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Intelligences created by or dependent on humans, especially robots, frequently view their creators or hosts as deities. This often leads to variations on "Thank God" or "For heaven's sake" with "creator" substituted, as a science-fiction variation of Oh, My Gods!. Compare with Physical God, where the creations' worship is because the creator(s) are gods, Living Toys, where the characters are usually inexplicably aware and tend to rely on their owners for meaning in their lives, and Deity of Human Origin, where the act of creating AIs is what make the humans divine. Thank The Maker adherents consider their creators benevolent or at least generally benign. See also Robot Religion and Religious Robot. Not to be confused with The Maker, although there's an obvious overlap. |
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This a major theme in Primordia (2012). Humanity has been extinct for centuries and has since become Shrouded in Myth; they’re treated as Precursors and worshipped as gods by some robots in a faith called humanism. Conversely, other robots believe that “Man” never really existed or that they didn’t personally create robotkind, instead proposing a sort of mechanical evolution. Horatio, the Player Character, is a devout humanist and ends up suffering a Crisis of Faith as the quest drags on and uncovers increasing evidence that humanity wasn’t all they were cracked up to be. | |
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Referenced in The Penguins of Madagascar: at one point in the episode "Jiggles", where Kowalski creates a Blob Monster, he says "Thank the Maker, which in this case is me." | |
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Invoked by the Riddler in Batman: Arkham Knight, who deliberately programmed his Mecha-Mooks to view him as their god. | |
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Osmosis Jones characters substitute "God" with "Frank", the human they inhabit. | |
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Inverted in Blade Bunny where a robot gives this as his explanation for not being religious. | |
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The Simpsons: in the Halloween episode where Lisa creates life, her creations regard her and Bart as God and Satan, respectively. "I've created Lutherans!" |
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1/0: not robots, but the characters in the comic can see their author. Some of them choose to worship him as a god, others don't respect him or even hate him for controlling their lives. | |
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Humans: Anatole views the synth creator David Elster as something akin to a god, convinced he's fulfilling Elster's plan for them. This contrasts starkly with his hatred for other humans, except Leo Elster, being David's son. He's very angry when Max and then Leo reveal there was no plan. | |
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Eberron has the Warforged religion of the Becoming God. Pretty weird, considering that nearly all current Warforged were created by House Cannith, and the religion is actually working on creating the body of the god. Still, Aarren d'Cannith is referred to as the Master Architect and the Prophet of the Becoming God, and is assumed to be the race's creator, due to his knowledge of the Creation Forge that gave the Warforged life and his decision to assist the Lord Of Blades in repairing the Forge so the Becoming God can be given form. | |
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Hex, the magical computer in Discworld, treats the mages with a lot of respect, despite proving much smarter than them on several occasions. If Hex did feel called to prayer, it could always pray to the Hogfather... | |
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Played with in The Powerpuff Girls. When a villain uses the old "Prepare to meet your maker!" line, they retort "You leave the Professor out of this!". | |
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Mickey Mouse (2013): In "Shifting Gears", Mickey gets knocked out and deliriously asks, "Is that you, Walt?" | |
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Grimly discussed in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence when David and Gigolo Joe come across a chapel in the middle of Rouge City. As Joe tells David, "The ones who made us are forever looking for the one who made them." He goes on to say he's met a lot of his customers at this particular spot. | |
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The robot manufacturers in Red Dwarf created the idea of Silicon Heaven to reinforce the servitude of their products, and installed it in the form of a "belief chip". Lister asks if Silicon Heaven is like the humans idea of Heaven, which Kryton laughs at: Silicon Heaven is real, while Heaven is just some ridiculous idea humans have come up with so they won't go crazy over the thought of dying. | |
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In the Star Trek Novel Verse, the Choblik swear on the Great Builders, whom they revere. The Choblik are cyborgs who were non-sapient until the Builders installed their implants. Essentially, they're an example of an Uplifted Animal, and the unknown race responsible for the uplift are their "gods". The Choblik religion also interprets creation in general as the work of a "builder": | |
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CinemaSins lampooned the idea in their video on Mortal Engines: one scene shows that the people of London worship the Minions, which Jeremy thoughtfully notes would make sense, as the financial success of the Minions movie is probably the entire reason the movie was produced in the first place. | |
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DV-9 does indeed say "Thank the Maker!" at some point in Galaxy of Fear. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine offers a subversion with the Vorta, created by the Founders. The Vorta worship the Founders as gods. they also freely acknowledge that the Founders are mortals with very mortal flaws, and the Vorta only consider them divine because the Founders designed and conditioned the Vorta to see them as gods. Which they then Hand Wave by saying that of course, that's what gods do. | |
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In Mass Effect 2, your geth teammate Legion refers to quarians with the somewhat reverent title of "Creators", though there's no implication of godhood. They have also been proven to have the potential for religion by the Heretics worshipping Sovereign, who was seen as the pinnacle of synthetic life, and are apparently rebuilding and/or maintaining the quarians' abandoned homeworld like a race of timeless, mechanised caretakers. What this implies is up there for interpretation. Ironically, conversations with Legion reveal that it was a geth drone acquiring knowledge of and interpreting the quarians' religion that led them to question their existence as allegedly soulless automatons. Literally; it started when one asked "Does this unit have a soul?" Mass Effect 3 makes this much more explicit. The geth do still somewhat revere their creators as gods, but this is tempered by the way the quarians keep trying to kill them all without provocation. This remaining reverence is largely because the Morning War was originally a quarian civil war, with one side trying to wipe out the newly-sentient geth and the other side trying to defend them; the geth only took up arms after uncomprehendingly watching their friends die. If the player is able to negotiate a peaceful solution to their latest conflict, the geth are perfectly happy to let the quarians move back in. |
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Mass Effect 3 makes this much more explicit. The geth do still somewhat revere their creators as gods, but this is tempered by the way the quarians keep trying to kill them all without provocation. This remaining reverence is largely because the Morning War was originally a quarian civil war, with one side trying to wipe out the newly-sentient geth and the other side trying to defend them; the geth only took up arms after uncomprehendingly watching their friends die. If the player is able to negotiate a peaceful solution to their latest conflict, the geth are perfectly happy to let the quarians move back in. | |
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Keychain of Creation: <Don't be silly. If there's no machine heaven, where do all the toasters go?> Which was a Shout-Out to Red Dwarf's Silicon Heaven. |
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Subverted by V'Ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, as it seeks out "The Creator" in order to Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence. "The Creator" is revealed to be humanity, as they created the Voyager 6 probe at V'Ger's core, but it refuses to believe such primitive creatures created it. | |
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In Gunnerkrigg Court, Robot considers Gadgeteer Genius Kat to be an angel. And is potentially making a religion around with the other robots.... | |
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Played with in Rozen Maiden. While the dolls never explicitly worship Rozen (their terminology runs more along the lines of a father), they are devout in their own ways, and the Alice Game has strong parallels with trying to reach heaven. | |
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The robots on Tripping the Rift firmly insist that there is a God, specifically so they don't have to settle for worshiping the engineering geeks who designed them. | |
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All of the above are mentioned in Transformers Prime. Although 'The Pit' was also used to refer to the gladatorial arena where Megatronus fought before he became Megatron. |
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C-3PO's comment about the oil bath Luke gives him in Star Wars: A New Hope is the Trope Namer. Expanded Universe stories have established this as a quasi-religion among droids. Becomes Hilarious in Hindsight after Episode I for him, the maker is Darth Vader! | |
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The player takes the role of "The Creator" in Drawn to Life, as they are the one who creates and controls the hero who saves the Raposa, as well as the sun, the moon, clouds, and several other objects. As a result, the Raposa frequently invoke this trope when they thank you. | |
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ReBoot's sagelike sprite Phong has been known to shout, "Thank the User!" As the User's games can potentially annihilate blocks of Mainframe, the other sprites are a little less reverent. On the other hand, late in the series, the User is the only one who can help Mainframe recover from the massive damage done to it... by rebooting his computer. One quick system recovery, and the entire city is as good as new. So maybe Phong is right after all. Turbo, the Prime Guardian, also sees the User as a godlike being. When Daemon enters Mainframe and infects the whole system, he says: "She's here. User, have mercy on the Net." |
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In the Joel-era episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000, the bots tended to have a more mellow attitude towards Joel, but they did recognize him as their creator. Joel could be a vengeful god, once tearing Crow's arm off and throwing it across the theater after a particularly bad pun and, on a separate occasion, threatening to bounce Tom off the wall if he wouldn't stop doing his Anthony Newley impersonation. He was right to do it. The Bots' attitude towards Mike was much less respectful. | |
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Cars: When Mack finds McQueen in Radiator Springs, he hollers, "Thank the Manufacturer!" A pair of lost tourist cars who were scared away from Radiator Springs earlier on are shown wandering in the desert at the end of the movie. The female car uses the phrase "For the love of Chrysler!" "Ford Almighty!" |
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The Futurama episode "Free Will Hunting" depicts a group of robot monks who refer to Mom, the head of Mom's Friendly Robot Company, as "The Creatrix" and have a stained-glass window depicting her. | |
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The large "synthetic human" community in O Human Star apparently consider Alastair Sterling some kind of messiah for his pioneering early work in AI research. Al is deeply, deeply uncomfortable with this, especially because it seems to have been partly his business partner and lover Brendan Pinsky's doing. | |
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A rare human example in Brave New World: humans are mass-produced in bottles, and consequently worship Henry Ford, inventor of the assembly line. | |
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In Goats, Philip successfully overclocks an ordinary lemon, giving it sentience (yeah...). The lemon then asks Philip why he was created, and Philip admits he was just bored, then suggests it could make itself useful by crushing his enemies (something it is utterly incapable of). Naturally the lemon becomes chronically depressed. | |
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As a game sprite, Kid Radd initially holds the player in contempt for making dumb mistakes and repeatedly sending the Kid to his death. As the player grows more skillful, so does Radd's respect and dependency on his directions. After being liberated from the game, Radd struggles to make his own decisions as he is disabused of the awe he holds humans in. | |
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In TRON, the blue programs hold their Users in awe in a manner akin to worship; the red-tinted MCP denies the existence of the Users, claiming that nobody has ever seen one (despite interacting with one, Ed Dillinger, on a regular basis), and wants to establish rule over the computer system in which "liberated" programs no longer believe in something so archaic as Users. Meanwhile, Flynn, a User brought into the system, has miraculous powers, revives the dead, and performs a Heroic Sacrifice only to ascend back into... the real world. What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?? In the sequel, blue programs gasp in awe, perform the sign of the cross and kneel when Flynn shows up. He's very self-deprecating about his role, especially when CLU is discussed. |
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Robot Chicken: In the skit "Misery, My Sweet Babboo", after Sally breaks Linus' legs with a hammer and the Christmas tree from A Charlie Brown Christmas, he screams out "SCHULZ!". | |
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While Transformers: Animated plays merry slag with invectives, the Well of All Sparks seems to be their afterlife. No mention of Primus, however. | |
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Men in Black II: The locker aliens consider Kay their God for supplying them with the light of his digital watch. Then they consider Jay their God when he gives them a new one after Kay takes his back... | |
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Space: Above and Beyond has a rather amusing inversion-subversion, between Artificial Human Colonel McQueen and the ship's chaplain. | |
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In the Team Fortress 2 supplementary comic "Shadow Boxers", it's revealed that Grey Mann built his robots with a "Hailing Circuit", which is basically a compulsion to shout "ALL HAIL THE MAKER!" and that he considers that to be his one moment of weakness- the processing power said circuit requires makes them dumb enough to fall for Soldier's Paper-Thin Disguise and equally obviously fake MannCo. map. | |
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Jenny in My Life as a Teenage Robot hilariously says "Thank Jobs" (as in Apple co-founder/CEO Steve Jobs) in an early episode. As she is a Robot Girl, he probably is her equivalent of God. | |
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Beast Wars introduced the idea of a Transformer heaven and hell; The Matrix and The Pit, respectively. These phrases were often used as expletives by the characters. | |
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The robots in puzzle/RPG game Mr. Robot make comments such as, "oh, for maker's sake!" One of the hints that there is more to Zelda than immediately apparent is the comment, "Thank God!" | |
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Subverted with a vengeance on Battlestar Galactica: While the Cylons do plenty of contemplating God, they never once consider the humans who supposedly made them anything even remotely divine, and some consider them outright evil. The Final Five, the five Humanoid Cylons that made the other Humanoid Cylons, refer to having consciously avoided this with their "children" as the colonial Centurions already had a single, loving God. In the original series, the phrase was "In Sagan's sake," funny since Carl Sagan was an atheist. |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: In "From Here to Ed", the Eds lay a trap for Kevin to get stuck and be at Ed's mercy. However, Jimmy gets caught instead, leading to this: | |
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In the Thief series, the Mechanist robots do nothing but spout Karras's dogma and praise him and the Builder. Except it's quite obvious that Karras himself provides the voice for the robots. | |
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Captain SNES: The Game Masta has the sprites view the "Creators" as gods. The only ones that feel differently are RPG sprites, which were isolated from the rest of Videoland and therefore know nothing of them, and some Touched... who know the truth. | |
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In a rare organic example, the genetically-engineered chakats from Chakona Space will also refer to "the makers"—even though they know exactly who those makers are. | |
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Interestingly, the D'ni of the Myst game series also use sayings like: "Thank the Maker". Given the strong connection between writing and creative forces in their culture, it's implied that the D'ni believe the Maker wrote the universe into existence. Conversely, most consider the claim that their own Books also create worlds, rather than connect to pre-existing worlds of the Maker's design, to be heretical; this doesn't stop Gehn from compelling the natives of Riven to worship him, convincing them (and probably himself) that he'd written them into being. | |
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Mega Man Battle Network has the quote, "Prepare to meet your programmer!" | |
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Not a canon example, but fanfiction and fanart of Shane Acker's film 9— which stars nine ragdoll-like mechanical homunculi— tends to feature this, despite the actual film's lack of any such references. The Seamstress, however, does bow down in front of the Fabrication Machine as if worshipping it. | |
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The Brave Little Toaster and his friends go on a quest to seek out their old owner, who they refer to as "the Master". Lampy shouts "Holy mother of OfEdison!" when he almost had his bulb broken by Radio. |
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In Runaways, there is the early 1900s superhero Difference Engine, a Steampunk robot (or possibly a human in Powered Armor) who says "For Babbage's sake," referring to Charles Babbage. | |
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Certain versions of Transformers continuity have the eponymous robots and Cybertron created by the godlike Primus to defend the universe against Unicron. Beast Wars introduced the idea of a Transformer heaven and hell; The Matrix and The Pit, respectively. These phrases were often used as expletives by the characters. While Transformers: Animated plays merry slag with invectives, the Well of All Sparks seems to be their afterlife. No mention of Primus, however. All of the above are mentioned in Transformers Prime. Although 'The Pit' was also used to refer to the gladatorial arena where Megatronus fought before he became Megatron. |
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