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Atomic Robo / Comicbook
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Atomic Robo (written by Brian Clevinger, of 8-Bit Theater and Nuklear Age fame; and illustrated by Scott Wegener) is a comic about, well, Atomic Robo, a robot built by Nikola Tesla in the 1920s. Given citizenship by the US government in exchange for missions against Nazis and other similar scumbags, he later started Tesladyne, a high tech organization devoted to fighting really weird evil and advancing human knowledge. Along with his elite team of Action Scientists, he travels the world (and further) fighting things on the fringes of human knowledge.In addition to the main series, there's a spinoff called Real Science Adventures (still written by Brian but drawn by guest artists), which features side characters in non-Robo-related stories. These characters include the Sparrow, a lineage of British spies; the Centurions of Science, an adventuring group that Tesla was a part of before building Robo; and the Flying She-Devils, an all-female crew that fights sky pirates post-WWII.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })There's also a Tabletop RPG spinoff, which uses the FATE system.The series was originally published by Red Five Comics. When the contract expired, the series shifted to a free webcomic format starting with Volume 10 in 2015. Later in the year, IDW Publishing picked up the license for the physical print versions. Real Science Adventures also shifted to a web format in 2016, but only released one new volume and stopped updating soon after; the following volume a couple years later returned to being print-exclusive. | |
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A Form You Are Comfortable With | |
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A Form You Are Comfortable With: ALAN chooses to interact with Robo as a holographic projection of its own creator, Alan Turing. | |
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Sure, Let's Go with That | |
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Sure, Let's Go with That: In The Deadly Art of Science, young Robo spends the night running around town with Jack Tarot fighting gangsters, and tries to sneak back into the house while Tesla's at breakfast. Tesla immediately notices that Robo's still wearing the same clothes as yesterday, and cuts through Robo's stammered denials to announce that "any fool could see what you've done": spent the night cleaning the garage to avoid doing his homework. A relieved Robo agrees that this is exactly what he was doing. | |
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Retired Badass | |
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Retired Badass: Tesla. He never, ever even so much as blinks at all the Mad Science and insane adventures that crop around him. Compare to Robo, who normally is flabbergasted by the shenanigans of the working Universe even after 80 years of life. Just by passing references, Robo is barely catching with him 57 years after he died. | |
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Friendly Sniper | |
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Friendly Sniper: Annie Oakley in "Tesla's Electric Sky Schooner". | |
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Adorkable | |
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Adorkable: Young Atomic Robo. Especially with the "Talk" Nikola Tesla tries to give him. | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg: At the end of the B-Side Comic "PROJECT MILLIPEDE", which takes place after Volume 2 of the main series, the Sparrow's role is expanded to coordinate missions across "an elite team of the Allies' best agents. And Atomic Robo." | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism: Robo has a bad habit of this. He calls the Odic Force a debunked source of energy, despite evidence to the contrary literally staring him in the face. Robo regularly dismisses Dr. Dinosaur's ramblings as worthless pseudoscience, even when he should know by now that beneath the rampant insanity his creations have worked (whether they can be controlled is a different story...) every time. He also flat-out states that time travel is impossible, even to three of his past selves at a place outside time, at which point it's just a matter of semantics. And then Dr. Dinosaur's "time bomb" blows him into the 19th century. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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And when Robo discovers the real reason for all of that waste, it's enough to send him into a full-fledged Heroic B.S.O.D.. | |
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Pictorial Speech-Bubble | |
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Pictorial Speech Bubble: The robot guards in the 2008 Free Comic express themselves like this. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: In Volume 8, the TV punditry using the events of Volume 7 as an excuse to get the public behind the attack on Tesladyne resembles the worst excesses of how 9/11 was used as an excuse to get the public behind the attack on Iraq, most obviously in the repeated invocations of "8/11". | |
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Cartoon Bomb | |
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Cartoon Bomb: A fight scene in The Billion Dollar Plot involves a stash of dynamite in the classic red cylinder form, with "TNT" helpfully printed on each stick for good measure. | |
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Not-So-Harmless Villain | |
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Not-So-Harmless Villain: Yes, many foolish mammals would insist that Dr. Dinosaur is far too crazy to be an actual threat to Robo and too stupid to be capable of actual planning, but he's defeated Robo on more occasions than all of his other foes combined and in volume 8, he's seen here in possession of five non-crystal-powered nuclear weapons that almost certainly came from ALAN's embezzled stockpile, which makes him at least peripherally connected to the plot that annihilates Tesladyne.([1], [2]) | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Robo. He's a grumpy old man in the body of a super-strong robot. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Robo's team of Action Scientists are understandably reluctant to break through a pair of huge, ornate, conspicuous locked doors in an abandoned Helsingard facility: | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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There have been a number of British operatives code-named 'The Sparrow', all seemingly from the same family. Margaret Weir shows up in Dogs of War, with a mention of her brother having preceded her, and her grandson shows up in Ghost of Station X, with an interceding generation (female) mentioned. | |
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Memetic Badass | |
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Jenkins being... well, Jenkins. invoked | |
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Character Name and the Noun Phrase | |
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World of Badass | |
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World of Badass: Admit it. When a ham radio community can successfully track down a over 50 year old conspiracy—with short wave radio no less—then this is a badass world. | |
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The Caper | |
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The Caper: The Nicodemus Job is a heist set in Constantinople circa 1095. | |
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Soft Water | |
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Soft Water: In The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur, the action science team falls down an enormous crevasse and lands without injury in a subterranean lake. Mind you, it's a lake of something that glows pink and has the wrong ambient temperature, so it's mad science water and anything is possible. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: Louis and Martin in The Ghost of Station X, Ananth and George in "Team Up of the Century". | |
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The Slow Path | |
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The Slow Path: Robo's inactive head sits in a crate for over a century, following his destruction in 1884. | |
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Calling Card | |
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Calling Card: Jack Tarot, the '30s vigilante who features in The Deadly Art of Science, leaves a tarot card at the scene of his victories. | |
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Reality Ensues | |
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Reality Ensues: Occasionally a problem for Robo. Like many action heroes, he tries to tear the door of an ancient complex off its hinges rather than trying to unlock it. Unfortunately, it breaks apart because the wood rotted away. He can't hire a ten year old girl to be an Action Scientist because.. she's a ten year old girl and he would have to deal with child labor laws, let alone child endangerment. | |
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MST3K Mantra | |
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MST3K Mantra: Discussed In-Universe in The Shadow from Beyond Time, as Young Robo hasn't got the hang of it yet: | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Helen's second reaction after the realisation hits, after she's been dating Robo a while, that he's technically only seven years old. (Her first reaction is to nearly throw up.) How Carl Sagan copes with the sight of an Eldritch Abomination. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: Most of the Nazi soldiers. | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: The Billion Dollar Plot guest-stars a trio of actual 19th-century Dime Novel Science Heroes — as a triumvirate of Utopia Justifies the Means villains. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: A literal case in The Ghost of Station X; after Robo's signature WWII revolver gets trashed on re-entry, and he has his quartermaster repair it. The guy gives him an anti-material handgun, which Robo later uses to take out an Apache helicopter, and later to aid him in destroying ALAN's Orion Drive. Inverted with Projekt Longinus; due to the series' Anachronic Order, the setup (The Spear of Destiny) comes after the payoff (The Ring of Fire, where it's used to destroy the Biomega Nexus). | |
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For Science! | |
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For Science!: Robo does stuff for it. Like ask for truck convoys.◊ | |
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Ascended Fanboy | |
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Ascended Fanboy: Emma Armstrong from "The Science Fair". The ten-year-old granddaughter of one of Robo's old action scientist comrades, who really wants to join Tesladyne and get away from her boring school and stupider teachers. The Kid Sidekick potential is subverted when Robo points out that legally, he cannot hire a ten year old, especially considering the hyperdangerous shenanigans he gets up to, but—in light of the fact that she completed her grandfather's life work by solving a decades-old paradox and building a prototype out of car parts—he tells her to come back in ten years or so and there will be a job waiting for her. The Epilogue shows her after college, meeting Robo for the employee tour. | |
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Operator Incompatibility | |
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Operator Incompatibility: Since he's a robot with non-human fingers, Atomic Robo can't operate a touch screen at all. In one scene, he's actually seen complaining to Steve Jobs about how useless the iPad is to him - and attempts to justify further research by stating lots of people are coming back from overseas with Artificial Limbs. Later, when Robo has to answer a call on a smartphone, he literally can't, for the same reason. | |
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Wave-Motion Gun | |
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Wave Motion Gun: Nikola Tesla converted his Wardenclyffe transmitter into a kiloton deathray to combat The Shadow when it first showed up in 1908. The Lightining Guns that Robo uses are essentially scaled-down models. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: During the '70s segment of The Shadow from Beyond Time, Robo meets with Carl Sagan at a diner. A waitress inside is sufficiently distracted by this scene to cause a bit of a mess... | |
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Kill Sat | |
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Kill Sat: Projekt Longinus, an unused Nazi superweapon left behind after WWII, capable of Orbital Bombardment with tungsten rods. It's central to the plot of The Spear of Destiny, and in The Ring of Fire it's the lynchpin of Robo's plan to destroy the Biomega Nexus. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Jack Tarot. He's an incredibly competent pulp-style vigilante, a terror to mobsters and crack shot, but out of the league when it comes to super-science. But he laid the foundation for Robo becoming the Action Scientist hero that he is today: | |
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Revolvers Are Just Better | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2a195285 | comment |
A literal case in The Ghost of Station X; after Robo's signature WWII revolver gets trashed on re-entry, and he has his quartermaster repair it. The guy gives him an anti-material handgun, which Robo later uses to take out an Apache helicopter, and later to aid him in destroying ALAN's Orion Drive. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2a195285 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2a195285 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2a195285 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2a51fd2d | type |
Beam-O-War | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2a51fd2d | comment |
Beam-O-War: Between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, of all people. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2a51fd2d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2a51fd2d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2a51fd2d | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2ad3eb22 | type |
You Can Talk? | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2ad3eb22 | comment |
You Can Talk?: H.P. Lovecraft is rather shocked to discover that the "pygmy" (Robo) speaks English. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2ad3eb22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2ad3eb22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2ad3eb22 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2b5c636d | type |
How Unscientific! | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2b5c636d | comment |
The Shadow from Beyond Time, though it's not a time loop, because time travel is obviously impossible. Instead, it's a single event being witnessed from multiple time-perspectives, and it's only possible because it involves physics from outside our universe. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2b5c636d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2b5c636d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2b5c636d | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2b7d29e1 | type |
Artifact Title | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2b7d29e1 | comment |
Artifact Title: Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War was named because the original outline had Robo fighting Dr. Valkyrie's Wehrwolf soldiers. The Wehrwolf Formula was given a token mention at the end of the Dr. Valkyrie conflict and a mention on the back cover of the trade paperback. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2b7d29e1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2b7d29e1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2b7d29e1 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2b88a383 | type |
Grave Humor | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2b88a383 | comment |
Grave Humor: The cover of one issue of Knights of the Golden Circle depicts a graveyard, with a couple of tongue-in-cheek headstones in the background. All the inscriptions, except the one front-and-center that's related to the plot of the issue, are actual inscriptions from the famous Boot Hill graveyard in Arizona. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2b88a383 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2b88a383 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2b88a383 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2d53c295 | type |
Sky Pirate | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2d53c295 | comment |
Sky Pirate: The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific spend much of their time battling sky pirates (and are considered sky pirates themselves by some of their foes). | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2d53c295 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2d53c295 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2d53c295 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2e338ce4 | type |
The Cavalry Arrives Late | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2e338ce4 | comment |
The Cavalry Arrives Late: At the denouement of The Billion Dollar Plot, the New York police arrive in force just after the heroes have disposed of the villains and their secret army, and attempt to arrest the heroes on the assumption that as the only people left standing they must be responsible for all the noise and property damage. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2e338ce4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2e338ce4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2e338ce4 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2e8441c9 | type |
The Bad Guy Wins | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2e8441c9 | comment |
The Bad Guy Wins: The end result of Majestic 12's raid in The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur. In the wake of the raid, Tesladyne is forcibly disbanded and replaced by Majestic, operating as Task Force ULTRA. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2e8441c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2e8441c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_2e8441c9 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3107a493 | type |
Open Heart Dentistry | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3107a493 | comment |
Open Heart Dentistry: In The Knights of the Golden Circle, Doc Holliday is able to keep a dying man alive long enough to pass on some crucial information, but not for much longer than that. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3107a493 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3107a493 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3107a493 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_327b5216 | type |
Black Market | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_327b5216 | comment |
Department Zero, the Soviet counterpart to organizations like Tesladyne and Majestic. Following the collapse of the USSR, it split into several independent cells, among them a super-science Black Market and DELPHI, which specializes in psionic studies. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_327b5216 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_327b5216 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_327b5216 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_32da548d | type |
Arch-Enemy | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_32da548d | comment |
Arch-Enemy: Helsingard is Robo's most frequently recurring nemesis, and as a Mad Scientist Brain in a Jar piloting Giant Mecha bodies, he parallels the purely mechanical Science Hero Robo. There's also Dr. Dinosaur (a super-stupid dinosaur scientist opposing a super-intelligent robot scientist) and Undead Edison (who was the arch enemy of Robo's father). Basically, Helsingard is Robo's most frequent and dangerous enemy (Robo calls him "an unparalleled genius"), Dr. Dinosaur is his most humiliating (since he is stupid and yet manages to continuously outwit Robo), and Edison is Robo's oldest and most personal (Robo even calls him "[his] greatest enemy"). Another major contender is Majestic 12, an anti-Robo conspiracy. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_32da548d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_32da548d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_32da548d | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_336c1a31 | type |
Kinda Busy Here | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_336c1a31 | comment |
Kinda Busy Here: In The Shadow from Beyond Time, young Robo attempts to battle the eponymous menace when it attacks while Tesla is out of town. Halfway through the battle, Tesla calls to check that he's doing his homework, and Robo has to pass off the background noise as a radio serial he's listening to. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_336c1a31 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_336c1a31 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_336c1a31 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35022c20 | type |
No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35022c20 | comment |
No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: The end of the second paperback has a letter written by Tesla stating that he intentionally left nothing about how he made Robo because he didn't want anyone building sentient robots for personal use. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35022c20 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35022c20 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35022c20 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3517000d | type |
Mad Scientist | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3517000d | comment |
Baron Heinrich Von Helsingard, quintessential Mad Scientist with a god complex. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3517000d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3517000d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3517000d | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35ab4cec | type |
You Watch Too Much X | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35ab4cec | comment |
You Watch Too Much X: In The Deadly Art of Science, Jack Tarot is of the opinion Robo's worldview shows he spends too much time reading or listening to pulp adventure stories. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35ab4cec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35ab4cec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35ab4cec | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35fb9016 | type |
Gratuitous German | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35fb9016 | comment |
Gratuitous German: Averted, thankfully. Skorzeny's German is accurate. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35fb9016 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35fb9016 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35fb9016 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_36e63b81 | type |
Rule of Cool | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_36e63b81 | comment |
Rule of Cool: Damn near everything. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_36e63b81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_36e63b81 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_36e63b81 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_37690091 | type |
Stable Time Loop | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_37690091 | comment |
Stable Time Loop: The Shadow from Beyond Time, though it's not a time loop, because time travel is obviously impossible. Instead, it's a single event being witnessed from multiple time-perspectives, and it's only possible because it involves physics from outside our universe. There's another one, as of Knights of the Golden Circle: Robo is thrown back to 1870 by Dr. Dinosaur's "time bomb," where he either accidentally inspires the legend of or becomes known as the armored gunslinger "Ironhide." (Who Robo will proceed to read stories about as a "kid" in the 1920s.) Robo finally runs out of power in 1884 and is destroyed in the crash of the Basilisk. Marshal Reeves salvages his head and mails it to a young Nikola Tesla, who mislays the package; it's subsequently put into deep storage at Tesladyne for the next hundred years, where it's finally recovered by Lang and Bernard. If Robo had ever gone through all of his father's possessions, it would have included a box that contained his own severed head. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_37690091 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_37690091 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_37690091 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_37faae83 | type |
Noble Shoplifter | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_37faae83 | comment |
Noble Shoplifter: In The Shadow from Beyond Time, Robo and his team stop at a gas station to refuel their vehicle while investigating a deserted town, and Robo leaves an appropriate amount of money and a note. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_37faae83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_37faae83 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_37faae83 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3800c1ad | type |
Totally Not a Werewolf | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3800c1ad | comment |
Totally Not a Werewolf: | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3800c1ad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3800c1ad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3800c1ad | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_38449aae | type |
Magnetic Weapons | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_38449aae | comment |
Magnetic Weapons: The Humongous Mecha in "Atomic Robo Big in Japan" is armed with a giant railgun based on a design originally intended for launching payloads into orbit. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_38449aae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_38449aae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_38449aae | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_38f1a7ed | type |
Defector from Decadence | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_38f1a7ed | comment |
Defector from Decadence: Before joining Tesladyne, Jenkins was a Majestic agent. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_38f1a7ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_38f1a7ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_38f1a7ed | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3931557e | type |
Storming the Beaches | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3931557e | comment |
Storming the Beaches: The Dogs of War opens with the Allied forces storming the beaches of Sicily in July 1943. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3931557e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3931557e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3931557e | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3962ed76 | type |
Take the Wheel | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3962ed76 | comment |
Take the Wheel: Annie Oakely to Wong Kei-Ying in The Billion Dollar Plot. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3962ed76 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3962ed76 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3962ed76 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: Robo makes mention of a time he managed to convince a soldier that robots can get drunk (despite clearly lacking a mouth and thus the ability to drink) and got challenged to a drinking contest. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3c0a4666 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3c0a4666 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3c0a4666 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3e8d9cd3 | type |
Historical Hero Upgrade | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3e8d9cd3 | comment |
Historical Hero Upgrade: Carl Sagan wielding lightning guns and MacGyvering Robo's mad science tech. Charles Fort and H.P. Lovecraft battling a real Eldritch Abomination. Though if we're honest Howard is only marginally helpful. At the climax of Volume 5 we see Tesla flying and shooting energy blasts with the help of a minor rig. Real Science Adventures shows a veritable dream-team of these back in the late 19th and early 20th century: Nikola Tesla, Charles Fort, George Westinghouse, H.P.'s dad Winfield Scott Lovecraft (the President's occult secret agent), Harry Houdini, Anne Oakley and Wong Kei-ying. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3e8d9cd3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3e8d9cd3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3e8d9cd3 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3f92ad39 | type |
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3f92ad39 | comment |
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Robo tries this on the mecha-converted Caldwell in Knights of the Golden Circle. Caldwell's response is to try and kill him, which Robo complains doesn't give him any evidence about whether it worked (since they were enemies before and this is something Caldwell might plausibly do whether or not he was still brainwashed). | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3f92ad39 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3f92ad39 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3f92ad39 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3fe6a857 | type |
Public Domain Character | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3fe6a857 | comment |
Public-Domain Character: The villainous triumvirate in The Billion Dollar Plot are three 19th-century Dime Novel Science Heroes (Jack Wright, Frank Reade Jr, and "Electric Bob") gone bad. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3fe6a857 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3fe6a857 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_3fe6a857 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4023b8c8 | type |
First-Name Basis | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4023b8c8 | comment |
First-Name Basis / Last-Name Basis: Most of the Action Scientists' first and last names are known, but they're typically only referred to by one (Vik, Bernard, Ada) or the other (Lang, Louis, Martin). It's unknown which category Jenkins falls into. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4023b8c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4023b8c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4023b8c8 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_403f1a36 | type |
Steal the Surroundings | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_403f1a36 | comment |
Steal the Surroundings: ALAN is discovered when he steals a house - a whole house, intact. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_403f1a36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_403f1a36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_403f1a36 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_41186a50 | type |
Leg Cling | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_41186a50 | comment |
Leg Cling: Parodied on the cover of Issue #4 of The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_41186a50 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_41186a50 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_41186a50 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4127eb1 | type |
ShutUpHannibal | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4127eb1 | comment |
Shut Up, Hannibal!: Robo's whole discussion with the Big Bad in The Ghost of Station X is pretty much this. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4127eb1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4127eb1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4127eb1 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_41f45fa2 | type |
Inexplicably Awesome | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_41f45fa2 | comment |
Inexplicably Awesome: Dr. Dinosaur, as of volume 8. His origin is obscured, and all of his appearances feature him managing something completely impossible—with no explanation beyond Dr. Dinosaur's own questionable Techno Babble. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_41f45fa2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_41f45fa2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_41f45fa2 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_420c50b7 | type |
A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_420c50b7 | comment |
A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Discussed in The Ghost of Station X. Lewis observes how fortunate humanity is that Robo didn't turn out like Skynet, HAL, or the Event Horizon. The story's Big Bad, ALAN, is a straightforward example. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_420c50b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_420c50b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_420c50b7 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_469e3e2f | type |
In-Universe | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_469e3e2f | comment |
Jenkins is an In-Universe example. Even the creators joke that the titular genius, nigh-indestructible, immortal atomic robot is his sidekick. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_469e3e2f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_469e3e2f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_469e3e2f | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4789f57e | type |
Syndication Title | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4789f57e | comment |
Syndication Title: When Atomic Robo and the Vampire Dimension was collected, it was retitled Atomic Robo and Other Strangeness. Probably because the Vampire Dimension was in only the first issue. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4789f57e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4789f57e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4789f57e | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_482c31d4 | type |
No Hugging, No Kissing | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_482c31d4 | comment |
No Hugging, No Kissing: Quite logically for a robot (especially one lacking a mouth), but rare in fiction: the hero does not try to romance any of the pretty women that end up near him. Or anyone else. There is a grand total of one exception to this, as Robo and Helen are interested in each other in Deadly Art of Science, but even then a later adventure (Temple of Od) has both dial it back as Helen has moved on since then. Supporting characters rarely get involved with each other either, with again just one big exception: Vik and Lang are shown to be a couple in Ring of Fire by a scene where she's nearly caught in his room after they spent the night together. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_482c31d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_482c31d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_482c31d4 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4acee1ed | type |
Fish out of Temporal Water | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4acee1ed | comment |
Fish out of Temporal Water: Robo in the late 19th century. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4acee1ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4acee1ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_4acee1ed | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5009999d | type |
Painting the Medium | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5009999d | comment |
Painting the Medium: In the 2008 Free Comic, Robo parachutes onto a remote island. As he comes down to land, he passes in front of the Scene Shift Caption. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5009999d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5009999d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5009999d | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_504a1991 | comment |
Averted at one point in Volume Three, though. After seeing the Shadow from Beyond Time "intersect" with one of the Action Scientists, Robo shouts out, "Holy DAMMIT!" | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_504a1991 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_504a1991 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_504a1991 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5057d559 | type |
Kid-Appeal Character | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5057d559 | comment |
Kid-Appeal Character: Discussed by the creators. When pitching a possible movie adaptation, the studio execs insisted that there be a kid protagonist involved; even though the creators argued that it wouldn't make sense for a child to be employed by Tesladyne, and that Robo himself would theoretically appeal to kid viewers enough as a big friendly robot. Eventually, they came up with the idea of a kid being swept up in an adventure through their Science Fair project, which was later turned into a FCBD comic. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5057d559 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5057d559 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5057d559 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_508d91a2 | type |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_508d91a2 | comment |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: This: | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_508d91a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_508d91a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_508d91a2 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_51bf74d6 | type |
Power Crystal | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_51bf74d6 | comment |
Power Crystal: Dr. Dinosaur swears by these things. Robo is more skeptical about them. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_51bf74d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_51bf74d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_51bf74d6 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_53528185 | type |
Piggybacking on Hitler | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_53528185 | comment |
Piggybacking on Hitler: Helsingard is doing this in his first appearance. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_53528185 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_53528185 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_53528185 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: In The Ghost of Station X, the Big Bad repeatedly tries to reason with Robo and convince him to join it, even as it's trying to kill him. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_537dd8fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_537dd8fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_537dd8fe | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_539a77a5 | type |
Silicon-Based Life | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_539a77a5 | comment |
Silicon-Based Life: The Hollow Earth. It may come from another world; the only evidence available is Bernard's "hallucinogenic intel" from eating a glowing rock. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_539a77a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_539a77a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_539a77a5 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_54367e5d | type |
Mathematician's Answer | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_54367e5d | comment |
Mathematician's Answer: "The Trial of Atomic Robo": | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_54367e5d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_54367e5d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_54367e5d | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_54689fb6 | type |
Eagle Squadron | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_54689fb6 | comment |
In Flying She-Devils of the Pacific, it's mentioned that Robo has flown with the Flying Tigers during WWII (his flight jacket even has the China-Burma-India Theater patch on the left shoulder), which was shown way back in the second issue. He even wears the panda bear patch of 2nd Squadron AVG. And much later, The Temple of Od shows us how Robo met General Claire Chenault, the Tigers' founder, in 1939. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_54689fb6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_54689fb6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_54689fb6 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_554063c6 | type |
If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him! | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_554063c6 | comment |
If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him: Inverted with Otto Skorzeny in the '70s. He attempts to have Robo give him a soldier's death by informing him he killed Tesla and used his technology for the Nazi war effort - and even gives Robo a weapon first. Robo seriously considers doing it, but instead leaves him to die a painful, lonely death of cancer. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_554063c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_554063c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_554063c6 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5798bfbf | type |
Reassigned to Antarctica | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5798bfbf | comment |
Reassigned to Antarctica: Louis and Martin, after building the Obviously Evil supercomputer, find themselves transferred to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5798bfbf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5798bfbf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5798bfbf | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_57a91010 | type |
Green Rocks | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_57a91010 | comment |
Green Rocks: According to Dr. Dinosaur, crystals (no particular kind of crystal, just crystals in general) can do anything. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_57a91010 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_57a91010 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_57a91010 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_57b74bd4 | type |
Achievements in Ignorance | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_57b74bd4 | comment |
Achievements in Ignorance: Sometimes used to handwave seemingly impossible physics. Also Dr. Dinosaur's trademark. Or possibly it's Obfuscating Stupidity. Or possibly he really IS such a genius that Robo just doesn't understand what he's saying. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_57b74bd4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_57b74bd4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_57b74bd4 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_57b80b45 | type |
Fantastic Racism | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_57b80b45 | comment |
Fantastic Racism: Played for Laughs, as Dr. Dinosaur regularly dismisses "mammal"... well, anything. This extends to calling Robo a mammal robot, which he has no idea how to respond to. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_57b80b45 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_57b80b45 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_57b80b45 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_582f5a70 | type |
This Is the Part Where... | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_582f5a70 | comment |
This Is the Part Where...: In The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur, when the action science team find themselves being led to a secret underground city, Bernard asks "Is this where we begin the tortuously detailed and embarrassingly self-indulgent lessons about the history and superior culture of Hollow Earth?" | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_582f5a70 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_582f5a70 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_582f5a70 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_58626d87 | type |
Genius Ditz | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_58626d87 | comment |
Dr. Dinosaur, Genius Ditz and perpetual thorn in Robo's side, who may or may not be a time traveler. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_58626d87 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_58626d87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_58626d87 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_588d6b3e | type |
Vasquez Always Dies | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_588d6b3e | comment |
Vasquez Always Dies: Other Strangeness has a male example. Robo is interviewing two job applicants: Rex Cannon, who has an impressive military record and multiple doctorates; and Bernard, who's clearly in over his head. Cannon, of course, is the one who gets killed out of nowhere when vampires invade. He's back... as King of the Vampires. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_588d6b3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_588d6b3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_588d6b3e | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_59aa1ff8 | type |
Deface of the Moon | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_59aa1ff8 | comment |
Deface of the Moon: On Mars, after Robo gets sent there because Stephen Hawking told NASA he has a hybernation mode (he doesn't). "STEPHEN HAWKING IS A BASTARD." | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_59aa1ff8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_59aa1ff8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_59aa1ff8 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5a4aa505 | type |
Government Conspiracy | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5a4aa505 | comment |
Majestic 12, a Government Conspiracy dedicated to seizing and weaponizing Tesla's technology for its own purposes, which it eventually succeeds in doing, forming Task Force ULTRA. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5a4aa505 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5a4aa505 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5a4aa505 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5beef860 | type |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5beef860 | comment |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Robo has a phobia about bugs crawling into his body and mucking up his internals. Guess what shape the Eldritch Abomination takes during its third encounter with Robo? Robo's phobia is strong enough that he refuses to enter rain forests unless he has a BFG in hand. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5beef860 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5beef860 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5beef860 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5c5d0032 | type |
Eyepatch of Power | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5c5d0032 | comment |
Eyepatch of Power: Captain May Carter of the Flying She-Devils. Even better, her flight goggles have her bad eye covered with a lens with a skull on it. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5c5d0032 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5c5d0032 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5c5d0032 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5cdbd1f9 | type |
You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good! | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5cdbd1f9 | comment |
You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good: Robo is not at all impressed with how the Big Bad of The Ghost of Station X has used his power. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5cdbd1f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5cdbd1f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5cdbd1f9 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5ce7dbb9 | type |
Central Theme | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: Reed Richards Is Useless. Robo finds himself regularly disdaining his the circumstances of his own chosen field of Action Science, saying that though he has personal knowledge of what human science is capable of, most of the time it's only used for blowing shit up. Robo decries the Cold War as "wast(ing) trillions of dollars and half the scientific talent of the world for three generations." Whenever he faces a Mad Scientist for the first time, he tells them, "You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good." Tesladyne itself can't focus on pure, productive science - no matter how much Robo would like to - because they spend so much time and effort cleaning up other people's messes. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5ce7dbb9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5ce7dbb9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5ce7dbb9 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5d1eca88 | type |
Awesome McCoolname | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5d1eca88 | comment |
Awesome Mc Coolname: Quite a few, scattered around. Not many people realize it, but Robo's full name is Doctor Atomic Robo Tesla: | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5d1eca88 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5d1eca88 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5d1eca88 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5dbf364d | type |
WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5dbf364d | comment |
Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: Skorzeny tries this on the Sparrow in The Dogs of War, taking a moment to reminisce about the death of her brother, the previous Sparrow, just to make her imminent death more painful. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5dbf364d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5dbf364d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5dbf364d | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5f2a34e5 | type |
Drinking Contest | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5f2a34e5 | comment |
Drinking Contest: In one issue Robo reminisces about a pilot he served with in World War II who challenged him to a drinking contest even though he's a robot and doesn't have anything to drink with. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5f2a34e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5f2a34e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5f2a34e5 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5fcb9ad1 | type |
Time Skip | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5fcb9ad1 | comment |
Time Skip: Naturally, due to the series' Anachronic Order. A straight example is The Knights of the Golden Circle, which takes place 14 years after Robo ends up in 1870 at the end of The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5fcb9ad1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5fcb9ad1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5fcb9ad1 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5fdf73bc | type |
Photographic Memory | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5fdf73bc | comment |
Photographic Memory: Unusually for a comic book robot, Atomic Robo doesn't have one. It seems his memory works like an ordinary human's, not like a computer's. He can forget things, has to study for college exams, doesn't automatically learn foreign languages (e.g., he's never bothered to learn Japanese), etc. Tesla seems to have designed Robo this way intentionally not only to give him true free will, but also avert A.I. Is a Crapshoot (a machine that KNOWS it's as fallible as a human won't see any reason to overthrow them). | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5fdf73bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5fdf73bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_5fdf73bc | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_60af5e4 | type |
Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_60af5e4 | comment |
Robo should really learn to stop underestimating Dr. Dinosaur, because every time the moron makes some painfully stupid junk science claim, he pulls it off. Gravity crystals? Robo gets blown up. Timevolution energies? Robo has to fight a T-Rex with missile launchers on its head. Magma worm? Ride 'em, Robo! Time-collapsing bomb? Enjoy your stay in The Wild West, Ironhide! | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_60af5e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_60af5e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_60af5e4 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_61375e57 | type |
BigDamnKiss | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_61375e57 | comment |
Big Damn Kiss: Helen and Robo's kiss in 5.3 gets an entire page. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_61375e57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_61375e57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_61375e57 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6259dfa3 | type |
Grey Goo | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6259dfa3 | comment |
Grey Goo: Biomega, the setting's resident Kaiju, turn out to be a biological form of this. If left unchecked, they will eventually devour the Earth, then the solar system, the galaxy, other galaxies... | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6259dfa3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6259dfa3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6259dfa3 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_62cae28a | type |
Losing Your Head | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_62cae28a | comment |
There's another one, as of Knights of the Golden Circle: Robo is thrown back to 1870 by Dr. Dinosaur's "time bomb," where he either accidentally inspires the legend of or becomes known as the armored gunslinger "Ironhide." (Who Robo will proceed to read stories about as a "kid" in the 1920s.) Robo finally runs out of power in 1884 and is destroyed in the crash of the Basilisk. Marshal Reeves salvages his head and mails it to a young Nikola Tesla, who mislays the package; it's subsequently put into deep storage at Tesladyne for the next hundred years, where it's finally recovered by Lang and Bernard. If Robo had ever gone through all of his father's possessions, it would have included a box that contained his own severed head. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_62cae28a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_62cae28a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_62cae28a | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_62fd5552 | type |
Bavarian Fire Drill | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_62fd5552 | comment |
Bavarian Fire Drill: About transporting a potentially city-busting piece of nuclear technology... | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_62fd5552 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_62fd5552 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_62fd5552 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_636355c8 | type |
Are These Wires Important? | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_636355c8 | comment |
Are These Wires Important?: One of Robo's favorite techniques. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_636355c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_636355c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_636355c8 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6376ae9c | type |
Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6376ae9c | comment |
Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: Dr. Dinosaur believes that "mammal energies" traveled back in time and killed all the other dinosaurs while granting him super-intelligence. Robo thinks this is BS and that Dr. D is just a genetic experiment. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6376ae9c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6376ae9c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6376ae9c | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6411dac8 | type |
BadassNormal | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6411dac8 | comment |
Played with at one point: Otto Skorzeny shoots Robo with his gun at one point, and it seems like it had no effect. Only then do we notice that Robo is, in fact, disabled, by virtue of a special bullet. It doesn't stop there, however, since Skorzeny also planned to drop a trainload of heavy ordnance on top of him, for good measure. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6411dac8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6411dac8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6411dac8 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6552b710 | type |
The Syndicate | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6552b710 | comment |
The Syndicate: The Knights of the Golden Circle are described as "the first and largest criminal syndicate in American history", but are ultimately absorbed into Baron von Helsingard's army. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6552b710 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6552b710 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6552b710 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_65d658f | type |
Putting the Band Back Together | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_65d658f | comment |
Putting the Band Back Together: In The Ring of Fire, from the Action Scientists who escaped the Majestic 12 raid and subsequent takeover. Vik, Lang, and Foley track down Bernard, reactivate Robo, and stumble into Broughton soon after. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_65d658f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_65d658f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_65d658f | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_66479d0 | type |
Our Ghosts Are Different | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_66479d0 | comment |
Our Ghosts Are Different: In at least one case, namely Thomas Edison, it's actually a consciousnesses projected via Odic Force perturbations. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_66479d0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_66479d0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_66479d0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_67013b78 | type |
Aluminum Christmas Trees | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_67013b78 | comment |
Aluminum Christmas Trees; Marconi was BFFs with Benito Mussolini. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_67013b78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_67013b78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_67013b78 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: For all of Task Force ULTRA's extreme actions, General Brooks does point out that Big Science Inc. knew that the predicted Biomega outbreak was A) coming, and B) much worse than anyone else expected, and didn't bother to tell anyone else or otherwise try to get assistance. Dr. Hokuto retorts by saying there was no point in telling anyone else, as they were (until ULTRA's meddling) the only group with the gear needed to deal with Biomega in the first place. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6b05b601 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6b05b601 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6b05b601 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: Tesladyne treats the visit to the National Science Fair as a deadly-serious mission, even before Dr. Dinosaur shows up. Actually, they treat it less seriously after he shows up. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6b35bdff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6b35bdff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6b35bdff | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Dr. Shinkanote "Evolution" in Japanese Also, the people of the Hollow Earth have a simple, yet powerful name for themselves. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6bda9a30 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6f465fea | type |
The Triple | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6f465fea | comment |
The Triple: Dr. Dinosaur come up with two logical and intriguing justifications for the Hollow World trope before descending into bonzo insanity; Unfortunately for Robo's sanity and existence in the 21st century, the third also turns out to be completely true, simply because it was proposed by Goddamn Dr. Dinosaur. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6f465fea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6f465fea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_6f465fea | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_706dd5c | type |
I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You! | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_706dd5c | comment |
I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You!: In "The Trial of Atomic Robo", Dr. Dinosaur mentions in the middle of a rant that he has a self-destruct mechanism for his latest killing machine in his briefcase, "But that's a secret and I'm not telling you about it." It turns out to be a trick. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_706dd5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_706dd5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_706dd5c | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_71038217 | type |
Wrench Wench | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_71038217 | comment |
Wrench Wench: Lauren of the She-Devils. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_71038217 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_71038217 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_71038217 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_71d1ee83 | type |
Coat, Hat, Mask | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_71d1ee83 | comment |
Coat, Hat, Mask: Jack Tarot is one Bad Ass Longcoat short of this. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_71d1ee83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_71d1ee83 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_71d1ee83 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7282d48a | type |
Cranial Processing Unit | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7282d48a | comment |
Cranial Processing Unit: Discussed in Flying She-Devils of the Pacific after Robo is knocked unconscious by enemy forces. One of them suggests removing his head before he recovers, and another points out that they don't know if that will actually do anything since his main processing unit might be somewhere else in his body. It later turns out in Ring of Fire that it is in his head. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7282d48a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7282d48a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7282d48a | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_72cdfc33 | type |
Big Bad Ensemble | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_72cdfc33 | comment |
Another Big Bad Ensemble in The Ring of Fire with Task Force ULTRA leader General Brooks and the Biomega. And a third threat comes from world governments who want to use a nuclear strike against the Biomega because they don't trust ULTRA to do the job correctly. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_72cdfc33 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_72cdfc33 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_72cdfc33 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_72e0023f | type |
InvokedTrope | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_72e0023f | comment |
Thomas Edison is called this in the preview text for the final issue of Volume 5. He also has his own giant henchrobot. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_72e0023f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_72e0023f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_72e0023f | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_73f6a99 | type |
MadScience | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_73f6a99 | comment |
Volume 9 reveals that Doc Holliday and Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves helped defeat a Mad Science invasion of the USA in 1884. | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_73f6a99 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_73f6a99 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_745a43fc | type |
Fun T-Shirt | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_745a43fc | comment |
Fun T-Shirt: Modern-day Robo has a penchant for them. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_745a43fc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_745a43fc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_745a43fc | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_753a61d4 | type |
Time-Travel Tense Trouble | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_753a61d4 | comment |
Time-Travel Tense Trouble: Dr. Dinosaur's attempt to explain his plan to Ret Gone human history in "The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur": Knights of the Golden Circle offers the following advice to time travelers: "Don't do anything. Except for what you were always will have done." | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_753a61d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_753a61d4 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_75c33176 | type |
Saved by Canon | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_75c33176 | comment |
Saved by Canon: The Distant Finale of "The Science Fair" takes place in 2021, indicating that Robo is rebuilt and Tesladyne is reestablished before then. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_75c33176 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_760b0bad | type |
Rocketless Reentry | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_760b0bad | comment |
Rocketless Reentry: In The Ghost of Station X, Robo's experimental plane turned spacecraft is destroyed and he uses the largest piece as an improvised heat shield. Being a robot helps him survive long enough for the Action Scientists to catch him with the launch assist plane. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_760b0bad | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_76c7754f | type |
All of Them | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_76c7754f | comment |
All of Them: In Issue 5 of Ghost of Station X: | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_76c7754f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_76c7754f | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_76ecc890 | type |
Brave Scot | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_76ecc890 | comment |
Brave Scot: James Milligan, the commando from the Guernsey mission of The Dogs of War is a prime example. He takes out most of a fortified Nazi base by himself, faces off against opponents that gave Robo pause, fights his way back out of the base (while carrying half of Robo) and ends up flying a prototype helicopter to safety after rigging the entire fortress to explode. All while maintaining a "just another day at work" attitude and spouting nigh-incomprehensible Scottish one-liners. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_76ecc890 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_772057ec | type |
Sudden Lack of Signal | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_772057ec | comment |
Sudden Lack of Signal: At the end of The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur, Robo gets teleported through time into the 19th century. He tries contacting base by radio — nothing. He tries to establish his position by GPS — nothing. Then he realizes that he can't detect any radio signals of any kind... | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_772057ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_772057ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_772057ec | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_777c0033 | type |
Technical Pacifist | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_777c0033 | comment |
Technical Pacifist: Tesla would never shoot anybody, heavens no! Because he has a very capable automatic man to do that for him. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_777c0033 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_77a495f1 | type |
Historical Badass Upgrade | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_77a495f1 | comment |
Historical Badass Upgrade: Everyone. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_77a495f1 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_781f2467 | type |
Shooting Superman | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_781f2467 | comment |
Shooting Superman: Robo is immune to small arms fire, and this has been demonstrated repeatedly over his 80+ year career in Action Science. Still doesn't stop Mooks from trying. And as Robo points out, just because it doesn't damage him doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. Played with at one point: Otto Skorzeny shoots Robo with his gun at one point, and it seems like it had no effect. Only then do we notice that Robo is, in fact, disabled, by virtue of a special bullet. It doesn't stop there, however, since Skorzeny also planned to drop a trainload of heavy ordnance on top of him, for good measure. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_781f2467 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_781f2467 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7c0bfb83 | type |
Obviously Evil | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7c0bfb83 | comment |
Obviously Evil: The computer Robo's employees construct in Volume 3 Issue 5. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7c0bfb83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7c0bfb83 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7ccd3698 | type |
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7ccd3698 | comment |
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Lampshaded, see below. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7ccd3698 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7d12f7b1 | type |
Who You Gonna Call? | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7d12f7b1 | comment |
Who You Gonna Call?: Tesladyne! | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7d12f7b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7d12f7b1 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7d4a47d1 | type |
Let Us Never Speak of This Again | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7d4a47d1 | comment |
Let Us Never Speak of This Again: The Tunguska Event. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7d4a47d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7d4a47d1 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7e081ea0 | type |
Slice of Life | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7e081ea0 | comment |
Averted in Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne and Other Strangeness; they're largely Slice of Life anthologies with assorted little bads but no big bad. Baron Heinrich von Helsingard does serve as the bad guy in both the first and last parts of Fightin' Scientists, but not the sections between. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7e081ea0 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_7e081ea0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_80b57bec | type |
Super-Soldier | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_80b57bec | comment |
Super Soldier: Volume 2, Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War, has Nazi supersoldiers developed as a part of the Special Weapons Program. They're hardly the archetype of the Aryan ideal, being slavering brain-dead beasts with insane levels of strength and endurance. | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_80b57bec | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82108e3d | type |
Attack Its Weak Point | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82108e3d | comment |
Attack Its Weak Point: | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82108e3d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82108e3d | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_823c6e3e | type |
LargeHam | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Several examples: H.P. Lovecraft Helsingard, who can't resist making grand speeches about how he is definitely, absolutely, for sure this time going to kill Atomic Robo after seventy years of trying. And whose first appearance sets the tenor for pretty much all his other appearances. "Behold, the Helsingard!" Dr. Dinosaur. "Behold my mastery of the mammal haiku!" | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_823c6e3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_823c6e3e | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82accf22 | type |
Gainax Ending | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82accf22 | comment |
Gainax Ending: The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur ends with Jenkins blowing up a large portion of Tesladyne's base, Dr. Dinosaur's "time bomb", going off, and Robo ending up in Oklahoma, in 1870. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82accf22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82accf22 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82b48dc | type |
Stupid Jetpack Hitler | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82b48dc | comment |
Stupid Jetpack Hitler: Deconstructed. Throughout Volume 2 Robo, fights Nazi mecha (Laufpanzers), Nazi supersoldiers, and various weird science like lightning guns and a railgun emplacement on Nazi-held Guernsey which turns out to be a "weather cannon". Robo lampshades just how dumb that sounds. Equally lampshaded is though there's plenty of Real Life evidence of Nazi "superweapons" that any other government could have used to assert global power, Hitler was so stupid that he couldn't decide which one to support to fruition, leaving him with a bunch of half-completed projects and a tiny number of prototypes the victors would spend the next fifty years fighting over. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82b48dc | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82d2715f | type |
Magitek | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82d2715f | comment |
Magitek: The Backup story for Volume 1 Issue 3 is about Jack Parsons, who builds a rocket as part of a scheme to become a god. Robo blows it up mid-flight because it would have crashed into a city. No consideration was given to whether or not the magic would have worked. Edison's plan hinged on a mystical crystal skull of Atlantean origin and Von Reichenbach's since-debunked Odic force. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82d2715f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82d2715f | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82e89bcf | type |
TheWarOnTerror | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82e89bcf | comment |
In The Ring of Fire, the "Scientific Emergency and Containment United Response Experts" (S.E.C.U.R.E.) Act, which essentially outlaws Action Science, leaving world-saveage in the hands of the incompetents in Majestic 12. During a Kaiju invasion. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82e89bcf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_82e89bcf | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8430699a | type |
Alternate Universe | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8430699a | comment |
Alternate Universe: The Vampire Dimension—a universe where all humans of the early 1900s were turned into vampires due to an unknown worldwide catastrophe (like I Am Legend without Will Smith). The Exoverse—a barren, featureless void outside of space and time and The Shadow's point of origin. Or it might be The Shadow's true form. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8430699a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8430699a | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8491d51e | type |
FrickinLaserBeams | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8491d51e | comment |
Frickin' Laser Beams: Robo is moved during volume 8 to demand to know where Dr. Dinosaur's rock-men army got face lasers. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8491d51e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8491d51e | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8658cd14 | type |
Agent Scully | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8658cd14 | comment |
Agent Scully: Robo is usually rather open-minded, but he becomes this out of spite whenever confronting the inexplicable mad science of Dr. Dinosaur. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8658cd14 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: In the very first issue Helsingard makes absolutely sure that there are no doubts as to what he is capable of: And then you have Carl Sagan's boast when he starts on a plan to defeat the Shadow, very similar to stuff the man himself said in real life: | |
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1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_86b21114 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_86bb7d97 | type |
Cultured Badass | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_86bb7d97 | comment |
Cultured Badass: Jenkins is seen reading a book of poetry while awaiting the call to action in the "Project SAINT" Free Comic Book Day story. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_86bb7d97 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_86f4f393 | type |
Stating the Simple Solution | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_86f4f393 | comment |
Stating the Simple Solution: In The Dogs of War, Otto Skorzeny attempts to kill Robo by using a missile to blow up a bridge in front of a train Robo's trapped on, and his companion asks why he didn't just target Robo directly. Skorzeny explains that the missile isn't powerful enough to kill Robo, but he has higher hopes of the train-load of armaments Robo is about to have fall on top of him. During his first encounter with Dr. Dinosaur, Robo is grappling with him when he states he could just fall backwards, and crush the reptile. Dr. Dinosaur wisely backs off. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_86f4f393 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Carl Sagan repeatedly hangs up on Robo when asked for his assistance in containing an Eldritch Abomination. He ends up requiring a stiff drink. Several of them, in fact. Enough to paralyze a cow. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8774fb47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8774fb47 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8b221a63 | type |
Reed Richards Is Useless | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8b221a63 | comment |
Reed Richards Is Useless: Lampshaded and Played With in Volume 4 Issue 2, with Robo commenting how the Guardian suits' non-military applications alone could solve all of Dr. Yumeno's budget problems, with Yumeno responding by stating the suits' absurd maintenance timenote 50 hours per hour of operation and costnote 900,000,000¥ aka 9,000,000$; they are his budget problems. Played completely straight in Real Science Adventures #11, "Rescue Mission", when Robo discovers that the government stole most of Tesla's research after his death - and spins it into a a Real Life trope: And when Robo discovers the real reason for all of that waste, it's enough to send him into a full-fledged Heroic B.S.O.D.. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8b221a63 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8b221a63 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8b6e8d7 | type |
Anachronic Order | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8b6e8d7 | comment |
Anachronic Order: The story readily jumps around from any time period to another in Robo's decades of exploits. Sometimes the background or resolution to a story will not be shown until a few volumes later. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8b6e8d7 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8d720fd1 | type |
We Are "Team Cannon Fodder" | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8d720fd1 | comment |
We Are "Team Cannon Fodder": The Action Scientists aside from Jenkins turn into this during the Helsingard fight. Most of the time, however, at least a few of them will pull their weight. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8d720fd1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8d720fd1 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8d9c8569 | type |
Deep-Immersion Gaming | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8d9c8569 | comment |
Deep-Immersion Gaming: Used frequently in the Roleplaying Game book, which takes sequences from the original comics and adds narration from a Game Master and Players to demonstrate those scenes in game mechanics. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8d9c8569 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8e20979 | type |
Wham Episode | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: At the end of The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur, Majestic 12 attacks Robo and his allies, Jenkins blows up Tesladyne, Dr. Dinosaur's device goes off, and Robo is blown back to the year 1870. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8e20979 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8ef99dbb | type |
Pin-Pulling Teeth | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8ef99dbb | comment |
Pin-Pulling Teeth: Jenkins uses his teeth to yank the pin out of a frag grenade while fighting the cyborgs in "Unearthed". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_8ef99dbb | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_90b787b3 | type |
Limelight Series | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_90b787b3 | comment |
Limelight Series: Real Science Adventures | |
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1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_90b787b3 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9203bf6 | type |
Arc Number | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9203bf6 | comment |
Arc Number: In The Shadow From Beyond Time, "infinity minus one". | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9203bf6 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9289ca1d | type |
Forbidden Chekhov's Gun | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9289ca1d | comment |
The zag is that sometimes you want a big damned explosion, and rarely will you have much time to prep it. Case in point, Robo turns the dials on both guns up to nine when he decides; | |
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1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9289ca1d | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_92cca75b | type |
Ret-Gone | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_92cca75b | comment |
Dr. Dinosaur's attempt to explain his plan to Ret Gone human history in "The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur": | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_92cca75b | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_960a9ef8 | type |
Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_960a9ef8 | comment |
Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock: When Robo and Charles Fort go hunting an Eldritch Abomination, Robo brings appropriate hardware. Just mind the dial. Better yet, don't touch the dial. The zag is that sometimes you want a big damned explosion, and rarely will you have much time to prep it. Case in point, Robo turns the dials on both guns up to nine when he decides; | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_960a9ef8 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Each volume has at least one major bad guy: Averted in Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne and Other Strangeness; they're largely Slice of Life anthologies with assorted little bads but no big bad. Baron Heinrich von Helsingard does serve as the bad guy in both the first and last parts of Fightin' Scientists, but not the sections between. Nazi commando Otto Skorzeny in The Dogs of War. The creature from The Shadow from Beyond Time. You just know that the mysterious grumpy gentleman from the first issue of The Deadly Art of Science is going to be revealed as Thomas Edison, even before you see his face. ALAN in The Ghost of Station X. Takeshi Hayoto, a member of Chokaiten (Japan's military superscience division) in Flying She-Devils of the Pacific Dr. Dinosaur and Majestic 12 are a Big Bad Ensemble in The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur. Young Baron von Helsingard in The Knights of the Golden Circle. Another Big Bad Ensemble in The Ring of Fire with Task Force ULTRA leader General Brooks and the Biomega. And a third threat comes from world governments who want to use a nuclear strike against the Biomega because they don't trust ULTRA to do the job correctly. Ichiro Matsuda, a Chokaiten operative in Temple of Od. Helsingard again in Spectre of Tomorrow. The RPG book indicates that Dr. Vanadis Valkyrie was one in a post-WWII adventure (which will probably be either The Spear of Destiny or Diamonds Are For Never). In Real Science Adventures "The Triumvirate", a group of Corrupt Corporate Executives in The Billion-Dollar Plot. All three are Public Domain Characters from "Edisonade" stories of the time: Frank Reade, Jr., Jack Wright, and "Electric Bob" (renamed Robert Trydan in RSA). Rival sky pirate captain Mad Jack in Raid on Marauder Island. The Nicodemus Job has Terazin Berikos, a crime lord. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_970c790a | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_991af300 | type |
Poke the Poodle | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_991af300 | comment |
Poke the Poodle: "Dr. Dinosaur's Revenge", where said being goes around the world plundering various electronic devices just to make a computer that floods Robo's inbox with junk mail. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_991af300 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_99a12edd | type |
Cyborg | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_99a12edd | comment |
Cyborgs: Helsingard uses them virtually all the time. In his chronologically earliest appearance they even spool out their observations on ticker tape in Helsingard's command centre. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_99a12edd | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_99ab4e84 | type |
Hand Blast | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_99ab4e84 | comment |
At the climax of Volume 5 we see Tesla flying and shooting energy blasts with the help of a minor rig. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_99ab4e84 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9a1d239e | type |
Been There, Shaped History | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9a1d239e | comment |
Been There, Shaped History: Deliberately averted with Robo. His exploits are often side-exploits that allow real-life history to proceed without interference—for example, his participation in the Mars probe consisted of sitting in a craft and doing nothing for a year. He got really bored. | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9a1d239e | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9ae0cca6 | type |
Character Blog | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9ae0cca6 | comment |
Character Blog: Dr. Dinosaur | |
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1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9ae0cca6 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9b54d536 | type |
EvilCounterpart | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9b54d536 | comment |
Evil Counterpart: In The Ghost of Station X, ALAN is one to Robo: they are both powerful automatic intelligences created by eccentric scientific geniuses, but where Tesla raised Robo with love and taught him to help people, ALAN was left without guidance at an early age after Turing was prosecuted for homosexuality. As a result, ALAN has no regard for human life, engineering the Cold War solely to develop nuclear technology for his own ends - specifically sterilizing the entire planet with an Orion Drive launch. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9b54d536 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9c1f758a | type |
Kill It with Fire | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9c1f758a | comment |
Kill It with Fire: Robo's reaction to discovering a sub-basement filled with giant insects (triggering his phobia) is to flood the place with rocket fuel and burn everything down. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9c1f758a | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9c45b5a2 | type |
What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9c45b5a2 | comment |
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Played with when Tesla and Robo capture a vampire-like monster from another dimension and Tesla wants to vaporize it for analysis. When Robo points out that while it's technically not alive he isn't either, Tesla instead decides to find more about them by sending Robo to investigate its home-dimension. Upon finding they populate a post-apocalyptic landscape and immediately attack Robo, they decide that, yes, it's entirely OK to kill them. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9c45b5a2 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9cde2df1 | type |
Hand Cannon | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9cde2df1 | comment |
Hand Cannon: The Webley Mk VI Robo got in the 1930s and carried as his main gun for nearly eighty years. After that breaks in Volume 6 his weapons technician gives him a Chiappa Rhino 2"(made from superdense materials that lets it fire rounds with extremely powerful propellant); it's described as an anti-materiel handgun. Soon afterwards, it proves its credentials by shooting down an attack helicopter. | |
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1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9cde2df1 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: In The Shadow From Beyond Time, Robo rants that the Army is telling Eisenhower that Sputnik means the Russians have thousands of space-capable nuclear weapons, and America should build a thousand of their own, which will cause the Russians to build a thousand more - despite not knowing if the Russians have any at all. In The Ghost of Station X, it turns out that ALAN was deliberately driving this arms race to further his own goals. The Ghost of Station X itself is packed with it: Lewis' comment about how we're lucky Robo is morally upright, later contrasted with ALAN, who is most certainly not. One of Martin and Lewis' many tangent theories when investigating the disappearing of a whole building is that it's A Glitch in the Matrix, because they figure future technology will either be unsustainable or so advanced we're probably already living in their simulations ("Mad Max now or The Sims later."). ALAN predicted the former, which is why he plans to leave Earth on an Orion starship to look for more resources, destroying the Earth in the process. | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9d12bbc1 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9d17b859 | type |
Made of Iron | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9d17b859 | comment |
Made of Iron: Robo, naturally enough. Over the years, Robo has replaced all of his chassis save his brain and atomic heart as parts inevitably wore out, better versions and new materials were developed, and new technologies were invented. He even lost his atomic heart at the end of Knights of the Golden Circle, and had to replace it with an ALAN-constructed duplicate in The Ring of Fire. As a result, he is really, really tough. So far, the only things that brought him close to death have been a collision with an orbiting satellite followed by re-entry (Ghost of Station X), and a crashing zeppelin packed with highly explosive Green Rocks (Knights of the Golden Circle). Despite his re-builds he keeps forgetting to modify his fingers to work with touchscreens. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9d17b859 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9d3b4703 | type |
This Is Reality | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9d3b4703 | comment |
This Is Reality: In The Ghost of Station X, Sparrow reassures Martin and Lewis: "You're spooking yourselves. Dodgy sci-fi movies have trained us to look for scary computers that want to kill us... But behind all the Scooby-Doo smoke and mirrors, there's a human pulling the levers." Which just goes to show that he hasn't spent enough time around Robo, because he's 100% wrong. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9d3b4703 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9d6427ec | type |
Time Travel | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9d6427ec | comment |
Unfortunately for Robo's sanity and existence in the 21st century, the third also turns out to be completely true, simply because it was proposed by Goddamn Dr. Dinosaur. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9d6427ec | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9dab0a6e | type |
Continuity Nod | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: "What's this about a fifth cardinal direction?" Bernard can be seen hiding from Jenkins in the cafeteria background in 3.5, which canonically takes place about a year after the "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" B-story. In Flying She-Devils of the Pacific, it's mentioned that Robo has flown with the Flying Tigers during WWII (his flight jacket even has the China-Burma-India Theater patch on the left shoulder), which was shown way back in the second issue. He even wears the panda bear patch of 2nd Squadron AVG. And much later, The Temple of Od shows us how Robo met General Claire Chenault, the Tigers' founder, in 1939. The Majestic 12 attack force in Volume 8 includes the robot from the "Project SAINT" Free Comic Book Day story. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9dab0a6e | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9dfb8296 | type |
This Is Gonna Suck | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9dfb8296 | comment |
This Is Gonna Suck: While being chased by a big creepy crawlie, Robo bashes through a wall to find hundreds of little creepy crawlies. | |
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1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9dfb8296 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9e86e227 | type |
The End... Or Is It? | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9e86e227 | comment |
The End... Or Is It?: The last panel of The Ghost Of Station X shows a small plant with electronic "veins" growing on ALAN's base. The Ring of Fire ends with a small chunk of Biomega coming back to life at the bottom of the ocean. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9e86e227 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9ebd9c33 | type |
UnPerson | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9ebd9c33 | comment |
Un-person: The villain of "The Tsar Bomb" is a Russian genius whom Stalin gave a secluded laboratory and then wiped from all records so that no foreign power would be able to make use of his work. Robo continues the tradition after defeating him, as "Ivan Koschey" was a vicious jerk who had been less than a second away from wiping out all life on Earth as punishment for not knowing of his existence. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9ebd9c33 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9f63d4f1 | type |
Our Vampires Are Different | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9f63d4f1 | comment |
Our Vampires Are Different: These vampires are savage bloodsuckers from another dimension. | |
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1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9f63d4f1 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9fbe06a5 | type |
Badass in a Nice Suit | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9fbe06a5 | comment |
Badass in a Nice Suit: Tesla. When he goes into battle, he does so in full black-tie, complete with top hat and Waistcoat of Style. And a suit similar in its capabilities to Iron Man's. | |
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1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_9fbe06a5 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a0390164 | type |
It's for a Book | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a0390164 | comment |
It's for a Book: In The Shadow from Beyond Time, young Robo tries to get advice from Tesla on fighting the eponymous extradimensional menace, without admitting that he's fighting it instead of doing his homework, by claiming that the radio serial he has on as background noise is about a battle against an extradimensional menace and he's curious about whether it's getting the science right. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a0396574 | type |
Rogues Gallery | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a0396574 | comment |
Rogues Gallery: Baron Heinrich Von Helsingard, quintessential Mad Scientist with a god complex. Otto Skorzeny, Nazi commando with a squad of Laufpanzer tanks; responsible for Tesla's death. Dr. Dinosaur, Genius Ditz and perpetual thorn in Robo's side, who may or may not be a time traveler. The Shadow from Beyond Time appears at multiple points in Robo's life (sort of), and threatens to unmake all of reality. Thomas Edison, Historical-Domain Character and Tesla's arch-rival, even in undeath. The Vampire Dimension, a monster-infested reality that has occasionally tried to cross over into our world. Majestic 12, a Government Conspiracy dedicated to seizing and weaponizing Tesla's technology for its own purposes, which it eventually succeeds in doing, forming Task Force ULTRA. Department Zero, the Soviet counterpart to organizations like Tesladyne and Majestic. Following the collapse of the USSR, it split into several independent cells, among them a super-science Black Market and DELPHI, which specializes in psionic studies. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a211849 | type |
Life Energy | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a211849 | comment |
Thomas Edison's plan in 1931 was to use New York as an antenna for his Odic Capacitor, and concentrate enough Life Energy into himself to become immortal. When the machine exploded, his consciousness got scattered across the Od, only pulling itself back together as a ghostly manifestation in 1999. When he finds that Robo's analysis inadvertently restored his corporeality (in part), he's not happy about it. He's later seen nostalgically returning to his historical estate, now a museum. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a305d1c5 | type |
A Fool for a Client | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a305d1c5 | comment |
A Fool for a Client: Dr. Dinosaur attempts to represent himself in court in "The Trial of Atomic Robo". Since he labels his briefcase "MY LAW BOX" and declares that the system is now on trial under the law of the jungle, it doesn't go well for him... though his actual plan to humiliate Robo ends up being rather successful. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a3c6c2b7 | type |
"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a3c6c2b7 | comment |
"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a68421bb | type |
Animated Adaptation | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a68421bb | comment |
Animated Adaptation: In the works. Have a trailer! | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a7aef9ff | type |
Obfuscating Stupidity | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a7aef9ff | comment |
Also Dr. Dinosaur's trademark. Or possibly it's Obfuscating Stupidity. Or possibly he really IS such a genius that Robo just doesn't understand what he's saying. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a7aef9ff | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a8559a9f | type |
RealLife | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a8559a9f | comment |
Played completely straight in Real Science Adventures #11, "Rescue Mission", when Robo discovers that the government stole most of Tesla's research after his death - and spins it into a a Real Life trope: | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a8559a9f | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a86069f | type |
Alternate History | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a86069f | comment |
Alternate History: The comics feature a hefty amount of well-researched Historical In Jokes and archaic scientific concepts. Not to mention multiple Historical Villain Upgrades. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a86069f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a86069f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a86069f | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a939a527 | type |
Red Eyes, Take Warning | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a939a527 | comment |
Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Evil Knockoff robot in The Deadly Art of Science has a single red eye in contrast to Robo's two blue eyes. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a939a527 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a939a527 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_a939a527 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_aa58bf92 | type |
Working with the Ex | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_aa58bf92 | comment |
Working with the Ex: Robo and Helen in Temple of Od. There's a little awkwardness there since Helen has a new boyfriend, but overall they're Amicable Exes. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_aa58bf92 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_aa58bf92 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_aa58bf92 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_aabe2fb | type |
Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_aabe2fb | comment |
Deliberate Values Dissonance: H.P. Lovecraft's infamy as a huge racist and xenophobe even for his time is reflected in the comic, as when he mistakes Robo for a pygmy in ceremonial ritual armor: | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_aabe2fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_aabe2fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_aabe2fb | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ab1659d5 | type |
Hero Stole My Bike | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ab1659d5 | comment |
Hero Stole My Rocket Fuel: When Robo discovers a basement full of Big Creepy-Crawlies in the basement while inspecting the new Tesladyne Institute building, he has Bernard steal a tank of liquid rocket fuel from his neighbors...the Virgin Galactic spaceport. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ab1659d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ab1659d5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ab1659d5 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_abbda0ea | type |
Intelligible Unintelligible | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_abbda0ea | comment |
Intelligible Unintelligible: Edison's robot in The Deadly Art of Science. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_abbda0ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_abbda0ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_abbda0ea | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_abce6dbf | type |
Law of Conservation of Normality | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_abce6dbf | comment |
Law of Conservation of Normality: According to Word of God in various places, the threats that Robo faces are designed to adhere to this law as much as possible (for example, Robo fights extradimensional monsters but not alien invasions because the latter would necessitate a cultural shift; practical, functioning giant robots are out because of the necessary technologies to invent them should change the world). | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_abce6dbf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_abce6dbf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_abce6dbf | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_abe0f934 | type |
Dissimile | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_abe0f934 | comment |
Dissimile: In The Billion Dollar Plot, Annie Oakley and Wong Kei-Ying hijack a monocycle from an enemy mook: | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_abe0f934 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_abe0f934 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_abe0f934 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ad4578de | type |
Hollow World | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ad4578de | comment |
Dr. Dinosaur come up with two logical and intriguing justifications for the Hollow World trope before descending into bonzo insanity; | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ad4578de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ad4578de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ad4578de | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_add931af | type |
I Choose to Stay | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_add931af | comment |
I Choose to Stay: Bernard in the Hollow Earth in The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur. The others rightly point out that his estimated lifespan down there is something like a day, and haul him with them anyway. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_add931af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_add931af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_add931af | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_afc52a86 | type |
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_afc52a86 | comment |
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Robot mummies in a steam powered attack pyramid. With solar death rays. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_afc52a86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_afc52a86 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_afc52a86 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_afe75982 | type |
Unsound Effect | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_afe75982 | comment |
Unsound Effect: "DOOR!" from the first issue. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_afe75982 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_afe75982 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_afe75982 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b0a8d0c4 | type |
Chainsaw-Grip BFG | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b0a8d0c4 | comment |
Chainsaw Grip BFG: Robo carries one on an action zoology expedition into the Amazon rainforest. Mostly, it's there to make him feel safe despite being surrounded by insects. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b0a8d0c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b0a8d0c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b0a8d0c4 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b1619b3c | type |
Omnicidal Maniac | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b1619b3c | comment |
Omnicidal Maniac: Ivan Koshchey, the villain of "The Tsar Bomb". | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b1619b3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b1619b3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b1619b3c | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b1d44353 | type |
CourtroomAntics | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b1d44353 | comment |
Courtroom Antics: The 2015 Free Comic, "The Trial of Atomic Robo". The trial itself is short-lived, as the plaintiff (Dr. Dinosaur) is found in contempt of court within the first two pages. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b1d44353 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b1d44353 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b1d44353 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b26cc887 | type |
Just Between You and Me | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b26cc887 | comment |
Just Between You and Me: Exploited in The Billion Dollar Plot; having reached the limit of what they can deduce about the villains' plans, the heroes allow themselves to be captured on the accurate assumption that one of the villains will fail his roll against gloating and explain exactly what they're up to. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b26cc887 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b26cc887 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b26cc887 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b3bdf232 | type |
Alien Geometries | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b3bdf232 | comment |
The fifth cardinal direction, Zorth - discovered by Charles Fort, and researched by Robo himself. Also the cause of an ongoing rivalry between Robo and Stephen Hawking. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b3bdf232 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b3bdf232 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b3bdf232 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b3da67e5 | type |
Sentai | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b3da67e5 | comment |
Sentai: Parodied in Volume 4, Issue 2 with Science Team Super Five, A team of Japanese Action Scientists who haven't fought monsters in decades and are supporting their technology through furious patent development. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b3da67e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b3da67e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b3da67e5 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b43dfc8d | type |
Your Days Are Numbered | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b43dfc8d | comment |
Your Days Are Numbered: In The Knights of the Golden Circle, Robo is running out of fuel, due to being stranded in the 19th century. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b43dfc8d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b43dfc8d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b43dfc8d | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: One Real Science Adventures story has Robo walk into a comic shop in the 90's and be turned off by all the Dark Age trends, reflecting the creators' criticism of the comics industry at large. The website elaborates by including a list of things that the creators promise Atomic Robo won't be, unlike the Big Two publishers: "No angst, no cheesecake, no reboots, no filler"; and before transitioning to a webcomic format, "No delays." (This last one has since been replaced by the promise that "The Main Robot Punches A Different Robot (Or Maybe A Monster)".) And a previous version of the elaboration on "no reboots" hits a more specific nerve: "[Fitting an idea into Robo's existing history or abandoning it if it can't] is a much better solution than making a deal that the character would never make with the devil he’d never deal with to change 'one' thing that alters the entire universe in ways that no one in charge seems to fully comprehend or address. Ahem." | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b53077b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b53077b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b53077b3 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b55e8979 | type |
Science Hero | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b55e8979 | comment |
Science Hero: Robo himself, and many of his support scientists. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b55e8979 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b55e8979 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b55e8979 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b5a47148 | type |
Captain Crash | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b5a47148 | comment |
Captain Crash: It's best if Robo doesn't take the stick. Just... let someone else fly, alright? | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b5a47148 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b5a47148 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b5a47148 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: Jack Tarot spends the first half of The Deadly Art of Science insulting Robo's love of pulp adventure stories, before turning out to have a hilariously-pulpy backstory of his own, involving a plane crash in the Himalayas, learning Zen-archery from a secretive order of monks, adapting it to firearms, and going from the wastrel son of a rich industrialist to a gun-toting vigilante. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b707726f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b707726f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b707726f | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b72ae7 | type |
Omnidisciplinary Scientist | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b72ae7 | comment |
Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Robo is highly proficient in several scientific fields; justified in that, as an 80+ -year-old robot, he's had plenty of time to study a lot of sciences. Enforced in the RPG, since the Science mode contains every single kind of science known to man, woman or robot; someone with Good (+3) Science has a decent grasp of everything from metallurgy to molecular biology. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b72ae7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b72ae7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b72ae7 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b7475a74 | type |
Bothering by the Book | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b7475a74 | comment |
Bothering by the Book: NASA, and how. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b7475a74 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b7475a74 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b7475a74 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b7e74b77 | type |
Five-Token Band | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b7e74b77 | comment |
Five-Token Band: Based on their names, the six primary Action Scientists (Alpha Team and Beta Team) are of German, African, Hawaiian, Indian, Chinese, and some kind of Germanic origins. At least partially confirmed in the RPG manual: Vikram is the son of African and Pakistani parents, Bao Lang is the child of Hong Kong Royal Navy officers, and Koa hails from Maui. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b7e74b77 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b7e74b77 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b7e74b77 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b89ab683 | type |
Hyper-Competent Sidekick | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b89ab683 | comment |
Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Jenkins, despite Robo being very competent and tough himself. Clevinger and Wegener have joked that Robo is actually Jenkins' sidekick. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b89ab683 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b89ab683 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b89ab683 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b91971d1 | type |
Stock Dinosaurs | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b91971d1 | comment |
Stock Dinosaurs: Dr. Dinosaur is a Dromaeosaurid (for the less jargon-enabled, think "Velociraptor.") And it is explicitly stated that he can't be an actual velociraptor, since: 1. they're extinct, 2. he's too big, and 3. he doesn't have feathers. (Oh, and 4: real dinosaurs didn't have voice boxes.) Robo even states that he is modeled after the fictitious raptors from the Jurassic Park films. All of this Robo takes as evidence that Dr. Dinosaur isn't really a dinosaur at all, but some artificially created monster. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b91971d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b91971d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b91971d1 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b9561236 | type |
A Good Name for a Rock Band | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b9561236 | comment |
A Good Name for a Rock Band: "Your problem will be solved." "With violent science." "That is SO a band name." | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b9561236 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b9561236 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_b9561236 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_bbf11c0 | type |
Genius Bruiser | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_bbf11c0 | comment |
Genius Bruiser: Robo himself. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_bbf11c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_bbf11c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_bbf11c0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_bd922dda | type |
Gentleman Adventurer | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_bd922dda | comment |
Gentleman Adventurer: Charles Fort and H.P. Lovecraft. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_bd922dda | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_bd922dda | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_bd922dda | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_bf5b6abf | type |
Cyber Cyclops | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_bf5b6abf | comment |
Cyber Cyclops: The Evil Knockoff robot in The Deadly Art of Science has a single eye. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_bf5b6abf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_bf5b6abf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_bf5b6abf | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c0d598fe | type |
Evil Gloating | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c0d598fe | comment |
Evil Gloating: Despite having spent most of his scenes in the story complaining about being in a hurry to complete his scheme, Edison still spends three pages monologuing to the captive Robo about what he's doing, which gives Tesla time to track them down and turn the tables. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c0d598fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c0d598fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c0d598fe | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c25c7890 | type |
Fun with Acronyms | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c25c7890 | comment |
Fun with Acronyms: In The Ghost of Station X, ALAN: Automatic Learning Algorithm Network. Built by, you guessed it, Alan Turing. In The Ring of Fire, the "Scientific Emergency and Containment United Response Experts" (S.E.C.U.R.E.) Act, which essentially outlaws Action Science, leaving world-saveage in the hands of the incompetents in Majestic 12. During a Kaiju invasion. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c25c7890 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c25c7890 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c25c7890 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c2d978fe | type |
Car Fu | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c2d978fe | comment |
Car Fu: "Automobiles have been the best melee weapons to use against giant monsters since the '50s. It's science fact." | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c2d978fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c2d978fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c2d978fe | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c31adf6a | type |
Gun Fu | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c31adf6a | comment |
Gun Fu: Jack Tarot is an interesting case. His marksmanship looks nothing like this, but his aiming technique is an adapted form of "Zen Archery". | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c31adf6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c31adf6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c31adf6a | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c335b9ec | type |
Irony | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: For all Robo's insistence that time travel is impossible, it turns out that the explanation for his own temporal jaunt at the end of Volume 8 is zorth cartography, his own theory. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c335b9ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c335b9ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c335b9ec | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c3478f1d | type |
Badass Bookworm | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c3478f1d | comment |
Badass Bookworm: Carl Sagan. Tesla. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c3478f1d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c3478f1d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c3478f1d | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c34a1799 | type |
Kaiju | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c34a1799 | comment |
Kaiju: "Biomega", with a bit of biological Grey Goo thrown in for good measure. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c34a1799 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c34a1799 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c34a1799 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c36f6d6c | type |
Mummy | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c36f6d6c | comment |
Mummies: They are Clockwork Creatures. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c36f6d6c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c36f6d6c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c36f6d6c | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c420a553 | type |
We Can Rule Together | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c420a553 | comment |
We Can Rule Together: In The Ghost of Station X, after Robo has survived several murder attempts and located the Big Bad's secret underground lair, the Big Bad offers to let Robo in on his plan to escape the planet and travel the Cosmos, in a nuclear-powered, Earth-destroying Orion spacecraft. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c420a553 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c420a553 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c420a553 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c4842ab1 | type |
Appropriated Appellation | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c4842ab1 | comment |
Appropriated Appellation: Dr. Dinosaur, who take his name from Koa calling him "Some kinda... Doctor Dinosaur?", when he burst in on Dinosaur about to slice off Robo's head with a circular saw. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c4842ab1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c4842ab1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c4842ab1 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c6eabb03 | type |
Gosh Dang It to Heck! | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c6eabb03 | comment |
Goshdang It To Heck: Robo doesn't curse, instead using odd euphemisms like "Horsefeathers!" and "Cheese and Crackers!" Averted at one point in Volume Three, though. After seeing the Shadow from Beyond Time "intersect" with one of the Action Scientists, Robo shouts out, "Holy DAMMIT!" The "odd euphemisms" are how young (read: kid) Robo curses. You'll notice that his "vocabulary" expands as he gets older. | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c6eabb03 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c6eabb03 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c6eabb03 | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c70907c7 | type |
The Butcher | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c70907c7 | comment |
The Butcher: Butcher Caldwell in Volume 9. Lampshaded: | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c81e2bba | type |
Necromancer | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c81e2bba | comment |
Necromancer: Charles Fort mentions in issue 3.1 that Edison is in possession of a "necrophone," which apparently allows him to speak with the dead. The device was seen in an earlier backup story. Edison used it to communicate with Rasputin's ghost. This is based on actual reports from the 1920s that Edison was working on just such a device. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c949edd4 | type |
Magic Pants | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c949edd4 | comment |
Magic Pants: He ends nearly every fight with pants intact, but naked to the waist. A blink-and-you'll-miss-it headline declaring Robo a sapient human also notes Robo's insistence on wearing pants at all as a form of modesty. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c9e5a0db | type |
Legacy Character | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_c9e5a0db | comment |
Legacy Character: There have been a number of British operatives code-named 'The Sparrow', all seemingly from the same family. Margaret Weir shows up in Dogs of War, with a mention of her brother having preceded her, and her grandson shows up in Ghost of Station X, with an interceding generation (female) mentioned. In Knights of the Golden Circle, Robo is mistaken for a previous "Ironhide" who was believed to have died before the story started, with people speculating that he's a relative or colleague who carrying on where the original left off. Dr. Hokuto inherits Dr. Yumeno's position twice; first as Guardian Red, later as the director of Big Science Inc. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ca04edd6 | type |
Charles Atlas Superpower | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ca04edd6 | comment |
Charles Atlas Superpower: In the 70s, Robo decides he needs to stop relying on super-strength and learn how to fight smarter. Who does he go to? Bruce Lee. When they finally spar, Bruce puts on boxing gloves... for Robo's protection. No-one else on the planet can withstand his attacks at full force. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ca1f9429 | type |
Boxing Lessons for Superman | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ca1f9429 | comment |
Boxing Lessons for Superman: Robo spent months learning martial arts from Bruce Lee, so that he wouldn't be dependent on just brute force. Bruce had already stopped taking students, but agreed to train him because Robo was the only person capable of surviving his full-strength attacks. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ca27661f | type |
Too Many Halves | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ca27661f | comment |
Too Many Halves: In "The Trial of Atomic Robo", Dr. Dinosaur describes his genetically-engineered killing machine as "Half Triceratops! Half Ankylosaurus! Half Stegosaurus!" | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ca3ef034 | type |
Evil Knockoff | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ca3ef034 | comment |
Evil Knockoff: In The Deadly Art of Science, Edison responds to Tesla's creation of Robo by building a larger, stronger robot of his own. How it stacks up to Robo in intelligence and personhood is never really addressed, since he basically uses it as a near-indestructible mook (in contrast to Tesla, who's shown in the same story to worry about Robo's safety and care about his intellectual development), but it does seem to have an unusual fondness for hats. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_cb87452d | type |
Reverse Polarity | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_cb87452d | comment |
Reverse Polarity: When a Tesladyne experiment accidentally causes an invasion from the Vampire Dimension, this is Robo's solution, only to discover the machine lacks a reverse setting. He considers this criminally negligent with the sort of ludicrous science they get up to. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_cb9aeb6a | type |
Vigilante Man | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_cb9aeb6a | comment |
Vigilante Man: Jack Tarot in The Deadly Art of Science is a homage to pulp vigilante heroes like the Shadow. Although the story sticks with the series's lighthearted adventure tone, some time is given to the fact that he's murdered a large number of criminals in the course of his adventures. | |
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1.0 | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_cbe687ab | type |
Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_cbe687ab | comment |
"The Triumvirate", a group of Corrupt Corporate Executives in The Billion-Dollar Plot. All three are Public Domain Characters from "Edisonade" stories of the time: Frank Reade, Jr., Jack Wright, and "Electric Bob" (renamed Robert Trydan in RSA). | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_cc3c365f | type |
Goofy Print Underwear | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_cc3c365f | comment |
Goofy Print Underwear: In "The Trial of Atomic Robo", Robo survives an explosion with all his clothes burned off except a pair of boxer shorts with love hearts printed on them. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_cdde1503 | type |
Gesundheit | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_cdde1503 | comment |
Gesundheit: In The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur: | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ceec4df5 | type |
Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ceec4df5 | comment |
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In The Ghost of Station X, the Big Bad's attempts to kill Robo are intended to preempt one. The launch of his Orion Drive starship would wipe out all life on Earth, except for Robo. ALAN expects that Robo would then attempt to come after him. Of particular interest is that ALAN calculated that Robo would win | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_cf7bd78d | type |
Steampunk | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_cf7bd78d | comment |
Steampunk: A pyramid possesses not only a steam-based system that allows it to move, but a water-based computer. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_d0447c7b | type |
Lightning Gun | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_d0447c7b | comment |
Lightning Gun: When Robo has enough prep-time to pick his loadout, he tends to gravitate towards electricity-based weapons. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_d397657d | type |
Hoist by His Own Petard | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: Dr. Dinosaur's schemes have a tendency to blow up in his face (sometimes literally) more often than not. He keeps at it, though, because there's also a better-than-even chance of said schemes blowing up in Robo's face (often literally). There's quite a bit of overlap. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_d4055b8b | type |
Square-Cube Law | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_d4055b8b | comment |
Square-Cube Law: Lampshaded the impossibility of giant ants in Volume 1. Robo has to fight them anyway. By hitting them with cars. A giant monster attack in Volume 4 has Robo ask "Why do we even have the Square Cube Law?" | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_d643f7fe | type |
Is It Always Like This? | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_d643f7fe | comment |
Is It Always Like This?: Other Strangeness depicts Bernard Fischer's first few days as an Action Scientist, which includes an invasion of other-dimensional vampires and a visit from the disembodied consciousness of Thomas Edison. Near the end, he asks Robo the traditional question; Robo's reply is, "No, sometimes it gets weird." | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_d732b623 | type |
Time and Relative Dimensions in Space | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_d732b623 | comment |
Time and Relative Dimensions in Space: Robo's main argument against time travel is the colossal speed at which planets and solar systems are constantly moving. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_d9d2c40b | type |
Amazon Brigade | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_d9d2c40b | comment |
Amazon Brigade: The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific, former military support who refused to go home after WWII ended. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_da75a16f | type |
Monumental Battle | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_da75a16f | comment |
Monumental Battle: Robo's team is faced against a mysteriously walking pyramid. It gets destroyed, much to the ire of the Egyptian president. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_dae5c997 | type |
Action Girl | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: The Sparrow, one of Britain's top operatives, who ended up working (rather reluctantly) alongside Robo in parts of Volume 2. They didn't really get on. More turn up in other volumes, such as Bao Lang (early-21st-century Tesladyne) or pretty much any given Flying She-Devil. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_dcbe8a6e | type |
Chekhov's Gunman | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_dcbe8a6e | comment |
Chekhov's Gunman: In 2010, Rex Cannon appeared on four pages before being unceremoniously killed off at the very start of a vampire invasion. They Never Found the Body...because, as revealed in the 2016 Free Comic Book Day story, he's now the King of the Vampire Dimension. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_dd9fba61 | type |
A Rare Sentence | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_dd9fba61 | comment |
A Rare Sentence: From The Ghost of Station X: Before that, at the end of Deadly Art of Science: | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_de7891ec | type |
Continuity Creep | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_de7891ec | comment |
Continuity Creep: The first few volumes had standalone stories, but Ghost of Station X began an ongoing storyline in the modern-day-set volumes (though stories set in the past are still relatively unconnected to each other). | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_dfe57573 | type |
Historical In-Joke | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_dfe57573 | comment |
Historical In-Joke: In Knights of the Golden Circle, the villain's airship is brought down while it's flying over Nevada. When secret service agents come to investigate the wreckage, a caption reveals that it's at Groom Lake, later to be the site of Area 51. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e11b003d | type |
Translation Convention | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e11b003d | comment |
Translation Convention: When someone is speaking in a translated foreign language it's written <in angular brackets>. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e16217f8 | type |
Historical Villain Upgrade | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e16217f8 | comment |
Historical Villain Upgrade: You could say this about Otto Skorzeny, the Nazi commando from Volume 2, but looking at his biography, fighting wise-cracking American robots seems to fit right in. Thomas Edison using the ghost of Rasputin in an attempt to assassinate Tesla. Which turns out to be only one of his villainous schemes. In Volume 8, Robo mentions in passing that Guglielmo Marconi (another of Tesla's rivals, only officially declared to have stolen the credit for inventing radio from Tesla after both of them were dead) had worked for the Nazis and built them a Science City; ergo, he coordinated their entire weapons program. Aluminum Christmas Trees; Marconi was BFFs with Benito Mussolini. While not exactly villainous, James Forrestal, Truman's Secretary of Defense, was the man most responsible for the creation of Majestic 12, an amoral black ops program which causes problems throughout the series. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e2d7b14c | type |
Made of Explodium | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e2d7b14c | comment |
Made of Explodium: Everything that exists, according to Tesla. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e3c36782 | type |
Call-Forward | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e3c36782 | comment |
Two cases in Other Strangeness: The photo of Jack Tarot on Robo's desk, and the eventual fate of Thomas Edison, both of whom are key players in Deadly Art of Science. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e43c66bd | type |
Art Evolution | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e43c66bd | comment |
Art Evolution: And it was nice art to start with! | |
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A Glitch in the Matrix | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e4fc9fbc | comment |
One of Martin and Lewis' discussions when investigating the disappearance of a whole building, revolves around A Glitch in the Matrix. The explanation for why it might be plausible, seems to be (loosely) based on the academic paper ''Are you living in a computer simulation?''. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e52a0409 | type |
Calling the Old Man Out | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e52a0409 | comment |
Calling the Old Man Out: To Nikola Tesla, here. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e563bf09 | type |
Insistent Terminology | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e563bf09 | comment |
Insistent Terminology: Bernard correcting anyone who refers to magma as lava in The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e5e07b2d | type |
You Cannot Grasp the True Form | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e5e07b2d | comment |
The Exoverse—a barren, featureless void outside of space and time and The Shadow's point of origin. Or it might be The Shadow's true form. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e624f0e8 | type |
Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e624f0e8 | comment |
Suspiciously Specific Denial: Dr. Dinosaur does this all the time because he has virtually no filter between his scrambled brain and his mouth. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e6291d05 | type |
Percussive Maintenance | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e6291d05 | comment |
Percussive Maintenance: In Flying She-Devils of the Pacific, Lauren fixes a sputtering engine this way. It works by pure trope power, because she doesn't thump the engine, only the control panel on the flight deck. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e6f18344 | type |
Humongous Mecha | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e6f18344 | comment |
The Nazi Laufpanzers from Volume 2 fit this pretty well, and arguably so does Baron von Helsingard's various robotic bodies throughout Volume 1. They're both rather small by Humongous Mecha standards, though, being the size of a large car at most. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e851b5 | type |
The Plan | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e851b5 | comment |
The Plan: The Big Bad of Volume 6 lives on this trope. ALAN's continued existence is due to its being hidden for 50+ years behind many layers of bureaucracy and manipulation going up to he highest levels of both the British and US governments (including Majestic 12). Not only was it able to successfully hide itself, but it also managed to build an Orion-class nuclear pulse starship in perfect secrecy on a Japanese island. Extra points for having done much of this via telephone and telegraph before the existence of the Internet. Exempli gratia: moving a house, intact, out of Bletchley Park, England, to Japan, via truck, boat and the sixth-ever-built Airbus Beluga (of which there are only 5), with no paper trail. | |
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Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e8b295de | type |
PlayedWith | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_e8b295de | comment |
Lampshaded and Played With in Volume 4 Issue 2, with Robo commenting how the Guardian suits' non-military applications alone could solve all of Dr. Yumeno's budget problems, with Yumeno responding by stating the suits' absurd maintenance timenote 50 hours per hour of operation and costnote 900,000,000¥ aka 9,000,000$; they are his budget problems. | |
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Younger Than They Look | |
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Younger Than They Look: Robo during his early adventures, as a result of having been created with a full-sized body and an advanced mind. In The Deadly Art of Science, Helen is horrified when she realizes, after they've been dating for a while, that Robo is technically only seven years old; he assures her that in terms of mental development he's in his twenties, but she's still shaken and the romance never really recovers. | |
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You Already Changed the Past | |
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You Already Changed the Past: Being stuck in the 1800s not only shatters Robo's conviction that time travel is impossible, it leaves him terrified of causing some kind of temporal paradox. He hangs a note on his wall reminding himself "Do Nothing - unless you're supposed to." He eventually decides "It's not a paradox if I was already part of the past." | |
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The Talk | |
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The Talk: When Tesla learns that Robo is dating Helen McAlister, Tesla decides it's time to talk to him about some facts of life. Robo manages to stop him before he gets further than "When a manbot loves a woman..." (Judging by his facial expression it's entirely possible that he's just winding Robo up.) | |
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Who Wants to Live Forever? | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ea39d156 | comment |
Who Wants to Live Forever?: The second issue implies that Robo has a bittersweet outlook on his immortality. He doesn't (openly) angst about it, though; in a televised interview, he coyly alludes to the problem by saying that he's annoyed that nobody understands his Jack Benny impersonation anymore. This is after privately reminiscing about a dear WWII-era friend who just died of old age. Thomas Edison's plan in 1931 was to use New York as an antenna for his Odic Capacitor, and concentrate enough Life Energy into himself to become immortal. When the machine exploded, his consciousness got scattered across the Od, only pulling itself back together as a ghostly manifestation in 1999. When he finds that Robo's analysis inadvertently restored his corporeality (in part), he's not happy about it. He's later seen nostalgically returning to his historical estate, now a museum. | |
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Sequel Episode | |
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Sequel Episode: "City of Skulls" revisits the site of "The Tsar Bomb", taking place three decades after the latter story. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: Real Science Adventures #2 features a short story in which Robo recruits The RED Team to capture the Yonkers Devil. They all die by the end, at which point Robo is revealed to have been replaced by the BLU Spy, who had been hired by Majestic 12 to keep the beast free for study. | |
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Jerkass | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: A few examples: Stephen Hawking (the bastard!) H.P. Lovecraft, although to be fair, by all accounts he was like that apart from being the physical form of an Eldritch Abomination. | |
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Jet Pack | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ebad3aad | comment |
Jetpack: Used by the She-Devils. | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Volume 9 reveals that Doc Holliday and Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves helped defeat a Mad Science invasion of the USA in 1884. It's revealed in Volume 5 that the War of the Currents was a front for Thomas Edison's attempt to distill and bottle Von Reichenbach's Odic Force as an immortality drug using a Direct-Current "Odic Capacitor". It didn't end too well for him. The Centralia mine fire which has been burning underground in Pennsylvania since 1962 was the result of Robo blowing up a mad scientist's Elaborate Underground Base. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_f0089082 | comment |
Early-Bird Cameo: Two cases in Other Strangeness: The photo of Jack Tarot on Robo's desk, and the eventual fate of Thomas Edison, both of whom are key players in Deadly Art of Science. Early on in Deadly Art of Science, Tesla catches Robo reading a pulp magazine about "Ironhide, scourge of the Old West". Fast-forward (rewind?) to Knights of the Golden Circle, where it turns out that Ironhide was a real person, whom Robo gets mistaken for. | |
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Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here | |
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Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: The Deadly Art of Science opens with Robo remarking gloomily that "Nothing exciting ever happens around here"; within pages he's become tangled up with a masked vigilante and a sinister mastermind with a crystal skull. It's played with a bit, though, with the intervening pages reminding us that Robo's baseline for "exciting" is a bit unusual in that for him Nikola Tesla attempting to pierce the subatomic veil with giant arcing electrical machines is an everyday occurrence. (Also, he's a talking robot.) | |
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Brain in a Jar | |
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Brain in a Jar: Helsingard. Several of them, in fact. When one goes down, another is activated, and apparently has all of the previous one's memories. | |
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Ceiling Cling | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_f4a5b281 | comment |
Ceiling Cling: The first zombie creature in the 1957 section of The Shadow from Beyond Time. Jenkins does one in The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur to avoid the threat of paperwork. | |
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Never Found the Body | |
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Never Found the Body: Half of Robo's encounters with Dr. Dinosaur end up this way. And Robo takes it as a given that if no body was found, Jenkins is alive. | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_f52828b0 | comment |
Sitcom Archnemesis: Robo and Stephen Hawking don't like each other very much, and in the first volume Hawking ensured that Robo was bored and miserable for months on end during a space mission. Robo kept himself occupied by arranging Mars rocks so they spell "Stephen Hawking is a bastard." As of Spectre of Tomorrow, Robo's setting up shop in Jordana del Muerto, New Mexico has earned him the enmity of his new neighbor, Sir Richard Branson (sparked when Robo swiped one of Branson's tanker trucks without asking to deal with an emergency). | |
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Weapon of Choice | |
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Weapon of Choice: Robo prefers Lightning Guns, as mentioned above. He's also fond of his Webley Mk VI pistol. | |
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Ow, My Body Part! | |
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Ow, My Body Part!: Once Robo's finally reactivated after a century with his head in a box, his first words are: | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In The Ghost of Station X, ALAN has spent fifty-plus years exerting subtle and powerful influence throughout the world, including shaping the development of the Cold War, to bring his plan to fruition. He doesn't understand why Robo has a problem with this, and when Robo tries to point out that he could have done a lot to help people with that kind of power in fifty years, he can't see what purpose that would have served. | |
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Darkest Hour | |
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Darkest Hour: The beginning of the Ring of Fire arc. Robo is lost in time and presumed dead, the rest of the team is either presumed dead or in hiding deep underground, Tesladyne has been taken over by Majestic 12 and turned into Task Force ULTRA, which is also commandeering other major scientific organizations unopposed, and the world is facing a major Biomega outbreak - against which any organized effort would conflict with ULTRA's goal of hyperdominance. | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
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Drives Like Crazy: Dr. Dinosaur. | |
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The Remnant | |
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The Remnant: The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific has CHOKAITEN; a rogue Japanese military unit that has been waiting six years since the end of the war to unleash a devastating super weapon that will sink the North American continent. | |
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RunningGag | |
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Running Gag: Despite eighty years of punching all manner of weirdness in the face, Robo manages to keep underestimating the volume of strangeness he has to deal with. Magic Pants: He ends nearly every fight with pants intact, but naked to the waist. A blink-and-you'll-miss-it headline declaring Robo a sapient human also notes Robo's insistence on wearing pants at all as a form of modesty. Captain Crash: It's best if Robo doesn't take the stick. Just... let someone else fly, alright? Jenkins being... well, Jenkins. invoked The fifth cardinal direction, Zorth - discovered by Charles Fort, and researched by Robo himself. Also the cause of an ongoing rivalry between Robo and Stephen Hawking. Capacitive touchscreens and insects, as well. Many of Robo's encounters end with his antagonist's base (or sometimes the antagonist him/her/itself) exploding violently and flinging Robo through the air to land on his face in the snow/sand/mud/concrete. | |
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Surprise Witness | |
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Surprise Witness: And it is most definitely not a genetically engineered killing machine! Truly, the world missed out on a great lawyer when Dr. Dinosaur chose mad science. | |
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American Robot | |
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American Robot: Now in 20th Century Flavor! | |
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You Killed My Father | |
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You Killed My Father: Skorzeny reveals to Robo in Madrid, 1974, that he killed Tesla. It's an attempt to get the latter to kill him and spare him a slow, painful death due to cancer. Robo doesn't give it to him. | |
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Real After All | |
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Real After All: Robo is old enough for Clarke's First Lawnote When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. to both repeatedly bolster him and kick him in the head. As Tesla and later Robo learned, the Odic force is very real, and the War of the Currents related to its use, with Thomas Edison later becoming a "ghost" made out of it. Carl Sagan repeatedly hangs up on Robo when asked for his assistance in containing an Eldritch Abomination. He ends up requiring a stiff drink. Several of them, in fact. Enough to paralyze a cow. Robo should really learn to stop underestimating Dr. Dinosaur, because every time the moron makes some painfully stupid junk science claim, he pulls it off. Gravity crystals? Robo gets blown up. Timevolution energies? Robo has to fight a T-Rex with missile launchers on its head. Magma worm? Ride 'em, Robo! Time-collapsing bomb? Enjoy your stay in The Wild West, Ironhide! | |
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Orbital Bombardment | |
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Orbital Bombardment: The best plan Robo can come up with to destroy the Biomega Nexus is to use Projekt Longinus, a seventy-year old Nazi Kill Sat loaded with tungsten rods, designed to be dropped at orbital velocity, providing the punch of a nuclear weapon without the radiation. | |
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Robosexual | |
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Robosexual: Robo and Helen in Volume 5. | |
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WellIntentionedExtremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Majestic 12. Despite everything they've done, they are trying to defend the planet from a predicted Biomega outbreak that would devastate civilization. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: In Ghost of Station X, Robo calls Steve Jobs to complain about how his hands don't work on touchscreens. Later, he finds a smartphone that he can't use because of the same impediment. It's vaguely implied that the subsequent trap was sprung because they knew Robo couldn't answer a ringing smartphone, and thus had confirmation that he was the one holding it | |
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Cross-Referenced Titles | |
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Cross-Referenced Titles: "Why Atomic Robo Hates Dr. Dinosaur" (FCBD 2009) and "Why Dr. Dinosaur Hates Atomic Robo" (Other Strangeness, issue 3). | |
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Talking Is a Free Action | |
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Talking Is a Free Action/You Fight Like a Cow: Robo could give Spidey a run for his money. | |
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Whateversaurus | |
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ff7d26d0 | comment |
Whateversaurus: Dr. Dinosaur's creations including the "Futuresaurus rex" and "Omnisaur". Dr. Dinosaur himself most likely counts, despite his claims. | |
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DVD Commentary | |
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DVD Commentary: Sort of. The website has pages of writer Brian Clevinger and artist Scott Wegener commenting on their issues over instant messenger (here is the page for issue #1), doing such things as mocking the early art, arguing over how Helsingard should have been more obviously not-Nazi and pointing out that they gave Germans English guns. As of volume seven, Clevinger and Wegener have been doing a segment called Atomic Robo: Nuts and Bolts on the Nerdy Show podcast. They and the interviewer go through each issue as it comes out and discuss where certain ideas come from, their writing process, and how Scott never looks at Brian's scripts. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: It's not uncommon to see Brian blog or tweet about doing research for upcoming issues. One of Martin and Lewis' discussions when investigating the disappearance of a whole building, revolves around A Glitch in the Matrix. The explanation for why it might be plausible, seems to be (loosely) based on the academic paper ''Are you living in a computer simulation?''. | |
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