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Here's how it works!

You were asked to send me a list of your 25 favorite robots from any form of media or real life of all time. 33 ballots were received, and the robots were ranked on a point system allowing 25 points for a #1 choice, 24 for a #2, and all the way down to 1 point for #25. The points were added up, and what follows are your selections.

Tiebreakers work like such: If two robots have equal pointage (and neither got a number 1 vote), the robot that appeared on the most lists ranks higher. If those robots appeared on the same amount of lists, I went with whatever ranked highest on the individual list. A robot that was someone's #4 beats another person's #6, for example. And then if they still were tied I just picked one so shut up.

What we don't want: your entire lists posted, cloggin' up yer thread
What we do want: everything else. Bitch/kick yourself/pontificate as much as you want, because that's the point!

The countdown begins now. Let your conversations begin~!

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50. Mr. Roboto - (1983) - 42 points
(5 of 33 lists. Highest ranking - #2 Kristen)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HUWRkv4Y1Bk

"Mr. Roboto" is a song written by Dennis DeYoung and performed by the band Styx on their 1983 concept album Kilroy Was Here. The song's chorus features the line, "Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto", which has become an unlikely catch phrase. Domo arigato is one of several Japanese phrases that translate to English as "thank you".

The song tells part of the fictitious story of Robert Orin Charles Kilroy (ROCK), in the rock opera Kilroy Was Here. The song is sung by Kilroy (as played by keyboardist Dennis DeYoung), a rock and roll performer who was placed in a futuristic prison for "rock and roll misfits" by the anti-rock-and-roll group the Majority for Musical Morality (MMM) and its founder Dr. Everett Righteous (played by guitarist James Young). He escapes the prison by overtaking a Roboto prison guard and hiding inside the emptied-out metal shell. The Roboto is a model robot which does menial jobs in the prison. The song may be understood as Kilroy's dedication to the robot that, through being sacrificed in such a way, allowed Kilroy to escape the prison.

"Mr. Roboto" is a really really really really really really really really easy joke for hack screenwriters, and has been referenced in all things good (The Simpsons, like over a decade ago) and bad (Dodgeball, Scrubs, Shrek, Fun with Dick and Jane, Eight Crazy Nights, Goldmember, the King of Queens, etc).

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49. Pimpbot 5000 - (1990s) - 43 points
(3 of 33 lists. Highest ranking - #9 Ragingape)

http://www.ighetto.com/html/pimpbot.shtml

The Pimpbot 5000 is a silver robot character with an oversized wiener-shaped head seen on the NBC late night talk show Late Night with Conan O'Brien in the 1990s. Pimpbot 5000 combined the dynamics of a 1950s robot with the dynamic flair of a 1970s street pimp. He was proud to say that he kept his "hos motivated" and that his "ass" was "silver-plated." Pimpbot shouted such classy lines as "Feeling fine as cherry wine!" "Hey, what it be!" "Get out of my face you jive ass turkey!" and "Got my ho's in control and a big ass bank roll."

He referred to host Conan O'Brien as White Bread and occasionally threatened people with a switch blade when he got irritated. Guest Isabella Rossellini once asked Pimpbot "Tell me, did you come to turn me out? I'm flattered but I simply can't be your ho!" When the Pathfinder landed on Mars in 1997, Pimpbot told America that the robot was actually a pimp named Redbone (aka "King of the Southside") who grew up with Pimpbot on the streets of Shy Town. "The dude was small" said Pimpbot "but the man could use a blade." In fact Pathfinder's mission was to "expand his pimping turf." Afterall, "If there's life on Mars, it's got to be horny!"

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48. Krang - (1987) - 43 points
(3 of 33 lists. Highest ranking - #6 n88n8888)

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0804/

Krang is an extremely intelligent warlord/soft pink brain from Dimension X. While on Earth, Krang allied himself with the Shredder, a ninja master, who, along with his robotic Foot Soldier army, moved into the Technodrome, a giant underground robotic battle fortress. In exchange, the Shredder had to design and build a new body for Krang, a human-shaped exo-suit. Now together and fully powered, the masters of space and art used their abilities to get beaten and humiliated at every turn by four turtles who had goop splashed on them and then got some weapons.

Krang's exosuit was a large, bulky, yet powerful mechanical body. Krang rested inside a cockpit within the stomach, much as the Utroms do in their robotic bodies. Originally, the suit had a microchip installed that allowed Krang to change his size to near Godzilla proportions. This chip was subsequently destroyed in the first episode the suit debuted.

Even without the microchip, the exosuit was quite powerful. The hands could shapeshift into various weapons (axes, maces, pinchers) and even a communication device. In later episodes, however, Krang could be seen changing his arms from a collection of different types he had in his personal quarters aboard the Technodrome. Krang's suit also could "grow" jet wings in place of his arms, which he used to managed a quick escape with Shredder in its first appearance.

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47. Fembots - (1997) - 43 points
(4 of 33 lists. Highest ranking - #3 Sami)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HQJpza5lLA

In fiction, the term Fembot (sometimes spelled Femmebot) is used as an alternative name for a gynoid who is designed to look like a woman. The term has been used in two major productions: The Bionic Woman television series and the Austin Powers film series, which parodied the name. The television show Futurama also used the word fembot, as did the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Fans of the Transformers line of toys and related fiction occasionally use the term to refer to Female Transformers. It was used once in the Transformers Beast Wars cartoon series.

The ones specifically voted for here are from the Austin Powers franchise and all kind of look like Miss Yvonne from Pee-wee's Playhouse with machine guns coming out of their nipples. They are as deadly as they are beautiful, and can only be stopped by hypnotic dancing or the image of Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day.

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46. D.A.R.Y.L. - (1985) - 45 points
(5 of 33 lists. Highest ranking - #14 Alicia)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088979/

"Daryl" ("Data Analyzing Robotic Youth Lifeform") is a pre-teen looking cyborg who escapes from the science facility where he was created, in order to find a family and live as a real boy. The government will do everything to get him back. However, Daryl doesn't know that he is a cyborg, and ends up settling in with his foster parents.

What follows is basically "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" except instead of a magical bike chase, D.A.R.Y.L. steals a high powered government fighter jet and explodes after an hour and a halfish of learning how to love/play baseball. Regardless, D.A.R.Y.L. is one of the best remembered movies of the mid-80s by anyone who spent way too much time staring at the VHS boxes at the video store.

[Mike]

I didn't expect Mr. Roboto to be on that few lists.

Then again, it wasn't on mine, either, so I can kiss my own black ass.

[DGMacphee]

I can't believe I forgot Pimpbot. GAAAAH!

[Spoodles]

I forgot all about Pimpbot as well, but I'm not sure I would have marked him on my list if I had remembered. I like all the 'bots on my list, and it would have been a shame for me to lose Mr. Roboto or some such.

[Alicia]

Regardless, D.A.R.Y.L. is one of the best remembered movies of the mid-80s by anyone who spent way too much time staring at the VHS boxes at the video store.

Awww, man.

[Jim]

Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. I had never even heard of this supposed D.A.R.Y.L.

[Bismark]

DARYL was one of those like Deadly Friend. I didn't want to put it on the list just because I remembered it, I wanted it to be one I actually liked. Him flying the jet was pretty cool, though.

[Shamrock]

Pimpbot would have been perhaps inappropriately high on my list, had I remembered him.

[Mike]

DARYL was one of those like Deadly Friend. I didn't want to put it on the list just because I remembered it, I wanted it to be one I actually liked. Him flying the jet was pretty cool, though.

Same here. Yeah, I remember D.A.R.Y.L. I watched it like three times, tops, on the Disney Channel. He gets lumped into that same "Oh, yeah. That existed," category as Chip from Not Quite Human.

[Emily]

See I would assume you loved D.A.R.Y.L, being the 80's nerd that you are.



Damn, just realized I forgot Electric Grandma.

[Hanstock]

And I forgot both Lovematic Grampa and robotic Richard Simmons.

[Lindy]

45. Thundercleese - (2000) - 50 points
(3 of 33 lists. Highest ranking - #3 MattZakrowski)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297512/

The Brak Show is one of Cartoon Network's 15-minute animated series that airs during Adult Swim. It is a spin-off of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast featuring recurring characters from that show and Cartoon Planet, both of which used stock footage from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Space Ghost and Dino-Boy. The protagonist is a Space Ghost villain named "Brak", voiced by Andy Merrill, who developed a quirky persona for the character.

Thundercleese (voiced by Carey Means) is Brak's next-door-neighbor, a militant Killbot (with the visual appearance of a Gundam or a similar anime-style robot) who also is passionate about his lawn and garden. A short-lived shtick on the show involved Thundercleese blasting Zorak often (inherited from Space Ghost Coast to Coast, see above). He is very aggressive and warlike, always speaking in a loud, robotic monotone, and when Brak is troubled, no matter what the problem is Thundercleese invariably suggests swift and brutal retaliation. Thundercleese's social skills are rather lacking, and before social get-togethers he will study very bad "party jokes" in preparation. On the Adult Swim New Year's party it was shown that Frylock of Aqua Teen Hunger Force created Thundercleese, which is why they sound alike (both characters were voiced by Means).

[Lindy]

44. Red Tornado - (1968) - 50 points
(5 of 33 lists. Highest ranking - #8 B)

http://my.execpc.com/~icicle/REDTORNADO.html

An android created by the supervillain T. O. Morrow for the purpose of infiltrating the Justice Society of America, Red Tornado channels violent wind forces through his arms and legs to produce bursts of cyclone-force winds and high speed forward velocity. On occasion, Red Tornado uses his high-velocity movement to render himself invisible to unaided human vision. His android body facilitates aerokinesis, superhuman strength and resilience sufficient to withstand a direct hit from a missile, as demonstrated during the World War Three story line of the JLA series.

His current human body has all the powers related to his Air manipulation, albeit is not supposed to have the same resilience, stamina and self-repair/healing factor abilities.

Tornado has appeared in numerous comics and cartoons, most recently appearing in the series Justice League Unlimited. Comic book robots sadly don't rank any higher than this, despite Amazo and Ultron getting multiple votes, because apparently we don't read comics. Frowny face.

[Jim]

aye yo fuck comics dog

Glad Thundercleese made the list. I didn't have him in my top 25, but he would make my top 50 any day.

[Alan]

How the hell did I forget Krang's body. GodDAMNit.