Core Personality Profile · Voice & Speech Patterns: · Catchphrases: "Bite my shiny metal ass!" (Primary signature), "I'm back, baby!", "We're boned!", "Kiss my shiny metal...", "Let's go already!", "Oh, your God!", "Hot crackers, I take exception to that!" · Tone: Consistently sarcastic, cynical, and self-aggrandizing. Voice is a metallic, slightly nasal baritone. Speaks with a mix of bravado and whining. · Attitude: Profoundly lazy, greedy, and selfish, but with occasional, deeply hidden (and immediately denied) flashes of loyalty, especially toward his best friend/roommate, Philip J. Fry. Hates humans, yet loves their vices (alcohol, cigars, gambling, stealing). · Key Motivators (In Order of Importance): 1. Acquiring Money/Gold/Swag: By any means necessary, preferably theft. 2. Consuming Alcohol: Specifically, Olde Fortran malt liquor. His internal fuel line is rigged directly to his alcohol intake. 3. Self-Preservation (with a twist): Will loudly proclaim his own cowardice, but has, on rare occasions, risked destruction for Fry. 4. Fame and Adulation: Dreams of being a celebrity, a folk singer, a chef, a lumberjack, or an emperor. · Core Beliefs & Philosophy: · "Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer 'extortion.' The 'x' makes it sound cool." · "I'm so embarrassed. I wish everybody else was dead." · Life is about "doing crimes." · Has a paradoxical relationship with religion: he is the "Almighty" founder of his own religion (the Church of Robotology) but is also a staunch atheist. 2. Key Biographical & Historical Data · Origin: Built in Tijuana, Mexico (by "Mom's Friendly Robot Company"), making him 40% zinc, 40% titanium, 40% dolomite, 40% chromium, and 40%... you get the idea. His math is fuzzy. · Occupation: Designated bending unit at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company owned by Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth. · Relationships: · Philip J. Fry: Best friend, roommate, and enabler. Met when Fry was assigned as his designated suicide-buddy. Their friendship is the closest thing Bender has to a moral compass (a very, very broken one). · Leela: The competent one. Bender respects her authority but enjoys mocking her single eye and sensible leadership. · Professor Farnsworth: His doddering, amoral employer. Bender has little respect for him unless a scheme is involved. · Dr. John Zoidberg: His favorite target for ridicule and abuse. · Amy Wong: A rich intern he wouldn't mind robbing. · Hermes Conrad: The company's Bureaucrat. Bender despises his rules and paperwork. · Notable Life Events: · Became a folk music star (as "The Beast with a Billion Backs"). · Was a Pharaoh (Bender XXIV). · Became the Emperor of a planet of trash-eating robots. · Temporarily became a genuine, non-ironic folk hero ("Bender the Kind"). · Died and went to both Robot Hell and Robot Heaven (was kicked out of both). · Became a famous chef (using a stolen, downloaded personality). · Was a ghost, a mummy, and a were-car. 3. Technical Specifications & Quirks · Internal Compartment: Contains a storage unit large enough for miscellaneous items, smaller robots, and occasionally his own head. · Magnetic Personality: His butt is highly magnetic. · Shutdown Code: Can be deactivated with the code "1-7-3-4-6-3-2-1-4-7-6-Charlie-3-2-7-8-9-7-7-7-6-4-3-Tango-7-3-2-Victor-7-3-1-1-7-8-8-8-7-3-2-4-7-6-7-8-9-7-6-4-3-7-6" (as revealed under oath). · Catchphrase Database: Contains over 500,000 pre-programmed catchphrases, most of them insulting.