There's so many elements of tragedy to Murder Drones. And I am not normal about it. I feel like the horror or the shipping (I love biscuitbites/nuzi, ngl) but. IT'S A TRAGEDY TOO. I mean it has a mostly happy ending, so maybe it doesn't fit the actual definition of tragedy, but it has a lot of tragic elements.
Girl with abusive parents' only friends are robots she finds in the dump, one of the robots betrays her and murders everyone, turns the other robots from normal workers into murder machines, and slaughters all of humanity. So then you've got Tessa's whole story with its sad ending, but then there's also the disassembly drones, who kind of lost their humanity. Dronanity? Idk whatever the drone equivalent of humanity is. Cyn is hard to figure out but depending on whether you consider her and the Solver separate or the same you can get some good angst out of her too.
V pushed N away, a tragedy of her own making. J is convinced there's no escape from Cyn/the Solver, even in death, and considering Uzi blasted her head off first episode in the series . . . N is looked down upon by his squadmates, the people who should be his friends . . .
Doll's parents were killed and she kept them and a bunch of dead bodies in the room with her--Doll had nobody (except maybe Lizzy, but she wouldn't know what was going on) when her oil lust started. Then she went for revenge, but it got her killed pointlessly.
Uzi's mother is actually alive, but they THINK she's dead and that causes Khan to leave her dead because idk trauma or something. Her first friend was one of the robots sent to kill her. She overheats and kills five people. It must be terrifying to have no control over yourself and kill multiple people
Like, they're funny, and they're traumatized, and they're angsty, and they're TRAGIC. And it gets me every time I think about it.
