And let’s not forget Gigolo Joe and Gigolo Jane from Spielberg’s AI.
Do Wolverine and Phoenix/Black Widow/Viper/Silver Fox etc. etc. etc. count? His skeleton is coated in adamantium.
Also there’s Ultron, the killer robot with the honest-to-God Oepidal complex, and his “mother” Wasp. It was rather one-sidedly romantic.
Vision and Scarlet Witch would be the most famous couple in comics, though.
Here is a whole movie about it: Cherry 2000
Kikaider: The Animation is playing on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim right now. There’s a bit of romantic/sexual tension between the hero, an innocent male android designed for battle, and the daughter of his human creator. If they get around to importing the 01 series, we’ll get to see a couple of female androids too.
Holy crap. I can’t believe I forgot about Making Mr. Right. I wonder if John Malkovich has?
Actually, I don’t think there are all that many robotic sex toys in porn. I can think of one offhand because I wrote a review about it. In a softcore premium TV series called “Thrills” there was an episode called, “Cyber-Sex Exclusive” about a reporter who’s assigned to try out a robot sex toy. Pretty sad story, really, it was like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie – the male lead can’t handle the female lead’s powers and represses them. Yech.
I think the problem with porn and robots is that so few of the actors can portray a human being well enough to make a robot seem robotic by comparison. :eek:
Can’t think of any others offhand, except for a novel called Jetta 2100 that looks at the actual technology of robot sex toys, that I’ve been writing.
the female lead of Metropolis was a sex toy kinda robot if memory serves.
Has anyone mentioned the Stepford Wives? I think not!
And there was that dreadful “Demon Seed” movie about the computer that falls for IIRC Julie Christie.
In case you ever have to do research for a follow-up, ( ), you can find more titles at the alt.sex.fetish.robots FAQ. Won’t link to it, although it’s pretty “clean.”
In the story “Satisfaction Guaranteed” by Isaac Asimov, the handsome male-humanoid robot TN-3 (nicknamed Tony) is designed for domestic work. The test housewife falls in love with it. Written in 1951, the story doesn’t even imply sex and describes only minimal physical contact.
On the DC side of comics, the Red Tornado had a human girlfriend. Kathy I think her name was.
I also seem to remember a Marilyn Chambers vehicle called Angel of H.E.A.T. with sex robots with hyper kinky overdrive.