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Tin-Can Robot
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The opposite of those human-looking robots such as the Robot Girl. This is a robot designed with function over form in mind — or at least, designed to look like it is. Though most historical examples are technically humanoid in form,note remember: CG was a new thing back then, and puppets are expensive, so you gotta be able to get a costumed actor to play these machines they still generally look like a trashcan or boiler with arms, legsnote if it even gets those and a head — either distinct or fused to their torso — pasted onto it. This robot is usually not painted and it's often possible to easily see screw heads holding it together. Bonus points if the robot's arms are made of flexi-tube with pincers at the end. Nowadays usually done to make the 'bot look amateur-made or old-fashioned, as the unwieldiness such machines (especially those played by costumed actors) displayed on-screen almost completely discredited this trope to modern audiences. However, in older Zeerust, it was often played straight. Compare Used Future, Real Robot Genre. Compare and contrast with Starfish Robots. See also Forgot He Was a Robot for when this robot starts acting like a Ridiculously Human Robot. No relation to Tinman Typist. |
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NEPTR from Adventure Time literally has a tin can Finn meant to be his "head" and drew a face on. When a lightning bolt brought it to life, its actual face ended up being elsewhere and the can-head is purely ornamental. | |
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Although Astro Boy himself doesn't count, many robots in his world do. | |
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Magnus Robot Fighter: 4000 AD by Gold Key Comics has a future lousy with robot servants, almost all of them of the tin-can-humanoid variety, generally with flexi-tube or armored-cable limbs. | |
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Rosie the robot maid from The Jetsons. (There was also a male robot called Mac, made by Henry, the building janitor.) | |
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In Samurai Jack, the earliest robots built for Aku looked like they were made of scrap parts, including tin cans. They weren't very reliable and could only move about for a few seconds before breaking down. They were not sentient, however, so there was no worry about it—the roboticists just went back and designed better robots. By the time Jack arrives in the Bad Future, automatons had become advanced enough that the only ones that didn't pass off as Ridiculously Human Robots were designed intentionally to be robot-like (some of whom also intentionally invoke Tin Can Robot style, such as Extor's wicker basket robots). | |
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Digimon: Blikmon, which looks like a child's wind-up toy robot. | |
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Mechazawa from Cromartie High School. Despite being shaped like a large tin made of metal and needing to be constantly oiled, he and everyone else is blissfully unaware of his true nature. ...Or at least everyone's afraid to broach the issue with the school's toughest fighter directly. | |
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Andy, the tin box robot on Quark. In the pilot episode, it mistakes a garbage control box for a potential Love Interest. | |
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Tears to Tiara has Talos guarding Arawn's tomb. But they don't recognize the man's return and start attacking. | |
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The Simpsons: In the episode "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot", Homer builds one of these out of a mailbox for Bart to enter in a Robot Wars-style TV show. Justified in that Homer was secretly working it from inside, having realized he had not the faintest idea how to actually build a robot. When it doesn't work, he instead wears it like armor and pretends to be a robot. | |
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Isaac Asimov's Robots: The Sammy-type robot looks like someone is wearing a barrel over their body and flexitubes over their arms. Their fishbowl-like heads have a permanent smiley-face etched onto them, unlike their more realistic counterparts of Giskard or Daneel's design. | |
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Pilot Kids, a video game where the players are Living Toys piloting RC planes shooting hostile toys, inevitably have plenty of robot toys resembling the classic tin can robots. Notably, the Boss Rush in the final stage is started with battling a vintage 1950s wind-up robot. | |
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Otto's robot in High School U.S.A.. Of course, it was built by an amateur in his basement, so the design can be expected to be a little crude. | |
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The Underdog short "March of the Monsters" had these, but it was never stated who the robots' master was. | |
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The robots in Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! frequently fit this trope, especially Oldbot and the Killbots. | |
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There are several robots in the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series like this — for instance, in "Robot Rabbit" and "Lighter Than Hare." (In the latter, Bugs Bunny even uses the robot as a trash can.) | |
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Justice League: The episode "Legends" opens with the League fighting an anime-style Humongous Mecha. When the mecha blows up it throws them into a Retro Universe out of a 1940s comic — when a giant robot turns up there, it's the classic 1940s Tin-Can Robot. | |
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Cuphead has Dr. Kahl's Robot who is metallic war robot designed to look like earlier robots. | |
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While he's more box-like than can, Pollo from Atop the Fourth Wall definitely evokes this trope. | |
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Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) pretty much consigns himself to this as he's hopelessly taken for granted. | |
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Tin Can Tommy from The Beano doesn't only fit this trope but has a name to match. | |
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Paranoia: Jackobots (from "jack of all trades") are intended to be able to do the same physical things as humans, so they're basically humanoid in size and shape, but clearly mechanical. Other bots range from sorta humanoid (docbots, scrubots) to Sapient Ships (warbots, flybots). | |
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Robots from Machinarium are very much like that, especially the main character. | |
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Blunt from Freefall, to the point that Sam describes him as looking like a big tin can. | |
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In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin once builds a robot using a tin can for the head. Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to make one that does anything. | |
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Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! has Cookie, in his first form, who looks much like a cross between Robbie the Robot and R2-D2. | |
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Power Rangers: Orbus and Klank from Power Rangers Zeo, plus Prince Sprocket and King Mondo himself. This is in contrast to the much less tin can-ish members of the Machine Empire. Toy Org from Power Rangers Wild Force. He resembles a toy robot, yet is one of the Rangers' strongest foes. |
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Super Metroid features these in the Wrecked Ship. They were round cylinders with legs and no arms. | |
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The Mandalorian: The design of IG-11, an assassin droid, was definitely inspired by the classic Tin-Can Robot. However, it actually serves a purpose here. IG's skinny, bare limbs mean he is not weighed down by extra armor, and his cylindrical design allows him to rotate parts of his body independently of each other. His large, cylindrical head is equipped with numerous sensors that can also rotate independently, granting him 360 degree vision. His bare-bones but highly optimized design allows him to be an incredibly deadly mercenary. | |
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B.O.T. from the infamous G1 Transformers episode of the same name. | |
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The Man Who Saves the World has one of these (in a rubber costume) as the villain's servant. | |
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In The Deadly Tower of Monsters one of the three player characters is an old fashioned robot known simply as "The Robot." | |
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Land of Oz: Tik-Tok is one of the first robots to appear in modern literature, and he qualifies for this trope, being a riveted clockwork-powered sphere with a human-ish head and arms and legs bolted on. The Tin Woodsman also looks the part, but he is technically more a cyborg. | |
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Metal Slug 3: The Mars Robot in the final stage is one, they are intended to be expy of the Daleks, for being both Cyborg and this trope. Also the giant blocky toy robot that's the end-boss of the factory level. |
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Spider-Man once has to deal with the robot XP-2000, who is really obsolete compared to androids like The Vision and Ultron. Keep in mind that Ultron was designed in the 1970s, and Vision was built by Ultron. This says a lot about XP-2000 being designed obsolete. The original Ultron design was actually pretty in-line with this aesthetic, though. | |
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Mettaton in Undertale is described aptly as a "sexy rectangle"; despite looking like a vending machine on a unicycle with Trollface "shloopy" arms, he's considered Mr. Fanservice in-universe. Amusingly, he implies on the Genocide path that he considers this form more attractive than his Pretty Boy EX and NEO forms. | |
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Mario Party 6: The minigame Body Builder has two teams of characters assemble a robot of this type in a factory. The parts used to assemble the robots are provided by a machine, but their pictures pass by like a slot machine, and each team's players have to press switches right when the glowing picture is spot on (as it indicates the next part to be extracted to build the robot). The player on the left has to extract the feet and torso, while the on the right has to extract the legs and head. The first team to assemble their robot wins; but if both manage to assemble them at the same time, the minigame ends in a tie. | |
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Too Much, the robot from Too Much: The Robot With a Heart, who bears a strong resemblance to R2-D2 from Star Wars. | |
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Red Dwarf: "Give And Take" gives us Snacky the snack-dispenser robot, who looks like a barrel with legs and feet and has an egg flipper on his head. Rimmer even comments that he looks like something out of a cheesy sci-fi movie. | |
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Red Dwarf | hasFeature |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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Malco, one of the control room guardians from Cave Story, is one. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_69fa7496 | comment |
Gyro Gearloose's helper Little Bulb from the Disney Ducks Comic Universe has a metal torso, jointed limbs, and a lightbulb for a head. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_6a4bddd6 | comment |
Iron Man: Titanium Man's Powered Armor has this look, resembling a green titanium can with arms, legs, and a computer monitor head bolted on, a result of Soviet engineering being primitive compared to what Iron Man is capable of. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_73b74949 | comment |
Borderlands: The Atlas drones from the Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC. Most of the Hyperion bots from Borderlands 2, including the Claptraps. |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_74c659e6 | comment |
Ancient Martian Robomen in Rocket Age can be sleek and graceful, but many of the non-service models were built with practicality and survivability in mind. | |
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Tin-Can Robot / int_74c659e6 | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_74fb542e | comment |
Cheezoid from That Mitchell and Webb Look, which makes sense as he was made in a shed. Parodied with the Replidroids later in the series — they look like a standard Tin Can Robot, but everyone in the Battlestar Galactica spoof sketch behaves as if they're Ridiculously Human Robots. |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_75bd5686 | comment |
In the Shining Time Station episode, "Schemer's Robot", Schemer buys this kind of robot, which he names Robbie, to run his arcade. Robbie keeps talking about food and falls in love with Schemer's jukebox. In the end, Schemer gives Robbie to Barton Winslow to work at his general store when Robbie falls in love with Barton's motorcycle. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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The Robobrains from Fallout fit the bill, unusually having glass domes filled with a living brain for heads and very heavily resembling The Robot from Lost in Space. The Protectron models, meanwhile, look suspiciously like Robbie the Robot from Forbidden Planet. The Synths in Fallout 4 notably avert this by being distinctly humanoid, especially 3rd Generation Synths, which are nearly completely identical to humans in almost every way. Because A.I. Is a Crapshoot, this is a point of major contention for Wastelanders, who are used to dealing with the obviously artificial tin-can robots of the previous games. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_784c46a | comment |
The final boss in Balloon Kid is this kind of robot. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_78eab5f8 | comment |
Clango and Red Robot from Diesel Sweeties. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_7a4d7b2b | comment |
In Doctor Snuggles the robot built by the doctor, named Matilda Junkbottom, is quite literally made of tin cans, a wash basin and an old telephone, her head braided with sewing thread spools. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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In Gunnerkrigg Court, the robots that Diego created were intricate, ornate, and generally far from this trope. Since no one else fully understood his designs, subsequent generations of Court robots became more tin-can-like after Diego's death. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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Combat, Janitorial and Animal Care robots in the Classic Traveller adventure Research Station Gamma. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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Peppino robots in Pizza Tower are tin can variations of the main character, complete with flexible metallic arms and a single wheel. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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Steampunk, one of the combatants in Robot Combat League, is a nod to this type of robot. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_854aece7 | comment |
Cronk and Zephyr, elderly Warbots who first appear in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_862821f3 | comment |
The Bots Master: While all the BOYZZ look like they've been assembled from scrap, most of the more combat-oriented BOYZZ are at least pretty humanoid proportion-wise. Some of the non-combatant BOYZZ better fit the bill, while still being roughly humanoid. The biggest standouts from that group are Genesix, with binocular eyes and a mouth that's a simple clamp, and Cook, who has a drum-shaped head with stalk eyes and a long, skinny neck that connects it to his round body. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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The later generation dingbots from Girl Genius start becoming more and more simple and like tin cans as they are built by generations further and further away from those built personally by Agatha. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_8e41b9d5 | comment |
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981), Marvin the Paranoid Android has pretty much exactly this look, probably a deliberate attempt to provide another reason for him to be miserable. | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_8e41b9d5 | featureApplicability |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_8ec33a87 | comment |
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Poppi's initial form is like this (apart from the face). Later on she receives some upgrades that take her into Ridiculously Human Robot territory. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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The Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz. Whether or not he counts as a robot himself, he's quite possibly the Trope Maker. | |
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The Wizard of Oz | hasFeature |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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Gigantor is a clear example of this. His body exactly resembles a tin can, being perfectly cylindrical (except for his rockets) and made of bare metal, while his arms and legs are similar. | |
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Gigantor | hasFeature |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_95084867 | comment |
Taken one step further with Kaiju Big Battel's Robox, a mighty robot built from "Indestructible Cardboardium", i.e. a cardboard box with arms, legs, and a robot face built on. | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_95084867 | featureApplicability |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_95376ce9 | comment |
Zatch Bell! made a toy one out of chopsticks and a Pretznote A stick cracker snake similar to Pocky but not sweet box, which he named Vulcan 300. | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_95376ce9 | featureApplicability |
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ZatchBell | hasFeature |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_976efc02 | comment |
In Mystery Science Theater 3000, Tom Servo's body is made out of a barrel-shaped piggy bank and a toy car engine block resting on a Halloween "Boo Bowl" base. He has an Eyeless Face and no feet; while the tiny hands on the end of his spring arms are human-shaped, they're quite useless. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_985ad25d | comment |
Auta Magetta in Dragon Ball Super sports this look, though various authority figures imply he's not actually a robot but naturally looks this way. Nevertheless, he makes a lot of mechanical sounds as he moves and speaks only in onomatopoeia of those mechanical sounds. As one of Universe 6's strongest fighters, Magetta is seemingly indestructible and has Magma Man powers, but he is very bulky and cannot fly. | |
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Dragon Ball Super | hasFeature |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_98a0a468 | comment |
B.O.B. and V.I.N.CENT from Disney's The Black Hole. | |
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The Black Hole | hasFeature |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_9b213348 | comment |
EXTRAPOWER: Designed with this aesthetic in mind, being boxy and inelegant compared to modern mechanical mooks in Undata's wing. It's specifically marked as an obsolete model, and its physically limiting design even makes it less mobile than other robots. | |
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Tin-Can Robot / int_9b213348 | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_9cc9639 | comment |
Super Robot Thursday from Disgaea: Hour of Darkness fits this trope, as he, Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!, and Jennifer are parodies of early science fiction series. | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_9cc9639 | featureApplicability |
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Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Tin-Can Robot / int_9f0ff6b8 | type |
Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_9f0ff6b8 | comment |
Portrayed quite literally in The Sifl and Olly Show, where Sifl builds a robot actually made out of a tin can to use as a stand-in while he runs some errands, until Olly (who'd been getting increasingly annoyed with the arrangement) goes ballistic and destroys the robot in the middle of it singing the 1980s song "I Know What Boys Like" by The Waitresses. | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_9f0ff6b8 | featureApplicability |
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Tin-Can Robot / int_9ff4a8d9 | type |
Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_9ff4a8d9 | comment |
Godzilla: The original Mechagodzilla (pictured here)◊ was revealed as an incredibly clunky sixties style robot once the fake skin was removed. He was also a Walking Armoury and Hero Killer who proved that even the most old school robot could be bloody horrifying, nearly killing Anguirus, slaughtering thousands of people in Japan, and giving Godzilla himself a fight the likes of which only Destoroyah and King Ghidorah can match. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_a183d57f | comment |
Futurama: All bending units are perfect caricatures of 1950s-style movie-robots, with tin-can (and cocktail shaker) bodies, flexi-hose arms and legs, typical robot heads, and eyes clearly lifted from Crow T. Robot. Fry encounters an actual trash can who also happens to be a self-aware robot. |
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Futurama | hasFeature |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_a23bd48e | comment |
In the 1982 schlocky Hong Kong comedy film, Winner Takes All, the protagonist who is The Gambler challenged a crime boss to an Absurdly High-Stakes Game of mahjong, where the loser will get decapitated by a descending blade. The crime boss agreed, but then reveals he had a tin-can robot assistant (who is programmed with the brains of six different mahjong champions) playing in his stead. No, the movie doesn't really make any sense. | |
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Winner Takes All | hasFeature |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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Total Annihilation has a model of robot which is actually called "The Can". It's pretty much a big metal box on legs, with a turret on top. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_a4420d22 | comment |
H.E.L.P.E.R. from The Venture Bros., the epitome of the robot buddy as seen by pop culture in the 1950s. True to the spirit of the show, he was apparently actually built in the 50's and was described as "geriatric" and "senile". | |
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The Venture Bros. | hasFeature |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_a4ae80d6 | comment |
Oddworld's "Greeters" are a very literal version of the laconic, and resemble nothing so much as "a hot water heater on a unicycle." They're also the in-universe Stepford Smilers. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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Funk Unplugged: Ampy has a friend who is a floating tin can. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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Earth space program in Marooned uses these. At least one Grew Beyond Their Programming to become a Snarky Non-Human Sidekick. | |
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Marooned (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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Tripp: Stats is a hovering metal sphere with a few add-ons. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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Robby from Forbidden Planet, who has been reused in many films and TV series and even has his own IMDB actor page. | |
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Forbidden Planet | hasFeature |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
Tin-Can Robot / int_acfdb220 | comment |
Black the Fall: The Robot Buddy that starts accompanying the worker on his journey after exiting the factory looks like two boxes on four legs. | |
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Black The Fall (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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Warlord Cassius, World's Greatest Adventures[='s] Little Green Man in a Can, is a blocky, three-feet-tall… thing with hand-less tubes for arms. (Quite obviously made of cardboard, too). | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog has many, most notably the E-100 series such as E-102 Gamma and E-123 Omega. Technically, these can be considered a sort of “self portrait� of their creator, but they’re still fairly tin-can shaped (with some embellishments), notably lacking a neck and having their heads stick straight out of their torso. | |
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Spider-Man: Spider-Man once has to deal with the robot XP-2000, who is really obsolete compared to androids like The Vision and Ultron. Keep in mind that Ultron was designed in the 1970s, and Vision was built by Ultron. This says a lot about XP-2000 being designed obsolete. The original Ultron design was actually pretty in-line with this aesthetic, though. Also the cobbled-together robots built by Future Max in Web of Spider-Man Annual #1. The one on the cover looks like the original Iron Man armour, with added hydraulic tubes. Finally there's the silver-age Spider-Man villain The Living Brain, featuring the greatest mechanical mind 1964 could offer in the shape of a green box with arms, legs and a domelike head. |
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Robot from the original Lost in Space; danger, Will Robinson! Not Robby, but definitely Inspired by… him (though Robby himself appeared as an alien robot in one episode). | |
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The Kohbu(/Eisenkleider/STARs/etc.) from the Sakura Wars series are trashcan-looking Humongous Mecha. | |
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Amazon: Guardians of Eden: B.O.B. looks like two trash cans with added feet and will actually think you're also B.O.B. if you put a trashcan on your head. He was made in the 1950s, after all. | |
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Mad Age & This Guy: The Mecha-Mooks the Player Character faces look like boilers and Roombas. | |
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The original version of Computo from Legion of Super-Heroes was a box on wheels, covered in dials, with another box for a head and hosepipe arms. Later versions generally avert this; in post-Zero Hour continuity C.O.M.P.U.T.O first appears as an angry face on a computer screen before possessing Triad, and the version that later appears as the leader of Robotica looks like a guy in armour with Kirby Dots for a head. The New 52 incarnation of Computo follows the latter appearance, despite having an almost competely different origin. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Orks have Mini-Mecha (with an Ork welded inside) aptly known as Killa Kanz. Their Humongous Mecha are built to a similar design. The Tau attack drones that look like flying trash lids. |
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Transformers: Animated has literal Trashcan Robots that transport all of Detroit's waste. | |
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Chrono Trigger features Robo, a burly robot from 2300 A.D. who looks more or less like a futuristic barrel with rubber-hose arms and legs. | |
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Toy Org from Power Rangers Wild Force. He resembles a toy robot, yet is one of the Rangers' strongest foes. | |
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This is a common monster template in Doctor Who, as they're a relatively easy "obviously non-human but not obviously just a guy in a suit' monster design: The Daleks certainly deserve a mention, despite technically being cyborgs. They're sort of bizarre by being roughly 1.6 metres tall and having odd hemispherical protrusions, but there's a reason they are often dubbed "pepperpots". Mechonoids are spherical, flamethrower-equipped robots the size of a small shed. There was some hope they'd be the next Daleks. The Krotons, the Sontaran scout robot, the Quarks, the servo robot, the Chumblies, the War Machines, the robot in "Robot"... Parodied gently in "The Celestial Toymaker", where the Toymaker's robot servant is a giant wind-up tin robot. |
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Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2: The Gearmos are tin robots with cog-shaped heads and gauge-like eyes. While short-tempered, they're actually friendly; some of them will reward Mario and Luigi with Power Stars upon helping them or completing a minigame. | |
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The Federation security robot in Blake's 7 which unfortunately was never as menacing as it was supposed to be, given the tendency of its arms to flap up and down as it moved, and the flamethrower that dropped out of its groin region which caused the production crew to dub it "The Flasher". Eventually the poor bot was restricted to a couple of close-up scenes in the early episodes. | |
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Hovering medibot MC Rubbish from Wave Twisters, with a cylindrical limbless body and a spherical head topped by a red pith helmet. (His names—"Rubbish" and "Thrashcan"—in fact are a Lampshade Hanging of his shape.) | |
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Tears to Tiara 2 has Talos like the first game. We get one on our team called Calcos. | |
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XJ-8 from My Life as a Teenage Robot. In comparison, her predecessors are mostly Starfish Robots, and her successor is a more streamlined fembot. | |
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Parodied with the Replidroids later in the series — they look like a standard Tin Can Robot, but everyone in the Battlestar Galactica spoof sketch behaves as if they're Ridiculously Human Robots. | |
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The main character in Bzzzt is a very boxy metallic robot, complete with flexi-tube arms. | |
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Orbus and Klank from Power Rangers Zeo, plus Prince Sprocket and King Mondo himself. This is in contrast to the much less tin can-ish members of the Machine Empire. | |
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Ourox from Monsterful is a golem robot bodyguard that looks a huge walking boiler. | |
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Ironhorse from Astro City is like this, built with a steam locomotive motif. | |
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Roofus the roof-repairing robot in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! The fact that he was built out of parts from a milking machine probably has something to do with it. | |
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TIM from The Tomorrow People (1973) had a mobile unit that looked a bit tin-canny. | |
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Homestar Runner: The Cheat Bot is not a real robot (being The Cheat with a metal can on top), but would be a perfect example if he were. The visor robot is a better example; in fact, most robots in the series would qualify, down to the Grape Nuts Robot (a "robot" made out of some LEDS and a Speak & Spell shoved inside a box of cereal with a slinky for an arm). | |
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The Super Robot of Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! has boxes for its head, body, and feet, extremely boxy hands and fingers, and tube arms. A late-series episode showed him to be the first in a line of several robots, with the most recent being a much sleeker and human-sized Robot Kid. | |
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The Master Cylinder, from Felix the Cat. | |
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Wordle's gameplay analysis tool, WordleBot, which is available to the player after finishing the day's puzzle, is represented as a light gray box with legs and a "face" consisting of a blinking display and three gray knobs. | |
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Train Your Minibot: The titular Minibot has a boxy head and torso. Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2: The Gearmos are tin robots with cog-shaped heads and gauge-like eyes. While short-tempered, they're actually friendly; some of them will reward Mario and Luigi with Power Stars upon helping them or completing a minigame. Mario Party 6: The minigame Body Builder has two teams of characters assemble a robot of this type in a factory. The parts used to assemble the robots are provided by a machine, but their pictures pass by like a slot machine, and each team's players have to press switches right when the glowing picture is spot on (as it indicates the next part to be extracted to build the robot). The player on the left has to extract the feet and torso, while the on the right has to extract the legs and head. The first team to assemble their robot wins; but if both manage to assemble them at the same time, the minigame ends in a tie. |
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Urban Jungle: The "Astounding Science" supplement states explicitly that robots built on 1930s Earth should be crude contraptions built from scrap metal by lone crackpots. More advanced civilizations like Telluria would build more streamlined robots. | |
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In the music video of Caravan Palace - Rock It For Me, scientists and factory workers develop a very large tin can robot to fight off flying saucers. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager. Satan's Robot from The Adventures of Captain Proton holodeck Show Within a Show in "Bride of Chaotica!". The holodeck characters act like it's a terrifying Killer Robot, but in reality it's slow-moving, easily disabled and rather pathetic. To be fair this is Played for Laughs, as it's a holodeck recreation of an in-universe 1930's movie serial that the characters are playing to relieve boredom. Only the computer-generated characters are afraid of the robot, the crewmembers think it's ridiculous. Out of universe, the whole thing is an Affectionate Parody of real 1930's serials, with Satan's Robot inspired by the Republic Robot. | |
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The Mad Thinker and the Leader seem to prefer using Organic Technology, but they still sometimes build metal robots, which always come out looking like this. | |
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Metroid: Super Metroid features these in the Wrecked Ship. They were round cylinders with legs and no arms. The Tinbots, defenders of the Steampunk planet Elysia in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, are exactly that; easily blown apart and even more easily melted once the Plasma Beam is acquired. The Steambots and Steamlord are less fragile. |
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Custom Robo on the Gamecube features the Oil Can Robo, a clunky, weak, slow Joke Character built from old steel drums, tin cans, and lead pipes. It's basically a rusty and barely humanoid mess, useful only for a Self-Imposed Challenge or Cherry Tapping an opponent. | |
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Chani from Devil Girl from Mars is more of the giant mailbox variety. | |
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