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The Most Badass Robot Army Dream Team

jaredluse — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:19:02 PDT

HK-47 is a must. That guy was raw. He didn't mess around at all, and would almost be begging you to kill people. Another droid I would add is Guri (from shadows of the Empire) she was also quite willing to kill, and would make a great spy.

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Tibeerius — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:19:08 PDT

@Garrison Dean, King Awesome: Daleks aren't robots....they are squid-like creatures in armored battlesuits.

@Klebert L. Hall: Even if you beat a Bolo or Ogre you lose...since the real estate you fought it in will be radioactive for millenia.

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sumocat — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:30:51 PDT

@Signal: HK-47, when you absolutely, positively got to kill every Jedi in the room, accept no substitutes.

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Klebert L. Hall — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:46:46 PDT

@RAHfanboy:

That game was Ogre. Metagaming/Steve Jackson Games. I'm pretty sure I still have it, somewhere.

-Kle.

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tk. — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:54:40 PDT

Whoa, almost forgot: IG-88.

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Sharpless — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:29:35 PDT

Did you seriously just trash Data? What. The. Fuck.

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Ravac — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:51:05 PDT

@Grey_Area: Yep.

Heck, a couple of semi-sentient knife missiles could take this whole list down.

Ravac

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jbq — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:19:59 PDT

Whoops, guess I accidentally screwed up a <, but you know what it was supposed to say.

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jbq — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:19:22 PDT

@SavannahJack: Klatoo Verata Nicto. I got it, I got it, I know your damn words!@

href="#c5260214">andrew60647: Put me down for Replicants. And Bender. But then again, you already have your basic Bender-army after Bender's Big Score, so why are we still discussing this? Bender Army = Teh Win.

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Crash Launching — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:59:30 PDT

@Signal: Exactly. I was hoping they'd have included ol' HK.

"Indeed, I am most eager to engage in some unadulterated violence. At your command, of course, master."
(from the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic PC game. It is good!)

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fistrodisco — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:49:06 PDT

If HAL is in, i want GlaDOS here. And the cute turrets, too :)

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James Tiberius Quirk — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:12:16 PDT

Give me the Heavy Metal Kids from Judge Dredd, or Mek Quake from Ro-Busters, or the original ABC Warriors (not that later crap)

BIG JOBS!

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andrew60647 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:07:13 PDT

@Scroggs!: Yes, ED-209! Awesome, except for the (and I thought this was a Dalek-reference-joke) thing about how it can't negotiate stairs.

And, what - no Replicants?

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zenpoet — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:52:37 PDT

@moff: Though Ultron is badass, I think Death's Head would have been a better choice. Either II or III.

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Space_Crime — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:39:13 PDT

I love the Iron Giant, great movie.

Most docile of them for me, C3P0 wouldn't even harm a butterfly.

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Shiryu — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:28:19 PDT

No Gundam!? /brain implodes

Oh wait, those are piloted by humans... ah, nearly fell on my face there.

I gotta vote for Soundwave, I loved the action figure Ihad as a kid. Makoto from GITS is also a very impressive piece of as... erm...cyborg... yes...

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Scroggzilla Raids Again! — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:59:47 PDT

I'm a little disappointed by the exclusion of ED-209, but pleased by the inclusion of Mechagodzilla. However, I'd prefer Millenium series Mecha-G, Kiryu. His absolute zero cannon would be perfect for making slurpies in bulk quantities.

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IchabodCrane — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:58:59 PDT

-
Where's the squidies from The Matrix?
Or
Where's the robot army that kicked our asses in Animatrix?

BTW: thoese Lost in Space licensed replica robots can be found at B9Creations for the low low price of $24,500!

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zenpoet — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:56:31 PDT

@braak: Hah! My wife made so much fun of me the first time we saw that together and I sniffled (just a bit, mind you).

I thought I was the only sallyman who got choked up at that movie.

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SavannahJack — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:54:48 PDT

@Maxxofor: That should be "Gort, Klaatu barada nicto" spoken in a cigarette-ruined rasp by Patricia Neal.
But you left out "Astro Boy" and Eighth Man (whoosh!) - animebots from my childhood.

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All_Thumbs — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:11:20 PDT

I'm personally particularly partial to AMEE from Red Planet once 'she' goes into hunter-killer mode.

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darundal — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:09:00 PDT

I think that someone needs to make a distinction between the badass Cameron Terminators, and the "others." If the Cameron Terminators are the ones being referenced above, then they win. If it isn't, Mechagodzilla, hands down.

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DeepFriar — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:58:57 PDT

No love for Big O?

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Nebbish — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:51:44 PDT

Where's the Robbie the Robot love. He could make booze. Someone has got to pour the drinks.

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braak — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:45:56 PDT

@JosephFinn: The Iron Giant is, in fact, one of the only movies that will consistently make me tear up.

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Gyrus — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:44:53 PDT

@magsman: right on. I was looking at that picture and wondering where on Earth that warehouse is and can it be found on Google maps?

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Jeff-Minor — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:37:59 PDT

@moff: No battle droids? Of course not; one switch turns them all off. How about a platoon of Gort-bots? And you can't beat Greg Bear's nasty killer bots from Moving Mars.

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BSAKat — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:35:00 PDT

No Bender? No Roberto? No Devastator? This list is dead to me.

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AlfaCharger — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:13:09 PDT

ED 209 from Robocop. Don't even think of parking in a posted zone. The ED 209 will come with guns blazing!

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AdamL — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:07:30 PDT

Okay, I need a bigger version of that Iron Giant pic, like now.

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Signal — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:25:35 PDT

No HK-47?

"Definition: Love is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope...Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticle, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds."

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robertmonsters — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:03:09 PDT

Joe Pineapples from ABC Warriors. He has a human heart.

In his chest locker.

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Killa_Charlie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:46:22 PDT

Needs more Cybermen.

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Kevin Kelly — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:06:04 PDT

@Git Em SteveDave: I think it means just a useless human.

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Kevin Kelly — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:05:02 PDT

@AmericanHector: I was always kind of "Meh" on the Daleks and Cybermen.

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tk. — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:37:03 PDT

* Bender (someone has to organize the after-party)
* Magus (although technically techno-organic)
* The Reapers (and they can bring the Geth for fodder)

...and I was always fond of one of Ultron's greatest creations, Vision.

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Cantonkid — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:29:30 PDT

How about the ever popular companion K9?

If we can include anime droids, then I would add in the M-66 combat droids from the anime/manga Black Magic M66.

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JosephFinn — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:10:21 PDT

Anyone who doesn't tear up a bit toward the end of Iron Giant, I don't want to know you.

"I am not a gun."

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ThatGuyOverThere — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:51:09 PDT

What, no "Evolver?"

Yes, it was a pretty terrible movie, but the robot was pretty tough. Decent concept too.
imdb

Long story short, some kid wins a VR shooting game contest, and gets a free robot that simulates the cyberspace game out in meatspace. The catch is that the robot is programmed to increase its difficulty level. For some reason or other it doesn't know to stop getting tougher, and ends up powering itself up more and more, doing things like substituting steel ball bearings for the plastic pellets it shoots.

In all, not bad for a low-budget "survive the killer robot" type movie.

Maybe I'll find somebody to anonymously post an xvid of my dvd to the newsgroups, along with Patrick Stewart's "Safehouse" when it finally gets shipped to me.

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Silver_Back — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:21:30 PDT

If anything they should make a hybrid of the Terminator and Motoko Kusanagi. That would be badass!

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Maxxofor — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:32:12 PDT

@Dalboy.. Klatu Virda Nicto FTW!

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RAHfanboy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:10:53 PDT

@Klebert L. Hall:"You need to add BOLOs / Ogres."

Thank you! I've been trying to remember the name of Laumer's super cyber tanks for some time. BOLOs! There was a great pocket game that was nothing but a piece of hex paper with some geographic features and the game pieces. One player had nothing but the BOLO, the other player had lots of stuff, but it was easier to win with the BOLO.

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EBone — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:26:29 PDT

@magsman: Try www.lostinspacerobot.com

You can have your very own for $25,000.

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icelight — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:13:05 PDT

The continued absence of Fehdman Kassad/The Shrike from io9 lists is an immense tragedy. Time-bending, undying, built-of-razors-and-spikes, designed by galactic intelligence, powered by love protectors of the Second Coming of Christ need more appreciation.

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Dalboy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:56:36 PDT

One word...

Gort!!!!

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bjarmson — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:50:29 PDT

@Grey_Area: Yeah, any SC drone could waste the whole aforementioned group and then say something wonderfully sarcastic and witty after those few seconds were over. The "terror weapon" in "Look to Windward" was one bad bot (or whatever) too.

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AmericanHector — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:22:54 PDT

So where do the daleks fit in on this list? Not totally robot, not totally flesh and blood, not really a cyborg either. They are just strait up killing machines that will delete you from history via time travel. That also brings up the cybermen. They kind of sucked, but they do get the job done.

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Final — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:20:07 PDT

Big Guy, Iron Giant, Ultron, Soundwave and Major Motoko all get my love but give me the Phalanx from the X men arc that started Generation X.

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Klebert L. Hall — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:08:26 PDT

You need to add BOLOs / Ogres.
-Kle.

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Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:04:36 PDT

As a frequent watcher of the Fifth Element, What is a meat Popsicle?

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Convair 990A — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:37:20 PDT

That HK-47 has been omitted is an error that can only be solved by er, the most violent means available, meatbags. I'd also be tempted to suggest Guri for both looks and CQB.

Would Sharon Apple count as a potential counterpart for HAL? ED-209 has to be thrown in for either amusement or just random destruction, so long as no stairs are involved.

I can't agree with V.I.N.CENT as target practice. Between his wisecracks and disarmingly-cute exterior, I think there's value in that 'bot. Reinhardt's sentries would probably be more valuable for target practice, or at least amusement.

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Grey_Area — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:26:50 PDT

Special Circumstances Drones. The really really cranky kind.

@se7a7n7: Inside a trash compactor.
@bornagaincrisco: Thank you, that was beautiful.

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botanicidal — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:19:43 PDT

You forgot about the battle tank/warplane robots from that awful film Toys, starring Robin Williams. Horrifying? Yes.

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tezby — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:15:14 PDT

Gigantor, the space age robot. Nuff said.

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Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:13:25 PDT

@se7a7n7: R&R

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se7a7n7 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:51:22 PDT

where does Small Wonder fit in to all of this?

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Nickatiah — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:49:37 PDT

@BullfightsOnAcid: Jet Jaguar is the greatest guilty pleasure of the series. Also Gigantor is way cooler then Big Guy (Frank Miller not withstanding.)

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Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:48:49 PDT

@moff: I don't know, that sort of fell under the "Teeth Aren't Tools" catagory for me. I was nervous... "Can it do that? What if he breaks his lightsaber that way? Then what?" Of course I didn't know at the time that they don't really need lightsabers because the Jedis can pretty much just throw around any enemy they want with the flick of the wrist.

It was way cool though. And at the beginning. Keeping my hope still up until the very last minute when we got to meet the Jar Jar and the Vader Kids.

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bornagaincrisco — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:44:05 PDT

@BullfightsOnAcid:

"HE JOCK IT MADE OF STEEL
EATS SUSHI FROM A PAIL
JET JAGUAR? JET JAGUAR!
HE MOTHER NEVER REALLY LOVE HIM
HE CRIMEFIGHTING COVERS UP A BASIC INSECURITY
HE DICKEY COVERS UP AN ADAMS APPLE THE SIZE OF A TOYOTA
HE BASICALLY GOOD-HEARTED, BUT HE'D LIKE TO SMASH THAT KID AGAINST A ROCK
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
WHO'S THERE?
HIS HEAD LOOKS LIKE JACK NICHOLSON
DON'T SMILE LIKE THAT, IT WILL STAY THAT WAY
YAHMMMAAHOAAHOAAAUGH!
DON'T TOUCH MY BAGS IF YOU PLEASE, MR. CUSTOMS MAN"

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Log1c — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:43:22 PDT

I'll take the T-X, plus you get Kristana Lokken...

Those stun stick robots from the prequels were pretty awesome though..

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magsman — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:39:37 PDT

I can't be the only one here who is wondering where to find the warehouse in which an army of Lost in Space Robots is being manufactured. Because I wanna live there.

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BullfightsOnAcid — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:36:40 PDT

[www.giantmonstermovies.com]

Jet Jaguar from Godzilla vs Megalon

...for target practice

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EBone — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:15:37 PDT

I'll take a battalion of the re-imagined Cylon Centurions Please.

(And one Tricia Helfer Model No. 6 as well).

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moff — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:10:15 PDT

@Garrison Dean, King Awesome: No, the coolest thing (besides the torn tight white outfit) was using the lightsaber to melt through the thick metal door. And the droideka were pretty cool, but their standard-issue associates made stormtroopers look tough, which is saying something.

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Rus — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:02:36 PDT

I personally like me some Giant Robo (anime version). Obeys commands from your Dick Tracy radio watch, until it gets pissed and just starts pounding things. I'll take two, please.

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Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:58:38 PDT

@moff: The Droideka... the coolest thing from the prequels. Well that and Portman in the torn tight white outfit.

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Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:54:57 PDT

Since you have cyborgs and piloted bots in this I'm shocked that you don't have the most dangerous machine ever.. a friggin Dalek!!?

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moff — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:47:37 PDT

I'm with you on Ultron. You do not want to fuck with that guy.

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moff — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:46:49 PDT

What, no Trade Federation battle droids?

moff