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'''Robots'''' is a lavish CGI movie from the [[Blue Sky Studios|makers]] of ''[[Ice Age]]'' and illustrator [[William Joyce]].
Ambitious young robot [[The Hero|Rodney Copperbottom]] (voiced by [[Ewan McGregor]]) leaves his hometown for Robot City, hoping to show his inventions to his childhood hero [[Big Good|Bigweld]] ([[Mel Brooks]]). To his dismay, Bigweld has been displaced by [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Phineas T. Ratchet]], who is interested only in selling shiny upgrade parts to robots, and Rodney finds himself alone and broke in the big city. Luckily (or unluckily) for him, he falls in with motormouth and kleptomaniac Fender (voiced by [[Robin Williams]]), who introduces him to his [[Tagalong Kid|little sister Piper]] and his misfit collection of friends: [[The Big Guy|Lug]], [[Sour Supporter|Crank Casey]] and Diesel (who needs a new voice chip and is [[The Unintelligible]] for most of the movie.).
Ratchet's factory stops producing spare parts, forcing robots to upgrade worn-out components. For bots like Fender and his friends who can't afford the upgrades, this means the scrapheap -- a nightmare world beneath the city which just happens to be overseen by Ratchet's domineering mother. Rodney, as [[The Hero]], isn't just going to sit back and let this happen. With the help of [[Action Girl|Cappy]], an employee of Ratchet's who's disgusted by the way things are going, he sets out to reinstate Bigweld and defeat [[Big Bad|Madame Gasket]] and her son.
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** Fender ends up in a skirt and heels. [[Rhymes on a Dime|Fender]] [[Gender Bender]].
** At one point in his adolescence, [[The Hero|Rodney's]] hand-me-downs are from his cousin ''[[Never Live It Down|Veronica]]''.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: [[The Dragon|Ratchet]] seems to only care about money as well as the higher interests of Robot City. His endgame to make everyone in Robot City shiny screams a mixture of fascism and narcissism.
* [[Creation Sequence]]: When Rodney's parents assemble him from a kit.
* [[Dance Party Ending]]: {{Spoiler|Everyone celebrates Rachet's defeat by returning to Rivet Town and dancing to "Get Up Offa That Thing"}}.
* [[Double Jump]]: The [[Video Game]] has the [[Awesome Yet Practical|Wonderbot Trampoline]].
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Inverted. Madame Gasket is even ''more'' villainous than [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Ratchet]], but she still cares about her son.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Rachet's opinion of rusted outmodes is not high. But he does have at least one exception...his mother.
* [[Foil]]: {{Spoiler|Bigweld and Gasket are a pretty obvious example. They're both massive, old robots that wield immense amount of power, and are reclusive at the start of the movie of their own will. They inspired their disciples, Rodney and Ratchet, to try to change the world. But while Gasket is a rusted (literally) killer that feels delight in destroying lives, Bigweld is a brilliant (literally) inventor that just wants the better for his kind. On top of it, Gasket's business is about dismantling robots, while Bigweld not only sells replacements but fabricates other robots as we see at the start of the movie}}.
* [[Freudian Slip]]:
{{quote|'''[[Meaningful Name|Aunt Fanny]]:''' Well, hello there! What's your name?
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* [[Misanthrope Supreme]]: {{spoiler|Madame Gasket, who wants to eliminate all outmodes, even though she ''is'' one.}}
* [[Misfit Mobilization Moment]]{{context}}
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Madame Gasket. She constantly criticizes Rachet while having the habit of treating him as if he were still a child and it's because of that the wants to be out of his mother's shadow.
* [[Never Heard That One Before]]: On the Bigweld Show, Rodney watches in his childhood, Bigweld asks Tim the Gate Guard, "Who closed this gate? You know we never close this gate!" When Rodney meets Tim in real life, years later, he asks this same question- and gets cut off with an irritable "Yeah, yeah."
* [[Nice Character, Mean Actor]]: [[In-Universe]]. On TV, Tim the Gate Guard is a cheerful-sounding puppet-like robot who guards Bigweld's main gate. The real Tim... [[Jerkass|not so much]]. Whether or not he was like this when Bigweld was in charge or simply became this way after Rachet took over the company is open for guessing.
* [[Not Helping Your Case]]: When Bigweld fires Ratchet, Ratchet begs for mercy claiming, "The lies I've told, the lives I've ruined! ...this isn't helping me."
* [[Official Couple]]: Bigwell and Fanny, Rodney and Cappy, and Fender and Loretta hook up at the end of the movie.
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