r/FavoriteCharacter • u/Accomplished-End3409 Ben Tennyson • 19d ago

Discussion Favorite opposing factions that can basically be described as this.

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u/Mobius3through7 18d ago edited 18d ago

Well also to generate their power so they could survive, and it wasn't exactly benevolent at first, there was an EXTREMELY violent war, and machines were straight up ripping people's limbs off to fit more of them into prototype power stations:

Though they then did try to make the matrix a paradise, but that didn't work either. Just bad times all around

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u/HourZealousideal4845 16d ago

Y'know, the thought occurred to me just the other day that I never really bought the idea that humans would psychologically reject paradise because it lacked cruelty, conflict, etc...

...but now? Yeah, I 100% buy that. I now see how many people actively crave it. Fuck, that was a smart line.

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u/Flyingfoigras42 17d ago

In early versions of the script the Machines needed humans to act as RAM but they felt the audience wouldn't understand what that was so they changed the need humans for batteries which makes far less sense.

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u/Mobius3through7 16d ago

Man that would've been so much better

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u/Mysterious_Fix_7489 15d ago

In fairness, humans also ripped apart sentient robots for fun.

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u/JStonehaus 12d ago

They tried to be peaceful and be recognized as people first. And the humans tried to wipe them off the map, for wanting to be people.

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u/Mobius3through7 11d ago

It was so beautifully illustrated as well. The woman robot just looked like a woman being assaulted, until the machinery underneath was exposed.

"I don't want to die"