Favorite robotic infantry?

Cafe Society
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I was going to call it “Favorite fictional robotic infantry,” but that’s probably too redundant.

So, anyway, what are your favorite robotic soldiers, from movies, TV, books, etc?

The rules:

This is for infantry only—no tank-bots, one of a kind assassin-droids, no robot gunships. Basically, bots that were mass-produced, or intended for mass-production.)

Purely mechanical robots count, too. Cyborgs generally don’t count. (Well, I should say that cybernetically augmented beings don’t count. Bots with some vat-grown parts could qualify.)

However, much as it pains me to say it…Golems don’t count.

So, anyway…my picks?

Well, seeing as everyone else is going to say “the T-800,” so I’ll start out with the 1930s movie serial “trash can” robots. Mostly because of the classic styling, the proud cinematic heritage, and the fact that if you deployed them today enemies would just spend so much time gawking and laughing at 'em that robots could probably shuffle up into death-ray range unopposed, and unleash concentric-ringed electric hellfire.

That, and you’ve got to figure building those guys is dirt cheap. You could probably outsource a lot of construction to Amish day-laborers, by the looks of it.

After them…I dunno, the “Clank” soldiers from Girl Genius, maybe?

So, who are your picks?

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Those nasty whirly choppy little buggers from Screamers: they were so evil they impersonated cute kids in order to enlist the sympathy vote before slaughtering hapless Space Marines: even the Terminators didn’t do that.

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Hmm.

Both the Daleks and the Cybermen have too many organic components to qualify, here, so I’d have to go with the Quarks.

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Easy. The robot juggernauts in Sky Captain and The World Of Tomorrow.

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The Ground Roving Unit Network Terminators from Robotron 2084 exploded nicely.

The Hulks… not so much.

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I’ve seen those robots before. One of them ate my grandmother’s medicine and she couldn’t do anything about it, because they were strong.

Now she has Robot Insurance, Thank God.

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If I can’t say the HK-50s from Knights of the Old Republic 2 (which were mass-produced, but the quest of shutting down the factory was removed so they just… stopped coming after you for no reason), then I’ll go with the steampunk-y guard automatons from Thief II.

“Deesterbince degected. Logation: I goo na ngo.”

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ED 209, a prototype tested for police work, but intended for military application.

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the army of duplicate Tom Servos that threatened to take over the SOL…

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The Decepticons, easily. :smiley:

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Just make sure to take the elevator.

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No cyber-tanks? If I can’t have an Ogre Mark V, I don’t want to play.

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Do the flying spheres from Phantasm count?

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And what about Daleks? :smiley:

(To answer the OP, though, my real favorite robotic infantry are the little hardhat Mettools from the Megaman series. They’re so cute! X3 )

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Fem-bots from Austin Powers

The super-hot female Cylons from the new Battlestar Galactica

Do the Agents from the Matrix count?

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Hammerstein, from A.B.C. Warriors: a one-off prototype, but definitely an infantry robot with extra hammery goodness. Deadlock was kind of handy with the occult powers and the swirling cape, but I’m not sure how much of a combat model he was. Maybe Joe Pineapples: cross-dressing issues aside, he was a very handy sniper. Actually, pretty much all the Warriors were damn near undefeatable as a team, although the infighting tended to obscure this.

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Damn! I came in here to suggest the GG clanks, and they’re right in the frakkin’ OP. I just discovered this comic and I’m disgustingly fanboyish over it. I just wish all the old issues weren’t coming out online so I could justify spending the money on the trade paperbacks, but instead I have to wait for three lousy pages a week to catch up with the current run.

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I don’t think so - they were, technically, pieces of software.

The octopus-like robots that lived in the real world might count, though.

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Just to be different, let’s throw the NeoSapiens-built robots in Casshern: Robot Hunter. That whole movie is one delicious eye-candy soup.

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BAH! Cobra’s Battle Android Trooper Systems, called B.A.T.S., will annihilate all of your pathetic mechanisms!
COOOBRRAAAA!!