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Top 5 Robots
5. Battle droids
Okay, the prequels sucked a whole bunch, but right from the the bitter start the forcefield-toting battle droids rocked.
4. Gort
Klaatu... Veratu... Nikto... Yeah, he's mostly just a retro statue, but Gort is a big pacifist stick through which is wielded the power to take out the planet. And that rocks.
3. Hammerstein
Never named in the movie, but the ABC Warriors' second coolest member (after Joe Pineapples I guess) is by a country mile the best thing about the misbeggoten Demolition Man clone that is the Judge Dredd movie.
2. Skutters
More English sci-fi. Distinctive and as obvious as daleks in their way, but with much more personality, the Skutters just win out over Farscape's adorable DRDs by being violently unpredictable... not to mention they attacked Chris Barrie's crotch - they're fangirls!
1. ED-209
Anyone carping about the effects needs to sit down in front of shiny snoozathon Matrix Revolutions and shut the hell up. ED-209 is the defining robot badass of Western cinema, not aping humanity but bettering it... except where staircases are concerned, natch.
I know, I know, I didn't include the armoured combat chassis that is the T-101 endoskeleton. It didn't quite fit the definition - technically a terminator is a cyborg, and the endoskeleton is a by-product. But it's demoniacally awesome all the same.
5. Battle droids
Okay, the prequels sucked a whole bunch, but right from the the bitter start the forcefield-toting battle droids rocked.
4. Gort
Klaatu... Veratu... Nikto... Yeah, he's mostly just a retro statue, but Gort is a big pacifist stick through which is wielded the power to take out the planet. And that rocks.
3. Hammerstein
Never named in the movie, but the ABC Warriors' second coolest member (after Joe Pineapples I guess) is by a country mile the best thing about the misbeggoten Demolition Man clone that is the Judge Dredd movie.
2. Skutters
More English sci-fi. Distinctive and as obvious as daleks in their way, but with much more personality, the Skutters just win out over Farscape's adorable DRDs by being violently unpredictable... not to mention they attacked Chris Barrie's crotch - they're fangirls!
1. ED-209
Anyone carping about the effects needs to sit down in front of shiny snoozathon Matrix Revolutions and shut the hell up. ED-209 is the defining robot badass of Western cinema, not aping humanity but bettering it... except where staircases are concerned, natch.
I know, I know, I didn't include the armoured combat chassis that is the T-101 endoskeleton. It didn't quite fit the definition - technically a terminator is a cyborg, and the endoskeleton is a by-product. But it's demoniacally awesome all the same.