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Vicky The Robot from "Little Wonder"
Four words say it all: Evil robot child slave. That’s what we’re dealing with here, and no amount of political correctness will make it go away. Ted Lawson, the father of the Lawson family, designed and built a child robot, Vicki, much the same as Skynet developed its own artificial intelligence in the Terminator movies. Complicit in this dangerous act of engineering arrogance, Lawson’s family agreed not to ever disclose to the outside world the artificial nature of Vicki. Thus the mechanical Vicki’s life of servitude and deception began.
Considering the way in which Vicki’s life with the Lawsons developed, it’s small wonder “she” would over time transform into a bloodthirsty robot. Deprived of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Vicki had little to lose when she began what must have been a long running killing spree. It began with cats and dogs and progressed to babies and the elderly, and soon she was killing anyone who looked at her funny or implied she was “less than human.”
Though none of her crimes have ever been exposed (a methodical robot, she must have covered up and destroyed all evidence that might have incriminated her), in 1988 Ted Lawson powered down Vicki for the last time, realizing to his horror what he’d created. If Lawson’s boss Brandon Brindle had simply given him credit for his ideas then the bloodshed inflicted on the human race by a murderous slave bot would never have happened.
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