Time of Eve: Difference between revisions

* [[Mind Screw]]: Who's a human, and who's a robot? What is Nagi's story? What were those images in the movie while Sammy was home alone looking at the television?

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: As the climax of the last episode is wrapping up. {{spoiler|THUNK.}}

* [[Pick Your Human Half]]: In public, androids have holographic rings over their heads, act quite unemotional, and tend to only follow commands. But in the Time of Eve cafe it is impossible to tell who is a human and who is an android, and their true personalities are let loose.

* [[Robot Buddy]]: TEX is clearly suppose to fit this trope, as do the other robots to a degree, and the narrative seems to ask just how much the robots should be expected to fulfill this trope, especially as they get more advanced and aware.

* [[Robot Girl]]: Sammy, {{spoiler|Akiko}}

* [[Sequel Hook]]: See [[The Stinger]]

* [[Ship Tease]]: {{spoiler|[[Interspecies Romance|Sammy/Rikuo]] and Nagi/Rikuo.}}

** Episode 3 briefly shows ''[[Pale Cocoon]]'' playing on the family's home TV.

** Episode 4 features an older-model android equipped with full-color [[Terminator]] vision. Its appearance is about as welcome.

* [[Uncanny Valley]]: An in-universe example: robots aren't supposed to be too human like, nor should they be treated as such. At least, that's the social atmosphere.

* [[Uncanny Valley Girl]]: Subverted. Rina feels that she is the least "human" of the cafe's regulars, but no one else seems to think so. She's actually proven to be very emotionally complex and sympathetic.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Masaki's dad {{spoiler|orders TEX to never speak because he feels Masaki is getting too close to the robot, traumatizing Masaki for life}}. Worse, the Ethics Committee's anti-robot activities {{spoiler|led to the death of a child (who looks an awful lot like Nagi...)}}.

** {{spoiler|It's not specified whether the child died or was only severely injured, and the details of the accident are left largely as a [[Cryptic Background Reference]].}}