Does not compute: The 10 most annoying kid + robot team-ups

By Rich Trenholm on 21 April 2008, 5:48pm

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So are all crime-fighting/spacefaring kids annoying? Only when they're a genius and there's a robot involved, clearly. Inspector Gadget is technically a cyborg, not a robot, which may explain why Penny is so great at solving crimes, all the while stirring new and unfamiliar longings in our pre-adolescent loins. But here's the true, undisputed daddy of kids with robot sidekicks, the exception that proves the rule by stealing the rule's money and having his pet cyborg killing machine shoot the rule in its rule knees.

Honourable mention: John Connor and T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
It is, of course, the one, the only, John Connor from Terminator 2. And yes, we say the one and only because the other incarnation of JC -- check the messianic initials -- is a prat. In Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles, he gets chased around by a cybernetic killing machine called Cromartie, for shazbat's sake.

But Edward Furlong, in T2 alongside Arnie's T-800, he's the business. His hair is rather floppy, sure, but he also swears a lot, and steals stuff, and says things like, "Easy money!" while swearing and stealing stuff. So when he does have a bit of a cry, it's okay. We're all crying too. Now that's identification.