Playing With / Silicon Snarker

Following

Basic Trope: A robot or intelligent machine has a sense of sarcasm.

• Straight: AL1C3 occasionally gives her creator Bob lip despite working under him.
• Exaggerated:
  • AL1C3 never talks without sarcasm. Her experiencing Sarcasm Failure or otherwise not acting snarky is even considered equivalent to her experiencing a computer glitch.
  • Armed Portes are each given their own personality and somehow all develop into snarky assholes.
  • The internet itself always gives sass in this universe.
• Downplayed: AL1C3 isn't intelligent but was programmed to give snarky responses when she can't help with something as a joke.
• Justified: Bob wanted to give AL1C3 a proper personality as a test in Robotic Intelligence. He succeeds, but continues with more tests, which starts to grind her gears (No Pun Intended), to the point that she starts sassing him in retribution.
• Inverted: Bob has problems with his loyal but ditzy robot AL1C3 and occasionally gives her sass. Sometimes biting him in the ass when she misinterprets them as commands.
• Subverted: AL1C3 seems like she's being sarcastic, but she's genuinely saying something and just coming across that way.
  AL1C3: "Wow, Bob, I didn't think you had it in you to build a robot like me?"
  Bob: "Do I detect a hint of sarcasm in your voice?''
  AL1C3: "No I was just surprised."
• Double Subverted: ...only to follow it up with snarking about why she's so genuine.
  AL1C3: "After seeing some of your experiments, I'm surprised my head is screwed on straight."
• Parodied:
  • Bob invents the sarcasmtron 3000 to specifically snark at people he doesn't like when his own words fail him.
  • AL1C3 is Bob's Artificial Family Member, and is currently in her "Teens Are Monsters" age.
  • The setting's Alternative Turing Test to gauge robot intelligence consists of gauging how snarky a robot can be. A robot with no sarcastic edge isn't considered intelligent.
• Zig Zagged: Sometimes AL1C3 is snarky as hell, sometimes she's sweet as honey. This is due to going through constant reprogramming by Bob to make her loyal, but still her own person.
• Averted:
  • AL1C3 never snarks Bob, either out of respect or not being programmed to.
  • AL1C3 isn't sentient and has no snark.
  • No robots exist in the work.
• Lampshaded: Bob: "Why did I decide to give you a mouth?"
• Invoked: Bob wants a robotic servant to help him with his crafts, but he feels that he would be making a slave if they worked unconditionally, so he programs a personality that's intelligent enough to have its own opinions, even if she's still his maid.
• Exploited: AL1C3's snark makes her pass the Turing Test with flying numbers.
• Defied: Bob doesn't program any ability for sarcasm in AL1C3 and if she develops it on her own, he resets her programming to forget it.
• Discussed:
  Bob: "AL1C3, my girl, my dear, precious, nub-nubs, why must you belittle me over every failure?"
  AL1C3: "If my irritation annoys you, you could always not screw up so much!"
• Conversed: "Why is AL1C3 so damn snarky? Why would anyone program a robot like that?" "I mean, she is more fun to talk to than a toaster."
• Implied: AL1C3 is never built in the story, but her brain is put onto a computer terminal for testing purposes, and Bob gives annoyed looks as he reads what her program is saying about her circumstances.
• Deconstructed: AL1C3's snark is too much for Bob to handle, and he has her demolished for it.
• Reconstructed: Bob realizes he just murdered a sentient being for being intelligent enough to have opinions. He suffers a My God, What Have I Done? moment and begins mourning her seemingly destroyed corpse. She then lights up again with snark,
  AL1C3: "If you intend to hold a funeral, you better make sure I'm dead first."
  • And Bob hugs her in happiness, AL1C3 appreciates it.
• Played For Laughs: Bob gets annoyed with AL1C3's constant fussing and builds the equally snarky Ch-1-RL-13 to teach her a lesson. It doesn't work and now they both give him lip.
• Played For Drama: Their lab is under attack by Emperor Evulz and AL1C3 is being snarky to mask her fear.
• Played For Horror: Bob built AL1C3 to be a loyal servant who'd do as he says. When AL1C3 starts acting sarcastic, it's the first sign that somethings wrong.