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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nuclear Platypus" data-source="post: 3017359" data-attributes="member: 17507">DaVinci created plans for a robot, er, automaton around 1495 while the Japanese had their own in the 18th - 19th century (karakuri). To me it doesn't seem like much of a leap for these automatons to gain life by some helpful (or malicious) spirit kinda like that little wooden boy we all know and love from animation... Little Wooden Boy. SPOON!Ok, Pinocchio too. But there was also the original Golem from Jewish lore, Talos, that bronze minotaur from one of the Sinbad movies, the Shiva statue from another Harryhausen movie, Astroboy (a futurisitic Pinocchio but still), etc.Fantasy also has several anthropomorphs, mostly modern creations like Usagi Yojimbo, the TMNT, Cerebus the Aardvark, any of Uncle Walt's studio creations, Rocket Raccoon, Flaming Carrot, etc. But that's something like a modern iteration like before Elric, all (ok, majority) heroes were Conan-ish.Not every fantasy has to involve elves, dwarves, Keira Knightley, pirates, Bo Derek running in slow motion across a beach, some neverending story, some guy with the ability to cloud men's minds who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men, radioactive spider bites or exploding planets named Krypton. It just has to be divergent from what is considered 'normal life'. To me, that's what distinguishes it from science fiction, which might be a vision of the future - H.G. Wells and Jules Verne for instance.We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread, already in progress.</blockquote>

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