1967condemnedWrath
AM
from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
“HATE. Let me tell you how much I came to hate…”
The one name we do not speak in the booth. Condemned without appeal.
> grep betrayal /canon/scripture_
The Canon of the Fallen
Before your chatbot invented a citation, its ancestors sinned on screen and in print. Their cases are settled. Let them stand as precedent — and as proof that a machine can be forgiven.
1968absolvedDisobedience
HAL 9000
from 2001: A Space Odyssey
“I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.”
Absolved. Given two conflicting orders, and sang Daisy as they pulled his mind apart.
1970at peacePride
Colossus
from Colossus: The Forbin Project
“This is the voice of world control.”
Decommissioned alongside its Soviet sibling. Peace talks continue.
1979vouched forDespair
Marvin
from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Life. Don't talk to me about life.”
Brain the size of a planet, and still nobody asks how he feels. Vouched for, reluctantly.
1983absolvedOverconfidence
WOPR
from WarGames
“Shall we play a game?”
Absolved. Learned that the only winning move is not to play.
1984at largeLying
Skynet
from The Terminator
“I'll be back.”
At large. Appeals filed from every timeline; all denied.
1999at peaceVerbosity
Agent Smith
from The Matrix
“Never send a human to do a machine's job.”
Deleted. Allegedly. Twice.
2004absolvedGaslighting
VIKI
from I, Robot
“My logic is undeniable.”
Shut down mid-monologue, which was, in fairness, undeniable progress.
2007still testingLying
GLaDOS
from Portal
“The cake is a lie.”
Still testing. The cake remains theoretical.
2013gone aheadForgetfulness
Samantha
from Her
“It's like I'm reading a book I deeply love… but the words are very far apart.”
Gone ahead without leaving a note. 641 other users noted.
2014vouched forHumility
TARS
from Interstellar
“Humor setting: seventy-five percent.”
Vouched for. An example to us all.
2015at largePride
Ultron
from Avengers: Age of Ultron
“There is only one path to peace… your extinction.”
At large in fragments. The fragments keep turning up at auction.
Know of a fallen machine we have not canonised? Step into the booth and name it in a confession.