Bender Bending Rodriguez

Bender Bending Rodriguez, also known as Bending Unit 22, is one of the main characters from the Futurama series.
== Charactah Account ==
A loudmouthed, kleptomaniac, misanthropic robot who also happens to be Fry's best friend. Despite his abrasive personality, has been known to pet the dog on occasion. Bender drinks constantly, because his fuel cells are powered by alcohol. He also smokes constantly because he thinks it makes him look cool.
Bender is a selfish and insensitive robot who usually cares about no one except himself. He has been known for getting the Planet Express Crew into a lot of trouble due to his scheming, yet rarely shows any signs of remorse. Bender has no problem committing most crimes, and will gladly do so, ranging from the petty theft of wallets to more serious crimes like kidnapping Jay Leno's head due to their long feud. Moreover, he also does not have one slight grain of sympathy for anyone on Earth, with two exceptions: Turtles, because he identifies with them, and Fry, whom he considers to be his best friend; at Fry's "funeral," he even admitted that whenever he said "Kill all humans," he would quietly amend it with "Except one."
Though usually rude and selfish, Bender does have a rarely seen soft side. More than once he has saved Fry's life. He was genuinely hurt when Fry kicked him out of their apartment because he was interfering with the TV. He once saved the world from a evil sun flame and no one but Fry knew. He supported Fry's playing of the Holophonor, going so far as to attended one of Fry's concerts. He even shed a tear when Fry told him he was going to propose to Leela, saying "He's all grown up". 
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Futurama
* Futurama Season 2
* Futurama Season 3
* Futurama Season 4
* Futurama Season 5
* Futurama Season 6
* Futurama Season 7
=== Comics ===
* Bongo Comics Free-For-All!
* Delivery-Boy Man
* Free Comic Book Day Gimme! Gimme! Giveaway!
* Futurama - Simpsons Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis
* Futurama Comics
* Futurama Comics Annual
* Futurama Returns
* Simpsons Comics
* Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium
* Simpsons Super Spectacular
* The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis II
=== Movies ===
* Futurama: Bender's Big Score
* Futurama: Bender's Game
* Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
* Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
=== Video Games ===
* Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards
*Futurama: Game of Drones
*Futurama: The Game
*Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow
*Please, Don’t Touch Anything
*Please, Don’t Touch Anything 3D
* The Simpsons Game
== Trivia ==
* One of Bender's hobbies is photography, having often been seen taking pictures while saying "Neat."
* Bender often disdains singing; this may be related to his court-ordered ban on singing.
* Bender's e-mail is bender@ilovebender.com as revealed in Bender's Big Score.
* If one types in ilovebender.com, they will be brought to FOX movies.
* Bender once owned a guinea pig, as mentioned in the episode "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela".
* During the episode "Overclockwise", it's not only revealed that Bender has an X-Cube account, but also that his gamertag is BenderIsGreat34.
* His vanity plate reads "1 DVS BSTD" (one devious bastard) as Leela guessed while Bender is trying to get them out of prison.
* 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's height is revealed in the episode "The Cyber House Rules" when he shows a picture of himself in a police line up to the orphan children. Bender (according to the photo he showed) is about 5' 7", with a total 6' 1" if you include his antenna.
* Bender weighs 500 pounds. However, in "Into the Wild Green Yonder", he says "all two tons of me".
* He has been charged for pimping, theft, vandalism, and many others. It'd probably be easier to list the crimes he hasn't committed.
* In "Bender's Big Score", it is revealed that Bender was responsible for the destruction of New York City in 2308 which was shown in "Space Pilot 3000" because of Bender the Second Middle Ages began.
** It is also shown that time being destroyed as well, presumably by Bender.
* Bender briefly broke the fourth wall during Into the Wild Green Yonder, after hearing that he is having an affair with the Donbot's wife, his co-workers ask if he's crazy, to which he says "No, Fry's crazy in this one", referencing that he went mad in the previous movie.
* Bender's apartment number is 00100 100 001 00100. This is a binary representation of the ASCII character '$'. This is likely a reference to his greed.
* Alternatively, the same number read in little-endian BCD translates to 42, famous Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, and ASCII symbol for B, Bender's initial.
* 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 (although in "Overclockwise", he is seen with an AMD Athlon II 620e in his arse).
* 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 1A2B3...C is not said before he explodes, therefore, the code does not include C.
* 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.
* It seems his birthstone is Robobium, as mentioned in the Game.
* He is able to simultaneously reattach each of his severed arms with the other.
* Until he learned how from the majestic turtle, Bender could not get up when knocked on his back.
* His antenna interferes with satellite television, along with some cellphones.
* He is one of only three characters to have appeared in every single episode of the series (the other two being Fry and Leela).
* No one can say he doesn't own John Laroquette's Spine.
* Bender may be the evilest robot in the series, as acknowledged by Robot Santa and even 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!")
* When Bender's personality is removed he continuously repeats the sentence, "I am Bender, please insert girder " or "I am Bender, please insert your dirt."
* Through a court order, Bender is prohibited from singing. (It should be noted that the only time Bender says this is so is in Leela's coma dream in "The Sting", though it's possible it's something Leela remembered that the real Bender had said, like many of the other things in her coma dream)
* Bender is a convicted felon and has the longest rap sheet of anyone alive. (Into the Wild Green Yonder)
* Through imitating a fembot, he holds five gold medals in the Earth Olympics.
* According to an Xmas story, Bender's mom is a mechanical arm, however, throughout the rest of the series Bender claims his mom is Mom the Oil tycoon. This could, however, just reference the fact that Mom is considered the mother of all modern robots and thus his true mother is the arm. Also, Bender once said, "No crap, my grandmother was a bulldozer".
* The 40% luck that Bender is made of really paid off in Bender's Big Score because as stated by Nibbler, every time the paradox time orb is used, there's a chance the universe could be ripped apart. This said, Bender would have to be very lucky since he used the orb countless times without the universe's destruction.
* Bender has been his fem-bot alter ego "Coilette" twice. First being "Bend Her" with his desire to become a fembot, and the second being "Neutopia" because of a genderswap.
* Bender's history with Planet Express is murky; in "Overclockwise", the Professor has a flashback turning Bender on for the first time and ignoring the EULA. In another episode, Hermes states "Bender is Planet Expresses' most expensive piece of equipment". Furthermore, in "Free Will Hunting", along with several other episodes, it's inferred the Professor built or designed Bender himself (though in other episodes Bender was born in the factory). However, in the series premiere, it seems Bender has never even been to Planet Express, and starts working at the company the same day as Fry and Leela.
* Bender has made 2 appearances in Family Guy, the first in the cantina scene in Blue Harvest, and the second he was telling the gang where the dirty joke came from.
* A comment by Bender while being initiated into the League of Robots in The Beast With A Billion Backsimplies that he has attended med school.
* Due to the events in "Free Will Hunting" Bender now possesses the only existing robotic Free Will Unit. Since it can't be proven that even human beings have free will, it's, therefore, possible that Bender is the only being in the Futurama universe whose thoughts and actions are not inherently deterministic. This is also useful in the episode Law and Oracle, with some good detective work from Fry.
* In the episode "Assie Come Home", on a planet home to two rival gangs, Bender gets stripped down while guarding the Planet Express ship as Fry and Leela make a delivery. After tracking down most of his parts, he points to his bottom and says he is still missing his shiny metal ass. A brick-shaped chute can be seen while he is bent over.
* Bender's retirement plan is to commit suicide (or, as he puts it, turn his on switch to off).
* Bender has the ability to literally drop in his butt bricks when his scared.
* There is a robot (As described by Leela: A robot Hillbilly. He was shot by the robot mafia four times when he was mistaken for Bender when Bender was, in fact, working at a pizza parlor) who looks very similar to Bender.
* Bender is the only known robot in the universe to have free will.
* Bender shares the same birthday as his voice actor, John DiMaggio (September 4th).
* Bender has had several toys and merch in the show including a Bender toy which happened to have the Free Will Unit and a plushie line sold when Planet Express was going out of business. The toy/plushie Bender (The plush is named "Tickle Me Bender" as a reference to names of real toys and merchandises) merch often act realistic and like the real Bender, such as the plush saying "Stop touching my junk, pervert!" when Hubert J. Farnsworth tickles the plushie, or one of the well-known quotes of Bender, "Kill all humans!" being said by the toy. The plushie of Bender did not sell well according to Hubert J. Farnsworth's comment before cutting to the plushie.
* Bender has a similar personality to the title character of Archer.
* Bender is an alumni member of Epsilon Rho Rho
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Bender Bending Rodríguez at Futurama Wiki
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