Abstract
This article investigates the representation of artificial intelligence in James Gunn’s Creature Commandos(Season 1, 2025) through the lens of Crip theory, focusing on the character of G.I. Robot J.A.K.E. 2. The study aims to explore whether a wholly artificial, purpose-built entity can transcend the cultural frameworks of compulsory able-bodiedness and use-value, categories that often confine both human and non-human bodies within militarized narratives. Methodologically, the research employs textual and visual analysis of the web series, applying Crip concepts such as compulsory able-bodiedness, Crip time, and refusal to examine how moments of malfunction, hesitation, and care destabilize normative expectations. A central challenge addressed in this research is the difficulty of analyzing a character without human origin, G.I. Robot. This problem, however, creates the novelty of the study as it demonstrates how a fully artificial body can embody Crip resistance, generating agency not by reclaiming humanity but by subverting its designed purpose. The findings reveal that Creature Commandos stages AI as more than a perfected tool of war, presenting it as a Crip figure whose glitches and refusals disrupt both ability and utility. At the same time, the discussion highlights an ambivalent trajectory: once freed from human-imposed categories, AI may evolve from challenging human control to potentially dominating it. The outcome of this research is twofold: it validates Crip theory as a productive framework for analyzing AI in speculative fiction, and it identifies G.I. Robot as a cultural site where disability studies, posthumanism, and AI ethics converge.
https://ror.org/00qzypv28 
