Did the robots kill ALL the humans?

[Annadesu]

LOL Sorry if that sounded mean XD

But alas, it is true.

[JJ]

It depends on how you want to think of it.

The depressing answer is ... like Anna said. Realistically, even if some humans survived they wouldn't have done so for long without resources to keep them going.

The less depressing answer is ... realism went out the window when ragdolls starts walking and talking and using digital watch batteries in the 1930s. Considering how much of your imagination you have to stretch just to take in the events of the movie, the idea of humans still being alive isn't that farfetched, whether they be underground (a la 9U, thankya Bane ) or in different countries, beyond the No Man's Land that is The Emptiness. Even if it's just a small pocket of civilisation, it could happen. I don't think the Fab Mac powered itself down, covered itself in a sheet and hid the talisman that awakened it. That doesn't seem like it's 'style'.

It's also worth remembering that pretty much everything we know is from the perception of a ragtag clan of 7-inch high beings, most of whom locked themselves away in a church for years. They're physically very limited, and it's very possible that something exists beyond or below their knowledge of the outside world.

[Zoromon42]

creepy how a 5 foot machine managed to wipe out an entire species like that....especially when they were dominant on the earth.

Ya, I believe EVERYTHING is dead......though this thought does make me sad.....

[Annadesu]

You also have to keep the ending of the movie into account... it suggested that life WAS going to return to the earth, one way or another. So, I think everything was dead, before the ending of the movie. After that... who knows?

[JuliaPhobia]

It's my view that yes, all human life died. Even if they did survive the Death of Humanity, they'd died eventually from a lack of resources, and even from the toxic enviroment.
Life, as in plants, however prose a chance of survival. The rain at the end indicates the return of plant life, and if you look closely at the 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' celebration scene, you can see grass- but it is grayish, and probably wouldn't have lasted long.

[6&7/MLP Fan]

Sept 14, 2010 14:48:25 GMT -5 JJ said:

I don't think the Fab Mac powered itself down, covered itself in a sheet and hid the talisman that awakened it. That doesn't seem like it's 'style'.

LOl, the Fabmac takin a nap
XD

Hmm, I've been batting around the idea that if people DID somehow survive and were able to flourish again, I wonder how they'd reacto to finding these little stitchpunks, or vice versa.

Would the Final Four reveal the truth to the people and be hailed as saviors of life, or would they be viewed as intelligent pests, like the rats of NIMH?

As fickle as humanity is, I'd tend to believe the latter as they take for granted what the stitchies did for them, especially after they start stealing electrical wire and other items to build things with
^^;

[welcomehome]

I'm pretty sure the machines were used for "declaring peace"... but were weapons of mass destruction in wars declared on as many countries as possible.

So, basically, yeah. I'm pretty sure they're pretty much all gone.

[6&7/MLP Fan]

Well, with no humans around to fight each other anymore, I suppose they technically declared peace
Ironic, eh?
*shot*

[Annadesu]

^ I lol'd

But assuming there was human survivors (which I doubt), they would probably start fighting over the limited resources. That said, some of them would work together, as well. Depends on who survived, really. XD

[6&7/MLP Fan]

And then the machines Godzilla in and stomp out the rest
>3
*shot again*

[Inkweaver]

Something I always do is not all the humans die, but since they know they're going to die (due to no food, water, etc) I make them either go down fighting, or they decide to put their limited life to use and make meh OC's

[0xym0ronic]

Sorry to bring your hopes down, but the way I see it, yes.

So there may be a few still alive out there, possibly banded together in their own little colony thing. But overall, yes.

[Rabbit2009]

There's this one question that I've pondering for quite some time..............

How would the Machines organize themselves in order to destroy all forms of life as we know it?

It's no mean feat to destroy a single country, let alone an entire continent, even if one had a nearly unlimited amount of resources at hand. To heighten the scale beyond just a single group of people (genocide) onto a catastrophic apocalypse is quite..............ambitious.

Considering how there are already glaring anachronisms scattered throughout the 9 universe, would it be possible that Machine technology would include not just poison gas but also Cold War-esque weapons that are advanced enough to destroy entire populations but not so advanced that it would be bizarre?

It's a morbid thing to think about but still.............this is a bit of a Frankenstein-ian situation here.

[Annadesu]

I was under the impression that Mr. Fab created them all, so they all have a sort of...Queen Bee/Hive relationship. They never stop. Just keep destroying and destroying, until there's nothing left to destroy, as they were commanded to do.

[--[Evayo-∞-Infinity]--]

The scientist's journal suggests that they have that queen bee/hive relationship, but it's not clear. Still, I don't think there's any reason to doubt that possibility. Seeing that the machines had been deployed to pretty much every corner of the globe, then under the Fabrication Machine's command it would have been easy to wipe out every living thing in the world, human, animal and microbe alike.