Bender
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Bender is one of the main characters in the animated television series Futurama. He fulfills a comic, antihero-type role in Futurama. According to the character's backstory, Bender was built in Tijuana, Mexico. Viewers are informed, through his own testimony, of Bender's prejudice against non-robots. For example, one of his signature expressions is "kill all humans". Exceptions who are not subject to Bender's prejudicial attitude are those individuals on his Do Not Kill list, which seems to comprise only his best friend Philip J. Fry and his colleague Hermes Conrad (added after the episode "Lethal Inspection"). However, Bender is also occasionally portrayed as possessing a sympathetic side, suggesting that he is not as belligerent as he claims, a view often echoed by his friends.
Bender, a high-tech industrial metalworking robot, was built in 2996 at Fábrica Robótica De La Madre, a manufacturing facility of Mom's Friendly Robot Company in Tijuana, Mexico. However, the story of his construction remains a mystery.
Unlike most other robots, Bender is mortal and, according to Professor Farnsworth's calculations, may have less than one billion years to live. Because of a manufacturing error that left Bender without a backup unit, Bender's memory cannot be transferred or uploaded to another robot body. After reporting that defect to his manufacturer, Bender barely escapes death from a guided missile and a robot death squad dispatched by Mom in order to eliminate him and effectively take the defective product off the market.
At the factory, Bender was programmed for cold-bending structural steel. Bender later attended Mars University, where he majored in bending and minored in Robo-American Studies. At the university, he was a member of Epsilon Rho Rho, a robot fraternity, where he became something of a fraternity hero for his many shenanigans.
Before meeting Fry and Leela and joining Planet Express (where he currently works as the assistant manager of sales), Bender had a job at the metalworking factory, bending steel girders.
Bender has an apartment in the "Robot Arms Apts." building, where he eventually invites his best friend and coworker, Fry, to live with him. Although the pair enjoy living together, Bender is sometimes portrayed as manipulating his guileless friend. In the series' early episodes, Bender is shown preferring to occupy smaller areas of their apartment, like the closet, referring to them as cozy, although in later episodes he is shown to have his own individual bedroom, like Fry.
Throughout the series, he enters many romantic relationships of varying duration, and is commonly referred to as a womanizer by his friends. He does not seem to discriminate between human women and their robot counterparts, and is shown actively pursuing both. In "Proposition Infinity", Bender's secret affair with coworker Amy Wong leads to a referendum that, once approved, legalizes robosexuality. In "The Bots and the Bees", he has an encounter with a robot soda vending machine that leads to the almost-instantaneous birth of a son, whom he names Ben.
Professor Farnsworth describes Bender to be constructed of an alloy of iron and osmium. Bender hates magnets, as magnets interfere with his inhibition unit, causing him to uncontrollably start singing folk songs when near his head; and also causing him to reveal his secret ambition to be a folk singer. Bender also has a near-pathological fear of electric can openers.
Bender, a high-tech industrial metalworking robot, was built in 2996 at Fábrica Robótica De La Madre, a manufacturing facility of Mom's Friendly Robot Company in Tijuana, Mexico. However, the story of his construction remains a mystery.
Unlike most other robots, Bender is mortal and, according to Professor Farnsworth's calculations, may have less than one billion years to live. Because of a manufacturing error that left Bender without a backup unit, Bender's memory cannot be transferred or uploaded to another robot body. After reporting that defect to his manufacturer, Bender barely escapes death from a guided missile and a robot death squad dispatched by Mom in order to eliminate him and effectively take the defective product off the market.
At the factory, Bender was programmed for cold-bending structural steel. Bender later attended Mars University, where he majored in bending and minored in Robo-American Studies. At the university, he was a member of Epsilon Rho Rho, a robot fraternity, where he became something of a fraternity hero for his many shenanigans.
Before meeting Fry and Leela and joining Planet Express (where he currently works as the assistant manager of sales), Bender had a job at the metalworking factory, bending steel girders.
Bender has an apartment in the "Robot Arms Apts." building, where he eventually invites his best friend and coworker, Fry, to live with him. Although the pair enjoy living together, Bender is sometimes portrayed as manipulating his guileless friend. In the series' early episodes, Bender is shown preferring to occupy smaller areas of their apartment, like the closet, referring to them as cozy, although in later episodes he is shown to have his own individual bedroom, like Fry.
Throughout the series, he enters many romantic relationships of varying duration, and is commonly referred to as a womanizer by his friends. He does not seem to discriminate between human women and their robot counterparts, and is shown actively pursuing both. In "Proposition Infinity", Bender's secret affair with coworker Amy Wong leads to a referendum that, once approved, legalizes robosexuality. In "The Bots and the Bees", he has an encounter with a robot soda vending machine that leads to the almost-instantaneous birth of a son, whom he names Ben.
Professor Farnsworth describes Bender to be constructed of an alloy of iron and osmium. Bender hates magnets, as magnets interfere with his inhibition unit, causing him to uncontrollably start singing folk songs when near his head; and also causing him to reveal his secret ambition to be a folk singer. Bender also has a near-pathological fear of electric can openers.