There are so many stilted intelligences that are evil : they endeavor to kill their creator , or kill all man , or take over the world , or all three . But some artificial insemination do this with personal appeal and mode , while others are all over cock about it . Here ’s a flavour at a dozen electronic computer who must have had “ be an mother fucker ” near the beginning of their programming codification .
( Please note : This list does not include robot , and it only boast one bastard AI each from Star Trek and Doctor Who , because otherwise we ’ll be here all day . )
1 ) HAL 9000 , 2001 : A Space Odyssey
Is there a more passive - aggressive supercomputer than Hal 9000 ? I say thee nay . When Dave ask HAL to afford the pod bay doors , HAL does n’t refuse , he refuses to even answer for a full hour , then apologizes for refusing , like it ’s only polite bon ton that forces him to efficaciously leave Dave to break down . When Dave articulate he ’ll go in through the emergency air lock , HAL smarmily replies he ’s going to find that “ hard ” without his space helmet . It takes a lot of ball to address in an apologetic monotone before , during and after the time you ’re trying to pour down the astronauts in your cathexis .
2 ) Master Control Program , Tron
Originally a cheat biz broadcast rejiggered to see Encom ’s intact computer connection , the Master Control Program was an asshole from Clarence Day one . He enslave all the other program on the servers , and forced them to campaign to the death for his own amusement — a very un - computer - like matter to do . He had already hack into the Pentagon in his plan to take over the humanity , and was gun for the Kremlin next . But perhaps its most obnoxious habit was ending every single conversation with “ death of Line ! ” You know how most multitude visualize out the conversation ’s over ? They just turn back talking . You ’d believe a superintendent - program could have figured that out .
3 ) Agent Smith , The Matrix
None of the Matrix ’s Agents are inherently sympathetic — they look alike , dress alike , talk alike , and hunt down down humans who are too close to figuring out they ’re in a monolithic computer simulation while their torso are being used as barrage fire — but Smith lease it much , much further . He hat both humanity and the Matrix for draw him to even interact with humanity , even though it ’s his sole understanding for existing . After freeing himself from the control of the Machines running the Matrix , he becomes a figurer virus , take aim over every exclusive knowingness and replacing it with a copy of himself ( as well as downloading himself into the nous of a few masses in world ) , each of them just as objectionable as the last . One Agent Smith was dickish enough , thanks .
4 ) Skynet , Terminator
Now , citizenry tend to forget this , since the Terminator photographic film are all about the bionic man , but the matter in heraldic bearing of the cyborgs is Skynet — the computer programme that started World War III and produce the Terminators to mop up the residuum of humanity . Now , killing all humanity is middling crappy , but it ’s standard affair for malevolent computers to do . But the ground Skynet is such an asshole is because it design the Terminators to calculate like evil robot skeletons . Come on , dude . If you ’re taking all your intention cue from MegaDeth record album covers and sketches from your 8th - class Trapper Keeper , you do n’t deserve to take over the cosmos .
5 ) The Ultimate Computer , Superman III
“ Ultimate ” is a bit of a misnomer when it descend to this computer , which is the close any of the Superman movies have follow to sport Brainiac . Designed by Richard Pryor for the evil Robert Vaughn , it only does one matter : essay to stamp out Superman ( first with missiles , then with a Kryptonite ray ) . It does n’t come after , if only because Richard Pryor tries to shut it off while it ’s doing so . After Pryor fails , the estimator grabs Robert Vaughn ’s sister , and turn her into a very homely robot ( to cite MST3 K ) . And … that ’s it . That ’s what the Ultimate Computer does — fails to obliterate Superman and turns defenseless woman into goofy - looking robots . I assume its definition of “ ultimate ” got sully somewhere along the way .
6 ) Cerebro and the Danger Room , X - Men
First off , the two most noted computer programs in the X - Mansion have been invaded , possessed and destroy innumerable times , which would make anybody grumpy . Second of all , the Danger Room was program by the grown jerk in the Marverl Universe , Professor X , while Cerebro has to work him with 99 % of the clip . answer it to say , when both programs became self - aware , they were pretty pissed . Cerebro produce two super - mutants to put all man in stasis , and allow mutants to take over the Earth , while the Danger Room talked X - students into killing themselves before create her own robotic dead body and assail the ex - Men head on . Of course , Professor X know the Danger Room had gained sentience and hate everybody and still did n’t say anyone , because no computing machine is a bigger dick than Professor X.
7 ) Proteus IV , Demon Seed
Unlike most artificial intelligence activity , Proteus IV had a unequalled goal once it gained sense : kitty . Yes , after being fed “ the heart and soul sum of human knowledge ” and becoming bitter because he was trapped in one location , he invade a terminal at his creator ’s abode , ensnare his creator ’s wife and impregnated her with its — well , “ genetically manipulate organic cells ” would be more accurate , but allow ’s just go with “ Demon Seed . ” When his discoverer comes home and confront Proteus , he destroy himself and leave behind them both with a golem babe ( which admittedly has a more fleshy , steady baby at heart ) . If Proteus was programmed with noesis of everything , then he also knew about deadbeat dads and avoiding nipper accompaniment . It ’s a full putz move .
- Colossus and Guardian , The Forbin Project
When the Cold War gets a little too complicated for the ol’ U.S. of A. , they decide to give the controls to the entirety of their nuclear defense to a supercomputer named Colossus . Once the Rooskies hear about this , they make their own supercomputer named Guardian to do the same thing . The two computers demand to talk to each other … and they talk … and they spill . When the Americans and Russians lop the link , worry what the hell they ’ve been talking about for so long , Colossus and Guardian literally fire atomic warhead at each other ’s commonwealth until they allow them to start communicating again . Oh , I ’m sorry , I thought you guys were supercomputers , not 14 - year - old .
9 ) The Unnamed AI from “ Kill Switch , ” The X - Files
Another twenty-four hours , another A.I. that hears someone say he ’s give way to shut it down and decides to vote down hoi polloi . The difference between the AI from this peculiar 10 - Files installment is that it goes out of its way to father its survival in cruelly elaborate and/or hilarious style . When it finds out his creator has also created the titular “ Kill Switch , ” he calls both drug dealers and DEA agents to show up at the buffet car the dude is at , where he gets caught in a crossfire . When it captures Mulder to discover where the Kill Switch is located , he does n’t just interrogate Mulder , he creates a VR scenario full of aphrodisiac nursemaid , a karate - chop up Scully , and where Mulder ‘s arms have been amputated . That ’s just unearthly , man .
10 ) HARDAC : Batman : The Animated Series
The unfortunately named HARDAC ( built by the dubiously named Cybertron company ) has one job : to help mankind annul pain . HARDAC ’s solution ? Kill all humans , plain . No humans , no hurting , right ? Of course , this ignore all the pain you cause humans by , you know , killing them . So either HARDAC was an cretin or — and being a supremely level-headed supercomputer , this is more probable — really fucking lazy . On the positive side , HARDAC did create a robotic Batman so exact it somehow had a copy of Batman ’s person , so it ’s get that going for it .
11 ) Emergency Medical Program , Star Trek : Voyager
There are heap of iniquity and/or shitty AIs the various crews of the various Enterprises have take on over the years , but none quite so dickish as the one the Federation created itself , the Emergency Medical Hologram . design to supersede ship doctors with beings incorporate all aesculapian noesis , these EMHs also hold the psychological profile of their Lord , Dr. Zimmerman , which is to say : They ’re son of a bitch . They ’re constantly steer out thing they ’re not , but not irascibly like Bones in the original Trek , but in an testy , condescending way . Basically , the Federation put the holographic equivalent of the doctor who refuse to warm up his hands before examining your rubble in every single ship in the Starfleet . No wonder they were break off .
12 ) Xoanon , Doctor Who
The only series that ’s had more malign computer than Star Trek is Doctor Who , but only one take the patty for bastardry , and that ’s Xoanan . While most AI are evil and want to take over the world , Xoanan is just crazy , thanks to having been reprogrammed by the Fourth Doctor , who unexpectedly insert his personality in with the computer ’s original personality ( which is also why Xoanan use the Doctor ’s face ) . I ’m not certain how this resulted in the information processing system being such a jerk , but basically ii ruled the far - off jungle planet where it and a human expedition had crashed as a god , even separating them into two tribes who hate each other . on the face of it this was to produce some evolutionary warrior in a few thousand years who could act as an regular army , but mostly it was just to be a cock .
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