piloted by one of the machines, ends up flying right into an Air Pirate attack. In the end, Baloo saves the day, and Shere Khan sees that the inventor is left peddling his robots in the frozen wastes of Thembria. | |
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Death/Bill Door versus the combine harvester in Reaper Man. This is a slightly unfair one, given the whole anthropomorphic personification of Death thing, although arguably at this point so is the Combine. Also, Death reaps one stalk at a time. | |
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In the climax of City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes, there's Ryo Saeba vs the flying drones and the Steel Reaper, and Umibozu (and Miki) against the ground drones. The humans win, much to Mikuni's frustration (he put way too much faith in the attack drones), especially Ryo and his unmatched agility, Improbable Aiming Skills and quick thinking. | |
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No Evil provides the setup for this when Paula challenges an Institute researcher with a jackhammer to see who can mine more copper, only for the townspeople to object that they're violating the terms of their agreement. | |
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In one episode of CJ the DJ, CJ has to win a DJing contest against a robotic DJ. | |
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GURPS Reign of Steel has the tagline “The war is over. The robots won”. The PCs are (usually) La Résistance in the ensuing Crapsack World. | |
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The classic OGRE board game pitches a single gigantic robot tank — the Ogre — against a human Standard Sci-Fi Army, in a fair fight. | |
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In the DuckTales (2017) episode "Beware the B.U.D.D.Y. System!", Launchpad challenges Mark Beaks' car-driving robot B.U.D.D.Y. to a race. The race is derailed when B.U.D.D.Y. turns out to be based on stolen Gyro plans, and therefore inevitably turns evil. | |
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In Rocky IV, Rocky trains by doing manual labor in the snow and exercising in a barn. Ivan Drago trains in a lab surrounded by high-tech devices and monitored by scientists. Rocky wins the fight since he has "heart". | |
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In Peter and the Magic Egg, Tinwhiskers challenges Peter to a plowing contest, but it's just so he can make him fall down a pit. | |
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Part Two has Ethan Hunt and his IMF team going up against a rogue A.I. called the Entity. | |
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John Henry and the Inky-Poo is a stop-motion version of the John Henry legend in which John Henry takes on a steam hammer. This animated short departs from the most common versions of the legend by making John Henry a giant Paul Bunyan-style, and by having him hammering railroad spikes instead of steel drills. | |
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Spoofed in Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode Time Chasers: Near the end of the film, the protagonist is climbing down a tree to get away from a crashed light aircraft that's threatening to fall on himnote Very reminiscent of Jurassic Park, which is indeed lampshaded. The MST crew identifies this as an example of Man Versus Machine - and immediately begin cheering "Goooo machine!" | |
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Legends of Dune in the Butlerian Jihad humanity was enslaved by the Thinking Machines, they overthrew the machines and banned anything similar to an AI. Later in the sequels the Thinking Machines are back and they're out for revenge against the humans. | |
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Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue had an episode where the rangers are cast aside in favor of a group of robotic replacements (which curiously enough were called "Cyborgs" despite not having any human components). At first they seem superior, but when struck by a monster's electric attack they go rogue, forcing the real rangers to face and destroy them. | |
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Courage the Cowardly Dog had such an episode ("Courage vs. Mecha-Courage") where Courage ended up going up against his robotic doppelganger in a contest. The maker intended to prove the robot dog was 'better' and... he was. The one thing it lacked, however, was Courage's tenacity. In the end, it finally broke down, leaving Courage, battered and bruised, the winner by default. | |
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The SpongeBob SquarePants episode "SpongBob vs. the Patty Gadget" has Squidward obtaining a machine that creates Krabby Patties and being challenged by SpongeBob for the latter's job. SpongeBob wins when Squidward cranks the machine too high and it overloads. | |
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Team Fortress 2's August 2012 update introduced a cooperative game mode aptly titled "Mann Vs. Machine" where the RED team squares off against robot knockoffs of the game's classes, created by Redmond and Blutarch Mann's long lost brother Gray Mann. | |
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The Mitchells vs. the Machines: The main plot of the film is that the world is being taken over by an army of sentient robots and smart devices and the titular family, the Mitchells, are the last humans to be captured, leaving them to try to find a way to take the machines down. | |
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The My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" features the Apple family and their old-fashioned cider-making ways pitted against the Flim-Flam Brothers and their eponymous magic-powered mechanical cider press. The stakes are the rights to sell cider in Ponyville, the loss of which would force the Apples into debt and off their farm. The Flim-Flam brothers win, but no one wants to drink the cider they made because they cut so many corners in order to win the contest, and they end up leaving town in a hurry, effectively forfeiting the contest. | |
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In one between-episode skit on Johnny Bravo, Johnny is in a chess match with a chess-playing robot. His constant stream of stupidity quickly causes it to overload. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003) has this as an explicit ongoing theme, with humans relying on chunky old-fashioned machines with a lot of manual controls. The Cylons, by contrast, are robots with incredibly sexy starships. | |
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Acted out on several occasions on Top Gear, pitting one (or more) of the presenters in a car against one of the others using some form of muscle powered transport, either on its own or as part of a wider array of options. Several examples include Car vs Dog sled (result: Car, but it was close due to the car getting stuck in a field of ice boulders that the dog sled handled much better), Car vs Public Transport vs Bicycle vs Speed Boat across London (result: Bicycle, followed by Speed Boat, followed by Public Transport and the Car dead last) or Car vs Bicycle vs Hovercraft vs Public Transport across St Petersburg (result: Car with Bicycle and Hovercraft in a dead heat and Public Transport a Did Not Finish as the Stig got lost). | |
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In the season 3 finale of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Kimmy competes with a robot to see who can be a better crossing guard. She wins, but the police department discovers that she's a married to a registered sex offender, so she can't be around children. | |
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Some years later, IBM's Watsonnote IBM also developed Deep Blue was put on Jeopardy! against two human champions including Ken Jenningsnote He of the 75-day winning streak. The computer cleaned their clocks, and in the last Final Jeopardy, Jennings wrote as his response "I for one welcome our new computer overlords." | |
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Gary Kasparov versus Deep Blue in Chess. Though as someone noted, humans programmed Deep Blue and Kasparov had electronic assistance himself and it might be more accurate to call it Chessmaster versus Techno Wizard. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: In one episode, every member of the group thinks that they have the fastest way to get across town (bus, subway, faking a heart attack to steal a ride on an ambulance, cab etc...). Marshall claims that he can run the whole seven miles faster than any machine. To his credit, everyone gets to the half-way point at the exact same time, meaning he backed up his claim fairly well. However, he only makes it another mile or two before he collapses on the sidewalk out of exhaustion, confessing that his bravado was really about being worried he might not be able to get his wife pregnant. Also: Robots vs Wrestlers! |
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Pray For Death: To prove the superiority of machine over man, Painbringer targets and seeks to kill Jan Fun. | |
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Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown; the rise of drones and A.I. in modern combat is heavily discussed, with numerous attacks on the (human) heroes from Erusean drone fighters and the Arsenal Bird airships that launch them. The final boss is against two hyper-advanced drones programmed with the flight data of one of the greatest aces to have ever lived, who seek to use the Space Elevator to broadcast their blueprints to countless factories across the Erusean continent which would start an unending Robot War against wave after wave of drone aircraft. | |
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The Matrix shows this as the aftermath of the Robot War. The humans firmly believe that the use of their own human spirit is the only thing separating them from the machines, and is the only real advantage they have. | |
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