List of Futurama characters
This article lists the many characters of
Along with the employees of Planet Express, Futurama includes a large array of characters, which include co-workers, media personalities, business owners, extended relatives, townspeople, aliens, and villains. Many of these characters were created for one-time gags, background scenes, or other functions, but later gained expanded roles. Other characters started out as background characters, and have been used to personify new roles later on in the series.
The main characters are listed first; all other characters are listed in alphabetical order. Only main, supporting, and recurring characters are listed, with brief descriptions of the main and supporting characters also given.
Overview
Character | Voiced by | Seasons | ||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |||||
BBS | TBwaBB | BG | ItWGY | |||||||||
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Philip J. Fry | Billy West | Main | ||||||||||
Turanga Leela | Katey Sagal | Main | ||||||||||
Bender | John DiMaggio | Main | ||||||||||
Professor Farnsworth | Billy West | Main | ||||||||||
Dr. Zoidberg | Also starring | Main | ||||||||||
Amy Wong | Lauren Tom | Also starring | Main | |||||||||
Hermes Conrad | Phil LaMarr | Also starring | Main | |||||||||
Kif Kroker | Maurice LaMarche | Guest | Recurring | Main | Guest | Main | ||||||
Zapp Brannigan | Billy West | Guest | Recurring | Main | Guest | Main | Also starring | |||||
Nibbler | Frank Welker | Guest | Recurring | Guest | Recurring | Main | Main | Guest | Also starring | |||
Mom | Tress MacNeille | Guest | Main | Supporting | Recurring | Main | ||||||
Scruffy | David Herman | Guest | Recurring | Supporting | Also starring | Main |
Main characters
Philip J. Fry
Philip J. Fry (voiced by Billy West), primarily known by his surname Fry, is the main protagonist of the series. He is a 20th-century pizza delivery boy in New York City who, after getting dumped by his girlfriend and being stuck in a dead-end job, is cryogenically frozen on December 31, 1999, waking up 1000 years later just before the year 3000. After meeting Leela and Bender, the trio find employment at the Planet Express delivery company, owned by Fry's distant descendant Professor Farnsworth. Ironically, Fry becomes the delivery boy for Planet Express after rejecting his predetermined job of being a delivery boy upon waking up in the future. Fry is a goofy, dim-witted, slovenly but well-meaning individual. The series follows his transition from the 20th century to the 31st century.
Billy West used an impression of his own voice at age 25 to create Fry's voice.[1]
Turanga Leela
Turanga Leela (voiced by
Bender Bending Rodríguez
Bender Bending Rodríguez (voiced by
Professor Farnsworth
The Professor teaches at Mars University and has worked for Momcorp on several occasions but spends most of his time inventing ridiculous devices and sending the Planet Express delivery crew on
Many episodes' major plot points are introduced by Farnsworth announcing, "Good news, everyone!" or some variation thereof, either to unveil his latest invention or describe the company's latest delivery assignment. On the very few occasions he has actual good news, he often opens with "Bad news, everyone!" After Fry resigns from his job in "
The Professor rarely worries about the safety of the crew, viewing them as a means to an end, as evidenced in the first episode, where he is indifferent to what happened to his previous crew and only focuses on getting a new one. Farnsworth's employees later discover that their predecessors died while gathering honey from Space Bees ("The Sting"). The Professor issues his new crew the previous crew's career chips from a manila envelope labeled "Contents Of Space Wasp's Stomach" ("Space Pilot 3000").
It is established in the episode "
Many references to the pulp science fiction magazine Weird Tales indicate the Professor may be named in honour of its editor Farnsworth Wright. Another possibility is that he is named after the American inventor and television pioneer Philo Farnsworth who appeared in the Futurama episode "All the Presidents' Heads" as an ancestor of the Professor and Philip J. Fry.
Billy West uses a combination of impressions of Burgess Meredith and Frank Morgan.[4] However, in the "Action Delivery Force" segment of "Reincarnation", the Professor is voiced by David Herman.[5]
Hermes Conrad
Hermes Conrad | |
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Futurama character | |
First appearance | "The Series Has Landed" (1999) |
Created by | Ken Keeler Matt Groening |
Voiced by | Phil LaMarr |
In-universe information | |
Species | Human |
Gender | Male |
Occupation | Bureaucrat Grade 35 and accountant of the Planet Express delivery company. |
Spouse | LaBarbara Conrad (wife) |
Children | Dwight Conrad (son) |
Origin | Kingston, Jamaica |
Hermes Conrad (voiced by Phil LaMarr) is a workaholic bureaucrat and the accountant at Planet Express. He is from Jamaica and speaks with a heavy accent. He manages the Planet Express delivery business with responsibilities that include paying bills, giving out legal waivers, and notifying next of kin. Hermes is very enthusiastic about the Limbo and was once an Olympic limbo athlete.[6] An accident in the 2980 Olympic Games in which a fan broke his back trying to emulate Hermes left him traumatized, and he could not bring himself to limbo again until decades later when it was needed.[7] The series also alludes to Hermes using cannabis, though he is never seen using it, partially due to prime-time television censorship standards at the time of Futurama's original run.[8]
Hermes frequently admonishes the staff for not working hard enough, and strongly dislikes Zoidberg, often treating him as a "thing" and not a person. Zoidberg is generally oblivious to this, considering Hermes his friend, but upon learning the truth in "The Six Million Dollar Mon", he callously calls out Hermes for his treatment of him. Later episodes show them building an uneasy rapport, with Hermes slowly softening to Zoidberg. He is also known to dislike labor unions, once referring to Labor Day as created by "fat-cat union gangsters", though seconds later he exclaims "Hot damn, a day off!" upon learning that it was that very day ("When Aliens Attack"), and consulting Glurmo about firing the entire crew and replacing them with Grunka-Lunkas for half the pay ("Fry and the Slurm Factory").[9] It is a recurring gag that Hermes wants to kill some or all of the members of the Planet Express crew; in "The Farnsworth Parabox", he suggests that Leela shoot the rest of the crew and ponders ejecting the entire crews of both universes into the sun.[10]
Despite his disdain toward most of his coworkers, he is later portrayed as one of the most compassionate characters in the series, and seems to have a soft spot for
Hermes is married to LaBarbara Conrad, with whom he has a son Dwight. LaBarbara was formerly married to Hermes' former Limbo rival
Phil LaMarr stated that he was originally named Dexter, did not have a Jamaican accent, and was more uptight. Series creator Matt Groening walked up to LaMarr after an early table read and said "Hey Phil, can you do a Jamaican accent?" This resulted in making the character more workable and less bland, according to Groening.[6][8]
Dr. Zoidberg
John A. Zoidberg (voiced by
The crew are often disgusted by his foul habits, such as
Billy West performs the character with a
Zoidberg is named after an
Amy Wong
Amy Wong | |
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Kif Kroker (Fonfon Ru) | |
Significant other | Philip J. Fry (ex-boyfriend) Bender Bending Rodriguez (ex-fiancé) |
Children | Axl, Mandy and Newt (adoptive children) |
Origin | Mars |
Amy Wong (voiced by
On the show, between her roles as expert technician and occasional theorist, Amy is known for being somewhat shallow, kind, and ditzy. When Doctor Zoidberg had lost his mind due to hormones and was forced to be tied up, she was fooled multiple times into untying him, despite the dangers. As she said herself, "Fool me seven times, shame on you, fool me eight or more times, shame on me." She uses Martian slang, which is simply American slang with altered consonants. Amy tends to wear rather provocative outfits. Her standard outfit is a
According to her, because of her supreme cuteness, Amy had cuteness reduction surgery on her cheek and nose when she was a teenager.[24]
Amy has dated a few men, and she expresses a sexually adventurous attitude. In
When creating Amy's character, Matt Groening and David X. Cohen decided that she would be something of a klutz. Groening was interested in exploring the idea of using slapstick comedy and physical humor with a female character since most of this humor was done by male characters in his previous work, The Simpsons.[25]
Amy's personality was initially different. Lauren Tom has stated that she was originally supposed to be "a car
In the season four episode "
Zapp Brannigan
Zapp Brannigan (voiced by Billy West) is a 25-Star general in the military of the Democratic Order Of Planets (D.O.O.P.), although his title varies. Brannigan was first seen in the episode "Love's Labours Lost in Space" as Captain of the starship Nimbus, where he imprisons Fry, Leela and Bender for violating "Brannigan's Law".
Zapp is generally incompetent, egotistical, boorish, vain, cowardly, sexist and short-sighted. He will often mispronounce words, such as champagne ("sham-PAGG-Enn") and guacamole ("GWACK-a-mole") in the episodes "Love's Labours Lost in Space" and "The Problem with Popplers" (respectively). Soon after first meeting him, Leela has sex with him out of pity. He mentions this encounter repeatedly in later episodes while remaining convinced that Leela lusts after him despite her opposition to the idea. He is known to make catastrophic mistakes (such as destroying D.O.O.P. headquarters in "Brannigan, Begin Again"), yet, in the public eye, he is seen as an established and reputable leader of the Earth's army. Though viewed publicly as a respected hero for his numerous military victories, almost all of these victories are against comically weak opponents or achieved through tactics that wantonly disregard the safety of his own soldiers.
The character is based on the
Kif Kroker
Lieutenant Kif Kroker (voiced by
Nibbler
Lord Nibbler (voiced by Frank Welker) masquerades as an innocent, cute and unintelligent pet during most of the series. In reality, he is a highly intelligent Nibblonian and capable of communication, but tries to avoid suspicion while he protects the Earth in general and Fry in particular from the Brainspawn. As with all Nibblonians, Nibbler's feces consist of dark matter, which can be used as starship fuel. It is an extremely dense material, "each pound of which weighs over ten thousand pounds," according to Professor Farnsworth in the season 1 episode, "Love's Labours Lost in Space." After he accidentally reveals to the Planet Express crew that he can speak in Bender's Big Score, he forgets to wipe their memory of his intelligence, which it turns out does not affect them much, and from then on he speaks freely to the crew. In the pilot episode, Nibbler's shadow can be seen as Fry falls into the cryogenic freezer, alluding to the reveal in the fourth season episode "The Why of Fry" that he helped send Fry to the future.
Scruffy
Scruffy (voiced by
The Season 6 episode "The Prisoner of Benda" reveals that he is in love with his robotic wash bucket, but avoids entering into a relationship with it. He is murdered by Robot Santa in the non-canonical anthology episode "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular".
In "
Mom
Carol "Mom" Miller (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is an aggressive, threatening and
Her given name is revealed to be Carol in "The Tip of the Zoidberg".
In the episode "Leela and the Genestalk", Mom works out of "Momsanto", a floating castle that hosts a genetic engineering facility. Its name is a reference to Monsanto, an American agricultural company known for genetic engineering of plants.[30]
Secondary characters
Calculon
Calculon (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) is an acting robot renowned for his melodramatic roles and dramatic speaking style. His most famous role is as the lead character in the long-running robot soap opera All My Circuits. It is claimed in "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" that Calculon received his acting ability from the Robot Devil. Calculon is from the 21st century, having been created as a standard industrial robot called Calculon 1.0. He changes his name and appearance every few decades to conceal his true age, claiming that one of his disguises was David Duchovny. It is revealed in "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV" that throughout his entire time on All My Circuits, he has only ever done one take for each scene; in "Calculon 2.0" Calculon professes to not know the meaning of a "second take".
In the episode "The Honking", it is revealed that his first job was in 2019 as a motorised service arm building the most evil car in existence, Project Satan. Calculon was run over by Project Satan, and became a were-car (the robot equivalent of a werewolf). The curse is broken at the end of the episode, when Project Satan is destroyed.
In "
In
Calculon dies in "The Thief of Baghead" when he tries to defeat Langdon Cobb in the World Acting Championship after Leela and Bender advise him to do the Romeo and Juliet scene and give him water and food coloring. Unfortunately, food coloring is fatal to robots. Calculon decides the only way to win the award is to actually drink the food coloring and die. After he dies, Cobb wins the award instead of him, making his death pointless.
In "Calculon 2.0", Bender and Fry decide to revive Calculon after deciding that they do not care for his replacement on All My Circuits, Vaxtron. They journey to Robot Hell and obtain Calculon's soul from the Robot Devil. The Professor has the crew perform a series of ritualistic "scientific" tasks to put the soul of Calculon back in his body. After Calculon is brought back to life, he returns to acting. He first performs a one-man show. When the show receives poor reviews where it was claimed that some people were taken to the hospital as well as a news report stating that Calculon's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was replaced with another one for Robert Wagner, Calculon determines that maybe he should not be acting and should have remained in hell. Leela, who opposed Calculon's return to acting, now wants to help him return to All My Circuits. She explains that he should go to an audition in disguise to play Calculon for the show. When he lands the part, Calculon returns to his former ways. Leela then makes him feel bad by saying that he has no acting skills, and that the world had forgotten he had even been alive within the first month of his death. She then explains to Bender and Fry that it was a ploy to save his part in the show. The show crew is smitten by his down-to-earth acting skills, and he reveals himself as Calculon. As he takes a bow, once again thinking that his life is worth living, a massive lighting fixture falls, crushing him. His life as Calculon 2.0 is honored; he watches the ceremony in Robot Hell where his soul resides once more much to the annoyance of the Robot Devil.
Calculon is brought back from Robot Hell in the first episode of the Hulu-produced revival season, "The Impossible Stream." In an attempt to watch every episode of television ever produced, Fry enters a binge-state that overpowers his mind while watching the final season of All My Circuits. To save Fry from mental whiplash from returning to reality, Leela and Bender pitch a revival of All My Circuits to the robot executives at streamer Fulu, who make a deal with the Robot Devil to bring Calculon back from the dead.
Morbo
Morbo the Annihilator (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) is the misanthropic alien anchor for √2 News, Entertainment and Earth Invasion Tonight, Good Morning Earth, and other shows on the √2 Television Network. Morbo is an advance scout for an upcoming alien invasion and does not bother to be subtle about it, often expressing his contempt and extreme hatred for mankind during live news broadcasts and commenting frequently on his species' extremely violent invasion plans. He appears to be using his job to gather information about the human race to aid the planned invasion. Morbo is good friends with President Richard Nixon.[31] His co-host Linda van Schoonhoven seems blissfully dismissive of Morbo's hatred and usually responds with an empty-headed laugh to Morbo's contemptuous outbursts. He is married to Mrs. (Fawn) Morbo, a member of his species.
Linda van Schoonhoven
Linda van Schoonhoven (voiced by
In the 2014
Planet Express crew relatives
Axl, Mandy and Newt Kroker
Axl (voiced by Maurice LaMarche), Newt and Mandy Kroker (both voiced by Lauren Tom) are the children of Kif Kroker and Amy Wong. Although Amy raises them as her own, their biological mother is Leela. Kif gives birth to them in "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch", and twenty years later, in "Children of a Lesser Bog", they are the only remaining spawn that survive the perils of nature, getting eaten by creatures or Zoidberg. Their names are plays on types of amphibians: axolotl, salamander, and newt, respectively.
Cubert Farnsworth
Cubert Farnsworth (voiced by Kath Soucie) is Professor Farnsworth's clone,[32] which the Professor produced to serve as his heir and continue his scientific legacy. He is introduced in the episode "A Clone of My Own", in which he rejects Farnsworth and becomes hostile to the entire Planet Express crew.[33] Professor Farnsworth reveals that he had been lying about his age, and is taken to the Near Death Star for retirement. The crew rescues the professor using Cubert's (and thus the Professor's) DNA to gain entry, and Cubert announces that he will continue the professor's science after all.
The Professor created Cubert with the intention that he would continue his work after discovering that his life was wasted with nothing but failed or worthless inventions. Hubert is delighted until he discovers that Cubert's intentions are not as he planned. Cubert wants to do something 'better' with his life and does not accept the responsibility Hubert gives to him. He believes that most things happen to be "Impossible" contrary to the Professor's belief that nothing is impossible. Cubert has an epiphany after getting hit on the head, realizing how the starship engines Hubert invented work, allowing them to be repaired while Hubert is incapacitated. After this, he decides he wants to follow in his "father's" footsteps after all. Cubert became friends with Dwight Conrad, the son of Planet Express's resident bureaucrat Hermes Conrad.
Dwight Conrad
Dwight Conrad (voiced by
LaBarbara Conrad
LaBarbara Conrad (voiced by
Leo and Inez Wong
Leonardo "Leo" Wong (voiced by
Morris and Munda
Turanga Morris and Turanga Munda (voiced by David Herman and Tress MacNeille) are Leela's father and mother and later on Fry's parents-in-law. They are sewer mutants who love Leela deeply and try to give her as normal a life as possible by passing her off as an alien and leaving her to be raised in an orphanage. They participate in her life as much as possible from the sewers until Leela finally learns the truth and attempts to form a real relationship. They each have one eye, Morris has a vertically oriented mouth, ten toes on each foot, and the ability to shed his skin, while Munda has a lion-like tail and octopus tentacles in place of arms.
Their original appearance in "I Second That Emotion" shows them as plain cyclopes like Leela.
The plot of "
Yancy Fry and Mrs. Fry
Yancy Fry (voiced by
As a result of Philip's time travel, Yancy Sr. is the result of an incestuous one-night stand between Philip and his grandmother, therefore the son of his own son. ("Roswell That Ends Well")
Yancy Fry Jr.
Yancy Fry Jr. (voiced by Tom Kenny) is Fry's older brother in the 20th and 21st centuries. Yancy Jr. is mostly rude and competitive with Philip as seen in "The Luck of the Fryrish." His jealousy of his brother dates back to Philip's birth, when Yancy wanted to have that name, but is informed that his name, Yancy, is a family tradition dating to the Revolutionary War. (It is unknown if he is formally named Yancy Jr.) After Fry disappears, Yancy becomes so devastated that he eventually names his son Philip J. Fry in his honor. Yancy is also an ancestor of Professor Farnsworth.
Antagonists
Walt, Larry, and Igner
Walt (voiced by
Omicronians
The Omicronians are an alien race from the planet Omicron Persei 8.
- Lrrr (/lɜːr/, voiced by Maurice LaMarche) is the ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8, and always introduces himself as such.[36] He aims to project a strong ruthless demeanor of a conqueror but often ends up showing a sensitive side. He is currently married to Ndnd, his second wife, with whom he has one son, Jrrr (/dʒɜːr/, voiced by Lauren Tom). His first major appearance is in the episode "When Aliens Attack".[37] In "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences", he claims to have murdered his father for his cape.
- Ndnd (voiced by Tress MacNeille, pronounced /ʌnd'ʌndʌ/), is Lrrr's second wife. She is overbearing and bossy, often nagging Lrrr to eat more healthily and fulfill his duties as supreme ruler of Omicron Persei 8. In "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" she seems entirely unconcerned by Lrrr's infidelity with another Omicronian woman but is deeply upset by him listening to Leela's nagging over her own. Their marital problems also feature heavily in "Spanish Fry".
Robot Mafia
The Robot Mafia is a small crime syndicate operating out of "Fronty's Meat Market" and "Small Bill's Laundry", who periodically dine at Elzar's, hijack shipments of Zuban cigars, arrange "accidents" for robots who act against them, as well as other unspecified Mafia-related illegal activities. They are made up of:
- The Donbot (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) – The crime boss of the Robot Mafia. He is often depicted to be oblivious to various plots against him, particularly repeated infractions by Bender, including having sex with the Donbot's wife, having sex with his daughter, stealing from the Donbot, and stealing the Donbot's own foot.
- Clamps (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) – A goonbot with an angry, aggressive disposition obsessed with using the clamps that act as his hands. In the Season 6 episode "The Silence of the Clamps", his name is revealed to be Francis X. Clampazzo.
- Joey Mousepad (voiced by malapropisms. In one instance, Joey offered to dub Bender (who later chose "Blotto") with the nickname "Clamps," which infuriated Clamps.
- Fanny (voiced by Into the Wild Green Yonder, leading the Donbot to have both of them shot and buried as a warning. They survive and Fanny returns to her husband. The couple have at least two daughters, including Bella, with whom Bender has a brief relationship during "The Silence of the Clamps". Her body contains a church bellthat rings loudly whenever she moves.
Dr. Ogden Wernstrom
Dr. Ogden Wernstrom (voiced by
In
The Season 6 episode "Cold Warriors" reveals that Wernstrom has been appointed Surgeon General of Earth.
Richard Nixon
The former president (voiced by Billy West) is kept alive as a head in a jar like many other celebrities. He originally resides in the Hall of presidents in the head museum, but he eventually leaves and becomes the President of Earth, winning by a single vote.[38] Nixon's administration is marked by a violent and aggressive foreign policy, frequently entering into wars which serve little or no purpose. Nixon's head is sometimes accompanied by Spiro Agnew's headless body.
Billy West has commented that he is not impersonating Richard Nixon for the role; he is impersonating
Roberto
Roberto (voiced by
In the season 7 episode "
Roberto appears alive in "Stench and Stenchibility" and "How the West Was 1010001".
Robot Devil
Beelzebot, more commonly referred to as The Robot Devil (voiced by
He first appears in "Hell Is Other Robots", kidnapping Bender and tormenting him until Fry and Leela manage to save Bender. He plays another major role in "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", in which Fry makes a deal with the Devil to improve his holophonor skills. Fry wins the Robot Devil's hands and uses them to write an opera about his and Leela's life all the way up until he makes his deal with the Robot Devil. The Robot Devil manages to reverse the trade after setting up a complicated scheme to force Fry into relinquishing his hands as a condition for Leela not to marry him under contractual obligation. The character also makes brief cameos in "A Tale of Two Santas" and "Crimes of the Hot". In the episode "The Silence of the Clamps" he is shown as one of the wedding guests. He plays a key role in the Season 6 episode "Ghost in the Machines", offering to reunite Bender's body and spirit if Bender scares Fry to death. This same episode reveals that he keeps several spare bodies in his office and can transfer his spirit to one of these if his body is destroyed.
The Robot Devil appears in the film series on several occasions, most notably
In the commentary for "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", Castellaneta says the voice is based on a "bad impression of Hans Conried".
Robot Santa
Robot Santa (voiced by
In
In "I Know What You Did Next Xmas", Professor Farnsworth goes back in time to attempt to fix Santa's naughty and nice sensor. When he believes he did so, he has everyone celebrate Xmas with their families, however, Bender and Zoidberg have no families to go home to, so they go back in time to murder Robot Santa. They do their best to hide the body all around, but by the end, they see that Santa is still alive and still thinks everyone is naughty, because the Professor created a paradox in which he was the one who made Santa think everyone on Earth was naughty.
Barbados Slim
Barbados Slim (voiced by John DiMaggio in seasons 4-7, Kevin Michael Richardson in season 8) is Hermes' arch-rival. He not only defeated Hermes at the 3004 Olympics to win the gold medal in limbo, but is also the only person ever to win gold medals in both limbo and sex. He was formerly married to LaBarbara Conrad, who still refers to him as a "mahogany god".
In
Other recurring characters
Abner Doubledeal
Doubledeal (voiced by Tom Kenny) is a businessman usually depicted organizing or owning various sporting events, to which he would recruit various season regulars. He first appeared in "Raging Bender" as the owner of the Ultimate Robot Fighting League, and later in "A Leela of Her Own" as owner of the New New York Mets blernsball team.
He was a television producer in "Yo Leela Leela", at the end of which he adopted all of the orphans from Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium to help him produce Leela's show Rumbledy-hump.
By the time of the events of "The Butterjunk Effect" episode Doubledeal was in charge of the Butterfly Derby. The character's name is a reference to Abner Doubleday, a US Civil War general who was alleged to have invented the game of baseball.
Amazonians
The Amazonians first appear in "Brannigan, Begin Again" but first feature in "Amazon Women in the Mood" when Zapp, Leela, Amy and Kif are stranded on their planet. The Amazonians are primitives who live in huts, and they are ruled by a female computer called "Femputer" (voiced by Bea Arthur). The Femputer is revealed to be a fembot operating the giant computer facade from a small control room. Their legal system permits a capital punishment ritual called "Death by Snu-Snu."
All Amazonians are voiced by Tress MacNeille. Other Amazonians have been voiced by Suzie Plakson and Karen Maruyama.
Celebrity heads
Various celebrities and historical figures are kept alive as heads in jars of liquids. The technology is crucial to Futurama's connection with 20th- and 21st-century culture since it allows significant figures from the past to make appearances in the series. This also allows for contemporary celebrities to make guest appearances as themselves.[38] The technology was invented by Ron Popeil, himself a head.[44] People seem to be able to be resurrected using this technology, as every U.S. president is found in the "Head Museum"; the most prominent head is that of Richard Nixon who becomes the President of Earth. In "All the Presidents' Heads", it is revealed the water they are kept in when drunk can send a person back to the year when they were the most famous.
While most of the heads are voiced by their real life counterparts, some of them are voiced by impersonators.
The Hyper-Chicken Lawyer
The Hyper-Chicken Lawyer (voiced by
The Hyper-Chicken Lawyer is a parodic cross between "folksy" country lawyers such as Ben Matlock and Atticus Finch with Looney Tunes character Foghorn Leghorn.
In a deleted scene from Into the Wild Green Yonder, he is named Matcluck.
Elzar
Elzar (voiced by
The Globetrotters
The Globetrotters are a race of basketball playing humans who reside on Globetrotter Planet. Aside from showboating basketball shenanigans, the Globetrotters are all known for their math, logic, and physics prowess and have aided in saving both Earth and the Universe.
The Globetrotters are commanded by Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate. Other known core members include 'Sweet' Clyde Dixon, 'Curly' Joe, and 'Goosh', although there are several other unidentified members of the team seen throughout the series.
Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate
Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate (voiced by Phil LaMarr) is a renowned physicist and the leader of the Globetrotters, who once randomly challenged Earth to defend its honor by playing a game of basketball for no reason (which was a parody of the film Space Jam, and also a reference to the Harlem Globetrotters cartoon series). Tate is one of "the finest scientific minds in the universe", according to Professor Farnsworth. He is also a senior lecturer in physics at Globetrotter University. He has appeared in many episodes with the rest of the team, but also made a solo appearance in several episodes.
'Sweet' Clyde Dixon
'Sweet' Clyde Dixon (voiced by David Herman) is a core member of the Globetrotters, who excels at calculus and is another one of the "finest scientific minds in the universe". In "The Prisoner of Benda", he becomes a Duke.
Hattie McDoogal
Hattie McDoogal (voiced by
Hedonismbot
Hedonismbot (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) is a golden robot built in a lounging position that displays the typical characteristics of hedonism and decadence, such as constantly eating from a bowl of grapes on his stomach. He was first seen in "Crimes of the Hot" at the Galapagos Island Robot Party. He has a human servant named Djambi and he has stated that "I too have known unconventional love" with references to doomsday devices. He enjoys having a bath of chocolate, having his nipples rubbed with industrial sandpaper (and a power sander), and seeing how long he can remain entertained during an opera.[46]
Hypnotoad
The Hypnotoad is a large toad-like alien with pulsating, multicolored eyes, which emits a loud, ominous buzzing noise. It has the power to hypnotize almost any living thing at will, even mass numbers of creatures. The Hypnotoad first appeared in "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid", in which it hypnotized a flock of sheep to herd themselves into a pen and close the door behind them, the panel of judges to win the pet show, and then the audience of the pet show to force their approval of that victory. In "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV", it was shown to have a television show, Everybody Loves Hypnotoad, in which it hypnotizes the audience (except for Fry, due to his lack of a Delta brain wave). The Futurama: Bender's Big Score DVD includes a full 22-minute episode.[47][48][49]
Martians
The alien natives of Mars are a direct and open parody of modern Native Americans in the United States, including their dress, manners, and accents. Dispossessed of their ancestral lands, which they worshiped as sacred, they take menial jobs as ranch hands and casino employees. Their ancestors traded Mars to the Wong family for one bead, but when they find out that the "bead" is actually a huge diamond, they leave Mars for another planet, which they intend to worship as sacred.
Their chief is Singing Wind (voiced by Billy West).
Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer
Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer (voiced by David Herman) is the mayor of New New York. He is often depicted as a corrupt and incompetent politician. He first appeared in the season 1 episode "A Big Piece of Garbage". Throughout the later seasons, he is seen having a rather open affair with the Queen of Yonkers.
Officer Smitty
Officer Smith, better known as Smitty (voiced by Billy West) is a police officer partnered with URL in New New York. He is sometimes seen with a lightsaber-like nightstick. The two often use excessive force in non-violent circumstances.
In "Bender Gets Made", he claimed that he became a cop because his father owned a restaurant, and frequent dine-and-dashers kept it from going regional. Smitty retires in "Law and Oracle" but returns a few episodes later in "Cold Warriors".
Officer URL
Officer URL (pronounced Earl) (voiced by
Petunia
Petunia (voiced by
Sal
Sal (voiced by
Scoop Chang
Scoop Chang (voiced by David Herman in seasons 2-4, Maurice LaMarche in seasons 5-7, Feodor Chin in season 8) is a recurring newspaper reporter often seen at press conferences. The news organization he is associated with and position at that organization changes as a running gag. He is initially introduced as a reporter for the Beijing Bugle. Throughout Scoop's later appearances, he has been a New New York Times Online podcast blog comments editor, a contributor to Fox Quote-Unquote "News", and an editor for the New New York Times crossword smartwatch edition.
Tinny Tim
Tinny Tim (voiced by
Guest characters
Al Gore
The former vice-president (voiced by himself) appears as a head in a jar during most of his appearances and also appears with his body during scenes involving Fry's time period. He is First Emperor of the Moon and has "ridden the mighty moon worm".[50] He lives in an elaborate jar; the base is colored silver-white, and possesses several hologram projectors, two small rockets for mobility, a pair of lasers, and is backed with the top of a cape. He plays a role in Futurama: Bender's Big Score,[51] where he appears in multiple scenes that take place in the past and during the space battle in the future. During one of these scenes, Gore was shown to have won the 2000 Presidential Election, but Bender accidentally destroys the ballots in favor of Gore when hunting for Fry. During the Clinton presidency he is shown to have led the Vice Presidential Action Rangers, a group tasked by the US Constitution to preserve the space-time continuum.
The real-life Gore has said that Futurama is his favorite show. His daughter,
Boxy
Boxy is a crude robot only able to communicate by
Brain Slugs
Brain Slugs are small, one-eyed, vaguely sluglike aliens which attach themselves to the heads of sentient beings to control them. Brain slugs apparently use this as a method of trapping more "prey", since those beings under brain slug control are driven by the desire to place brain slugs on other beings. It is hinted that the host under the brain slug's control retains awareness of their condition, which Hermes referred to as a "nightmare". The brain slug can be seen in numerous episodes, normally attached to
Brain Spawn
The Brain spawn (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) are a race of flying telepathic brains that wish to collect all of the data in the universe and kill all other intelligent beings, because the mere act of them thinking causes them great pain. They are able to use "stupefaction fields" to render all intelligent beings on a planet too stupid to resist them. This allows them to collect all knowledge on the planet and destroy it. Their main enemies are the Nibblonians, who send Nibbler on a mission to find Fry, the only being resistant to the Brain spawn. Fry lacks the delta brainwave, due to himself being his own grandfather, so he is able to repel the Brain spawn when they attack Earth. Fry later sends the Brain spawn and their space station, the Infosphere, into another dimension with a bomb given to him by the Nibblonians.
Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium
The Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium houses a large number of orphans, including Leela during her childhood. The orphans often suffer harsh conditions and various disappointing setbacks. It is run by Mr. Vogel (voiced by David Herman) who takes care of the orphans and keeps all records; he is apparently a bureaucrat grade 135 who has not been promoted since about the time Leela was born. Three orphans, Albert (voiced by Kath Soucie), Nina (voiced by Kath Soucie), and Sally (voiced by Nicole St. John), are featured most often. Sally has a third ear on her forehead which she is teased about by the other orphans. She also claims to have a tail. Twelve of the orphans were briefly adopted and later returned by Bender—who adopted them only for the government fund checks—in "The Cyber House Rules".
Crushinator
The Crushinator (voiced by
Father Changstein-El-Gamal
Father Changstein-El-Gamal (voiced by
Flexo
Flexo (voiced by
He makes another brief appearance in "Attack of the Killer App" in a garbage bin, where he is found by Bender and tells him that bending robots are now obsolete, though he is ignored. His signature character trait is the way he says something, usually a mild insult, and then immediately retracts it, laughing and saying some variation of "Naw, I'm just kidding... you're all right!" This, apparently, is also reversed when referring to situations or actions that cause him frustration or anger, such as Bender shoving him in one episode, with Flexo responding by saying, "Thanks! I appreciated that... Naw I'm kidding. That was quite annoying."
Grand Midwife
The Grand Midwife (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is an Amphibosian who first appears in the fourth-season episode "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch". She is also known as the Grand Priestess, the Grand Lunch Lady, the Grand Funeral Director, and the Grand Butterfly Curator, as she holds these various titles and positions. She appears as an aged and wizened member of the Amphibosian race, appearing at and overseeing key functions throughout Amphibios 9, including Kif's birthing ceremony, Kif and Amy's wedding and Kif's funeral. She is often direct and inflexible in her ways and acts in a melodramatic fashion.
Guenter
Guenter (voiced by
around the planet Simian 7. Guenter is seen in other episodes in the background, and crowds.Gypsy-Bot
The Gypsy-Bot (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is a carnival fortune-telling robot. In "Godfellas" the gypsy-bot hints that she does not actually have psychic powers; after Fry asks her a question, she replies, "What am I, psychic?". The gypsy-bot appears earlier in "The Honking", telling Bender he is a werecar; and in "Ghost in the Machines", performing a séance in which Bender's ghost possesses her and causes her head to explode.
Headless Body of Agnew
The headless body of
H.G. Blob
Horrible Gelatinous "H.G." Blob (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) is a three-eyed, green, translucent, ill-tempered alien. He first appeared in the season one episode "The Series Has Landed" in a commercial the Professor made for Planet Express. He contemptuously refers to humanoids as "solids" and ridicules their one-way digestive system. In "The Route of All Evil", the Horrible Gelatinous Blob has a son named Brett Blob, who regularly bullies Cubert and Dwight. In Futurama: Bender's Big Score he, or someone of his species, appears on the twenty dollar bill. In "Proposition Infinity", he, or someone of his species, was shown to be in an "interplanetary" relationship with a human woman.
Judge Ron Whitey
Judge Ron Whitey (voiced by Billy West) is a judge and a member of the upperclass of Earth's elite. He was responsible for overcrowding in human mental asylums after ruling that poverty was a mental illness.
Kwanzaabot and Chanukah Zombie
Kwanzaabot (voiced by
From his first appearance, Kwanzaabot has been voiced by rapper Coolio. Although Chanukah Zombie had been mentioned, he did not appear onscreen until Bender's Big Score, in which he is voiced by Mark Hamill and in a reference to Hamill's famous role as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, pilots a Jewish themed TIE Fighter decorated with Stars of David on its solar arrays with a Menorah standing on its core.
Malfunctioning Eddie
Malfunctioning Eddie (voiced by David Herman) is a robot that runs a hovercar dealership. His character refers to the real life electronics chain Crazy Eddie, and its mascot of the same name. It turned out that Malfunctioning Eddie's prices were so low that he really was insane. He had an exploding-problem associated with surprise in "Insane in the Mainframe".
Michelle
Michelle (voiced by Kath Soucie in "Space Pilot 3000", Sarah Silverman in all other appearances) is Fry's on and off girlfriend from the 20th century. She dumps Fry shortly before he is frozen on New Year's Eve for a man named Constantine (called Charles in "The Cryonic Woman", whom she later marries). They eventually split up, and she decides to freeze herself to try again in the distant future. She wakes up in 3002, meets Fry again, and restarts her relationship with him. She fails to fit into the 31st-century life to which Fry has become so accustomed, and so asks him to freeze himself with her for another thousand years. After learning that the post-apocalyptic world that they awoke in is not New New York in the 4002, but rather Los Angeles in 3002, his plan fails, as does the rekindled relationship, so Fry leaves her. She later is shown in a limousine with the recently unfrozen Pauly Shore and later seen holding his hand in "Proposition Infinity".
In
Nibblonians
The Nibblonians are an ancient race that came into existence 17 years before the Big Bang. They have extremely long life spans and incredibly large appetites, and excrete extremely dense and potent dark matter. Despite their nature, other beings find their small stature to be extremely adorable. Their arch-enemy is the Brainspawn, and believe Fry is the only one capable of stopping them due to his lack of the Delta brainwave.
The main Nibblonians in the series are:
- Nibbler
- Ken (voiced by Billy West)
- Fiona (voiced by Tress MacNeille)
Nine
Nine (voiced by David Herman) is a man who wears a white gown with a large number 9 on it. He is both a conspiracy theorist and a conspirator. He is a cameo character appearing in the first and second production seasons of Futurama.[58] He reappeared in Bender's Big Score and Into the Wild Green Yonder, where it was revealed he was the Grand Curator of the Legion of Mad Fellows. When Nine became grand curator is unknown, but the audio commentary track for Into the Wild Green Yonder hints that he was in the Legion prior to the year 3000. As grand curator (which is essentially a knowledgeable leader) of the Legion, he becomes the story teller for Philip J. Fry's mission to possibly end the epic long battle between two ancient races, as they by 3009 have noticed that the Chi have been re-emerging. It is later revealed in "Murder On the Planet Express" that he operates a discount spy store called For Your Eyes Mainly. He wears aluminum foil on his head to avoid other peoples' brain waves affecting him.
Mr. Panucci
Mr. Panucci (voiced by
In Bender's Big Score, Fry creates a time paradox by going back in time and living out his old life and thus continues working at Panucci's Pizza. Shortly after he arrives, Fry asks Panucci if he can live in Panucci's upstairs storeroom, which Panucci allows.
Pazuzu
Pazuzu (voiced by David Herman) is a gargoyle who Professor Farnsworth owned and put through college. He has a French accent and a son. He initially appears in "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", where he escapes from the Professor. He returns at the end of the episode to rescue the Professor and "earn [his] freedom."
He later appears in
Randy Munchnik
Randy Munchnik (voiced by John DiMaggio) is a stereotypically gay man dressed in pink, who speaks in an effeminate voice. Originally, he is depicted with blond hair, but sometimes appears with brown hair.
John DiMaggio says he is his favorite character to voice. The original design for Randy was very different. He was originally an old man in a mob, with his name in the script for "I, Roommate" literally "Man in Mob". DiMaggio changed the voice and therefore the character.[59]
Reverend Lionel Preacherbot
Reverend Lionel Preacherbot (voiced by
In the episode "
Sewer mutants
Sewer
Besides Turanga Leela, Turanga Morris, and Turanga Munda, among the known mutants in the series are:
- Dwayne (voiced by David Herman) - A mutant with two noses and a large forehead.
- Raoul (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - The "Supreme Mutant", the democratically elected leader of the sewer mutants. His most notable mutation is a third arm which in his first appearance had grown in place of his right ear but above it in later appearances.
- Vyolet (voiced by Tress MacNeille) - A chain-smoking mutant with gills and a pig nose. She seems to be romantically involved with Raoul.
Stephen Hawking
Hawking also appears in The Beast with a Billion Backs as his own head in a flying jar, leading a scientific convention organized to study and discuss a tear in the universe. He says that despite writing a book about it, he has no idea what it is, although he has already cashed the check he got for writing it. Apparently he has the ability to shoot lasers that stun people from his eyes; he himself is surprised, remarking, "I didn't know I could do that" after stunning Professor Farnsworth and Professor Wernstrom. He also makes a brief appearance during the "Future Challenge 3000" segment in "Reincarnation".
Due to a debilitating, long-term illness, Hawking was unable to speak with his own larynx, but his computer-assisted speech device was a trademark voice in popular culture.[61]
Films' characters
Lars Fillmore
Lars Fillmore (voiced by Billy West) is a technician at the Head Museum in Bender's Big Score, where he met Leela and briefly dated her. He was about to marry Leela, until he discovered that a paradox can not be in the normal time line, and decided to cancel the wedding, because he was really a paradox-duplicate of Fry created when the original Fry who had travelled back to 2000 went back a second time to eat a pizza, the original Fry who went back for the pizza freezing himself after a close call with a brainwashed Bender while the one who never did that moved into an apartment above the pizzeria where he worked. He lived there for twelve years, during which he spent time with his family and befriended the narwhal Leelu, until an assassination attempt by another brainwashed Bender burned away his hair and damaged his larynx. After the war with the scammers was over, Nudar tried to force Lars to reveal his version of the time-travel code, but Lars sacrificed himself to release another frozen Bender set to self-destruct, killing himself and Nudar.
Nudist Alien Scammers
The Nudist Alien Scammers are the main antagonist of Bender's Big Score. They are a group formed by the leader Nudar (voiced by David Herman) and his brothers Fleb (voiced by Frank Welker) and Schlump (voiced by Maurice LaMarche). They seek to seize the Earth by obtaining as much information as possible from humans, in addition to seizing all the valuable objects of the planet thanks to the time travel code. After they took over Earth, their fleet of solid gold Death Stars was destroyed by Earth's remaining ships in an assault led by Leela and coordinated by Hermes. Nudar escaped the destruction, but he was killed by the sacrifice of Lars Filmore, a temporal paradox duplicate of Fry.
Leelu
Leelu (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) is a narwhal that Fry befriended in Bender's Big Score during the years he spent in the past. Throughout the years, their relationship blossomed and they became best of friends. Fry was heartbroken when he learned that Leelu was being released into the wild.
Yivo
Yivo (voiced by David Cross) is a sentient extraterrestrial being from another universe who appears in The Beast with a Billion Backs. He communicated with universe "gamma" through the space-time hole, using his tentacles, which he used initially to mate with humans. He begins a "romantic relationship" with the inhabitants of the other universe, but even after the universe agreed to move in with Yivo, Yivo 'broke up' with the universe when Fry sent a letter back through the rift to Bender, as the electromatter that it was made from was used to produce weapon against him.
Colleen O'Hallahan
Colleen O'Hallahan (voiced by Brittany Murphy) is the chief of police and Fry's girlfriend in The Beast with a Billion Backs. A polyamorist, she lived with four other men which Fry was unable to cope with, causing him to break up with her. However, after Yivo evicts the universe's inhabitants for Fry's contact with Bender, Colleen continues a relationship with Yivo, remaining in the alternate universe after the dimensional rift is sealed.
The Dark One
The Dark One (voiced by Phil LaMarr) is the main antagonist of Into the Wild Green Yonder. He is a creature with the intention of ending the universe, and the last of his species. Towards the end of the film it is discovered that he is really the desert muck leech that lived on Mars, and that Leela welcomed as a pet to prevent his death. He is ultimately defeated and eaten by Zoidberg.
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External links
- "Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth" at the Infosphere, the Futurama Wiki.
- "Dr. Amy Wong" at the Infosphere, the Futurama Wiki.
- "Hermes Conrad" at the Infosphere, the Futurama Wiki.
- "Dr. John A. Zoidberg" at the Infosphere, the Futurama Wiki.