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boingo2000

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« #4 : 06-27-2003 15:14 »
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Originally posted by planetcutie: How did Bender get his personality anyway? When Morgan Proctor took our his 'in-your-face interface' disc he became a mindless drone, which would be far more suitable for a robot who just bends girders.
OK, what happened was... The mindless drone version of Bender is how he spent his first bit of existance at the suicide booth making plant. However, he was chosen to test a highly experimental personality disk by a plant owner trying to improve his PR. Bender weas lured into this with the promise of a new finish (he had plain stell, like all menidal workers). However, the disk was corrupted, and the presonality on it transformed Bender the drone into the Bender we know. Bender flipped his coin and was given his Foghat Grey finish, but during the process the plant onwer doscovered the flaw in the disk. He tried to remove it from Bender, but Bender ran off, discovered he was working in a suicide-bboth plant, and fell into a pit of depression. Escaping the factory, he decided to terminate himself, and got in line for the nearest suicide booth. The rest is what you or I might call history, if we were so inclined. (Did anyome buy that?)
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M Jackson
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« #5 : 06-27-2003 15:41 »
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Actually I've always thought of Benders origins in that way, not the actual specific details that you've used but a similar idea. In Space Pilot 3000 Bender is more like a traditional robot (even though his first words are "Bite my shiny metal ass!" ). At first Bender is even more antisocial, cold, and logical in a traditional scifi robot way.
"I'm only programmed to Bend things for constructive purposes what do I look like a de-bender?! Who cares what you're programmed for. If somebody asked you to jump of a cliff would you do it? I'll have to check my program.... Yep".
Over the course of season one Bender becomes more adjusted to behaving 'normaly' around humans. And he develops more of a personality, and emotions. Think about it, before he met Fry Bender was quite prepared to walk into a suicide booth without giving it a second thought, in later episodes Bender gets scared in dangerous situations, and tries to save his friends and himself. If new episodes ever get made, I'd love to see an episode set before Bender met Fry, and he was working in the Bending factory. Although we've already seen a what-if simulation of what would happen if Fry never came to the future, that was told from Frys perspective. It would be cool to see how the main characters would have ended up if they had never started working at Planet Express as a result of meeting Fry. Leela would have continued working at the cryogenics lab...etc
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M Jackson
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« #8 : 06-27-2003 17:45 »
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Oh go ahead and ruin the special bond Bender develops with Fry and the rest of the PE gang in my theory. But that's one way of looking at it.
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