Talk:The Robot

Appropriate pronouns
I don't think the robot was given a gender, if i'm wrong can someone say because im thinking we should change all the pronouns for this 'bot to they/them.
 * "It" might be fitting when referring to a robot.Silphium (talk) 02:50, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I've changed all pronouns to "it". Silphium (talk) 23:50, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

How could the robot kill humans
In most of the ammonomicon description, it mentions that these are for the shock troops of the Hemogony. The Deck4RD also mentions a shock troop robot entering the Gungeon after being disbanded. So how could the robot also kill humans?
 * I assume you're talking about the ammonomicon description for Battery Bullets? There's a few points to go over:
 * Just because the robot has them doesn't mean that it's a Schock trooper, just that they are typically used by shock troops (which is a play on words, since they don't just shock and awe, they also literally shock with electricity). Most of the entries about its arms actually call it an assault robot instead.
 * The shock trooper robot mentioned in the Deck4rd article is almost certainly a replicant in reference to the movie blade runner. Replicants are "synthetic, bio-robotic beings" which look the same as humans (like the terminator they have a layer of skin so they even feel human), which is why you need a detective to track them down. The robot we play as seems to be a simpler combat assault robot with a minigun arm that could never pass for a human.
 * Granted, it could just be that the lore is inconsistent, references and wordplay are often more deciding than some overarching lore about what exactly a shocktrooper robot is.
 * in fact, according to the robot's past, there are no more humans (you fight and kill the last human), while according to the pilot's and convict's past there are plenty still around. Either the pasts are mutually exclusive, meaning the characters are from different dimensions, or they are from vastly different time periods, with the robot's past being the latest time period (with humanity just being wiped out). So I guess the answer to your question likely is: "In the future robots rebel and kill everyone... somehow, for some reason".
 * So let's just assume the robot is a "shock trooper". You say that those shock trooper robots have some inability to kill humans. Why do you think this? The robots seem made to kill any enemy of the hegemony of man... including a human rebel pilot and his friend if they don't comply, or the special forces sent to chase them in the deck4rd entry. Robots would have no trouble killing even after being decommissioned and escaping; that is what they were made to do.
 * Silphium (talk) 02:50, 9 April 2019 (UTC)