Questions, round 1.

[koraki]

 Mods have eligibility questions about several of the characters that have shown up in the tagset. If you nominated these characters or are familiar with the canon, please comment on this post to let us know how the characters in question are eligible for this exchange (or to confirm that they are not eligible, if that's the case).

To reiterate eligibility rules: "Robotic" characters, for the purposes of this exchange, are characters in the realm of AIs, robots, androids, mecha, machines, cyborgs, and any other technology-focused characters. [...] The only time mods may reject a nomination is if the character is egregiously not-robotic - e.g. 100% human characters, or otherwise completely human characters with single prosthetic limbs.

Mass Effect Trilogy

• Female Shepard
• Jeff "Joker" Moreau

Both of these characters appear to be human and upon googling/wiki-skimming I don't see any indication that they are canonically cyborgs/AI/robotic. Please link to evidence of eligibility.

Original Work

• Brilliant Woman Engineer Terrible at Adulting  
• Ethically Conflicted Govt. Employee   
• Highly Intelligent Parrot 
• Kid Who Keeps Ordering Stuff
• Person with Terrible Sense of Direction   
• Retail Worker Who Is Polite To Technology

Original character nominations must include at least one character who is clearly specified to be a robot/cyborg/mecha/machine/AI/etc. in the text of the nomination. Please modify each of these nominations so that they either 1) are a group including a robotic character or 2) clearly specify that the single nominated character is in some way robotic. If these nominations are not modified by the time the nomination period ends, they will be rejected.

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

• Clone Trooper Pilot Left For Dead
• Jaded Human CIS Mechanic

Original character nominations must include at least one character who is clearly specified to be a robot/cyborg/mecha/machine/AI/etc. Clones are not considered to be robotic characters simply by virtue of being clones. Please modify each of these nominations so that they either 1) are a group including a robotic character or 2) clearly specify that the single nominated character is in some way robotic. If these nominations are not modified by the time the nomination period ends, they will be rejected.

Star Wars: Rebels

• Ezra Bridger
• Zeb Orrelios
• Hera Syndulla
• Kanan Jarrus
• Sabine Wren

These characters appear to be non-robotic and upon googling/wiki-skimming I don't see any indication that they are canonically cyborgs/AI/robotic. Please link to evidence of eligibility.

Transformers (Bay Movies)

• Charlie Watson

This character appears to be non-robotic and upon googling/wiki-skimming I don't see any indication that she is canonically a cyborg/AI/robotic. Please link to evidence of eligibility.

Comments

[chase_acow]

I didn't nominate, but in the spirit of possibly requesting - Mass Effect, Shepard (this is the correct spelling) was brought back from the dead at the beginning of the second game, largely thanks to cybernetic implants that reconstructed their skeleton. It was called the Lazarus Project because an organization called Cerberus has no imagination when it comes to naming things.

There's further conversations with team mates through the series about what those implants mean for Shepard's free will and life ahead. Plus if you're super aggressive, your face cracks around the implants and you start looking a little terminatory.

[koraki]

I had osmosed a lot about Mass Effect, but not that! :D Accepting Shepard (and changing the spelling of the nomination). Thanks!

Commander Shepard

[(Anonymous)]

SPOILERS
I don't know about Joker, but in ME2's opening Shepard is killed and resurrected as a cyborg--it's not a significant character beat but it's there. Depending on certain choices you make in the game (getting cosmetic surgery, where you fall on the good/evil axis), Shepard will get more severe facial scarring and glowing red eyes like a Terminator. In ME3 they even raise the possibility that "Shepard" from ME2-3 isn't mentally Shepard, instead being an artificial AI (although that quickly gets disproven) who thinks they're Shepard.

Re: Commander Shepard

[koraki]

Awesome, thanks! I will accept her nomination (and change it to the correct spelling).

[(Anonymous)]

Not the nominator but none of the Rebels characters listed are robots/AI.

[friendlylocalmod]

Thank you! We'll reject the tags for now (though of course the nominator can provide evidence of eligibility if they want to challenge that decision).

[amancay]

Not the nominator, but Charlie from the Transformers movies is a human character.

[friendlylocalmod]

Thank you! We'll reject the tag for now (though of course the nominator can provide evidence of eligibility if they want to challenge that decision).