Again in 1999, throughout Futurama’s season 1 episode “Hell is Different Robots,” the world met Beelzebot, higher often known as “The Robotic Satan.” Voiced by Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson on The Simpsons), the musically-inclined Robotic Satan presides over robotic Hell. However, not like human Hell, Robotic Hell doesn’t reside in another aircraft of existence. As a substitute, it’s housed under a dilapidated amusement park in New Jersey.
Since that first look, the Robotic Satan has develop into a recurring villain all through the present’s many various revivals. He even starred in one of many present’s a number of collection finales, season 4’s “The Satan’s Palms Are Idle Playthings.”
Regardless of his a number of appearances, nevertheless, the Robotic Satan remains to be the supply of questions within the Futurama fandom, with the most important question being “Who constructed the Robotic Satan?” Because the Futurama wiki, “The Infosphere,” explains, “It’s unknown when or why the Robotic Satan was constructed. He was doubtless constructed earlier than or round 2275, when the Equity in Hell Act was signed into regulation.” (The Equity in Hell Act says that robots may be rescued from Hell if one of many robotic’s associates can finest the Robotic Satan in a fiddling competitors). The origins of the Robotic Satan have additionally been mentioned in depth on the Futurama subreddit, with individuals theorizing that robotic cleaning soap opera actor Calculon constructed him. Or much more doubtless, he was constructed by the enterprise tycoon Mother, who constructed most, however not all, of Earth’s robotic inhabitants.
Lately, Futurama co-developer and showrunner David X. Cohen sat down with Polygon to debate the present season of Futurama, and I requested him if he may shed any gentle on the Robotic Satan’s mysterious origins.
Who constructed the Robotic Satan?
“Now we have this debate within the writers’ room lots, like, why did they construct a robotic whose goal appears to be to homicide individuals?” stated Cohen, “Like Roberto, the stabbing robotic — whose thought was that?”
Pondering the query, Cohen went on to say, “We have achieved slightly little bit of robotic evolution within the historical past of the present as effectively, and I feel it is potential that some robots broke freed from the confines of their programming and have become criminals, devils, or no matter they selected to be.”
Which means that the Robotic Satan may have been a daily robotic off the meeting line, however in some unspecified time in the future defied his programming and have become the Robotic Satan all on his personal. The reply is much from conclusive, however I’ll say that Cohen made clear he’s by no means been requested the query earlier than, and he appeared intrigued by the premise. So maybe, in some future Futurama revival, the followers will lastly get a solution.
Futurama is streaming on Hulu and Disney Plus.
