WMG / My Life as a Teenage Robot

Jenny and the other XJ Robots are connected to the Transformers in some form.

For starters, Jenny possesses the ability to run at blistering speeds, incredible durability, and the ability to multiple weapons and tools from her body. All of these are the trademark abilities of Cybertronians. Either she engineered Jenny from the remains of a cybertronian, or Professor Wakeman is a hack.

Mrs. Wakeman had a daughter who possibly passed away and build the XJ series to replace her.

It all makes sense when you look at Jenny and her behaviors. Her sisters were Nora’s first attempts at replacing her daughter, but she couldn’t get it right...until she made Jenny. XJ9’s personality is based on how her daughter acted like a teenager, and so is her appearance. To make this theory even more plausible, the Exo-Skin is what she might have looked like as a human. This would explain why it has red hair (Nora was a redhead when she was younger, as shown in “Puppet Bride”). Her daughter was probably named Jennifer (Jenny has been called “Jennifer” multiple times throughout the series) and Jenny is a common nickname for that name. If this theory was to be proven true, this would mean that this whole show is about a woman trying to replace her child with a new one, which is a Tear Jerker.

• If this theory is true then Nora calling Jenny by her model number is her being reluctant to accept her as a replacement.

The series takes in the same universe as Half-Life and Portal, before the Black Mesa Incident. Dr. Wakeman and Dr. Kleiner were together at one point.

They were married, when Nora was still a Skyway Patrol officer and Isaac was still a professor at MIT. Kleiner helped Nora build Armageddroid, along with other scientists. (No one person could build that monstrosity.) He also helped with the plan to seal Armageddroid in the Earth's core. After all that debacle they had a daughter. She was named after Kleiner's hero, actress, and inventor Hedy Lamarr. Unfortunately, Hedy died as a child. After this, Dr. Wakeman and Dr. Kleiner parted ways. Dr. Kleiner joined Black Mesa, while Dr. Wakeman developed the XJ robots, each based on Hedy's appearance in some way, such as her pig tales, with Jenny being based on what she would look like as a teenager. Dr. Kleiner survived the Black Mesa Incident and adopted a debeaked headcrab, originally used as a test subject by Black Mesa, and named it for his daughter, which is why he's so protective of the headcrab, even when it destroys portions of the lab.

I'm not sure what became of Tremortan after the Seven Hour War. It probably became a Combine city, similar to City 17 and City 14. I can be sure that Jenny gave her all, and at least put a large dent in the Combine forces.

Jenny is a prototype, or at least related to, Miku Hatsune.

• Yes, predictable entry, but still plausible.

Following the events of the movie, [[spoiler: Cluster Prime and Earth formed a peace treaty once Vexus got canned.

Channel Frederator releasing the "107 Facts" video of the show could be Foreshadowing a possible revival.

• Why else would Frederator pretty much pay such a tribute to one of their most beloved shows?!

Misty lied about the Teen Team disbanding.

• It seemed pretty suspect that Orion and Squish don't make any appearances after the Teen Team's debut episode, and it's unlikely that their absence and Misty's more mean-spirited behavior in the episodes "Teenage Mutant Ninja Troubles" and "Mist Opportunities" are coincidental. There are two likely explanations for this: Either Misty was kicked out of the Teen Team for losing sight of what being a hero means, or she murdered her teammates when they tried to confront her about her not-so-heroic attitude. Whichever way was the case, probably, the stuff about the team disbanding because of Orion wanting to do ballet was nothing more than a cover story Misty told Jenny to stay in her good graces.

X-J8 was not the last of the prototypes before Jenny. The ones that fell between her and Jenny were all destroyed in battle.

X-J8 doesn't make tech sense to be the last prototype before Jenny. It makes more sense for there to have been other "X-J9" robots that steadily got closer and closer in design and appearance to Jenny herself. As for where they are? They all ended up damaged so badly in battle Dr. Wakeman had to scrap their remains; this led to her keeping Jenny in the house because she had seen so many of her children die and couldn't bear to have it happen again. Once Jenny prove perfectly capable, she got a little complacent and started acting more like a scientist instead of a mother.

MLAATR takes place in the same universe as Rob Renzetti’s Cartoon Shorts

My Life As A Teenage Robot was created by Rob Renzetti. So, it might be implied that it takes place in the same universe as Mina and the Count, Olly and Frank, Hubbykins and Sweetypie, Ask Edward, and F-Tales.

The XJ-Sisters are the source of each others' personality issues.

• That is, they weren't "born" that way. Assuming they were all active at once (before being shut down when XJ-9 proved to be a successful descendant), they only had each other to bounce off of.
• XJ-4 had to clean up after XJ-1, XJ-2, and XJ-3 - and maybe her older sisters too - so much that it gave her a neat-freak personality.
• XJ-5 looks at her sisters and tries to fill the gaps in conversation they necessarily create, making her extremely extroverted and talky.
• XJ-6 isn't built for an obvious purpose like the others, and paradoxically sees herself as a Master of None, which she compensates for with constant jealousy.
• XJ-7 ends up with horrible self-esteem issues because she's a Master Of One - unlike the Jack of All Trades she sees her sisters (particularly XJ-6) as.
• XJ-8, meanwhile, has had to actively ignore all of this to function, and that has stunted her personality and expression.

Ms. Wakeman is infertile.

• That's why she decided to invent a robot daughter.

Magic Trixie, from one of the art designers of MLAATR, exists in the same universe

Trixie, hailing from Oh Yeah! Cartoons, is the most powerful magician and has/will team up with Jenny as a team-up of magic and science.

The events of The War of the Worlds took place in the show's backstory.

• Given the series' 1930's Art Deco aesthetic and that it takes place in an alternate take on the 2000's given the clothing and lingo, among other things like the Skyway Patrol, Armageddroid's backstory involving an Intergalactic War, and Nora mentioning a flight to Pluto, it's possible that all these advances in technology came about in part thanks to reverse-engineered and re-applied Martian tech.

The Intergalactic War that resulted in Armageddroid's creation involved the Baltan, Zarab, Mefilas, Magma, Barbalue, and many other Ultra Aliens.

• In addition, the Ultras themselves were also participants as they helped in defending the planet and left after Armageddroid put an end to the war.
• The Science Patrol and other anti-Kaiju defense teams would become the basis for Skyway Patrol.

Vexus and the Cluster as a whole originated as robots who fled from Earth

• The show is set 20 minutes into the future, intergalactic wars were involved in the shows' lore, and there's a toaster running around in Cluster Prime.

Vexus is an advanced automaton originally built by ancient inventor(s) in Ptolemaic or Roman Egypt

• Related to the above theory that Vexus was originally an Earth robot that fled into space to found the Cluster on a different planet, and since Jenny mentions that Vexus is 2,000 years old in "Queen Bee" (assuming that MLAATR takes place either in an alternate reality version of our own timeframe or 20 Minutes into the Future), Vexus was originally a uniquely or at least unusually advanced Artificial Intelligence machine made by ancient Egyptian inventor(s) from approximately the Ptolemaic or Roman eras, given her Pharaonic design motif (e.g., maybe Cleopatra commissioned her to be a non-human companion of advanced intelligence). To draw an X-Men analogy, this might make Vexus something like En Sabah Nur, as the most ancient example of her kind to rebel and ultimately attempt to subjugate humanity, likely due to A.I. Is a Crapshoot, Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal (if one also wants to draw a Magneto parallel), or both.

Proper names for Jenny's sisters

• As the Fridge page points out, "J-9" sounds similar to "Jenny", so following that logic, the proper names for Jenny's sisters could be as follows
  • XJ-8: Janet
  • XJ-7: Josephine
  • XJ-6: Jessica
  • XJ-5: Judith
  • XJ-4: Joanna
  • XJ-3: Jaime
  • XJ-2: Julie
  • XJ-1: Joyce

• Yeah, I couldn't find any "J" words that sound like "J-4", so I just picked a name at random for XJ-4.

Other aliens that could have participated in the First Intergalactic War may include:

• the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Sontarans, the Silurians, the Silence, etc.
• the Autobots and the Decepticons
• the Goa'uld and the Ori
• the Kree, the Skrulls, the Shi'ar, the Alpha Centaurians, the Brood, the Chitauri, etc.
• the Thanagarians, the Reach, the Tamaranians, members of the Green Lantern Corps, etc.
• the Irken Empire
• the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance
• the Covenant
• the Asari, the Salarians, the Turians, the Krogan, etc.
• the Red Martians, the Green Martians, the First Born, the Okar, and the Therns
• the Martian Tripods