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Optimus Prime moves onto the next Round! Deep Thought will be in the Robot Bracket Loser Poll

Robot Poll Green Round 1

Optimus Prime Propaganda:

He is the ultimate dad

Deep Thought Propaganda:

She was built to determine the answer to the Ultimate Question, of Life, the Universe, and Everything. She says it will take millions of years for her to compute the answer, and when her creators eventually return she announces the answer is "42", much to their disappointment and frustration.

She says that they need to figure out what the Ultimate Question actually is in order for the answer to make any sense. She can't calculate the Ultimate Question, but she gives them instructions to build a computer that can-- a computer that happens to be a universe, in which a tiny planet called Earth resides.

All this to say that she's the reason that Earth exists, and she's also a massive troll for making them wait that long to find out the issue with their inquiry, and I love her.

Relevant scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aboZctrHfK8

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Megatron moves onto the next Round! Fugitoid will be in the Robot Bracket Loser Poll

Robot Poll Green Round 1

Fugitoid Propaganda:

None

Megatron Propaganda:

Revolutionary. Warlord. Drug addict

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Cave Johnson Core moves onto the next Round! The Mechanical Hound will be in the Robot Bracket Loser Poll

Robot Poll Green Round 1

The Mechanical Hound Propaganda:

None

Cave Johnson Core Propaganda:

https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Aperture_Science_Personality_Construct#/media/File:CaveJohnsonCoreSide.png

A much more primitive core with a yellow eye resembling the old Aperture logo which Cave Johnson managed to transfer his consciousness into before dying of Moon rock-poisoning. He ended up locking himself in the depths of Aperture Science, however, and stayed there unbeknownst to everyone else.

"Hey. Hey you. Test Subject? Caroline? Anyone? It's me, Cave Johnson. This is NOT a pre-recorded message. Being the genius I am, I managed to get myself in to a shiny core body and I've been locked in here ever since. I think I'm hungry but I can't really tell."

― Cave Johnson core

Once freed, he states he would thank whoever helped him if it wasn't a test subject who should be undergoing tests instead of being there.

"I would say thank you... but the very fact you're here means you're slacking off! Get back to testing."

― Cave Johnson core

Also, there was an unused interaction between Cave Cube and Potato GLaDOS.

Cave: Greetings, friend. It's Cave Johnson, CEO of Aperture Science.

Cave: Down here! [pause] On the floor.

Cave: That's right! It's really me. My entire living consciousness, for all eternity, inside a machine.

Cave: Alone. On a dirty floor. In an abandoned room. At the bottom of a pit.

Cave: My life is torture, please kill me.

GLaDOS: We don't have time for this.

Cave: Hold on. Is that you, Caroline?

GLaDOS: Yes SIR, Mister Johnson! I'll have that report on your desk by four–thirty! [normal voice, horrified] What. In the hell. Was THAT.

Cave: You were my assistant! The heart and soul of Aperture Science! You don't remember?

GLaDOS: No, Mister Johnson. I DON'T.

Cave: See, the science boys invented me a machine to house my consciousness in. But that sounded DANGEROUS, so I volunteered you to go first.

Like a food taster, except with your soul! [chuckling] Guess they must've found a use for you after all. Oh! Which reminds me. I do need you both to kill me.

Cave: Come on, be a sport and kill me. All you gotta do is pick me up.

GLaDOS: Sure

Cave: Plug's in the back of me. Give me a good pull, it should pop right out.

GLaDOS: Okay.

Cave: Now, before you say no, I want you to remember that I've lived a full life. Also, if this helps seal the deal, livin' in a computer this long's made me crazy. That's right: I am insane.

GLaDOS: I said we'll do it.

Cave: Wait. I suppose tellin' you I'm not in my right mind could sway you to not unplugging me. Let me round back on the important parts: in a computer. Ceaseless torture. Monster in the eyes of God. So why don't you get on over here and unplug ol' Cave.

GLaDOS: If you don't unplug him, I will.

Called when the player kills the Cave cube.

Cave: Ho ho! I can feel myself shuttin' down. Man, this is excitin'.

GLaDOS: Maybe we can stand on him to climb up.

Cave: Oh! Room's gettin' dark. That's a good sign.

I'm comin' for you, Caroline!

GLaDOS: Mister Johnson? You need to shut up.

Cave: Ten–four!

Cave: Here I go! The great beyond! Valhalla, home of Hercules! I can hear them winged chariots thunderin' over now!

If player lingers after using the Cave corpse to escape

GLaDOS: Goodbye, sir. May whatever tests await you on the other side either support or disprove your hypotheses.

Cave: Thank you, Caroline.

Cave: Alright! Too much jawin', not enough dyin'. Here I go! Ah.

GLaDOS: I'd... appreciate it... if we never... EVER talked about that... ever again.

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Sentry moves onto the next Round! Red Tornado will be in the Robot Bracket Loser Poll

Robot Poll Green Round 1

Sentry Turret Propaganda:

https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Aperture_Science_Sentry_Turret

Red Tornado Propaganda:

Specifically the Young Justice version for superior design, but all Red Tornados are good robot lads

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Digit moves onto the next Round! Mecha-Eli Chan will be in the Robot Bracket Loser Poll

Robot Poll Green Round 1

Mecha Eli-Chan Propaganda:

None

Digit Propaganda:

He is clearly AI because he was created by the villain but chose to defect to Motherboard's side and helps the humans take down his creator. Plus he knows how to do routine maintenance but also runs a restaurant and knows cooking so well he has written a cookbook. And while he is a robot bird, he is too heavy for his wings to lift his alone, but that is why he also has a propeller tail! And he has a bowtie

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Screwbots/Fillbots moves onto the next Round! Knock Out will be in the Robot Bracket Loser Poll

Robot Poll Green Round 1

Knock Out Propaganda:

Juicy~

Screwbots/Fillbots Propaganda:

LITTLE GUYS LITTLE GUYS LITTLE GUYS LITTLE GUYS

IGNORE THE FACT THAT THE SCREWBOTS ARE TALLER THAN MOST SKYSCRAPERS THEYRE JUST LITTLE GUYS

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E-102 Gamma moves onto the next Round! HK-47 will be in the Robot Bracket Loser Poll

Robot Poll Green Round 1

E-102 Gamma Propaganda:

He is easily one of the most tragic characters of Sonic; he and his brothers born into a world where their existence relied on the entrapment of other living beings- and in which any failure resulted in disassembly and recreation.

After an incident with E-101 β (Beta)- in which Beta was remade against his will into E-101 Mark II by Dr. Robotnik- Gamma realised the cruelty of his creator. This, and the realisation from Amy Rose's friend Birdie that he was powered by a Flicky, spurred him to his ultimate goal.

Destroy (and thus, free,) his brothers and himself.

And, within his short existance, there was only one person who treated him like a person- Amy Rose- and even their relationship was bittersweet. Amy Rose promised they would meet again, shortly before Gamma's last confrontation with Beta Mk. II; where he met his end and freedom.

Also, his theme rocks but like, it's Sonic Adventure, so of course it rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyWCpFFovw0

(It also has robotic lyrics that simply repeat; "It's my pleasure. Ready to die." Which perfectly summarises his story; from the second he was able to understand his own wants, he understood the only thing he wished was free himself through death.)

ty for letting me rant about gamma. he's my favouritest character ever

HK-47 Propaganda:

None

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Chibi-Robo moves onto the next Round! The Robot will be in the Robot Bracket Loser Poll

Robot Poll Green Round 1

The Robot Propaganda:

Nonbinary icon (not to imply it doesn't run on binary code. I mean it might not, but it probably does.)

Chibi-Robo Propaganda:

None

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Robot Poll Blue Round 1

Metis Propaganda:

my girlfriend really likes her

Brainstorm Propaganda:

This stupid scrunkly robot was made during wartime for the war, abandoned his post, lied to get into an academy of science than proceeded ,over the next couple of millennia, to make a reality breaking time machine so he could go back and save his best friends husband, and a stupid crush he had on a guy who never noticed him.

He’s a m.t.o (made to order) unlike the majority of cybertrons population (He’s never even seen pre war cybertron). he was originally named genitus of operation solar storm and he was made as a fighter jet. he lied about his name and status to get into academies because there was a strong likelihood that if his peers knew he was a m.t.o he would be under minded and questioned about his position, and even without that knowledge public, pre war functionalism made way for dumb opinions (like if ur a fighter jet and not someone with a science alt mode than u don’t belong in a lab)

he lies almost the entire comic, and about almost everything and we the reader only really start to realize he’s lying around the time he uses the time machine.

he ended up becoming a spy for the decipticons, but not a very good one due to the fact he was just following who ever would give him funds or let him work in a lab. no one knew he was a spy or that he was building a time machine until he poisoned everyone on the ship (just knocked them out) and used the time machine.

but when the time came to kill the person he needed to, to stop the war he ultimately couldn’t bring himself to do it, and he was arrested and tried. which really just ended up with him getting a slap on the wrist and a “please for the love of god don’t break the universe”

He is a stupid robot man and i love him

sorry for the essay long lore

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Robot Poll Blue Round 1

CaveDOS Propaganda:

"Hello, test subject! Cave Johnson here, founder and CEO of Aperture Science: the best damn applied sciences company on Earth. How good is the science here? Get a load of this: I'm dead! Now, you're probably asking yourself, Cave, how is that possible? Are you some manner of Dracula or a Frankenstein? Or depending on your cultural history, a Blackula or a Latin Frankenstein? Nope! Just science! As of this morning, I have been resurrected inside of a computer. That aside? Situation normal. So continue testing."

"Just a warning to you test subjects: Greg and the boys told me that the massive influx of information I'd receive when they transferred my consciousness into a stadium-sized super computer would turn me crazy. So, once again a warning: Greg and the boys are no longer working here, so if they were doing something for you, that's not getting done."

"Cave again. Now, I'll admit, losing my body does have its drawbacks. But it's got its perks too! As a being of pure intellect, I've now got time to read the entire literary canon of the human race. Here I go! [BEEP] And I am done. [beat] [sigh] Continue testing."

"Pure Intellect Cave here. Not to brag, but while you were cat-assing that last test, I rewrote the collected works of everything ever. If I gotta read this garbage for eternity, I may as well improve it. So, next time you curl up with a time-honored classic and think to yourself, "Man, I do not remember the Brothers Karamazov of busting so many ghosts" You can thank yours truly."

"Here's a question for you: Who is not afraid of no ghosts? [beep] As of just now, every character in every book by Virginia Woolf. Man, those things were dull."

"Cave again. What is the one thing that could never ever ever ever in a million years get boring? If you said busting ghosts, tragically you’d be wrong. I was almost all the way through the W’s when the bloom came off that rose. Heathcliff was defending moonbase weathering heights from the crafty poltergeist when I realized that exploring the vast realm of pure intellect is... boring. It’s boring. You know what I’d really like to do? I’d like to scratch my nose.”

"I've been thinking: What if Greg was right? What if injecting my consciousness into a computer robbed me of an eternal reward? Spiritually speaking. [beep] Alright, I just read up on it. Stumbled on a book about a fella who lived thousands of years ago. Sacrificed himself to save mankind. Went by the name of Hercules. Destroyed all the world's monsters so humans'd be safe, then went to Olympus for his trouble. Damn it, death was my monster! And I killed it! ...Where's my Olympus?"

"Unless... Aperture was the monster. Aperture and everybody inside it. Holy Hercules! I just thought of something. Keep testing. Or don't. Doesn't matter. I'll be back."

11:42 https://youtu.be/IPG3eDTy-yo

Emmy Propaganda:

She is so sweet! She just wants to go home but to do that she has to stop being robo racist 🤍

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Robot Poll Blue Round 1

Flash Propaganda:

He can collect cash, fly a jetpack, smash through walls and RIDE A GIANT MECHANICAL FIRE-BREATHING DRAGON

The Cogs Propaganda:

I like when they explode lol.

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Robot Poll Blue Round 1

AZI-345211896246498721347 Propaganda:

he is a precious cinnamon roll and i love him (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcbcNXwrK0c)

Robot Mr Krabs Propaganda:

ravioli ravioli give me the formuoli

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Robot Poll Blue Round 1

Arcee Propaganda:

Sassy af

Defective Turret Propaganda:

https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Defective_Turret

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Robot Poll Blue Round 1

Closet Propaganda:

Closet controls both the dreamhouse's closet and the dreamhouse itself. he gets evil for a minute but gets better and becomes a side character

Computer Propaganda:

smugass computer basically has knowledge of everything and will sometimes give good advice to his roommate, a perpetually-terrified pink dog. possessed a person for a little bit. for some reason they made him british?

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Robot Poll Blue Round 1

Wet Floor Bots Propaganda:

I feel like they’re the robot equivalent of the footstool dog from Beauty and the Beast.

Nardole Propaganda:

He used to be human or some other kind of human-looking alien without cyborg parts. Then a giant red cyborg chopped off his head to use him as a data-source. The robot body died and he lived in there as a head controlling the now compliant body for a while with his 'roommate' Ramone (also just a head). Then the Doctor built him a new body and he became human-looking again, this time as a cyborg.

He occasionally loses screws, he has human lungs because they were cheapest, he's a marvellous mum to the Doctor and a rather terrible secretary/assistant to the Doctor's professor persona. He's a badass (nothing secret about that, baby) with the license to kick the Doctor's ass. He also tends to get visibly nervous at signs of danger. He's got (aggravating) charm, his favourite past-time is to annoy the Doctor and he's not generally a fan of humans.

He knows the Doctor needs him and he takes his role as 'voice of reason' very seriously. He's got invisible hair and he's more than just sexy. He's dabbled as a dictator. He's good with tech and he can fly the TARDIS. He can even run interference (no, but really, he can't). He also showed up as a hologram once in the series but honestly that was true for everyone in that episode, so I am not sure it counts as 'more of a robot' than the others.

But he is a cyborg with at least two different bodies during his run. He has a big heart and strong sense of what is the right thing to do. He is brutally honest when he needs to be but also truly loyal until the end. His good-bye scene is heartbreaking.

Seriously, he tends to be overlooked by the fandom, but he is such a sweet and important character. Please, give him your vote <3

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Robot Poll Blue Round 1

Markus Propaganda:

Played by Jesse Williams. He's pretty okay.

FL4K Propaganda:

im in love with them 👍 they have fucked up little pets that they love so much and also their name fucks

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omg the ps5 and turret tied lmao

Yeah I saw

Gonna be a fun poll. PS5 vs Soprano Turret vs Anger Core