History Main / DoAnyThingRobot

*** Naturally, this Big Red Button is the context sensative button that the MEGAS XLR's battle computer runs. The computer is apparently a DeadpanSnarker, given that it at one point reads "Do something really stupid, Coop." and in another instance "You heard the man kids, super destructor mode."

* ''MegasXLR'' always had the right gadget for the problem at hand, and it was always slaved to Coop's BigRedButton.

*** Naturally, this BigRedButton is the context sensative button that the MEGAS XLR's battle computer runs. The computer is apparently a DeadpanSnarker, given that it at one point reads "Do something really stupid Coop." and in another instance "You heard the man kids, super destructor mode."

* An older example would be the Creator/HannaBarbera cartoon ''FrankensteinJr.'' Franky, as the robot was called, always had a specific gadget to get him out of every enemy trap, Including a built-in smokescreen maker that also conveniently melts ice. Of course, Franky occasionally got into trouble that he couldn't get out of, at which point his young sidekick would use ''his own'' do-anything gadget to get the robot out.
* Other examples from HannaBarbera are ''WesternAnimation/SpeedBuggy,'' ''DynomuttDogWonder'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheRobonicStooges''.

* The entire premise of ''InspectorGadget'': Building Franchise/RoboCop out of a mortally wounded Inspector Clouseau instead of Alex Murphy, and arming him with... well.. ''everything'' except a gun.
* XR in ''BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' has gadgets all over the place, most sprouting from his chest, but also coming from his hands and back. Examples of these gadgets include: satellite equipment, a blender, a cigarette lighter hidden in his thumb, a safe, an electric drill, basically anything you can think of. He also stores several non-electric things like pens, an aloha shirt, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar the closest thing Disney has to porn magazines]], pancake batter... the less sense it makes, the better.

* Some {{Transformers}} had this early on, but it was dropped almost entirely by the end of Generation 1.
* Bender, the foul-mouthed, sarcastic, alcoholic robot from ''{{Futurama}}'' is a hilarious send-up of this trope. His chest cavity is a [[HyperspaceArsenal seemingly bottomless pit of storage capacity]]. Despite explicitly being designed for the sole purpose of bending metal, his other known features include: a camera, a card-shuffler, a lantern, a shredder, a spray-paint can, a lighter, a saw, a toilet, an answering machine, a corn popper, an audio recorder, a pepper grinder, a vacuum, an amplifier, a tazer, an easy-bake oven, a grill, a lighthouse, a fancy-looking laser show, a nuclear pile, a water heater, a wrench, "extentio-matic" limbs and, apparently, an infinite supply of spare parts for himself. This is a quality apparently shared by the bulk of the robot community within the series.

* LampshadeHanging in ''OzzyAndDrix'', with Drix (a cold pill) who is about the closest thing the setting has to a robot:

* Not exactly a robot, but the keytools from ''{{Reboot}}'' could transform into or summon just about anything.

* X5 on ''AtomicBetty''.
* Goddard from ''TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' is an excellent example of this trope - even the glitches in his programming, such as his ability to "play dead" (AKA spontaneously reassemble after a main core implosion), regularly come in handy.

* A bit of a subversion occurs in ''StaticShock''. Gear and Static are on a plane that has been hijacked and they need scissors to cut the duct tape off the captain. Static turns to Gear, who got his name because he has a large amount of ''stuff'' to do his derring-do, and asks if he has any scissors: Backpack, Gear's EmpathicWeapon, springs out a dozen different tools, Gear runs down the entire catalogue, and reports: "No."
* ''TheJetsons'': The robot maid Rosie.
* Digit, the friendly neighborhood cyboid from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'' carries measuring cups, various tools, a smaller version of himself, and freshly baked scones (among other things), all inside his chest.

* Grounder from ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresofSonictheHedgehog'' is meant to be this and a SwissArmyWeapon, but all he lacks is the brains to competently catch Sonic.

* Schmeloise, Heloise's RobotMe on ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}''.

* Grounder from ''TheAdventuresofSonictheHedgehog'' is meant to be this and a SwissArmyWeapon, but all he lacks is the brains to competently catch Sonic.

* An older example would be the {{Hanna-Barbera}} cartoon ''FrankensteinJr.'' Franky, as the robot was called, always had a specific gadget to get him out of every enemy trap, Including a built-in smokescreen maker that also conveniently melts ice. Of course, Franky occasionally got into trouble that he couldn't get out of, at which point his young sidekick would use ''his own'' do-anything gadget to get the robot out.

* Bender, the foul-mouthed, sarcastic, alcoholic robot from ''{{Futurama}}'' is a hilarious send-up of this trope. His chest cavity is a [[HyperspaceArsenal seemingly bottomless pit of storage capacity]]. Despite explicitly being designed for the sole purpose of bending metal, his known features include a camera, a card-shuffler, a lantern, a shredder, a spray-paint can, a lighter, a saw, a toilet, an answering machine, a corn popper, an audio recorder, a pepper grinder, a vacuum, an amplifier, a tazer, an easy-bake oven, a grill, a lighthouse, a fancy-looking laser show, a nuclear pile, "extentio-matic" limbs and, apparently, an infinite supply of spare parts for himself. This is a quality apparently shared by the bulk of the robot community within the series.
** Note that Bender has been X-rayed in the series, and been shown to have nothing but a couple of gears in his torso.
** And if Bender can't do it, Leela's "Wristlojackameter" can. Its uses are so poorly defined, she eventually just calls it "this thing I wear on my wrist".

Whenever the robot runs into trouble, it has exactly the gadget it needs to get it out. No matter how strange or unlikely the situation, the robot simply has to retract an arm or open a panel, and out comes a gadget that seems to have been added for [[CrazyPrepared exactly that purpose]]. It also probably carries an EverythingSensor, to spot the problem in the first place ([[LostInSpace "Danger, danger, Will Robinson!"]]) as well as being able to slice, dice and julienne vegetables.

->''"A ''cheese grater''? [[TheHero She]] has a gadget for everything! How can I ever beat her if I never know what insane gizmo she has up her sleeves?"''

* The fasrad in the Creator/PhilipKDick short story "Sales Pitch" is a literal DoAnythingRobot. It even serves as its own salesman. [[TheTerminator And it absolutely will not stop]]. Ever. [[DownerEnding Until you]] buy it.

** In the ''XWingSeries'', Face Loran has his R2 unit modified to dispense cold booze on command.
* V.I.N.CENT. from ''TheBlackHole'' is an {{Expy}} of R2-D2 with C-3PO's personality. The spheres that serve as his "feet" have both antigravity and magnetic capabilities, and he's equipped with two lasers, four arms, a magnetic grappling line, a drill, and an oscilloscope on his chest.

* Johnny Five from Film/ShortCircuit contains a third arm multitool, a computer hacking radio, parachute and in the sequel a tool box as well.

* Viki from SmallWonder

* [[TheAuthority The Engineer]] is this UpToEleven.

* Averted pretty hard by K-9 in ''Series/DoctorWho'', who had a do-anything scanner, a dinky blaster built into his nose and a printer output for a tongue, but other than that seemed pretty useless. Among his "features" were a keyboard on his back that nobody ever used, a screen on his side that never showed anything, let alone anything useful, and tiny, tiny wheels that required a perfectly smooth surface to work. Most of this was related to the cheapness and unreliability of the prop.

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* Deconstructed in the manga version of ExcelSaga. Ropponmatsu I is a DoAnythingRobot, but the result of having so many gadgets stuffed into her is that she's ''extremely'' heavy (while conversely, Ropponmatsu II is the weight of a normal human, but without all the versatility.) When their creator is urged to combine the two and create a DoAnythingRobot that weighs as much as a normal human, he blows off the idea as ridiculous.

* Thursday, the multi-purpose robot from ''{{Disgaea}}'', is shock full of weapons, sensors, and handy functions, plus a sassy personality and electronic voice. He was built by a kid genius, too. The Defenders of Earth are pretty much a 60's RaygunGothic pastiche, so it fits.

* The T-1000 from {{Terminator}} 2 and the TX from Terminator 3 can do everything a human can, and a lot more, although that 'more' differs.

This trope is specific to the gadget-laden robots of movies and TV shows before and during the 1980s.

* Clank, the RobotBuddy of ''RatchetAndClank''. When Ratchet finds him, he's already equipped with a robotic ignition system, allowing him to start Ratchet's homemade ship for him, and he's capable of interfacing with Gadgebots, which are small but vicious attack robots (or Megacorp's equivalent model, the Microbot). By visiting a few vendors, Clank can be upgraded with a helipack that allows longer and higher jumps, a jetpack that functions much like the helipack with an added GroundPound for smashing stubborn switches, and a hydropack that facilitates swimming much faster and against stronger currents. As of ''RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'', he's also capable of communicating with [[{{Precursors}} Zoni]]. Not bad for a factory "mistake"!

* In TheCulture novels by Ian Banks, drones have a variety of [[SomeKindOfForceField forcefields]] that they can fold into all manner of shapes in order to accomplish different tasks. For example, they can make a field around themselves and others to operate as a protective shield, fold a field into a tube to channel liquid or produce an atom-thin shield that can be oscillated in order to cut through virtually any material like a knife through butter (plus lasers and a variety of surveillance abilities). They are so adaptable they can even perform emergency brain surgery in the field on short notice. Do not piss off a drone.

* Averted in one "BillTheGalacticHero." His Swiss Army foot rarely worked right like when he wanted a laser and it shot a condom out.

Whenever the robot runs into trouble, it has exactly the gadget it needs to get it out. No matter how strange or unlikely the situation, the robot simply has to retract an arm or open a panel, and out comes a gadget that seems to have been added for [[CrazyPrepared exactly that purpose]]. It also probably carries an EverythingSensor, to spot the problem in the first place ([[LostInSpace "Danger, danger, Will Robinson!"]])

* The entire premise of ''InspectorGadget'': Building ''RoboCop'' out of a mortally wounded Inspector Clouseau instead of Alex Murphy, and arming him with... well.. ''everything'' except a gun.

* EDI in ''MassEffect2''. Though, actually, she's a "Do-Anything AI". Try taking a drink every time Shepard says, "EDI, do something!" and she infallibly solves the current problem. ...Or better yet, don't. TvTropes does not want to be responsible for homicides.

* ''{{Recess}}'': Gretchen's hand held computer Galileo can do things most super computers would be envious of.

* ''{{Recess]]'': Gretchen's hand held computer Galileo can do things most super computers would be envious of.

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->''Glitch! '''Anything!'''''
-->-- Bob, ''ReBoot''

->''A ''cheese grater''? She has a gadget for everything! How can I ever beat her if I never know what insane gizmo she has up her sleeves?''
-->-- Vexus, ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot''

** Subverted slightly in the fact that each generation is slightly ''less'' sophisticated than it's parent generation.