Robot Electro Jones is the titular main protagonist of Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? A KX8 robot designed by JNZ Robotics, Robot was built for "interfacing" with humans, which often goes awry either due to Robot's inflexibility and misunderstandings regarding human customs; stupidity, ignorance or genuine malice on the part of a human(s) he is interacting with; or a disastrous combination of all. He is usually the main hero, but he can be antagonistic at times. He is the main antagonist in the episode Safety Patrol.
He was voiced by a text-to-voice program's "Junior" voice in Season 1, and Bobby Block in Season 2.
Personality[]
Robot is generally snarky, cynical, eccentric, hot-headed and intelligent. He gets easily excited when he hears video games being mentioned. He can rush into things without a second thought, often due to him believing that he is more efficient than everybody else around him or that he wants to gain love or popularity from it. Being a robot, he is alienated by many pupils at his school. Sometimes he can be selfish, also misunderstanding things.
Although he is usually kind, gentle, naive and polite sometimes he is unstable, villainous, clumsy and a bit violent.
Villainous acts[]
While he usually acts agreeable during episodes of the show and does try to peacefully interact with the humans, Robot displays megalomania. He also has a feeling of superiority over humans. He experiences delusional thoughts and violent fits of anger. Robot has a large appetite for power and recognition.
In the episode "Politics", Robot hears of a democratic campaign being run within the school for the position of student president, and he joins the campaign, aspiring to become "the supreme commander of all humans" and daydreaming of conquering the world. He imagines what appears to him being worshipped by the humans as an enormous god. Throughout the episode, he forces the students to vote for him. When his robotic supremacist propaganda fails to win over the students, he replaces his head with an animatronic Principal Madman head and takes over the school anyway, literally kicking Mr. McMcMc and his presidential rival, George, off a stage.
In the episode "Safety Patrol", Robot's hunger for power is displayed. Robot joins the titular Safety Patrol as an officer and begins to enforce the rules so strictly that he has everyone, even his close friends, sent to detention. He is shown adopting glowing red eyes and laughing maniacally throughout this period, and is ironically overthrown by Principal Madman, who puts him in detention with everyone else.
In the episode "Jealousy", Robot has a fantasy of himself murdering Finkman. Throughout the episode, he becomes enraged constantly. He becomes very envious and hostile when he thinks of Finkman.
In the episode "Hair" his friends Mitch, Socks, and Cubey laugh at how he looks. Robot does not seem to understand why they are laughing and takes it as an offense. He is seen displaying a bitter face as they continue to laugh. In response, he gets his revenge for them taunting him by removing the hair of everybody in the school.
Greg Miller once stated that the series would end with Robot rallying up an army of robots and wiping out the human race. This may have been a joke but plenty of evidence suggests that it very much is not and that Miller really would have ended the series that way.
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