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* [[Technical Pacifist]]: Johnny Five was created as a military robot, but decides that killing is wrong. He's not above throwing thugs around, so long as they don't die.
** [[I Am Not a Gun]]: In the second movie, he has his laser weapon removed in favor of a Batman-esque utility pack.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: In the second movie, when Johnny Five first meets Benjamin, he happily shows off all his newest features, including among them "500 megabytes of storage". 500 megabytes was indeed a lot of hard drive space in 1988, when ''Short Circuit 2'' was in theaters, but ten years later, we know that Johnny has about enough memory to store a decent but by no means flawless copy of the movie he currently stars in.
** The Italian adaptation got a [[Lucky Translation]] here. Translated back into English, Johnny 5 says he has "improved memory, 500 megabytes ''online''", without any mention of ''storage'', which leads viewers to think he was talking about RAM, not hard drive space. Of course, technology has still marched on from computers with 512 megabytes of RAM, but it took a lot more time.
** For a more justifiable version of this trope, see Benjamin's lament that neither he nor Fred is carrying a phone.
{{quote|'''Fred''': "Well, I left mine [[Sarcasm Mode|in the Mercedes!]]"}}
* [[They Would Cut You Up]]: "NO DIS-ASS-EM-BLE!"
* [[Tinman Typist]]: Justified. One of Newton's side projects is teaching robots to play piano. And [[Flipping the Bird|give the finger]].
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