Machines (9)

Villains Overview Gallery

Hostile Species
Full Name	Machines
Alias	Robots The Beast
Origin	9
Homeworld	Earth
Abilities	Super-strength High intelligence Weapons supplies Military tactics Mobility skills
Members	Fabrication Machine Cat Beast Winged Beast Seamstress Steel Behemoths Seeker Drones Spiderbots
Hobby	Hunting down living beings.
Goals	Purge humanity (accomplished). Collect stitchpunks' remaining souls and reawaken the Fabrication Machine. Extract all of the stitchpunks' souls from their bodies to become perfect (all failed).
Crimes	Mass murder Genocide Destruction Pollution
Type of Hostile Species	Genocidal Sentient Machines

The Machines are the main antagonists of the 2009 animated film 9, with several of them seen across the remnants of the Nation who are the secondary antagonists.

Initially built by the Fabrication Machine under the orders of Chancellor Ferdinand to serve the imperialist ambitions of the unnamed Nation's totalitarian regime, their systems went genocidally awry, due to being reprogrammed by the Fabrication Machine to turn against the Nation's military and annihilated virtually all organic life on Earth. After the Human race and all other lifeforms had been exterminated, their focus shifted to killing and retrieving the Stitchpunks and an alchemy talisman artifact to reawaken the dormant Fabrication Machine.

History

During the last years of the The Chancellor's Party, an elderly scientist was tasked by Chancellor Ferdinand to create a new artificial intelligence that will bring the Nation glory and power to the entire world. To that end, the scientist created the Fabrication Machine, but the Chancellor betrayed the scientist by taking the Machine for his own purposes of creating new machines (mostly Steel Behemoths) that will wipe out the Nation's enemies.

However, after weeks of being tormented by the Chancellor's demands to creating more machines without end, the Fabrication Machine snapped out of pressure and waged war against humanity, using the Steel Behemoths and their toxic gas canisters to exterminate all of humanity and natural life on Earth. Eventually, the Fabrication Machine ran out of power and went into slumber, and the Machines scouted the entire planet to search for any lifeforms that could revive the Fabrication Machine.

Little did the Machines knew that the Scientist regretted the creation of the Fabrication Machine for what it had done and swiftly sprang into action a way to ensure life will return to Earth by the time every organic lifeform had been exterminated. Thanks to the help of an alchemy book written by the famous alchemist Paracelsus, the Scientist created and sacrificed parts of his own soul to give life to nine homunculi-like dolls known as Stitchpunks and gave them clues on how to defeat the Machines and bring life back to Earth. However, one of them (9) accidentally used the Talisman he bestowed to 9 to awaken the Fabrication Machine, who then sets the Machines to go after the Stitchpunks so that it can absorb their souls.

As the events unfold, the Stitchpunks manage to outwit the Machines and destroy them, but the Fabrication Machine stands its ground as it slowly kills several of the stitchpunks to absorb their souls, leaving only 1, 3, 4, 7, and 9 on the rocks. 9 soon learns about the Talisman's true power and intends to sacrifice himself so that the others can grab the talisman and reabsorb the souls to destroy the Fabrication Machine. However, 1, having a change in heart after everything that occured, pushes 9 out of the way, allowing himself to be absorbed by the Fabrication Machine and for 9 to take the talisman and use it to destroy the Fabrication Machine for good.

With the Fabrication Machine destroyed, all of the Machines perished in vain while the surviving stitchpunks used the talisman to free their comrades' souls and bring new life on Earth.

Members

• Fabrication Machine (founder and leader)
  • Spies
    • Cat Beast (spy and scout)
      • Seamstress (spy and scout)
    • Winged Beast (spy and scout)
  • Steel Behemoths (robotic drones)
  • Seeker Drones (flying drones)
  • Spiderbots (drone guards)

Trivia

• The Spiderbots have four eyes, one big one and three small. Real spiders have eight.
• The Fabrication Machine appears to have made about 600 Spiderbots.
• Spiderbots are about the size of tarantulas.
• A Seeker appears in the top right corner of the 9 DVD cover.
• By the time the barrel bounces into the factory, the Seeker is not on it. It is assumed that the rope snapped and the Seeker escaped, only to get itself engulfed in the explosion.
• The balloons on Seekers' backs were probably made out of old parachutes.
• The Steel Behemoths resemble the Tripods from H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, and AT-ST walkers from Star Wars.
• The Steel Behemoths were the only machines shown to have been used by the Fabrication Machine during its war against humanity to destroy all life, although it is probable that the B.R.A.I.N. made other machines for the war as well.
• The Steel Behemoths are the only known robots made ​​by the Fabrication Machine which use military weapons and are outright battlefield soldiers, while the rest of them seen were used as hunters or security.