Editing Bender Rodríguez

{{Noncanon}}
{{Character
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|image = [[File:Bender Rodriguez.png|200px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
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|appearance = "[[Missionary: Impossible]]"
|voiced by = [[John DiMaggio]]
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'''Bender Bending Rodríguez''', better known as '''Bender''', is a robot and one of the main characters from {{Ch|Matt Groening}}'s television series, ''{{ap|Futurama|TV show}}''.

== History ==
[[File:Bender in Future-Drama.png|thumb|left|Bender in "[[Future-Drama]]"]]
He was a phone operator of the [[FOX]], along many other FOX characters.<ref>"[[Missionary: Impossible]]"</ref> When Bart is sleep deprived in class, he hallucinates his class mates turning into characters from television shows he had been staying up watching, one of which ([[Richard]]) is Bender.<ref>"[[Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade]]"</ref>

In the future, after [[Homer]] and [[Bart]] drive through a Quantum tunnel, he appears between them and says "All right! You guys are my new best friends". Homer says "You wish, loser!" and throws him out of the car.<ref>"[[Future-Drama]]"</ref> On [[Comic Book Guy]]'s list of greatest quotes of all time is "Bite my shiny metal ass" by Bender.<ref>''[[Comic Book Guy's Book of Pop Culture]]''</ref>

In [[Chief Wiggum]]'s dream of being a cop in the future, he was sent to put down a riot at the space jail. Bender and [[Morbo]] were among the rioters.<ref>''[[Future Cop!]]''</ref>

A clip of Bender with Fry and Leela and the Simpson family was seen.<ref>"[[Bart's Not Dead]]"</ref>

He appears as one of the enemies of the [[Simpson family]], along with [[Zoidberg]], in which he is drawn by {{Ch|Matt Groening}} and will attack Homer and Bart by shooting them with a laser and throwing beer bottles at them. He also appears as an enemy sent by [[God]] in Dance Dance Revolution.<ref>''[[The Simpsons Game]]''</ref>

=== Simpsorama ===
[[File:Popular Robotics.png|thumb|250px|Bender on the cover of ''[[Popular Robotics]]''.]]
When rabbit-shaped creatures starts to appear in the future, Bender is sent back to the past to kill the person that spawned them, Homer. Having forgotten his mission he befriends Homer, drinking beer at [[Moe's]] and playing bowling at [[Barney's Bowlarama]], but when they go to [[Professor Frink]] to search for an answer, he reboots Bender and makes him remember it.

Bender, however, doesn't want to shoot his new friend, so [[Leela]] and the others appear in an hologram, showing what's happening in the future, showing Homer's spawns invading [[New New York]], and when Bender still refuses to kill him, [[Professor Farnsworth]], Leela and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] go through the portal in Bender's back in time. Leela tries to shoot Homer, but Bender proposes a collaboration to solve the mystery.

At the [[742 Evergreen Terrace|Simpsons House]], the news from the future reveal that the creatures are not Homer's spawns, but [[Bart]]'s, thanks to the time capsule they sent to the future. After arriving at [[Jebediah Springfield]]'s monument, the crew and the [[Simpson family|family]] get sent to the future, while Bender stays behind with [[Maggie]], taking her to [[Springfield Downs]] to bet on the races he already knows the outcome of.

Bender bets on a horse named Bender's Bounty, who died during the race, when it starts to lose, Bender kills him in anger. When the crew gets rid of the creatures and comes back to the present, Bender changes Maggie's diaper, showing it's full of money, and gives her a cut of the money. He bids them farewell and shuts himself off. Since he's a robot, he'll just rest in their basement for a thousand years. [[Homer]] fills him up with a [[Duff Beer|Duff]] which Bender thanks him for.<ref>"[[Simpsorama]]"</ref>

He's later seen moving on a water current from the basement, seemingly awake.<ref>"[[Throw Grampa from the Dane]]"</ref>

A picture of Bender was seen on a banner for ''Futurama'' at [[Comicalooza]].<ref>"[[Three Dreams Denied]]"</ref>

== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ==
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|icon=[[File:Tapped Out Bender Icon.png|60px]]
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== Behind the Laughter ==
In ''Futurama'', he is voiced by [[John DiMaggio]] (who also voices him in ''[[The Simpsons]]'') and plays the role of a comic anti-hero, and is described as an "alcoholic, whore-mongering, chain-smoking gambler".

== Appearances ==
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Missionary: Impossible}}
*{{ep|Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade}}
*{{ep|I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot|(name seen)}}
*{{ep|My Big Fat Geek Wedding|(doll)}}
*{{ep|Catch 'Em If You Can|(picture seen)}}
*{{ep|Future-Drama}}
*{{ep|Replaceable You|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Simpsorama}}
*{{ep|My Fare Lady}}
*{{ep|Simprovised|(live segment)}}
*{{ep|Throw Grampa from the Dane}}
*{{cg|Bart's Not Dead/Gags|Bart's Not Dead|(archive footage)}}
*{{ep|Three Dreams Denied|(picture)}}
*{{spec|Homer from the Green Room at San Diego Comic-Con 2016}}
*{{bon|Somewhere Over the Brain-bow!}}
*{{bon|Liquid Diamond Is Forever!}}
*{{bon|Crap That No One Wanted|(picture)}}
*{{bon|Marge Simpson Living}}
*{{bon|Slaves of New New York!}}
*{{bon|The Read Menace!}}
*{{bon|Comics Fan No More!}}
*{{bon|Everything's Bartchie!}}
*{{bon|25|(on TV)}}
*{{bon|Future Cop!}}
*{{bk|Comic Book Guy's Book of Pop Culture|(Bender blender)}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Wrestling|(prerelease footage)}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Game}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Tapped Out|(dialogue)}} 
}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{Wikipedialink2|Bender|Futurama}}
*{{Infosphere|Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender}}

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{{Futurama characters}}
{{Tapped Out characters|dialogue=yes}}
{{Simpsons characters}}
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