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. 31 43
2 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? 11 29
3 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. 8 48
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> 7 23
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. -12 48