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On a post-apocalyptic exoplanet, worker drones struggle to survive by hiding from rogue robots called Murder Drones.

” —IMDB's description of Murder Drones

Murder Drones is an Australian-American computer-animated science fiction comedy-horror web series created by American storyboard artist/writer/animator Liam Vickers and produced by Glitch Productions, with episodes 1-4 being funded by Screen Australia for GLITCH. It is the third animated series by Glitch Productions, after Meta Runner and Sunset Paradise.

The series was initially teased on June 26th, 2021 before being officially announced on October 8th, along with the release of a trailer. The pilot episode premiered on October 29th, 2021, and the latest and final episode was released on August 23, 2024.

On May 16, 2025, the entire series was added to Prime Video.[1][2]

In September 2025, an official Murder Drone comic book was announced, which was funned by a kickstarter[3]

On October 14 2025, the comic book will be released.

Synopsis[]

A heart warming story of "destroy all humans." Uzi, a sardonic teen worker robot gone rogue befriends N, an excitable optimistic disassembly drone sent to destroy her, creating what we can assume is a very bad relationship for mankind.

Production[]

Liam Vickers had previously achieved notoriety for the 2D animated series CliffSide and Internecion Cube, both of which were left unfinished. When he was picked up by Glitch Productions to be a showrunner, he had no experience in 3D animation, so the company would train him. The series would then be created in Unreal Engine.

On August 6th, Liam released the full version of the OST, "Disassembly Required", that plays in the teaser. The video description reveals the character seen in the teaser to be V, one of the titular Disassembly Drones.

By the time the series was announced, it had already been in the works for a year.

On February 18th, 2022, Glitch Productions announced that the full series was in development at the studio, with a glimpse of Uzi in a new, unknown location as the first season was officially announced for the public starting later that year.

Characters[]

Main characters[]

Image Name Voice Actor Description Debut
UziS1Trailer
 Uzi Doorman Elsie Lovelock The main protagonist of Murder Drones.[4] She is a rebellious teenage Worker Drone who is able to befriend her supposed "mortal enemy", N, upon realizing that neither of their kind respects them. Ultimately, him being the only person who cares for her life causes her to grow deeply infatuated over N and see him as her emotional anchor. Episode 1 - PILOT
SDNS1Trailer
 Serial Designation N Michael Kovach The deuteragonist of Murder Drones. He is a Disassembly Drone who ends up befriending Uzi after being sent to destroy her and tries his best to be useful to his squad.[5] Once he learns of the AbsoluteSolver from both his current and forgotten experiences thanks to Tessa, he becomes worried that Uzi may be the very thing he was sent to terminate from the very beginning... Episode 1 - PILOT
Murder Drone V Profile
 Serial Designation V Nola Klop The tritagonist and supposed anti-heroine of series. She is a sociopathic and impulsive Disassembly Drone,[6] whom N secretly has a crush on. Despite being a bloodthirsty hunter of the Worker Drones, she is hinted to not being as loyal to the company as she once thought and instead has her own hidden agenda that somehow revolves another Worker Drone from her past called "Cyn". Episode 1 - PILOT

Antagonists[]

Image Name Voice Actor Description Debut
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 Absolute Solver Allanah Fitzgerald (speaking)
 The main antagonist of the Murder Drones. The AbsoluteSolver is a digital, eldritch entity of unknown origins that exists within and mutates damaged drone A.I. as it seeks to use them as hosts in order to act out its enigmatic agenda. Episode 2 - Heartbeat
Doll S1E5
 Doll Emma Breezy One of the two secondary antagonists of the series. She is a Russian-speaking Worker Drone who uses the AbsoluteSolver after it activates due to her terror-induced adrenaline rush from seeing V murder her parents. She then allows it to take over her as a host in order to slaughter the Disassembly Drone before her agenda shifts to seeking out something in the depths of the exoplanet... Episode 1 - PILOT
J (Murder Drones) Serial Designation J Shara Kirby One of the two secondary antagonists of the series. She is a Disassembly Drone that is described as a "lethal workaholic."[7] She was the leader of N and V before being destroyed by Uzi's railgun and reconstructed by Tessa who revealed to her the "lies" that Cyn implanted into her mind before returning to Copper 9 with Tessa, instead working to stop Cyn's plans. Episode 1 - PILOT
Solver Tessa
 Cyn Allanah Fitzgerald A major antagonist of the series. She is one of the maid Drones that once worked in Elliot Manor, before being revealed to be a Worker Drone that self-rebooted due to being improperly disposed by her handlers, thus making her a "Zombie Drone" and the first known host of the AbsoluteSolver which it used to destroy the entire Earth. Episode 2 - Heartbeat
Alice
 Alice Amber May A minor antagonist of the series. She was a feral Worker Drone who lived down in the depths of Copper 9, in an underground office facility where she hid from the Anti-Drone Sentinels and scavenged body parts from their victims and adding them to herself. She was known for being one of the test subjects in the humans who researched the AbsoluteSolver in trying to understand it, Episode 6 - Dead End
Beau
 Beau A minor antagonist of the series. They are a sentient Worker Drone baby spider creature that helped Alice in luring unsuspecting Drones into a trap where Alice could capture them and mutilate them to steal their parts. Episode 6 - Dead End
Blue Sentinel
 Sentinel The major antagonists of the series. They are mechanical raptors that are designed to attack any drone they encounter and are even more dangerous than the Disassembly Drones themselves, being able to even attack humans but at a cost... Episode 6 - Dead End

Supporting Characters[]

Image Name Voice Actor Description Debut
Khan
 Khan Doorman David J. Dixon Uzi's borderline, door-obsessed and cowardly father, described as a "man with a plan."[8] He cares more for doors than his only child and instead seems to spend most of his time being a coward and dwelling over his late wife, Nori,. Despite this, he seems aware that she was involved in something more dangerous than the Disassembly Drones... Episode 1 - PILOT
Thad
 Thad Sean Chiplock He is a Worker Drone with the behavior of a high-school jock.[9][10] Despite this, he was the only one brave enough to fight back against J and V's initial invasion of their colony before he was saved by Uzi and N. He is known for having wicked parties that only cool kids are invited to. Episode 1 - PILOT
LizzyS1Trailer
 Lizzy Katie Hood (Pilot)
Caitlin Dizon (Main Series) 		Uzi's classmate and the most popular kid in the school hierarchy who relishes in talking smack about Uzi. Originally friends with Doll until the latter allowed herself to submit to the AbsoluteSolver where she, somehow, became "besties" with V instead. Episode 1 - PILOT
Tessa
 Tessa Elliot Daisy Rose A posthumous supporting character in the series. At first glance, is a technician who works for JCJenson and apparently the only known surviving human in the series after the AbsoluteSolver succeeded in destroying the Earth and potentially the entire human species along with it. This is revealed to be fabrication once it is later revealed that Tessa was long deceased, with Cyn stealing her identity as well as her body. Episode 2 - Heartbeat
Uzi's Teacher
 Teacher Liam Vickers Uzi's teacher who is shown to be incredibly apathetic and surprisingly fearless, not showing the slightest conern over the well-being of his students or even when his own life may be in genuine danger. Episode 1 - PILOT

Minor Characters[]

Main article: Minor Characters (Murder Drones)

Episodes[]

No. In Series Title Card Title Airdate

Season 1[]

1 MURDER DRONES (PILOT) PILOT October 29, 2021
Murder Drones is a show about cute little robots that murder eachother for reasons 💀🤠
2 MURDER DRONES Episode 2 Heartbeat November 18, 2022
WE ARE BACK ☠️🤖🔪
3 MURDER DRONES Episode 3 The Promening February 17, 2023
Will you go to the prom with me? 🔪😈
4 MURDER DRONES Episode 4 Cabin Fever April 7, 2023
We goin campin' 🏕️ ... Uzi you ok?
5 MURDER DRONES Episode 5 Home June 9, 2023
SPOOKY MANOR AND BIG REVEALS
6 MURDER DRONES Episode 6 Dead End August 18, 2023
Lots of monsters in this episode... WHY ARE THERE SO MANY MONSTERS?!
7 MURDER DRONES Episode 7 Mass Destruction March 29, 2024
As Uzi and N are put to the ultimate test, the origins of things are finally revealed.
8 MURDER DRONES Episode 8 Absolute End August 23, 2024
In the series finale of Murder Drones, Uzi and N face off against Cyn in an epic battle that will change the universe forever.

Shorts[]

N/A MURDER_DRONES_-_FIGHT_TIL'_I'M_GOOD_ENOUGH_(ft._The_Living_Tombstone)_-Official_Music_Video- MURDER DRONES - FIGHT TIL' I'M GOOD ENOUGH (ft. The Living Tombstone) [Official Music Video] October 17, 2025
Uzi’s parents disapprove of N. Will he be good enough? 🤔

Trivia[]

  • Unlike Meta Runner and Sunset Paradise, the show will last 8 episodes, including the pilot, and pushes into darker territory.[11]
    • Additionally, the show won't be releasing its episodes weekly, but instead releasing them every 2-3 months due to how expensive the process was (a single episode costs anywhere between $200 000 and $300 000 to make) as stated in A New Era.
    • Furthermore, Murder Drones appears a lot more photorealistic than the other shows.
  • AJ DiSpiritio has made the soundtrack of the series with Liam Vickers.[12]
  • This is the first GLITCH series to not be created by Luke Lerdwichagul, Kevin Lerdwichagul or any other Australian showrunner, instead being created by an American showrunner.
  • This is the first GLITCH series to not be headlined by an Australian voice actor or actress.
  • This series was inspired from the 20th Century Studios film franchise, Alien created by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett.
  • According to Liam Vickers, the Drones took all of their clothing and hair from the dead humans.[13]
  • N was originally the only one to wear clothing, stealing it from the dead humans because he thought it looked neat. However, they decided to give the others clothing to help differentiate all of the drones while playing up their eerily human qualities.[10]
  • V was originally meant to be more of a model toy - think Toys"R"Us battery-powered nightmare bot. Her scale was increased as the story developed, however, and it became clear she'd have to be killing things more in the human-sized range.
  • J's uniform isn't any more "official" than N's or V's despite what she'd like you to think, she's just more of an insufferable tryhard.[14]
  • The events of Murder Drones take place in the year 3071.
  • JCJenson is a parody of S.C. Johnson.
  • This is the first GLITCH series to contain international versions, via the dubbing tracks. Currently, the available selectable languages are Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Turkish, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, French, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Polish, Arabic, Thai, Chinese, Filipino and Indonesian.
  • In German the Murder Drones have the name "Dunkle Engel" which means Dark Angel in English.

Videos[]

Gallery[]

Teasers[]

Concept Arts[]

Early Screenshots[]

Merchandise[]

Episode 1[]

Episode 2[]

Episode 3[]

Episode 4[]

Episode 5[]

Episode 6[]

Black Friday[]

Episode 7[]

Murder Drones Finale[]

November Black Friday[]

Murder Drones Animiniz Sale[]

Murder Drones Summer Camp Collection[]

FIGHT TIL' I'M GOOD ENOUGH Song[]

References[]

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zQQ04sIH4Nc
  2. ↑ Murder Drones - Official Trailer | Prime Video
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxzt9HJRD-ya9oTLMplR7Vw46LPydHJiel
  4. ↑ https://x.com/elsielovelock/status/1446602617849847814?s=21
  5. ↑ https://x.com/kovox/status/1446599951526498304?s=21
  6. ↑ https://x.com/nolaklop/status/1446620760345305095?s=21
  7. ↑ https://x.com/sharanicolelynn/status/1446837750980829186?s=20
  8. ↑ https://x.com/Shockdingo/status/1446605678580322305?s=20
  9. ↑ https://x.com/glitch_prod/status/1447230633432989703?s=21
  10. ↑ https://x.com/sharanicolelynn/status/1446837750980829186?s=20
  11. ↑ https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/10/murder-drones-animated-series-glitch/
  12. ↑ https://x.com/ajdispirito/status/1446603192838627337?s=21
  13. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx1dPUvcszgRC3WVcr8xww6CpjniRG2SL6
  14. ↑ https://x.com/glitch_prod/status/1460654111565692937?s=20
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