AUTOMATRONS USED AS SUPPLY LINE MOVIE
AUTOMATRONS USED AS SUPPLY LINE ANDROID

The original OVA series featured android laborers built by the nefarious megacorporation Genom, which occasionally went rogue and required attention by a special, heavily-armed police unit (The 'A.D.

This was part of the entire plot of the anime series Bubblegum Crisis.

It may simply be a fault of construction that can't be toned down. Then again, every single android in the series is the same regardless of purpose. Dorothy Waynewright has superhuman strength, speed and endurance despite being a Replacement Goldfish.

In the 2004 OVA Azusa Will Help, a baseball team buys a secondhand maid robot to fill in for a ninth player.

She also performs decently in a battle in open space. Olga, the nanny robot, can transform into a car, a boat, and two forms of flying machine.

AUTOMATRONS USED AS SUPPLY LINE MOVIE

Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Astro Boy, used the trope again in the full length movie Phoenix 2772 (aka Space Firebird).Tenma later comments that the weapons and defense systems built into Astro are for self-defense, finally stating 'I won't lose him again.' Here, he's shown to be clearly overwhelmed by his son's death, and seeing that his son was killed by a lethal robot, he probably saw nothing wrong with going overboard on the self-defense systems. Here, Tobio/Toby meets his end at the hands of a rogue military robot. This trope is justified in the 2009 film.Oddly enough, the Game Boy Advance game based on the 2003 series gives him the guns back (in addition to the laser), and they also appear in the 2009 movie, to Astro's incredulity.He does have finger lasers to compensate. In this version, however, he doesn't have, ahem, rear-end gunning capability (and it's disturbing to contemplate what situation might have called for him to 'evolve' it). He gained his rocket boots after falling out the window of an office building & he got his Arm Cannon in a fight to the death with his evil 'brother' Atlas. Instead of all his gadgets being built into him from the start, his body somehow creates them in response to danger. In the anime series, this is explained away by Tenma giving Astro the ability to 'evolve' himself.The 1960s series explained it by saying he was originally a military robot that the Doctor was working on, and was altered at the last minute at great haste Tenma had rather snapped after his son's death, and didn't care beyond annoyance that he was a death machine.Hand-waved by having him simply retool an existing 'ultimate robot' model to look like his son, or claim that he will not only make his son a robot, but the 'best robot ever'. Tenma is very strange, or his son was even stranger.

Ur-example: Astro Boy was built to replace a grieving scientist's young son, and is equipped with a 100,000-horsepower engine, rocket feet, and a machine gun that comes out of his butt, among other things.

Automatrons used as supply line