Goddard

Goddard is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Cindy Vortex) of the Jimmy Neutron franchise. He is Jimmy's loyal robot dog and best friend.

## Background

Goddard's able to speak in Jimmy's voice, presumably through recordings. He gets along with Carl, Sheen, and Nick as they are Jimmy's best friends. He seems to dislike Humphrey because they're both dogs, which gives a natural sense of rivalry. And Goddard has little to no interaction with Cindy, Libby, and Brittany.

## Goddard

### Relatives

Jimmy Neutron, Hugh Neutron, Judy Neutron (owners)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Frank WelkerDan Castellaneta (Decimator version in "Jimmy Timmy Power Hour"; uncredited)Kim Saxon ("pilot")

### Appears in

Jimmy Neutron: Boy GeniusThe Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

### Debut

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

In the Jimmy Timmy Power Hour crossover special, Timmy Turner stupidly mistook him for a dog-shaped video game, and then he put in a disc for a violent game while he was in the upgrading mode. Then this leads to Goddard being a rampaging monster who terrorized Retroville. Fortunately, by the end of the special, he was returned to normal.

Then Goddard went with Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy, Libby, and Bolbi up into space in Win, Lose and Kaboom!, when they

were forced by Meldar Prime to play Intergalactic Showdown. During the second event, Jimmy orders Goddard to use his grabber claw to grab one of the mushrooms, but the little beast grabs his grabber claw with its tongue, and then it tosses him around causing Goddard to get dizzy. When it's time to vote one of their own off the team, he votes for Cindy. During the fourth event, Goddard was about to run with Jimmy and the others across the obstacle course versing the Brains, when Meldar, says, "Uh uh uh, no cheating!" and then he traps Goddard in a force field bubble before he could run, causing Jimmy and his friends to run across the obstacle course by themselves. Later Meldar gave Goddard back to Jimmy after the event.

## Personality

Goddard is Jimmy's loyal mechanical canine that Jimmy constructed himself. He's always there for Jimmy when he needs him the most, and he is genuinely Jimmy's favorite invention.

## Appearance

Goddard's mostly silver. He has a plasma globe cranium, filled with ionized noble gases in the form of plasma. He has a mechanical tongue and a yellow snout. Goddard has two ears, which are made of metal. He also has a small pointy tail.

## Trivia

* Goddard's name comes from the American professor/physicist/inventor Robert Hutchings Goddard, who first posed the Goddard Problem in is 1919 book "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes".
* Despite being a main character, he only had one episode focusing on him.
* In The League of Villains, Goddard gets disabled and stopped working, but later on he's okay again. This is possibly because he has a backup battery like in Clash of the Cousins.
* The future Goddard seems to be larger than the present Goddard. This could've been an animation error, or it could be the result of Jimmy's numerous upgrades over the years.
* Goddard's without a doubt Jimmy's most successful and reliable invention. He's also shown to be Jimmy's favorite out of all his inventions.
* Goddard appears in the first Nicktoons game, but he doesn't appear in any of the others.
* Goddard makes one quick cameo in Sheen's Brain, when Sheen beats him at chess.
* Goddard appeared in the intro of all three Jimmy Timmy Power Hours with Cosmo and Wanda riding on his back. But he only has a role in the first one. He appeared in the second one too, when he saves Jimmy from being hit by Timmy with a Burp Canon he wished for, and then he was frozen in carbonite along with Hugh and Judy Neutron by Professor Calamitous when he was in Jorgen Von Strangle's body.
* Goddard appeared in Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion, but not until the very end.
* In the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius Video Game, there are some parts where Goddard talks in his own voice.
* In Aaughh!! Wilderness!!, Goddard was about to go with Jimmy, Carl and Sheen on the camping trip. But then Hugh grabs him and then he tells Jimmy that the camps allowing no technology whatsoever. So Judy instead keeps Goddard safe at home with her. Later on in the episode, Goddard shows up while Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, and Hugh were being chased by a bear ,and then Goddard scares it away by roaring loud. Judy also shows up from behind him and then she explains that he attracted the explosion of their camp.
* Goddard doesn't appear in Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 3: The Jerkinators!
* He appears in the mobile game Nickelodeon Pixel Town (only available in Singapore, Malaysia, and Philippines), you can get him if you merge Heffer from Rocko's Modern Life and Gary from SpongeBob SquarePants in the memory center.
* Goddard went with Jimmy on lots of his adventures, but for some reason he doesn't go with him on all of them.
	+ He didn't go with Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, and Cindy on their undersea voyage to find the Oozy Scab.
	+ He didn't join Jimmy and Sheen on their adventure in the Ultra Lord vs. Robo-Fiend video game.
	+ He didn't join Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen on Jimmy's sleepover.
	+ He didn't go with Jimmy and the others on their trip to Egypt to explore Queen Hasabataslapya's tomb.
	+ He didn't join Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen on their mission to save the world from Professor Calamitous and Beautiful Gorgeous.
	+ He didn't join Jimmy and Carl on their mission to stop Sheen from wanting to rule Retroville as an evil dictator while his brain kept growing until his head exploded.
	+ He didn't go with Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen on their journey to find a monster in Lake Retroville.
	+ He didn't join Carl, Sheen, and Libby when they were on the Hovercar trying to find Jimmy and Cindy when they got stranded on a deserted island.
	+ He didn't go with Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen when they were trying to find Libby in Shangri-Llama.
	+ He didn't go with Jimmy and the others on their journey through the Disappearing Invention.
	+ He didn't go with Carl, Cindy and Libby to save Jimmy and Sheen.
	+ He didn't go with Jimmy and the others into Dimmsdale to find Timmy and Cindy.