# Yes, I tried to Google the name of this movie

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**Created:** [August 30, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-tried-to-google-the-name-of-this-movie/552011 "2010-08-30T16:18:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-tried-to-google-the-name-of-this-movie/552011/1 "2010-08-30T16:18:13Z")

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It was one of several B-movie takes on the “reanimated hero” theme that came out after **Robocop** , and it was on SyFy at one point. In this one the artificially revived protagonist was a woman, who became an urban killing machine in a crime-plagued city. I remember a scene where the scientist who came up with the technology was seeking backing from the city’s mayor and chief of police, and he thwarted an assassination attempt using the prototype firearms he’d brought for the presentation, only to have the chief of police try to arrest him for illegal gun possession.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-tried-to-google-the-name-of-this-movie/552011/2 "2010-08-30T16:56:09Z")

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Never heard of it, but my cursory Googling suggests [_The Demolitionist_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112843/plotsummary). Close?

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-tried-to-google-the-name-of-this-movie/552011/3 "2010-08-30T17:02:38Z")

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Eve of Destruction?

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**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-tried-to-google-the-name-of-this-movie/552011/4 "2010-08-30T17:06:42Z")

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> [@needscoffee](#):
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> Eve of Destruction?

If that’s not an actual movie, it should be … and, naturally, Eve would be the name of the cyber-vigilante.

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-tried-to-google-the-name-of-this-movie/552011/5 "2010-08-30T17:36:00Z")

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> [@Larry\_Mudd](#):
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> Never heard of it, but my cursory Googling suggests [_The Demolitionist_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112843/plotsummary). Close?

That’s the one! For some reason I was sure that the title began with “E”, so I was trying Eliminator, Eradicator, Executioner, Exterminator, Extinguisher, etc…

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> > [@needscoffee](#):
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> > Eve of Destruction?
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> If that’s not an actual movie, it should be … and, naturally, Eve would be the name of the cyber-vigilante.

Actual movie, though the “Eve” in question is an evil killer robot.

I’ve always been partial to “Death Nell” myself 😛