Cool Killer Robots

[Evan3]

Hmmm,
Why hasnt anyone mentioned C-3pO or R2-D2???? They are a fearsome duo
How about that robot Short Circuit???????? Now that is one mean metal machine
Lets not forget those robotic bears from the Thundercats... Now they were tough!!
And then there is Crow and that other one from MST3K.... grrrrr

[peter johnson]

Well, she doesn't kill anyone outright, but she is responsible for lots of death & destruction:  The robo-gal from Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS.  Yeah, yeah, I know she almost instantly becomes cyborg/human-looking, but that moment when ROTWANG -- what a great name!-- is creating her in the electric rings, or whatever they are, she looks goddam scary and intimidating, sort of a soul-less insect thing.  I think she's creepy as all hell . . .
peter johnson

[Dunners]

Tom Servo
and crow t.Robot

none are fiercer....

[Lee]

Creepozoid wrote:
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> Damn! Did everyone forget CHOPPING MALL?

Creepozoid, I was wondering the same thing. Ya beat me to it.

[Pete B6K]

Best robot in my opinion has to be Kryten from 'Red Dwarf'. He of the oddly shaped head.

Lister: Kryten 2X4B 523P? Is that your full name?
Kryten: Yes, but I don't like the 2X4B. Such a dorky middle name. Then again, I knew an android who's middle name was 2Q4B.

For second place I second Evan3's second suggestion of Johnny Five from 'Short Circuit'.

Pete

[Foywonder]

I really love the robot from THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK. Even though I'm not a huge fan of the movie I still think Maximillion from THE BLACK HOLE was a cool robot. Weirdest robot would have to be the giant energy sucking robot machine thingy from KRONOS: RAVAGER OF WORLDS.

Other Faves Already Mentioned By Others:

The droids from CHOPPING MALL
The original Mechagodzilla
Mechanikong from KING KONG ESCAPES

[Squishy]

Side issue: Biollante rocks. Possibly the most hideous monster in the Toho batch, and that mouthful of teeth is downright frightening. It's really too bad she didn't get a scene in which she really clamps that mess on G's dead and shake him like a terrier for a bit...

I have an unnatural obsession with MOGERA from "Godzilla vs Space Godzilla."

Some 'bots I am surprised to not see on the list:
--That moronic hipshootin' sidekick-bot from "Starcrash"
--The rock-'em sock-'em robots of "Robot Jox" and "Robot Wars"
--ED-209 from "Robocop," even if it can't walk down stairs
--Twiki. He don't actually kill, but he does inspire suicidal tendencies.
--The Cylons and their cybertronic commander with the transparent noggin, whatever his name was.
--Them There Hat Wearin' Robots of "The Phantom Empire."

[Todd R.]

I like Twiki. BEE BUH DEE BUH DEEP!

[Fearless Freep]

Kryton: Well twist my nipple nuts and call me Susan!

[Brother Ragnarok]

Thanks, Squishy.  I'm glad someone else agrees with me about Biollante.  The second incarnation definitely didn't get enough screen time.

Brother R

[Flangepart]

Now, now, Brother R. I did not say Biollante was not a cool monster, but i did not see the comparison factor regards Robot monsters.
Re: Kryten..he ain't no monster, but i do so like the boy. He's smeggin funny, 'e is!

[Brother Ragnarok]

It's groovy.  I guess I wasn't really comparing.  We just traded a robot for a plant because the rights were tied up.

[Hamburger Pimp]

Ell!!  - "I'll clean out your sinuses but good!"

[Evan3]

Hey,
The transformers (original ones and the animal ones in 1999 I think) were damn cool. But the cartoon Network one sucks. The best one of them all was the giant world transformer voiced by the infamous Orson Welles.

[JohnL]

>Twiki. He don't actually kill, but he does inspire suicidal tendencies.

Actually, in the second Buck Rogers movie (on TV), Planet of the Slavegirls, Twiki flew one of the fighters and bagged a couple of the enemy.

>The Cylons and their cybertronic commander with the transparent noggin,
>whatever his name was.

The head Cyclon was the Imperious Leader (voice of Patrick McNee), while the next highest ranking one you saw (with lights in his pointed head) was Lucifer (voice of Jonathon Harris).