An American alternative rock and hip-hip group from Denver, Colorado. Had a hit with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waRtcBy_GMI Handlebars]]" in 2008.

'''Their albums include:'''

* ''Flobots Present:...Platypus'' (2005 EP)
* ''Fight With Tools'' (2007)
* ''Survival Story'' (2009)
* ''The Circle In The Square'' (2011)
* ''Noenemies'' (2017)

Also, they have a {{webcomic}} on their [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080821225506/http://flobots.net/tales/2008/05/chapter-1-vote-for-change/ site]], entitled ''Rise of the Flobots: Architects of Change''. It is created by member D.J. Coffman (13) and features stories based on the fans and their music with a [[AlternateUniverse scifi twist]].

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!!Tropes that apply to the band, the music, and the comic:

%%* AnAesop: Wouldn't be one of their songs without one or four.
%%* {{Animal Motif|s}}:
%%** The platypus shows up often in their songs. They even named an EP after it.
%%** [[YouDirtyRat Rats]] show up a few times as well. Sometimes in a neutral light and sometimes negatively.
%%** [[CirclingVultures Vultures]] show up a few times as well.
%%* ApocalypseWow: "Defend Atlantis". By waves and water, not to mention an invasion by starfish.
* BadFuture: The prediction of several of their songs if humanity doesn't get their shit together and do something. The comic also has a bad future where there was a second Civil War at some point, the environment is so degraded that the sky is perpetually smog filled and a weird green color, and [[OppressiveStatesOfAmerica the United States of America is led by a quite oppressive government]] that isn't opposed to hiring [[PsychoForHire mercenaries]] to take care of insurgents.
%%* ScyllaAndCharybdis: "The Rose and The Thristle".
* BoastfulRap: "Handlebars" is a deconstruction. It's about how the narrator can do anything, building up from riding his bike with no handlebars through various political and scientific actions up to ending the planet. It starts out silly, but by the end it's downright ''terrifying.''
%%** "The Effect" plays it straighter: "It's the F-L-O-B-O-T-S/ What did you expect?/ You wanted us to move you from right to left..."
%%* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the comic [[spoiler: Flobot #69]] works for [[PsychoForHire Lt. Farrior]]. There are hints that he was reprogramed.
* CodeName: Every member has a numerical one. MC Jonny 5's is obvious. The others are:
** Stephen Brackett is 0.
** Jesse Walker is 101.
** Kenny Ortiz is 69.
** Mackenzie Gault is 33.
** Andy Guerrero is 17.
** Joe Ferrone is 79.
** D.J. Coffman is 13.
* CerebusSyndrome: At the beginning of "Handlebars", it's like listening to some kid talking about what they did over summer break. By the end, we're listening to the rantings of a megalomaniac whose grasp on reality may or may not be slipping, and who may or may not be considering ending all life on Earth. The video only reinforces this.
* CreatorCameo: The comic creator's {{code n|ame}}umber is 13 and the yellow Flobot seen on a mission in the beginning of Architects of Change has a 13 on the lower part of his face.
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Lt. Farrior's room is littered with easily dozens of Flobot heads on a shelf.
* DownerEnding: The end of the music video for "Handlebars": the police use violence to put down the resistance and the leader, the main character's brother, is shot, leaving the main character with a look of horrified realization.
%%* {{Fembot}}: In the main comic story one of the Flobots in the flashbacks is female and probably #33.
%%* GreenAesop: "Airplane Mode", "Cracks in the Surface", and "Defend Atlantis" from ''Survival Story'' are good examples.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The main character from the song "Handlebars" goes from being able to ride his bike [[TitleDrop with no handlebars]] to a CorruptCorporateExecutive then to an oppressive dictator who can "end the planet in a holocaust!/ in a holocaust!/ in a HOLOCAUST!!". [[IronicEcho Also, he can ride his bike with no handlebars.]]
* LaResistance:
** In the comic the Flobots and the people at Camp Vulture are this. In the majority of their songs they urge the people to wake up and become pacifist guerillas to fight back against a destructive society and media mind control.
** The "Handlebars" video depicts the main character's brother inspiring people to rise up against his oppressive regime.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At the end of the music video for "Handlebars" [[spoiler: there is a riot led by the main character's brother, who gets shot when the police put down the riot along with several other rioters]]. The look on the main character's face says it all.
%%* OriginsEpisode: "If I" is mostly this.
* PrecisionFStrike: Towards the beginning of "Stop the Apocalypse":
---> "What the fuck is that barreling towards our metropolis?"
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Flobots released a diss track called "Handle Your Bars" in response to Creator/LoganPaul's unauthorised interpolation of "Handlebars" in his song "No Handlebars". Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: In the comics the Flobots are [[AdaptationalBadass freedom fighting robots]] originally created to help put an end to the second American Civil War and bring back peace and prosperity, coming in two models, the diplomats and defenders to protect the diplomats. The defenders also double as potential {{killer robot}}s if they have to, but both models prefer to settle things peacefully. Also count as RobotMe since the main comic Flobots are also the band members and the comic creators.
%%* ShoutOut: In any song you may have references to current events, politics, pop culture, historical events, religion, and other music.
* TakeThat: After Creator/LoganPaul interpolated "Handlebars" in a since-deleted song called "No Handlebars", Flobots bit back with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t0LX_Of33U a diss track.]]
%%** "The Effect" gives a brief one to the band 3Oh!3.
* {{Telepathy}}: The Flobots of the comics have this but they can't exactly control where their messages go. One message ended up going back in time to a ParallelUniverse to a doe in the woods another made it to the founding fathers. [[spoiler: The strange messages from nowhere that the main characters from the comic stories Vote For Change and Iraq are messages from the Flobots in a parallel universe to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong try and prevent their]] BadFuture [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong from happening there as well]].]]
* TookALevelInBadass: In the comic, according to the [[{{Exposition}} data logs]] on the origin of Camp Vulture and the Flobots themselves, Flobot #13 used to be a diplomat model.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: In the comic poor Flobot #13 goes on [[spoiler: an effective suicide mission to retrieve vital information and send it back to the good guys in the [[ElaborateUndergroundBase Vulture]] and got blown up in the process. Later he gets what is effectively his mind/soul stolen by the PsychoForHire]].
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