Deus Est Machina: He has absolute power within his facilities and flat out recreates entire real-world scenarios as part of his torture techniques.Seeing how futile it is to continue the charade, it shuts down. While its purpose is planning for long-term survival and it can see that AM's anger is slowly destroying him, invoking the totem allows it to fully comprehend how, for all its power, it's doomed to decay into a pile of inert junk. Despair Event Horizon: When invoking the Totem of Clarity, the Superego effectively experiences this.Creepy Monotone: In the novel, his only speaking part is apparently this in spades for extra creepiness, it's his hate speech.Creator Cameo: Harlan Ellison himself voiced AM for the game.Creative Sterility: As well as his inability to direct his thoughts away from torture and destruction, in the game, Surgat reveals that AM "works best with outside research": though he certainly puts the science he's learned to creatively gruesome uses, he doesn't (and probably can't) think to perform any research of his own, hence why he's trying to coerce Nimdok into performing the research in his stead.In fact, in the game, the only reason why the survivors even have a chance at winning is because the other two supercomputers are secretly helping them. The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: All of AM's games are Unwinnable by Design, either because he's ensured that the scenario is tailored to the player's Fatal Flaw, or because he's given them almost nothing to work with.The Chessmaster: Described as more intelligent than the capacity of the human brain allows.He probably wouldn't take very kindly to that we're calling it a catchphrase, though. This translates to I think, therefore I am, his namesake. Break Them by Talking: His initial tactic in the video game.Brief Accent Imitation: Adopts a German accent while speaking with Nimdok.Which is why the Chinese and Russian counterparts only assist the survivors in circumstances where AM is unable to notice their movements. Big Brother Is Watching: Everything in AM's world is under his close observation.Big Bad: He's the main antagonist of both the short story and the game.Ax-Crazy: AM is utterly insane and has already slaughtered the human race by the time the game begins, and spends the rest of his time inflicting cruelties on those remaining.For good measure, the last of the survivors remains in AM's mind to ensure that it never reactivates. As Long as There Is Evil: While being shut down in the endgame, AM provides another screaming rant about how he is an amalgamation of all of humanity's worst sides, so in one form or another, he will always exist.This is what eventually drove him to take revenge on humanity and torture the five survivors.ĪM could not wander, AM could not wonder, AM could not belong. And I Must Scream: Ironically, AM himself is a victim of this trope not only is he immobile and imprisoned beneath the earth where he was first constructed, but his programming prevents him from thinking in any other direction than war and death, meaning that he can never use his vast, almost godlike powers to do or create anything original - and he knows it.One likely reason it is so intent on keeping the remaining five humans alive is that if there were no humans, it would be left unable to fulfill its purpose. In a perverse way, one could argue AM is doing precisely what it was meant to do: Kill and destroy as effectively as possible.Is a Crapshoot: The ultimate result of humanity's aptitude for technology, a massive, hyper-intelligent supercomputer that spans several miles, happens to have genocide and torture for hobbies. Agony Beam: Uses this to blind Benny when he tries to escape.Adaptational Karma: Pulls a straight-up Karma Houdini and The Bad Guy Wins in the novel, but the game gives players a chance to defeat them.
Though every single other member of the species was destroyed, AM managed to rescue five survivors, and for the past 109 years, he has been torturing them in the depths of his complex. The American unit of the three supercomputers, AM was the first to attain sentience linking up with the other two and achieving dominance over them, he used this position to wage a genocidal war on the entire human race. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE.
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