Funny Robot
Exactly What It Says on the Tin. In works of fiction, Robots often serve as comedy relief.
Often overlaps with Robot Buddy. When a work implements Kids and Cute Robots, this is the type of robot that is typically used.
Examples of Funny Robot include:
Advertising
- Watson the supercomputer has inadvertently become one in commercials like this one.
Film
- B.E.N. from Treasure Planet.
- Robbie from Forbidden Planet, possibly the Trope Codifier
- R2-D2 and C-3PO from Star Wars.
- WALL-E and MO from WALL-E.
- BURN-E from the Pixar Short.
- Fender from Robots.
- Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
- Johnny 5 from Short Circuit.
- Bubo the clockwork owl from Clash of the Titans
- Skids and Mudflap from Transformers.
Music
Video Games
- Clank, Lawrence, Dr. Nefarious and MR. ZURKON.
- Orbot and Cubot from Sonic the Hedgehog.
- Portal:
- GLaDOS can be rather funny in both games in a rather grim way, although while the way she taunts and goads Chell may be funny to the player, it's likely not all that funny to Chell.
- Wheatly in the second game; helps that he's voiced by British comedian Stephen Merchant. Sure, he's trying to kill Chell, but his attempts are so dumb that he's Laughably Evil and outright hilarious.
- R-110 in Time Splitters becomes this after a terminal somehow gives him "brain damage".
- In Mortal Kombat 11, Sonya's turret drone is usually a mini-kill-bot, but in one of her Friendships, she throws a stick for it to fetch, making it cute - and funny - as hell. Especially seeing as it brings back the stick and a dead Tarkatan!
- Maple Story: Even the Mecha-Mooks and Bosses who are robots are funny. For example, Guard Robots have one wheel instead of legs, use weapons that look like electric tennis rackets, and have a siren on the “head” that blares when they attack, while the more humanoid robots have eyes that bug out when damaged. The first Boss in Black Heaven is a bulky robot that looks like some Dumb Muscle thug with a square jaw in a suit – except he’s a robot.
Western Animation
- Bender, Roberto, and the Robot Devil from Futurama.
- Karen from SpongeBob SquarePants.
- GIR from Invader Zim.
- LXR from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.