"Look! We're being attacked by hostile pipe welders!"
"Uh-oh, an enraged water heater!"
— Rocket Jock on being attacked by R2ScrewU, J-Men Forever
"Greetings my mechanical friend. I am Captain Proton of the__"
"Ahhh Proton, you're talking to a water heater. The robot is behind you."
Proton turned to face the 2.5 ton Killen-E1 battlebot. 'Facing' was a misnomer — what appeared to be its round black eyes were actually crowd-dispersing sonic-screamers, while sight was provided through radar ears and two photo-receptors in a nose-like protrusion. A moustache of fine silica hairs picked up sound vibration, and objects could be seized by a prehensile cable that shot from its mouth. But it was the nausea-gas ejectors under its rubber-jointed arms which proved conclusively that robots have no sense of taste.
