GINO

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The fembots from the porn film Atomic Vixens are introduced as fembots in a brief comic book style voiceover clip, but they do nothing to indicate that they aren't human. They don't even have any dialogue.

The acronym GINO stands for Gynoid in Name Only. It refers to performances and depictions of fembots which lack most or all characteristics that would give the audience evidence that the fembot character is a robot. The robotic nature of the fembot character is often relegated to a line of dialogue or two, or to the work's paratext.

The features that may earn a fembot character the designation of GINO include, but are not limited to:

• reasoning undistinguishable from human (distinct from the logical attitude expected from a robot)
• an absence of robotic behavior (blank stares, robotic motions...)
• the absence of any reveal trope (faceoff, damage...)
• the lack of any post-production work to indicate a robotic character (whirring sounds, robotic voice...)
• overall the absence of indication that a character is a robot despite being told so

This classification is often applied to small productions such as amateur films, but it should be noted that a character being a fembot does not necessarily entail heavy special effects, as a good actress can use robotic motions, blank stares and so on to great effect. (The short film Luvbot is a good example of such a low-key depiction.) On the other hand, a heavy-handed effect might mean nothing if it is not elaborated or followed on, or if unconvincing.

It should be noted that a GINO is different from a sleeper. Whereas a GINO is often the result of lazy or unimaginative writing, bad acting, or a nonexistent special effects budget, a sleeper character is deliberately portrayed as acting as human as possible. A GINO character leaves the viewer feeling unsatisfied with the performance. A sleeper character eventually has some sort of revelation or plot resolution confirming it to be a robot.

Examples

Since most of the material hosted on Fembot Wiki passes a certain bar of fembot-ness, picking out example of GINOs is a subjective matter.

Synthetic beings
Electromechanical	Fembot • Robot
Amalgamated	Cyborg • Terminator
Biological	Biodroid • Replicant
Subsets	Assassindroid • Backup • Built • GINO • Robot maid • Sexbot • Sleeper • Stepford wife • Transformation

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