Isaac Asimov wrote his Three Laws of Robotics (below*) in order to protect humanity from rampant robots.

I hereby present to you the Six Laws of Robots In Movies which shall serve to protect humanity from robot movies that suck like Transformers did.

1. A robot movie shall only include enough humans as are necessary for the story’s narrative.

2. Humans shall only be seen: 1) getting hurled out of buildings, 2) running in fear, 3) jumping out of moving or high objects in terror.

3. Robots must injure human beings, aliens and other peaceable creatures

4. Evil robots must not obey any sort of code of ethics with any semblence to rationality

5. Good robots must have a code of honour that does not render them sappy, easily taken advantage of, or prone to ignore the mission objectives to save another’s (robotic, human or other) life

6. Evil robots must have a ‘Blast first, think later’ philosophy

*Asimov’s laws are (thanks, Wikipedia!):

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

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