History Webcomic / RamTheRobot

[[TheFuture After the Great Space War (2429-2434)]] new and better technologies were developed, managing to create faster and cheaper spaceships. Now travel between Earth and Mars only takes a week, in average.

Jake, after selling his first patent of one of his inventios, bought a ship. With his girlfriend Jeanette they would use it to create an interplanetary delivery service to finance more crazy inventions. But this job did not give him enough free time to make new devices, so he hired someone to help him on the ship, although that didn't reduce his tasks very much.

After many trips between Earth and Mars, and sometimes to Jupiter and Saturn, Jake and Jeanette saved enough money to buy a robot. This robot was a R3-40 multitask robot which they named "Random Access Memory" (R.A.M.) Thanks to her, Jake had enough free time to be able to make inventions again which would lead the entire crew to crazy experiences.

* TakeThat: "[[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMtheRobot/index.html?pg=87#showComic Too Much Text: The TCG]]" serves as one to card games like TabletopGame/{{YuGiOh}} and TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}}, which are often criticised for having a bad habit of including overspecialised rules designed to close as many loopholes as possible and invoke as much DevelopersForesight as they can.

* ExtendableArms: R.A.M. gives herself one in [[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMtheRobot/index.html?pg=6#showComic "Mods are Fun"]]. She figures she'll use it to clean the roof or something.

* SpacePolice: The Space Rangers, who fight the interplanetary criminal organization Darktron. There's also the R-Bots who rescue people, and [[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMtheRobot/index.html?pg=86#showComic free-floating robots]].

* AnArmAndALeg: "[[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMTheRobot/index.html?pg=4#showComic Broken Arm]]" has Jeanette accidentally pull R.A.M.'s arm off, and become [[OhCrap understandably horrified at what she did]].
* ArtShift:
** In "[[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMTheRobot/index.html?pg=50#showComic RAM Across the Multiverse]]", R.A.M. and Jake enter a portal to another universe. While there, their proportions become cartoonier and they both gain CartoonyEyes.
** In "[[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMTheRobot/index.html?pg=51#showComic Toys]]", all four of the main cast are suddenly rendered in live action. Jake is a Franchise/{{Lego}} build, R.A.M. is a plushie, Jeanette is a paper cutout on a stick, and Bud is a wooden figurine. R.A.M. and Jeanette are even being held by hands, which both of their speech bubbles point to.
** In "[[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMtheRobot/index.html?pg=55#showComic R.A.M. Across the Multiverse Extra]]", R.A.M. appears on a classic ''UsefulNotes/{{Gameboy}}'', complete with greener lighting and scratches and smudges on the screen.

* HumanityEnsues: While there are no humans ever depicted, "[[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMTheRobot/index.html?pg=42#showComic Organic RAM]]" has Jake use his reverse fossilization machine on R.A.M., turning her into a real FunnyAnimal raccoon. She takes a while to adjust.

* BlandNameProduct: In "[[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMtheRobot/index.html?pg=56#showComic Memory]]", Jake watches a Panasony brand television.

* NewYearHasCome: "[[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMTheRobot/index.html?pg=11#showComic New Year in Space]]" has Jake, R.A.M. and Jeanette fly by Sol |||, aka Earth, on New Years day of 2504.

* WholePlotReference: "[[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMTheRobot/index.html?pg=5#showComic Soul]]" is an almost word-for-word recreation of a scene from the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E3TheBullyJustOneBite Just One Bite]]".

* ExpendableClone: In "[[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMTheRobot/index.html?pg=41#showComic Robot Clones]]", Jake creates robotic clones of all four of the cast to replace them so they could slip away without his mother noticing. Except that he programmed them all to have the exact minds of their real counterparts and not know they were clones. 15 minutes later, Jake's mother comes out of the house annoyed while clone Jake screams and has an identity crisis.

* TakeThat: "[[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMtheRobot/index.html?pg=87#showComic Too Much Text: The TCG]]" serves as one to card games like TabletopGame/{{Yugioh}} and TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}}, which are often criticised for having a bad habit of including overspecialised rules designed to close as many loopholes as possible and invoke as much DevelopersForesight as they can.

* FirstInjuryReaction: After being temporarily transformed into an organic being, R.A.M. gets scratched up by her pet-alien-that-looks-like-a-cat and feels pain for the first time. [[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMTheRobot/index.html?pg=44#showComic She finds it hilarious.]]

* ColorblindConfusion: In "[[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMtheRobot/index.html?pg=64#showComic Ship Maintenance]]", R.A.M. is sent out to repair a damaged fuse box on the outside of the ship, with Jake giving her strict orders to replace the blue one, while telling her that replacing the wrong fuse could lead the ship to fail and everyone to die. Cut to R.A.M.'s vision, where everything is bluish grey with slight scan lines, and so all of the fuses look identical.

* The sheet music seen in "[[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMtheRobot/index.html?pg=49#showComic RAM in Space]]" is taken from [[Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky's score from ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'', specifically "Waltz of the Flowers"]].

* TranslatorCollar: Jake invents a bandanna allowing Ali [[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMtheRobot/?pg=58#showComic to speak]], but R.A.M. thinks it takes away her charm.