Lewis Robinson

Lewis Robinson is the protagonist of Disney's 2007 animated feature film, Meet the Robinsons.
He is 12 years old in 2007, the present time and 42, 30 years later, in 2037.
==Background==
===Development===
Lewis was derived from the original A Day With Wilbur Robinson storybook as a friend of Wilbur (rather than his father) that served as the narrator as he visited his friend's large and strange home.
===Personality===
Born in 1995, Lewis is a twelve-year-old incredibly gifted Canadian boy in terms of intelligence. He loves to invent and has been doing so since he was young. While a generally kind kid who has good intentions, he can also let frustration cloud his mind. He easily becomes discouraged when his inventions don't work, or he begins to think about how he is almost a teenager and still an orphan. He is also fairly single-minded and out of touch with his surroundings when he gets working on a project, as shown when he keeps his roommate, Goob, up all night working on his Memory Scanner and completely ignores his suffering, all of which he's largely oblivious to. However, he never intentionally tries to cause trouble for others, and often feels very bad when he does; when he finds out that Bowler Hat Guy is Goob's future self and that he indirectly ruined his future, he feels sorry for him and even goes out of his way to remedy his mistake. 
He is also frequently caught up in the past, longing to go back and change his life so he won't be an orphan. By the end of the film, however, Lewis learns to keep moving forward and embrace his failures. He has also shown to accept others for who they are, as shown when he first acquainted to the frog and music lover Franny during the Science Fair. This kindness was what enabled the Robinson family to expand later.
As an adult of 42 years old, Cornelius Robinson is highly passionate in his inventions to improve the lives of humankind. As a result, his pure dedication and charisma were what led him to be highly regarded as "Father of the Future" and "Inventor Extraordinaire'. He has also shown to let go of his past, thus coining the phrase "Keep Moving Forward" as his motto.
However, Cornelius has shown to turn a blind eye on his failed inventions. This is shown when he had the failed DOR-15 shut down but not completely as the Helping Hat managed to escape from the prototype room later. This nearly became his undoing and downfall as he was unaware of her escape due to him being on a business trip for a few days. However, his younger self-managed to avert this (save for the missing second-time machine) just before Cornelius comes back home by the near-ending of the film.
===Physical appearance===
His outfit consists of a white short-sleeved collared shirt, blue sweater-vest, red shorts, white knee socks, brown shoes, and brown, tortoise-shell colored, round-rimmed glasses.
As an adult, Lewis still wears his glasses and his hair is spiked. He is seen wearing a lab coat over his everyday clothes.
==Appearances==
===Meet the Robinsons===
An orphan, Lewis was abandoned by his mother at the Sixth Street Orphanage when he was an infant in 1995. Because of his inventing hobby, he has scared off over 124 possible parent pairs and causes some difficulties for his roommate, Goob. After another adoption interview ends in disaster, he begins to lose hope of ever being adopted, especially with the onset of becoming a teenager, which, as Lewis stated, will be harder as couples considering adoption don’t usually adopt teenagers. He eventually figures that his mother may have only abandoned him as she wouldn't be able to take care of him and tries to find her identity by building a Memory Scanner, a device that scans people's deepest memories. Presenting his machine at the Joyce Williams Elementary School Science Fair, he runs into a mysterious teenage boy named Wilbur Robinson, who claims to be a time cop from the future and warns him of a man with a bowler hat's plans to sabotage things. Lewis doesn't believe him and thinks him to be crazy! The Memory Scanner is sabotaged by Bowler Hat Guy's robotic hat DOR-15 when Lewis tries to present it and in the mayhem caused by the machine's malfunction, Lewis retreats to the roof of the orphanage in sorrow. He's soon confronted by Wilbur, who tries to get Lewis to return to the science fair and fix the Memory Scanner. In an attempt to convince Lewis he's really from the future, he takes him to his home time in 2037 with the Time Machine. Wanting to use the Time Machine to try and find his mother, it ends up crashing into the hills near Anderson Observatory. Wilbur tells Lewis he needs to fix it, agreeing on the condition set by Lewis to see his mother, but actually lying.
Upon arrival to the garage and meeting Carl, the robot runs off in terror. Wilbur places a Carmen Miranda style fruit hat on Lewis' head to hide his hair, a dead giveaway for him being from the past. While Wilbur is off to calm Carl down, Lewis takes a Travel Tube to the Robinsons' front yard. Frightened by Lefty at the door, he runs into Wilbur's grandfather Bud. Trying to search for the garage and Bud's teeth, Lewis meets the rest of Wilbur's family. While meeting Francesca in her music room (and helping the Frog Band rehearsal with maracas), he finds Bud's teeth in Frankie's mouth. Sneaking out while the rest of the family comes in to congratulate Bud, he bumps into Wilbur, who drags him off to ask what he's learned about the family and tells him to get started on fixing the Time Machine. Wilbur gives Lewis the "pep talk of the century" as he explains his father's motto of "Keep Moving Forward" and the struggles in actually building the time machine (as well as giving Lewis a different hat). After a failed effort to get the Time Machine started, Lewis becomes very frustrated about his capabilities and the Keep Moving Forward mantra. Wilbur tries to comfort him, but Lewis believes he's simply no good.
The Robinson boys are then called to dinner and have to go out of fear that Franny will come and discover the time machine. Lewis enjoys dinner with the Robinsons and is asked to fix a PB and J invention that looks like one he had tried to create earlier, but fails and splatters everyone with peanut butter and jelly. To his surprise, the family congratulates him on his "brilliant failure" and he admits that if he had a family, he'd like them to be just like the Robinsons. Later, Tiny the dinosaur attacks Lewis, trying to capture him, and the family rushes to defend him. Wilbur is nearly eaten while trying to save Lewis, so Lewis grabs a shovel and uses one of the springy plants in the garden to jump into Tiny's mouth and tries to rescue Wilbur. He nearly fails, but Wilbur finds Gaston's Meatball Canon in Tiny's mouth and uses it to shoot Mini-Doris off of Tiny's head, ending the battle. The boys celebrate, with Lewis commenting on how great a team he and Wilbur make. Lewis is surprised that the Robinsons risked so much to protect him and Franny after he accidentally calls her "Mom," offers to adopt him, which he happily accepts. However, Wilbur decides that he can't keep up the act any longer and knocks off Lewis' hat, revealing his hair to the shocked Robinsons. Franny takes back her offer, leaving Lewis heartbroken and Wilbur blurts out that he never actually intended to take Lewis to see his mom. Upset and betrayed, Lewis yells at Wilbur, shocked that he was dumb enough to believe he and Wilbur were friends and runs off.
While sitting in the garden crying, the Bowler Hat Guy appears and offers to take him back to see his mom if he fixes the Memory Scanner. He agrees and goes with him despite Wilbur's pleas not to. Lewis fixes the Memory Scanner and explains its operation at which time Bowler Hat Guy double-crosses him, revealing that Lewis is, in fact, Cornelius Robinson; Wilbur's dad, and the man who invented Doris. He then reveals himself as an older Goob, Lewis' old roommate who lost a baseball game due to Lewis keeping him up all night and grew so furious over it that he wanted revenge. Lewis apologized to Goob for unknowingly messing up his life but tells his old roommate that it was mostly because he was obsessed with his past when he should've let go and "keep moving forward", incidentally coining his own future phrase. However, Goob finds it easier to blame Lewis than take responsibility for his own life. Goob prepares to depart in the time machine when Lewis escapes with the help of Carl and Wilbur and reveals that he knows the truth about everything. But before they can get back to the house, but they are attacked by Doris who destroys Carl and steals the Memory Scanner. Wilbur pleads with Lewis to fix the time machine and history, but Lewis lacks the confidence to do it, saying they should call his future self, but Wilbur calls Lewis "Dad" and tells him he's the only one that can do it. The change in the timeline then causes Wilbur to be erased from existence.
Lewis finds the Robinsons mind-controlled by Doris hats in a world where Doris rules and discovers what happened from the Memory Scanner records which show she eventually betrayed and killed Goob. Chased by the Robinsons, Lewis manages to fix the time machine and escape. As he is chased by an enormous Doris and eventually by a small swarm of hats, Lewis starts to beat himself up for having invented Doris in the first place before having an epiphany and travels back to where Goob is about to sign a contract with Inventco, where he reveals Doris' planned betrayal. Lewis promises never to invent Doris, erasing her from existence and takes Goob to see the future she created, which turns back into the original future. After Wilbur is restored, Lewis convinces him to get his family to adopt Goob, but Goob runs away, leaving behind his binder with a question mark next to what he wants to do next. He is reunited with the worried Robinson family and reveals that this experience has caused him to feel better than he has in a long time. He then meets his future self who arrives home early and shows him all of his inventions, revealing that the Memory Scanner is their first real invention and the one that led to this great future. Seeing this causes Lewis to regain his confidence in going back to his own time and showing the Memory Scanner and he asks Cornelius if he ever does meet his real mom, to which Cornelius simply tells him to go back to the Science Fair and find out for himself. Lewis says goodbye to the family, getting advice from Franny and Wilbur reminds him before he leaves that he will see the Robinsons again as they are his family after all.
To Lewis' surprise, Wilbur takes him to see his mom like he promised rather than to the Science Fair. Lewis goes to stop her from leaving him, but realizing that he already has a family, the Robinsons, Lewis stops himself and slips on a step, scaring his mother and causing her to run away, forgetting to knock on the orphanage door, so he knocks on the door himself, and watches from the time machine as Lewis finds his infant self.
Returning to his time, he explains to confused Wilbur that he doesn't need his mother as he already has a family. He then hugs Wilbur who expresses his surprise that Lewis ended up being both his dad and best friend. Wilbur gives Lewis his taped back together with plans for the Memory Scanner and promises to return if Lewis screws up the future again. Lewis watches as Wilbur returns to his time and sky-writes "See ya later, Dad."
Lewis returns to the Science Fair but then he remembers Goob so he runs to the Baseball Game and manages to get there in time, Goob was asleep and at that moment the ball is hit so Lewis yells at Goob to wake up, Goob wakes up and without realizing it catches the ball and wins the game for his team, his team runs to celebrate him and Lewis happily watches his friend's triumph, having corrected his mistake and saving him from a bad future. At the fair, Lewis convinces Mr. Willerstien and Dr. Krunklehorn to let him try the Memory Scanner again and uses Dr. Krunklehorn as his test subject as he no longer needs to find his mother. He plugs in the date of her wedding and the Memory Scanner shows the event perfectly, and, to his shock, reveals that she is Grandma Lucile from the future. Bud arrives and calls Lewis a special kid, saying he doesn't look like a Lewis to which Lewis replies he's told a lot that he looks more like a Cornelius. Lewis wins the Science Fair and meets young Franny who tells him she believes that frogs have more musical ability than people and people think she's crazy for that. When Franny demands to know if he thinks that too, Lewis, remembering Franny's band in the future and her telling him that she's "always right," tells her that he thinks she's right, endearing him to her. A reporter asks for an interview and Lewis, seeing his future parents and wife realizes that he faces a great future. Lucile and Bud adopt Lewis and nickname him Cornelius. On his way out, Lewis packs his things and says goodbye to Goob who had gone on to have a good future with the Baseball trophy and adopted by a couple, Lewis says goodbye to Mildred and leaves with his new parents. Lewis and his parents move into Anderson Observatory which becomes the future Robinson house and Lewis turns the dome into his lab and sets to work on building Carl.
=== Once Upon a Studio ===
Along with Bowler Hat Guy, Lucille, Carl, and Wilbur appear along with Lewis in the short, as well as many other Walt Disney Animation Studio characters. Both the Robinson boys appear when Belle and the Beast were singing "When You Wish Upon a Star". In that scene, Lewis was crying silently when Belle and the Beast sung "Will come to you", and Wilbur was smiling. In the final scene after everyone sang "Your Dreams Come True", Lewis and Wilbur are seen in the center left with Pegasus behind them. 
==Video games==
===Meet the Robinsons===
Lewis only makes brief appearances in the Meet the Robinsons video game, with Cornelius sending a videophone message to Wilbur at the start of the game to stay out of trouble and a brief appearance as a child at the Science Fair. He is later mentioned by his wife Franny in the altered 2037 (in which Stanley and Lizzy are warring super villains), who laments about how unhappy he is working for Magma Co. 
==Disney Parks==
 Lewis appeared as a walkaround character when the film was first released at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure. Ever since, he has become rare, though can still be found as a random character in Hollywood Studios.
==Trivia==
*In the original book, Lewis and Mr. Robinson are two separate characters, due to the fact that time travel is only vaguely mentioned in the book and not used. Mr. Robinson essentially looked like an older, bespectacled version of Wilbur.
*In an alternate ending of the film when after Lewis emerged into the meeting room with the time machine, he brought the Bowler Hat Guy back in time to the day of the game. After stopping Bowler Hat Guy's rant, the winning catch was thrown and Bowler Hat Guy yelled to his younger self to awaken, resulting in him making the winning catch. As Bowler Hat Guy celebrates, he realizes that he did not have to destroy Lewis' future all along, but only had to wake himself up and shudders as he realizes how very little he thought everything through. He then sincerely thanks Lewis, who replies that it was his pleasure. Lewis watch Bowler Hat Guy fade from existence, and Doris follows a moment later as Lewis says that he's never going to invent her. Most of this alternate ending was fully animated and colored; why it was deleted and replaced remains unknown.
*There are hints that Lewis is Cornelius, Wilbur's dad:
**When Lewis asks Wilbur what Cornelius looks like, Wilbur takes a moment to think before answering Tom Selleck, as if he's trying not to give away who Cornelius looks like. Additionally, Tom Selleck is actually the voice actor for Cornelius, Lewis' future self.
**Aside from how weird it is that Wilbur points out that Lewis' hair would give away that Lewis is from the past, he also specifically says that Lewis' hair would be a "dead" giveaway, the adjective sounding a lot like the word "dad."
**Lewis and Cornelius both being inventors and them both creating a PB&J gun, makes it easy to figure out that Lewis and Cornelius are the same person.
==Gallery==
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