Implausible Robots
AMC Movie List

Implausible Robots

This list is certainly vulnerable to semantic attack: for example, is a mecha really a robot? Vote to weigh in.

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1 Mechagodzilla in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
This titanium-constructed, GBLT-friendly doppelganger of the Big Green One breaths a rainbow-colored optical laser. 25 33
2 AT-ATs in The Empire Strikes Back
One can't help but wonder why the Empire didn't invest in military technology that couldn't be disabled by a jump rope between two trees. 9 37
3 Giant Retrofuture Robots in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
What’s more implausible, their massive scale or the technological impossibility of creating autonomous giant robots in the 1930s? 9 23
4 Ro-Man in Robot Monster
This flabby wrestler in a gorilla suit, robotified by a television antenna taped to a diver helmet, somehow kills most of Earth’s inhabitants.</p> 5 17
5 C3PO in Star Wars
Even within the original Star Wars mythos, it is hard to imagine why anyone felt the need to build a gay British robot. -9 37