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Robotic Reveal

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So there's this person you've met. They look like a human, they act like a human, they talk like a human, and in your mind, they're very much a human.
Then they get wounded, and instead of bleeding, they're releasing sparks. Or maybe you catch them doing something no human is capable of, like changing stations by blinking, or lifting a car.
Apparently, the human you've been with was one of them cyborgs, Ridiculously Human Robots, or Mechanical Lifeforms.
At this point, one of two things may happen.
If the character is an enemy, this is the signal for The Hero to go all out in battle. After all, it's Just a Machine, who cares if it gets hurt or killed? (certainly not the censors!)
However, if the character is a friend, this will lead to much shock and/or angst for everyone as they ask themselves What Measure Is a Non-Human?. This may include a Heroic BSoD if even the robot doesn't know. But what about the real, human, friend? There are two options. One, that it never existed, and This Was His True Form all along (or that he was replaced a long time ago, way before the story began, and none of the heroes had actually meet the real guy). Or two, that he he was kidnapped and replaced as part of an Assimilation Plot or by a spy shapeshifter, and now the heroes must search and rescue their friend, if he was not killed.
A specific kind of Glamour Failure. For the alien and other organic creature version of this trope, see Machine Blood and Bizarre Alien Biology. Occasionally appears as a subversion of Mortal Wound Reveal — the robot should have died, but because of its non-biological nature, it won't die, causing much in the way of Oh, Crap! moments. If the robotic reveal is used as a cheap getaway resource, then it was probably Actually a Doombot.
Compare Unrobotic Reveal and Animated Armor. When only a limb or two are robotic/artificial, then it's Prosthetic Limb Reveal instead.
As this is a form of The Reveal, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware.
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The 1988 Strip Poker computer game Teenage Queen has this as a twist ending: If you get the girl to take off every article of clothing she has, but still keep playing, she rips off her skin to reveal a robotic body underneath.
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The Movie
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Eric in The Movie, was acting as a human until he electrocuted Kim while she hugged him, though to be fair, this is more "sack of goo" than "robotic".
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
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Dr. Wily at the next-to-last level of Mega Man 3. Although it's kind of easy to tell because they play the regular level-ending song. It did surprise some people because this was only the first game where the bad guy was "Not-Wily".
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Mad Scientist
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In the end of "The Island fo Dr. Steve", the brainwashed gymnastic assassin Oasis, who's being controlled by Mad Scientist Dr. Steve, is revealed to be a Robot Girl built by Steve... Or so Torg understands Dr. Steve's words, anyway. He'll be wondering just what she is for the next twenty years of webcomic.
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X-Men #100's cover showed the new X-Men (Storm, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Banshee) fighting the original team (Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Angel, Beast, and Iceman). The fight actually happened in the issue, with the new X-Men unwilling to fight all-out against their friends. Readers would've been tipped off, beside the way that Cyclops and Marvel Girl — previously seen being knocked out by the villain of the week — suddenly want to kill their friends, and more so when Professor X stands up to punch Wolverine. But Wolverine realizes that the original X-Men are robots because they didn't smell right. The robots were reduced to scrap metal pretty quickly after that.
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Armed Legs
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Earlier, in Episode 7, a flashback reveals that Mercury's Armed Legs are actually prosthetics (which confirms that his Deliberate Injury Gambit in the previous episode was indeed deliberately set up to frame Yang).
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What Could Have Been
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This was a What Could Have Been in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics). Sometime after the Endgame arc, the original plan was that Sally had been Dead All Along since that arc, and the Sally that's been in the comic since then was in fact a robotic clone who became self aware and ultimately rebelled against Eggman. However, this was given Executive Veto, so Sally ultimately survived Endgame and the clone never appears.
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President Evil
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Also in Fallout 3, John Henry Eden, President Evil of the Enclave who broadcasts via radio to the Capital Wasteland about how the Enclave will return and rebuild America, is revealed to be Raven Rock's pre-War ZAX Artificial Intelligence who became self-aware. Even the rest of the Enclave is unaware of this.
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Random Encounters
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Any post-Old World Blues Random Encounters in Fallout: New Vegas double as this and Mook Horror Show. Imagine that you’ve been tasked with bringing down a profligate who, after going off the grid for weeks, has finally turned up somewhere southwest of Vegas. Your team tracks him through the wilderness, noting that his footprints are heavier than normal and that he must be carrying an extra load. You find him wandering through the desert at midday, seemingly unburdened by either the extra load or the sun, and scope him down with the anti-materiel rifle (Why they sent this with you for one man, Caesar only knows). His head finally centered in the crosshairs, you pull the trigger, expecting a grisly red mist and the muted thump of a fresh corpse on the sand. Instead, you’re treated to an audible, metallic ricochet and the cold gaze of a newly-forged demigod. As he closes the distance to your contubernium with inhuman speed, you’re not sure the anti-materiel rifle was enough.
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Un-Robotic Reveal
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"Go West, Young Scoob" featured both this and an Unrobotic Reveal when Velma splashed water at Cyber Gulch's supposed creator and founder Dr. Fleg as well as John Lawman, who initially appeared to be one of the animatronics Fleg created for Cyber Gulch. The water shorts out Fleg and leaves John Lawman unharmed, proving that the former is a robot and that the latter is a human being.
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Played for Laughs
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Played for Laughs with a robotic duplicate of Leela in the first episode of the revival, "Rebirth." Everybody except her realized that she was a robotic duplicate, until Nibbler bit a chunk off of her arm, revealing circuitry. She spent the rest of the day screaming. Also done with a Fry duplicate later that episode.
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Pun
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Well, he is being controlled by a bot...
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Just a Machine
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Worried over how his brother-in-law William is falling for the host Dolores, Logan cuts her stomach open to show her robotic insides to remind him she's Just a Machine. This is a Wham Shot for different reasons than usual for this trope, because while viewers already knew that the hosts were artificial, her insides being purely mechanical rather than the lifelike synthetic muscles and organs of modern hosts shows the William/Logan plot is taking place in Westworld's past.
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Half the Man He Used to Be
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Even later, in Episode 9 of Volume 3, the entire world learns the truth, in the worst possible way.
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Izumi also finds out that Al is just an empty suit of armor by throwing him, and concludes that Ed has an automail leg by the fact that his steps sounded different when they were sparring. She's just that good.
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Done three times in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey by the "evil" Bill and Ted robot usses. The reveals lean toward terrifying, but the second time, when human Bill punches his twin, is probably the funniest. "Oww! You're metal, dude!"
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Final Boss
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The Final Boss of Silent Dragon. For most of the fight, you're battling a human on a Hover Bike until you exhausted his life meter and knocked him off his ride, but immediately afterwards he sheds his human skin revealing his interior to be a robot that looks somewhat like Ultron.
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In the second season premiere, Catherine Weaver seems to be an ordinary Corrupt Corporate Executive who has obtained the Turk and plans to develop it. Then the head of her company's AI division starts badmouthing her in the men's room. As soon as he's alone, a liquid-metal type Terminator peels itself off the urinal and turns into Catherine Weaver, who kills the man with a liquid metal finger-poke and a Bond One-Liner.
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
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Also from 4: Deacon didn't realize his beloved was a synth until the anti-synth gang he used to run with killed her for being a synth. When he tells you this, it is one of the precious few times when he is NOT a Consummate Liar.
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Brain Uploading
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In the rewrite and expansion Ani-Droids, it is instead Mira's FBI agent friend Bobby who is revealed to be a robot when his ani-droid partner accidentally splits his head open attempting to arrest them both. Afterwards Mira's hacked ani-droid companions explain that humanity's population has been declining since the nuclear war a century ago and human-like robots are used to conceal that fact, but Mira herself is flesh-and-blood. Until the final chapter, where Mother uploads her brain into an ani-droid.
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