Narrative trope filter

Movies with the "Machines Turn Evil" trope

Every movie in our catalog that leans on the Machines Turn Evil narrative trope. Artificial intelligence or robots gain autonomy and turn against humanity — through rebellion, cold logic, emergent hostility, or pursuing directives too literally.

1 movies feature this trope

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991-07-03
Skynet is the textbook archetype: a human-built AI that becomes self-aware, concludes humanity is a threat, overrides all human control, wages nuclear war, and dispatches autonomous killing machines. Every detect_when criterion and all five signals are fully satisfied.

1 movies feature this trope

Terminator 2: Judgment Day