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No Waterproofing in the Future

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No Waterproofing in the Future	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Apparently no-one ever designs any high technology (even sophisticated robots) with any kind of waterproofing. Any and all metals rust at ridiculously high speed when exposed to water, and any high-tech object that is splashed with water will immediately spark, usually explode, and either shut down permanently or perform some bizarre and unlikely action with a waterlogged device producing spectacular effects like time travel or a computer suddenly achieving sentience. Of course, the Real Life examples below seem to show that we don't do much of that sort of thing here in the present. It is also worth noting the tendency of abandoned spacecraft and high technology to spring a leak, drizzling a never-ending stream of water on our characters' heads. This is much more likely to do damage in real life. Imagine all that black mold... Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Seen primarily in science-fiction and superhero shows, but common in any show featuring high technology. Directly related to Kill It with Water. See also Explosive Instrumentation. Examples:
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_100d4e39	comment	In one episode of Aladdin: The Series, evil genius Mechaniklies invades Agrabah with an army of giant mechanical scorpions. Genie manages to stop them by turning into a rain cloud and rusting them. At the climax, however, Mechaniklies invokes It Only Works Once as he rustproofs his army.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_110d4471	comment	The title alien of Predator had a cloaking device which conveniently shorted out whenever he came into contact with water. A little odd when it had been established that their species had been coming to Earth for hundreds of years and thus should've developed an upgrade. This effect became increasingly pronounced as the series went on. In the first film the Predator wades in a river and the device keeps on working for a while, only shorting out well after the Predator drags himself to shore — heck, this isn't too shabby, all things considered. In the second film the same shorting out happens when he steps in a puddle. By AVP 2 (game) a single toe in the water will shut down the cloaking device. It may not be a technical issue - after all, their ships managed to sneak through cloud layers and other water vapor undetected. It's just that the Yautja probably don't see the need for flawless personal cloaking devices, for the same reason they don't just blast everything with plasma from hiding. Where's the sport in that? It's also implied in some sources that their technology is borrowed, meaning they don't really understand how it works.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_12ffd3e9	comment	Done in the first season finale of Megas XLR. The apparent destruction of the Glorft mothership occurred when Coop accidentally teleported his soda onto the mothership's computer, and it tipped over, setting off a chain reaction that blew up half the ship, and caused them to be sucked into another dimension.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_1409f1e9	comment	Real Life Comics: In this strip, a clone-making machine starts running nonstop after its non-waterproofed control panel shorts out.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): When Pat Pending's technologically advanced suit zaps Huntress during their fight she splashes the water from a nearby vase on him to short it out, which works.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance: Parodied; the Water Cooler Droids are not water proof.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_2212773a	comment	Angel shows us that there's no waterproofing in the present, either. A cup of blood spilled on a keyboard causes sparks, smoke, and the immediate destruction of the computer. If an input device was sufficiently messed up and sending garbage input to the computer, it could possibly cause it to crash — however, the problem could immediately be solved by unplugging the device and rebooting the CPU.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_24931627	comment	Ghost in the Shell: Generally averted: the cyborg bodies and parts of most of the main characters are thoroughly waterproofed, but the danger comes from the fact that they're too heavy to swim if immersed. In the first movie, the Major still goes swimming with the aid of some floatation devices that give her a bit of buoyancy, to provide some real risk in her life; her extreme competence and ultra-durable body leave her in little real danger much of the time. However, this is played straight with their cloaking equipment. The cloaking effects are temporarily disrupted when it comes into contact with water, and is basically useless under constant exposure from sources like rain or fire sprinklers. However, this is portrayed more that the cloak can't keep up with the constantly shifting patterns of water and becoming overloaded trying to mirror it instead of just shorting out and shocking the hell out of the wearer.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "Bart on the Road", Homer intentionally pours his drink over the safety control panel at the nuclear power plant specifically to destroy it and get a new one shipped out to him. In the flash-forward "Lisa's Wedding" episode, life-like androids on several occasions short themselves out with their own tears whenever they cry. Also "Homer's Enemy" - Frank Grimes is horrified to see Homer pour a bucket of water on his console to shut off a warning alarm. Again when Homer drives an electric car in the ocean "Relax it's an electric car". It comes out clean but then bursts into a cloud of smoke, they still manage to drive it back to the car dealership.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_27f90c49	comment	The title character of All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku is plenty waterproof but is too heavy to float and she faces a difficult time during the Beach Episode because the monster of the day is aquatic. She eventually gets an upgrade to get around this problem.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_2c1809f5	comment	A frequently used plot device in Totally Spies!: when in doubt, just kick the evil robots into a pool of water and be done with it.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_2d311a08	comment	In the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, in order to avoid outcries against such a "violent" show, the majority of the turtles' enemies were robots (Foot soldiers, Mousers.) As a result, nearly every episode featured at least 6 robots exploding after getting wet, and in one episode they threatened a robot and said they would get it wet.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League: In "Injustice For All", Batman shorts out Lex Luthor's stasis field by spitting a mouthful of water into it.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_2ec27115	comment	Teen Titans Go!: In "Tower Power", Beast Boy spitting his soda over Cyborg is enough to cause him to malfunction.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_341a1fd2	comment	In Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated this is averted with the Kriegstafflebots, who were designed for water travel and exploration, equipped with underwater propellers and durability at high pressure.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_3cf15492	comment	Subverted in most MechWarrior games. Standing in water is a fantastic idea, because your heat sinks work better when water-cooled, allowing you to ignore your heat gauge. Since heat is the primary limiting factor for energy weapons, this means Beam Spam. Continuing the subversion, the Ghost Bear's Legacy expansion pack for Mechwarrior 2 had a mission that happened entirely underwater, with a unique mech variant loaded with energy weapons and torpedo launchers.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_3fbd173e	comment	Freefall: Most robots are designed for "indoor use," and are terrified of getting wet. The most notable exception is Sawtooth Rivergrinder. Justified, as it's mentioned most robots are cheaply manufactured as well. Not only is Sawtooth waterproof, he's also lightning-proof (he considers pies-in-the-face to be funnier than lightning strikes though).
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_41d79599	comment	Rain also hisses and makes steam when it hits your saber(s) in the Jedi Knight games, particularly Academy and possibly Outcast. The lightsaber is also specifically a different design: the first games allow you to use it underwater (as it's an older lightsaber made for the purpose) while in the newer games Kyle didn't know enough about lightsabers to create one that would work underwater.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_44fe781e	comment	Played with a bit in Neon Genesis Evangelion. They have waterproof equipment, but at one point, an EVA is being transported and needs to be activated unexpectedly, without said equipment. While the EVA itself doesn't seem to be bothered by water (or vacuum, or lava...), its outer armour jams when submerged, slowing and potentially paralysing the EVA. Misato herself later admits that she should've anticipated the possibility of an underwater battle. Considering that the EVA was not only wet but at the bottom of the ocean, it's also entirely possible that the EVA simply ran out of power before it could walk to the shore.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_474d4d3f	comment	Nerima Daikon Brothers had a metal arm rust up and crumble because the owner cried on it for all of three minutes. (Then again, you shouldn't think to hard about... Anything in that show.)
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_47b1287b	comment	Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger: Quentin throws a pitcher of ice water onto the controls for a forcefield prison he's (momentarily) trapped in, shorting it out. He derides them not for that but for not using an old-fashioned door with a lock.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_495f277f	comment	Parodied and then subverted in Hayate the Combat Butler when a robot attacks Nagi; its invulnerability to electricity-conducting water ("The best waterproof coating in Japan!") is quickly defeated when silver dining implements are used to penetrate the skin. Behold the power of conductors.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_4be3aedd	comment	Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers downplays it little. The Megazord can function underwater, but it's clearly at a disadvantage when submerged. However, the Dragonzord is fully waterproof and skilled in aquatic combat, which proves an asset against the Oysetrizer.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_4e3408a6	comment	For being only just upgraded with what's presumably state-of-the-art 31st-century Luthorcorp tech, the Scavengers gang in Legion of Super-Heroes are easily taken down with the Legion sprinkler system.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_4f7a49d9	comment	Averted, though it isn't exactly the future, in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World. Some robotic tentacles grab Paul and try to tear him apart. (It doesn't work.) When George asks John why he doesn't rust them into uselessness, John notes that he can't affect them, since he can feel that they're rustproof.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_5030d3bb	comment	David from A.I.: Artificial Intelligence shorts himself out when he eats spinach with his family, as the synthetic throat apparently opened right into the sensitive electronics of his chest. He was just fine when he fell into a pool though. David's engineers had the foresight to mostly waterproof him, which comes in handy in two separate occasions: when he falls into a swimming pool and the ocean. However, since he's built out of metal, he still sinks like a stone.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_5047c4e3	comment	A version occurs in C.O.P.S. where a pair of powered exoskeletons rust to complete immobility after a brief spray of saltwater.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: Dirk ends Squarewave's attempt at rap battling him by dousing him with a bottle of soda, which promptly short-circuits the robot.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_513f5832	comment	At the end of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the ship lands in water and starts leaking almost immediately. You would think a ship that can keep all the air in out in space and survive all the hits of a typical Klingon firefight would have no problem keeping water out. Somewhat justified, in that it was carrying a lot more mass than it was ever designed to do so, and came in uncontrolled and at possibly higher than terminal velocity. They're lucky it didn't shatter on impact, let alone leak a bit. Further justified in that a space ship would not necessarily be built to withstand external pressure. In the Star Trek universe, all impacts (from things like meteoroids) are handled by energy-based shields. Even when the shields go down, the hull is usually under attack by energy weapons, which presumably do not inflict pressure on the hull but rather break it down with heat. So an unshielded ship with a hull mainly designed to hold air IN would probably fare rather poorly underwater. Hulls are designed to withstand pressure diferentials. It is the same difference for a space-ship with 1 atmosphere of pressure inside (1 atm = 15lb/sq in = 10^5 Pascal) whether the pressure outside 0 atm of space or 2 atm from 10 meters depth of water. Assume they strengthen the Hull to withstand 4 atm difference, then the ship can go down 40 meters etc. Actually, that's not how it would work. Though this is 100% accurate relating simply to the materials used, the design has a MASSIVE effect on which direction pressure can be stronger. It would take much less pressure to blow a submarine UP than to cave a submarine IN (assuming you could create the pressure of deep sea from the interior). Well, aside from the impact from falling from a great altitude, there was the overload, powerlessness, having made two improvised time travels by grazing the heat and gravity of the Sun, having been torpedoed twice in the previous movie... Hull strength in Star Trek is often established to be the result of the "Structural Integrity Field" as opposed to the physical construction of the hull. Many references are made to diverting power to this system when circumstances create increased hull stress. Operating in tandem with the "Inertial Dampeners" (or Dampers), starships are able to absorb kinetic forces that should tear apart the hull and pulverize the crew inside. The implication is that, without power, the hull alone would not withstand most of the situations they encounter. The Probe has been draining power from starships for the entire movie, and is clearly the cause of the crash in question, so it is actually far more likely that the ship should have been completely destroyed on impact. One of the early American rockets would be crumpled by the atmosphere if not loaded with fuel.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_5178149f	comment	Played absurdly straight in the first episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, where a suitless Jaime Reyes shorts out the console of his prison by spitting on it.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_51d8e360	comment	Blue Dragon. So it's Lost Technology rather than future, but almost all robots in the game are weak to water.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_53435bc5	comment	In the game Don't Starve, one particular character known as WX-78 happens to spark and take damage when exposed to any rain.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_5690420f	comment	Subverted in an episode of Disney's DuckTales. The episode "Armstrong" involves a robot going on a berserk rampage, and only being stopped by being soaked in water. In "Robot Robbers", the cast try to defeat the robots using the same method, only for Bungling Inventor Gyro to inform them he had learned from his mistake and waterproofed the new models.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_5921531a	comment	Aigis in Persona 3 is perfectly fine with water (she's atleast waist deep in both the Beach Episode and the Hot Springs Episode, though she admits the steam from the Hot springs do interfere with her sensors), to the relief of some of the major characters.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_5a2333ef	comment	In the LittleBigPlanet games, sackbots explode when exposed to water much in the same way that players do upon contact with electrified surfaces. This only applies to water created by the level creator flooding the map; nothing happens if they're sprayed with water from a Creatinator. Averted as of the third game, which allows the player to set a Sackbot to be waterproof or not.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_5c0e4258	comment	SWAT Kats: Played with in "Razor's Edge". While fighting Dark Kat's giant robotic spider, Razor comes up with a plan: first he causes the robot to fall into a big hole followed by creating a trench leading to a lake, causing the hole to fill up to knee-deep. Dark Kat laughs this off, stating that his robot was waterproof... only for Razor to have a contingency plan: shooting a missile through the robot's leg, putting a big hole in it, allowing the water to flood in, causing the whole thing to short-circuit. In another episode, one of the Metallikats — an Outlaw Couple mobster team turned into Killer Robots — laughs when Callie Briggs throws water at him. Next, she throws an ashtray, and the sand at the bottom starts to interfere with his joints — with results similar to the usual results of this trope.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: It's never actually mentioned what happens if you try to fire a water-logged plasma cannon, although circumstantial evidence would seem to advise against it. Firing a plasma cannon underwater makes it explode, but for slightly different reasons. Maxim 32 of The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries is "Anything is amphibious if you can get it back out of the water." When a group of scientists realize they need to continue the search underwater, one nervously asks how much of their equipment is waterproof. An amphibious colleague smugly says "All of mine is, drysider."
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf: In "Entangled", Lister shorts out the control panel on the Red Dwarf by spilling chilli sauce on it, then attempting to put out the resulting fire with his lager. This is also how Kryten, then a simple cleaning and service droid, slays the entire crew of his first ship, the Nova Ten: he gets it onto his head that the inside of all the computer terminals require a really thorough cleaning to eliminate that regrettable build-up of dust. Sluiced with lots of soapy water, the main computer shorts out, starts burbling classical French poetry, and crashes the entire vessel into the nearest moon.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_5e3832b5	comment	In Cave Story, the protagonist, an armed scout robot, will die if submerged in water too long. It's handled a little better than most examples as rather than instantly short-circuiting, instead his internal compartments get slowly flooded with water until he can't operate anymore. In fact, getting the best ending requires saving another robot from this.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_60570997	comment	S.S.D.D.: The Inlay Knight designated "Merlin" shorted out after getting with a fire extinquisher. Speculation was that since he was a prototype he wasn't properly waterproofed.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_66b02060	comment	The oft-overlooked Deal of the Century featured a drone fighter with this problem.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_68c8e9ad	comment	In the various Super Robot Wars games, water doesn't harm you, but they will give you some penalties for walking in it unprepared. Mobile Suits are hit with this the worst as not only are they hit with the moving penalties that one gets with this, but shooting someone with beam weaponry only deals the minimum damage (being 10).
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_6b3cfe38	comment	Bob and George: Mostly averted, since most of the robots featured are waterproof. <Auto starts crying, then short-circuits> Emphasis on "most".
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Goa'uld ships in don't seem to be particularly waterproof, which makes for fun when getting around a partially flooded ship as their transporters only work in certain locations (fortunately the equipment doesn't seem to be too much affected by water). Note that the ship in question had just crashed (although with shields and inertial dampers working). Most of the ships are on the order of 3/4 of a Km long, and so probably a couple hundred metres tall. The replicators in a few episodes mildly demonstrate this trope, although that's because most of them in those episodes are made of hull-grade steel rather than their normal waterproof material. SG-1 is actually able to exploit this aversion to their (mild) advantage. There's a swarm of replicators, but they only have to destroy one of them- only one replicator is made from futuristic space-metal, and if they can kill it the others will just rust away. If it gets away, though... Mostly subverted in Stargate Atlantis. Atlantis does have the ability to resist immense water pressure, but it relies on power-hungry shields to do so.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_733ac336	comment	Unreal Tournament III: Driving vehicles into water causes them to take damage if they become submerged.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_7668653b	comment	One of the multiplayer maps in Mass Effect 3 has rain that destroys your kinetic barriers. Granted, on this particular planet, it rains acid, which corrodes the shields and health of most characters. Otherwise, the barriers function pretty well with normal rain, as evidenced by a mission to the planet Pragia in Mass Effect 2, where it rains cats and dogs.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_792e9ccd	comment	In Gato Roboto, the mech suit will take one point of damage if you fall into water with it and will instantly be pushed back. The main character on the other hand has Super Not-Drowning Skills despite being a cat.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_7fc53da4	comment	On The Magic School Bus's swamp episode, the Portashrinker shorted out when it got wet, leaving the class trapped at insect size.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_7ff3216c	comment	In one cartoon of Garfield and Friends, an eccentric scientist uses Odie as a model for a line of robot toy dogs, with one of them going home with Garfield by mistake. The mixup is revealed when Jon gives the robot a bowl of water, which causes it to short out and explode.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_816181cb	comment	The Tin Woodman from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz rusting himself with his own tears. Worked instantly. Tin isn't prone to rust, but tin cans are (because they're actually made out of steel).
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek on the whole's pretty good about this; however, the spin-off novel How Much for Just the Planet? by John M. Ford, which is a bit of a farcical romp, spins an entire subplot out of what happens when someone dumps a milkshake into a computer ...
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_882f1fdb	comment	The Bugs Bunny cartoon Robot Rabbit has the eponymous robot rust itself immobile in seconds after Bugs tricks it into running through a lawn sprinkler.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_8ac3894b	comment	Played with in Australian TV series Spellbinder - the eponymous Spellbinders are the rulers of a post-apocalyptic pseudo-medieval alternate universe, maintaining power by way of advanced Lost Technology that's a sort of cross between the works of Nikola Tesla and Leonardo Da Vinci. One important item is the "power suit", that allows the wearer to throw lightning-balls at people, but is shorted out by water. However, when Big Bad Ashka escapes into our world later in the series and cons a scientist (the protagonist's father, no less) into building a suit with modern equipment, he waterproofs it as a matter of course - much to the heroes' dismay. The lightning balls also fail against anyone wearing sneakers, as shown in the pilot.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_8c1caf4	comment	In Transformers, Ironhide complains that Sam's dog peeing on his foot will cause it to rust. This from the robot that had survived atmospheric reentry a couple hours before. And landed in a swimming pool. Granted, urine is generally more salty than water, but he survived re-entry intact. However, given that he is a crotchety old bot, he was likely just looking for an excuse to kill the dog. For the record, urine IS an electrolyte. But not enough to cause immediate corrosion of metal. Apparently in Revenge of the Fallen, the Constructicons are waterproof to the point where they can resurrect and operate on Megatron at the bottom of the Laurentian Abyss. Megatron himself appears little worse for wear for his stay there besides a bit of rust. Although Megatron was dead, which would account for the rust aside from water (i.e. he was a "rusting" mechanical corpse). Plus, not long before he was submerged in the ocean Megatron also spent decades frozen solid, first buried in the arctic regions and then chemically frozen at the Hoover Dam. The fact that Megatron was only just rusting a little after all that is a testament to a Cybertronian's resilence.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_8c377f30	comment	In the pilot of Murder Drones, a poster encourages Worker Drones not to wash their hands, suggesting that this applies to them.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_8c8113e7	comment	Cesium: Bob the Robot has been destroyed and rebuilt many times, but his greatest nemesis is spoiled milk.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_90ab7fe1	comment	In an episode of Recess, an amulet falls into a manhole, and Gretchen tries to recover it with a robotic crane. As it is about to grab the amulet, a water drop falls into the crane, making it go haywire.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_90e2f673	comment	Most units in BattleTech are effectively immediately destroyed if they ever find themselves in too-deep water; they can generally be recovered and dried out reasonably easily after the battle, but they're definitely out of the fight. BattleMechs and, of course, submarines are the main exceptions, with all locations being waterproof as long as they still have armor remaining and the flooding of just one or two locations not even necessarily putting a 'Mech out of commission (although a submarine in that situation is out of luck). The waterproofing is not perfect — any hit to a submerged location has a chance of causing a leak and taking all systems there offline even if there is still armor left, though there's an optional piece of equipment that can deal with even that —, but by and large it works. (Note also that this is specifically full immersion. Ships can of course still travel on the surface, hovercraft can skim over water as long as they're still mobile — though they sink if they're ever immobilized —, and no unit is ever damaged or disabled by simple rain.) Conventional tracked vehicles can also be outfitted with total environmental sealing, allowing them to (slowly) move underwater, but this is generally regarded as impractical and they have the same weaknesses as submarines. Also, Battle Armor are explicitly noted as being able to survive immersion quite well (so long as it's not too deep and their life support system isn't exhausted, anyway)- the reason that they're considered destroyed if dropped into a water hex is that unless a battle armor suit mounts specialized underwater maneuvering equipment, it's far too slow and cumbersome to actually go anywhere within the time scale of a standard game.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_9173be2b	comment	In one stage of Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, two cops fight off a horde of alien robots by spraying them with water, first from squirtguns, then from the hose on a firetruck. The alien spaceships are also vulnerable to water, apparently- they explode when sprayed with water.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_9994a14f	comment	Wall E: WALL•E and Eve are probably waterproof, as they stand out in the rain with no problem. Given their specialities, of course, they'd have to be. The same cannot be said of the robotic staff of the Axiom; the robotic swimming pool staff can be completely disabled with a playful splash of water!
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_9a0c0ffa	comment	In Andrey Livadny's novel The Third Race of The History of the Galaxy series, a female astronaut wakes up from her Human Popsicle state on a deep-space research vessel only to find the crew behaving strangely. She goes to her quarters and sees that her husband is also acting weird. When taking a shower, she decides to try to have sex with him then and there. She pulls him under the spray still in his clothes, only for him to start smoking and short out. Turns out he is a droid with fake skin made to look like her husband. In fact, the entire crew is like that, as all of the real crew except for her were killed as the result of a computer error (the ship's AI was too busy playing a game to notice a meteorite heading the for ship), and the AI was desperately trying to keep her from finding out. Needless to say, this chapter of the book is pure Nightmare Fuel. To note, these droids are supposedly designed to handle any potential planetary environment the ship may (crash)land in, so the fact that they aren't waterproof is major Fridge Logic.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_9e81cf3c	comment	Mocked in The Goon when the title character takes down an alien invader by throwing water at him. A man walks up and goes on a rant about how stupid this is and points out the alien would have died just by breathing our air, and then looks at the forth wall
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_9fa025d	comment	There's an item in Mother 3 called the Saltwater Gun that majorly damages mechanical enemies, apparently by causing them to rust. Instantly.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_a090fcfc	comment	Played with in the 80s cartoon series Bucky O'Hare, human Willy DeWitt used a squirt gun as his primary weapon after discovering that the evil Toads failed to waterproof their technology. This was mainly an excuse to let the young hero shoot things without using a deadly weapon, however. Predictably, the Monster (or technological terror) of the Week was almost always waterproof. And averted later in the series as Willy attempts to do the same trick but the toads have waterproofed it this time.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_a0d3564e	comment	In the 1970's animated The Godzilla Power Hour, the Humongous Mecha guardian of Atlantis is destroyed by dropping it into the sea so it shorts out. Repeat, this is a robot guarding Atlantis. (In fairness, the Atlanteans built him before they knew they were going to sink, and he was protected under a dome along with the rest of the city until it resurfaced. But still...!)
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Subverted: Bender can swim but rusts immediately when exposed to chlorine gas. Played straight when the ship makes its way to the depths of the ocean and finds the fabled Lost City of Atlanta. It starts leaking almost immediately.note Truth in Television, as stuff meant to resist internal pressures is built very differently from stuff meant to resist external pressures.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_a4616794	comment	In Friendship is Witchcraft, Sweetie Bot tends to go a bit wonky when she takes a bath. In her words, "The water makes me feel funny."
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_a609791a	comment	Scooby-Doo: In the episode "Go West Young Scoob" of What's New, Scooby-Doo?, when the gang encounter a Wild West theme park complete with potentially lethal West World robots, tossing a bucket of water on the killer robots will make them spark wildly and go inert. In Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated this is averted with the Kriegstafflebots, who were designed for water travel and exploration, equipped with underwater propellers and durability at high pressure.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_a9f1e264	comment	Chobits work in a similar manner. (In the anime, anyway.)
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_ab67d84	comment	Ctrl+Alt+Del: Zeke gets a little wet and a little berserk in this story arc. Ethan makes a half-baked attempt to prevent it while working on Zeke's new outer shell a few years later.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_b0fc9724	comment	Parodied in a Saturday Night Live sketch called "The Pepsi Syndrome" (based on the movie The China Syndrome), where a spilled soda triggers a nuclear meltdown at a power station.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_b17c7222	comment	Dogstar: The reason the Dogstar launches early and goes catastrophically off-course is because Hobart pees on an electronic panel and shorts out the ship's entire control system.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_b4fe32c9	comment	The titular character of Invader Zim has a similar problem, but eventually averts this trope by bathing in paste. This instance can also be overlooked because of the fact that Zim is quite stupid. Also, Rule of Funny. Zim also didn't invade Earth on purpose; he ended up there by sheer luck. The Almighty Tallest thought they were just sending him into empty space.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_b56d3cbc	comment	In the Counterfeit Cat episode "I, Maxine", Max's Powered Armor rusts when exposed to rain, justifiably because it was built on Gark's home planet which doesn't have water and rains strawberry milk.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_b7296d31	comment	You would think Miyu from My-HiME would have to be a lot more waterproof to pass as a human (a schoolgirl, to be more specific). Of course, it is possible that the water in the lake had no effect on her, and instead she deactivated herself in a place where nobody would look for her or Alyssa's body. Given that My-Otome Miyu has no trouble staying underwater for long periods of time, and even swimming, the matter is even more dubious.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_ba9d1b1c	comment	The aliens in Signs are unable to waterproof themselves despite invading a planet where oceans cover two-thirds of the surface and water falls from the sky. Which raises the question of why they'd invade what, to them, would be equivalent to a planet of acid completely naked. That only scratches the surface of the Fridge Logic: there's also water vapour in the atmosphere (which, carrying on the analogy, would be like breathing acid fumes), not to mention the fact that water (as a chemically-stable compound of two of the most abundant elements) is quite likely the most common chemical compound in the universe (it's certainly more common than scientists once thought, apparently available in some form on virtually every planet and moon in the Solar System from Earth on out). Those aliens really did draw the evolutionary short straw. The titular character of Invader Zim has a similar problem, but eventually averts this trope by bathing in paste. This instance can also be overlooked because of the fact that Zim is quite stupid. Also, Rule of Funny. Zim also didn't invade Earth on purpose; he ended up there by sheer luck. The Almighty Tallest thought they were just sending him into empty space. Mocked in The Goon when the title character takes down an alien invader by throwing water at him. A man walks up and goes on a rant about how stupid this is and points out the alien would have died just by breathing our air, and then looks at the forth wall
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_babeae6a	comment	Godzilla vs. Kong is set 20 Minutes into the Future. After being locked out of the computer, Josh is able to shut down the satellite link providing energy to Mecha-Godzilla by pouring Bernie's flask of whiskey into the control panel, shorting it out. Granted, he does pour some of the flask into the cooling fan port on the panel, but still.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_bb06f4cc	comment	In a few of the Panda Z animated shorts about cute robotic animals, one of their friends gets caught outside in the rain, under a tree. The rest of them attempt to come up with a workable plan to rescue her without getting shorted out themselves. Hilarity Ensues.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_bb3f9c33	comment	The Cyantian Chronicles: Chatin's handheld teleporter once shorted out when dropped in a puddle.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_bc3e398b	comment	In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, it is revealed that the terminators have a problem similar to the cyborgs of Ghost in the Shell, described above. They are entirely waterproof and can function perfectly well underwater, but what they can't do is float.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_c35e8e1a	comment	The Mitchells vs. the Machines is set 20 Minutes into the Future. Its villain is PAL, a rogue AI commanding an army of robots while housed in a single smartphone. Katie defeats PAL by throwing her in a glass of water, which seeps into her through her cracked screen.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_c43df4d8	comment	Used at the beginning of the Doctor Who story "The Leisure Hive" as an excuse to leave the Robot Buddy out of the adventure.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_cd59e09f	comment	Averted in Dark Life. The underwater houses are specifically built so that being deflated and filled with water will do minimal damage (since that's ever-present danger on, you know, the bottom of the sea).
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_d109f322	comment	There is an Andromeda fic where Rommie decides to take a bath and short circuits. Lampshaded in that Harper did design her to be waterproof... except that the component he used for a certain part of her anatomy was only water resistant.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_d22a40d1	comment	In the movie Cherry 2000, the main character's robot wife short circuits and breaks after getting wet. Which only begs the question as to why he would have her wash dishes if she wasn't water proof. Also, considering what Cherry is supposed to be purpose built for, not making her waterproof makes no damn sense.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_d38fe19f	comment	The rain, incidentally, is seen boiling in Star Wars: Clone Wars.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_d3bab1ce	comment	In Ratchet and Clank, Clank mentions that he is waterproof, but Chairman Drek's Dragon Victor von Ion is not. Clank defeats him by rusting him with a cloud generated by the Thundersmack.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_d56cd064	comment	Zigzagged with the Machine Empire in Power Rangers Zeo. The Mecha-Mooks they have cannot tolerate water and blow their fuses if they even touch it, but higher ranking members can withstand exposure, although they don't like it; Klang complains that he's going to rust in one scene where he's only about ankle-deep.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_d9239d09	comment	Westworld -at one point, in Medieval world, a girl in a dungeon catches the hero's attention - "help me" she cries weakly - but as he sympathetically tries to give her water, sparks fly and he realizes she too was a robot.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_dc25de3f	comment	Portal: "These intra-dimensional gates have proven to be completely safe. The device, however, has not. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially." This may be the reason that falling into liquids in the game and its sequel is always fatal.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_e365af07	comment	Dino Attack RPG: One of the few weaknesses of Kotua's robot army was water, which would immediately cause them to short-circuit. The Frickster, whose Artificial Limbs are from the future, stays away from water out of fear it will cause his limbs to short-circuit. Evidently averted by the likes of Dr. Gonapus, Dr. Cyborg, and Cyrista's Bane during the Final Battle, who were all unaffected by the rain.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_e4732abc	comment	Mostly subverted in Stargate Atlantis. Atlantis does have the ability to resist immense water pressure, but it relies on power-hungry shields to do so.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_e4cc7185	comment	Armitage III is waterproof, but earns mention after she attempts suicide by jumping into a river whilst riddled with bullet holes. Ross rescues her, saying "Hey, don't short out on me!"
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_e5dc2763	comment	Averted to great lengths in SOMA, since the majority of the game takes place in an Underwater Base. To the point that computers and speakers work perfectly both in and out of deep-sea environments.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_e5de447c	comment	Basically the premise of the second X-COM game, Terror from the Deep: the weapons developed during decades of fighting against armies of aliens on land and air, are completely useless underwater, and researches have to restart from scratch if you want to have something better than lame spearguns. The element elerium, a prime power source also becomes inert when submerged in saltwater, making salvaging it from crashed alien ships that much harder. If you read some of the descriptions, you will find out that they don't entirely start from scratch. The gauss guns are using the same technology as plasma guns from the first game (i.e. generating focused magnetic fields). They just use human-made materials (those gauss weapons are plutonium-powered). Also, inert elerium is still useful as a radiation shield. It's unclear why X-COM can't use lasers and plasma ordnance (from previous campaign) for ground-based missions, though.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_e8c1a9e4	comment	Moving away from lightsabers for a moment, the Mon Calamari are known to avert the trope by building hyperspace-capable starships that double as submarines (Republic Commando Series).
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_ee221a4e	comment	The Transformers (Marvel): Water was the best way to kill off the tiny robotic pests known as Scraplets. Cybertronian myth about the parasites described water as a "rare compound" which was able to remove the Scraplets without harming the afflicted (as opposed to the only other effective way, powerful acid). This is a case of research failure; water is fairly common in the universe, and a race capable of burning hydrocarbons for fuel would definitely be familiar with it. Averting this trope, the Transformers thus treated with water are completely fine. Played straight elsewhere in the series. An earlier issue featured a fight for Decepticon leadership between Megatron and Shockwave. The fight ends when Shockwave attacks with a water tower, short-circuiting Megatron (to be fair, Megatron's body was covered in open wounds at the time).
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_ef2e1620	comment	Rush in the Rockman.EXE anime, on one occasion, is absent owing to rain, as he'd short out. The problem with that is a) Rush is a hologram, and b) he's dipped into onsen repeatedly with no ill effects.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_ef9ba9b4	comment	In a deleted scene from Revenge of the Sith, Separatists droids pursue the heroes through a canal full of coolant fluid and suffer no ill effects.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_f04b4111	comment	Averted in the Metroid series. The Wrecked Ship and Frigate Orpheon both still work despite being partially submerged, all suits and weapons (including the Space Pirate's) are not damaged by water, and there was even a plot point in the B.S.L about everything underwater still working and actually electrifying the water. Several areas can be described as Eternal Engine goes Down the Drain. All water ever does in Metroid is slow you down until you get the Gravity Suit.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_f3464a68	comment	Apparently in Revenge of the Fallen, the Constructicons are waterproof to the point where they can resurrect and operate on Megatron at the bottom of the Laurentian Abyss. Megatron himself appears little worse for wear for his stay there besides a bit of rust. Although Megatron was dead, which would account for the rust aside from water (i.e. he was a "rusting" mechanical corpse). Plus, not long before he was submerged in the ocean Megatron also spent decades frozen solid, first buried in the arctic regions and then chemically frozen at the Hoover Dam. The fact that Megatron was only just rusting a little after all that is a testament to a Cybertronian's resilence.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_f3c07f91	comment	In The Mask, in the episode "They Came From Within," the robot Warchine was defeated when a dog urinated on him, causing him to short out.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_f5b58f88	comment	In Catwoman, at one point in the '90s she confronts Cyber-CAT (a woman wearing Powered Armor, whose prototype suit sports a few exposed cables) and, as a Pre Ass Kicking One Liner, asks her whether her armor insulates against shocks—then knocks her into the ocean. Subverted immediately, in that yes, she is insulated, and it's light enough to swim in, but it buys Catwoman enough time to escape before she returns to the surface unharmed.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_f724b70d	comment	Code Lyoko; in one episode, XANA commandeers the computer at the M.I.R. Space Station to build weaponry, meaning the heroes have to break it; when Jeremie cautions them to make it look like an accident, they manage to do so by simply breaking a pipe.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_f90f1b9f	comment	Partially averted in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers; we have the robot cat Tom, when trying to place his hand in a fishbowl we see sparks fly but no permanent effects, and he tries a second time after donning a rubber glove with no problems. Later in the episode, he ends up falling into a sewer, violently shorts out but comes out at the end repaired and no worse for wear.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_fc0e7530	comment	Parodied in Dexter's Laboratory. One of Dexter's Humongous Mecha steps on a small puddle and completely shorts out.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_fc33d197	comment	Double subverted in Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?. The title character spends an episode attempting to get out of showering in gym class for fear he would instantly rust, only to find when left with no other option that water doesn't harm him. It does, however, end up electrifying everyone else in the room.
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No Waterproofing in the Future / int_fd8ca1b3	comment	The New Avengers: In "Complex", Purdey destroys the murderous A.I. controlling the building by triggering the sprinkler in the basement, causing it to short out.
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Ghost in the Shell / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Ghost in the Shell (1995) / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Xabungle / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Monica's Gang (Comic Book) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Sonic the Hedgehog Promo Comic (Comic Book) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
The Scrameustache (Comic Book) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Small Problems / Fan Fic / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Ad Astra Per Aspera (LadyDaybreaker) (Fanfic) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Cherry 2000 / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Predator / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Robowar / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Westworld / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Predator (Franchise) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Tabaluga (Franchise) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Transformers: Generation 1 (Franchise) / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Dark Life / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Dragon Cauldron / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
How Much for Just the Planet? / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Jack Blank / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Mars Diaries / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Micro Adventure / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
NoWaterproofingInTheFuture	sameAs	No Waterproofing in the Future
NoWaterproofingInThefuture	sameAs	No Waterproofing in the Future
NoWaterproofingIntheFuture	sameAs	No Waterproofing in the Future
RealSlimShadowen	seeAlso	No Waterproofing in the Future
Little Jumper (Manga) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
WALL•E Forum Roleplay (Roleplay) / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Bassie & Adriaan / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
I Am Frankie / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Lab Rats / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Spellbinder / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Darkâ€¢Matter (1999) (Tabletop Game) / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
DreamWeb (Video Game) / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Gato Roboto (Video Game) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
LittleBigPlanet (Video Game) / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Mega Man 2 (Video Game) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System (Video Game) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Ratchet & Clank (2016) (Video Game) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Scribblenauts (Video Game) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Star Wars: Battlefront (Video Game) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Teardown (Video Game) / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Transformers (2004) (Video Game) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Steins;Gate (Visual Novel) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Friendship is Witchcraft (Web Video) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Cesium (Webcomic) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger (Webcomic) / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
The Cyantian Chronicles (Webcomic) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
The Kenny Chronicles (Webcomic) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
BrainPOP (Website) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Batman: The Brave and the Bold / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Bolts & Blip / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Counterfeit Cat / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Danger Mouse / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Dr. Dimensionpants / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Droners / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
DuckTales (1987) / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Justice League Ã— RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
My Life as a Teenage Robot / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Quack Pack / int_7aa56920	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Ratchet & Clank (2016) / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
Robot Dreams / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
SWAT Kats / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
TaleSpin / int_f2178900	type	No Waterproofing in the Future
WALLâ€¢E / int_3ccb50e0	type	No Waterproofing in the Future

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