Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20150301171157/@comment-25343309-20150311183929

The resemblances to Terminator/i, robot were purely incidental.

With the exception of 3 and 4 the Archtypes are all conrolled by their cybernetics, Three wasn't implanted with the control chip as an experiment, and four's chip simply doesn't work and is partially responsible for her mental state, three works for the Hand because they promised him good fights, and delivered when they ordered the Sentry Program to begin testing their units against Hunters, four follows them for no real reason other than a combination of whim and a fucked up sense of loyalty

A brief explination of The Hand, and the Sentry Program, The Hand is a secret society that beleives that people, human and faunus, have grown too complacent, they supported Cinder nine years before the beginning of The End of Peace because they thought her plan would shake Humanity (both kinds) out of their weak complacent mindsets, the Sentry Program was the next phase in their plan, to create a controllable force with enough power to wipe out the Grimm and allow The Hand to "guide Humanity along the right path"

As for the Archetypes being overpowered, they are supposed to be individually powerful, but only Four and Five will actually ever fight the main cast, the others, and later four, will only see action against those who can actually fight back, Three would refuse to fight Teams HYET and RCKL because they wouldn't be a challenge, and Two and One will spend most of the story on other missions for The Hand