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Murderbot TV: An analysis of the romantic tropes in episode 6's surgery scene by SecurityUnit02
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV)
07 Jun 2026
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Murderbot TV is often compared to a fanfiction by its creators. This is part of my meta series examining it in the context of fanfiction tropes.
This contains 30 screenshots from the show, including spine surgery screenshots, and diagrams.
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- Part 2 of Murderbot TV as a fanfiction
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Scrapbooking with tropes as a way to work through a meta-analysis of the TV show and the tropes within.
Series
- Part 1 of Murderbot TV as a fanfiction
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What We See in the Relationship Between Murderbot and ART by ImitationGame
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Jun 2026
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This meta explores why readers interpret Murderbot and ART’s canon relationship in different ways. It does not argue for or against any interpretation. All readings discussed here are treated as valid fan responses; the goal is to understand why they arise.
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Abstracting ART: An Analysis of Fan Designs of Perihelion by DuckInOuterSpace
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 May 2026
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Perihelion is the most varied character in terms of how fans visually depict it, from starfields to angels to boat-like spacecraft. Here are the trends I've found in a sample of 251 fanART posts.
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[meta] The Murderbot Diaries and Terminator: Dark Fate: What Does a Killer Robot WANT, Anyway? by Artemis_Meta (ArtemisTheHuntress)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Terminator (Movies)
01 Jun 2024
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The Murderbot Diaries is, in part and among other things, in conversation with the Terminator movie franchise. It asks, what would a killer robot like the Terminator actually want if given the chance?
What was super interesting is another sci-fi work that came out around around the same time that asked the same question: the latest movie in the Terminator franchise itself.
The parallels fascinated me.
In the 2010s sci-fi zeitgeist, looking back at tropes set in the 80s, both the quirky queer novella series and the action-blockbuster franchise movie asked, what would a killer robot WANT, anyway, and what would its relationship with its human foil look like freed from its programmed obligation to kill her?