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Futurama Main Character Index
The Planet Express Crew (Philip J. Fry, Bender Bending Rodriguez) | Main Recurring Characters | Planet Express Crew Relatives | Antagonists | Other Characters

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Elzar

"BAM!!"

Voiced by: John DiMaggio
Debut: "My Three Suns"

Elzar is a galactically famous chef and TV host, and a hero to the tragically taste bud-free Bender.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: Like all Neptunians, he's purple.
• Broken Pedestal: Bender always admired Elzar's cooking and wanted to be a chef like him. However, once he sees him as the jerkass he really is after he refuses to give him a job, he changes his mind.
• Jerkass: Frequently. For example, after accidentally blinding Leela because of Bender, he gives the entire crew a meal... and at the end it turns out he's charging them for it. Never said it would be free.
• Jerkass Has a Point: When Bender challenges him for a cook-off, he states that he's doing it to avenge his fallen mentor, Helmut Spargle. Elzar rightly points out that as Spargle died after his stomach exploded eating food Bender prepared for him, Bender's obviously far more responsible for his teacher's demise than Elzar.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Must be handy for a chef to have four arms.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Has Emeril Lagasse's Massachusetts accent and similar catchphrases.
• Pig Man: His nose is distinctly snout-like, as are those of the rest of his alien race (Neptunians).
• Supreme Chef: He's such a good cook that he can wring compliments out of Morbo, apparently gets away with using slightly rotten fish in his jambalaya, and makes a Sterno niçoise that even Fry enjoys, once it's stopped burning his tongue.

H.G. Blob

"You can shove your apology into the bottom of your one-way digestive system."

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche
Debut: "The Series has Landed"

A horrible gelatinous blob alien who eats people.

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• Aerith and Bob: His name is Horrible Gelatinous Blob. His son is named Brett.
• Blob Monster: That's pretty much all there is to say about him.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: His full name is literally "Horrible Gelatinous Blob".
• Fun with Acronyms: "Horrible Gelatinous Blob" is mostly abbreviated to "H.G. Blob", which may be a reference to high concept sci-fi writer, H.G. Wells.
• Gelatinous Encasement: Those eaten by H.G. are suspended within his mass.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As stated below, H.G. expresses sincere regret for accosting Farnsworth and Hermes, admitting that just because he's stressed from work and parenting is no excuse for violence and that doing so sets a poor example for his son, who he's trying to raise properly.
• Jerkass: Seems to have a perpetually short temper. In "The Route of All Evil", he claims it's because of stress at work and apologises sincerely to Farnsworth and Hermes for beating them up.
• Sickly Green Glow: H.G. Blob is made out of disgusting green slime.
• To Serve Man: H.G. Blob is known to eat people.

Hattie McDoogal

"Now I gotta whatchacallit instead of a kajigger, you stupid whatchacallit!"

Voiced by: Tress MacNeille
Debut: "I, Roommate"

A gross, grungy old rent collector lady at Dr. Mbutu Apartments.

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• Ambiguously Brown: She's got a rather tanned complexion, but it's unknown if this is because of her race or if she's just very tan.
• Character Catchphrase: She refers to pretty much every noun as either a "whatchamacallit" or a "kajigger".
• Covert Pervert: Season 2's "Brannigan Begin Again" shows her prowling for sex in the red light district; she selects Kif (over Zapp) and they drive away in her limo.
• Crazy Cat Lady: As a stock-owner at Planet Express, she demands the floor at a stockholder meeting solely to demand everyone come to her apartment to snuggle her cat. Professor Farnsworth objects on the ground of it being smelly and ugly.
• Evil Debt Collector: She works this job at Dr. Mbutu Apartments.
• Grumpy Old Lady: She's crabby, complains a lot, and frequently yells at people.
• Mad Eye: Played with. Both of her eyes are completely loopy.

Sal

"Wise guy, huh? If I wasn't so lazy I'd punch you in the stomach."

Voiced by: John DiMaggio
Debut: "The Series has Landed"

A fat, lazy chain-smoker with a thick Brooklyn accent who works multiple different blue-collar jobs.

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• Beneath the Mask: "We're all scared, it's the human condition. Why do you thinks I puts on this tough guy facade?!"
• Construction Catcalls: Sal makes these to Leela in "Parasites Lost"; once from a gas station and another from a construction site. A newly-empowered Fry beats the crap out of him for this on the second occasion.
• Fat Bastard: He's obese and far from being well-mannered or nice.
• Hidden Depths: He showcases a surprisingly philosophical side in "The Honking", as shown in his quote in Beneath the Mask.
• Lazy Bum: Right there in his first appearance.
  Sal: I'd kick your ass if I wasn't so lazy.
  Fry: But you are lazy, right?
  Sal: Oh, don't get me started.
• Pluralses: His Verbal Tic.
• Verbal Tic: He adds an 's' to words that don't normally take one, and sometimes leaves it off of words that should have one. Exaggerated in "Spanish Fry" when he does this to words with irregular plurals as well.
  Sal: Has yous ever seens Bigfeet?
• Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: Has a different job in every episode he appears in.

Petunia

"Yeah, but what a way to go. 'Die young and leave a pretty corpse,' that's what I say."

Voiced by: Tress MacNeille
Debut: "Put Your Head on My Shoulders"

An elderly, promiscuous, chain-smoking prostitute.

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• The Gambling Addict: Petunia is obsessed with gambling.
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Petunia may be a prostitute, but she's still a nice person and would never harm a fly.
• I Was Quite a Looker: Might have been really beautiful back in her day, but now that's clearly all gone away.
• The Oldest Profession: Petunia works as a prostitute.
• Sex for Services: Petunia usually charges people for sex with her, although in a number of episodes, she's gone against this code to have sex with someone she really likes for free.
• Streetwalker: Walks the streets of New New York to find customers.

Hyper-Chicken

"Now I may be just be a simple country Hyper-Chicken, but I know when we're finger licked."

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche
Debut: "Brannigan, Begin Again"

An anthropomorphic blue chicken with a Southern accent who works as a lawyer.

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• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: He is a blue chicken.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite normally doing a horrible job at being a lawyer, he's managed to successfully argue for Planet Express in several cases (and has even represented Earth itself in some instances); he once manages to get Bender five hours of community service for causing a serious tanker crash on Pluto while he himself was on trial for incompetence. When asked to provide evidence to support Bender and Fry's insanity plea, he points to the fact that they chose him as their lawyer. And it works.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • On one occasion, he does such a poor job at acting as defense that he moves that he be disbarred for introducing evidence against his own clients.
  • Another episode has him in jail for incompetence.
• Simple Country Lawyer: Based on this stereotype, even referring to himself as a "simple country hyper-chicken".
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He's terrified of badgers.

Randy Munchnik

Voiced by: John DiMaggio
Debut: "I, Roommate"

A blonde gay man who owns a jewelry store called Diamonds are Forever.

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• Ascended Extra: He appeared very infrequently in earlier seasons, but had a much more noticeable presence during the show's Comedy Central years.
• Camp Gay: Acts like an effeminate, flamboyant homosexual stereotype.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: Randy is very feminine and even works as a jewelry salesman. He also hosts a tap competition.
• They Called Me Mad!: In "Crimes of the Hot", he notes that people called him crazy for building a replica of Noah's ark. His partner Soupy promptly responds that he is crazy for filling it with same-sex animal pairs.
  Randy: Hey, there are parts of the Bible I like and parts I don't like!
• Token Minority: He's more or less the show's token gay character, though the Comedy Central episodes managed to give him a few appearances that weren't solely about his sexuality.

Smitty and URL

"Look, a civilian jaywalking. Aw yes."

Voiced by: Billy West (Smitty) and John DiMaggio (URL, seasons 1-7); Kevin Michael Richardson (URL, season 8-onwards)
Debut: "Space Pilot 3000"

The two police officers of New New York. Smitty is the human, URL (pronounced "Earl") is the robot.

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• Ambiguously Gay: Much like Fry and Bender, there's a lot of subtext to their interactions. Apparently their chief has warned them about being too focused on hugging on another on duty.
  URL: (on Bender) He's clean. Smells nice, too.
  Smitty: Better than me?
  URL: Aw, yeah.
• Character Catchphrase: "Awww yeah." for URL. Changes to "In-dubitably" (exact same stress and meter) in an Alternate Universe where everything's British.
• Corrupt Cop: A good number of times, they can be easily bribed.
• A Day in the Limelight: URL gets a lot of focus when Smitty retires and Fry becomes a cop.
• The Ditz: Smitty is very clearly the lesser intellect of the two.
• Laser Blade: Subverted in that they act just like regular police batons.
• The Lopsided Arm of the Law: Right from the get-go, they're generally shown to be pretty incompetent (responding to a call for back-up by declaring they'd arrive in five minutes, when they were quite literally right next to them). However, when they're called upon to arrest one of the Planet Express crew, they're usually pretty successful.
• Mirror Character: To Fry and Bender, respectively. They're both human-robot duos, and the human is voiced by Billy West while the robot was initially voiced by John DiMaggio before being voiced instead by Kevin Michael Richardson as of the Hulu run.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Their idea of being undercover is wearing suits over their cop outfits, reading "Non-Cop News". Subverted, in that the person they're tailing sees right through it.
• Police Brutality: From the first episode, they've defaulted to using ridiculous levels of violence on people for very poor reasons.
  Smitty: He's picking his nose, get him!
• Retirony: URL lost Smitty as a partner when Smitty was only two days to retirement. He had taken an early retirement.
• Those Two Guys: Are they the only cops in town?

Tinny Tim

"You raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly, sir. Bravo!"

Voiced by: Tress MacNeille
Debut: "Xmas Story"

A poor little orphan robot.

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• Alliterative Name: Tinny Tim.
• Butt-Monkey: Despite already being at the bottom of his luck, Tinny Tim is usually getting beaten up, knocked over, thrown off of bridges, run over by cars, and victimized by Bender as some quick one-off gags.
• Expy: Of Patches from The Simpsons.
• Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: Tinny Tim sells newspapers, among other jobs.
• Heartwarming Orphan: A sad little orphan boy, who the audience is supposed to sympathize with.
• Kick the Dog: Tinny Tim is usually kicked around by Bender for no apparent reason. The cruelest would be in "Assie Come Home", where Bender reclaims his legs by sawing them off of Tinny Tim after he had received them as transplants and then takes the wheeled cart the boy had to use to move without legs.
• Pauper Patches: Tinny Tim wears a bunch of raggedy old clothes and one of his arms is replaced with a wooden crutch.
• The Pollyanna: Despite being dirt poor and no matter how much horrible things happen to him, Tinny Tim is always exuberantly happy and never sheds a single tear. Some would say he actually likes when tragedy befalls him.
  Tim: You raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly, sir. Bravo!
• Punny Name: His name is a pun on "Tiny Tim" from A Christmas Carol.
• Tiny Tim Template: He's a British-voiced robot kid who has one leg shorter than the other and one of his arms is a crutch.

Crushinator

"YOO. HOO."

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche
Debut: "The Series has Landed"

A colossal-sized valley girl robot, who is meant to be a driveable vehicle.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: She's in love with Bender and is always trying to have sex with him. However, Bender hates and fears her (except in her debut.)
• Farmer's Daughter: The "ugly one" of the farmer's three beautiful daughters, though from Bender's point of view this might be inverted.
  Fry: Bender, you didn't touch the Crushinator, did you?
  Bender: Of course not! ... a lady that fine, you gotta romance, first.
• Giant Woman: A gigantic female robot, who's big enough for multiple people to get inside of and drive like a car.
• Gonky Femme: She's a very large fembot with a deep, masculine-sounding voice.
• Valley Girl: She's a ditzy hillbilly girl from the country side of the moon.

Michelle Jenkins

Voiced by: Kath Soucie ("Space Pilot 3000"), Sarah Silverman (other speaking roles)
Debut: "Space Pilot 3000"

Fry's unfaithful, on-and-off ex-girlfriend from his pre-freezing days in the 20th-century.

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• A Day in the Limelight: "The Cryonic Woman" brings her to the future and shines a spotlight on her relationship with Fry.
• False Teeth Tomfoolery: According to "Game of Tones", she apparently wears dentures.
• First Girl Wins: Averted. She was (technically) Fry's first love interest when the series started but they never stuck together in the end. Instead, Fry ends up with Leela.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: In contrast to Fry, Michelle feels extremely out of place in the 31st century and struggles to adjust to things Fry swiftly and readily accepts and embraces. In her debut, it drives her to freeze herself again in the hopes of getting away from it all.
• Hate Sink: Fry's family and friends in the 20th Century were initially portrayed as rather apathetic and rude towards him when they were shown in flashbacks. Later episodes humanized them to show his brother and parents did indeed care about him, and Fry tried to convince himself that his past life was awful so he wouldn't regret losing his family. The same cannot be said of Michelle, who is shown to be just as nasty and demanding in Fry's past as she is in his present.
• Jerkass: Extremely self-centered, demanding and ungrateful towards Fry, and has cheated on him on multiple occasions. She hasn't been too nice to her new boyfriend Constantine, either, as Bender's Big Score has her tell him to his face that his name is stupid.
• Naked People Are Funny: The comic book story "Planet Michelle" (issue 34) has Michelle being cloned several times, with some humor being derived from her clones being naked upon creation. The first clone is understandably not happy about her lack of clothes and is provided one of Amy's spare sweatsuits, with Fry claiming that Professor Farnsworth is blind, and Farnsworth goes along with it for obvious reasons. Numerous other clones created later in the story also cover up with Amy's sweatsuits (due to Amy's dry cleaning being onboard the Planet Express ship), but they still eventually run out, and later clones emerge from the ship in the buff, with Bender remarking that the later Michelle clones' nudity is an upside.

Hedonismbot

Let us cavort like the Greeks of old! You know the ones I mean.

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche
Debut: "Crimes of the Hot"

Hedonismbot is a robot who has the concept of hedonism written right into his programming. He is extremely fond of food, wine, opera, vomiting, and orgies, among other things, and he apologizes for nothing.

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• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: It's implied he has a low attention span, especially if what he's watching isn't sufficiently decadent enough.
  Hedonismbot: Surgery? In an opera? How repulsively decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!
• Big Fun: He's a heavyset robot who wants nothing more than than to indulge and have fun in any way he can.
• Camp Gay: While he's in favor of pleasure of any kind, it's strongly implied that heterosexuality seems old-fashioned to him.
  Hedonismbot: A man? Writing an opera about a woman? Oh, sirrah! How delightfully absurd!
• Extreme Omnisexual: Part and parcel of wild hedonism is no limit to what one is willing to get freaky with.
• Grapes of Luxury: Doesn't leave home without 'em.
• The Hedonist: It's right there in his name. He dedicates his life to excessive hedonism, which may actually be his entire purpose in the first place. He even provides the Trope Image.
• Idle Rich: He was built so that humans would not have to fill this essential role. It's not clear where he gets the funds for his oil-and-cream baths or frivolous one-night-only opera productions, but he seems able to afford it. It's revealed in one of the Comedy Central episodes that he's a senator. Presumably, that still pays pretty well. Oh, and he's made of solid gold.
• I Regret Nothing: He does not regret his excessive decadence in the slightest, even when Bender, of all of people, calls him out on it.

I apologize for nothing!

• Large Ham: One of the reasons he became such a hit so quickly: he's the first to loudly announce that A) the pleasure has begun, B) pleasure is imminent, or C) this no longer amuses him.
• Nice Guy: Perhaps as a side-effect of his total hedonism, he's actually a very pleasant and affable guy; he never says a harsh word to anyone and seems free of prejudices.
• Nonstandard Character Design: Unlike most robots on the show, his pupils are round rather than square (though they're updated to square in the eighth season). Additionally, he's built into a lounging position on a metal recliner with his arms acting as the legs.
  • Did we mention that he's Made O' Gold?
• Noodle Implements: Being as he is a hedonist. He seems to derive sexual pleasure from getting chocolate icing spread on his stomach during an opera. Or using butter in his orgy pits. Or having a human part stored...somewhere.
• Robosexual: Heavily implied to be in some sort of relationship with Jhambi, his human attendant.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: Pretty much the whole joke to his character is that somebody, somewhere, for some reason, built a robot for the purpose of eating grapes and wasting money.
• Sleazy Politician: He’s a senator that uses the taxpayers’ money to fund his hedonistic exploits. Downplayed in that he’s actually a pretty nice guy all things considered.

Father Changstein El-Gamal

Voiced by: David Herman

A priest/rabbi/imam/monk who works at the First Amalgamated Church of New New York.

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• Interfaith Smoothie: He's a religious leader of every religion ever, serving as the main representative in the pre-revival seasons as The Space Pope only physically appeared in the Comedy Central revival.
• Religious Stereotype: Acts like a one-note strawman of religious people in general.
  Father Changstein El-Gamal: I can help you find Bender by praying for him.
  Fry: Is there anything useful you can do?
  Father Changstein El-Gamal: No.
• Twofer Token Minority: He's every religion in the world, making him a token Christian, Catholic, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, etc.

Morgan Proctor

"Dirty boy, dirty, dirty, dirty!"

Voiced by: Nora Dunn ("How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back"), Tress MacNeille

A bureaucrat at The Central Bureaucracy, who wants to keep everything clean and perfectly in place.

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• Felony Misdemeanor: Is eventually fired as Planet Express's bureaucrat for incorrectly filing a form many years ago.
  Hermes: You only stamped it four times!
  (everyone gasps)
  Proctor: No, no! I was young and reckless!
• Neat Freak: Aspires to have Planet Express completely clean and organized.
• Obsessively Organized: Is obsessed with things being clean and organized.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: She removes Bender's brain and files it in the Central Bureaucracy, meaning it'd be impossible to ever find again, but he had been planning to ruin her career out of spite. Later on, the Planet Express crew can't even think of a good reason why they'd want Bender back.
• Prim and Proper Bun: Wears one in her hair.
• Proper Lady: Her basic archetype.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: How her becoming Planet Express's new bureaucrat is portrayed. Everyone but Fry hates her, and he only likes her because they're doing it.
• Uptight Loves Wild: Turns out living in a ridiculously strict bureaucratic environment has made her see dirt and disorganization as something that's forbidden and mysterious, causing her to fall for Fry, who's a huge lazy slob.

The God Entity

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."

Voiced by: Billy West
Debut: "Godfellas"

The Galactic Entity, otherwise known as the "God" space entity, is user-friendly and thinks in binary.

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• All-Loving Hero: States He feels compassion for all living things.
• Being God Is Hard: After Bender found out during his own stint as a God, the Entity explains to him his own experience with the trope. He teaches Bender that as a God, one can't obviously do too much or else people become reliant on Him, nor too little as people lose faith. God must strike a difficult balance where if one does something right, people won't assume they've done anything at all.
• The Cameo: He makes a brief one in Bender's Big Score, when He shows up in one scene to summon the Time Sphere. He also introduces "Reincarnation".
• Character Catchphrase: He calls the people He's interacting with "my good chum".
• God: Possibly. The episode leaves it intentionally vague as to whether or not He really is the Almighty, and it's implied that even He doesn't know.
• God Is Good: He's a very friendly entity who admits to feeling compassion for all living things.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: Invoked, of all things. In His words: "If you do it right, nobody will be sure you did anything at all".
• Instant Expert: When Bender asks if He speaks English, He responds with "I do now".
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Whether He's the actual deity figure of their universe or just a very powerful being is kept ambiguous. Bender puts forth that He's "the remains of a computerized space probe that collided with God," which the Entity notes to be "probable." It's also ambiguous as to whether the Entity is letting on all He knows to Bender and the audience or is deliberately obfuscating to teach Bender a lesson on Godhood. The ending where he chuckles to Himself and repeats his signature quote points to Him really being the Almighty but won't shove it to anyone's face if not necessary.
• No, Except Yes: Possibly, as Bender theorizes that the Entity isn't God, but the remains of a space probe that collided with God, which could mean that God exists and is the Entity as the result of a fusion. The Entity replies that it's possible, but it's unclear whether He means this or is entertaining Bender's thoughts to help him think.
• Nice Guy: Has compassion for all life and gives Bender a pep talk when he's feeling down.
• The Omniscient: Discussed and played with. He tells Bender that He can predict what people will do before they do it, but deviations from those predictions are unknown to Him. He also doesn't know where Earth is until a satellite signal from the planet makes contact with Him, and He doesn't know how to speak English until he hears it from Bender (He already knew how to speak binary, though). He also offhandedly mentions that he was watching Bender's efforts to be a god earlier in the episode.
  God Entity: Yes, I saw. You were doing well until everyone died.
  • His signature quote and ability to set up the conclusion at the end of the episode also posits that He may have pretended to not be this trope for the sake of teaching Bender a lesson.
• Shout-Out: His origin as suggested by Bender would make him a Composite Character of two different superpowered space probes in Star Trek, namely Nomad (who collided with an alien probe) and V'ger (who's identified by thinking in binary), albeit much nicer than either.
• Starfish Aliens: He does not appear to have a corporeal form, being essentially a giant galaxy dotted with multiple blinking lights that move whenever He speaks.
• Time Abyss: When Bender asks who made Him (initially assuming Him to be a mechanical entity) he responds with "I have always been".
• Time Master: His brief appearance in "Bender's Big Score" reveals that He's the one who makes the Time Portals whenever somebody reads the Time Code out loud.

Dr. Cahill

Hellooo, doctor!

Voiced by: Tress MacNeille
Debut: "Bender's Big Score"

Dr. Cahill is an attractive doctor working at the Head Museum and an unnamed hospital.

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• Ascended Extra: She's introduced in the first movie and becomes a recurring character in the following seasons.
• Boob-Based Gag: In "Stench And Stenchability" when she lifts her breasts with the defibrillator ("I'm a doctor, and yes. They're real. Clear!").
• Brainless Beauty: Despite her insistence that her attractive nature didn't make her a bimbo, she tends to lapse into this.
• Dumb Blonde: Zig-Zagged. She is alternating between being a competent doctor offended by dumb blonde stereotypes to... well...being a dumb blonde.
• Hospital Hottie: She is a sexy young doctor. Fry just calls her "Dr. Good and Sexy".
• Ms. Fanservice: She is blonde, has a breathy voice, full sensual lips and a steaming hot body.

Coward Man

"Coward Man, away!!"

Voiced by: Billy West
Debut: "The Beast With a Billion Backs"

A cowardly superhero who's too afraid to fight crime.

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• Ambiguously Brown: Appears to be Asian.
• Character Catchphrase: "Coward Man, Away!"
• Dirty Coward: His first response to any kind of danger is to head for the hills and not even try to fight back against the threat.
• Nominal Hero: He is in no way a hero, despite looking and sounding everything like one.

Number 9 Man

Voiced by: David Herman
Debut: "Space Pilot 3000"

A crazy tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist who leads The Legion of Mad Fellows.

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• Ascended Extra: He appears as a sporadically appearing background character in the first two seasons before being quietly dropped and then later brought back in the fourth movie as a major character.^note He was originally supposed to be part of a futuristic caste system ranked by numbers, hence the 9, but this idea was ultimately dropped.
• Conspiracy Theorist: He's paranoid about a so-called evil monster called "The Dark One".
• No Name Given: Referred to only as "The Number 9 Man".
• Properly Paranoid: As it turns out, he's correct about the threat the Dark Ones pose.
• Tinfoil Hat: Wears a tinfoil hat around.

Hypnotoad

All Glory to the Hypnotoad.

Debut: "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid"

A frog-like creature with hypnotic eyes. He's the star of the show "Everybody loves Hypnotoad."

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• Advertised Extra: Despite making only minor appearances in the show, he made a fair number of promotional appearances, such as on a list of episodes on YouTube. A "full episode" of "Everybody Loves Hypnotoad" was even included as a bonus on DVD sets of one of the original seasons.
• Ambiguously Evil: The Hypnotoad seems to have an overblown sense of ego and killed a man for interrupting their program, but they've never used their telepathic powers to cause significant harm despite being fully capable of doing so.
• The Cameo: Has appeared in at least a couple of episodes of The Simpsons, including—appropriately enough—the crossover episode.
• Drone of Dread: Emits one of these, possibly as part of its hypnotic quality. The sound used was originally a placeholder but the crew found it so enjoyably wrong that they decided to keep it.
• Hypnotic Creature: Former Trope Namer, from when it was called "All Glory to the Hypnotoad". The Hypnotoad is a large toad-like creature with hypnotic powers strong enough to pull anyone (barring Fry) under its spell with an unbreakable grip.
• Hypnotic Eyes: His shtick is using his eyes to hypnotize people.
• Mundane Utility: His hypnosis allows him to near-instantly force anyone to do anything he wants... which he uses to win pet shows and be a pop culture icon and sitcom star.
• Narcissist: Implied, since he created and directed a show exclusively about himself titled "Everybody Loves Hypnotoad" with a sign saying "All Glory to The Hypnotoad". Of course, the glorious Hypnotoad is completely just and correct in this position. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.
• Psychic-Assisted Suicide: He once used his powers to force a man to kill himself because he interrupted his program. Something that was beyond the man's control.
• Show Within a Show: Everybody Loves Hypnotoad. It's the highest-rated show on television, though Fry feels that it's been going downhill since its third season. And it just so happens to consist entirely of Hypnotoad just sitting in a white void.
• The Voiceless: Doesn't say a word. It's implied to have some kind of telepathy.

The Waterfall Family

Voiced by: Phil Hendrie
Debut: "The Problem With Popplers" (Free Jr.); "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" (Free Sr. & Old Man); "A Taste of Freedom" (Frieda); "Into the Wild Green Yonder" (Hutch)

A family of offbeat political activists.

• Asshole Victim: Junior, Senior and Frieda are all killed for the crime of being really irritating to everyone around them.
• Back for the Dead: Old Man Waterfall and Frieda Waterfall returned after their first appearances only to die.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: One of these gets inflicted on each family member, with Free Jr. being eaten by Lrrr, Free Sr. being torn apart by penguins, Old Man being crushed by a Decapodian Oppression Palace, Frieda having her brain burned out by the Dark One, and then Hutch getting his throat torn open and bleeding out courtesy of the same Dark One.
• Hippie Name: The activist Waterfall family, who have a hippie last name (the first two members introduced, Free Waterfall Jr. and Sr., also have hippie first names).
• Running Gag: Every member of the Waterfall family we've seen so far has met a violent (and usually karmic) death, usually in the same episode in which they were introduced.

Free Waterfall, Jr.

• Animal Wrongs Group: He heads up one of these, Mankind for Ethical Animal Treatment (MEAT), which objects to any animal eating any other kind of animal, to the point of teaching a lion to live on tofu (leaving it very skinny and sickly).
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • Even compared to the rest of his family, he comes across as especially obnoxious and incompetent. He doesn't even get the same kind of The Cloud Cuckoolander Was Right treatment as most of his relatives, with his objections to eating Popplers only being on the grounds that they're living creatures, not that they're sentient (Leela is the one who discovers that). It eventually culminates in Lrrr being cheered for devouring him on-stage.
  • He's also the only member of the family never to be mentioned by any of their relatives or have one show up to mourn his passing, which out-of-universe is Early-Installment Weirdness (since they hadn't planned on the Waterfalls becoming a recurring family), but in-universe implies that even his own family members can't stand him.
• Lame Comeback: He's bad at arguing with people. Any time anyone retorts to him, he usually just goes "shut up". During his TV interview with Leela, he sulks and mutters when he's not allowed to speak.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Had he just sat back and let Lrrr eat the orangutan that Zapp Brannigan was trying to pass off as Leela, the orangutan would have been the only casualty. Instead, not only does it get eaten anyway, but so does Free Jr. himself (after Lrrr had been talked down from eating anybody else, no less).
• Stoners Are Funny: Lrrr regrets eating him due to the sheer amount of drugs in his system.
  Lrrr: Ooh, I think there was something funny in that hippie.
• This Cannot Be!: His last words as Lrrr is eating him alive are "This is not happening!"
• Too Dumb to Live: Trying to intercede with an alien capable of devouring human beings whole was already a dumb enough idea, but continuing to annoy him and the crowd after the situation had already been resolved was just asking for him to become Omicronian chow. Given Lrrr immediately after gets stoned off his ass just from eating him, he was probably flying pretty damn high when he did it.
• Undignified Death: Compared to the rest of his family, his death is the most comical. It's brought on by how annoying he's being after he almost dooms Leela to being eaten, and Lrrr eating him isn't treated as horrific or tragic, but with everyone in the room (and possibly the planet) cheering for the Omicronian. And just to rub salt in the wound, Lrrr gets stoned while digesting him.

Free Waterfall, Sr.

• Cloudcuckoolander: He's got some pretty out-there ideas, such as keeping his hands shoved up his butt ("Nature's pocket", he calls it), and believing rubbing permafrost onto your crotch is a good way to keep it warm, not caring if it's right or not.
• Devoured by the Horde: A horde of penguins. His primary concern is that they use up all of his body.
• Didn't Think This Through: His attempt to stop the Planet Express ship towing the Juan Valdez and its load of dark matter oil falls at the first hurdle because he didn't take into account the fact that spaceships can move in three dimensions.
• Establishing Character Moment: We see that he's just as bad as his son when he admonishes his followers for clapping, telling them that doing so kills spores that will some day grow into a nutritious fungus.
• Hypocrite: After spending the entire episode trying to save the penguins from the oil spill, he decides to lead his group on a hunting expedition when it becomes clear that the side-effects of the spill are leading to massive penguin over-population. He tries to justify his actions on the grounds that it'd be better to Mercy Kill the penguins than have them slowly die of starvation, but he's clearly enjoying the thought of a penguin hunt.
  Free Waterfall, Sr.: Leela, you may be farmin' some free range truth there... on the other hand, we already made up 200 pounds of batter for penguin tempura. Okay, boys, it's them or us!
• Immediate Self-Contradiction: He tells Leela that no one enjoys killing penguins, but hey, if you're gonna kill them anyway, might as well enjoy it.

Old Man Waterfall

• Amoral Attorney: Averted. He does his best to honestly represent Zoidberg in court. The problem is the court and the jury are biased against him being a practicing bisexual polygamist Satanist.
• An Arm and a Leg: One of his hands, one arm and one leg are all artificial. He also presumably has artificial intestines and skin, given he used the former as a rope to hoist a flag made out of the latter.
• Cool Old Guy: He's a military veteran and skilled lawyer, who defends Zoidberg at his trial for eating Earth's flag. He also happens to be a Satan-worshipping, bisexual polygamist, which either downplays this somewhat, or turns it up to eleven depending on one's personal views.
• Crusading Lawyer: One who volunteers to represent a client for desecrating a flag he himself loves and fought in multiple wars to defend.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He briefly appears in "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" to tell Free Sr. that he'll avenge his death, a full season before his appearance in "A Taste of Freedom".
• Hollywood Satanism: Requests a Satanic funeral as he lies dying after being crushed by the Decapodians.
• Polyamory: He openly admits to being a polygamist with seven wives and a husband.
• Tempting Fate: He tells the Decapodians that they can crush him, but they can't crush his spirit. They proceed to prove that they can do both just fine.
• White Sheep: The one member of his family who comes across as a mostly, if not entirely, sane and rational person.

Frieda Waterfall

• Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: For reasons unexplained, her Venus symbol amulet grants Fry telepathy when it gets lodged in his forehead.
• Ascended Extra: She only made a brief cameo in "A Taste of Freedom", then became a prominent character in "Into the Green Yonder".
• Crosscast Role: In one of the very few examples of the show doing this for a named character, she's still voiced by Phil Hendrie, like the rest of her family.
• Dreadful Musician: Mainly because she just can't sing.
• Establishing Character Moment: Her first line is to blame Old Man's death on the "mano-centric male-ocracy" — despite the fact that not only is Old Man male himself, but the Oppression Palace that killed him was being operated by both male and female Decapodians.
• Granola Girl: She's portrayed as your typical hippie chick, complete with peasant skirts, flower crowns, feminist and environmentalist views, and a refusal to harm any living thing, no matter how repulsive it might be.
• Hippie Van: She has a pink spaceship that is just a VW microbus IN SPACE!
• Painful Rhyme: Seems to be (along with She Knows Too Much) the main reason the Dark One kills her.
  Dark One: Where are your crappy rhymes now, Frieda Waterfall?
  Frieda: I'm dead, I'm dead. Eat only wholegrain br-(the Dark One strangles her)
• Straw Feminist: Played with; while she embodies the perceived worst traits of feminists, she does have legitimate grounds for trying to take on both President Nixon's sexism and Leo Wong's attempts to destroy what turns out to be the egg of the last Encyclopod.
• Waving Signs Around: She and her eco-feminista collective frequently brandish signs with her awful rhymes on them.

Hutch Waterfall

• Family-Unfriendly Death: Compared to the cartoonish deaths that his relatives get, his is actually pretty graphic by comparison, with the last Dark One ripping open his throat and making him bleed to death.
• Last of His Kind: Presumably he was the last surviving member of the family, seeing how no Waterfalls are mentioned or seen during the Comedy Central seasons of Futurama. Although presumably his DNA was replicated inside the Encyclopod.
• Nice Guy: Aside from bashing Fry over the head whenever he wants to talk to him, he's a pretty cool guy.
• Only Sane Man: Ironically enough for someone who's a member of the Legion of Mad Fellows, he's probably the least whacked out member of the Waterfall family.
• Properly Paranoid: As it turns out, he's entirely correct about the threat the Dark Ones represent.
• Tinfoil Hat: Wears one to protect himself from having his thoughts read.
• White Sheep: Like his great grandfather Old Man Waterfall, he lacks his sister's, father's, and grandfather's unpleasant qualities.

Lars Fillmore

Voiced by: Billy West
Debut: "Bender's Big Score"

A feeder working for the Head Museum, Lars becomes the cooler, older rival suitor for Leela to the immature Fry, eventually winning her heart. However there's a bit more to him than it seems at first glance.

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• Age-Gap Romance: He's 50 (biologically) while Leela's in her late 20s/early 30s.
• Alternate Self: He is one for Fry, being a (biologically) alternate time duplicate of him.
• Foreshadowing: There are a number of clues of who Lars is during the movie.
  • Lars has the same voice actor as Fry. It's not too obvious given lots of characters have the same VA, but given they look similar it's a clue that they're the same person.
  • During a song number, Fry laments "I bet she'd love me too if I was a bald-headed kook." This turns out to literally be the case.
  • More immediately before the reveal, he knows where the about-to-explode Bender duplicate is in order to pull off his Heroic Sacrifice. The only person who should know about it is Fry.
• Future Badass: Technically only the "future" of Fry until he goes back in time, but he certainly fits the spirit as a more competent, mature and wiser Fry.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Ends up sacrificing himself to save Leela from Nudar since it is his fate he is destined to face anyway as a time travel duplicate.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: When he realizes as a time duplicate he's doomed, Lars breaks off the wedding with Leela to spare her future heart-arche. As Fry he was willing to give up his pursuit of Leela for Lars...only to realize he IS Lars.
• Nice Guy: Lars is well spoken and friendly to other people, even to his romantic rival (since he's been in that position before himself).
• Older and Wiser: He's a version of Fry that grew over 12-18 years into a more mature and intelligent person.
• One-Shot Character: Only appears in "Bender's Big Score", though he gets a name-drop in "All the President's Heads".
• Other Me Annoys Me: Fry and Lars before he became Fry hates Lars out of jealousy. It's only after the day is saved that Fry reconciles.
• Paradox Person: if being his own grandfather wasn't enough, Lars is a literal time paradox duplicate of Fry.
• Stable Time Loop: For starters, Lars wouldn't even exist had Bender not taken the time code off his ass and onto the Fry frozen in the pilot episode, allowing the time travel of the movie to happen. He also knows his name because he met himself as Fry.
• Temporal Duplication: Created as a result of Fry going back a little bit for warmer pizza. The younger Fry decides not to use the code and lives for 12 years in the past before realizing he's Lars, and the one who time traveled trips into the same cryo-tube he fell into in the first place.
• Temporal Paradox: He exists because he decided not to use the time code like his near future self did, splitting them into different people.
• Tomato in the Mirror: As Fry he spent 12 years being envious of Lars' relationship with Leela. It's only when his hair is burned off and his voice changes due to the fire that he realizes he's the younger version of Lars.
• Walking Spoiler: It's difficult to talk about Lars without talking about his real identity.
• Your Days Are Numbered: As a time duplicate he's doomed, and when he realizes this he stops the wedding with Leela to spare her further heartbreak. Lasts much longer than the other duplicates, though.

Fanny

Voiced by: Tress MacNeille

A cheap floozy who cheats on her husband, The Donbot.

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• All Girls Want Bad Boys: She's married to the Donbot, a violent mafioso, and has an affair with Bender, who is a philandering, hard-drinking gambler with a penchant for cigars, theft, and other petty crimes.
• Paid Harem: She's a dumb slut who works as a casino stripper and is usually seen on the arm of The Donbot (or Bender). Though she's married to the Donbot, it's pretty obvious that she's mainly interested in his money.
• Punny Name: Fanny has a fan on her fanny. There's also the fact that she works as a stripper and the word "fanny" is slang for the female genitalia in Britain.

Barbados Slim

"Dat's right, and I be goin' back 'dere with a gold medal draped around my elegant, Caribbean shouldahs!"

Voiced by: John DiMaggio (seasons 1-7), Kevin Michael Richardson (seasons 8-onwards)
Debut: "Bend Her"

Hermes Conrad's old rival and LaBarbara's ex-husband.

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• Always Someone Better: Hermes's rival in their Olympic limboing days; he always won.
• Ambiguously Bi: Expresses at least a passing interest in Dr. Zoidberg during the "Futurama Holiday Spectacular" episode. He outright describes his sexual proclivities as "ever-changing", suggesting that he may even be omnisexual.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Even Hermes can't help but note how good-looking Barbados Slim is.
• Evil Laugh: He lets out a very deep laugh whenever he scores a point over Hermes.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: "Barbados Slim?! Last I heard, you were in Barbados!"
• Foil / The Rival: Hermes Conrad's great rival since back when they were both Olympic limbo champions —
  • They both have a romantic connection to LaBarbara—Slim was LaBarbara's husband at one point, but then they got divorced and she eventually got together with Hermes (even having a son with him).
  • Hermes, though he's still very good at limbo, let himself go after he retired from sports—Slim, on the other hand, still apparently competes in limbo (at least for the Olympics) and is still in just as good of shape as he was back when Hermes was still competing (LaBarbara even goes as far as to call her ex a "human-Adonis").
  • Slim's an arrogant jerk who appears to be single with no children while Hermes, who isn't always the friendliest person ever, is generally a very loving and devoted husband (to LaBarbara) and father (to Dwight, his son with LaBarbara).
  • They're both originally from island-countries in the Caribbean—Slim's originally from Barbados while Hermes is originally from Jamaica (and so is LaBarbara).
• Immediate Self-Contradiction: "You haven't seen the last of Barbados Slim. Now goodbye, forever!"
• Jerkass: Not evil, but he is incredibly smug.
• Phrase Catcher: Hermes lets out a shocked, horrified exclamation of "Barbados Slim!" whenever his rival appears.
• Sex God: As Hermes notes in the first movie, Barbados Slim is the only person to have won Olympic gold medals in both limbo and sex. LaBarbara has also gone so far as to refer to her ex as a "Mahogany God."
• Third-Person Person: Tends to refer to himself in the third person.

Marianne

Voiced by: Emilia Clarke
Debut: "Stench and Stenchability"

Zoidberg's smell-impaired love interest.

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• Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: After undergoing a nose transplant, Marianne finds she hates the smell of flowers but loves the smells of Zoidberg's musk and garbage. She attributes this to never learning the difference between a good smell and a bad smell.
• Innocent Flower Girl: A florist who can see the good in anyone, even Zoidberg.
• Nice Girl: A pleasant, kind-hearted woman who genuinely loves Zoidberg for who he is.
• Rescue Romance: How her relationship with Zoidberg started: Roberto tried to rob her flower stand, only for Zoidberg to protect her and drive him away with his stench.
• Satellite Love Interest: To Zoidberg. She has very little characterization beyond loving Zoidberg and being unable to smell (though this was because she showed up just before the series ended its run on Comedy Central); she primarily exists to make him happy.

Headless Body of Spiro Agnew

"Voiced" by: Maurice LaMarche
Debut: "Crimes of the Hot"

Richard Nixon's Vice-President, the headless body of Spiro Agnew

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• The Dragon: Apparently he "belongs" to Nixon now.
• Flat Character: Mostly because he just growls.
• Killed Off for Real: In "Into the Wild Green Yonder", he's crushed by an out-of-control golf cart.
• The Voiceless: He growls, but that's it.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The Feministas are charged with his death, but even then the stiffest sentence that would give them is six weeks in jail.
• Zombie Gait: Tends to lurch and shamble like a zombie.

Judge Ron Whitey

Voiced by: Billy West
Debut: "A Tale of Two Santas"

The judge that the Futurama characters usually face when they go to court.

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• Hanging Judge: He is never a reasonable arbiter of justice.
• Kill the Poor: Not kill, but Whitey does think not having a money is a crime. In fact, mental institutions have been overcrowded as a result of him declaring that poverty is a mental illness.
• Not So Above It All: As he puts it in "Three Hundred Big Boys", you're never too rich to enjoy a free turkey dog.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: He apparently didn't know what a bank was until he was told by his caddie's chauffeur.

Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer

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

The mayor of New New York City.

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• Fat Bastard: He's a bit pudgy and isn't exactly a good person.
• Mayor Pain: As mayor, he is consistently shown to be lazy and apathetic at best and selfish and corrupt at worst.
• Pet the Dog: When Mrs. Astor asks him to end mutant segregation in "The Mutants are Revolting", he unhesitatingly complies.
• Politicians Kiss Babies: Before disposing of a baby robot with the rest of the e-waste in "Attack of the Killer App", he takes the opportunity to kiss it.

The Borax Kid

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche
Debut: "Neutopia"

A rock alien who showed up at the end of "Neutopia" to return everyone to their normal genders.

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• Chekhov's Gunman: First mentioned in the middle of "Neutopia" when the rock monster who changed the Planet Express crew and passengers' genders mentions losing a bet to him, he doesn't appear in person until the end of the episode to resolve the problem at the last minute by restoring everyone (except Scruffy) to their normal genders.
• Flirtatious Smack on the Ass: When he has Bender's arms in "Assie Come Home", he uses them to cheat in card games as well as slap Leela on the bottom.
• Jerkass: When he wins Bender's hands in "Zapp Dingbat", he outright admits he has no use for them while telling Bender to his face that he still refuses to return them.

The Globetrotters

The three in the center, left to right: "Curly" Joe, Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate, "Sweet" Clyde Dixon

Voiced by:

Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate - Phil LaMarr

"Curly" Joe - John DiMaggio

"Sweet" Clyde Dixon - David Herman

Debut: "Time Keeps on Slippin'"

Lead by Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate, the Globetrotters are a team of professional basketball players from the Globetrotter Planet and are also some of the greatest scientific minds in the universe.

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• Academic Athlete: They can solve complicated physics just as well as they play basketball. "Bubblegum" Tate is Senior Lecturer of Physics at Globetrotter University.
  Professor: You're that Bubblegum Tate?
  Tate: Well, I sure ain't his grandma!
• Black and Nerdy: The team are all black and have genius level scientific minds.
• Diabolus ex Nihilo: Spoofed to get back at the executives. One day they arrive on Earth and challenge them to a basketball match explicitly for no reason, and with no stake... beyond the shame of defeat.
• Hidden Depths: In their debut episode, it seemed like they were just a bunch of basketball playing bullies, but turned out to be much nicer and smarter than they lead on.
• Hypocritical Humor: "Who Dares? laugh at the Jesters of Dunk?!"
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Their algebra is just as showboaty as their basketball skills. A good Globetrotter always saves the real algebra for the final minutes.
• Planet of Hats: Done to absurdity; everyone on their planet is apparently a Globetrotter.

The Biologist

Voiced by: David Herman
Debut: "Three Hundred Big Boys"

A whale biologist at the aquarium who hates whales. He later becomes a bear biologist at a remote outpost at Ursa Major, but doesn't like bears any better than whales.

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• Asshole Victim: Implied to have been killed offscreen by the tardigrades after Kif uses him as bait to escape. If indeed he was killed, he certainly deserved it for being such a shameless dick.
• Brutal Honesty: "I calls 'em like I sees 'em." Apparently being a biologist gives him carte blanch to do so.
• Character Catch Phrase : "Whale/Bear Biologist," often said after he has insulted the animal in question, and even sometimes after insulting a sentient character.
• Insufferable Genius: Comes off as this, though how knowledgeable he actually is in his field of study is debatable.
• Jerkass: Hates the animals (whales and bears) he works with as a biologist, and is rude and condescending to other characters. May possibly be forced to do so due to his career chip.
• The Resenter: While he hates all whales, he particularly despises Mushu, and it's implied because he thinks Mushu thinks he's better than him.
• Riddle for the Ages: If he hates whales so much, why did he become a whale biologist? He refuses to say.

Kwanzaa-Bot

Voiced by: Coolio
Debut: "A Tale of Two Santas"

A robot who represents Kwanzaa, spending the X-Mas season distributing a book explaining it to the confused children of Earth.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: One of the few things that gets him angry is dissing Kwanzaa, so much so he teams up with Robot Santa and the Hannukah Zombie to build weapons to kill the offenders.
  Kwanzaa-Bot: I'm confused about its meaning,
  But I know it when they diss it!
• The Bus Came Back: Reappears in "Bender's Big Score", and later the out-of-continuity "Futurama Holiday Special".
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Just a little weary about the fact that even though he's been around for hundreds of years, people still don't know what the hell Kwanzaa even is.
  Kwanzaa-Bot: (wistfully) I've been giving [these books] out for four hundred years...
• Nice Guy: One of the few beings not to be a target of Robot Santa Claus's brutal indiscriminate rampages, and even invites him (or who he thinks is him) to parties with the Hannukah Zombie. Robot Santa even calls him a friend.

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