I love robot, but this always kind of hit me weird. Like I don't want to think he was always going to become evil, it just feels weird to say this disabled kid is evil because he has a hard time with empathy - I mean, how could he?
I'd like to think him getting a cloned body is what started his downfall. He got so caught up in the idea of becoming "normal" that the loss of his disability also came with a loss of humanity. He succeeded in a morally dubious but ultimately beneficial procedure, which opened the door to more manipulation and exploitation. Its hard to remember he's basically the same age as Mark.
Yes. I'm fairly certain it's just the show (where he does claim to be 30 for some reason) that is making people remember wrong, in the comic it is never established what age he is exactly other than he is on the "Teen" Team iirc.
I think that he was on the Teen Team just because they thought he was a Robot robot not a human controlling robot. they just didn't need him on the guardians, but he was a great help and lead for an unexperienced Teen Team
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u/Toolupard 6d ago
I love robot, but this always kind of hit me weird. Like I don't want to think he was always going to become evil, it just feels weird to say this disabled kid is evil because he has a hard time with empathy - I mean, how could he?
I'd like to think him getting a cloned body is what started his downfall. He got so caught up in the idea of becoming "normal" that the loss of his disability also came with a loss of humanity. He succeeded in a morally dubious but ultimately beneficial procedure, which opened the door to more manipulation and exploitation. Its hard to remember he's basically the same age as Mark.