Favorite Sci-Fi Robot

POSTED BY: misbehaven
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 21:05
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MISBEHAVEN

Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:11 PM

I think I'm going to have to go with Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Morbid and creepifying I got no problem with, so long as you do it quiet like.

DESKTOPHIPPIE

Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:13 PM

Jumpin' in just before bed to vote for the Buffybot. I loved that brave little toaster.

I'll let the other Buffy fans here post some of her many funnies.

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BLAZESOLO

Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:03 PM

The original K-9 from the old Dr. Who.....the ones with Tom Baker in'em.

I wear a blaster under my Browncoat

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:06 PM

"Destroy Robinson family. Destroy Jupiter-2."

Nuff said Chrisisall

VINTERDRAKEN

Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:11 PM

Hard choice between the daggit, 1812 and marvin... Better just put them all up for first place and let them fight it out.

You can’t stop the Signal.
Keep spreading the word about Firefly!

CYBERSNARK

Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:05 PM

Hmm. Hard call. Assuming piloted mecha don't count, my top list would be:

DRD-1812
R2-D2
Bumblebee (from Transformers --the original everybot)
Dinobot (from Beast Wars --broody lone-raptor warrior who quoted Shakespeare)
Cheetor (from Beast Wars/Beast Machines --started out as a whiny little brat, and evolved into a seasoned leader and eventual supreme commander of the Maximals)

Not sure if Andromeda/Rommie should count; while there are robots under her control, Andromeda herself is an AI, distinct from any body she may inhabit.

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EST120

Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:17 PM

Anakin Skywalker. Oh wait, just his acting was robotic.....

SAFEAT2ND

Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:33 PM

"By your command", the original Cylons. Not sure if they were in fact robots though...

V.I.N.cent from the Black Hole.

Safeat2nd: not entirely sure if he's not a robot too.

DINALT

Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:34 PM

Floatybot Vincent from the Black Hole. Sarcastic and know it all, but he had character.

But failing that, probably the 'bots from Silent Running.

PHOENIXROSE

Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:37 PM

R2-D2 then probably Marvin. But I love R2; right little hero, makes cute beeping sounds, and you just know he's got a foul mouth.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. - Gautama Siddharta

YINYANG

Friday, August 18, 2006 12:24 AM

Sonny (from I, Robot) and Marvin. Yay!

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GIRLASKEW

Friday, August 18, 2006 1:18 AM

I know they are bad guys, but I have developed a new affection for Daleks. I don't know what they were like back in the day, but the Eccleston Doctors Daleks are all shades of creepy.

"...once you've been on Serenity, you never leave...you just learn how to live there."
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USBROWNCOAT

Friday, August 18, 2006 1:22 AM

Twiggy.

13

Friday, August 18, 2006 1:53 AM

Number Johnny Five!

WOLFPOET

Friday, August 18, 2006 2:21 AM

GENERAL GRIEVOUS!!! Oh, wait... he has a human heart and eyeballs. Well, I love R2-D2, too.

"We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... This Land."
"I think we should call it YOUR GRAVE!"
"Curse you, sudden yet inevitable betrayal."

SAINT JAYNE

Friday, August 18, 2006 3:01 AM

Maximillian from Blackhole. The beginning of many robophobias in us humans.

DUG

Friday, August 18, 2006 3:25 AM

Daleks aren't robots. They have a squishy little Kaled mutant in them, so they are really just envro-suits. Or tanks with plungers in case of a stopped drain. D@mn you, Davros!

While I love V.I.N.Cent from The Black Hole I'd really have to go with the other floatybot, B.O.B. I mean, V.I.N.Cent just seemed like Kitt from Knightrider as a robot. But B.O.B. was Slim Pickens. Now that's cool.

TRAVELER

Friday, August 18, 2006 3:39 AM

I go with chrisisall here.

Robot from "Lost in Space".

Of course Dr. Smith would have to tag along. You can't separate them. It would be like separating Abbot and Costello, only worse.

"Warning Will Robinson."

Chrisisall remember when an alien turned Robot into gold and he paraded around telling everybody to call him "Golden Boy".

Traveler

REGINAROADIE

Friday, August 18, 2006 3:40 AM

I can't believe no one's mentioned him yet. He's regarded as the only robot in sci-fi history that isn't either an effeminate wimp or a psycotic killing machine. I am of course talking about.....

BENDER from FUTURAMA.

My fave Bender bit from the first Xmas episode.

Conan O'Brien: Listen, pal. I may have lost my freakishly long legs in the war of 2012, but I have something you'll never have. A soul.

Bender: Meh

Conan: AND FRECKLES!!

Bender: (breaks down and cries)

You know what, practically every robot that you see on FUTURAMA was great as well. My favorite cameo one was Hedonism Bot that came in on the fourth season. Just the fact that there's a robot made to serve no purpose but to eat grapes and act like a Roman senator is just great.

"Surgery? In an opera? How wonderfully decadent. And justy as I was beginning to lose interest. Jumby, the chocolate icing." (has it slathered all over him) "Ohhh, oh my yes, hhmmmhmmmhmmmm."

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"There's only one "Return" ok, and it ain't "of the King", it's "of the Jedi."

"Maybe we should start calling your friend 'Padme' because he loves 'Mannequin Skywalker' so much, Right? (imitating robot) Danger...danger...my name is Anakin...my shitty acting is ruining saga."

Excerpt of internet teaser for CLERKS 2.

DAVESHAYNE

Friday, August 18, 2006 3:45 AM

Robby the Robot! http://www.jeffbots.com/forbiddenplanet.html

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

ADAMWANKENOBI

Friday, August 18, 2006 4:29 AM

R2-D2!

REGINAROADIE

Friday, August 18, 2006 7:14 PM

I second your fascination with the new Daleks. After seeing the "Dalek" episode of the new series, I've become huge fans of them. They are by far the best "killer robots" in sci-fi. They could definitly trash the Cylons.

Favorite line of the first season-

"Then hear me talk now. Exterminate...EXTERMINate...EXTERMINAAATTTEE!!!"

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"There's only one "Return" ok, and it ain't "of the King", it's "of the Jedi."

"Maybe we should start calling your friend 'Padme' because he loves 'Mannequin Skywalker' so much, Right? (imitating robot) Danger...danger...my name is Anakin...my shitty acting is ruining saga."

Excerpt of internet teaser for CLERKS 2.

CRUITHNE3753

Friday, August 18, 2006 10:54 PM

No, no no! Daleks are not robots! It's already been said, they are a degenerate life form that needs to live in a metallic shell, so they really belong in the cyborg thread...

DESKTOPHIPPIE

Friday, August 18, 2006 11:07 PM

What, no other Buffybot fans about? For shame! Also surprised no one has voted for Six from the new BSG. That's one pretty cool robot :)

I can understand having a soft spot for the original K-9, but don't forget his brilliant appearance in the updated version.

Mickey has reactivated K9
Mickey Smith: Okay, no time to explain, we need to get inside the school. Do you have, like, I don't know, a lock picking device?
K9: We are in a car.
Mickey Smith: Maybe a drill attachment?
K9: We are in a car.
Mickey Smith: shouts in frustration Fat lot of good you are!
K9: We are in a car.
Mickey Smith: Wait a second... We're in a car!!! shouts Get back!
crashes car through main doors

Hee hee hee!

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MISBEHAVEN

Saturday, August 19, 2006 2:45 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by DesktopHippie:
What, no other Buffybot fans about? For shame! Also surprised no one has voted for Six from the new BSG. That's one pretty

I thought about Six, but I was thinking she belonged more in the Cyborg class. I guess I mean that to me she seems less synthetic and more organic with respect to her human biological characteristics. And did I say Marvin before? You got to love Marvin, but what the hell was I thinking. I want to change that to Mr. Universe's Love Bot.

Morbid and creepifying I got no problem with, so long as you do it quiet like.

PHOENIXROSE

Saturday, August 19, 2006 11:01 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by reginaroadie:
He's regarded as the only robot in sci-fi history that isn't either an effeminate wimp or a psycotic killing machine.

What's R2 considered then?

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. - Gautama Siddharta

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Saturday, August 19, 2006 12:31 PM

Galatea from Bicentenniel Man
a female robot with her personality chip activated

CLJOHNSTON108

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:23 AM

Eve Edison from Mann & Machine.
http://www.scifi2k.com/mann/mann.html
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/7565/mannmach.html

Best (as well as first) role Yancy Butler ever played!

M&M Opening Credits

WIICUBE

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:34 AM

Either

Sonny (I, Robot). Interesting character, and wonderfully acted (what else would you expect from Alan Tudyk, tho?)
R2-D2. A Cool little droid.
K-9. The best robot dog ever.

DEEPGIRL187

Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:45 PM

My vote has to go with Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. You had to love his constant doom and gloom attitude. And wonderfully portrayed by Alan Rickman in the film, might I add.

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PIRATECAT

Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:10 PM

I'll go with Quester (Robert Foxworth) in the Quester Tapes 1974.

Now that's Junk!

STORYMARK

Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:18 PM

In the Mechanical-robot department:

R2-D2 and 1812.

In the organic-robot catagory:

Roy Batty and Sharon Agathon.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

STORYMARK

Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:19 PM

Oops, double post.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

GLADIATOR32

Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:22 PM

Kryten from Red Dwarf, or course!!! Any robot who's main hobby is Ironing is obviously the best!

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BROWNCOATJIM

Monday, November 20, 2006 1:34 AM

I like K-( in all of his incarnations

Simon: "Were there any Feds?"
mal: "No, no Feds, just an honest brawl between folk."

AUDDIE

Monday, November 20, 2006 1:59 AM

lets see.. favorite robot... so many to choose from.

my first thought was the BOT from "Lost in Space"... but then i remember an old movie i saw.. short circut... i think his name was nubmer five or something like that....

how about the robot (joan rivers) from spaceballs?? funny movie!!!

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CYBERSNARK

Monday, November 20, 2006 2:12 AM

Johnny Five is alive!!

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PHOENIXSHIP

Monday, November 20, 2006 2:39 AM

What about poor little TW1K1? He was a hybrid, sort of a proto-Master Blaster. And he had over 32 megabytes of RAM.

"Why're you arguin' what's already been decided?"
Mal to Jayne, "Jaynestown"

FREERADICAL42

Monday, November 20, 2006 5:38 AM

Dude. R. Daneel Olivaw. Best robot ever.

"See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like."

HOBBLEIT

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 9:05 PM

the best sci-fi robot is kryten from red dwarf.

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