10 Most Iconic Sci-Fi Movie Characters Of All Time

10. David - Prometheus

There is nothing like a good character to hold up two highly divisive movies. David the Android was the unnerving guardian of the Prometheus crew, and the most fleshed out of all the synthetics to partake in the Alien franchise.

As we are first introduced to the android, he has spent decades harvesting knowledge from humans and beyond and is even influenced in appearance by Peter O’Toole. Yet it was his infatuation with creation that elevated David to the elaborate puppet master, using the crew he was tasked with protecting as his unwilling test subjects.

His undoubtable knowledge and heightened philosophical ideology meant that David was hurtled forward by the drive of becoming a creator, much like his “father” Peter Weyland. Across his two-film arc, David went from quiet manipulator to delusional egomaniac, believing that his human-like sentience and unfaltering intelligence made him better than all those surrounding him, allowing him to become as big a villain to the franchise as the Alien itself.