Best Robot Fights

In his third film, Robocop fights a ninja robot, and it's really not that great. His second film has him fighting a robot with the brain of a crazy drug addict. That's a little better. But in his first outing, Robocop fights ED-209, and it's just about the greatest thing ever.

At first it seems like Robocop is no match for ED-209's hulking monstrosity, but he beats the behemoth using the simplest thing imaginable: stairs. Poor ED slips and falls, and his body shape makes it impossible for him to get back up again. That's the downside to having guns for arms.

There are many great robot fights in the Terminator franchise, but the best has to be Terminator 2's T-800 vs T-1000 face-off at the steel mill. It's just such a brutal beat down.

Poor Arnold keeps getting back up even though nothing he throws at the T-1000 seems to matter at all. Even after having a steel beam slammed into his face about twenty times, he's still going after that liquid metal bastard. It takes a pipe through the back to finally shut him down, and even then he's not down for the count.

In the end, what's left of the T-800 blows the T-1000 back into the primordial ooze from whence it came. Liquid metal is pretty cool, but liquid fire beats it every time.

Bender's rampant selfishness has passively harmed thousands of robots, but in the robot boxing Futurama episode, "Raging Bender," he's actually doing it in a ring. Bender comes against lots of robots in the episode, The Masked Unit, The Foreigner, The Clearcutter, and of course Destuctor. But the best fight is Bender the Offender vs. Billionaire Bot.

It's not just that Billionaire Bot is a direct homage to Ted DiBiase "The Million Dollar Man." The fight is great because it ends with Bender tying him up with an expensive pocket watch and shoving him inside a barrel that reads "Very Poor." Robot fighting is always better with a little class warfare thrown in for good measure.

This one's kind of complicated. Two evil Bill and Ted robots are sent from the future to kill Bill and Ted, thus preventing their band, Wyld Stallyns, from saving the world with messages of peace and love. They succeed at this task.

But after traveling through both Heaven and Hell, the good Bill and Ted return from the grave with good robot Bill and Teds made by their new alien friend Station. Unlike most robot fights, this one is over with one hit. But the sheer absurdity of it all more than makes up for the fight's brevity.