Robot Bender Flexor Rodriguez is one of the characters in the fantastic animated series Futurama, a member of the Planetary Express team, and also the best friend of one of the heroes - Fry.
Appearance
It looks like other bendors: the body is gray, it includes iron, dolomite, titanium with an admixture of nickel, which distinguishes Bender from all the other robots in the series. It is considered an unsurpassed handsome man and womanizer. He walks naked, but puts on a magnetic bow tie for celebrations.
The body of the robot is hollow, equipped with a storage of infinite volumes. His brain consists of an eight-bit processor 6502. On his head wears an antenna. This is Bender’s robot, a photo of the bending machine can be seen in the article.
Biography
There are several stories of the appearance of a robot on the planet. According to one of them, Bender was assembled at a Mexican plant in 2998. Still not having time to get off the container, he drank his very first bottle. After receiving the bending profession, the robot began an independent life. In one series, the reverse process of growing up Bender is shown: first he becomes a teenager, then a child, an infant and a drawing, which contradicts the first version.
Robot Bender worked at a suicide phone booth factory. Having decided to test his creations, he goes to one of the devices and meets his future best friend Phillip Fry there. They have to run away from Turanga Lila chasing them . The robot receives an electric shock, by which it bypasses the program embedded in it. Together with Fry and Lila, he goes to work at the Planet Express delivery service. These events give rise to the Futurama series. Robot Bender subsequently becomes the team's personal chef.
Personality
- Bender is a pathological liar and an inventor, he rarely shows any feelings. His favorite thing is to steal, including from friends, even in a disassembled state, his limbs are trying to do it.
- Bender is an alcoholic. He drinks a lot more than he needs to recharge. He himself believes that he can quit at any time. When Bender is deprived of the opportunity to drink, he ceases to work normally and falls into a deep depression. The robot also smokes cigars, because, according to him, he looks cool with them.
- Bender is so narcissistic that he considers himself impeccable. In one of the series, he even falls in love with an alternative version of his personality.
- He likes to watch the cook Elzar’s show, once he wins a culinary duel and gets the title “Iron Chef”. He loves to cook, but due to the fact that robots are not able to feel the taste, he once nearly poisoned his team members.
- Bender’s patience can only be envied: lost in time, his head had to wait about a thousand years until the team found her.
- The protagonist carefully tries to hide his emotional side. And although very often he is rude and impudent, and also cherishes the dream of destroying all of humanity, in fact he loves his friends and is able to experience feelings of regret and guilt. Secretly dreams of becoming a folk performer.
- Very afraid of openers and can openers , as his father died because of them.
Relations with other characters
In love, Bender is fickle and illegible. Not in his style to remain faithful to his partners. For him, any romance is a way to have a good time. He doesn’t care with whom to meet: with a robotic beauty, with the head of a star or with a whole spaceship. However, in some episodes we can see that the Bender robot knows how to love sincerely, while his jealousy borders on paranoia.
The usual state of the character is to treat all people with contempt. Repeatedly he calls them "pieces of meat", but from season to season the attitude of the robot towards the crew members changes.
- Fry is Bender's neighbor and his best friend, whom he loves. The only one the robot does not want to destroy. Despite this, sometimes Bender is rude to Fry: he steals his blood and smashes windows.
- Leela is Bender's good friend. More than once saved him, as well as other members of the Interplanetary Express, from alterations.
- Amy is a frequent victim of hero robberies. In one of the episodes, Amy becomes his lover, and together they fight for the legalization of marriages between robots and humans.
- Zoidberg. Robot Bender constantly uses Zoidberg for his own purposes. He does not consider him his friend, but from time to time helps him.
- Robot Devil is a good acquaintance and partner of Bender in various transactions. For his sins, the main character once fell into a robo-hell.
Real life bender
Bender is one of the brightest characters in the animated series Futurama. Magazine World of Fantasy defined it at 5th place in the ranking of "The Most Robots." The author of the magazine shared his opinion that Bender is the current mockery of the three laws of Azimov's robotics .
In online stores you can find a huge number of posters with a hero, T-shirts and figures are made to order. Robot Bender is one of the most amusing and arrogant fantastic characters that can only be seen on television.