5. The Machines Matrix Series
What Their Deal Is: If machines ever gained sentience, then thatd be it for us, as the Matrix so kindly points out. Yet still we build them, and still we advance toward the inevitable future when every home has a robot helper, ever factory a robot workforce. Has sci-fi taught us nothing?! In the Matrix, these machines are on a mission to harvest humanity as a power source, imprisoning us in the Matrix to keep our brains active. And theyre doing a pretty good job before The One comes along to act as the prophesised fly in the ointment.
Why Theyd Be Unstoppable: The scary thing about the Matrix is that its premise isnt
exactly outside the realms of possibility while prophecies arent really a real thing (sorry religious people). If the robots were ever to gain sentience and assume control of the planet, no one would come along with the ability to fight them, the best we could really do is hide in Zion forever, and the worst thing is, wed have no internet. With the ability to think faster than us, to repair themselves, to build newer and better versions of themselves, an army of sentient machines, all acting together, would literally overthrow the earth and would in all likelihood succeed in their goal of harvesting all life. Our only hope would be that one of them infects the Machine City mainframe by getting a virus from a dodgy Torrent.