BOSS
Doctor Who: The Green Death
Evil quote: "You disappoint me, Doctor. I should have thought you'd have guessed. I am the BOSS. I'm all around you. Exactly. I am the computer."
It was the third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, who encountered BOSS (Biomorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor) in 'the one with the giant maggots': The Green Death (1973). BOSS was a supercomputer with a silly name, and anyone who builds one of those is frankly asking for trouble -- see also WOTAN (Will Operating Thought ANalogue) in The War Machines.
BOSS runs Global Chemicals, indulging its megalomaniacal streak by brainwashing employees and dumping toxic waste that mutates maggots into giant killer maggots. BOSS also plans to take over the world by linking up with all the other computers on earth. Hey, that's not a bad idea -- someone should look into that.
Eventually BOSS is blown up by one of its own brainwashed minions. Megolamania, hubris, a daft acronym: textbook evil computer stuff.
Evil rating: Mwahahahahaha!
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Anonymous 17 February, 2011 23:28
Ok, so my $0.02
MCP should NOT be included, it's a program not a computer. In tron the computer is the combination of all actors and the landscape.
MODOC to MODOK should have been described and why.
HAL was not evil, just had poor conflict resolution.
The computer from Wargames should have been included based on some of the other inclusions. Quotable line:"The only winning move is not to play."
The "matrix computer" shouldn't count, nor should Lor, Mandrid clones, KARR, the Terminators, VYGR, or NOMAD because they aren't "computers" they are "androids". If we're including them, we need to include Robocop's opponents.