Bender Bending Rodríguez

Bender Bending Rodríguez
Character Information
Gender	Male
Age	13 years old; his heаd is 1055 years older than body. Also, duplicates are up to 10,000 years old.
Species	Robot
Planet	Earth
Profession	See Jobs Section
Relatives	See Family Section
Background Information
First appearance	"Space Pilot 3000"
Voiced by	John DiMaggio

"Bite my shiny metal ass!"

―Bender

Bender (full name: Bender Bending Rodríguez), also known as Bending Unit 22, was made in Tijuana, Mexico in 2997. As a state-of-the-art bending unit, he spent his life before he met Philip J. Fry bending girders to be used for suicide booths. After learning this, he tried to kill himself, but was unsuccessful. He gave up on that when Fry claimed that he was his only friend in the future. Bender drinks copious amounts of alcohol to recharge his fuel cells, while displaying symptoms similar to intoxication when he stops. When he burps, fire comes out of his mouth. He gambles, smokes cigars, consorts with hookerbots, and is constantly trying to gain attention to boost his already over-inflated ego. He is equipped with a gaydar, though it ultimately claims everyone is gay. He currently lives with Philip J. Fry in his closet-sized apartment, fully equipped with an apartment-sized closet. He hates his self destruct sequence. He has an affinity for turtles, penguins, and Napoleon Bonaparte.

Bender also is fascinated with cooking, though he is shown to have little sense of actual human taste, often creating dishes that can kill plant life. He also thinks that humans eat rocks. His strangest trait is that magnets, when attached to his head, mess up his inner inhibition unit, causing him to act like a folk singer.

Jobs and Alteregos

Bending Unit

• Employed bending girders for building MomCorp’s brand of suicide booth: after learning that he was bending girders for Suicide Booths, he decided to kill himself, but was convinced to remain alive when he met Fry.
• A scab bending unit for Curvetti Bros. Bending Plant: when it becomes apparent that Bender’s need for bending is not sated in his current job, he joins Curvetti Bros. to get bending out of his system.

At Planet Express

• Resident Bending Unit: not often utilized in the function, Bender is often considered an employee of Planet Express in this capacity.
• Assistant Manager of Sales: apparently this is Bender's official job title at Planet Express
• Cook: Bender takes up this post in addition to his other "duties" and is generally considered a poor chef despite winning the Cooking Colliseum contest over Elzar.
• Temporary Posts:
  • Coordinator of the Professor’s Bodily Functions: when Morgan Proctor briefly replaces Hermes Conrad as Bureaucrat of Planet Express, she reassigns Bender to this task.
  • Ship Captain: A temporary appointment when Leela resigns to join Penguins Unlimited in protesting the shipment of a dark matter tanker through a penguin reserve on Pluto.

Governmental Employee

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"Je Suis Napoleon!" --Emperor Bender

• Prime Minister of Trisol: During Fry’s brief period as Emperor of Trisol, Bender is made Prime Minister over the head of the previous occupant of the post, Gorgak.
• Prime Minister of Norway: after being temporarily fired from Planet Express in 3001, Bender produces an arm with the career chip "Prime Minister of Norway" in it, and is promptly hired by the cryogenics lab.
• Pharaoh of O'Cyris IV: after the death of Pharaoh Hermenthotip, Bender ensures he would be the next Pharaoh by adding himself to the Wall of Prophecy, and used his newfound position to build a colossal stone monument so he would be remembered.
• Soldier/War Hero: after enlisting in the Earth military to get a 5% discount at a local 7¹¹, Bender and Fry are pressed into service in Earth’s war against Spheron I, where Bender serves with distinction and is honored after injured in the line of duty.
• Emperor of France: on several occasions Bender has taken on the persona of Napoleon Bonaparte for various reasons. This seems at odds with the fact that the French is considered a dead language in the 31st century.Though it is possible that like Latin today, French is still understood by some people, just not widely spoken.

Entertainment

• Recording artist: records a spoken word album on Chapek 9.
• Recording equipment: during the First Omicronian Invasion of Earth Bender filled in as a camera during the filming of the remainder of a lost episode of Single Female Lawyer.
• Acting Unit: when Antonio Calculon breaks down and the popular television show All My Circuits puts out a casting call for acting unit to replace the robot, Bender manages to get the role (see the Bender Arc for an explanation of his performance). But he is convinced by Fathers Against Rude Television (F.A.R.T.) that his "character", while entertaining, is a bad influence on the youths, and he retired as an actor.
• Calculon's Official Stalker: Calculon named him this after being convinced of the extent of his derangement.
• Folk Singer: one of Bender's secret ambitions was to become a folk singer, which he unconsciously reveals whenever his inhibition unit is corrupted by a magnet, and when he becomes temporarily immobilized he is taken in by Beck's head as a washboard player. But when Bender regains his mobility, he is unable to keep up a facade that he was still damaged.

Crime and Punishment

• Various criminal ventures: including pimping, mugging and identity theft, among others.
  • Bender is a convicted felon and is therefore ineligible to vote on Earth.
• Member of the Robot Mafia (as Blotto): Bender briefly became part of the Robot Mafia, taking the alias of Blotto, but leaves the group after his friends are targeted by the mafia during a delivery.
• Employee of the Nudist Alien Scammers: after downloading an obedience virus from the Nudist Alien Scammers, Bender is utilized by the scammers to take control of Earth, and to use the paradox-free time travel time code to go back in time to steal all of Earth's treasures. He was released from the scammer's employ after they deemed his usefulness outlived.
• Superhero: as part of The New Justice Team, Bender briefly fought crime in New New York under the alias Super King.
• Bounty Hunter: when the Eco-Feministas attacked Leo Wong’s miniature golf course, Bender was hired by Wong and Nixon to locate the Feministas.

Retail

• Car Part and Orphan Dealer: Bender runs a small company out of his apartment called Honest Bender’s Stolen Car Part Emporium and Orphanarium which was eventually shut down for "child cruelty, child endangerment, depriving children of food, selling children as food and misrepresenting the weight of livestock."
• Matchmaker: after finding out that lonely humans would pay to be set up with other humans, Bender starts a matchmaking service.

Others

• Were-car: when Bender is run down on the moors of Thermostadt, he is infected by the were-car virus. He obtained the antivirus file when the original were-car, Project Satan, was destroyed.
• A God: after accidentally being fired out of a torpedo and becoming lost in deep space, the Shrimpkin civilization evolves on his body. Bender spends a brief time being their deity, before the various factions engage in nuclear war and the whole species are wiped out in the nuclear holocaust.
  • While Bender was a God to the Shrimpkins, he tasked Malachi Sr. with writing a bible, to which he contributed the one commandment; "God needs booze".
• Hot water heater: for Calculon, briefly, in order to become closer to the television star.
• Penguin: after being attacked by a whale and suffering a head injury on Pluto, Bender reboots in penguin mode.
• Titanius Anglesmith: After unleashing his imagination while playing Dungeons & Dragons, Bender loses track of his identity and becomes Titanius Anglesmith.
• A Writer: after Bender became a god he wrote a bible consisting of one commandment: God Needs Booze.

Love life

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Bender and the Countess de la Roca

Bender has been romantically linked with several individuals throughout the series, as well as a large number of loose fembots:

• The Crushinator: While stranded on the surface of Earth's Moon, Bender engages in a relationship with the Crushinator, that apparently results in a son.
• Countess de la Roca: When the Planet Express crew takes a vacation on the Titanic, Bender falls in love with this wealthy fembot. But in the cruise liner's untimely demise, the Countess was sucked into a black hole.
• Lucy Liu's head: After saving the 21st century actress from KidNappster, they become romantically involved. Bender even expels the head of Pavarotti from his chest cavity so Liu can live there, where she apparently remains for more than a year.
• Planet Express ship: this relationship came to a climatic end when Bender breaks up with the ship, who then tries to kill everyone on board in revenge. Bender is forced to distract the ship by pretending to merge programming with her, while Fry and Leela shut her down. Although Bender retained his basic "in-your-face interface", there was some overlap in personalities that suggests the process was at least partially completed.
• Calculon: when Bender receives a sex-change operation so he could keep his record five Olympic gold medals, he becomes romantically involved with Calculon, and even becomes engaged to him. But a staged soap opera-esque diversion convinces Calculon that his love, Coilette, is dead, and Bender reverts to his former male self.
• Fanny: Bender engages in a relationship with Fanny, the wife of Donbot, and though the Donbot was criminally oblivious to the affair his wife was having despite the ample proof provided, he eventually finds out, though the relationship does not end there.
• Angleyne: When Bender starts "sleep bending", he gets a job scabbing for a bending company and meets Angleyne, the ex-wife of Flexo. Flexo and Angelyne renew their relationship by the end of the episode.
• Amy Wong: Amy and Bender ended up having a "robosexual" relationship in the episode "Proposition Infinity" By the end of the episode she goes back to Kif, after she mentioned to Bender that they are free to have a normal monogamous relationship which caused Bender to leave her.

Age

Although Bender was made in 2988, his head is about 1055 years old because it was buried in the ground for years after traveling back in time.. He also travels back in time and waits until present day many times, adding at least a million years onto his age (because of these trips back in time Bender's age in unknown, but he is the oldest of the main characters).

Traits

Bender is a kleptomaniac, and can often be seen looting and thieving from his friends and co-workers. He is also an accomplished con artist, having gained Fry's power of attorney. Bender has no problem committing most crimes, and will gladly do so, ranging from the petty theft of wallets to much higher crimes like kidnapping Jay Leno's head due to their long feud. When he is sufficiently frightened or sickened, bricks fall from his backside (a reference to the line "shitting bricks."). When sufficiently fascinated by something, he may pull out a camera and snap a picture, claiming that the event is "neat."

Talents

He also practices magic.

Death

When the Planet Express crew threw Bender a fake funeral to prove they would remember him when he died, Fry says Bender's favorite way to die would be none other then being crushed by a semi truck driven by the Incredible Hulk. Bender is touched that Fry remembers.

Additionally Bender's retirement plan is to turn his "on-off" switch to "off."

In Bender's Big Score several paradox Benders died by explosion and one by destruction code from bladder failure.

In Tales of Interest Non-Canon shows a human Bender dies of over-eating.

In Lethal Inspection it is revealed that all robots have a wireless back up unit that will download them into a new body if their current body is destroyed. However, Bender does not have a back up unit due to Inspector #5 overriding a quality control failure on Bender, so when his body is destroyed he will die.

Family

A picture of Bender's mom

• Professor Farnsworth, owner/creator of the Sport-Utility Robot on which Bender and all other modern robots are based.
• Bender's grandmother, probably on his mother's side, who is a bulldozer. Leela says, "Come on, Bender, your grandma can push harder than that!" and Bender says, "No crap, my grandmother's a bulldozer."
• Mom, owner of Mom's Friendly Robot Co.
• His mother, a robotic arm who sends him Xmas cards.
• His father, who was killed by a giant can opener.
• Buster, Bender's identical cousin.
• Uncle Vladimir on father's side, who lived in Thermostadt, capital of the Robo-Hungarian Empire, and died at the ripe old age of 211.
• Tandy, Uncle Vladimir's son and hence Bender's cousin.
• Screwy Aunt Rita, who is a screw.
• Junior, a child born of The Crushinator.
• Bender's firstborn son; given to the Robot Devil in exchange for an Army of the Damned.
• Flexo, another Bending unit of the same model.

Bugs, Viruses and Programming Errors

Over the years, Bender has had many bugs, viruses and errors. He once had his brain erased (causing him to say nothing other than "I am Bender please insert girder" in a monotone) . Bender was run over by, and turned into a were-car at one point . He downloaded the iObey virus to make him do what the makers of the virus want.

Bender also has a self destruct code, 1A2B3C (but before C he explodes), that causes his head to blow up.

Magnets placed on Bender's head cause his inhibition unit to malfunction thus making him sing Folk songs.

Catchphrases

Bender has a few catchphrases, such as Bite my Shiny Metal Ass. Bender also frequently uses the word meat-bag.

In the "War is the H-word" episode Bender's Top Ten Most Frequently Uttered Words is listed as:

1. Ass
2. Daffodil
3. Shiny
4. My
5. Bite
6. Pimpmobile
7. Up
8. Yours
9. Chumpette
10. Chump

In addition Bender's least frequently used word according to the same episode is "antiquing."

Composition

• 40% Zinc
• 40% Titanium
• 30% Iron
• 40% Dolemite
• 40% Luck (from horseshoes)
• .04% Nickel impurity
• 9.96% Osmium
• 40% Chromium

Not counting luck (since it is derived from the iron he is made from, which is recycled from horseshoes), Bender is made up of 200% more material than should be possible. That just proves how great he is.

Trivia

• Bender's Composition is over 100%, illogical even after excluding Luck and Dolemite (the latter being a combination of multiple elements which Bender already has)
• Bender's e-mail is bender@ilovebender.com.
• His vanity plate reads “1 DVS BSTD” (one devious bastard).
• Bender has hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, fear of the number 666.
• Bender has named his hands "Grabby and Squeezy", and his footcups "Stompy and Smashy".
• In Firefox, if you type "about:robots" into the address bar, a page with several cultural references to robots is displayed. The fourth bullet point says "Robots have shiny metal posteriors which should not be bitten.", a reference to Bender's famous saying, "Bite my shiny metal ass!".
• Bender is shown to have the ability to convert his finger into a handgun on the cover of Futurama: The Game. If this is canon or just simply cover art is unknown, although the latter is more likely.
• Bender weighs 525 pounds.
• He has been charged for pimping, theft, vandalism and many others. It may, in fact, be easier to list the crimes he has NOT committed.
• Bender's apartment number is 00100100. This is a binary representation of the ASCII character '$' or 36 in decimal, making him live in apartment number 36 $.
• 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 and both have one of the characters saying "Goodnight, sweet prince" (Fry in the first and Farnsworth in the second) to Bender when he dies.
• His self-destruct code is 1A2B3C (before C he explodes).
• Bender cannot have magnets attached to his head, or it will "screw up his inhibition unit", thus causing him to sing crazy variations of folk songs.
• Bender apparently stole the Prime Minister of Norway's arm.
• His birthstone is Robobium.
• He is able to simultaneously reattach each of his severed arms with the other.
• He cannot get up when he is knocked on his back. At least not until he learns how to from the majestic turtle.
• His antenna interferes with satelite televisions, along with some cellphones.
• He, along with Fry and Leela, appears in all episodes of the series.
• No one can say he doesn't own John Laraquette's Spine.
• Bender may be one of the most evil robots in the series, as acknowledged by Robot Santa and the Robot Devil.
• Bender's favorite cause of death is being crushed to death by a "runaway semi-driven by The Incredible Hulk.".
• He said the last full sentence in all 4 films - "Well, we're boned!" (Bender's Big Score), "I love you, meatbags!" (The Beast with a Billion Backs), "Whip harder, Professor!" (Benders Game), "Into the breach, meatbags. Or not, whatever." (Into the Wild Green Yonder). It is worth noting, however, that it was Farnsworth who voiced the last words in the film Bender's Game, and not Bender. (Faster! Faster! Slower!)
• Bender's waste management facilities may convert material he consumes into bricks.
• When Bender's brain is removed he continuously repeats the sentence, "I am Bender, please insert girder."
  
• Through court order, Bender is prohibited from singing.
• Bender had 50 terabytes of porn before the scammers erased it in Bender's Big Score. Please note that this is several times more then the storage capacity of the average computer.
• Bender is not allowed to vote in Earth elections because he is a convicted felon.
• Bender can take off his skin from the arms.

Appearances

• Along with Fry and Leela, he is one of only three characters to appear in every episode and film.