Metropolis, 1927In Fritz Lang's classic silent film, the robot incites a full-scale rebellion in a futuristic dystopian world.Everett
Data
Star Trek, The Next Generation series, 1994 - 2002 A sentient android whose positronic brain allows him impressive computational capabilities, is perpetually flummoxed by human behavior and emotions. Just like the rest of us.Everett
Gigolo Joe
A.I. Artificial Intelligence, 2007A male prostitute played by Jude Law, Joe goes on the run after being framed for murder. He encounters, then decides to help a young robot in search of his "real" self.Everett
NS-5
I, Robot, 2004Will Smith plays a detective with a strong anti-robot bias who hunts for a killer-robot in the Chicago of the future. He begins to suspect that a murder he is investigating was carried out by one of a new line of robots, the Nestor Class 5.Everett
Marvin the Paranoid Android
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 2005 Very depressed, a little too smart for his own good, Marvin claims to be 30 billion times more intelligent than a live mattress.Everett
Optimus Prime
Transformers, 2007The leader of a pack of robots battling the Decepticons, (another, more evil class of robots) Optimus takes it upon himself to protect the planet Earth and kick some metal ass in the meantime.Everett
WALL-E
, 2008Cute, industrious and blessed with a hot robotic girlfriend, must clean up the completely polluted and abandoned Earth while fronting the Disney studio's 2008 merchandising program.Everett
Gort?
The Day the Earth Stood Still, 2008The producers of the remake have kept the details of the iconic robot's new incarnation clothed in secrecy. Hopefully the new Gort will be bigger, badder and less robotic than Keanu Reeves.Twentieth Century Fox
Gort
The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951A humanoid alien sent to Earth to warn earthlings about the perils of violence and nuclear weaponry, is the guardian of a flying saucer and its pilot. His message, as true today as it was then, is perhaps what inspired Hollywood to remake the film.Everett
Robby the Robot
Gunslinger
Westworld, 1973The androids at this theme park are programmed to service the fantasies of paying customers. Everything is fine until a computer failure leads some of the robots, like the cowboy played by Yul Brynner, above, to start killing the guests.Everett
C-3P0 and R2-D2
Ash
Alien, 1979The ultimate company man, science officer allows a vicious alien to kill the entire crew of a spaceship so the beast can be studied by the corporation's biological weapons division.
Terminator
, 1984Played for most of the film by California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger, 's scary endoskeleton — and true robotic nature — are revealed by a fiery explosion in the movie's climactic final sequence.Everett
Johnny 5
Short Circuit, 1986After a power surge, a military prototype robot begins to think and feel enough human emotion to dance with Ally Sheedy.Everett
Robocop
1, 2 & 3, 1987 - 1993 Cop Alex Murphy, played by Peter Weller, is shot, tortured and murdered ... sort of. Scientists rebuild his brain and face, still technically alive, into a robotic suit. Once transformed, Murphy hunts down the gang who offed him and spawns an uber-violent cinematic franchise.Everett
