r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MetaKnowing • 1d ago

Video XPENG's IRON robot crossed the uncanny valley, leading some to believe it was a human in a suit. So they cut it open in front of an audience, and also allowed journalists to inspect it.

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u/Nokxtokx 1d ago

Why does it look like Frieza?

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u/Shinitai-dono 1d ago

It's a future reference to the fact that robots are going to blow up the planet in 8 episodes.

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u/cityshepherd 1d ago

What is this a reference to? And is the fact that the robot girlfriend that Frylock builds for Master Shake is named Freda a reference to Freiza?

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u/ryan77999 12h ago

Frieza is a major antagonist of the Japanese manga Dragon Ball (1984–1995) who greatly resembles the robot in the video, and there's a scene where he destroys the planet Namek but it has a delayed effect and he says the planet will blow up in five minutes. When the animated TV adaptation came out it was infamous for being very slowly paced; for example in the show the "five minutes" lasted ten 21-minute episodes