Robot (comics)

Robot
Publication information
Publisher	Image Comics
First appearance	Invincible #2
Created by	Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker
In-story information
Alter ego	Rudy Conners
Team affiliations	Guardians of the Globe Teen Team
Abilities	Superior intelligence and technical skill Control multiple robot bodies telepathically

Robot is a fictional superhero appearing in the comic book Invincible, which is published by Image Comics.

Prior to the first issue of Invincible, Robot was the leader and founder of the Teen Team.

Robot was so effective as leader of the Teen Team that he was invited to join the Guardians of the Globe. However, the team was betrayed and most of their members murdered. At the invitation of The Pentagon, Robot assisted in the creation of the new Guardians of the Globe. As one of few senior heroes left, Robot became the leader of the team.

Robot did not show the same leadership proficiency with the Guardians and was replaced as leader by The Immortal. The reason for Robot's lack of focus was soon revealed; Robot was not, after all, a robot. Instead of a benevolent mechanical man with artificial intelligence, he was an automaton under the control of a disfigured man who was living in a tank of fluid. Rudy Conners, controlling the Robot body remotely, had been gathering genetic material to create himself a healthy new body. Robot used the villainous Mauler Twins to place the deformed man's mind into the freshly created body. Immediately afterwards, Rudy (his mind inside the new body, which was a juvenile clone of Rex Splode) allowed his deformed alter-ego to die. He then revealed that he was, in fact, controlling Robot remotely and had a small army of them under his control.

Robot soon revealed himself as a living creature to the Guardians of the Globe. Accepted by the team, he implanted a device into his head that allowed him to send a Robot body into combat with the team. He then turned his attention to Monster Girl, a teammate with an adult consciousness in a twelve-year-old body. Robot struck up a friendship with her, insisting that he could find a cure for her reversed aging. Although skeptical, Monster Girl nevertheless struck up a friendship with Robot and even showed some romantic interest in him after a successful "date" they had.

In Issue 58, Robot seemingly corrects Monster Girl's de-aging problem via a special belt she now wears.

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