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Little Robot, Big Scary World is a Web Original Interactive Comic series found on Something Awful. Art mediums changed from mspaint to actual paint, pencil, ink, digital coloring and even Lego. BIP's decisions were decided on democratically, and they altered the course of the plot, as well as the overall outcome of the story.

The series revolves around an adorable robot named BIP, a worker robot on the spaceship Plethora. His sole designation is to push a red button as soon as it lights up. However, BIP realizes there may be more to his life than pushing a button.

In the midst of some soul-searching, however, the ship is forced to evacuate as it has been set to crash. BIP receives a strange device from a Marine, is told to keep it safe at all costs, and is ejected onto an alien planet. All alone, BIP must now...well, he's not exactly sure. But his adventure is just beginning...

The first, most famous story can be found here. A sequel was also produced, entitled BIP: Ice Station Zero.


This series contains examples of:

  • Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: After BIP gets drunk on oil, he finds matches and promptly runs around setting things on fire.
  • Artificial Intelligence: BIP was built to be the first robot that could discover, feel emotions and learn about life. The climax of the story revolves around BIP learning he can give this gift as well.
  • Art Shift: Some updates were done in different art styles and mediums, including claymation and stop-motion.
  • Babies Ever After: An alternate ending had BIP and a female companion make adorable baby robots together.
  • Badass Adorable: BIP is adorable, but also completely awesome, as he helps save the humans from the darkness and enemy troopers through sheer determination, the power of friendship, and making use of his environment.
  • Big Red Button: BIP is assigned to push one of these, and soon questions the monotony of this kind of life.
  • Cute Machines: BIP is an adorable, square-headed robot with big eyes and little spheres for hands and feet.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: BIP and the humans go through a lot, starting with a crashing ship and ending with the mysterious darkness attacking them, but in the end all ends well for BIP and the humans, as BIP teaches the darkness to learn and stops it from attacking the others.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Once BIP teaches the darkness about positive feelings, it releases the humans and wants to help them.
  • Hollywood Acid: This type of acid is used to melt enemy troopers; BIP himself is almost immune to it.
  • Horse of a Different Color: BIP uses a beetle, named Go-Ship, as a steed.
  • How Do I Shot Web?: BIP has to learn his functions through experience, as his creator died before he could tell him how to use them.
  • Interactive Comic: The comic's events were decided by the readership.
  • Mechanical Lifeforms:
    • The darkness was created as a living, mechanical weapon that could survive and grow in the depths of space.
    • Go-Ship is a mechanical beetle that BIP uses as a steed.
  • Mundane Made Awesome: One of the most important items BIP collects? A Nice Rock, which is used for many purposes later on in the story.
  • Never Say "Die": Invoked; BIP is in denial about death and refers to it as being asleep.
  • Our Monsters Are Weird: The dark creature is a living, mechanical mass of darkness that spreads inexorably.
  • Rule of Cute: BIP and many of his decisions ran off this, with the readership often selecting the 'hug' option as one example.
  • Surreal Horror: Some of the dream sequences were done in jarring art styles, often with flashing lights and scary noises to add to the experience.
  • Team Pet:
    • The beetle, named Go-Ship, acts as BIP's pet.
    • BIP himself counts for the human crew, who regard him as their adorable, clumsy mascot.
  • Video Game Caring Potential: Members of the forums got very attached to BIP as the comic continued and worked to help him find a happy ending.

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