No Waterproofing in the Future/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A piece of futuristic technology suffers incredible damage after being hit with water.

• Straight: The Killbot 5000 is a very advanced robot, but short-circuits if it's sprayed with water.
• Exaggerated: The Killbot bursts into flames if there is any hint of moisture in the air
• Downplayed: The Killbot slows down a bit and gets somewhat confused after being sprayed with water
• Justified: The Killbot was created by beings from a planet without water, so they had no idea it would harm their creation.
• Inverted: The Killbot is powered by water
• Subverted: The Killbot is soaked with a fire hose, only for it to shrug off the blast and keep going.
• Double Subverted: ...Until the moisture reaches its CPU, causing it to go ballistic and self-destruct
• Parodied: The Killbot is programmed to do everything in its power to avoid even the smallest source of water... but then it ends up caught in a thunderstorm
• Zig Zagged: The Killbot is sprayed with water, which seemingly has no effect, but then it shuts down, only for it to wake back up and move faster, but then it starts going crazy after a while...
• Averted: Water has little to no effect on the Killbot
• Enforced: The Killbot has to be weak to water for Competitive Balance to avoid people relying on it too often
• Lampshaded: "You'd think they'd invest in waterproofing technology after a while"
• Invoked: The Killbot's weakness to water was deliberate, so that Doctor Nefario could have a reliable means of controlling it
• Exploited: Alice and Bob spray the Killbot with a fire hose, knowing that will stop it
• Defied: Doctor Nefario installed his patented Moisture Repellent System to prevent his Killbot from being affected with water, at least without his say-so.
• Discussed: "Any robot, no matter how advanced, is always at least somewhat vulnerable to good old H2O."
• Conversed: "Why are B-Movie robots always weak to water"?

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