Top 10 Best & Worst Movie Robots
By ReelzChannel.com Staff
This weekend, the loveable garbage scow with a heart, WALL-E, will join a long and proud brotherhood of movie robots that have become indelibly etched onto movie-lovers' minds. Which got us to thinking, which movie robots to we love the best?
The Friendly
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Optimus Prime
Movie: Transformers
Type of Robot: Transformer
Signature robot line: "Autobots, ROLL OUT!"
Robot skills: Transforms into the mother of semi trucks
Why we love him: A born leader who help the robots to save Earth from Decepticon rule.
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Johnny 5
Movies: Short Circuit, Short Circuit 2, forthcoming remake
Type of Robot: Military prototype
Signature robot line: "Number five is alive."
Robot skills: Impersonating a lightning rod, developing a soul, speed reading
Why we love him: His sense of humor and penchant for quoting classic cinema.
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Robocop
Movies: Robocop, Robocop 2 and Robocop 3
Type of Robot: OCP (Omni Consumer Products) Cyborg Police Officer
Signature robot line: "Dead or alive, you're coming with me!"
Robot skills: Super-strength, bulletproof
Why we love him: Cool cop prime directives: serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law.
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Movies: Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Type of Robot: Artificially intelligent cyborg assassin
Signature robot line: "I'll be back."
Robot skills: Time travel, blowing stuff up, indestructibility
Why we love him: Reprogrammed by John Connor in the future, the Ah-nold model gave the rebellion hope after Judgment Day.
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R2-D2/C-3PO (tie)
Movies: All those Star Wars ones.
Type of Robots: Droids
Signature robot lines: "We're doomed" and "Eeeeaaaaapppp!"
Robot skills:
R2-D2: On-board x-wing fighter mechanic, message transmission.
C-3PO: Protocol droid fluid in 6 billion binary languages.
Why we love them:
R2-D2 is like an unintelligible trash can with feet.
C-3PO can be melted down for gold.
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Gort
Movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Type of Robot: Just a robot, plain and simple
Signature robot line: "Klaatu barada nikto."
Robot skills: Freezing time
Why he's the meanest: Once he freezes you, he can pretty much do anything he wants to you.
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Megatron
Movie: Transformers
Type of Robot: Transformer
Signature robot line: "You still fight for the weak! That is why you lose!"
Robot skills: As the true fans know, Megatron always transformed into a gun, but the PC movie made him transform into some kind of spaceship.
Why he's the meanest: Nearly took over Earth if it weren't for those pesky goody two-shoes autobots.
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Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer)
Movie: Blade Runner
Type of Robot: Replicant
Signature robot line: "I'm right here, but you've gotta shoot straight."
Robot skills: Beating the beejesus out of Harrison Ford.
Why he's the meanest: That cold gaze alone does it for us.
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Skynet Robots and Terminators
Movie: Terminator
Type of Robot: The infamous T-800 model that the Governator made famous, the shape-shifting T-1000 and T-X, the early T-600 (which we will see in Terminator Salvation) and the deadly HK's (Hunter Killers)
Signature robot line: T-800: "Your clothes -- give them to me, now."
Robot skills: Super strength, bullet and fireproof, learning computer
Why they're the meanest: Relentless, cold and calculating. They are called Terminators after all, right?
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Hal 9000
Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Type of Robot: Artificially intelligent supercomputer
Signature robot line: "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
Robot skills: Lip-reading, killing his crew
Why he's the meanest: Well he's just plain old manipulative and creepy.
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