Top 20 Deadliest Robots

Examples of Murder 2.0

Every year, humans get better at building technology. Eventually we’ll build something that will kill us all. And it might look something like one of these...

1. Sentinels – The Matrix

Any device that can turn humans into the equivalent of two AA batteries deserves homage. They’re smart, ruthless and come equipped with lasers to chop through metal like hot butter. Plus, they remind me of caterpillars and Daddy Long Legs... anything with that many arms has to be evil.

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2. Box – Logan's Run

Box from Logan’s Run did have a bit of a superiority complex (“Overwhelming, am I not?”) and that just adds to his diabolical countenance. He’s just following protocol when he freezes animals and humans alike to feed the populace of the City of Domes. But “just following orders” doesn’t make Box any more deadly.

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3. MQ-9 Reaper (aka Predator B) –  US Military

Back in the real world, the U.S. Armed Forces developed Predator B to “eliminate combatants” with no trace of remorse. It carries 3,000 lbs worth of laser-guided bombs and Hellfire missiles around with it, ready to strike at the press of a button. And when it’s done slaughtering ground forces it’s equipped to start plucking enemy planes out of the sky.

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4. Cylons – Battlestar Galactica

The Cylons were a race bent on ruling the galaxy, and what better way to claim dominance than to engineer a troop of man-killing, intelligent robots? The idea was good in theory... but in practice, those same robots ended up turning on their creators and wiping them out. Since then, every new race of Cylon robots has only gotten more intelligent and better equipped to kill.

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5. Unicron - Transformers

Unicron doesn’t just kill. Unicron kills, destroys and consumes stars, moons, planets and anything inhabiting them. He is the anti-thesis to life, the Dark God, the one and only “Planet Eater”... which puts him pretty far up on the Deadly Robot scale.

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6. MQ-8 Fire Scout – US Military

The MQ-8 flies, scouts, lands and fires Hellfire missiles without anybody on board. Some of them even come strapped with .338 calibre rifles instead of armaments, which is specifically for eliminating human targets. Plus the “robot” looks something like a flying shark, so you’ll feel the blood-curdling terror before your brain is shot out of your skull.

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7. Ultron – Marvel Universe

Ultron murdered an entire nation in Europe, started dominating entire planets and enslaved the Phalanx race... all before lunch time. Ever since Hank Pym (the Wasp) created him, Ultron has gone on to start updating himself and only gets better with every reiteration. As far as I’m concerned, Ultron should be pictured next to the word deadly in all dictionaries.

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8. Sentinels, X-Men

The Sentinels are so bad ass that the X-Men are afraid of them. They’ve been around since 1965, and they get off on hunting down and murdering mutants. Heaven forbid they ever turn on regular humans... we wouldn’t stand a chance.

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9. Sid 6.7 – Virtuosity

Sid 6.7 is has the personalities of dozens of killers programmed into him, without the “detriment” of human emotion and with the added benefit of enhanced intelligence. Throw Adolf Hitler, Charles Manson, Al Capone and others into a single body and you’ll have an idea of how Sid 6.7 gets down. Definitely not an android you want to meet in a dark alley.

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10. Maximilian – The Black Hole

Maximilian doesn’t talk... and you know what they say about the quiet ones. Under the leadership of Dr. Hans Reinhardt, Maximilian cut Dr. Durant’s guts out and chopped up the brain of members in Reinhardt’s mutinous crew. Does that sound less than deadly to you?

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11. Megatron – Transformers

Megatron is deadly because he’s so intelligent, and he so happens to have a goal of destroying the planet Earth. If it wasn’t for Optimus Prime and his crew we’d all be goners by now. And in case you aren’t 100% convinced of Megatron’s evilness... dude transforms into the Nazi’s own Walther P38... need I say more?

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12. Screamers – Screamers

Screamer robots were made by the losing side of a nuclear war... a race spited. Alas, these little killers weren’t content taking sides and branched out into killing anything that moves. Robots with bad attitudes and a killer instinct are never a good thing.

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13. Terminators - Skynet

Humans create Skynet, a vast reaching AI platform. Skynet launches nuclear war, wipes out the vast majority of humans, and creates a race of Terminator robots to clean up the rest. The plan alone gets high rankings on the terrifying scale, but the execution is what makes Skynet and its minions verifiably deadly.

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14. Hector - Saturn 3

Hector even has a metallic 6-pack, making the murderous robot an obvious force to be reckoned with. Crew members on his space ship never even hear Hector coming... until it’s too late. As far as the “why” of Hector’s actions, you really can’t blame him too much; if Farrah Fawcett turned me down I’d probably become a deadly robot too.

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15. The Gunslinger, Westworld

The Gunslinger was created to lose in gunfights to humans at an amusement park. But he wasn’t so amused. When the revolutions started, he donned his Black Hat and got busy exacting his revenge on the humans who’d mistreated him since creation.

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16. Gort - The Day the Earth Stood Still

Another silent killer, Gort never utters a word as he slices through obstacles and obliterates opposing weapons. His companion, Klaatu, says Gort could destroy the Earth if need be. I’m inclined to believe him.

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17. Gladiator – US Military

The Gladiator is all the more deadly because it actually exists. The Marines use it for situations that are too dangerous for humans, letting the weapon-heavy machine roll in and wreak havoc instead. The Gladiator is perfect for areas hit with a nuke or chemical weapon, and can roll in and reduce buildings to rubble all the while laying down a stream of machine-gun cover spray.

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18. Replicator Carter – Stargate SG-1

RepliCarter is what Sam would be like if she was a killer. She even killed her creator in cold blood before piecing together an army to do her diabolical bidding across the universe. In between quests for domination, RepliCarter even found the time to extract knowledge directly from Daniel Jackson’s brain.

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19. Cain – Robocop 2

Cain is what happens when you drop a psychopath’s brain into a weapon equipped robot. Blood splattering, bone crushing anarchy should’ve been expected. He even has a thing for projecting a rendering of his face (pre-computerization) before killing his ex-employees, just so they know who it is. Brutal.

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20. Mark 13, Hardware

Anytime a robot can learn from its mistakes and improve itself, it’s a problem. Do this process faster than humans possibly can, and it’s a situation. Take this self-improvement and apply it to, say, annihilating the human race and you have something truly and undeniably deadly. Mark 13 is such a robot.

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