Computer / robotic villains

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What do you think of villains that are computers, computer programs, robots (not counting Transformers of course)?

Personally I think most of them are weak villains. It is almost always, computer program programed to be perfect, eventully find living creatures imperfect and thus must kill them all, or as they say it delete them.

Villians like the D-Reapers, Xana, etc., they had no emotion to them, so it was hard to really hate them, feel sorry for them, want to see them tortured and killed for their evil, etc., like you would with a villain that was a living creature.
 
Interesting topic which computer/robotic villains are the most interesting/awesome due to their evil megalomaniacal computer programming acts on others & even in cartoons when inventions go EVIL at times:evil:, here's alot of computer/robotic villains that I know:

Armstrong/Robotica/evil car robot(Ducktales) - Awesome evil robots who're the first inventions to go evil which Robotica the robot duck maid is cute/scary/psycho at the sametime:eek:,eeeeekkkk!!!!!!

The Ultrabot 3000(Dexter's Laboratory) - Cool robot villain wanting to take over Dexter's Laboratory until when he's crushed by Dee Dee, hahahahaha, & he's voiced by Tom Kenny which was cool.

C.H.A.D.(Totally Spies!) - Computer geek's computer who's an evil megalomaniac with mass destruction in its mind, he was so awesome.

Comp-U-Comp(Dilbert) - Hilarious evil computer who's voiced by the awesome Jerry Seinfeld:D.

The Robot Mafia/Beelzebot/Robot Santa Claus/Roberto(Futurama) - They were hilarious robot villains along with their personalities & crazy antics, hehehe.

D.A.V.E.(The Batman) - Awesome evil robot villain with all the criminals' greatest minds who's Batman's best toughest opponent who knows his secret identity & that Dr.Strange created him which surprised me.

Silver Cyclone/The Tornado Champion/Tornado Tyrant(Batman:The Brave & the Bold) - They were awesome robot supervillains channeling Brainiac which they want to elimination to all humans, mechanical psychopaths much, hahahahahaha.

Lair-y(The League of Super Evil) - Hilarious evil security system built by Doktor Frogg who went psychopathic by taking over their lair, hehehehe.

big pirate robot(Dragonball) - He was Goku's best toughest opponent in the Red Ribbon Army/General Blue saga which looked like a skeletal version of the 3rd form Freeza, hahahahaha.

Woops, sorry about that zoombie, I'll learn to read topic questions carefully, hehehe, but that's a great question which by comparing them most computer/robotic villains can be more evil/diabolical by their technology actions than the regular living being villains that were just as evil, like for example in The League Of Super Evil episode LOSE vs. Lair when Lair-y proves to be more evil next to L.O.S.E. by kicking their butts, but L.O.S.E. were harmless villains though except for Doktor Frogg & Doomageddon who seem to be the most evilest of the group.
 
I do agree that way too often its always the same old clich? for the robot villains. It can get pretty tiresome.

However I don't agree with you on D-Reaper being uninteresting. Part of its draw WAS that it was an utterly alien and emotionless being. It was so freaky and terrifying. I think that as far as evil computer program villain the D-Reaper is the best one I've seen.
 
Not intended to be a list topic but okay.

I just wanted to discuess how do computer / machine / robot villains (not counting those that have emotions like the Decepticons) compair to villains that are living creatures.
 
Sorry for the double post, I was replying to Radical when you posted, anyway I never said the D-Reapers were bad villains, or the things they did were boring, actully Tamers maybe the best Digimon series ever, but because they were emotionless program that didn't know any better. It was hard to hate them as I would someone like Vamdemon or Kurata, who intentional had mallicous intentions.
 
2001 Space Odessy's Hal seems to be one of the most parodied villains in animation. Most computer villains seem to be based on Hal in one for or another. Be it the cold calculating voice, the logic that slowly goes out of control over the course of the story or the classic glowing red "eye."

If anything Hal might be the underlining flaw with nearly every computer villain, since most are parodys or references to him. He set the standard and nearly every compuiter villain continues to follow that thandard.

Now there are some exceptions like D.A.V.E from the Batman who is still a Hal reference (His name IS Dave after all) had a complex personality that was pretty much a mix of all of Matman's villains

Anyway I liked the D-Reaper as a villain honestly.
 
There have been some good robot villains that were more well developed the the common robot stereotype, like Brainiac or Beast wars Megatron.
 
It is definetly a character type in a rut. Especially the whole 'evil super computer that can't comprehend the power of human emotion angle'. That's kind of up there with the overused and often parodied 'Non-human character spends the series praising humanity and trying to become more like it'.

Although it's kind of a wobbly show, the second season of SD Gundam Force did hint at some interesting angles for the robot villains that went unresolved. It's suggested that the Dark Axis started as a robot servants in another universe. The humans there abused them and used them as basic slaves, which came back to bite them because the Soul Drive power source all the robots had responded to human input/emotion. All the hatred and abuse built up until the robots loathed their creators and went on a fanatical campaign to start a robot master race. Similar angles have been done in other fiction but I thought it was pretty interesting that in someways they made the big bad villains victims of racism and not just simply faulty machines.
 
Makes me feel slightly better... Seeing as i am very logical of mind like Holmes.

Hmm... as to computerized villains i generally hate them. No character... They're so boring. However robots are different. Now when i said computerized villains i meant mainframes like in The Green Death or The War Machines (yes a live action reference, sorry) from Dr Who, or the Master Mould from Wolverine and the X Men. But robots, and i mean not those dumb mass armies like Maximus's blood monks, but robots with individual character, can be good characters.

I'd use the daleks as a reference but those are live action, and only semi-robotic creatures.

Most of the time however i prefer normal villains, although if that's what gets you tortured i'd best be very logical myself in what i do from henceforth. I always thought people sympathized with villains who had feelings...
 
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