Bender Bending Rodriguez

Bender

Species: Robot
Planet of Origin: Earth (Hecho en Mexico)
Age: 5
Voiced by: John DiMaggio
First Appearance: "Space Pilot 3000" (1ACV01)

Biography

Bender Bending Rodriguez is a Bending unit built by Mom's Friendly Robot Company. He was assembled in a plant in Mexico in 2997. He has a highly addictive personality, and his favorite passtimes are watching All My Circuits, stealing things, drinking, and smoking. He lives in the Robot Arms Apartments with his roommate Fry. In spite of his general selfishness, he has occassionally demonstrated a capacity for generosity, even self-sacrafice, where his good friends are involved.

One of Bender's life-long dreams is to be a folk singer - an dream he briefly lived when he toured with Beck's Head (3ACV13). Ultimately things turned out tragically; fortunately for Bender, he's a robot with many life-long dreams. Another is being a great chef, like his idol Elzar. He acheived this dream as well when he defeated Elzar on the show Iron Cook (3ACV22).

Family Flexo, another Bending unit of the same model. Mom, owner of Mom's Friendly Robot Co. His mother, who sends him an Xmas card. His father was killed by a giant can opener (3ACV13). Uncle Vladimir, who lived in Thermostadt, captital of the Robo-Hungarian Empire, and died at the ripe old age of 211.

Trivia

• Bender's appartment number is 00100100. This is a binary representation of the ASCII character '$'
• Bender's serial number is 2716057. This can be expressed as the sum of 2 cubes. Specifically, 952³ + (-951)³
• The word "bender" can refer to a drinking spree, hinting at Bender's heavy alcohol use.
• Bender is powered by a 6502 Microprocessor.
• Bender dies at the end of both of his what-if scenarios in each Anthology of Interest.

Catchphrase

Bender's basic catchphrase is "Bite my shiny metal ass!"
Variations on this include the following:

• Bite my red-hot glowing ass! "When Aliens Attack" (1ACV12)
• Bite my colossal metal ass! "Anthology of Interest I" (2ACV16)
• Lick my frozen metal ass! "Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" (3ACV05)
• Bite my splintery wooden ass! "Obsoletely Fabulous" (4ACV14)
• Bite my glorious golden ass! "The Farnsworth Parabox" (4ACV15)

Composition

Bender routinely claims to be made of thirty to forty percent of various metals. Unfortunately, his credibility on this matter is thrown into question by the fact that they add up to well over one hundred percent:

• 40% Zinc (1ACV13)
• 40% Titanium (2ACV02)
• 30% Iron (3ACV22)
• 40% Dolemite (4ACV07)

Total: 150%.
The Professor also stated that he is an iron-osmium alloy, but has a .04% Nickel impurity (3ACV17), which doesn't increase the 150%, but slightly decreases the %s of everything else. (Credit to Trchri@PEEL for this list and episode references)

Alternate Appearances

Bender as a were-car

• Giant Bender: In Anthology of Interest I, Bender asks what it would be like if he were 500 feet tall.
• Were-Car Bender: In The Honking, Bender is transformed each night at midnight into a malicious were-car, determined to kill his closest friend.
• Santa Bender: Bender is painted red to take over Santa Claus' route.
• Penguin Bender: Bender retracts his legs and arms and puts on a tux to disguise himself in Birdbot of Ice-Catraz.
• Human Bender: In Anthology of Interest II, Bender asks what it would be like if he were human.
• Flying Saucer Bender: After crashing to the New Mexico desert, the military mistakenly reassembles Bender's body to resemble a small flying saucer.
• Super King: In Less than Hero, Bender's superhero personna is Super King.
• Young Bender: Bender takes several reverted forms in Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles, including a software disc and a set of "bending unit blueprints".
• Femmebot Bender: Bender gets a sex-change operation in order to win five olympic medals.
• Wooden Bender: Bender downgrades to a wooden version in Obsoletely Fabulous.
• Golden Bender: In Universe 1, Bender's coin flip resulted in his choosing the gold finish instead of the foghat grey that we're used to.