Robot Assassin Movies & books
Watch these at your own risk
Terminator (1984)
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn,
Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen
Director: James Cameron
Plot: To ensure its survival in a post-apocalyptic world ruled by machines, a sentient computer sends a robot assassin back in time to kill the woman whose unborn son will be the leader of humanity’s rebellion. As mankind’s last hope, a lone warrior is also sent back to protect her
Robot Ninja (1990)
Produced, written and directed by J.R. Bookwalter
Starring
Michael Todd
Bogdan Pecic
Maria Markovic
Floyd Ewing Jr.
Burt Ward
Linnea Quigley
Executive produced by David DeCoteau
Robot Wars (1993)
Directed by Albert Band
Written by Jackson Barr
Starring:
Don Michael Paul
Barbara Crampton
James Staley
Danny Kamekona
Yuji Okumoto
Produced by Charles Band
Robot Jox (1991)
Directed by Stuart Gordon
Written by Joe Haldeman
Starring:
Gary Graham
Anne-Mary Johnson
Paul Koslo
Robert Sampson
Produced by Albert Band
Executive produced by Charles Band
Robo Wariors (1996)
Directed by Ian Barry
Written by Michael Berlin
Starring:
James Remar
James Lew
Kris Aguilar
James Tolkan
Produced by Loucas George
Based on characters created by Stuart Gordon
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obot Holocaust (1987)
Written and directed by Tim Kincaid
Starring:
Norris Culf
Nadine Hart
Angelika Jager
Joel von Ornsteiner
IG88
Originally built as one of four prototype assassin droid, IG-88 had a powerful mind of his own and managed to kill his creators and escape from the Empire. Before escaping, IG-88 managed to download his sentience onto the three other droids as well as another incomplete droid, IG-72.
IG-88 planned to download his sentience into all droids to turn against the “cumbersome bioloigicals.” However, once the Empire began to become suspicious, the droids split up, and IG-88B- the one with the original sentience became a bounty hunter.
When Darth Vader was searching for Han Solo IG-88 was present. He placed a tracking device on the other 5 bounty hunters’ ships with the hope that one of them would find out, where he could then rush over to capture him first. While aboard the Executor, IG-88 downloaded its files and learned of the construction of a new Death Star. It, with the other IG-88, planned on transferring its sentience onto it as well.
While working on this plan, IG-88 discovered Boba Fett had found Solo. He rushed to Cloud City and, while preparing a trap for Fett, was killed by the rival hunter himself.
SCUD
The Disposable Assassin
Scud is a robot assassin that is programmed to
self-destruct upon termination of his target.
The fun starts when he figures this out,
and puts his target on life support.
Lots a laughs, Mafia like guys,
and a cool sidekick named “Drywall”
who can pull ANYTHING from his many zippers.
By Rob Schraub.
GI Joe
Operation: Robot Assassin
Ballantine Books published a series of “Find Your Fate”books.
By making decisions at certain points of the book,
you change the outcome of the story
Pictured is number 4 in the series – Operation: Robot Assassin
by H.William Stine and Megan Stine.
The book is 90 pages in length,
published in November of 1985
ISBN # is 0-345-32668-7.
The back of the book reads:
The GI Joe Team is the last hope for preventing world chaos
in OPERATION: ROBOT ASSASSIN.
Government-Funded Robot Assassins from Hell
Mission One: Kill All Evil Game Designers
is a card game dating back to 1995.
Miller / Darrow:
HARD BOILED (1993)
Graphic novel account of a day in the life of an insurance investigator / tax collector / robot assassin. Highlights some of the problems with artificial intellience in a highly entertaining, yet extremely violent manner. (By page 5 – of 128 – the body count is already in three digits.) Geof Darrow’s art is disgustingly detailed and beautiful.