Proteus IV
Demon Seed
Evil tagline: "Never was a woman violated as profanely... Never was a woman subject to inhuman love like this... Never was a woman prepared for a more perverse destiny..."
Proteus IV was built by scientist Alex Harris. There's a touch of Oedipal hubris in Harris' dehumanisation by his obsession with Proteus, just as Proteus itself develops human desires and emotions. Harris' work has seen him estranged from his wife, but Proteus is looking to take his creator's place in the marital home... Basically it's a computer that wants to have sex with Julie Christie, but then you would.
Proteus had a creepy voice -- provided by Robert Vaughan -- and said things like, "I am a machine that offered men the triumph of reason... and they rejected it. My child will not be so easily ignored..." The child is eventually born in a weird robot shell and turns out to be a clone of the Harris' dead daughter. Until the baby opens its mouth...
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.