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The Robots
In General
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: 11-45-G is the big, XBOT-4000 is the thin, and K-VRC is the short.
- The Bus Came Back: The trio are the sole characters (as of writing) to gain a sequel episode: Volume 3's "Three Robots: Exit Strategies."
- Characterization Marches On: The trio's understanding of humanity is far better in "Exit Strategies" compared to their first outing. Before, they barely understood what a basketball was for, while the second episode shows them being more aware about human factions. Justified since, in their first episode, they were simply on vacation taking a tour K-VRC made up. "Exit Strategies" implies they are now doing this as an actual job, and have done more thorough research as a result.
- Cool Ship: "Exit Strategies" reveals the trio travel around in a sleek, pill shaped ship with an Everything Is An I Pod In The Future aesthetic.
- Desecrating the Dead: The trio show very little respect for the corpses they encounter.
- Humans Are Morons: Their collective opinion on humans isn't that high. They find them interesting, for sure, but they mostly make fun of how royally humanity managed to screw itself.
- Mr. Exposition: K-VRC and 11-45-G both play this role, but in different ways. K-VRC's exposition is more comedic, and often wrong due to his eccentricities, while 11-45-G's is more factual.
- Nice Mean And In Between:
- K-VRC is the nice, being optimistic, friendly, and is the one to have organized the tour for the sake of having a good time with the others. Albeit he suffers from some Lack of Empathy.
- 11-45-G is the mean, being the more agressive, cynical and snarky of the trio, and is liable to insult the others should they annoy her. She still gets along well with them, though.
- XBOT-4000 is the in between, being the team grump, but genuinely interested with what the other two have to say, and only gets agressive when provoked. He also vacillates between deriding humanity and hoping some survived.
- Ridiculously Human Robot: Dificulty understanding certain human topics like "eating" and "cats" aside, the three more or less act as a group of friends bumbling around than complex machines.
XBOT 4000
Voiced by: Gary Anthony Williams
- Audience Surrogate: Inverted; while he is often the one of the group to asks the most questions, they're always ones the audience already knows the answer to.
- Bland-Name Product: Was an Xbox in the original short story.
- Butt-Monkey: Gets a lot of crap from the other two robots, and is ultimately the one to get stuck with the cat, but takes most of it in stride.
- Cyber Cyclops: Subverted; the audience first sees him with one eye, but he gains one using the core of his supposed ancestor.
- Face of a Thug: He resembles your standard, intimidating Mecha-Mook, but he's actually quite genial, if somewhat grumpy.
- Flipping the Bird: Does so in response to 11-45-G asking him to smile for a picture.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's quite grumpy in regards of having to wander the apocalypse, but he's still perfectly willing to indulge K-VRC and 11-45-G in asking about what happened to humans, and usually lets their jabs at him slide. He is also happy when he thinks some humans survived, but is by no means shy about insulting humanity and making fun at their expense.
- The Leader: Or at least the closest thing to one among the group.
- Mecha-Mook: Implied. He has a built in shoulder gun, he has camo patterns on his thighs, and a brief glimpse into his HUD shows it resembles one from a standard First-Person Shooter game, implying his ancestors may have been used in war.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: He says the most curse words out of the trio.
- Super-Powered Robot Meter Maid: The XBOT 3 was a video game console.
- The Watson: He's the one asking the questions for the other two to answer in both of his appearances.
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: Inverted; he looks nothing like the previous version of the XBOT. Except for the eye, which looks exactly like the On/Off button of the console, which turns out to also be an eye.
K-VRC
Voiced by: Josh Brener (English), Akira Ishida (Japanese)
- Comically Missing the Point: Rarely if ever actually understands the purpose behind common, everyday items.
- Cute Machines: Is the smallest and most friendly looking of the robots. This is attributed to his product line being descended from a line of baby monitors.
- The Ditz: Easily the least intelligent of the three robots.
- Expressive Ears: The potrusions on the side of his head move in ways to accentuate his emotions.
- Genki Guy: Endlessly upbeat and positive throughout the episode.
- Insane Troll Logic: He seems to believe any pit of bodies is a blood pit, regardless of weather there's currently blood in them or not, on the logic they had blood in them at a certain point in time.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: His explanations for how things worked are often entirely wrong, to a point of hilarity.
- Lack of Empathy: Downplayed with his fellow robots, whom he sometimes messes with but otherwise treats as his friends, but played very straight with humanity. He's prone to Desecrating the Dead, and witnessing evidence of the elite's torching the masses only elicits gushing from him.
- Nice Guy: He’s probably the nicest of the trio as he tries to watch his mouth and he tries to help X-BOT 4000 feel better about the cat incident.
- Not So Above It All: While the nicest of the trio, he does trick XBOT 4000 into looking up teabagging, and greatly enjoys it.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Provides a majority of the humor of the short.
- Talking with Signs: Occasionally, he'll project something other than a smiley face on his screen such as "WTF" in response to 11-45-G's monologue.
- TV Head Robot: Instead of a physical face, K-VRC has a screen on which he projects a cute smiley face.
11-45-G
Voiced by: IVONA Kendra (English), Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese)
- Camera Fiend: She's almost constantly taking pictures of everything around her.
- The Comically Serious: Ironically if you listen to what she's actually saying, she's something of a Genki Girl, but her dull monotone voice synthesizer makes her come across like this or a Deadpan Snarker.
- Deadpan Snarker: She has a text-to-speech program, so a lot of her dialogue comes across as this by default.
- Dead Person Conversation: She regularly talks to the dead bodies she comes across.
- Expy: She seems to be one of Siri, with the same voice programming and wikipedic knowledge.
- Everyone Has Standards: While she occassionaly misleads the other two with false information and insults them, she tries to disaude XBOT 4000 from looking up teabagging.
- Genki Girl: While her voice doesn't tell you anything (see above), her actions make it clear she's the one who's enjoying the groups trip through Humanity's Wake the most, dancing to old juke box music, pretending to run a diner and making jokey quips about whatever she sees.
- Face of a Thug: Her design is the most inhuman of the three robots, and her text-to-speech voice makes her come of as a cold and heartless machine. She's actually quite the Genki Girl, and is clearly the one who's enjoying the tour through the post-apocalypse the most.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's easily the most aggressive and rude of the three, but still gets along really well with the other two.
- Only Sane Woman: She's the only one of the three to know basically anything on how humans actually worked, and even then, she isn't much better.
- Smurfette Principle: Downplayed, as there are only three of them in the group.
- Sophisticated as Hell: Her lines tend to oscilate between clinical, mechanical descriptions and more casual lines. Best seen in the basketball scene.11-45-G: "Bouncing things was close to maxing out their cognitive range."11-45-G a few lines later: "Stop being a whiny pussy and fucking bounce it... please."
- Speak Ill of the Dead: Played with. When the others ask if humans wiped themselves out by nuclear war, 11-45-G gives a short speech about how it was their own hubris that caused them to poison the earth. She thinks it sounds better than just "they wiped themselves out like a bunch of morons."
- Starfish Robots: Unlike her compatriots, who are bipedal and humanoid in design, 11-45-G's design is entirely form follows function, with a somewhat modular pyramid body, one sensor approximating an eye (that can move up and down her body) and a single, multi-purpose arm.
Others
The Cat
Voiced by: Chris Parnell (English), Atsuki Tani (Japanese)
- Cats Are Mean: He decides at the end of the short to keep the robots hostage as long as he sees fit.
- The Elites Jump Ship: They beat the actual elites of humanity in escaping to and colonizing Mars.
- Killer Rabbit: Considering that he and his species seemingly slaughtered all of humanity despite their cute appearance...
- Talking Animal: Although we don't learn about it until the end of the short, all cats were given human speech and intelligence in the past
- Team Pet: He quickly becomes one for the three robots not so much because they like him as because they're scared of getting rid of him and he keeps following them.
- Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: He comes across as nothing more than your standard housecat. Turns out he's a whole lot more intelligent, and dangerous, than first believed.
Humanity
- Butt-Monkey: Not only has it been completely wiped from existence, but it also seems to have in the process become little beyond a subject of ridicule from the living robots and cats.
- Corpse Land: Dead bodies are regularly found just about everywhere, which the robots don't even react to.
- Crapsack World: To say it seems to have gone to shit is a bit of an understatement.
- Driven to Suicide: One of the bodies they come across seems to have hanged themselves.
- Humans Are Morons: What else would you call a species that invents weapons designed to wipe themselves out as quickly as possible?
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: According to the Cat, cats destroyed them once they no longer needed them.
