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Cubert Farnsworth

Voiced by: Kath Soucie
Debut: "A Clone of My Own"

A twelve-year-old clone of Professor Farnsworth; Cubert is didactic, self-important, and snarky. The Professor created Cubert in order to have somebody to continue his tradition of half-baked inventions that are, not uncommonly, a threat to all life.

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• Animal Motifs: Pigs. Not only is Cubert aware of the comparison people make due to his snout-like nose befitting of a pig, but he also squeals like one, and often snorts like one too when being a Deadpan Snarker. By Season 8's "I Know What You Did Next Xmas" episode airs, he is mistaken for a spit roast, for no other reason than for the writers to invoke this trope.
• Boyish Shorts: The much younger, more immature son of the Professor is almost always shown in shorts.
• Clones Are People, Too: A clone of the Professor, but treated just like any son.
• Deadpan Snarker: Cubert occasionally throws the quick one-liner in "A Clone Of My Own", as well as later in the series:
  Professor: Nothing is impossible! That's what being a scientist is all about!
  Cubert: Nnnnnno, that's what being a magical elf is all about.
• Ditzy Genius: He's just as smart as the Professor, but he's still a 12-year-old (with an immature mentality to match) and can be pretty stupid; "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" shows he needs to imitate everything he sees on "All My Circuits" even though he should know better.
• Fat Bastard: Cubert is noticeably overweight and is an unlikeable jerk to Plant Express as a whole.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Intentional example; he's meant to parody Wesley Crusher and annoys Planet Express.
• Hate Sink: Seems to be deliberately written to be unlikable with his rude attitude.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Cubert and Dwight (Hermes' son) are best friends.
• Insufferable Genius: He belittles almost everyone, aside from Hermes' son Dwight.
• Jerkass: He's a rude, arrogant jerk to the other members of Planet Express.
• Kiddie Kid: He is a 12-13 year old who looks and acts like he's around 9. A plot point of one episode was about how he felt the need to imitate everything he saw on his favorite TV show, even if it didn't make sense.
• Likes Older Women: As an adult in "The Late Philip J. Fry," he marries Leela, who is at least twenty years older than him and only initiated the relationship because he grew up to look like the dead Fry. After they divorce twenty years later, he hooks up with an elderly Amy, who treats him like a youthful "boy toy."
• The Load: Deliberately written as an annoying unhelpful brat as a Take That! to the various "spunky kids" of certain other science fiction series.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: The calendar moves on, but Cubert remains twelve. But then, the cancellation/renewal of the show would have put him in his twenties by now...
• Older Than They Look: He looks around nine but is really around twelve.
• Out of Focus: He's gone from appearing several times per season to only showing up for a few seconds in Season 7 as part of a fake PSA.
• Raised in a Lab: Cubert is Professor Hubert Farnsworth's clone, whom he has been incubating in a tank for 13 years as an heir. He has a genius intellect, which enables him to point out all the logical inconsistencies around him and also makes him something of an Insufferable Genius.
• "Stop Having Fun" Guy: Played strongly in his first appearance, where his primary gag was that he was the only character who recognized the show's use of It Runs on Nonsensoleum. He was downplayed to a mere Insufferable Genius in later episodes.
• Teen Genius: A clone of the Professor created to continue his life's works after he dies. He initially rejects this path, but later episodes show him to be quite brilliant in his own right, attending a school for young geniuses.
• Verbal Tic: Because of his resemblance to a porcine creature, he often emphasizes his snarky quips with a pig-snort, something Leela once imitated.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Zig-zagged. Due to inheriting the Professor's intellect, Cubert is incredibly smart for a twelve-year-old, but at same time he can be quite immature.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: His debut appearance, he assumes that the universe operates on the same laws of physics as Real Life. It takes him most of the episode to understand that his science fiction setting is one that runs on Rule of Funny.

Leo and Inez Wong

Voiced by: Billy West (season 1-7), Feodor Chin (season 8-onwards) and Lauren Tom
Debut: "A Flight to Remember"

Leo and Inez are Amy Wong's parents — and your stereotypical strict Asian archetypes. Ridiculously rich, owners of half of Mars, and desperate for grandkids. They usually show up to meddle in Amy's love life and remind her that "she's not getting any younger."

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• Abusive Parents: All they see of their daughter is a walking incubator, and when she's de-aged, they outright bully her. It is implied that, should Amy have children, they'll abuse them as well when they come of age for great-grandchildren.
• All Asians Know Martial Arts: Leo pulled some out in "Into The Wild Green Yonder", nothing that impressive but enough to hold his own against Leela.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: With their constant attempts to set Amy up with anything with a Y chromosome.
• Asian Speekee Engrish: Interestingly, they are from Mars, and dress like stereotypical U.S southerners, yet speak with these accents. Leo is aware of this and apparently took a dictation coach. Unfortunately for him, said coach happened to be Jackie Chan...
• Cattle Baron: Buggalo Barons, technically, but they're otherwise textbook examples.
• Fiction 500: They own the entire Western Hemisphere of Mars ("the best hemisphere!"), which their ancestors purchased from the Martian natives for a "bead" which is, in actuality, an enormous diamond! In fact, according to Leo, they're so rich that they actually find it easier to brand the stuff they don't own rather than the stuff they do.
• Hate Sink: Both of them are fairly unlikable due to not being very nice to their daughter Amy and only caring that she give them grandchildren, but Leo is especially detestable because he's a greedy jerk whose sexism and disregard for the environment is ramped up in Into the Wild Green Yonder.
• The Heavy: Leo is this in the last movie, while the Dark One is the Big Bad.
• Hypocritical Humor: In "Where the Buggalo Roam", Leo criticizes the poor grammar on a ransom note from the Native Martians, when his own grasp of the English language is far from perfect.

  Leo: I know it them 'cause they no use good grammar.

• I Want Grandkids: They are so obsessed with getting Amy to have grandchildren, it almost seems like they care more about that than they care about Amy herself. To the point that when the latter got de-aged to her preteen years, they were too busy complaining about how they were never going to have grandchildren at this rate (And in Leo's case, cruelly tease Amy) to actually worry about their daughter's condition. In Season 8, they do get grandkids, but they don't like them very much since they're weird-looking aliens (and not biologically Amy's, though it's unclear how much they remember this).
• Jerkass: Both of them are greedy, callous, manipulative, tend to believe that they can do whatever they want because they're rich (especially Leo, who has been the villain of a plotline more than once for precisely this reason), and are often outright antagonistic towards nearly everybody, especially their daughter. In addition, after years of pestering their daughter for grandkids, when she finally does, they disown them for being too “gross”.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Leo is fairly racist (and extremely sexist as well).
• Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Screw Politeness,We are Senior, in their case.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Thinking about suing them? Well...
  Professor Farnsworth: Hmm, I may have mental anguish.
  Leo: I have you know I'm friends with every judge on planet.
  Professor Farnsworth: I'm alright then.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: They bribed Mars University into admitting Amy. Leo was willing to pay more to get her into Phi Beta Kappa.
  Dean Vernon: How much you got?
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Their reaction to seeing their grandchildren for the first time.
• Smug Snake: Despite his extreme pridefulness and his obsession with mini-golf and gatekeeping it from women, Leo is actually pretty bad at the sport, and regularly cheats or demands he be given a lower stroke than he actually got.

Axl, Mandy, and Newt Kroker-Wong

Voiced by: Maurice Lamarche (Axl), Lauren Tom (Mandy, Newt)

Kif and Amy’s children who were born in season 4's "Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch" and are properly introduced in season 8's "Children Of A Lesser Bog"

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• Bizarre Alien Biology: They were born as tadpoles and spend the first 20 years of their lives living in a swamp before growing legs and becoming more humanoid like Kif. And although they were born at the same time, they spend those 20 years in waters with different temperatures and thus developed at different rates; Axl is already a young teen, Mandy a pre-teen and Newt only a toddler.
• A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family: Axl is the boy, Mandy the girl and Newt the (male) baby.
• Cyclops: Thanks to the biological mother being the mutant Leela, Newt only has one eye.
• Emo Teen: Axl is based off this archetype, with dark bangs, a stubborn contrarian attitude, and a tendency to get overemotional.
• Extra Parent Conception: Their genes come from Leela, Kif, and Scruffy.
• Hereditary Hairstyle: Axl's hair is the exact shape of Leela's bangs.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Axl is a sweet boy whenever he drops the moody teenager act. He happily cares for and plays with his siblings, and when it appears Amy could lose custody of them, Axl's the first to assure her it'll be okay.
• Older Than They Look: They’re all 20 years old but due to their species' bizarre life cycle and spending their tadpole years in water of different temperatures they look like children of different ages.
• Theme Naming: Their names are all based off different amphibious creatures — Axl from the axolotl, Mandy from the salamander, and Newt from, well, the newt.
• Younger Than They Look: Axl and Mandy are the same chronological age as Newt, which is to say they're also infants, but they look like a teen and preteen respectively due to Bizarre Alien Biology.

Fry's Family

You sayin' my boy's a commie?

Voiced by: John DiMaggio (Yancy Fry Sr.)
Voiced by: Tress MacNeille (Mrs. Fry)
Voiced by: Tom Kenny (Yancy Fry Jr.)
Voiced by: Frank Welker (Seymour Asses)
Debut: "The Luck of the Fryrish" (Yancy Fry Sr., Mrs. Fry, and Yancy Fry Jr.)
Debut: "Jurassic Bark" (Seymour Asses)

Yancy Fry Sr., Mrs. Fry (née Gleisner), Yancy Fry Jr., and Seymour Asses, who Fry left behind in the past after he was cryogenically frozen by accident. When he arrives to the future, he expresses joy at the thought that he doesn't have to see his family again, though very later on in the series he realizes that he just convinced himself that he hated the past because he knew he could never come back.

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• Abusive Parents: They kept Fry out of school on the grounds it was a "waste of taxpayers' money". Fry's mother in particular deprioritizes everything, including being a mother, if a sports game is on, while Yancy Sr. constantly puts Fry down as a means of "toughening him up."
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: While they seemed like jerks, they all showed their concern for Fry in each of their major appearances and do miss him when he's sent to the future.
• Big Brother Bully: From the moment of Fry's birth, Yancy Jr. tormented him in various ways, namely by constantly copying him. However he, like the rest of his family, was saddened by Fry's disappearance, to the point of naming his firstborn son after him. Unfortunately, in the future Fry gets all the wrong ideas thanks to their poor relationship, combined with his nephew's strong resemblance to Yancy Jr.
• Big Brother Instinct: Yancy Jr. does care a lot about his little brother, even if he doesn't show it if he can help it.
• Canine Companion: Seymour was Fry's closest friend in the last few years before he was frozen, and followed him dutifully.
• Crazy Survivalist: Yancy Sr. is hellbent on preparing his family for nuclear war, turning the family's basement into a shelter.
• Dad the Veteran: Yancy Sr. apparently fought in Vietnam.
• A Day in the Limelight: Yancy Jr., Seymour, Yancy Sr., and Mrs. Fry all get episodes focused on their relationship with Fry, those being "The Luck of the Fryish", "Jurassic Bark", "Cold Warriors", and "Game of Tones" respectfully.
• Dead Guy Junior: Yancy's firstborn son and Fry's nephew was named after Fry^note technically he wasn't dead, but they didn't know that.
• Dirty Commies: Yancy Sr. projects Cold War paranoia onto his family, to the point that his first reaction to his newborn son's red hair was concern that he might be taken for a communist.
• Domestic Abuse: Implied. A throwaway line by Fry in "The Sting" claims his parents "communicated" via hitting, though the ambiguous wording could just as well imply child abuse.
• Famous Ancestor: Philip Fry II, Philip Fry's nephew is the famous ancestor to Professor Farnsworth; he grew up to be a millionaire celebrity who was the first man to set foot on Mars, and is still remembered in the 31st century.
• Irony: Yancy Sr. was convinced nuclear war was imminent, and prepared for nuclear radiation to, in his words, "turn us all into monkeys", and yet nuclear war never happened in their lifetimes.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: They are portrayed as complete boors, but later episodes (namely "The Luck of the Fryrish", "Cold Warriors", and "Game of Tones") reveal their kinder sides.
• Missed Him by That Much: They tried looking for Fry after he went missing, but failed to notice him in the cryogenic tube due to being sick from bad baloney and focusing on getting Seymour, they even told Seymour to stop bothering the cryolab workers and help them find Fry even though he put more effort into searching for him and ended up finding him, but dismissed the mutt anyway.
• My Own Grampa: Philip Fry, but also Yancy Fry. Part of the same paradox: Yancy Sr. had a son, Philip, Philip had a son with his grandmother while traveling back in time, which was Yancy Sr. They are simultaneously both father and son to each other.
• No Full Name Given: Mrs. Fry is the only member of the family to lack a first name. Some wiki sources refer to her as "Sherri," but this is unsourced. Amusingly, her maiden name has been revealed (it's Gleisner).
• Obsessive Sports Fan: Fry's mom is obsessed with sports, often at the expense of paying attention to her family. She listens to a Mets game on the radio while giving birth, getting more excited about the result of the game than seeing her newborn son, feeds her family gravy out of a helmet, and remembers the day her son disappeared because of the Rose Bowl that occurred around the same time.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Played with; while Philip Fry outlived Mr and Mrs Fry due to being a Human Popsicle, from their perspective Philip vanished and was presumed dead by the year 2000. Or 2012 if we're including Lars. And because Yancy Fry is technically Philip Fry's son along with his father, Philip Fry experiences this trope because of being a Human Popsicle.
• The Paranoiac: Yancy Sr. was utterly convinced the Y2K virus would destroy the world, even believing Seymour was one of its agents that'll send them to their deaths when he tried leading the Frys to Fry (along with blaming it for a bad baloney sandwich).
• Parental Neglect: Fry's parents, who are shown in flashbacks to be generally neglectful, with his mother being a Lady Drunk obsessed with watching sport games and his father being a Conspiracy Theorist.
• Parents as People: Mr and Mrs Fry are initial depicted as neglectful and uncaring that their son is missing, but as more of Fry's past is developed they're shown to be empathetic and caring parents to him and his brother. They just have trouble showing it.
• Passionate Sports Girl: Mrs. Fry is a hardcore sports fan, always being seen watching a playoff game on TV and gamifying everything in her life.
• Posthumous Character: They're all deceased by the 31st century of course.
• Sibling Rivalry: Fry and Yancy Jr. didn't get along due to Yancy Jr. constantly copying his younger brother, and their parents only encouraged their fighting.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Yancy Jr.'s son Philip grew up to look exactly like him, as the image on the latter's monument shows. This gives Fry the (wrongful) impression that Yancy Jr. stole his name after he disappeared, since Yancy Jr. stole just about everything else from him in his youth.
• Surprise Incest: Thanks to said paradox, Mr. and Mrs. Fry are technically grandson and grandmother, though they have no way of knowing that.
• Tangled Family Tree: Not as complicated as other family trees, but it's still a bit complex, not helped by Fry's My Own Grampa situation. A family tree that goes all the way from the Cubert Farnsworth kid to the minute-man Yancy Fry that fought in the American revolutionary war. See here for details.

Hermes's Family

Voiced by: Dawnn Lewis (LaBarbara Conrad)
Voiced by: Bumper Robinson, Phil LaMarr (Dwight Conrad)
Debut: "A Flight to Remember" (LaBarbara Conrad)
Debut: "The Route of All Evil" (Dwight Conrad)

Hermes is married to LaBarbara (maiden name unknown), with whom he has a son named Dwight.

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• Boyish Shorts: On Dwight, paired with a Jamaican flag shirt, reflecting both his youth and the relaxed implications of the culture.
• Flanderization: While she still usually seems attracted to Hermes, LaBarbara's attraction to her ex-husband Barbados Slim has gone from a former romantic rival to audacious infidelity. It started as just an Always Someone Better joke at Hermes' expense, then the first movie had LaBarbara quickly leave Hermes for Barbados because Hermes' body had been mutilated, but come around on Hermes in the end. The Comedy Central run then had a few moments implying LaBarbara continued to see Barbados on the side while still married to Hermes. Then in the Hulu run, "Rage Against the Vaccine" made it explicit she's seeing Barbados, upping her audacity by having her make out with Barbados to try and make Hermes angry (albeit to test the voodoo cure).
• Happily Married: LaBarbara's generally portrayed as a loving and devoted wife to Hermes and has supported him on several occasions, but she's been shown to leave him to go back to her previous husband, Barbados Slim (and in a couple of the later episodes, she's implied to be having an affair with Slim). But in the end, LaBarbara ultimately chooses Hermes.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Dwight and Cubert are shown to be best friends.
• Hidden Depths: "Rage Against the Vaccine" reveals that LaBarbara has extensive knowledge of voodoo, and previously studied it with Barbados Slim.
• Lethal Chef: Downplayed example—Professor Farnsworth doesn't think LaBarbara's a very good cook, at least when it comes to her pound cake (Farnsworth goes so far as to describe it as being as hard as the ultrahard minerals Diamondium and Diamondillium). This trope is taken literally in "The Six Million Dollar Mon" when it's found that the overapplied spices in her cooking have made Hermes' skin able to melt robots, which it does to Roberto. Of course, Hermes and Dwight actually seem to enjoy her cooking.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: Like Cubert, Dwight's age is always the same.
• Remember the New Guy?: Despite having never been mentioned beforehand, Dwight's introduced in "The Route of All Evil" and is stated to have already met the crew.
• Statuesque Stunner: LaBarbara's one of the hottest female characters on the show and she's also noticeably taller than most of the other human characters (with or without her heels). She's at least a full head taller than her husband.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: She's this to Hermes—while Hermes may not be ugly, he's not nearly as attractive as his wife is. LaBarbara also claimed to Hermes at one point that if she only cared about a man's appearance, she'd have stayed married to her previous husband, Barbados Slim.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: Unlike Leela and Amy, LaBarbara's got a different outfit in almost every episode that she appears (sometimes multiple outfits within the same episode). The one thing that that (almost) all of her outfits have in common is that they show off her midriff. This died down with the Comedy Central run, likely due to budget, as she typically appears in just her pink top and tiedye leggings.

Leela's Family

Voiced by: David Herman and Tress MacNeille
Debut: "I Second That Emotion"

Turanga Morris and Turanga Munda are two married mutants and the parents of Leela.

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• Alcoholic Parent: Implied with Morris. He asks Leela if he can confess her secret of being a superhero if he's drunk and offers his aged-down daughter tequila to celebrate her being young again. When Leela points out she's underaged, he just suggests a crazy straw. When Leela asks Fry to bring her beer, he's against it... since she hasn't finished her bottle of tequila yet.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Played with. When Leela is deaged back into a teen, she's embarrassed by the fact that her parents aren't this. Really, they seem like very chill parents who just want the best for their daughter, no matter what.
• Early-Bird Cameo: In the episode "I Second That Emotion", they can be seen in the background among the mutants in a few scenes, they would be properly introduced two seasons later in the episode "Leela's Homeworld".
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In their cameo in "I Second That Emotion", they looked much more "normal" and lacked their distinguishing mutations, such as Morris' sideways mouth or Munda's tentacles.
• Good Parents: More or less (in fact until "Bender's Big Score" they were probably the only parents seen who weren't unpleasant people). They dearly love their daughter and wanted her to have the best life she could have, something they knew they could not offer her in the sewer. This is why they left her at the orphanrium. When she reconnects with them as an adult, they are still doting on her and want to be part of her life (though since they didn't raise her they have somewhat weak parental skills, as evidenced by "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles").
• Good Reason For Parental Abandonment: Leela grew up thinking she was a one-eyed alien, when in reality she was an unusually normal-looking human mutant. Realizing she could pass for "normal," her parents left her at an Orphanarium when she was a baby with a note in an alien language, allowing her to live on the surface rather than as a second-class citizen in the sewers. When they reunite years later and this is revealed it's quite the Tear Jerker, as well as the fact that they never truly abandoned her, since the ending montage showed that they cared for and watched over her from the shadows.
• Happily Married: Except for their tiff that ends in divorcing for nearly the whole episode in "Zapp Dingbat", they're generally shown to be a loving couple.
• Hidden Depths: "Zapp Dingbat" offers more insight into their ambitions beyond just being Leela's parents. While Munda's exolinguistics Ph.D. was mentioned in her debut, the episode reveals she still wants to pursue it beyond being a housewife, while Morris used to be a Surfer Dude and apparently still has the chops for it.
• May–December Romance: After Munda and Morris divorce, Munda begins a relationship with Zapp Brannigan (who's around the same age as her daughter), even to the point of getting engaged and nearly marrying him—however, it doesn't last and Munda ultimately gets back together with Morris.
• Mutants: Just like Leela, Morris and Munda each only have one eye—Morris also has a sideways mouth and double the normal amount of toes (and can also shed his skin) while Munda also has tentacles instead for arms and a donkey's tail.
• Opposites Attract: Leela's anniversary video for them in "Zapp Dingbat" describes her parents as a classic "opposites attract" story, with her mother being a studious exolinguistics major and her father being a ditzy laid-back Surfer Dude. However, the episode shows the downside of this: now that they have the option to leave the sewers, Munda doesn't appreciate Morris brushing off her more ambitious goals, leading to a (temporary) divorce.
• Surfer Dude: Morris was a sewer surfer in his youth, and dreamed of surfing every sewage wave in the world. After Munda divorces him, he picks it up again and leans into surfer slang. He ends up saving the Nimbus with his surfer know-how (and twenty toes).

Farnsworth's Parents

Voiced by: David Herman (Ned Farnsworth), Estelle Harris (Velma Farnsworth)
Debut: "Near-Death Wish"

Ned and Velma Farnsworth are Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth's parents, who turn out to be still alive on the Near-Death Star.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Fry takes to calling them "Gram-Gram" and "Shabadoo".
• Cheating with the Milkman: "A Clockwork Origin" has Professor Farnsworth remark that he's made the water sterile as his milkman-trusting father, which implies that Ned isn't Hubert's real father and that Hubert was conceived from Velma cheating on Ned with a milkman.
• Mistaken Identity: They apparently confused Hubert with his brother Floyd.
• Parents as People: Hubert resents them for always being too tired to play with him in his youth, but later learns that they were constantly exhausted from staying up at night to console him after his night terrors. They also sent Hubert to an asylum solely because they were concerned about his obsession with science.
• Unseen No More: Professor Farnsworth first mentions them in "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", stating that not having to talk to his parents is one reason he likes being an old man. It isn't until the Comedy Central era episode "Near-Death Wish" that we not only see them in person, but also learn that they're still alive.

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