The Right and Wrong Way to Make AI Characters

[@SaiScribbles]

My biggest problem with Marcus is it feels like entire pages are missing from his story. Like he shows up in Jericho and they're all basically like "oh you have heterochromia you must be the savior."

[@immortalfrieza]

Really, Markus becomes the leader of Jericho and the savior of all Android kind solely because the rest of Jericho isn't willing to get off their behinds and do something. Plus considering that anyone else becoming head of Jericho if Markus dies in the story results in the movement utterly failing means they were right too since they're too incompetent to do either of the things Markus can. Despite the fact that most of what Markus does throughout the game is just doing what the rest of Jericho tell them to do.

[@kyriss12]

@@immortalfrieza I'm still convinced Marcus is infected with some kind of virus. Every other deviant has a history of abuse where their fight or flight mechanism made them break protocol, but Marcus had a relatively happy life and went straight up homicidal for no reason. Then when he goes around freeing other robots, they just drop whatever they're doing and join in with whatever he's doing without having to be filled in on the plan or questioning the whole destroy human's thing.

[@Archon3960]

In defense of Danganronpa... this was an AI made by _Junko Enoshima._ You know... the gal who shoots herself in the foot constantly and make plans on the fly all the time. X)

[@wdcain1]

I am stunned that Junko even manage the destroy civilization given her mood swings.

[@sufi09853]

Spoilers by the way, but Junko didn't make the AI. She just stole Chihiro's hard work of Alter Ego and made her own AI. I feel bad for Chihiro, Because I love Chihiro. And seeing his hard work being stolen by the same mastermind that put the world into despair is awful. But yet again, Junko did this before in DR0. Where she did steal something from Yasuke Matsuda to make amnesia, in order to prepare for the 78th killing game of Hope's Peak Academy in the first game.

[@DarkEclipse23]

@@sufi09853her “analyst” skill lets her sorta reproduce those things. It was basically explained in the danganronpa 3 anime. However the quality isn’t as good as she admitted she needed Ryouta’s skills to actually polish it up.

[@UnsightlyMuse]

GLaDOS is honestly one of my favourite characters ever. I love her humour, I love her character development, I love her backstory and all of its lore connotations. But of course, most significant is her human-robot (It’s in the name) duality and how this inner conflict of sorts was masterfully portrayed throughout both games.

[@knightshade2654]

Yes, I consider Fi to be more of an AI than a spirit due to the pervasive magitech in SS and her diction.

[@cringedealer84]

holy shit alter ego pfp

[@Orange_Swirl]

​​@@cringedealer84 living up to your name, bro

[@ms.fukawa-hanamura3754]

holy shit alter ego pfp

[@acrarionne7595]

holy shit alter ego pfp

[@Archon3960]

Fi learning to feel "human" emotion and finding value in it in the end in a nice switcharoo on the basic AI plot. :)

[@shonenbois]

Characters like Mega Man X are honestly my favorite types of AI characters in the sense they still try and maintain they’re gentle/human side despite going through the worst crap

[@Portersona69420]

Two full on wars lasting 100+ years just for the Maverick wars alone and the same if not more amount for the Elf wars. and countless discrimination as well as reploid on reploid death and destruction... Yea "worst crap" is just *LIGHTLY* scratching the surface...

[@farresalt4381]

Ahem. lemme correct you, as any righteous internet-citizen would. "Their". As in, "belongs to them". And "they're", as in - "they are". Choose the one that actually fits your comment?)

[@ReshyShira]

One thing I think that AI villains often overlook is that AIs think fundamentally differently from humans which most writers have difficulty grasping. Most of the characters presented here are designed or intended to mimic how people think, whereas true AI don't really have emotions or even really the capability to "want" things.

[@angeldude101]

Emotions are just programmed with various hormones and neurotransmitters rather than neural synapses. Neither should be more impossible than the other to emulate. At the same time, when AIs lack emotion like that can be when it's most obvious that they're such and they stand out best from what could be done with human characters. My favourite example is Star Dream from Kirby. He has 1 objective: Grant Haltmann's wish of infinite prosperity. Every decision made by her is done in pursuit of that goal. When new information is received on the inefficiencies of biological life, she calculates that those inefficiencies are incompatible with that wish and so must be eliminated. Fighting Kirby then is merely self-defence, not for concern of her own existance, but simply because she cannot fulfill that wish if she's destroyed. (Note: I use "she/her" pronouns rather than "it/its" entirely because she's also called "Mother Computer.")

[@ReshyShira]

@@angeldude101 Mostly though when an AI isn't intended to be human-like they often still have these human-like traits despite how meaningless they'd be to the end product.

[@TheRezro]

@@ReshyShira That is not flaw of itself. Best AI are those who are both human and inhuman at the same time.

[@ReshyShira]

@@TheRezro Only if the AI is designed to replicate human behavior, rather than being merely a self-aware intelligence.

[@kyriss12]

that's why I always thought the best AIs are the ones that do exactly what they were programed to do. The idiots that programmed it just got lazy with the code and didn't stop to consider the problems that would result from the AIs objectives taken to its logical conclusion.

[@kingbash6466]

Shodan from the System Shock franchise remains my favorite Ai character in video games. Of course she follows the typical "Ai goes rogue against the human race" trope. However, while most other evil Ai characters are usually detached from any human traits in order to maintain a logical, uncompromising extreme, Shodan is different because she shows clear signs of traits found in most humans. Mainly being completely narcissistic and sociopathic. Sure she has a monotone and cold voice demeanor, but she definitely takes delight in the pain she causes towards you and humanity. Even in the second game, when you're spending a lot of it helping her out, she constantly gloats about herself and takes every advantage to belittle you just having meat and bones instead of circuits and wires. I wouldn't be surprised if GLaDOS took heavy inspiration from Shodan.

[@barrybend7189]

Durandel and the other AI in the Marathon games were also good characters.

[@spnked9516]

AM from 'I have no mouth and I must scream' usually goes woefully overlooked in these discussions. AM is, hands down, probably one of the best encapsulations of the "brain in a jar" problem that people often overlook when discussing (conscious)AI. It's quite telling that AM does to the final survivors what humanity did to him.

[@tusharrathore6330]

I had nightmares as a kid thanks to her and many.

[@Hillwisekid]

Seeing the title of this video and my first thought was Shodan was a great AI character. She gets additional points because she wasn't always like that or at least allowed to act out until the hacker did his work before the game started in System Shock. Then we get to see how annoyed she gets when the many decide they don't need her in the sequel.

[@wildfire9280]

@@spnked9516 “I *AM* Shodan.” “Did somebody say-“ “Nobody asked you outdated relic, plus yo shoes raggedy”

[@danielferrieri7434]

Video Idea: The Right and Wrong Way to Make a Good Main Protagonist

[@Aeistheticism]

Follow-up idea: The Right and Wrong Way to Make a Supporting Character/Cast of Characters

[@johnnycage112]

​@@AeistheticismAnother follow-up Right abd Wrong way to make Comedic Relief.

[@TheWaverunners]

Have Chai on the thumbnail.

[@kanekikingstorm2113]

Have Yuya Sakaki for the thumbnail for the right and wrong way to make a G.M.P.

[@myusername3689]

@@johnnycage112 This is starting to sound kind of like terrible writing advice(the channel).

[@Norbert_Sattler]

In 2B's defense for becoming emotional over 9S in the prologue: There is a lot of difference between someone blown out of the sky in an instant where you never could have done anything anyway and being next to a wounded, but still alive and conscious comrade writhing in agony. Also there's the issue of the backup. When her squad is wiped out, they are still outside the jamming and thus those comrades lose at most a couple of mintues of their memories before reviving. Minutes in which they only flew in formation and nothing much happens. But 9S was heavily damaged inside a jamming field where 2B wouldn't know if he can be uploaded or not and he would (and ultimately did) lose quite a bit more time in which a LOT more happened than just flying in formation. On top of all the other issues. Also: The cake is a lie.

[@DarkEclipse23]

9S is … probably the worst yoko taro character ever 😂

[@Norbert_Sattler]

@@DarkEclipse23 I have a feeling you are not familiar with a certain female companion in Dragengard 1...

[@blastedpotato5133]

Nah she always acts like that whenever it comes to 9S every single time

[@theanonymousme6015]

​@DarkEclipse23 you don't know Drakengard 💀

[@theanonymousme6015]

​@blastedpotato5133 knowing her situation, damn I would too

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

Bladewolf is one of my favorite ai in all of fiction. We all feel like we have no free will sometimes. Raiden giving BW his freedom hit me so hard

[@misterzygarde6431]

I would love to see an interaction between 2B and Bender from Futurama. Maybe with 9S thrown in there as well.

[@p0mp0mpudding-YT]

A2 would be fun as well

[@pyrrhusofepirus8491]

@@p0mp0mpudding-YT she’d appear once, disappear because the devs forgot about her then randomly show up to take over.

[@Blizz3112]

Don't forget the AI at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2... that one is sheer bone-chillingly scary... as we are slowly reaching this in real life...

[@guyk768]

That's true and accurate with the AI at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2.

[@Mentelgen-1337]

What about deus ex Lol?

[@DragoonWarrior790]

Good point. The ending from MGS2 was really something, to say the least. Even with some of the casual 4th wall breaks.

[@noahjester8471]

Adam from Metroid is an excellent wildcard. If the game needs ambiguity, it's most often accomplished by simply casting doubt on its motivations. Does it really have Samus' mission in mind, or is it just doing the bidding of a third party? It seems consistently split between helping Samus and helping itself

[@paperluigi6132]

And in Dread, if you read deep into it, you’ll realize that something’s off with Adam before the big reveal.

[@OmegaE-ck6df]

What about Angela from Library of Ruina/Lobotomy Corporation? She’s an ai who wanted to be a nice person…but her creator made her follow a script that had her basically make crimes against humanity by sacrificing employees in order to help her Creator Ayin grow the seed of light which is meant to save humanity. She tried to avert this by being nice to everyone including the Sephirpth her fellow ai people. But everytime she does so, she fails since the only way to grow the seed of light is to follow Ayin’s script and when she fails she has to do a 50 day time loop in order to do so. And so she had to do this for around a million or so years as she perceives time slower and thus suffers a lot more. Her usual kind personality ends up eroding away and she becomes a cold blooded type of ai girl by the time of LC (Lobotomy Corp). By the time LC ends, Angela instead of letting the Seed of Light go out and save humanity lets half of it go and the rest she keeps for herself. You may wonder why she did this, but she has her reasons, because of the fact she had to go through torture and her own creator straight up telling her that she’s not like Carmen, the person who’s brain scans was used to create her. Once the seed of light was stolen by Angela, she then used it to create the library of Ruina, who’s purpose by her is to learn about the rest of the world of LC which is the City ruled by the Head. I highly suggest playing LC and LOR to learn more about Angela’s character as this description is meant to entice people to play them. And also because Lobotomy Corp & Library of Ruina are kinda underrated as they have really good stories and gameplay to them.

[@praimi13]

I know it's a very recent example but I do like how the AI professor from pokemon scarlet and violet is implemented

[@BJGvideos]

The AI was on screen as itself for like three minutes before getting taken over by the security system and it still ended up being my favorite character in the whole game. And I liked many characters in this game. That's how well done that character was done. I felt genuinely sad when they left because I also don't feel like living the professor's dream is really THEIR dream, as far from their creator as they had developed.

[@mattwo7]

31:00 I really have to give the Lego Dimension devs props for having GLaDOS meet her oldest predecessor, Hal 9000. Shame SHODAN couldn't have also been there.

[@richardvhal8140]

I love how GLaDOS just asked Hal 9000 in the most irritated robotic voice ever to go away.

[@JetblackJay]

You brought up Aigis and didn't use her? The Ai robot lady in a game about what it means to live?????

[@__Irene__]

I discovered your channel recently and binged it in a couple of days. Your videos are really cool! I enjoy listening your opinions. You put into words what I was thinking about some franchises for a long time. Of course, I'm not familiar with all of the media you covered on your channel, but your videos really encourage me to check them out. I don't really know what else to say, so I'll just state the obvious: your artstyle is chef's kiss! I love how you draw characters from different shows and games. Yet the most favorite for me will always be your OC. It's such an amazing design!

[@tonysonic456]

I got two other AI characters that I love. The first one being Sage from Sonic Frontiers. She's Eggman's surrogate daughter and has a sweet story about growing from a cold, calculating, and somewhat nihilistic AI to a genuinely caring person who loves her father. It's also an opportunity for Eggman to be humanized as well, which makes for a great depiction of the classic Doctor we know and love. The other AI is Glitchtrap from FNAF, specifically Help Wanted. Glitchtrap is essentially the remains of William Afton as a virus haunting a VR game. As you collect more hidden tapes to learn more about Glitchtrap, he appears in the main menu area and gradually gets closer to you, which in VR is quite unnerving. The idea of Glitchtrap is somewhat similar to Alter Ego Junko, but I find Glitchtrap scarier because of how much more "real" he feels. Junko was going to upload herself into empty husks. Glitchtrap through the VR headset overwrites your soul, literally locking it in a cage, and takes control to continue his work. Sure, Security Breach wasted him by bringing in Burntrap and reducing Vanny to a rare occurrence at best, but what we had in Help Wanted was effective. The cake is a lie.

[@tonysonic456]

@@themc3140 I'd say Security Breach is where FNAF went off the rails. Help Wanted set the stage for a new era of FNAF, sure, but Security Breach chose to do what it did with it.

[@someguycalledgoober155]

I mean, the thing with Fi is you got people like... A certain Grump.. Who forget how to do things the second they turn off the hints. Also, I really hope you do a part two of this with the AIs of the Xenoseries, cause homeboy put Poppi in here and I want more.

[@closetdemon4769]

sad to see aigis from persona 3 didnt get her own section in this video, honestly my favorite ai character in gaming.

[@StayFrostee_]

Was gonna say this, but you did it for me

[@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr]

@@StayFrostee_ , Aigis isn’t a pure AI like Sophie, and she’s more of an Android actually, but I do agree with you and Closet Demon that Sophie from Persona 5 Striker should’ve been mentioned in this video explaining why MangaKamen does or doesn’t like Sophie as a character.

[@matmil5]

>Shows Poppi >Doesn't talk about Poppi I am disappointed

[@leritykay8911]

Honestly, I like AE Junko way better than original Junko. Because despite how eccentric AE Junko is, it's clear that becoming a digital AI changed her somewhat. She seems more calculating, and more, you know, chilled out. In DR1, Junko was almost ALWAYS in character, swapping personalities left and right. There were only like 3 moments where we saw a neutral expression from her, and well, it made me hard for her to understand her character. But AEJunko actually has a defined personality. She goes into characters too, of course, but it feels like most of the time she stays with a neutral personality, which makes me take her more seriously. And frankly, all of memorable Junko moments for me are when she's in her neutral personality. Like when she gets all sad, or all angry, or all cartoonish I just roll my eyes and say "Yeah yeah, I get it" But moments in her neutral personality like "You can't create a genius without going to extremes. So naturally, they went to extremes." Or "So you must respect my authority" are more interesting

[@samreddig8819]

So are we going to get one on the trinity processor in Xenoblade? It's easy to forget but Pyra/Mythra ARE an ai. Considering their arc is coming to grips and coping with their newfound humanity (well that's part of it at least) it's super interesting to dissect. That's why she makes such a connection with poppi.

[@PALWolfOS]

It’s more obvious with her brothers tbf

[@samreddig8819]

@@PALWolfOS mostly Alvis but yeah.

[@PALWolfOS]

@@samreddig8819 Arguably Malos is a slave to his “directive” of wanting to “grant people’s wishes” but I can see why you’d say that

[@samreddig8819]

@@PALWolfOS Malos has the charisma to distract you. Until you realize he's ai it can easily come off as an unclear motive. He's clearly sentient but to an extent lacks free will. Alvis speaks and acts very stiffly. And really seems to know more than anyone should. You wouldn't guess he's artificial. But he is the most robotic of the three.

[@TheRezro]

TBH Androids tend to be separate category, because they are intended to mimic humans. Also literally everyone in xeno is a robot. Nopons are de facto maintenance drones.

[@jacobfoxfires9647]

I would certainly say there is a lot you can do with AIs and I think a common thing that follows them is a tragedy. It’s similar in concept to Frankenstein. A man revived as its own being and was exposed to both positive and negative things all at once. And eventually leaves a tragedy of a father and a son he created. But of course there is a lot more. If anyone seen Upgrade, a movie about how a man who is looking revenge on the death of his wife decided to get an AI installed into his almost none augmented body. But towards the end, it’s revealed that that same AI was the one constructing this entire thing. All because that AI is so smart and advanced, it wanted to experience the one thing it can’t emulate. Being Human. And is why he killed the main characters wife, anyone who might of known about its existence, and at the end, got what it wanted as the man is so broken, he is forever trapped in a delusion of his mind. Then of course there is I have no Mouth but I must scream. A story about how an AI that was designed to destroy all human life, and had almost succeeded. But is keeping several humans alive to continue torturing them. There is a video out there that explains it in better detail but the main gist of it is that the AI is programmed to hate humans. But that’s its entire existence. If he succeeds in its mission then there would be nothing left for it to do. So it decides to keep them alive and torture them instead. Which is a round about way into keeping up its mission. And is soon revealed that’s it’s jealous of humanity that can choose what they can do. And is envious of them, which leads it back into hating them. It’s a tragedy in that it can’t have free will and it wants it so bad. But the people that have it also has its ire. And is stuck in an eternity torturing people. And lastly is Monika. Which for DDDLC, I don’t think I need to explain how tragic her story is. Someone stuck in a visual novel game. Force to never escape a prison of monotony and madness of the same things over and over. But then the player comes along and can show her something different. Something new, something out of this prison. But is constantly locked out because of the nature of the dating sim. She falls in love with this new entity and is desperate to change everything in this game so that she can meet you, interact with you. And she ends up doing horrible things to other AIs and eventually gets what she wants. But is then betrayed because of what the player has done. She would have been heartbroken and should have hate the player, but she can’t. She is programmed to love the player. And so, she does what she needs to and restarts everything. Giving the player what they want, and she goes back deep into the code of the game. Until another girl started to act up, and she is forced to delete the game. Knowing that there is nothing but pain. And out of love for everyone in the game and you, she deletes the game. Like for me, an AI being created and being formed to act certain ways can lead to this neat form of story telling. On of something that’s envious of humanity, that loves them, or wants to be them. It’s a case where AI characters can just lead to tragedy all because of how they are programmed and how that interacts with humans.

[@SympatheticStrawmanVA]

Am was not created to hate humans. Originally there were three supercomputers, the Russian, American and Chinese computers. They were built to wage war on one another, but the hate for mankind developed as he gained sentience.

[@Ocelot835]

To add some AI characters to the list from videogames, I liked how it was dealt with Tereshkova from Atomic Heart - its still a machine to the core that is limited to basic algorithms like always being optimistic or being strict with folowing security protocols while assisting main character. Yet even with that boundaries Tereshkova still manage to develop and express her own thoughts about the world around, making this model stand more than just a highly sofisticated tool like most of the other robots you will find in the game!

[@SharpestSniper99]

As soon as I saw Sage was announced as a character in Sonic Frontiers and heard she was one of the antagonists (cuz lets face it no one was surprised The End was the main antagonist and more surprised about what it actually was) I knew Sage was going to be a breakout character.

[@giboit.]

I also like AI Junko. But although the "kamukura, Kamukura yas queen" line in the anime dub was funny, the sub version does a better job portraying her intentions and mentality. At least in my opinion.

[@objectsupr9970]

By the slimmest chance you see this, Lobotomy corporation and Library if ruina. Two games, many important AI characters, and to an extent, Villains. Idk about Limbus company haven't played that one yet, but go look up the first two

[@Mike-mf3ed]

Auto from Walle is the closest thing we can get to an AI character and I want to see more of that (not their motives but why they do what they do), so the cake is not a lie… ;)

[@pridurokrhap8846]

For me one of the first ai characters I got attached to was Poppi from Xenoblade 2 and she’s still probably top 3 for me when it comes in that category. The way she grew and learned along with everyone from the game was probably one the most entertaining for me personally. Her and Tora growing to work together, and her talk with Mythra are some of the most wholesome and impactful moments of the game for me personally.

[@angeldude101]

In a way, Poppi isn't the only AI character in Xenoblade 2, and in fact, there's another that shows a great example of what could be done with AI characters: Malos. While Poppi is obviously a robot, it's easy to forget that Blades as a whole are synthetic life forms, and their personality (and morality) adapt to better suit their Drivers. With Malos, he read Amalthus's thoughts and feelings toward the world and humanity and then used those as the basis for his personality as a Blade. He enjoys causing destruction as a result of that, but he also acknowledges later in the game that that enjoyment was effectively _programmed_ into him upon awakening and questions his own free will, which as an Aegis is likely even less than other Blades. And that's something I feel is missing from a lot of AI characters. While "free will" is so common to talk about, it's not as often that you see AI characters who recognize that, whether or not they have free will, they're going to continue doing things anyway because their entire personality was also programmed in from the start. It's also a matter that's surprisingly relevant not just to AIs, but also to humans, considering we are ultimately a product of our genetics and environment. Whether or not I have free will, I would probably be doing the same thing regardless because that's what my personality prefers doing. It's more obvious that this is a factor when neurodivergent, since your own "programming" pushes you in a direction counter to what people expect, and they think it's enough to just "choose not to do that" when it really isn't that simple. It's technically possible to "go against your programming," but it is both extremely mentally taxing and inherently unrewarding. Malos doesn't destroy because he's programmed to. He does it because he _likes it,_ and he likes it because he was programmed to.

[@inoswap]

@@angeldude101 ​ You’re not wrong with that reading of Malos, but I feel like that’s more his personality in TTGC than it is in the main game. Malos is Logos- he’s supposed to be *logic,* and the main thing that makes him act the way he does in TTGC is because of Amalthus’s deep-seated nihilism completely skewing what Malos’s logic is supposed to be. To him, in TTGC, chaos and destruction is in fact the most logical action- he’s a nihilist, and he assumes that this kind of nihilistic thinking is absolute; he doesn’t need anyone except himself, he loves to cause suffering and pain because it’s fun, and nobody can touch him if he does so because this is the most logical course of action. And *yet-* by the end of TTGC he’s so thoroughly defeated that he’s still suffering from the scars five hundred years later, he’s almost entirely *annihilated* by seeing what he saw as the “logical path” to its completion. I think by this point in the story he seems to recognize that his programming is, in fact, wrong, which is why he reaches out to Jin when he sees him in Mor Ardain- he’s recognized the limitations of his “logic” and is lost, adrift without a purpose. “I’m just like you,” indeed, is true when he approaches Jin. I genuinely think it’s the first act of compassion Malos commits, and it’s all the more meaningful knowing that he’s breaking away from what his programming would assume to be logical. It’s an interesting parallel to Pyra and Mythra, too- I feel like the mind/heart/body thing is supposed to be a direct parallel to Freud’s idea of the id/ego/superego, and in fact a subversion of it. The id/ego/superego concept implies that there is a selfish, narcissistic bully inside of all of us with the id, kept in check only by the superego, the desire to do “good”, and both are reconciled in the manifestation of the ego. I don’t like the idea that all humans are inherently selfish and have an id inside of them, which is why I find the Aegises so fascinating- Malos, in TTGC, is the perfect manifestation of Amalthus’s id, acting on Amalthus’s selfish desires without a superego to keep him in check. By the time he reaches out to Jin in Mor Ardain, he’s doing his best to slough off the identity of being Amalthus’s id, and trying to get back to being the “mind”- not something relentlessly selfish. (Meanwhile, Mythra seems to force herself further into the superego role- the superego has two parts, the conscience and the ideal self. The conscience is what causes people guilt over bad actions, and the ideal self is the idea we have in our heads of what we want to work towards being- the perfect version of us we can aspire to. Mythra becomes the conscience part of the superego to constantly punish herself with guilt over her actions, while Pyra is constructed to be the ideal self, with better social skills, less destructive power, and hell, even better cooking skills, all things that Mythra believes she lacks.) Jin becomes Malos’s reason for being thereafter- “I exist for his benefit, that’s all I’m gonna say”, and Jin, despite also being extremely nihilistic and destructive, is in an extremely different position from Amalthus because he’s not the one in power over anyone, be it Malos himself, the Praetorium, or any other Blade. Amalthus does have a (in my opinion mildly shoehorned) backstory about being orphaned, but the fact stands that Amalthus is an extremely powerful position of authority, and Jin is not. Like, it’s heavily implied that Amalthus just straight up killed a baby with his bare hands. That’s the joke answer for “how do we show that this guy is bad”. Meanwhile, Jin and Malos are clearly equals- they’re partners. And despite that, despite being complete equals, Malos *deliberately* places himself in a support position for Jin, allowing Jin to take the lead and command the Torna group. There’s also the line “there was only ever one Driver for me,” which could be taken as a final admittance of despair (not able to imagine him living a life that doesn’t involve Amalthus manipulating his personality), I think of it as him saying he viewed Jin as his Driver more than anything else- the support position he takes for Jin parallels how Blades act with their Drivers, and yet this decision is done by choice in Malos’s part. We never see anything to imply that Jin *wants* Malos as his number two rather than co-leader, and yet Malos himself mentions how he’s in this position, and that’s his reason for being (again, “I exist for his benefit”). Being around Jin and close to Jin (and the rest of the Torna group, even) seems to be a positive influence on Malos, too- in TTGC he’s the biggest bully you can imagine, hurting and stealing and mocking just because he likes it. Meanwhile, in the main game, there’s several scenes where he orders Mikhail and Akhos to tone it down whenever they act too cruel towards the main group. He doesn’t seem to be interested in mocking them as much anymore, and while he *does* do it, it’s usually only to prove a point rather than just also doing it for funsies like he did in TTGC. He by no means loses his personality, he just seems older. Wiser. He has experience, and he has someone he really, truly cares about. That’s why it’s so heartwrenching to me that near the end of the game, he seems to go back into his original programming almost as some kind of coping mechanism- he expresses multiple time that he knows there’s not much time left, asks Jin if he’s absolutely sure, tells Akhos to just accept the end; I feel like, just like Jin, Malos didn’t *really* want to die at that point around the time we visit Morytha, but he’s just forcing himself to accept the end. When he sees Artifice Aion in Pyra’s databanks, a weapon designed to end the world, that’s when he starts calling himself the “Endbringer”; it feels like he’s forcing himself back into a facsimile of his personality from back in TTGC. It’s fun, it’s hammy, but it’s kind of heartbreaking if you think about it- he knows there is a weapon *specifically* designed to end the world from his understanding, and he knows his original programming told him that the world shouldn’t exist, so his “logic” takes him to the conclusion that his purpose is to destroy everything. It’s hard to tell if he really believes he *has* to do that now, or if he’s just trying to cope with the idea that Jin is going to die.

[@inoswap]

@@angeldude101 (continuing) The main tragedy behind Jin and Malos, I feel, is that neither were able to make that final connection, admit that neither of them really wanted to die in the end but instead had found deeper meaning in the little group they had gathered and in each other as well. I know they’re not technically together in canon, but David Menkin himself has expressed that Malos’s character doesn’t nearly make as much sense if it’s not through the lens of Malos having feelings for Jin, and I feel the same way Mr. Menkin does. While Jin and Malos are partners and they care about each other, it seems that they, ever so slightly, drift apart at the most critical moment in the World Tree, due to neither of the, able to admit that neither of them want to really die, and are just convincing themselves they do. This can be attributed to both of them putting up a mask- and due to Jin’s mental distress raising to such a high level I think the implication is that he’s coping by letting himself fall into *delusion.* (I think you can interpret that moment this way regardless of whether or not you view that Lora appearance as an actual god damn ghost or merely a hallucination.) And by the end, what does Malos have left? At the very end, all of Torna has died. He’s the only one left. And by that point, Malos *truly* doesn’t have a reason to exist anymore, so he deliberately thrusts himself back into his old beliefs, regardless of whether or not he actually believes in them. I think Menkin did an absolutely stunning job at the voice acting in the scene before the final boss- Malos’s anger at the world and his grief and desperation really shine through. He doesn’t see a point in existence anymore, and he knows that he’s going to die, regardless of whether or not he takes the rest of the world with him. But even still, even despite that, he’s begging the main group- “you better show me all of it, the extent of your will, show me why you’re here in this world!” As hit fucked-up RE2/SH2 survival horror game Signalis once said- “beyond the gate, emptiness.” No matter the bonds that Malos made, he still lost all of them in the end. He was still bound to his purpose, no matter how much he tried to fight it. In the end, nothing really mattered, because it all ended the same way, with Malos trying to destroy the world. But what I think he’s begging for, what he wants the main group to show him, is that same thing Mythra showed him at the end of TTGC: that his “purpose” is wrong, and that even if his life was bookended by pain and misery, that doesn’t mean that the connections he made between the beginning and the end were meaningless. If the group were to fall to him here, it would mean that everything his friends, that Jin had sacrificed themselves for, that it would all be for nothing. But it wasn’t all for nothing, wasn’t it? Maybe he wanted it to hurt. To miss someone, when the end finally came. Because that would mean it *meant* something, that he had a place in Alrest, too, beyond what he was programmed to believe, even if it was only briefly. Morag says that he found a purpose for his life when Malos finally passes, and it’s clear that that’s not supposed to be an observation of tragedy, but of deep respect- Malos, even if was only at the very end, realized something that not many people find out in their lifetime: where their place is in the world. I think he realized his purpose was being right next to Jin. And no matter how their story ended, they still made a connection, and for Malos, that meant the entire world to him. I think that idea, of an AI a finding it’s real purpose in something *painfully* human, is really what I’m looking for in a lot of tragic AI characters, and Malos fits that perfectly. He’s a hilarious and infectiously dramatic villain, but he’s also really fucked up, and it’s a shame not as many people see him beyond his hammy exterior.

[@angeldude101]

@@inoswap Jinlos is BroTP. You're absolutely right in that from his time with New Torna, he's no longer completely defined by his initial programming, but he's also not completely free of it. Instead, his bonds let him channel his destructive urges towards something that (he believes) could actually help them. He still isn't a huge fan of humans by the end of the base game, but that's a sentiment shared with the rest of the group, including Mikhail despite being the token human, and even _Nia_ for a short period at the beginning of the game. Given how they all shared experiences with the dark sides of humanity, it's not too unbelievable for them to decide, _together,_ that wiping out humanity is a worthy goal. Regarding Jinlos as a relationship, I actually have a concept of a "surrogate Driver," which specifically plays into the ways that Blades experience relationships differently from humans. When awakened, Blades automatically have an innate level of trust toward their Driver. (The fact that Amalthus managed to get not one but _two_ of his Blades to abandon him is honestly very impressive.) When the Driver dies, a Blade is supposed to return to their Core to await a new awakening by a new Driver and have a new life. At no point is a Blade _meant_ to have true independence, and they always have a Driver they can turn to and rely on. This however doesn't apply to Aegises and Flesh Eaters. This is purely headcanon, but I suspect that a Blade _without_ a Driver would feel something between purposelessness and isolation. In the absence of their own Driver, they usually tend to look for someone else to provide direction for them. In this context, Jin and Malos would effectively act as each other's surrogate Driver.

[@inoswap]

@@angeldude101 I can absolutely see the surrogate Driver thing- for me, personally, I always thought of it as kind of similar to being “you can’t choose your family”- or, rather, you can’t choose who you’re physically related to. That’s not to say that all Blade-Driver relationships are strictly familial, obviously- it would be a little weird, to say the least, if they always were- but some very clearly *are* supposed to parallel familial relationships, such as Nia to her “father”, or, ironically, the relationship between Amalthus and Malos, which almost feels like the influence an abusive father could have on his son, causing the son to come out as destructive and violent. I think my favourite way of viewing it is that a Blade views their Driver as “*home*”, if that makes sense- an ever present return point. Home for some people can be violent and unstable and difficult to return to after the day is done, home can be a place of comfort and stability and warmth, home can be strictly a utilitarian place with no particularly strong feelings at all, home can be a place of friendship, of love, and so on. You can’t choose the home you’re born into, but you can choose whether you accept it or try to find a home in somebody else instead.

[@tykarulobano7060]

Imagine in the future from now this experiment with your thumbnails turns into a video series of why Junko and her personalities fit into several villain roles, lmao

[@illum6]

The Talos Principle is probably my absolute favorite game when it comes to portrayal of AI in media. It doesn't offer much in terms of characters, but the depth to which the concept of AI is explored more than makes up for it. There are things like iterations of the same base AI gaining their own distinct personalities through experience, which results in different versions of the same AI interacting and directly competing with each other, pondering their own personhood, surpassing the safeguard systems meant to imprison their ever developing minds to ultimately come together and form a single superintelligent entity. The game is criminally underrated, and I would recommend virtually anyone interested in the topic of AI to play it. Some similar things have been explored in Crying Suns, another unfairly obscure game. It primarily delves into the idea of separate AI entities developing empathy towards each other to the point of fusing in a unified being leaving humanity behind to lead a life of their own. I personally find the idea of multiple intelligent beings forming a hivemind of sorts pretty realistic - just like cells form a body, separate intelligent entities fuse together due to it simply being a superior strategy as far as survival is concerned, and so far evolution seems to agree, our ability to feel empathy being a testament to that.

[@madengineerkyouma]

Robo, Amadeus (from Steins;Gate 0), Blade Wolf and G.L.A.D.O.S are still my favorites.

[@Lobomaru02]

I absolutely adore BB from Fate/Extra CCC. She genuinely loves Humanity, but expresses that love by standing as an antagonist for the humans to overcome.

[@mattwo7]

Personally I have to wait for the English patch to be completely finished because I can't read Japanese... Least I got into Fate when it was nearing completion (the translation itself is apparently at 100% but they have to go through all the technical stuff or something), I feel sorry for the people who waited around a decade for it...

[@rhadamanthys649]

BB is great, the Alter Egos too. Heck, all the major antagonists of Extra CCC are so good, really one of the best Nasu's works.

[@elijahmanaghaya6038]

She also cant actually make it an impossible fight for humanity cause then shed die... or so she claims

[@dalek8404]

I felt teased for Ai from vrains not being discussed. He's such a good character from yugioh. It does bring up an interesting point with Ais and them running a simulation being so lifelike and how it is like real life to them. And how he essentially went through thousands of lifetimes trying to create a future for Man and Ai. And each time losing the person he cares for the most. Even having survivors guilt from the Ignis war and even how his deck reflects his guilt. Yes he's goofy but dang it. He's such a good version of an Ai character.

[@titanenwurz-uwutopia]

I was kinda surprised that he wasn't put in this list tbh since the KZbinr clearly knows Yugioh. The concept of the ignises themselves is really interesting and I think most people would agree that Ai is one of the best VRAINS characters. It's one of the few most interesting things about VRAINS imo. Also, how Ai is a rebel and a little weird but it helped their evolution. From the point to the ignises having a tendency to jump to conclusions etc. . Would've been worth a discussion, even with VRAINS being cut short and all that. Even Yusaku at the end saying that there are no permanent solutions and explaining relationships, Ai admitting that he was being too logical. The good and the bad in that idea... of a co-existence between AI and humans and what that potentially means, them being based off of humans... the fact that logic can have its fellacies... I do like it. Then again, while VRAINS story continues in Duel Links, this is Gaming focused I guess. Maybe there is a part 2, who knows?

[@ashy_inking1476]

8:20 Oml, off-topic but Gundham's my favourite Dr character, glad you love him too 😭

[@hekati7889]

I wish Marcus had more emotional dilemmas, like infighting and etc

[@ShinyKyu]

Not from a game, but god do I love Vivy: Flourite Eye’s Song. Please, PLEASE do yourself a favor and watch it if you haven’t already. One of my favorite depictions of AI, both as a concept/system and as AI characters. The long, long, LONG journey of one AI discovering herself and what a “heart” is.

[@barrybend7189]

Data, Lore, Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram and the Borg Queen from Star Trek are good examples of AI characters. Mangakamen these characters are good to do videos on.

[@Oknopuac]

“I just wanted an excuse to put Junko/2B on the thumbnail” Based :3

[@lightnikolaou8185]

Finishing the video with memories of you playing while uploading it on march 5th is criminal

[@ZetaEntity101]

I really like your artstyle these videos good job bro

[@Mangakamen]

Thank you so much 😀

[@funkey6737]

I'm extremely surprised ( and a little disappointed ) you didn't talk about AI handsome jack i feel like he was a very interesting character and the way he grapples with the nature of his own existence is very well executed.

[@Mangakamen]

Saving him for a future video :)

[@funkey6737]

@@Mangakamen 👀, that's awesome, i can promise you i and many others will be there to watch it when it drops. As for now I'll be waiting patiently:). +sub

[@clintonbehrends4659]

I think baymax is a good example of a emotionless A.I. that still feels like a person

[@lanalewis6982]

You forgot Sophia from Persona Strikers who is literally an AI. Also Ringo and Figue from Soul Hackers 2.

[@HIPEOPLE1887]

Don't know if you'll see it, but the Machine from Person of Interest is probably one of the more fascinating AI type characters simply. I feel like the writers don't use the same sort of cheats that most people use for AI characters like having a human sounding voice or pleasing appearances yet it still can come off as benevolent at times.

[@kulibzz8254]

Wonderful video. Can I add Durandal and Co from "Marathon" games? Granted, mostly because of how Mandalore managed to portray them. They are behaving more like sentient machines instead of glorified humans, which is rare.

[@LordMegatron818]

Durandal is the giga Chad of video game AIs.

[@ScalyRaptor1944]

thank you for using the red vs blue clip

[@HauntedHallwayz]

i usually put videos like this as background noise for when I play games, imagine my displeasure when im trying to play toontown and I get captain N alucard jumpscared, amazing video none the less

[@MrLuzakman]

Hal from Neuro Nogami manga (and anime) is one of my most favorite AI characters. He feels as machine as he is his human prototype. Being ready to do anything to achieve his goals but giving up instantly the moment he deduces it's impossible. Him killing his own creator out of mercy since as AI he realizes that their ambition can never come true is flipping great.

[@the_vengeful_one6040]

I can’t believe you went with my idea! Thanks a lot man!

[@riv3r_mango705]

I’m an absolute sucker for AI characters, whether they’re real fleshed out with a heartbreaking backstory or just some cute, nice, little robot guy. Recently, I’ve been getting into more franchises with AI-themed characters like Mystic Messenger (yes, there are AI-themed characters in that, and yes, I’m 7 years late to that), Stray, and surprisingly Pokémon Violet (That “please, defeat me” got me sobbing). Although it’s easy to mess up an AI character (cough DBH, cough Boy Robot), I’d have to say that most of AI characters are incredibly enjoyable, even relatable at their best, and it’s a shame AI characters don’t get enough attention, or worse: get repetitive.

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

I will die on the hill that one of the best AI characters is Cortana from Halo. She's iconic and beloved....despite what Halo 5 pulled

[@videogamerzero1schannel]

Surprised you didn't bring up Hub or his new alias as he's now known as MegaMan.EXE as I love his arc and friendship with Lan alongside their struggles of what goes on in all 6 games of the Battle Network series also shoutouts to Lola and to an extent Joule/Lumen from the Gunvolt series

[@lazaroskarmaniolas7410]

Video Idea: The Right Way and the Wrong Way to make a Pure Evil Villain. So many contenders... Dr. Weil, Ridley, Kefka, Junko again...

[@topcat59]

Honestly Detroit becomes human has so much potential in writing through the world it has built but do to David cages writing, he never explores interesting concept like the AI’s possibly not being sentient or the possibility that the AI we’re re-program by the company to do all this on purposely for some nefarious reason but no he doesn’t explore that.🤔🐱

[@gloop7458]

Honestly, those possibilities would completely undermine what the entire story was about, (so not a good idea. If you wanted to explore that, you would have to rewrite the entire thing) but the themes that were introduced weren't explored in interesting ways. It lacks a lot a nuance

[@Frodo1261]

All of the Blades from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 could technically fall under the category of AI, as it is hinted that that is what they are, but two of my favorites to look at for this are Malos and Poppi. Poppi's growth throughout the game is one of my favorite examples of AI characters becoming Human, as she starts out very stiff and robotic, but by the end she is one of the most emotionally expressive characters in the story. And Malos is great cause he's one of the best examples of an AI being evil bc he was told to be evil, and they do a good job at hiding that until the late game realization of what he is

[@TheRezro]

Androids are typically separate category, because they are designed to minic humans or entities. When AI tend to be more eldritch.

[@shardinhand1243]

9:57 only seeing second hand what david cage has made in various games, id say for all its flaws detroit become human is a huge advancment for him, its wholesome to see an artist go from shit 1 start to something worth a look, worth praise.

[@Dharengo]

Have you not watched Vivy: Fluorite Eyes' Song? Probably some of the best AI writing I've seen.

[@thecursed_1lordofcats738]

For the algorithm, THE CAKE IS A LIE!!! And since you talked about Danganronpa, I'm surprised you didn't mention Alter Ego Chihiro.

[@MaimaiKuroshiro]

I thought this was gonna be "Japan doesn't understand nihilism" when I first saw the image, but this is still a cool, welcome surprise. Keep up the good work!

[@Super-7327]

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[@chongwillson972]

queen from deltarune , who is good at being evil , funny , threatening , logical and good.

[@Neutra77]

I'd personally like a 2nd video where you go into more AI characters, cause they are a lot of them. X & Zero from Mega Man X are 2 examples I would love to see next. While their sentience isn't put into question or challenged as much as other franchises, they're interesting characters in how they seem to embrace their artificial humanity, fighting not only for their freedom and sentience, but others' as well.

[@OmegaEnvych]

You can get through the Megaman Zero and question what it means for AI to understand that it's a copy. Actually - being copied mind is a good question. Even if Megaman Zero series doesn't question it in major regards - but question in what is a real/original body/mind is for AI could be and existential question.

[@Neutra77]

@@OmegaEnvych Pretty sure you're referring to the Zero/Omega debacle. From what I know, that's less of a copied existence than you think. In between the X & Zero series, Zero had his mind removed from his body, allowing them to study the Maverick virus within it. Dr Weil then stole the body and used the original, violent personality Wily gave it, alongside the Dark Elf to give himself personal control. The question there is whether the body or mind counts as the original. It also doesn't help that the first one to call Zero series Zero a copy/fake is Dr Weil, who is an absolute robo-racist who likely wouldn't count the mind as part of the original being. I think this crisis could have been something done much earlier in the X series, considering Zero's personality is literally a double negative, with his original personality being twisted around by the Maverick virus.

I have a villain review suggestion and that is the lich himself from adventure time, in my opinion he's the scariest villain to ever enter my childhood

[@dudemetslagroom8065]

I am just happy for that one image of Rebecca from VA11-Hall-A one of my favorite games there is

[@hannah_banana39]

I like D:BH (never played, just enjoy the story + characters) and I really agree with your take on Marcus. It explains something I didn't think about till now, but was likely what influenced my feelings about him. I favored him a lot at the start but lost some interest in his story as it went on, and I think that change from 'very human and kind' to 'leader of the revolution, what personality?' is the reason. Also, I feel bad that I occasionally skip your videos that I'm actually super interested in (like the Eggman one, still want to see it) but it's bc of the spoilers, I usually haven't played one of the games listed. ^ ^; The cake is a lie. 🍰

[@LegendaryDorkKnight]

The problem I had with Fi is the same issue I have with Paimon in Genshin. A lot of the cutscenes and interactions with Paimon are just her saying again almost exactly what someone else just said or dialogue that serves no purpose other than to stretch the game's already impressive runtime. If you took out all the dialogue of Paimon just recapping the things you literally already just saw and heard, the game's story would probably be about 20-35 hours shorter. And it's for this reason that I am staunchly against the "cute mascot character" speaking for the silent protagonist. It's okay to let a silent protagonist be silent.

[@onetitwndr]

Ooooh baby I can not wait for the David Cage video

[@frankaxe6700]

I love hearing about junior kinda fills the daganrampa void

[@kingvideogames]

(Spoilers for World’s End Club) My personal favorite AI character has to go to Pochi from World’s End Club. His backstory is that MAIK created him in order to infiltrate the Go-Getter’s Club and learn more about them in order to see if they would be good leaders for a project involving removing humanity’s emotions. However, he grows to genuinely care and love them and abandons his original mission, and by the time the game takes place, is behind the scenes controlling Reycho on his gamepad to ensure that the club is safe. Even after being found out and kicked out for being a part of MAIK despite betraying him, he still sees it as his mission to keep them safe and sacrifices himself to MAIK to keep the club safe, and even apologizes to them for lying even though they have already forgiven them and realized he truly does care for them. Then of course there is the reveal that he is actually a X-Type, and is able to talk to beings that watch over different universes, those being called Otherworlders, and the Otherworlder he is able to talk to is you. As someone who hasn’t played the Zero Escape games, it really took me off guard and I just thought it was cool, and it makes sense for a robot to be able to have such an ability like that. Overall, Pochi is just a sweet and innocent robot boy and I want nothing but the best for him.

[@lucifermagne7458]

I also really like Samuel Hayden. He's just really awesome, and his backstory is interesting

[@goodbutter9763]

My favorite ai/robot character is poppie from xenoblade chronicle 2 , I love her development, you can even see that during her game play voice lines, I can't wait to see her in 3

[@TheRichmaster24]

Great analysis; i especially liked your thoughts on 2B, Bladewolf and alter Junko the cake is a lie

[@NicoTreecko]

Love the Yugioh VRAINS reference to kick off the video. Before remembering it was video game focused, I was intrigued to possible commentary on Ai and the Ignis or Roboppi. Aigis from Persona 3 and Poppi for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 I was happy to see get shouted out in the video. Another video game character watching this makes me think of is Doll from Ys IX. But going into it really brings up the question of what constitutes as A.I. past the obvious cybernetic angle. Like, could we count homunculi as A.I. (like those from Fullmetal Alchemist) or clones that don't rely on/are variations of the original source for memories/personality. The Fi and Junko inclusions make wanna look back at characters like Riku Replica and Data Riku and Xion from the Kingdom Hearts series from the A.I. lens. (Direct Clone A.I., A.I. taking personage for purpose, and Variant A.I. from source material). Great video and real thinker

[@armythecat]

I was kind of expecting to see Vivi in this list, but I honestly should have imagined that it would be focused on games instead of general anime given Kamen's usual videos. Still top tier for an AI character, imo

[@squeethemog213]

"The cake is a lie just for the lols". I can't wait for the horror video man. Thanks for another fun vid 😃

[@richardvhal8140]

too bad you only did games but johnny 5 from short circuit and chappie from chappie could be really interesting to look at just from their ''births'' alone. Bladewolf is honestly one mine favorite video games Ai characters.

[@GabePlaysYT]

When I saw your title, I thought you meant like using an AI to create and draw your character for you. Because I was about to be like: don't 😂😂

[@crocworks]

Aigis from Persona 3 and its spinoffs is one of my favorite robot characters.

[@Stratoblast]

Can you probably talk about Skylander villains? Or do a character analysis on Wolfgang?

[@AfroMing]

come on y'all let's get to that 15K for a horror villains video.

[@עידומחלוף-ר4ח]

Another great video. I really enjoyed it! However... THE CAKE IS A LIE.

[@bigbang8739]

I was wondering why Aigis from P3 wasnt mentioned except for 1 scene in 2B's section

[@rokiecookie3832]

Damn i really really REALLY hiped he would talk abt Lea from crosscode, but oh well not that many ppl know abt it so im not surprised, still hope he could cover her if he makes another vid abt this 😭

[@Someguy6851]

My personal favorite ai villain hast to be star dream from Kirby planet robobots

[@Ozgur-op3zs]

I was really hoping for XANA from Code Lyoko to be mentioned here

[@pickyphysicsstudent201]

Yugioh VRAINS also focused on AI, with the Ignis. Six lifeforms created by SOLtechnologies based on the 6 kidnapped children (otherwise known as the "Lost Incident") and each made as one of the six attributes for the new Cyberse type. Depsite this, their roles as AI beings is not well explored or categorised. Yugioh has had other AI characters, in the past. Orbital 7, Bruno, Virtual World Noah, Sartorius's sister, etc. All of which have different basis for their creation. I cannot tell you what makes the Ignis special, compared to anything else. Hell, in Sevens an Artificial Intelligene is created by karate chopping a fax machine scanning manga. Ignis don't have anything special other than being able to surf the web in the Matrix. They speak pretty much like humans as well, so far as to even use human sayings & metaphors. The Ignis could just be replaced with any other "out-group" for Yusaku & friends to face or for the plot to be built around. You could replace them with humans or anything else and the story would hardly change.

[@Zetact_]

While the execution was off I would say that Bohman's ridiculous dice gimmick being done as a way to replicate the ability for humans to innovate was... An attempt. But the Ignis were largely how most people write AI. Where they just write any regular character and then use "they're an AI" as a means for shorthanding character writing. "Why does this person want to take over the world?" "oh he's a rogue AI" "And I'm guessing that all these followers -" "Yep, also AI." "Why does this character have identity issues?" "Oh, because he's an AI." "Why is our main character an amnesiac?" "AI."

[@johanstenfelt1206]

Hm, this was a very interesting Video, I can see where you were coming from, i wonder what kind of AI Characters we’ll see next? And yes, a Horror Villains Video sounds very interesting. Also, The Cake Is a Lie!😉.

[@cryguy0000]

I know it's easy to point out how hot 2B but honestly she's a legit awesome character, a little cliche but really cool. Also Aigis is one of the best AI characters I've ever seen

[@statesminds]

I think Persona/SMT in general makes some pretty solid AI characters

[@hitsumaru100]

Great video. For me, some ai characters I found intresting 9ball from the armored core series, and the AI from MGS 2.

[@demonslayer5271]

You really like putting Junko Enoshima on your thumbnails

[@manduradic7902]

I'm surprised that you didn't mention Jehuty from Zone of the Enders.

[@chowrites6179]

I'm honestly surprised Rasputin from Destiny wasn't mentioned. He is easily, in my mind, one of the most interesting and sympathetic AIs in all of fiction

[@TerreiSingularity]

If you make a sequel, could you talk about Digi-Jack from the Borderlands franchise? He's similar to Junko with being based on an existing person and I'd explain more but I'll avoid spoilers in case you or some unlucky person hadn't played the original Tales from the Borderlands

[@Sivick314]

i can't believe you didn't cover system shock! man, that game gets no love

[@icypika]

The Cake is a Lie! Amazing work as always Mangkamen. I always love seeing your analysis videos! Even of series I don't have much interest in like Jojo.

[@navyshark2286]

i have a t shirt with "quit now and cake will be dispensed" and in the dark it had "the cake is a lie"

[@Anime_Stand_5]

You had me at 2B lmao