Giovanni Rild
04-24-2007, 07:02 PM
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Bender beats and robs Ussop. Luffy finds Bender in a local bar spending the crew's money on booze.
Luffy asks for the money back. Bender tells him to bite his shiny metal ass.
Who wins?
Hardware
There is very little consistency in Bender's hardware throughout the series, and his internal workings vary as required for the story or for comic effect.
Like most robots in the series, Bender has square pupils. All of the biological characters have round pupils.
Bender's serial number is 2716057, which is expressible as the sum of two cube numbers ((952)³ + (-951)³). He shares this trait with another Bending Unit he meets called Flexo, whose serial number is 3370318 ((119)³ + (119)³), and they both laughed heartily at this fact. This is one of several joke references to obscure mathematical facts; such as the Hardy-Ramanujan number.
In "Fry and the Slurm Factory" it is revealed that Bender's CPU is a MOS Technology 6502.
Bender's habit of hard drinking is a result of his design; like most robots on Futurama, he uses alcohol as fuel and produces greenhouse gases as a result. He actually only suffers symptoms of intoxication when he stops drinking, becoming disoriented and developing a robot equivalent of a five o'clock shadow (the area around his mouth becomes rusted and brown). While alcohol is his primary fuel source, he is also capable of processing mineral oil and dark matter. He is also equipped with a nuclear pile which is revealed in "Godfellas".
He has been shown to operate in both vacuums and at the bottom of the sea. While deep under water Bender can open his chest compartment to reveal breathing masks similar to the emergency equipment used in commercial aircraft. He also notes that "in the event of an emergency, [his] ass can be used as a flotation device." This is likely a reference to the same capacity noted by Data in Star Trek: Insurrection.
His "extend-o-matic" limbs are extendable, detachable, and capable of functioning independently of his body. He seems to have trouble with the seam below his right underarm, however, as he is seen welding it or asking someone to weld it at various times throughout the series. In most cases, his eyes are shown to be extending cylinders with rounded ends but are generally replacable as necessary for the plot.
Bender's chest cavity uses the fictional idea of hammerspace, as Bender frequently pulls and stores objects within it that are far bigger than the laws of physics would normally allow. This access seems to be situational, as his chest cavity has been filled a number of times. The interior of Bender's chest cavity is actually shown in Futurama: The Game, wherein there are a variety of cogs, wheels, gyros, and various other mechanical components. The interior is shown to be larger than it should be. As with most spin-off material for television shows, the videogame may not be considered canon. In "Insane in the Mainframe", an X-ray like "Gamma Scan" reveals a variety of axles and cogs, as well as a small bat. The heads of Lucy Liu and Luciano Pavarotti were both stored in the cavity at one point. In one episode, Bender ferments about 30 bottles worth of malt liquor in his chest cavity, carrying it as though he were pregnant. Bender had a bomb in his chest at one point said to be capable of destroying a planet, placed in him by Zapp Brannigan in "War is the H-Word". Though Professor Farnsworth couldn't remove it, claiming it was "stuck in there with glue or something," Bender detonated it at the end of the episode; it was apparently a dud.
Bender congratulating himself for bending iron bars in "Space Pilot 3000".
Bender congratulating himself for bending iron bars in "Space Pilot 3000".
Like his limbs, Bender's head is detachable, and can continue to function when not attached to his body. Bender's head seems capable of various functions depending on the situation. It has been seen functioning as an audio tape recorder (his pupils can change to play, rewind, eject etc. symbols with function), answering machine, CD player, film projector, camera (still and video), martini shaker, a bell, credit card terminal, and a spray can. The camera aspect of his head is a consistent feature, which he uses in multiple episodes, often zooming in on items, people or robots of interest. On top of his head is an antenna, which is multi-functional and can work as a radio transmitter, a remote control receiver, sword, toilet flusher, or laser light show generator. Bender is quite sensitive about it, seemingly equating it with a human penis. In "I, Roommate", Bender responds to Leela's suggestion of removing his antenna with "You're not a robot or a man, so you wouldn't understand." In the same episode, URL sees it and says, in a degrading fashion, "You call that an antenna?" Despite this assertion, he can unscrew it. Also, in another episode he is turned into a human. He wonders where his antenna is, then finds it, stating: "Just let me adjust it." Fry shouts "No! You'll make God cry!" as if Bender were masturbating.
Bender claims to have a total of eight senses, four of the Five classical senses. Although he is equipped with "smision" (apparently a combination of smell and vision), he lacks the regular sense of taste. Aside from his own faculties, Bender has several external devices which he uses in the series. One such device is his "gaydar", which is shown as a black box with a radar array attached - his gaydar apparently detects everyone he meets as gay, however. Bender has a built-in, but unreliable, "cheating unit" for predicting the outcome of his own dice rolls. Bender makes mention of a Hilarity Unit (an opening subtitle for one episode of the show claims this unit may be powered by "Microsoft Joke"). Bender's computational abilities are self-admittedly poor, which he reveals in the episode "The Cyber House Rules". When Bender claims to need a calculator, Fry reminds him that Bender is a calculator, to which Bender asserts "I need a good calculator." Bender seems to have four different buttons for deleting information: one on his shoulder, one on his chest, his antenna, and one on his ass. Bender also has a 'Patriotism Circuit' which compels him, when signaled, to fight and possibly give his life in times of crisis. Zapp Brannigan has a device that can trigger Bender's 'Patriotism Circuit', (as shown in "When Aliens Attack") and uses it to draft him into Earth's defense force. When triggered, Bender's antenna blinks and beeps, and Bender stands to attention and shouts a response phrase such as "It is every robot's duty to give his life for the good of humanity!", followed by a regretful moan, or utterance such as "Oh, crap".
According to information from various episodes, Bender is composed of 30% iron ("30% Iron Chef"), 40% zinc ("Fry and the Slurm Factory") , 40% titanium ("A Head in the Polls"), 40% dolomite ("Jurassic Bark") and an unknown quantity of osmium (in alloy with the iron) with a 0.04% nickel impurity ("A Pharaoh to Remember") and he also claims to be 40% lead in Futurama the game but this may not be canon. No explanation for the total of over 150.04% was offered in the series, though it is pointed out in the DVD commentary. David X. Cohen at one point suggests that the various substances may overlap as compounds. Bender's aforementioned calculation skills, or lack thereof, may also be a factor. In "Raging Bender", he is announced as weighing 525 lb (238 kg).
VS
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Bender beats and robs Ussop. Luffy finds Bender in a local bar spending the crew's money on booze.
Luffy asks for the money back. Bender tells him to bite his shiny metal ass.
Who wins?
Hardware
There is very little consistency in Bender's hardware throughout the series, and his internal workings vary as required for the story or for comic effect.
Like most robots in the series, Bender has square pupils. All of the biological characters have round pupils.
Bender's serial number is 2716057, which is expressible as the sum of two cube numbers ((952)³ + (-951)³). He shares this trait with another Bending Unit he meets called Flexo, whose serial number is 3370318 ((119)³ + (119)³), and they both laughed heartily at this fact. This is one of several joke references to obscure mathematical facts; such as the Hardy-Ramanujan number.
In "Fry and the Slurm Factory" it is revealed that Bender's CPU is a MOS Technology 6502.
Bender's habit of hard drinking is a result of his design; like most robots on Futurama, he uses alcohol as fuel and produces greenhouse gases as a result. He actually only suffers symptoms of intoxication when he stops drinking, becoming disoriented and developing a robot equivalent of a five o'clock shadow (the area around his mouth becomes rusted and brown). While alcohol is his primary fuel source, he is also capable of processing mineral oil and dark matter. He is also equipped with a nuclear pile which is revealed in "Godfellas".
He has been shown to operate in both vacuums and at the bottom of the sea. While deep under water Bender can open his chest compartment to reveal breathing masks similar to the emergency equipment used in commercial aircraft. He also notes that "in the event of an emergency, [his] ass can be used as a flotation device." This is likely a reference to the same capacity noted by Data in Star Trek: Insurrection.
His "extend-o-matic" limbs are extendable, detachable, and capable of functioning independently of his body. He seems to have trouble with the seam below his right underarm, however, as he is seen welding it or asking someone to weld it at various times throughout the series. In most cases, his eyes are shown to be extending cylinders with rounded ends but are generally replacable as necessary for the plot.
Bender's chest cavity uses the fictional idea of hammerspace, as Bender frequently pulls and stores objects within it that are far bigger than the laws of physics would normally allow. This access seems to be situational, as his chest cavity has been filled a number of times. The interior of Bender's chest cavity is actually shown in Futurama: The Game, wherein there are a variety of cogs, wheels, gyros, and various other mechanical components. The interior is shown to be larger than it should be. As with most spin-off material for television shows, the videogame may not be considered canon. In "Insane in the Mainframe", an X-ray like "Gamma Scan" reveals a variety of axles and cogs, as well as a small bat. The heads of Lucy Liu and Luciano Pavarotti were both stored in the cavity at one point. In one episode, Bender ferments about 30 bottles worth of malt liquor in his chest cavity, carrying it as though he were pregnant. Bender had a bomb in his chest at one point said to be capable of destroying a planet, placed in him by Zapp Brannigan in "War is the H-Word". Though Professor Farnsworth couldn't remove it, claiming it was "stuck in there with glue or something," Bender detonated it at the end of the episode; it was apparently a dud.
Bender congratulating himself for bending iron bars in "Space Pilot 3000".
Bender congratulating himself for bending iron bars in "Space Pilot 3000".
Like his limbs, Bender's head is detachable, and can continue to function when not attached to his body. Bender's head seems capable of various functions depending on the situation. It has been seen functioning as an audio tape recorder (his pupils can change to play, rewind, eject etc. symbols with function), answering machine, CD player, film projector, camera (still and video), martini shaker, a bell, credit card terminal, and a spray can. The camera aspect of his head is a consistent feature, which he uses in multiple episodes, often zooming in on items, people or robots of interest. On top of his head is an antenna, which is multi-functional and can work as a radio transmitter, a remote control receiver, sword, toilet flusher, or laser light show generator. Bender is quite sensitive about it, seemingly equating it with a human penis. In "I, Roommate", Bender responds to Leela's suggestion of removing his antenna with "You're not a robot or a man, so you wouldn't understand." In the same episode, URL sees it and says, in a degrading fashion, "You call that an antenna?" Despite this assertion, he can unscrew it. Also, in another episode he is turned into a human. He wonders where his antenna is, then finds it, stating: "Just let me adjust it." Fry shouts "No! You'll make God cry!" as if Bender were masturbating.
Bender claims to have a total of eight senses, four of the Five classical senses. Although he is equipped with "smision" (apparently a combination of smell and vision), he lacks the regular sense of taste. Aside from his own faculties, Bender has several external devices which he uses in the series. One such device is his "gaydar", which is shown as a black box with a radar array attached - his gaydar apparently detects everyone he meets as gay, however. Bender has a built-in, but unreliable, "cheating unit" for predicting the outcome of his own dice rolls. Bender makes mention of a Hilarity Unit (an opening subtitle for one episode of the show claims this unit may be powered by "Microsoft Joke"). Bender's computational abilities are self-admittedly poor, which he reveals in the episode "The Cyber House Rules". When Bender claims to need a calculator, Fry reminds him that Bender is a calculator, to which Bender asserts "I need a good calculator." Bender seems to have four different buttons for deleting information: one on his shoulder, one on his chest, his antenna, and one on his ass. Bender also has a 'Patriotism Circuit' which compels him, when signaled, to fight and possibly give his life in times of crisis. Zapp Brannigan has a device that can trigger Bender's 'Patriotism Circuit', (as shown in "When Aliens Attack") and uses it to draft him into Earth's defense force. When triggered, Bender's antenna blinks and beeps, and Bender stands to attention and shouts a response phrase such as "It is every robot's duty to give his life for the good of humanity!", followed by a regretful moan, or utterance such as "Oh, crap".
According to information from various episodes, Bender is composed of 30% iron ("30% Iron Chef"), 40% zinc ("Fry and the Slurm Factory") , 40% titanium ("A Head in the Polls"), 40% dolomite ("Jurassic Bark") and an unknown quantity of osmium (in alloy with the iron) with a 0.04% nickel impurity ("A Pharaoh to Remember") and he also claims to be 40% lead in Futurama the game but this may not be canon. No explanation for the total of over 150.04% was offered in the series, though it is pointed out in the DVD commentary. David X. Cohen at one point suggests that the various substances may overlap as compounds. Bender's aforementioned calculation skills, or lack thereof, may also be a factor. In "Raging Bender", he is announced as weighing 525 lb (238 kg).