Top ten evil computers

Max
The Thirteenth Floor
First appearance: Scream (24 March 1984)

Evil quote: "I couldn't tell the sergeant about my thirteenth floor... he might not like what I did there!"

Like many tower blocks, the experimental hi-tech Maxwell Tower didn't have a thirteenth floor. But it did have a psychotic computer looking out for the residents. When Max encountered anyone giving the tenants trouble, it would lure them into a virtual thirteenth floor where they would be bombarded with horrors until they dropped dead of fright.

Even with a hypnotised accomplice hiding the bodies, it wasn't long before the police put two and two together and came up with thirteen. Max was deactivated, but after a stint in MI5 (!) Max bounced back as editor of the Eagle comic.

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.

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