Bender (Futurama)
| Bender Bending Rodríguez | |
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| Futurama character | |
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| First appearance | "Space Pilot 3000" |
| Last appearance | "Simprovised" (The Simpsons episode) |
| Voiced by | John DiMaggio |
| Information | |
| Full name | Bender Bending Rodríguez |
| Aliases | Coilete |
| Species | Robot |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Industrial Robot, Former Pharaoh of Osiris 4, Former busser at Elzar's, Former member of the Robot Mafia, God of the Shrimpkins |
| Spouse(s) | The Head of Lucy Liu (ex-wife) |
| Significant other(s) |
Countess De La Roca (deceased girlfriend) Angleyne (ex-girlfriend) Planet Express Ship (ex-girlfriend) Calculon (ex-fiancé) Amy Wong (ex-fiancée) Lynn (ex-girlfriend) Bev (ex-girlfriend) |
| Children |
Unnamed Son (son) Ben Rodríguez (son) |
| Relatives | Vladimir (deceased uncle) |
| Origin | Tijuana, Mexico, Earth |
Bender Bending Rodríguez (designated in-universe as Bending Unit 22, unit number 1,729, serial number 2716057) is a fictional robot. He is a main character in the animated television series Futurama. He was created by series creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, and is voiced by John DiMaggio. He fulfills a comic, antihero-type role in Futurama and is described by fellow character Leela as an "alcoholic, whore-mongering, chain-smoking gambler".
According to the character's backstory, Bender was built in Tijuana, Mexico (the other characters refer to his "swarthy Latin charm"). Viewers are informed, through his own testimony, of Bender's prejudice against non-robots. For example, his dialogue often contains anti-human expressions such as "kill all humans". Exceptions who are not subject to Bender's prejudicial attitude are those individuals on his "Do Not Kill" list, which seems to comprise only his best friend Fry and his colleague Hermes (Hermes is added after the episode "Lethal Inspection"). However, Bender is also occasionally portrayed as possessing a sympathetic side, suggesting that he is not as belligerent as he claims, a view often echoed by his friends.
Bender, a high-tech industrial metalworking robot, was built in 2996 at Fábrica Robótica De La Madre (Spanish: "Mom's Robot Factory"), a manufacturing facility of Mom's Friendly Robot Company in Tijuana, Mexico. However, the story of his construction remains a mystery. Although different creation processes have been shown, Cohen has stated that the viewer has only been shown Bender emerging from the machine that created him, while what happened inside the machine has not yet been revealed. According to one version, suggested by a Hermes flashback, and also by a reverse aging process shown in the "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" episode, a newborn Bender possessed a baby-like body. In "Bendless Love", however, Bender is portrayed with a normal, adult-sized body in a flashback sequence conveying his memory of coming into existence. As Bender's memory contains an adult form, the episode's content suggests that the character might actually be recalling a transfer to an adult body, rather than the moment of creation.
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