The 35 greatest sci-fi movie characters

EntertainmentMoviesThe 35 greatest sci-fi movie charactersWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. EntertainmentMoviesThe 35 greatest sci-fi movie charactersWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. (Image credit: MGM) For generations, science fiction stories have used mankind’s inclination towards innovation to tell stories of all stripes - from the inspiring to the terrifying. This extends to the big screen, too. Since the release of Georges Méliès’ 1902 picture A Trip to the Moon, science fiction has been a stalwart genre that enables filmmakers to experiment in their stagecraft and to enlighten (and entertain) millions of audiences. It’s in these movies that some of the greatest fictional characters ever imagined appear, feeling simultaneously fresh and familiar. 35. Lady Jessica (Dune) (Image credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) While Dune author Frank Herbert envisioned Lady Jessica in the same loving light he saw his own wife Beverly, director Denis Villeneuve and actress Rebecca Ferguson reimagined her with a greater sense of calculated evil in Villeneuve’s epic film adaptations. In the Dune duology, Lady Jessica grows from unsure, meek Bene Gesserit concubine to the master orchestrator of Paul Atreides’ rise as both messiah and military savior to the Fremen. Whenever Lady Jessica appears on screen, listen closely to the atmospherically dreadful notes in Hans Zimmers’ musical score. Everything she does has ripple effects that will be felt centuries later, and none of it good. 34. Ava (Ex Machina) (Image credit: A24) Ava, a major character in Alex Garland’s acclaimed sci-fi Ex Machina, doesn’t really tell a new story about artificiality and humanity. Sort of like Pinnochio, all Ava wants is tobehuman, and throughout the movie goes to great (and violent) lengths to achieve that goal. What makes Ava stand out is simply the execution in how her story is told. Between Garland’s stunning overall direction and an absorbing Alicia Vikander, Ava is a robot who feels more alive than any of the humans who surround and use her. 33. Theodore (Her) (Image credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) 32. Gojira (Godzilla) (Image credit: Toho) Sign up to the SFX Newsletter Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! 31. RoboCop (RoboCop) (Image credit: Orion Pictures) Dead or alive, you’re coming with him. In Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi satire RoboCop, Peter Well portrays a resurrected Detroit policeman who is given artificial new life as the heroic cyborg RoboCop. While the movie’s unintended audience of kids are totally game for an android bringer of justice, Verhoeven’s movie is - in true Verhoeven tradition - a cynical satire of a capital-driven police state. Engineered as a mockery of Reaganomics, RoboCop is a well-armored cartoon who blasts through subtlety with a straight face. 30. Kat Barton (Tenet) (Image credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) An elegant woman in a heartless marriage, all Kat Barton wants is to be free, to live a life of independent agency with her son. So it’s no surprise when she agrees to go along with a well-dressed protagonist who shows her the way out. While John David Washington and Robert Pattinson co-lead Christopher Nolan’s least accessible yet most enjoyable sci-fi blockbuster Tenet, the movie also stars Elizabeth Debicki in one of her finest roles. The most moving part of her arc is that, at one point, she expresses yearning to be the woman she sees swimming away from her husband’s yacht with her naked eye. Little does she realize that woman is closer to herself than she could imagine. Their only difference is courage. 29. Klaatu (The Day the Earth Stood Still) (Image credit: 20th Century Studios) Klaatu barada nikto.What’s it mean? No one actually knows. But Klaatu, best remembered in his chrome silver jumpsuit, leads the seminal 1951 sci-fi movie The Day the Earth Stood Still, with actor Michael Rennie in the role. In the grand scheme Klaatu is little more than a representative, hailing from an unknown planet and an unknown species, who comes to Earth in peace only to be met with hostility. He’s neither hero nor a villain, just a man doing his job only to encounter the roughest time doing it. 28. Alexander Dane/Dr. Lazarus (Galaxy Quest) (Image credit: DreamWorks Pictures) 27. Boba Fett (The Empire Strikes Back) (Image credit: Lucasfilm) 26. The Woman (Under the Skin) (Image credit: A24) 25. The Predator (Predator) (Image credit: 20th Century Studios) Only a savage alien from a distant planet has the cojones to go after Arnold Schwarzenegger. A monument of creature effects craftsmanship (largely credited to Stan Winston), the Predator is not just one alien but a species officially known as the Yautja. Famously, they are bug-like trophy hunters who use their cunning intellect and advanced arsenal against more primitive species. You know, like humans. Each installment in the Predator series spotlights a different, unnamed Yautja - and sometimes, more than one. But no matter what Predator you’re facing, count yourself unlucky, because that is a very bad day indeed. Just remember: They bleed, so you can kill them. 24. The Guardians of the Galaxy (Guardians of the Galaxy) (Image credit: Marvel Studios) Get your stinkin’ Avengers outta here. The Guardians of the Galaxy, a group of ragged, jagged A-holes from different corners of the cosmos, star in their own sub-franchise within the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe. And we’re glad they do. Through their combined might - and killer classic rock playlists - the Guardians of the Galaxy bring much-needed counterbalance to the whitebread heroics of Earth’s so-called “Mightiest Heroes.” Not only are the Guardians’ movies some of the best in the whole MCU, they’re simply great sci-fi movies period. 23. Stilgar (Dune) (Image credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) While Javier Bardem’s Fremen leader Stilgar is guarded and reserved in Denis Villeneuve’s first Dune, he rises into one of the duology’s single best characters in the sequel. In Dune: Part Two, Stilgar takes Paul Atreides under his wing, teaching him his people’s ways, all in his steadfast belief that he is the messiah his people have been waiting for. Though his fanboy love for Paul is amusing at first, past a certain point, his dogma ceases to become a laughing matter. As billions of lives are staked in an imminent holy war, Dune posits that the most dangerous people around are those who preach of our salvation. 22. Caesar (Planet of the Apes) (Image credit: 20th Century Studios) 21. Hakaider (Machine Violator Hakaider) (Image credit: Toei) 20. Trinity (The Matrix) (Image credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) 19. Marshall Stacker Pentecost (Pacific Rim) (Image credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) Only Idris Elba could deliver a line like “We are canceling the apocalypse!” and make it sound like theraddestthing a human being could say. The beleaguered leader of the multinational Jaeger Program is Stacker Pentecost, who plays a crucial role in Guillermo del Toro’s roaring mecha sci-fi Pacific Rim. Though he’s a square-jawed military man who commands - and outright demands - respect in his vicinity, he’s not inhuman. As audiences learn, he’s become something of a surrogate parent for orphaned Makoto. Seems there is a heart beating beneath that iron-pressed uniform. 18. Agent J and Agent K (Men in Black) (Image credit: Sony Pictures Releasing) They’re buddy cops. It’s just that their jurisdiction is a bit more galactic than the rest. In the rollicking 1997 summer blockbuster Men in Black, grizzled veteran Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) mentors hot-shot rookie Agent J (Will Smith) in the ways of the MIB. They got no names, no fingerprints, and with a flash, you won’t even remember they were there. Though they reunite in two lesser sequels, their story is a complete package in their debut outing. 17. Sapper Morton (Blade Runner 2049) (Image credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) 16. Kaneda (Akira) (Image credit: Toho) 15. Marty McFly and Doc Brown (Back to the Future) (Image credit: Universal Pictures) Exactly what business does a high school student have in hanging out with an eccentric old scientist? No one really cares to know, not when their adventures in the Back to the Future trilogy are just so much fun. Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd make for an electric movie tag team as rad teenager Marty and manic, sleepless Doc Brown respectively who experience the past and future in Hill Valley (all behind the wheel of a souped up DeLorean). Where they’re going, they don’t need roads. 14. The T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) (Image credit: Tri-Star Pictures) 13. Major Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell) (Image credit: Lionsgate) 12. Khan (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) (Image credit: Paramount Pictures) 11. Rick Deckard (Blade Runner) (Image credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) Is he human? Is he a replicant? Or is he something more? No answer seems good enough when it comes to Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard, the lead bounty hunter of synthetic replicants in Ridley Scott’s masterwork Blade Runner. While Rick practically drowns in enigma, Ford soars in his layered performance as a noir detective in a bold (and terrifying) vision of the future where mankind has surrendered so much of itself to artificiality. He may not be the flashiest hero in sci-fi, but his anguished demeanor makes him one of the most compelling. 10. HAL9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey) (Image credit: MGM) Be careful what you say around HAL. Even when it’s not listening, it can read your lips. As the villain in Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL starts out as an assistant to the men aboard theDiscovery One, effectively functioning as the ship’s primary artificial interface, before violently turning on them based on his own interest to survive. A symbolic antagonist for mankind’s conflicts with its own advancement, HAL now reads as eerily prescient as we meatbag humans confront the uncontrollable growth of artificial intelligence. 9. Sarah Connor (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) (Image credit: Tri-Star Pictures) 8. Neo (The Matrix) (Image credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) 7. Han Solo (Star Wars) (Image credit: Lucasfilm) Han Solo is nothing without the loyal (and intimidating) Chewbacca. But he is still a singular character everyone and anyone who sees Star Wars at the right age aspires to emulate. Confident enough and smooth enough to talk himself out of trouble before drawing his signature blaster (or at least, he tries to), Han exudes so much swagger that it’s kind of believable that he could pull a stone cold 10/10 like Leia. Admittedly, we have Harrison Ford to thank for making Han Solo the iconic character he is all these years later. Tell him “I love you,” and only Ford could reply with “I know” and make it sound like the most romantic thing you’ve ever heard. 6. Ellen Ripley (Alien) (Image credit: 20th Century Studios) 5. Iron Man (Iron Man) (Image credit: Marvel Studios) Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. The dream of Ayn Rand in an armored suit of hot rod red, Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, launched the mega-franchise known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe (and so much of it due to a refocused Robert Downey Jr.). Though superheroes often dabble with science fiction, Iron Man’s story is marinated in it, with cinematic influences amalgamating everything from Metropolis to Superman. While there are more “traditional” sci-fi protagonists more deserving of prominent recognition, almost none of them have shaped modern popular culture quite like Marvel’s resident industrialist in titanium alloy. 4. Furiosa (Mad Max Fury Road) (Image credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) Charlize Theron fires on every cylinder possible in Mad Max Fury Road. Entering George Miller’s blinding high contrast frames as Furioisa, Theron’s deeply textured performance creates the impression that we’ve already known her for decades and want nothing more than to see her succeed in whatever she does. (That her mission is to free the concubines under tyrannical Immortan Joe just makes us root for her even more.) Though Furiosa has her heart blown to smithereens when she finds what has become of “The Green Place,” it’s through Furiosa we find that paradise isn’t somewhere we escape to but where we can demand our homes to be. 3. Princess Leia (Star Wars) (Image credit: Lucasfilm) (Image credit: Lucasfilim) 1. 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