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more about #borg Meirelle: Unicron eats planets. Unicron wins. more » Ellusion: The robot pictured had a cameo in Judge Dredd as Armand Assantes sidekick. more » icy_one: Yay, one per page for maximum ad views! My favorite format. Please do more of these, I absolutely love waiting to view content in the format of 2 para... more » corpore-metal: There was an episode of Doctor Who, where robot judges, called Justice Machines, declared an entire galaxy in contempt of court and then carried a sen... more » EBone: 150,000 years ago, not millions. more » Pope John Peeps II: the Matrid drone arms from Lexx which eat an entire universe? more » Commander Shepard: I always wanted to get into 2000AD but I would have no clue where to start. I like the British take on comics but not they way they publish them. more » NotChoinski: GORT (2009 version) more » TrueCrime: I would love to have seen a shout-out to the Killbots from Chopping Mall. [www.syracuse.com] more » jajbowler: Do the reapers from Mass Effect count? Wiping out all sentient life every 50 thousand years seems pretty murderous. more » Andrew Liptak: Just not the ones from the TV show. They're all idiots. Although the stealth ones are decent. more » NefariousNewt: What, no Berserkers? more » Sukigod: Berzerkers from Saberhagen? Badlife anyone? more » Pope John Peeps II: I fondly recall the robot space arms from Lexx, which ate an entire universe to make more robot space arms. good times. more » Belabras: Well, he's no Godzilla, but he's destroyed a fair section of Tokyo in his day. more » Annalee Newitz: Crystalline entity! more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: NO BORG. Klingons (old-skool TOS badass, not the later kind) yes. Something entirely new, yes. Doomsday Machine, yes. BORG NO. more » Grey_Area: Three words: Harcourt Fenton Mudd! more » Quilt: An wholly unattractive, middle-aged women. How would Kirk possibly cope? more » Jim Topoleski: I am telling you Doomsday Machine could be worked into an adventure TMP could only DREAM of being with very minimal work. AND could bring in the much ... more » -
#killingmachines
Countdown Science Fiction's 10 Most Murderous Robots
It's one thing to talk about Killer Robots, but which ones have actually managed to really rack up the senseless slaughter? Here are our choices for the ten deadliest robots for you to avoid. More » -
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#2: Unicron
How deadly is he? He eats planets for breakfast. And lunch. And dinner. And if they're populated, all the better; it adds texture, apparently. More » -
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#3: The Cylons
How deadly are they? They destroyed the twelve colonies of humanity, committing genocide on a scale unimaginable to everyone except Glen A. Larson and Ron Moore. More » -
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#5: Skynet/The Terminators
How deadly are they? They took over the Earth and are pretty much trying to destroy all human life, starting with a successful nuclear annihilation of three million people. You've seen The Terminator movies, right? More » -
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#6: Sentinels (The Matrix)
How deadly are they? They took over the Earth and keep humans around only as batteries. Which, you know, is potentially an environmentally solution to the whole need for energy (Although they did start out with solar power. More » -
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#8: Ultron
How deadly is he? He singlehandedly slaughtered the inhabitants of the fictional European nation of Slorernia, before enslaving the alien robot race the Phalanx and taking over countless planets as a result, for his own nefarious ends. More » -
#poll
Choose Your Next Star Trek Villains
No sooner has Star Trek been released than people have started throwing around ideas for a sequel. Klingons? Khan? The Borg? We'd like your opinions, please: Who should NuKirk jerk around next? More » -
#conceptart
What The Borg Queen Should Have Looked Like
The biggest disappointment of Star Trek: First Contact was the Borg Queen. She shouldn't have existed in the first place — what's next, Borg royal jelly? — but the Bride-Of-Frankenstein design was super underwhelming and lacked a certain zing. Now some original Borg Queen concept art has turned up online, and it shows a few other ways her royal Borgness could have turned out. I like this quasi-Vargas pin-up version. Check out our borgy gallery below. More » -
#scifiart
The Greatest Art Featuring 6 Iconic Scifi Villains
Darth Vader rocks out with the rest of the original Star Wars cast in this awesome painting by Hugh Fleming. Vader has starred in more than his fair share of offbeat and arresting artworks, but he's not alone — other classic science fiction villains have also inspired some provocative and clever art, from graffiti to gallery shows. We've gathered the wildest and most exciting art featuring Darth Vader, the Borg, the Daleks, Skeletor, Megatron and Godzilla. More » -
#terminator
Terminator, The Queen Borg In The Shell Chronicles
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles starts its two-night premiere next Sunday, and you may have seen some of the new posters promoting the show, including with one with a topless (and bottomless) Summer Glau hanging from cables with all of her, uh... cybernetics exposed. But it turns out the old android babe with wires dangling from her severed torso isn't exactly a new image in science fiction. We've found at least four others. Take a look below and see for yourself (including mildly NSFW images.) More »
