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Cain deactivates the central grid
Cain uses the human-only control to shut down the Innobotics power system, leaving the remaining android population frozen and powerless.
The real Connie freezes and destroys her duplicate
Connie immobilises the artificial copy and destroys it.
Evolver shorts out in the swimming pool
Kyle knocks the robot into the pool, temporarily disabling it through electrical damage.
Evolver is destroyed in the final confrontation
Kyle damages the targeting system and finally blasts the robot apart, although the remains briefly suggest incomplete shutdown.
Mikhail finally loses power and deactivates
After the Death Angel is destroyed, the damaged android head repeatedly states its programmed slogan before shutting down.
Valerie is shut down after attacking Rachel
After Valerie's jealousy escalates into violence, the android is deactivated and returned to Innobotics for dismantling.
Barnes removes SID's module
As SID regenerates, Barnes punches into the artificial head and removes the personality module, disabling the physical body.
Phillips destroys successive Tracker units
Multiple execution androids pursue Phillips and Connie and are stopped with heavy weapons and explosives.
The computerized justice system is shut down
After Operation Echo is exposed, the Tracker-based judicial programme is terminated.
Jack steals the bracelet and deactivates the cyborg army
Jack takes the command device from Spartacus and uses it to shut the other converted soldiers down.
Data is impaled and shuts down
The villagers strike Data with a metal spike, leaving the android apparently dead and later buried.
Geoffrey attempts to erase his own programming
Believing that self-sacrifice will make Gillian happy, Geoffrey attempts to delete his own programming, showing both his artificial control architecture and his increasingly unstable autonomy.
Gillian disables Geoffrey
After Geoffrey becomes violent and chases Gillian, she shoots him with a large industrial weapon, causing severe damage and rendering the android inoperative.
Cash voluntarily shuts herself down
Many years later Cash remains physically young while Ricks ages. After he finally dies, Cash chooses to shut herself down and remain permanently in a dream state.
Data deactivates Lore
After refusing Lore's final demands, Data shoots his brother and then switches him off.
The T-1000 is destroyed
The T-800 fires a grenade into the T-1000, blasting it into the molten steel where the liquid-metal machine loses cohesion and is destroyed.
The T-800 lowers itself into the steel
To prevent its own processor from being used to create Skynet, the T-800 voluntarily lowers itself into molten steel and destroys itself.
The M.A.R.K. 13 is finally destroyed
Jill discovers the robot's weakness and disables the killing machine at the end of the apartment battle.
RoboCop tears Cain's brain from the machine
During the final battle RoboCop breaks into RoboCain and removes and destroys the exposed brain.
Lore shuts Data down and takes his place
Lore deactivates Data and swaps uniforms so that Soong mistakes the identical android for Data.
Data is electrically disabled
A disguised control pad shocks Data the moment he touches it, leaving the android inert so Fajo's crew can abduct him.
Roberta loses power and Chip saves her programming
After running exhausts Roberta's remaining power, Chip copies her programming and memories onto a disk before her system becomes completely inactive.
Chip is repaired just before total system failure
The virus almost completely shuts Chip down before Dr. Carson and Professor Gray arrive with the antidote and restore his systems.
Hudzen shuts down after a logic-breaking revelation
Kryten tells Hudzen that Silicon Heaven does not exist; the newer machine cannot reconcile the contradiction and abruptly shuts down.
Riker switches Data off
Riker activates Data's concealed shutdown control and the android immediately goes limp before the court.
A magnetic weapon temporarily disables the androids
Military forces use magnetic equipment to shut the M-66 units down long enough to restrain one.
The captured M-66 self-destructs
The restrained unit triggers its anti-capture self-destruct system before it can be recovered.
The surviving M-66 is blasted from the tower
Sybel's explosives throw the second machine from the tower and the military later recovers the inactive remains.
Cherry 2000 short-circuits
The original Cherry unit is exposed to water on the kitchen floor and suffers a major electrical failure. She shuts down and is subsequently judged beyond practical repair, although her memory disk survives.
Chip short-circuits while rescuing his family
Chip pulls out power wires to stop a car-crushing machine and save Jonas and Becky. The electrical contact causes him to short-circuit and shut down.
R.O.T.O.R. is destroyed by the Primacord trap
Coldyron restrains the machine with explosive cord and its own electrical discharge triggers the blast.
The final Protector is destroyed in the paint store
Allison traps the last robot in spilled chemicals and ignites the room, finally destroying the machine.
Paul deactivates Samantha
After finding the revived Samantha behaving independently, Paul uses his control system to deactivate her, demonstrating that her artificial component can override her body.
The spider robots self-destruct
After Luther is killed by his own machines, the assassin robots destroy themselves.
Sarah crushes the Terminator
The severely damaged endoskeleton continues crawling after Sarah until she traps it in an industrial hydraulic press and crushes the machine, finally shutting it down.
Nyssa short-circuits the android guards
Nyssa uses the sonic screwdriver and graphite on their control discs, freezing their motor circuits.
Persuasion's personality chip is removed
The Doctor pulls out Persuasion's control chip and throws it into space.
Enlightenment's circuit is removed
Adric removes Enlightenment's equivalent circuit, instantly disabling her.
A power surge disables the android
The crew overloads the machine long enough for Avon to attach the control head.
Hector is overloaded and dismantled
Adam waits for Hector to connect to the charging system and overloads him with high voltage. The disabled robot is then disassembled and its brain removed.