Movie Robot Bracket Game: Bishop Vs. Data

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With Neill Blomkamp’s latest science fiction movie, Chappie, opening March 6, we thought it would be fun to look back at some of the most memorable robot characters in movie history. Some of them are good, some of them want to kill us. Some of them look like humans and others are clearly machines. Robots have been part of movies since the early silent picture days. In this bracket game, we pick our favorites.

Yesterday’s killer robot battle ended with the T-800 terminating the Gunslinger from West World. It was a closer match than I was expecting. The Terminator walked away with 68% of the votes.

Today’s match pairs up two robotic sidekicks. Data served as a member of the crew of the USS Enterprise on Star Trek: The Next Generation for seven seasons on TV. Then the cast of the TV show took over the Star Trek movie franchise for a four movie run. Of the four, the best showing was First Contact in which Data plays a key role. The final film for the Next Gen crew, Nemesis, actually ends with Data’s death. You get the sense that he would have had a Spock-like resurrection had a fifth film been made. But instead, JJ Abraham rebooted the Star Trek franchise leaving Data unresurrected.

Bishop was introduced in James Cameron’s Alien sequel, Aliens. In the first film, Ian Holm played a devious android who is ultimately responsible for the crew being tormented by an alien life form. So it’s no wonder that Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley is suspicious of the robot played by Lance Henriksen in the sequel. But unlike Ash, Bishop proves to be a loyal sidekick who ultimately sacrifices himself to save the human characters. Unfortunately, there was no room for Bishop (or Michael Biehn) in Alien 3. So all characters not played by Weaver were killed off camera between sequels.