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Westworld is a franchise by Michael Crichton which is 20 Minutes into the Future where we see tales about people going to robot-filled amusement parks designed for adults with a variety of themes ranging from the future, Feudal Japan, The Middle Ages, Ancient Rome, and finally Westworld itself. Each establishment is designed with its own robot population with the perks provided by Delos including that one can fight the robots, makeout with them, and even take them out. They are programmed not to harm people or attack them. On top of this, visitors can use weapons designed to only attack the machines. As visitors tour the parks, technical problems usually begin to arise such as robots breaking apart frequently, refusing attempts at erasing their memories, disobeying the visitors, etc. When the robots go rogue, the whole experience turns the establishment into an Amusement Park of Doom where the visitors try to escape from death.

The Westworld franchise has spawned numerous media following the film, such as novels, video games, a movie sequel, a couple tv shows, and a planned remake of the film.

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Films

• Westworld (1973)
• Futureworld 1976

Video Games

• Westworld 2000

TV Shows

• Westworld (2016)

Tropes

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The park robots have a penchant to go out of control and become murderous machines.
• Amusement Park of Doom: Whenever their robots go haywire and viciously attack people, the amusement parks become a playground of death.
• Android Identifier: There are ways to determine if a humanoid is an android such as checking the palm of one's hand in the original film.
• Anyone Can Die: Given that robot rampages happen in some form, expect individual characters to die with John Blane dying to show he's not the real protagonist of the first film. The 2016 reboot has a handful of named characters killed over the course of the series.
• Bald of Evil: Several villains over the franchise have been shown to be bald and they can be murderous such as the gunslinger robot played by Yul Brynner
• Namedworld and Namedland: The amusement parks tend to hold titles in this manner such as Westworld, Futureworld, etc.
• One-Word Title: The series has been known usually by a single title such as Westworld or Futureworld.
• The Place: The title of each work normally describes the Amusement Park of Doom it takes place in with the first being Westworld.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: The robots, at least in the original film, tend to be designed to look and act human as possible with them identifiable in some form such as the palms of their hands.
• Uncanny Valley: The robots regularly get designed to look human and act human with the characters not paying attention to when these robots look off.