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Robotboy is a French animated television series which was produced by French production company ALPHANIM with TV ChannelsFrance 3 and Cartoon Network as well as Luxanimation. It was created and designed by Jan Van Rijsselberge and was directed in Alphanim's studio in Paris by Charlie Bean, who worked on other Cartoon Network programs such as Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls. It was first aired in France on October 12 2005 at MIPCOM, Paris and later premiered on TV in the UK on November 1 2005 on Cartoon Network. The pilot episode premiered in the US on December 28 2005 as part of a "sneak peek" preview week for the network's new Saturday morning cartoon lineup scheduled to debut on January 14 2006.

Plot

Robotboy is a new creation of the world renowned scientist Professor Moshimo. Due to fears that Robotboy would be stolen by his arch-rival Dr Kamikazi and his main henchman Constantine to be used to take over the world, Professor Moshimo entrusts Robotboy to 10 year old Tommy Turnbull, his biggest fan. While being protected by Tommy and his two friends Lola and Gus, or "G-man" as he calls himself, Robotboy learns how to behave and act as if he were a real boy.

Characters

Major characters

Robotboy

Robotboy is a battle robot with three modes of operation: Deactivated, Activated, and Superactivated. Deactivation mode is Robotboy's standby stage, where he becomes compact enough to fit into a backpack. Activation mode is the standard stage of Robotboy's active modes, where he is able to use most of his non-battle technology. Superactivation mode is when Robotboy transforms into his battle stage of operation, where he has access to an amazing arsenal of weaponry to deal with any and all enemies.

Robotboy is mainly a fun loving robot, with the ability to have human-like emotions and actions despite being mostly machinery. He acquires human skin in season 2

Tommy Turnbull

Tommy is a blonde, square-headed, 10 year old boy, and Robotboy's new owner. He is smart, responsible and likeable and acts as a father figure to Robotboy, Robotboy having no parents himself. Tommy has an older brother, who is a bully. Maybe he got his square head from his mother, who also has a square head.

Lola Mbola

Lola is an African-American 10 year old girl who is well educated and is the daughter of a wealthy diplomat. She is secretly in love with Tommy, but Tommy is too ignorant to notice Lola's true feelings for him.

Augustus "Gus" "The G-man" Bachman Turner

Gus is overweight, red-headed and selfish. He is an attention seeker and tries to show off most of the time pulling practical jokes on anyone close to him. However, most of these tricks backfire and often get him in trouble. His voice resembles Eric Cartman of South Park. At the same time, Gus tends to fart a lot in the show.

Gus's parents are of Amish origin.

Dr. Kamikazi

Dr. Kamikazi is a small and old man with thick glasses and a suit/bathrobe combo who wants to dominate the world. He hopes that with his army of genetically mutated anthropomorphic animals, and an army consisting of robots to which he hopes to add Robotboy to, he will soon be able to achieve his dastardly goal. Most of his henchmen have a large letter K on their uniforms, to show that they are of Dr. Kamikazi.

He is voiced by one of the anouncers from the popular television show Banzai who, in irony, is noted to be Chinese rather than Japanese.

Constantine

Constantine is a fat hunchbacked henchman of Dr. Kamikazi who also is a master of sumo wrestling (though it is unknown if he has ever been a yokozuna, or "grand champion"). He is a senstive and none too threatening sidekick to Dr. Kamikazi who mainly acts as his muscle power as well as his assistant.

Despite looking like a Japanese version of a henchman, Constantine is actually Spanish, suggesting that his outfit is simply a uniform assigned to him by Dr. Kamikazi.

Donnie Turnbull

He is Tommy's older brother. He is bald, mean and always bullies Tommy & Gus.

Dwight & Debbie Turnbull

They are Tommy and Donnie's father and mother, respectively. Tommy's father works as a salesman of a shop that sells fitness equipment. He always tries to get Tommy to play sports, so as not to be a "girly" boy. Tommy's mother is a housewife.

Professor Moshimo

Professor Moshimo is the creator of Robotboy. Having received a letter from Tommy Turnbull about him looking forward to his latest invention. As a result, Professor Moshimo sent him Robotboy to take care of. The Professor has a fiancee named Miumiu, who also acts as his assistant.

Minor characters

Protoboy

Protoboy was created by Dr. Mishimo in his earlier years. He was designed for battle rather than with emotions and human speech. This made him much more powerful than Robotboy. In the episode "Brother", he knocked Robotboy unconcious and started destroying the city. When Robotboy used Super-Activation, so did Protoboy. Robotboy was nearly defeated until he used the new weapon Dr. Mishimo gave him, which is essentially a limpet mine. As a result, Protoboy exploded and was never seen again.

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