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Mom

"Jam a bastard in it, you crap!"

Voiced by: Tress MacNeille
Debut: "A Fishful of Dollars"

Head of Mom Co. and richest woman on Earth, she is arguably the foremost overall villain of the show. It is also revealed that she was in a relationship with Professor Farnsworth in the past, but he breaks it off when he discovers the true depths of her depravity. This will occur several more times, as Farnsworth keeps forgetting.

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• Abusive Parents: Her preferred method of parenting her kids is slapping the hell out of them at the drop of a hat. When Walt and Larry were just toddlers, she used them as human shields during Farnsworth's explosive demonstration of dark matter. While she was breastfeeding them, even.
• Big Bad: She is the closest thing the series has to a main villain in terms of number of appearances, personal connections to most of the major protagonists (Fry, Bender, the Professor, Hermes and Zoidberg), and overall threat level. This is also the case in the video game, and although the movies have their respective baddies, she returns in the third as the primary antagonist.
• Birthday Hater: She hates "Mother's Day" (a day when all the robots her company built show their affection), since her true love, Professor Farnsworth, left her after an argument. It's not technically her birthday, but it serves the same purpose (being a celebration centered around her).
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She presents herself to the public as a matronly grandmother, but in reality she's an incredibly evil and abusive old woman.
• Card-Carrying Jerkass: The video game at one point has her berating one of her sons by calling him a "son of a me", implying that she's open to calling herself a bitch.
• Card-Carrying Villain: When she's not focused on maintaining her image of a kindly grandmother-like figure, she tends to shamelessly flaunt her wicked nature.
  Walt: Mother, you are one clever old skag!
  Mom: And don't you forget it!
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: She's a nasty old woman and owner of a robotics company trying to take over the world, who masquerades as a sweet, kindly old lady in public.
• Dating Catwoman: Professor Farnsworth has some history with Mom, which resurfaces in a few episodes.
• Distaff Counterpart: Basically a female version of Mr. Burns. Which is why they hooked up in the Crisis Crossover comic book.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In her first appearance ("A Fish Full of Dollars"), while she was certainly verbally abusive to her sons, she never actually put a hand to them herself, letting Walt (the oldest), slap the other two, which he'd swiftly do as soon as Mom expressed her displeasure. In every other subsequent appearance, a scene when Mom doesn't go upside her kids' heads (including Walt) is extremely rare, if such even exists at all.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She's normally hostile to most people she meets, but she's genuinely kind to Zoidberg.
  • Played With. "Overclockwise" shows her instantly reacting to anybody else (besides her) taking advantage of her "colicky bastards" (sons) with swift and deadly vengeance.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In her first appearance, she can't get her head around the idea that Fry isn't out to put her out of business, but just wants to eat some anchovies. At first, anyway. Once she realises that actually is his goal, she leaves without a fuss.
• Evil Matriarch: She provides the page image.
• Evil Old Folks: She hates everyone and everything, and has actually sent every robot in the world on a revolution against humans so that they could conquer the world for her.
• Fat Suit: Used to keep up with her public appeal as an innocent grandma figure... then promptly discarded elsewhere to reveal a slender hag underneath.
• Faux Affably Evil: A ruthless corporate raider and abusive parent who puts on a sweet old lady routine and fat suit for her TV ads. She even advertises her typical business corruption in a humorous way - while distracting the public from investigating her outright monstrous crimes. In her first appearance in "A Fishful of Dollars", she drops the act when she finishes cutting a TV ad, and again when Fry gets in her way.
• Given Name Reveal: Everyone always called her "Mom", but when it was revealed that she and Zoidberg had a history, he casually addressed her as "Carol".
• God Save Us from the Queen!: A modern version.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming:
  Mom: Nobody rips my kids off but me!
• Jerkass: Good Lord! She is RUTHLESS!
• Karma Houdini: She never really pays for a lot of her actions. Most punishment she got was in Bender's Game where her plan to hoard dark matter was foiled when it was rendered useless.
• Lady Swearsalot: Although the words she uses aren't particularly bad — she tends to favor "hell", "crap" and especially "bastard" — she curses more than even Bender when she's angry, and she tends to do it in exceedingly creative ways (such as her quote above).
• Laughably Evil: Even if she is a cruel businesswoman with plans for world domination, she still provides a lot of humor thanks to her unrestrained potty mouth and habit of slapping and yelling at her sons.
• Lean and Mean: She is evil and thin, but wears a selection of "fat suits" when she wants to appear as the kindly matron.
• Love Makes You Evil: It's suggested that she became so bitter because Farnsworth broke off with her 70 or so years ago. Though, granted, he broke it off because she was already doing some morally reprehensible stuff, so it's more of a case that Love Makes You Worse.
  Mom: Some snot-eating bastard said it made me a bitter woman.
  Larry: Gee, ma, you're not-
  Mom: CRAM IT, APE! (slaps him)
• Mama Bear: Usually treats Walt, Larry and Igner like toejam, but if anyone else messes with them, she'll mess them up. In "Overclockwise", she takes fierce exception when her sons are being cheated in online gaming:
  "WHAT? Nobody rips off my kids but ME!!"
• Meaningless Villain Victory: Her alternate self wins in "Bender's Game" having collected the two Macguffins, only for the whole cast to get kicked out of Bender's imaginary fantasy world and she completely loses the Dark Matter plot for real after Igner and Farnsworth destroy all dark matter in the universe.
• Never Mess with Granny: In spades. Although she is by no means a Cool Old Lady, being firmly in Evil Matriarch camp.
• Nice Character, Mean Actor: Public persona is a motherly figure; real persona is a self-centered bitch.
• One Bad Mother: As big a jerk as Mom is, just try not to say anything bad about her when your own mother happens to be in earshot. The results wouldn't be pretty. Turns out her real name is actually Carol.
• Out-of-Character Moment: As detailed below in Pet the Dog, "Leela and the Genestalk" has Mom act much nicer and less evil than her usual self.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Zoidberg is the only person she treats well. She was also willing to give him an expensive yeti head that Zoidberg needed for a coupon (his life savings). It could be she was also trying to help the Professor as well.
  • In a bit of a twisted example, she comforts Bender when he apologizes for not being able to exterminate humanity without being told to first.
  • She dabbled in genetic engineering to cure a person of being a giant and create plants big enough to feed world hunger. She still intended to profit off the latter, but emphasized that the resulting plants would be so cheap that even the poor could afford them. She also cured Leela's mutations in gratitude for (accidentally) helping her perfect her work.
  • In "Lethal Inspection", she seems genuinely sad when Hermes Conrad resigns from her company, frowning as she activates the machine to kick him out of the building.
• Rich Bitch: She's an evil, extremely rich businesswoman.
• Suddenly Shouting: Usually at her kids, for setting her off.
• Take Over the World: When she's feeling cranky. "CONQUER EARTH, YOU BASTARDS!"
• Tsundere: The reason she's broken up and gotten back together with Professor Farnsworth several times over several decades.
• Ungrateful Bitch: She receives hundreds of thousands of heartfelt cards from her robotic 'children' every Mother's Day, but she uses them as material for her products without even reading them. (After checking inside for money, of course.)
• Villain with Good Publicity: She appears as a sweet, lovable old lady in public, but is really a Corrupt Corporate Executive. She may not always be planning to take over the world, but it is canon that she intends total global (or more) economic domination.
  • In the Hulu episode "Related To Items You've Viewed", while she still wears the fat suit in public appearances and maintains the sweet matronly act, it's revealed that her true diabolical nature is now common knowledge.
    Leela: The jig is up, Mom! We're gonna expose your evil to the whole world!
    Mom: What kind of threat is that? Everybody knows I'm evil.

Walt, Larry, and Igner

L-R: Larry, Walt, Igner.

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche, David Herman and John DiMaggio
Debut: "A Fishful of Dollars"

Mom's three sycophantic sons/henchmen in order of importance. Walt is the oldest and supposedly most intelligent — but even that isn't saying much. Larry is a sniveling yes-man to everything his mother says with an inferiority complex the size of New New York. And Igner is stupid.

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• Big Brother Bully: Walt verbally and physically abuses his younger brothers on multiple occasions.
• Butt-Monkey: Larry, who is often abused by Mom and Walt, and Igner, who is usually assigned the worst jobs by his brother.
• Comic Trio: Walt is the schemer, Larry is powerless, and Igner is stupid.
• Covert Pervert: Igner laughs at Mom saying she wants to see what's inside Leela's genes in "Leela and the Genestalk".
• The Ditz: Igner is the dumbest of the three and speaks in a stereotypically Simpleton Voice.
• The Dragon: Theoretically, Walt to Mom — although he doesn't actually have any say in any of Mom's plans, he does have the authority to slap his brothers around.
• Dumb Is Good: Igner, the stupidest brother, is the only brother to deflect from Mom's evil plans in Bender's Game. He gives the Planet Express crew a chance to hide instead of turning them in to his family, and he teams up with Farnsworth (his father) to destroy all the dark matter at the end.
• Dumbass Has a Point: "Bender's Game", in-universe.
  Walt: Did you see anyone?
  Igner: Me?
  Walt: Yes, you. You're the only one here.
  Igner: If I'm the only one here, how could I see anyone?
  Larry: He's got a point, Walt.
  Walt: So does my knee! (knees Larry)
• Epic Fail: Igner is so dumb he once managed to become confused and took a third option on a two-choice vote. He insists the ballot was confusing.
• Extreme Doormat: Larry is submissive to his older brother and mother, and Apologises a Lot even when it's not his fault.
• Heroic Bastard: While Walt and Larry are implied to be Wernstrom's children, as Mom was previously married to him, Igner's father is Mom's ex-boyfriend, Professor Farnsworth. He's the nicest of the siblings and helps Farnsworth save the day in Bender's Game.
• Jerkass: Walt is the most similar to his Mom, being often malicious and abusive like her.
• Like Parent, Like Child:
  • Walt behaves similarly to his mother, acting cruel and smacking around his brothers similar to how Mom smacks them around.
  • The end of Bender's Game shows that both Igner and Farnsworth share the quirk of swallowing inedible objects. This saves the day, as when they hug, the dark matter and antimatter crystals in their stomachs touch and destroy all the dark matter for good.
• Luke, You Are My Father: Igner is Farnsworth's son, and Walt is Wernstrom's son. Larry hasn't been clarified, but is probably also Wernstrom's son, since the color of his hair is the same as Wernstrom's when he was younger.
• Manchild: Igner acts more like a dumb little boy than a grown man.
• Meaningful Name: Igner's name is a reference to the words "ignorant" and/or "ignoramus".
• Middle Child Syndrome: Larry, even described in-universe as the "sniveling middle child". He's the most insecure of the three and also the one who gets the most abuse.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Walt is the mean one, Igner is the nice one, and Larry is the inbetween.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Igner of all people does this in Bender's Game to his brothers, which raises some questions about his usual behavior...
• Only Sane by Comparison: It's hard to tell, thanks to Walt's crazy and idiotic plans, but other than those he does seem to be the only sane man in the trio.
• Punch-Clock Villain: The brothers have had occasional appearances outside of Mom's schemes, and it seems that when Mom isn't around, the three of them lead almost normal lives (Larry in particular was once seen queuing up to use Bender's dating service).
• Putting on the Reich: They seem to go to the same tailor as the Galactic Empire and the Union of Allied Planets. Made obvious in "Overclockwise", where Walt, Larry and Igner are playing World of World War II 3 against Fry, Cubert and Bender as Nazis.
• Shrinking Violet: Larry is a spineless, Nervous Wreck who finds it difficult to even say aloud words like "bra".
• Siblings in Crime: They are the primary henchmen of Mom's business.
• Sissy Villain: All of them (particularly Larry) qualify.
• Terrible Trio: Though they're not completely incompetent, Mom treats them as if they are. Their original plan to get Fry's PIN number only worked because Fry was being... well, Fry. They're also very unconvincing as "owl exterminators" in Bender's Game.
• Three Stooges Shout-Out: Their antics often mirror those of The Three Stooges: Walt is Moe, being the aggressive bully who physically abuses his cohorts via slapstick violence and isn't nearly as clever or smart as he thinks he is; Igner is Curly, being the lovable idiot who manages to take already dumb plans and make them even dumber; and Larry is Larry, being the weak-willed middleman between Walt/Moe's abrasive leadership and Igner/Curly's overt stupidity. When Mom slaps them, it's dubbed with either the original Stooges multi-person slap sound or a very close match. It even gets a lampshading in "Bender's Game", when Mom tells them they'll need all their "Stoogely cunning" to infiltrate Planet Express.
• The Un-Favourite: While Mom is mean to all three of them, it's pretty clear Larry is her least favorite son.
• Villainous Friendship: There are odd moments they have when Walt isn't slapping them around. They hang out and play video games with each other, for example, and seem to get along when off work.

The Robot Devil

"You can't just have your characters announce how they feel. That Makes Me Feel Angry!"

Voiced by: Dan Castellaneta (most appearances); Maurice LaMarche ("A Tale of Two Santas")
Debut: "Hell Is Other Robots"

Overlord of Robot Hell, tormentor of robotic souls, and sower of discord. His manipulations often turn against him.

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• Affably Evil: He might be the robot version of Satan, but he's actually a rather polite guy under most circumstances.
• Body Surf: Should he get his body trashed, his digital ghost transfers into one of his countless replacement bodies on the double.
• Chain of Deals: Organizes deals with Bender and then Leela in "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" as part of a Batman Gambit to reclaim his hands from Fry... and it works!
• Chess with Death: Or rather the devil in this case. People can challenge him to a fiddle contest to win back a dead robot's soul. The winner gets both the soul and a golden fiddle (which is also used for the contest, though it's mostly for show due to being highly impractical to use), while the loser gets a smaller, silver fiddle. And the devil gets to kill a loser at his leisure.
• Crazy-Prepared: Oh, so you think you can destroy the Robot Devil? He's got an endless closet of replacement bodies.
• Deal with the Devil: Several characters have made contracts with him in exchange for favors. Fry once switched hands with him, and Bender gave his firstborn son for a hellish robot army.
• Deity of Mortal Creation: Robotology had the Robot Devil created in order to punish sinners. Initially, we're told there is no Robot God, but he's eventually revealed to be real. Also Robot Jesus is a thing, but Jewish robots don't think he's their messiah.
• The Devil Is a Loser: The guy is outsmarted by Fry and in one episode is seen in jail. And not even a high security facility.
• Even Evil Has Standards: The depths to which Bender can stoop shocks even him, like when Bender reunites with his long-lost son, then punts him into a vat of electric fire, all because the Robot Devil offers Bender an army at the price of sacrificing his first-born son to him. A Downplayed example, however, since when he claims that even he's not that evil, he sounds more impressed than disgusted.
  • And in "Calculon 2.0", his response to Calculon's offer to perform a one man show for the residents of Robot Hell:
    Robot Devil: Haven't they suffered enough?!
  • In "Ghost in the Machines", he actually goes berserk at the idea that Fry said human lives are more valuable than robot lives, enough so that he immediately gets the idea for a Deal with the Devil to let Bender haunt the Planet Express for payback. In an amusing zigzagging of the trope, he's not actually bothered by Fry driving Bender to suicide with such commentary, just that Fry said it in the first place.
• Evil Is Hammy: He tortures inhabitants of Robot Hell while performing exuberant musical numbers.
• Hidden Depths: He is a music enthusiast.
• Ironic Hell: Will exploit this when at his worst. Provided he's gotten the precise meaning of irony right.
• Laser-Guided Karma: His misfortune through "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings" is because he puts his name on the Wheel of Robots (as a gesture of faith), never expecting the wheel would actually land on his name. A few days with Fry's hands has him pleading Fry to take them back.
• Literal Genie: How his deals work, with him usually keeping his word unless he gets screwed over by it, in which case he goes into Jerkass Genie mode.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: His voice is based on Hans Conried's portrayal of Captain Hook in Peter Pan.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Proves at the end of "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" that despite The Devil Is a Loser trope applying to him most of the time, he is extremely cunning and isn't to be underestimated.
• Really 700 Years Old: Given that there is a "Fairness in Hell Act" dating back to the 23rd century, he's probably this.
• Satan: Apparently when robots started getting religion, it was felt that only a simulation of Satan would keep them on the straight and narrow.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: When he's injured, though his voice does get high-pitched when he's enthusiastic.
• Sissy Villain: At one point, he summons the fire department to his office (which is in Robot Hell, full of fire and brimstone and lava) because his trash can is on fire. Note that the firemen (the Planet Express Crew) have to get through a wall of it just to get into the office.
• Super-Strength: In the "Robot Hell" musical number alone, he casually rips off Bender's arm, launches him a couple dozen feet with a kick, and easily lifts him with one outstretched arm (note that Bender weighs 525 pounds).
• That Makes Me Feel Angry: Calls out Fry for being too blunt in his lyrics, and is the Trope Namer.
  Robot Devil: Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: A somewhat literal example. A single drop of LaBarbara's goat curry is enough to make him yell in pain, as he's enjoying a bowl of hellfire.
• Villain Song: A whole one dedicated to Robot Hell, lyrics tailored to Bender's predicament (with Fry and Leela unwittingly contributing to the song). Gets a Continuity Nod in "Ghost in the Machine", when he cues up the exact same song again and Bender furiously shuts him and his band up.
• Wicked Cultured: Guy likes his music, and gets incredibly angry at Fry's opera (which was mocking him at the time) being "as lousy as it is brilliant".
• You Keep Using That Word: In "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", he keeps misusing the word 'irony', and Bender keeps correcting him.
  Bender: It's not ironic, it's just coincidental.

Robot Santa Claus

"Time to get jolly on your naughty asses!"

Voiced By: John Goodman (in "Xmas Story"); John DiMaggio (all other appearances)
Debut: "Xmas Story"

A robotic Santa Claus designed on Earth to determine who is naughty and who is nice at Christmas time (now "X-Mas"). However, due to a programming error, his AI finds a way to deem everyone naughty (though somehow excluding Zoidberg) and his resolution is to commit genocide to rectify it. Thus, every year at X-Mas, he comes down from his base on Neptune to smite Earth for its apparent indiscretion. Everyone on the planet typically fortifies their homes and cowers in fear until X-Mas has passed.

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• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: He was intended to determine who was naughty and who was nice. However, his standards were turned up way too high, causing him to decide that everyone (except for Zoidberg) is naughty. To make things worse, his solution to dealing with naughty people is to murder them.
• All Crimes Are Equal: "Mobsters beating up a shopkeeper for protection money: very naughty. Shopkeepers not paying their protection money: exactly as naughty."
• Arc Villain: While Mom is the Big Bad of the series as a whole, Robot Santa is the main threat for the Christmas episodes.
• Ass Shove: People who try to bribe Santa get coal shoved up their ass.
• Ax-Crazy: He makes Bender look pacifistic by comparison.
• Bad Boss: The midget Neptunians who slave in his toy factory on Neptune are starved and mistreated, and live in constant fear that he'll kill them for some minor slight.
• Bad Santa: A recurring homicidal robot villain with nigh-unachievable standards for "nice". For example, mafia thugs beating up a shopkeeper for protection money? That's naughty. But a shopkeeper refusing to pay mobsters protection money? Equally naughty! Scruffy the Janitor apparently gets on the "naughty" list simply by picking his nose.
• Badass Santa: An evil robotic bazooka-wielding Santa. Heck, one song they sing about him is called "Santa Claus Is Gunning You Down".
• Card-Carrying Villain: He's well aware his actions are horrific, gleefully enjoying the harm he inflicts.
  Robot Santa: If I don't complete my brutal rampage, well, it just wouldn't be X-Mas.
  Robot Santa: The scammers cheated me out of my Naughty List! Can you imagine the harm they might do with that list? I wanted to do that harm!
• Crazy-Prepared: He cannot be destroyed by logical paradoxes, since his head was built with paradox absorbing crumplezones (and he has spare heads).
• Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: When he sees Bender lamely attempt to frame an orphan for his mischief, he decides to put Bender on the naughty list on the spot. The time it takes for him to pull the list out and, slowly, write Bender's crime out by hand provides the Planet Express crew with ample time to put some distance between them.
• Disproportionate Retribution: If anybody does something he consider "naughty", he's less likely to give them coal and more likely to turn them into charcoal.
• The Dreaded: The entire planet Earth is terrified of him and won't go outside until X-Mas has passed.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: "Xmas Story" seems to indicate he really is just badly programmed (although he already seems to enjoy his work), later appearances (especially Bender's Big Score make it very clear he is a sadistic monster who harms people as much because he enjoys it than any sense of duty.
• Enemy Mine: When Earth is taken over by scammers in Bender's Big Score, Richard Nixon's Head forges an alliance with Robot Santa (along with Kwanzaabot and the Hanukkah Zombie) to create a sufficient military force to take it back. It's helped that the scammers cheated Santa out of his naughty list, giving him incentive to help.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • "My God, Bender! Framing an orphan? That's so naughty, I'll have to add it to my list right now."
  • Parodied in "A Tale of Two Santas". He's disgusted by the idea of teaming up with Bender (thinking Fry was telling Bender not to team up with him), but declares he has no choice - if he doesn't complete his brutal rampage, it just wouldn't be X-Mas.
  • Mixes this with Hypocritical Humor in Bender's Big Score, where he notes the harm the scammers could do with his naughty list, while mentioning that he wanted to do that harm first.
• Faux Affably Evil: Shows in one episode where he invites Bender to join him on his reign of terror after he took over for him, only to kick him off the sleigh not long afterwards.
• Felony Misdemeanor: If your name isn't John Zoidberg, everything you do is treated this way by him. Including just brushing your mustache.
• Hypocritical Humor: His nature as one of the most evil things in the universe despite existing to punish the naughty is one of his more common gags. It's probably the reason for why he has a natural defense against the inherent Logic Bomb.
• Jerkass: He's hostile to everyone except Zoidberg, who's the only person on his nice list.
• Jerkass Has a Point: In his first episode, Fry and Leela had disregarded one another's feelings, and Dr. Zoidberg's. Also Bender tried to pin the crimes he committed on Tinny Tim, a young orphan. Trying to kill them for it is an overreaction, though.
• Karma Houdini: He mainly gets away with the carnage and destruction he causes because it is really, really hard to kill him. Everyone in the show's universe treats his annual visit as a way of life — or, sometimes, cause of death — that can't be avoided.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Despite normally getting away with his crimes, he has had a few moments of karma:
  • He was blasted into space at the end of "Xmas Story", cutting his rampage short for the year.
  • He gets trapped in ice for the bulk of "A Tale of Two Santas" after he tried to keep the Planet Express ship from leaving his planet.
  • His naughty list is stolen by the scammers in "Bender's Big Score", leaving him unable to perform his usual X-Mas checks.
  • Robot Santa suffers what may be his most humiliating defeat yet in “I Know What You Did Next Xmas”. He gets kidnapped by a time-travelling Bender and Zoidberg who tie him up with Xmas tree lights, and they lock him up in an old meat locker upon returning to the present. Then when he breaks out and attempts to kill the two, he slips on a puddle of Zoidberg's "dumpster nog" and gets electrocuted by Xmas tree lights, short-circuiting him out. Finally he gets dismantled by Bender and Zoidberg as they try to dispose of his body, leaving him nothing but a head as he reactivates.
• Knight Templar: He has been programmed to determine who is naughty and who is nice. Unfortunately, his standards for nice are set too high — everyone except Dr. Zoidberg is considered naughty, and to make matters worse, he ain't limited to putting coal in your stocking. He's more likely to turn you into charcoal instead.
• Laughably Evil: The sheer amount of cruelty he pulls off is so utterly over-the-top that you can't help but laugh.
• Logic Bomb: Subverted — he was built with paradox-proof crumple zones to prevent him from being destroyed by them.
• Ludicrous Precision: Don't dare suggest he hasn't checked his list. He performs over fifty mega-checks per second.
• Moral Sociopathy: A Knight Templar example. He has a very strict code of morals. But he doesn't really seem to care for other people. He only applies these ethics to other people and only when they do something wrong.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: Part of the reason he's allowed to run rampant is because it's ludicrously difficult to actually hurt, never mind kill him. Being blown up in "Xmas Story" only sent him flying away, and he took the brunt of the Planet Express ship's thrusters without melting in "A Tale of Two Santas".
• Odd Friendship: Has a cordial friendship with Kwanzaabot and the Hanukkah Zombie, the former of which doesn't seem remotely concerned by all the mass murder he commits.
• Pet the Dog:
  • He treats Zoidberg very well in contrast to the other characters.
    Robot Santa: You've all been very naughty, VERY naughty indeed! Except you Dr. Zoidberg, this is for you.
    Zoidberg: A pogo stick!
  • Subverted after he frees Bender from being executed for his crimes, he gives him a gift... an empty box.
    Robot Santa: Oh, it might appear empty, but the message is clear: Play Santa again, and I'll kill you next year.
• Really 700 Years Old: Has made X-Mas horrible for 200 years straight.
• Santa's Sweatshop: Robot Santa rules Neptune with an iron fist, to the point that his "elves" are actually short due to malnourishment, and his actual workshop is more of a blatant fortress.
• The Sociopath: His love of indiscriminately murdering everyone makes him even worse than Bender.
• Super-Powered Robot Meter Maid: For a robot designed to distribute gifts, he's alarmingly overbuilt.
• Villain Decay: In-universe in Bender's Big Score. His heart wasn't in it anymore.
• Villain Song: Subverted. His one major singing role, "This Trinity's Going to War", is about him and his allies getting ready to help retake the Earth from the scammer aliens. Of course, he's just as bloodthirsty as normal throughout.
• Would Harm a Senior: One of his victims was a grandfather he choked to death with a chestnut, with his grandson complaining about the smell resulting from the old man's festering cadaver in the letter he writes to Santa.
• Would Hurt a Child: Several of his victims on his X-Mas rampages are children, including one girl he maimed with a bicycle gun.

The Robot Mafia

"We're the Robot Mafia. The entire Robot Mafia."

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche (Donbot and Clamps) and John DiMaggio (Joey Mousepad)
Debut: "Bender Gets Made"

The Robot Mafia is an organized crime syndicate of robots located in Little Bitaly. The Donbot, its boss, and goons Clamps and Joey Mousepad represent the entire society.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: What saves Bender from Mousepad and Clamps is the Donbot being amused by Bender's lack of tact and bold facedly trying to steal fifty dollars from him.
• Affably Evil: Joey is, at least.
• Ax-Crazy: Clamps is probably the most violent goon of the Robot Mafia, ready to attack anyone at any time.
• Berserk Button: Pretty much anything will set Clamps off, but he's very protective of his job as chief clamping guy.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: Mousepad, Clamps and Donbot; respectively.
• Character Catchphrase: Invoked. As evidenced by the commentary for "Bendless Love", the producers wanted "Clamp clamp ka-bamp!" to be Clamps's catchphrase. Generally, though, he's got THE CLAMPS, or some variation of the word "clamp".
• Comically Missing the Point: Joey Mousepad, especially in "Bendless Love":
  Donbot: That scab's gonna have a little on-the-job accident.
  Joey Mousepad: With all due respect, Donbot, I don't think we should rely on an accident to happen. Let's kill him ourselves.
  (Donbot makes a sound that's between a groan and mumbling)
• The Don: That's Donbot function, although it's obviously carried to the point of parody.
  Donbot: Their desire to keep living shows me no respect.
• Dumb Muscle: Joey Mousepad is the muscle. But oh, man, is he stupid.
• Embarrassing First Name: Clamps' full name is "Francis X. Clampazzo".
  Joey Mousepad: Your name's Francis? Whoa-ho-ho!
• Expy: They resemble the characters Fat Tony, Legs and Louie, the Springfield Mafia, from The Simpsons. Fat Tony would be the Donbot (he is fat and the boss), Legs would be Joey Mousepad and Louie would be Clamps (his face looks similar).
• Fat Bastard: Donbot is noticeably rotund and is essentially a robotic gangster.
• Faux Affably Evil: Donbot likes to put on a friendly air even while in the midst of threatening and intimidating others.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Clamps has a scar, riveted back together, below his right eye.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Clamps is easily the most violent and irritable of the three.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: They love to threaten people who disobey their orders or steal from them, but when some bending robots go on strike for being paid unfairly, they were quick to side with the striking robots. However, that's also because they consider themselves the "duly elected" mobsters of the union, and Donbot is incensed that the money is being given to scabs, rather than to him.
• Jerkass: As you might expect from a group of robot criminals, they have no problem using threats and violence to get their way.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Donbot never gets punished for his actions until "Viva Mars Vegas", where the Native Martians kick him, Joey Mousepad and Clamps out of the casino he took from the Wongs.
• Knight of Cerebus: Unlike other villains, they are played seriously, many times. Downplayed, as they are still involved in many comedic moments, especially Joey and Clamps.
• The Mafia: It's in their name.
• Minion with an F in Evil: Joey is lacking in intelligence and has a generally friendly personality.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Clamps is rather similar to Joe Pesci's character in Goodfellas with his Hair-Trigger Temper.
• Oddly Small Organization: Parodied. The Robot Mafia consists of only two minions and a "Donbot", and, temporarily, Bender.
• Only Sane Man: Donbot is the only one of the robot mafia with his head together. Usually, at any rate.
• Pretty in Mink: Donbot gets his girl a white fur coat he just happened to get from Burlington Coat Factory.
• Religious Robot: Are nominally Space Catholics, as seen in "The Silence of the Clamps" where the Space Pope rather than Preacherbot, conducts a Robot Wedding.
• The Sociopath: Especially Clamps, and Donbot has to keep him in check.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Clamps' solution for everything is to clamp on whatever needs clamping with his clamp hands.
  Joey Mousepad: Maybe you should give 'em the clamps, Clamps!
  Clamps: Gee, you think? You think that maybe I should use these clamps that I use every day at every opportunity? YOU'RE A FREAKIN' GENIUS, YA IDIOT!

Lrrr and Ndnd (of the planet Omicron Persei 8!)

"It is true, what they say: men are from Omicron Persei 7, women are from Omicron Persei 9!"

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche and Tress MacNeille
Debut: "When Aliens Attack"

The rulers of the planet Omicron Persei 8, Lrrr and Ndnd (pronounced "Lerrr" and "Nen-DEN-duh") are typically presented as working towards conquering other planets to expand their empire. When not conquering other planets, they act like a remarkably stereotypical couple that have been married for years, watching television, having petty arguments and the like. Their race, the Omicronians, are capable of producing several millions of (delicious) children, an asset which allows them to conquer many planets, as mentioned above.

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• Aliens Speaking English: They seem to have their own language (like when Ndnd was counting to the little Omicronian in "The Problem With Popplers") but for the convenience of us (and probably the writers), they always speak English. However they DO spend most of their free time watching 20th/21st century Earth television broadcasts...
• Aliens Steal Cable: They're not stealing it, they're just watching old transmissions that have just started reaching them. Unless something blocks the transmission. Or it's an episode of Friends about Joey.
• Badass Cape: Lrrr, and pretty much standard attire for Omicronian men in positions of power. Lrrr claims he killed his father for his.
• Berserk Button:
  • Animated movies. Lrrr shoots his TV when Fox is interrupted and shows eight of them in a row.
  • "THIS CONCEPT OF WUV CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!"
• Big Bad: Apart from Mom, the Omicronians are another selection of characters often played as villains.
• Big Eater: Omicronians can eat a human (or orangutan) whole in one go. Though depending on the human, they might regret it later.
• Black Comedy Rape: A human woman tries to force herself onto Lrrr in "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences".
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Omicronian morality is pretty different from 20th / 21st century norms, so they have difficulty with old Earth shows. For example, they think Friends is stupid because Ross, as the largest cast member, doesn't simply eat the others.
  Ndnd: Perhaps they are saving that for sweeps.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "I am Lrrr, ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8!" Said even to people already very familiar with him. And when he's trying to hide his identity.
    Lrrr: Oh, I'm just... some guy... ruler of the planet Omicron Persei Eight!
  • According to T For Terrestrial, this is a common trait among Omicronians.
    Drrr: I am Drrr, Doctor of the Planet Omicron Persei 8!
• Compensating for Something: Lrrr helpfully informs a plastic surgeon that his horns are a sign of virility... and that they house his testicles. He's promptly recommended to get horn extensions.
• Destructo-Nookie: Before he and Ndnd get it on, Lrrr warns the Planet Express crew to flee to a five hundred meter radius.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Lrr's response to every grievance, no matter how petty, is to shoot, kill, eat, and/or wage war on it.
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: A human girl with an alien fetish forces Lrrr to have sex with her. He cries about it the next day, but you know, it's (supposed to be) funny.
• Domestic Abuse: More specifically, Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male. Played for Laughs, of course.
• The Dreaded: Some of the most feared antagonists in the series, with the Professor screaming "Oh, God, they're back!" when they showed up for a second time. To the point that only Santa Claus challenges them for the fear they can illicit in the cast.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Lrrr's introduction of "greetings, Earth morsels" to a crowd of humans doesn't go down well.
• Evil Is Hammy: This concept of ham-style acting confuses and INFURIATES LRRR!
• Evil Sounds Deep: Lrrr. Maurice LaMarche is very insistent it's a different voice from Morbo (and it is, being higher).
• Extreme Omnivore: Humans, orangutans, Amphibonians, cottage cheese, they're not too picky. Except for candy hearts, which they can't stomach.
• Flanderization: Their strained marriage. Starting from "Spanish Fry", Ndnd's nagging and tense relationship with her husband start becoming her only traits.
• Frying Pan of Doom: Ndnd occasionally brandishes one in her later nagging appearances.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It doesn't take much to spark their ire, considering they declare war on Earth over a canceled TV show, and try to kill the Planet Express crew over bad Valentine's Day candy.
• Henpecked Husband: Oh, God, is Lrrr ever. In "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences", Ndnd is mad at finding that Leela is more successful at nagging and forcing Lrrr to do stuff than she is (and Leela is only trying to help him save his marriage).
• Hidden Depths: According to "Spanish Fry", Lrr has a sensitive side. He insists he only wrote Ndnd a love poem to test his printer.
• Is This Thing Still On?: Lrrr sets about scratching his crotch once he thinks the camera has stopped rolling on his announcement to eat a human in compensation for all the children consumed by humans.
• Just Eat Him: Lrrr 's preferred method of dealing with conflict.
• Klingons Love Shakespeare: Or at least they love 20th Century prime time Earth TV shows. They're introduced going to war against Earth due to "Single Female Lawyer" cutting off in the middle of an episode (thanks to Fry accidentally knocking Fox off the air permanently 1000 years prior).
• Knight of Cerebus: It's made very clear whenever they show up that they are a massive threat, both physically and militarily, twice conquering the planet Earth with ease.
• Large Ham: They tend to say everything in the most dramatic fashion possible. It's shown this is true for all Omicronians.
  Ndnd: What is this emotion you humans call "wuv"?
  Lrrr : Surely you mean "love"?
  Ndnd: No, "wuv", with an Earth w. BEHOLD! (shows Lrr a candy heart saying as such)
• Laughably Evil: While technically villains, and definitely threatening, they're not actually evil as such (nowhere near the level of Mom or Nixon), and their antics are generally played for laughs.
• No Indoor Voice: Omicronians in general, but Lrrr is the best example.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Lrrr tries to use one when buying an aphrodisiac in "Spanish Fry". What takes the cake is that when the video is shown to Leela, Fry, and Bender, Leela recognizes Lrrr before he even says a word.
• That Makes Me Feel Angry: "This concept of 'wuv' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!"
• Villains Out Shopping: They're even introduced to Futurama as demanding to be shown the final episode of a long-lost Earth television show, Single Female Lawyer.
• Weight Woe: "The Problem with Popplers" establishes Lrrr is supposed to be watching his weight.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Lrrr's father.

President Richard Nixon('s head)

"If there's one thing Nixon is known for, it's class. Let's cut this turd loose!"

Voiced by: Billy West
Debut: "Space Pilot 3000"

The head of former U.S. President Richard Nixon. He first appears in the series premiere in a hall of heads of presidential figures, getting knocked over by Fry — which shatters his head jar and causes him to go into a frenzy. However, he gets a much bigger role when he decides to bodyjack Bender and exploit a Constitutional loophole to win an election, but gets cornered in Watergate and has to fork over Bender's body or let him play a recording of a psychotic rant he just spouted off. Still, Nixon wins the election (due to the large number of robot votes he gets by sporting another, insanely huge robot body) and becomes President of Earth again — a surprisingly decent one... go figure. He has since become a recurring character, and most often plays the President Evil role. Nixon also has Spiro Agnew at his side as vice president again — though he's in the exact opposite predicament of all the other 20th-century cameo characters — an unintelligible body without a head.

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• Ascended Extra: Originally he was only intended to appear in the pilot episode, and maybe have an occasional cameo thereafter. However, the voice that Billy West created for him ended up making the character much funnier than the creators anticipated, leading to Nixon being given a more substantial role starting with the second season.
• Badass Boast: After getting reelected to the Presidency in "Decision 3012":
  Nixon always WINS!!! AROOOO!!!
• Berserk Button: Do not smash his containment jar or he will go aggro on you, biting like a rabid jackal.
  "That's it — you just made my list."
• Bowdlerise: In-universe example in Saturday Morning Fit Pit during the G I Zapp cartoon where he hilariously tries to dub over or tone down the more violent scenes of the cartoon until it becomes too much even for him and he pulls the plug.
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: "Draft dodger? Sex offender? Sex dodger?"
• Card-Carrying Villain: He loves doing evil.
• Character Catchphrase: "Aroooooo!"
• Chekhov's Gunman: He appears as a minor character in the pilot, only to return later on in the series and become the President, and thus a major recurring character.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Nixon himself isn't an example, but the enormous robot body he used to get elected in A Head in the Polls hasn't appeared since that episode.
• Comedic Sociopathy: He's presented as a head with a bottomless appetite for evil. Although he seems more interested in making the threats than doing the deeds.
  I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat! And I'll break into peoples' houses at night and wreck up the place! Muhahahaha!
• A Day in the Limelight: The framing device for Saturday Morning Fun Pit revolves around him and the headless body of Agnew watching Saturday morning cartoons.
• Do I Really Sound Like That?: When Bender plays back Nixon's incriminating rant about voters in "A Head in the Polls".
  Nixon: My God, I really sound like that? I thought my voice had more of a Clark Gable quality.
• Eagleland: Type II.
• Evil Is Hammy: "NIXON'S BACK!!!"
• Historical Villain Upgrade: Justified in-universe in that he's gone insane since the present.
• Jerkass: A trait that is exaggerated from Nixon's actual persona. In-universe the exaggeration is explained as a result of Sanity Slippage from being stuck as a head in a jar at the head museum and unable to do anything important anymore.
• Karma Houdini: Among his glaring list of wrongdoings, the biggest is flattening his secretary under the gargantuan boot of his super-sized robot body when he made his startling entrance as newly-reelected president of Earth, yet nobody said a word about it. Here's hoping she lived...
• Laughably Evil: He's an extremely dishonest and vile President, plus the show milks a lot of humor for his tendency to be shamelessly and openly evil
• Loophole Abuse: How he got to run for president again, since nobody could have more than two terms, he got a new body. Bender's body, to be specific.
• Old Shame: In-universe, he regrets funding the Moon landing. "Nothing up there but dry rocks and those revolting onion men!"
• Pet the Dog: Subverted.
  Nixon: Now look here, you drugged out communist! I paid for this body and I'd no sooner return it than I would my little cocker spaniel dog, Checkers.
  Checkers' Head: Arf!
  Nixon: Shut up, dammit!
  • Played straight in Crimes Of The Hot, where he thanks Earth's robots for stopping global warming by moving Earth further from the sun by declaring the extra week created by the larger orbit "Robot Party Week".
• Poke the Poodle: One episode has him watching a squirrel walk on a telephone wire, hoping it'll fall off.
  Nixon: Come on, fall. Fall, dammit! FALL!
• President Evil: His political promises include selling children's organs to zoos for meat, using the poor's teeth as a cheap source for aquarium gravel, and going into people's houses at night to wreck up the place. He also keeps up his predecessor's habit of starting pointless wars against defenceless enemies for no reason whatsoever.
• The Remnant: He and his 20th century staff are the only members of the Republicans that call themselves Republicans in the present day, since the Republican Party at some point became the Fingerlican Party.
• Take That!: Serves as one against Nixon for the writers. Note that Nixon was made fun of semi-regularly on the first few seasons of The Simpsons, until Nixon's death in the mid 1990s. A very huge and personal one for West himself, who was drafted for the Vietnam War. He came up with the werewolf like mannerisms from watching one of Nixon's debates with Kennedy in 1960.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Charleston Chew.
• Villainous Friendship: Is good friends with Morbo.
• Villain Team-Up: Despite having been odds with him in one episode, Nixon and Bender consistently team up whenever Nixon is scheming.
• Voodoo Shark: An in-universe example: In "Into The Wild Green Yonder", Fry finds out that Nixon staged the moon landing — on Venus. This is especially a voodoo shark in-universe, since Fry and Leela went to the Moon and visited the site of the Moon landing in another episode, and a previous movie has Nixon mention the moon landing.
• Would Hurt a Child: Implied. Later confirmed that he would given half a chance.
  Nixon: (noticeably sweating): Well, the question's... vague, you never say what kind of candy, or if anyone's watching... at any rate I certainly wouldn't harm the child.
  (Lie detector goes crazy)

Dr. Ogden Wernstrom

"It's time you left science to the 120-year-olds!"

Voiced by: David Herman
Debut: "A Big Piece of Garbage"

One of Professor Farnsworth's former Mars University graduate students, and his prized pupil before he turned against the professor and became his rival after receiving his idea the worst grade possible, an A-.

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• Always Someone Better: Started off as this to the professor, and is undeniably more successful.
• The B Grade: He turns against the professor upon receiving an A- due to poor penmanship on one of his assignments. After 100 years, he finally gets his revenge on Farnsworth by giving his new invention the worst grade imaginable, an A Minus Minus.
• Characterization Marches On: He started out as just a rival for Professor Farnsworth, but in situations such as those in Beast With a Billion Backs, he tries agreeing with the Professor on the issues at hand, though Farnsworth ends up ignoring him. They eventually end up working together, and not all that reluctantly at one point.
• Child Hater: In "Rage Against the Vaccine," he boasts about his EXPLOVID-23 vaccine causing infertility, dubiously claiming that studies prove children are what make people angriest and insisting that nobody really likes kids.
• Enemy Mine: Teams up with Farnsworth during The Beast With a Billion Backs to defeat Yivo and surprisingly ends up bonding with his rival somewhat. However, it's reset by the end of the episode as they fight once more over whose invention was more helpful in Yivo's defeat.
• Jerkass: His constant smug attitude even costs him his Academy Prize.
  Mayor Poopenmeyer: I now present [Professor Farnsworth] with the Academy Prize, which we confiscated from Doctor Wernstrom after it became apparent that he was a jackass.
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: He always wears a white labcoat. Appropriate for a scientist though he wears it wherever he is.
• One-Shot Character: Was originally going to be this, but the writers decided he was too good and made him a recurring character.
• Phrase Catcher: "WERN-STROM!" Professor Farnsworth just can't help himself and must cry his name whenever they meet.
• Say My Name: Whenever he appears, Professor Farnsworth will call out "Wernstrom!"
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Professor Farnsworth deeply loathes Wernstrom and won't pass any chance he gets to outdo him, arguing even when Wernstrom is trying to support him.
  Farnsworth: I say we must mount an expedition to the anomaly forthwith!
  Wernstrom: I agree!
  Farnsworth: Wernstrom!
  Wernstrom: Professor Farnsworth is correct, only a manned mission can - (Farnsworth throws a set of false teeth at him) Gah!
  Farnsworth: Don't listen to that crackpot!
  Wernstrom: But I'm agreeing with you!
  Farnsworth: I'll make you eat those words, you moron!
• Smug Snake: He never fails to brag about his own success and rub it in Farnsworth's face.

Alcazar

"We don't want to look like slobs in front of the other species, do we? Then get to work on these dishes. Then organize my collection of naked celebrity photos by name and what you can see."

Voiced by: David Herman
Debut: :A Bicyclops Built for Two"

A purple-haired Cyclops like Leela who claims to be from her home planet Cyclopia and attempts to court her so that their race can be repopulate. Turns out, he's just a shape-shifter manipulating her and four other women into marrying him.

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• Adam and Eve Plot: He wants to marry Leela because they're the last surviving Cyclopians and their union would be their only shot at repopulating the race. At least, that's what he tells Leela.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Initially appears to be an okay guy, crushed with loneliness from living alone. Then he turns out to be an utter pig.
• Catfishing: An allegorical play on the concept: Leela first met him on the internet while he was pretending to be another cyclops, but he turns out to be a shapeshifter exploiting her for sex and labor.
• Expy: He's based somewhat on Al Bundy from Married... with Children, where Leela's voice actress Katey Sagal played Al's wife Peggy. Notably, Leela spends a portion of the episode dressed as Peggy, and even adresses him as "Al".
• Visual Pun: An especially nerdy one: his final form (on-screen) is a grasshopper, and at the start of his appearance in the episode he made up some bullshit about the last of his and Leela's "race" being indecisive on people like the latter's role in society being a supermodel or a temple priestess. One of these professions involves anti-phishing and the other is strictly anti-polygamy in terms of ethical code, but the respective in-puns are swapped- Alacazar is as fishy as a tempura roll, what with grasshoppers often being used as bait for fish, but also as polygamist as a Tettigoniid with several mating calls (soon-to-be wives) and a tegmen representing a pair of eyes, with said tegmina being super-modified.
• Voluntary Shapeshifter: He turns out to be a shape-shifter, with his true form resembling a grasshopper.
• Walking Spoiler: It's difficult to talk about him without spoiling how his debut episode ends.

Fnog

Voiced by: David Herman
Debut: "Raging Bender"

A martial arts instructor who once taught Leela, but treated her poorly just because she was a girl.

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• Corrupted Character Copy: He's a clear pastiche of both Mr. Miyagi from The Karate Kid and Yoda from Star Wars, but unlike either of them he is a self-admitted lousy teacher and his training of Leela consisted entirely of mocking her with sexist insults while not caring at all about helping her improve her fighting technique and refusing to acknowledge her accomplishments. He's anything but a wise and charitable mentor.
• Green and Mean: He's a green alien who happens to be a misogynist prick.
• Hate Sink: Given that he's essentially a misogynist douchebag who feels no shame whatsoever for treating Leela like crap just because she's female, it's rather blatant that it's intended for the audience to despise him.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He refuses to acknowledge Leela's skill just because she's female. The excuse he gives is that Leela lacks "the will of the warrior", which he insists only men can possess.
• Straw Misogynist: He mainly exists to be a sexist asshole whom Leela ultimately beats up in retribution for how he treated her. He even believes that boys and girls go to separate Hells and that Boy Hell is comparatively better.

Roberto

"You callin' me crazy? Just 'cause I got a hotel in my foot don't make me a BOOGALEE-MOOGALEE-MOOGALEE!"

Voiced by: David Herman
Debut: "Insane in the Mainframe"

A dangerously unstable serial bank robbing robot who was built by a team of engineers for the sole purpose of creating an insane robot. Appeared several times up until "The Six Million Dollar Mon", where he is put to death. Twice. Though he eventually started appearing again.

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• Abusive Parents: His mother apparently welded him to the wall a few times as a child, which is implied to be the reason he is insane in his debut appearance.
• Ax-Crazy: A criminally insane, psychotic stab-bot.
• Back from the Dead:
  • Resurrected in "The Six Million Dollar Mon" after he is put to death via electromagnetic chair, though he dies for a second time after eating a piece of Hermes skin that absorbed unbearable heat from LaBarbara's cooking.
  • Later reappears in "Stench and Stenchibility" with no explanation.
  • Lampshaded in Worlds Of Tomorrow, when URL outright asks him how many times he’s been executed, to which Roberto replies at minimum once.
• Bank Robbery: He is a serial bank robber, and hits the same bank three times in a row in his debut appearance.
• The Caligula: His fantasy counterpart in Bender's Game is somehow even more deranged than the normal Roberto, being a parody of mad kings in fantasy works such as Denethor. His behavior even echoes a myth told by Suetonius about the historical Caligula (that he declared war on Neptune and had his soldiers throw spears at the ocean), but the King's approach was if anything worse, as he had his entire army tied to a boulder and rolled into the sea to fight "the scallops".
  [Swinging his sword wildly at nothing] "Stop laughin' at me, flying avocado! Ha-HAAA! Haaaah! Haa! HAAAAH!"
  "What the...?! You're not made of Tuesday!"
• Character Catchphrase: His "Ha-HAA!". Usually said when attempting to stab something.
• Flanderization: In his first appearance, he was capable of acting normal to the point of Casual Danger Dialogue, but later appearances escalated his insanity to the point of occasional gibberish. This could be a result of Sanity Slippage, however.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: What, can't he visit his old friends and take them hostage?
• Gone Horribly Right: Designed by a team of engineers to be an insane robot, though according to him, they failed.
• Karmic Death: After taking over Hermes's robot body, he tries to eat his skin. The end result is that he melts since the skin absorbed unbearable heat from LaBarbara's cooking.
• Laughably Evil: His crazy antics and predeliction for threatening people with violence over the slightest of provocations are frequently played in a comedic light.
• Mood-Swinger: He can go from calm and friendly-ish to manic screaming at the drop of a hat, and then right back.
  Roberto: (after escaping the sanitarium) Thanks for helping me escape, Bender.
  Bender: Ah, it was nothing.
  Roberto: IT WAS NOT NOTHING!
• Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement: Roberto may favor knives, but he's apparently not above using socks to kill people.
  Roberto: You ever kill a man with a sock? It ain't so hard. HA-HAA!
• Psycho Knife Nut: A Robotic Psychopath who loves stabbing.
  Roberto: I was designed by a team of engineers attempting to build an insane robot but it seems, they failed!
  Vending Machine: Um, actually - (Roberto stabs him)
• Robotic Psychopath: He was designed to be an insane robot.
• Unexplained Recovery: He is very obviously killed by the end of "The Six Million Dollar Mon", but was apparently reincarnated again sometime before "Stench and Stenchibility". Possibly that Backup Unit Bender mentioned robots having in an earlier episode.
• With Friends Like These...: He's a friend of Bender's, but he won't hesitate to threaten, attack, and kidnap even Bender should the mood strike him.

Flexo

Voiced by: John Dimaggio
Debut: "The Lesser Of Two Evils"

Flexo is a bending unit, similar to Bender.

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• Bait-and-Switch: His way of speaking is to state one thing, then explain that he means the opposite.
• Beard of Evil: Sports a robotic goatee, a visual cue that Flexo is Bender's evil twin, but for double negatives in effect.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Subverted in his second appearance "Bendless Love".
  Flexo: You bastard! They (The prison inmates) treated me like an animal, and that's what I became! (Beat) Hahahaha! Nah I'm just kiddin' you're great!
• Good Counterpart: To Bender. Fry initially assumes that he's Bender's Evil Counterpart but his jealousy blinds him to the fact that it's actually the other way around.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Fry originally suspects that Flexo will try to steal the crown from the Miss Universe pageant. It turns out that Bender is the one attempting to steal the crown and Flexo is actually trying to stop him.
• Jerkass: While not outright evil like Bender, Flexo's still as much of a jerk as Bender in every other way, at least where Fry's concerned, to the extent the Planet Express crew mistake Fry's complaints about him for being about Bender.
  Fry: [Flexo]'s much worse. He smokes, he drinks, and he posts naked pictures of me on the internet!
  Amy: That's Bender alright.
  Fry: I'm talking about Flexo!
• Major Injury Underreaction: Subverted. When Angleyne asks if he's okay when an unbendable girder is dropped on him he says "Never better. Haha! Nah, I'm just yankin' your chain, I'm dying."
• Mistaken Identity: Unsurprisingly, he was thrown in jail because he was mistaken for Bender.
• Tranquil Fury: "Hahaha! I really appreciate that buddy... Nah, I'm joshin' ya, that was quite annoying."

That Guy (Steve Castle)

Voiced by: David Herman

A Smug Snake Executive from the 80's (Duh) who got frozen because of a fatal disease. Takes over the company, with Fry as his right hand man in one episode.

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• Affably Evil: A pretty decent guy to Fry, despite him being rather incompetent. However, this is more likely out of nostalgia, seeing him as a useful pawn, or part of some elaborate scheme that never got into motion rather than being nice.
  • He ultimately turns out to be trying to do right by the Planet Express crew, even if only as a side-effect of his own self-interest, by fooling Mom into buying Planet Express at over $100 per share, which would have made everyone but Zoidberg, who sold him all of his shares earlier in the episode, and Hattie, who only has one share, into millionaires.
• All There in the Manual: He is only ever referred to as "That Guy". According to the audio commentary, his name is Steve Castle.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: He is the living embodiment of 80s corporate excess.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: His death by boneitis does not look or sound pleasant at all.
• Dies Wide Open: His final boneitis-induced contortion makes him hook his fingers into his upper eyelids and peel them back, leaving him as a wide-eyed corpse.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: He doesn't seem to have caught on that some fads of the 80s haven't lasted. But his greed and corruption serve him just as well in the 31st century as the 20th.
• Hey, You!: He is only addressed as "That Guy" within the episode.
• I Regret Nothing: Well, one, but it doesn't really fall under the classic definition of regretting one's transgressions.
  Steve: My only regret is... that I have... boneitis.
• Lack of Empathy: "Fry, I'm an 80's guy. Friendship to me means that for two bucks I'd beat you with a pool cue 'till you get detached retinas."
• Manipulative Bastard: Plays Fry for a sap so he can make money on selling out Planet Express. Though, admittedly, playing Fry for a sucker isn't exactly hard.
• Motive Decay: He pretty much immediately forgets to have his boneitis treated once he's thawed, instead using all his time to take over Planet Express and be an "80s guy." When it eventually catches up to him, it doesn't look pleasant.
• Too Clever by Half: He's a corporate shark and his unethical business practices can make tons of money. He's also arrogant, short-sighted, and those failings get the better of him in crucial moments. In his time a company was close to finding a cure for his terminal illness so he plotted a hostile take over and made millions from it, but he still had a fatal sickness and torpedoed the only chance to save himself.

Zookeeper

Voiced by: Billy West

A supervillain who uses various animals as his underlings.

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• The Bad Guy Wins: He successfully forces Leela, Fry and Bender into stealing the Quantum Gemerald for him by using Leela's parents as leverage.
• The Beastmaster: Assisted in his crimes by a pack of highly trained animals, including a badger with "a troubled past and nothing left to lose", an elephant (that never forgets to kill!), a crab called Citizen Snips, a boxing kangaroo, a gorilla named Sullivan and some piranhas he's given mechanical legs.
• Domino Mask: He wears a black mask that only covers the area around his eyes.
• Evil Redhead: His short red sideburns and handlebar mustache bring to mind Van Pelt.
• Expy: His voice and general campiness are based on Dr. Smith from Lost in Space, played by the equally campy in-real-life Jonathan Harris.
• Fat Bastard: He's a chubby supervillain.
• Karma Houdini: After getting the Quantum Gemerald, he escapes and never gets caught.
• Large Ham: He's a supervillain, so naturally he's got quite a hammy bent to him.
  Zookeeper: FOOL! You think I'd show you my lair?! My lair is a million times nicer than this!

Melllvar

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche

An energy being who it turns out has had the original cast of Star Trek: The Original Series (and James Doohan's stand-in Welshy) held captive.

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• Basement-Dweller: He turns out to be a grown man still living with his parents.
  Fry: All this time, we thought he was a powerful super-being, yet he was just a child.
  Melllvar's Mom: He's not a child, he's 34!
• Corrupted Character Copy: He's an homage to the many "supernatural alien" villains in Star Trek. Especially Trelane, another Fan of the Past who forced the crew to roleplay and fight for his amusement. Trelane really WAS just a silly (if dangerous) kid, while Melllvar's an entitled adult fanboy.
• Her Codename Was Mary Sue: The fan script he makes the Star Trek actors read blatantly paints him as a ludicrously overpowered ally who gets all the attention and praise.
• Straw Fan: His entitlement to the Star Trek cast and his obnoxious ego about his own knowledge of the show showcase the worst aspects of fandom, especially Trek fandom.

The Nudist Scammers

Voiced by: David Herman (Nudar), Frank Welker (Fleb), Maurice LaMarche (Schlump)

A trio of nudists from the Nude Beach Planet who scam their way to the top of the food chain

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• Aliens Are Bastards: Sleazy, greedy, obnoxious, dog-kicking bastards.
• Bald of Evil: They're completely hairless and a bunch of cruel, irritating con artists.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Their sprunger, which engorges their neck when sensing information. It allows them to discover the Time Code on Fry's ass
• Bullying a Dragon: Or rather, Scamming a Mexican Robot.
• Exposed Extraterrestrials: Courtesy of their nudist lifestyles. Downplayed in that we never see another member of their species, however, so this might not be considered typical behavior for their kind.
• Fan Disservice: Fat, ugly, obnoxious and unfortunately nudists as well. Fortunately their flab covers their crotches.
• Fat Bastard: While all of them have a paunch, Schlump is the fattest of the three.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Starts off as typical con-men, sending people fake lottery wins, getting people to sign away their stocks using a fake petition, selling candy faking as medicine. Then they discover the Time Code...
• Hate Sink: These guys are obnoxious, taunting and fond of dog kicking, which only makes their inevitable demise even more cathartic.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Nudar is finished off by Lars pulling a Heroic Sacrifice by using an about to self-destruct Bender time duplicate. This is the same Bender who initiated self-destruct rather than kill Fry like Nudar sent him back in time to do. And Lars only even existed thanks to Fry running away from Bender in the first place.
• It's All About Me: "Now that I'm rich, I suddenly care if the universe gets destroyed." Before they don't give a damn about what damage the time code could do if it makes them filthy rich.
• Jerkass: Condescending and obnoxious to everyone but each other.
• Kick the Dog: Demolishing Leela's apartment building to make a panda-hunting reserve is one of the least of their dick moves.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Spent the whole movie scamming everybody, only to find themselves lethally scammed by the robot formerly under their control. Nudar is ultimately killed by a copy of said robot exploding rather than kill his friend...who he sent to kill said friend.
• Planet of Hats: Nudists, from the Nude Beach Planet. Backfires a little on Nudar when hit by a Doomsday device.
  Nudar: My doom-proof platinum vest absorbed most of the radiation! ... in retrospect, I wish I'd been wearing doom-proof pants, but you know us nudists.
• Psychopathic Manchild: They love calling their victims childish insults, taunt them endlessly and spend their time playing video games while the heroes fight back.
• The Quiet One: Fleb tends to say the least of the three.
• Screw Yourself: Nudar's first use of the time code is to go back a day and end up going to his/their place.
• Smug Snake: Their smug attitude might seem justified given their success at scamming, but the fact everyone was juggling the Idiot Ball firmly puts them in the "snake" territory.
• Time-Traveling Jerkass: A proxy example. While they can't use the time code to pull of their time heist since it only goes back in time, they do order the robotic Bender to go back and swindle the riches of history with advanced weapons. They do this with absolutely no concern over the potential damage abusing the code does, at least until they're rich enough they'd rather not risk tempting fate. And they act like assholes all the while.

Yivo

Voiced by: David Cross
Debut: "The Beast With A Billion Backs"

An interdimensional alien the size of a planet, Yivo invaded the main universe thanks to a rupture in space-time, shklee invades the main universe to put shkler tentacles on everything.

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• Alien Blood: Bleeds brownish blood when cut.
• Anti-Villain: Ultimately has no harmful or antagonistic intentions towards the other universe and simply wants a close and intimate relationship with the universe's inhabitants. Yivo uses some unwelcome advances in service of that but it blows over once everyone comes to an understanding and the only ones that wish to do Yivo any harm for their interloping with the universe are the robots.
• Blaming the Victim: When called out on using shkler genticles to mate with everyone, shklee gives the excuse that they brought it on themselves because their universe dresses provocatively.
• Cyclops: Shkler body has one big eye in the middle of it.
• Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: Not at first, as it's more getting shkler rocks off, but eventually decides to romance the universe for real. Shklee eventually breaks it off when Fry continues to contact Bender behind Shkler back. Colleen is the only one who sticks with shklim.
• Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Once the truth comes out, Yivo is friendly and interested in a relationship with the universe.
• Double Standard: Rape, Sci-Fi: The fact shklee forcibly put shkler tentacles/mated with the universe (except Leela) is an unpleasant reveal, but not treated with too much repulsion and shklee is Easily Forgiven.
• Easily Forgiven: While Yivo does try to make up for everything, the universe is rather forgiving for shkler sticking shkler tentacles into them.
• Eldritch Abomination: Ultimately a friendly and lonely one, but still; Yivo is a massive, tentacled entity who's made of an alien form of matter.
• Everyone Has Standards: Implied-shklee tries to mate with the entire universe, but we never see any child characters with a tentacle, suggesting shklee's OK with shoving shkler genticles in almost anything but won't mate with a child.
• Fluffy Cloud Heaven: Shkler surface resembles this, but with tentacles, and makes denizens immortal. Shklee explains this trope was inspired by shkler body.
• Genius Loci: Shklee is the size of a planet, one big enough to contain the 20 quadrillion organic citizens of the universe.
• Heel–Face Turn: Starts as an invasive force, but after being called out tries to make amends.
• Immortality Field: Shkler body makes whoever's on it immortal.
• Immortality Promiscuity: Having been alone for over a trillion years, Yivo is very horny and tries to mate with everyone in the main universe.
• Like Cannot Cut Like: Inverted; Yivo can only be harmed by the same matter as shklee is made of.
• Made of Indestructium: Yivo and stuff from shkler universe are made of electromatter, matter's "badass grandma" who can only be cut by other electromatter. Even diamondium and diamondillium fold like tissue paper under shkler tentacles.
• Naughty Tentacles: The tentacles? They're genticles and Yivo wanted to mate with the universe with them.
• Never My Fault: Insists mating with the universe was the universe's fault for "dressing provocatively".
• Non-Human Non-Binary: Has no concept of gender, given that shklee never interacted with another being until the rift opened.
• Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous: Neither male nor female, the other-universal Yivo is referred to with new pronouns like "shklee" and "shkler"
• Place Before Time: Shkler universe predates Universe Gamma^note the main one by a huge mile, with shkler mentioning she spent at least a trillion years alone. For reference, Yivo's universe is over seventy times older than the primary universe.
• Single Specimen Species: The sole sentient being in shkler own universe, naturally making shkler very lonely.
• Time Abyss: Was around for at least a trillion years before noticing the Big Bang. Shklee is potentially the oldest anything to that point except maybe the Galactic Entity^note who says "I have always been", with even the Nibblonians only being 17 years older than the Big Bang.

The Brainspawn

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche
Debut: "The Day The Earth Stood Stupid"

Giant floating brains almost as old as the universe itself, the Brainspawn finds all thought to be painful. As such, they try to make everyone stupid, with Fry being the only one immune to their effects.

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• Absolute Xenophobe: Hate all other sentient beings because their thoughts are agony.
• Aliens Are Bastards: The biggest bastards of the alien races; they want nothing but to destroy all other species and become The Omniscient.
• Archenemy: Not Fry who has only fought them twice (and only remembers the first), but to the Nibblonians. The two have been at war since almost the beginning of the universe and Fry was frozen as the Nibblonian's best weapon against them.
• Brain Monster: Giant floating brains, with the larger brains having higher ranks.
• The Comically Serious: No matter how ludicrous the topic at hand, they always speak in the same monotonous voice.
  Big Brain: (in a library) Dewey, You Fool!! Your decimal system has played right into my hands.
• Evil Is Petty: The Brainspawn would rather destroy the universe so no new information arrives than continue updating it with new information.
• Expy: Their method of collecting information, then destroying civilizations to ensure they're the only ones with the info, seems akin to Brainiac, most specifically the DC Animated Universe rendition.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Along with the Dark Ones (who have dwindled to one by the timeframe of the series), they're the biggest threats around. Fry was frozen specifically to ensure someone would be able to defeat them in the future.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: The Big Brain can do this to people by trapping them in works of fiction. Fry turns this on him, trapping him in a book with plot holes and spelling errors where he assumes he won.
• Make Wrong What Once Went Right: Their last ditch effort once being imprisoned in another universe; convince Fry to prevent his own freezing, thus preventing him from stopping their scheme. Ultimately it fails when Fry decides the future is worth saving.
• Omnicidal Maniac: They would rather destroy all other life than endure the pain of them thinking. By "The Why Of Fry" they've decided to outright wipe out the universe once the Infosphere is completed, so they don't have to add any new information.
• The Omniscient: Their ultimate goal is to gather all the information in the universe for themselves, becoming this. Because new information is inevitably created they need to end the universe to ensure they know everything.
• Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: The Huge Brain in charge of the Infosphere did.
• Portal Book: The Big Brain does a mental version of this to try and defeat Fry when he can't use his stupefaction ray on him.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Their ultimate fate is to be imprisoned in an empty universe with no escape. Fry initially joins them in a Heroic Sacrifice, but thanks to time travel he avoids joining them.
• Shown Their Work: Their backstory as the first species to evolve after the Big Bang is a reference to the Boltzmann brain thought experiment. But it doesn't stop there- both this episode and the theory go through positing that it's "more likely" for a brain complete with memories of a life to spontaneously form in the void than for the universe to come about as conventionally theorized.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Only appeared in two episodes, however Fry was only frozen to stop their eventual attack. In other words, they're indirectly responsible for the entire series.
• Stupidity-Inducing Attack: How they destroy other races; use their stupefaction ray to target people's Delta Brainwave and make entire races Too Dumb to Live. Fry's lack of a Delta Brainwave makes him immune to becoming stupider. They also do this because the thoughts of other people hurt them.
• Time Abyss: As a race they came into existence a millisecond after the Big Bang. The Huge Brain in charge of the Infosphere is at least 65 million years old because he killed the dinosaurs.
• Walking Spoiler: Not on their own, but their presence spoils both Nibbler's sentience and Fry's cosmic importance.

V-GINY

Voiced by: Chris Elliot
Debut: "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela"

A fusion of an FCC V-Chip and the United States Air Force Flying Destiny that goes around "censoring" indecent planets.

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• Heh Heh, You Said "X": Fry snickers at hearing V-GINY declare its name.
• Karma Houdini: The efforts to stop it fail, and it leaves after having forced Leela and Zapp to do the nasty.
• Moral Guardians: V-GINY wants to wipe out planets it views as obscene, whether it's because of profanity, nudity or even toilet humor. Planets it has wiped out include the Nude Beach Planet, Poopiter and "that world that can't be mentioned in polite company".
• Moral Myopia: Destroys planets it considers indecent, but has no problem forcing Leela and Zapp to have sex at gunpoint. It then rates the deed "approval for all audiences".
• Punny Name: Its name is an obvious play on "vagina".
• Shout-Out: A parody of V-Ger from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Leonardo da Vinci

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche
Debut: "The Duh-Vinci Code"

A famous Renaissance artist, who is still alive by the 31st century and turns out to have been an alien all along.

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• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Who would've guessed that one of the most famous artists of the Renaissance was actually a long-lived alien?
• Historical Domain Character: He's a fictional incarnation of one of the most well-known artists of the Renaissance.
• Karmic Death: He ends up killed by the very machine he attempted to use to kill his tormentors.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: He was actually the dumbest inhabitant of his home planet and came to Earth so he'd be smarter in comparison to that world's inhabitants, only to later leave due to his frustration at being surrounded by people who were even dumber than he was.
• Really 700 Years Old: Since the show takes place in the 31st century and the real Leonardo da Vinci died in the 16th century, he'd have to be significantly older than any human can possibly live in order to be still alive.
• Surrounded by Idiots: How he felt living on Earth, describing it as being equally as infuriating as being surrounded by people smarter than him.

Animatronio

Voiced by: David Herman
Debut: "The Duh-Vinci Code"

A robot built by Leonardo da Vinci.

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• Been There, Shaped History: He served as a model for St. James in Leonardo's painting The Last Supper.
• Faking the Dead: He pretends to die to avoid answering the Planet Express crew's questions, though he keeps accidentally giving them just enough information to figure things out on their own.
• Funny Foreigner: A lot of humor is milked from his nature as a comedic Italian stereotype.
• I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You!: He has a bad habit of saying too much when he refuses to answer the Planet Express crew's questions.
  Bender: Alright, buddy, we want secrets! And they better be ancient!
  Animatronio: Porco metallico! Never shall I reveal how these wondrous machines fit together!
  Farnsworth: They fit together?
  Animatronio: I said no such thing! And then I died!
• Punny Name: His name is a portmanteau of "animatronic" and "Antonio".

Flamo

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche
Debut: "The Inhuman Torch"

A sentient blue flame Bender accidentally brought to Earth when returning from the sun.

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• Bad People Abuse Animals: When Bender attempts to hold him prisoner at the arctic, he relishes the possibility of escaping by setting fire to a polar bear that may come by.
• Evil Living Flames: He's a sentient flame who really loves making everything burn.
• Playing with Fire: He is able to spread flames wherever he goes.

Klaxxon

Voiced by: Chris Hardwick
Debut: "Radiorama"

A being of pure sound who serves as the antagonist of the "Radiorama" podcast.

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• Canon Foreigner: He was created for the podcast and doesn't exist in the actual show.
• Parent with New Paramour: By the end of the podcast, he's merged with Bender's mother, with their union humorously treated as an allegory towards single parents finding new partners. Bender isn't happy at first, but accepts it when he realizes that his new dad is a supervillain.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: He was imprisoned inside a device storing discarded podcasts on the planet Junkleon 7 before Bender brought it back to Earth and he escaped.

Dr. Gary Kind

Voiced by: John DiMaggio
Debut: "Zapp Gets Cancelled"

A disgraced captain who poses as a sensitivity instructor.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Dr. Kind seems to be an earnest medic trying to help the Cancelled captains redeem themselves, but he soon turns out not only to be a massive jerk, but to have tied up the real doctor and hijacked the treatment for his own gain.
• Ironic Name: Dr. Kind is anything but.
• Karmic Death: Dr. Kind gets disintegrated by the Nimbus after being named its captain and ordering the ship to fire while it was trained on him.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He really enjoys eating durians.

Dr. Banjo

Voiced by: David Herman
Debut: "A Clockwork Origin"

A superintelligent orangutan scientist. However, he frequently advocates for various kinds of pseudoscience, often in opposition to Professor Farnsworth.

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• Domesticated Dinosaurs: He presents a painting of a human riding a dinosaur as "evidence" of creationism at a science museum, much to Farnsworth's dismay.
• Erudite Orangutan: He provides the current page image for this trope, and acts as a subversion of it by using his education to push pseudoscience and even religion.
• Expy: Of Dr. Zaius. However, where Zaius knew the truth and used the apes' religion to cover it up to prevent another human-caused catastrophe, Dr. Banjo appears to be a true believer in "creaturism."
• The Fundamentalist: In his first appearance, he says that evolution is a lie, and that all life was created by a "almighty Creature in the sky." After the Professor creates and documents a robot society that evolves from single-chip organisms to dinosaurs to androids to extracorporeal beings, he modifies his stance more towards evolution by intelligent design, which is also a pseudoscientific trope.
• Hypocritical Humor: He vehemently denounces the concept of evolution, despite the fact that he himself is a hyper-evolved ape.
• Large Ham: Anytime he makes a proclamation, it will be in a dramatic, booming voice.
• Moving the Goalposts: His go-to response when he repeatedly gets debunked on the lack of "missing links" between early primates and modern humans.
• Patriotic Fervor: Insists that all of his ancestors were not monkeys, but "hard working, patriotic orangutans."
• Straw Character: He basically shows up any time the writers want to lampoon pseudoscience and religion, most notably as a stand-in for young-earth creationists and anti-vaxxers.
• Take That!: More specifically to the above, his first appearance is a spoof of young-earth creationists, in particular Australian young-earth creationist Ken Ham, the founder of the Creation Museum in Kentucky. Dr. Banjo's "debate" with Professor Farnsworth actually predates Ham's infamous debate with Bill Nye by two years. His second appearance, where he hosts the "Dr. Banjo Experience Podcast Experience Hour," is this towards Joe Rogan, who frequently hosted vaccine skeptics on his podcast during COVID-19.

Space Bees

Voiced by: Various, Dawnn Lewis (Space Bee Queen, "The Futurama Holiday Special")

Debut: "The Sting"

Space Bees (duh) who farm a delicious form of honey, responsible for killing several of Planet Express's previous crews in horrible, horrible ways.

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• Adipose Rex: The Bee Queen. Though as she retorts, you try keeping your figure after fifty thousand kids.
• Bee Afraid: Vicious, space-dwelling bees larger than a Buick ("and twice as ugly!") with a horrific neurotoxin that kills anyone they sting with it in hideous agony.
• Berserk Button: Like actual bees, just going near them can be enough to set them off, but whatever you do, do not call them fat, and especially not their queen.
• Beware My Stinger Tail: Bees, remember? Even without the poison, they're still big enough that a baby bee can skewer someone. They're also tough enough to dent the Planet Express Ship.
• Body Horror: If you're not allergic, a single sting will kill you. If you are... you don't want to know.
  Professor: Your eyes will boil from their eye sockets like a science fair volcano!
  Hermes: (sobbing) I didn't want to knoooow!
• Drone of Dread: The angry buzzing of a hive of Space Bees operating with single killing intent is usually the last thing their victims hear. Besides their own screaming.
• It Can Think: They're perfectly intelligent, and even capable of conversing with sentients. They just don't want to.
• Made of Explodium: In good Futurama tradition, Space Bees explode when they fly into things for no readily apparent reason, turning their hive into a fireball.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Baby Queens are adorable looking... but every bit as vicious as the adults.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Only appear in a few episodes, but had they not killed the last Planet Express crew (and the one before that), Fry, Bender and Leela would never have got their jobs.
• Suddenly Voiced: In "The Sting", they communicate via buzzing. In "The Futurama Holiday Special", they talk verbally.
• Zerg Rush: Like real bees, anyone getting near the hive is attacked by every bee at once.
  Crewman: Captain, the bees have us surrounded! Oh, the Professor was right, we aren't as good as his old crew!
  Captain: Well I aim to prove him wrong! It'll take more than deadly bees to stop u-(loud buzzing) OH LORD! AAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHH!

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