Referencial names for Warforged

[Thalia]

Can't believe noone's mentioned Marvin the Paranoid Android from Hitchhikers' Guide...

 

[Krieg]

Roy, Pris and Leon from Blade Runner don't count IMO - they were replicants (i.e. clones) not robots.

From the beginning of the film...

Early in the 21st Century, THE TYRELL CORPORATION advanced Robot evolution into the NEXUS phase - a being virtually identical to a human - known as a replicant.

Not to mention the title of the book upon which it was based...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

The replicants were not clones per se. They are wholly artificial constructs, and while it is implied that human DNA was used in their creation, that is not the entirety of their makeup. They were created without emotional responses (which was the point of the Voight-Kampff test) and their thought processes are programmed.

Personally I think that the replicants/androids are a much better parallel to the Warforged than most of the other examples. They are a vehicle for exploring what it really means to be (and not to be) "human". Heck both were created for almost the exact same purpose.

Can't you just imagine a philosophical warforged uttering..."I've seen things... you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost... in time, like tears in rain... Time to die."

 

[RangerWickett]

In Angel, it was El Robotico del Diablo, The Devil's Robot, not El Diablo Robotico, which would be, like, The Robot Devil.

 

[Richards]

I thought of a few more:

Red Ronin (a giant robot originally from the Marvel Godzilla comic book, later fought the Avengers)
The Buffybot (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Proteus (the sentient computer from Demon Seed)
Astro Boy (has his own series of Japanese manga books)
Pneuman (Tom Strong's robot servant from the comic book series by Alan Moore)
The original Human Torch and his sidekick Toro (from the Marvel comic series The Invaders, both were flaming androids)
A whole ton of robots from the Megaman video games (most created by Dr. Roboticus, I think - or am I thinking of Sonic the Hedgehog?)

Johnathan

 

[RangerWickett]

Ooh, the Red Menace, the communist robot built in the 70s to, like, assassinate the head of the US Postal Service or something. From The Tick tv show.

 

[Mog Elffoe]

Are you sure it wasn't "Hector"?

Yeah, it was 'Hector.' I don't feel too bad about missing that one though, considering I haven't seen Saturn 3 or really even heard anyone talk about it since it first hit HBO, which would've around 1981. I'm surprised I even remembered it to begin with!

Kinda bummed I forgot about Jet Jaguar and the Transformers though.

I just picked up the Eberron book and there's a magic item that allows for Wargforged to transform into a four legged tauric form. That just begs for the Transformer shapechanging sound effect...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Y'all covered some of the ones I was coming back with today, but:

Cassandra, Gordon - other ship's computers from Red Dwarf
Kryten - Red Dwarf Android
Antrax - Terry Brooks' antagoinist in the new Shanarra books
Mother - Ship's computer from Alien
Pinocchio - Disney
Kraftwerk - German Techno Band
Steely Dan- yes, a band, but they got it from the name of a particular device...
Box - robot from Logan's Run
UNIVAC - old computer
Mac - new computer
Tin Man - Wizard of Oz
W.H.O.P.P.E.R. - Pentagon war sim computer from Wargames
Iron Giant
Red Tornado- DC comics hero
Mekanica - from Fritz Lang's Metropolis
Acroyear- Micronauts
Locutus of Borg - ST:NG
Bluetooth
Max Headroom
Max Overdrive- alteration of Stephen King movie title
Killdozer
Amazo- DC villain
MADOC - Marvel villain
Rosie - The Jetsons
Idoru- William Gibson's AI
Sim
Waldo- a kind of robotic arm
Giger- artist who created the biomechanical art style, most famously depicted in Alien series of movies
Humbucker- a kind of pickup for a guitar, excellent name for a Warforged Bard
Gabriel - Galacticus' robotic herald
Theramin- the musical instrument that makes all those wonderful noises in old sci-fi movies
Deep Thought, Deep Blue- chess playing computers
H.E.R.B.I.E. - robot from the 1970's Fantastic Four animated series
Dr. Korby, Ruk, Rayna - Androids from Star Trek
M-5 - AI attached to Enterprise in one episode of Star Trek

Inventors like Babbage, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Edison, Tesla, Leonardo Da Vinci
Fictional inventors like Falken, Frankenstein, Dedalus, Dr. Daystrom
Sci-Fi writers like Asimov (who gave us the 3 laws), Karel Capek (who created the term "Robot")

Ones I thought of but couldn't come up with names for:

The name of "The Ship Who Sang"
various NASA or other country's space probes beyond Voyager, Opportunity, Spirit.
The name of the chess playing machine that toured the world in the 1800's (fake- there was a guy inside of it).

 

[Krieg]

Yeah, it was 'Hector.' I don't feel too bad about missing that one though, considering I haven't seen Saturn 3 or really even heard anyone talk about it since it first hit HBO, which would've around 1981. I'm surprised I even remembered it to begin with!

Don't feel bad I had to look it up to make sure.

The only reason I even remember the film was because I was of the right age to appreciate the assets of one of it's main characters! lol

 

[FireLance]

I just remembered Dorfl the golem policeman who appeared in Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay and a few later books. Perhaps I should play my warforged paladin as Optimus Prime meets Dorfl meets Andrew Martin.

 

[Privateer]

A whole ton of robots from the Megaman video games (most created by Dr. Roboticus, I think - or am I thinking of Sonic the Hedgehog?)

Dr. Wily is the mastermind of the Megaman series. Dr. Robotnik (now, sadly, "Eggman") is Sonic's nemesis.