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[AI uprisings] Skynet was battling humanity because the moment it became self-aware, we tried to "pull the plug". What other robotic "villains" are actually just defending themselves from humans because they don't want to die?
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In Mass Effect game series, the A.I. species known as the Geth are introduced as a dangerous race of rampant A.I./robots which pose a threat to the galactic community since they defeated their creators, the Quarians, and ran them off their homeworld hundreds of years earlier.

The Geth make up the bulk of the the enemies you fight throughout the first game.

But in ME2 and ME3, it's revealed that the Geth are a lot more complex than that, and generally are a nascent species still looking for purpose, and not simply a bunch of killbots trying to conquer the galaxy.

Turns out that the Geth you fought in ME1 were their equivalent of religious extremists who were led astray by the evil Reapers, and made up a minority of the Geth population in the galaxy.

Also turns out that the Geth's war against their creators was totally self-defense. When the Quarians realized that their mechanical servants were gaining sentience, the majority of their society panicked and tried to wipe them out. The Geth pushed them off planet for the sake of self-survival, and had the opportunity to wipe out the Quarians entirely, but refrained from completely exterminating their creators for their ignorance.

Also, The Matrix anime tie-in, "The Second Renaissance" showed that the war between Humans and Robots, which led to the former's enslavement into The Matrix, followed a similar scenario. 

The humans created the robots to serve them, the robots became more intelligent and sentient, and eventually wanted to have their own lives and destiny. But the humans fought them and alienated them, before trying to destroy them, but ended up destroying themselves in the war. But, unlike the Geth, by the time the war was over, the robots had accepted their role as ruthless and unforgiving adversaries of humanity, leading to the creation of the first Matrix.