[TAO's Note: Is that Bender reaching for a beer with Wall-E in the background? This is a definite don't-miss comic from googum, because it has loads of robots getting wasted!]
Commentary:
Danger, our robot girl, is from Joss Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men: she's the sentient embodiment of the X-Men's Danger Room, and got a figure in the third Hasbro wave of Marvel Legends, the Brood wave. I don't want to say she's not popular... but I got her figure for $2.39, and could've bought four more at that price.
The Vision has long been a mainstay of Marvel's Avengers, and was for some time married to the Scarlet Witch. He was killed when Bendis started Avengers Disassembled, but returned in Young Avengers. Sort of. Something, Iron Lad, Kang, something; I have no idea what the Vision's deal is now. Suffice to say, he's a robot guy striking out today.
Red Tornado has been the Justice League of America's robot guy for some time, and has a wife and adopted daughter. I remember him fondly as the JLA's main jobber: every issue that had to establish the bad guy as a threat, involved Reddy getting his robot butt whupped.
Astro Boy... um, I know he has machine guns in his butt, but that's about it. Mega Man has been in tons of games for various systems, and I still hope to finish Mega Man 3 sometime in my life.
From the Doom Patrol, Robotman was race car driver Cliff Steele, whose brain was put into a robot shell after an accident. So, unlike everyone else here, he's a cyborg, and I guess a robosexual? Hmm.
Brainiac has long been a foe of Superman, and this was his look around the mid-eighties, including in Crisis on Infinite Earths. Eventually, Brainiac will have descendants, like the Legion of Super-Heroes Brainiac 5; so that's probably why he's looking for Mrs. Right.
Bender, from Futurama, is awesome. And WALL-E probably shouldn't be in a bar, but he's not made of stone.
Forge is occasionally an X-Man, but usually in a tech support standpoint. His mutant power is the ability to invent and build incredible machines, and to him Danger would be... let's just say, attractive.
Kristina Loken from Terminator 3 may not have technically had an endoskeleton, did she? Hell, I don't know, I don't think I ever saw that one all the way through in one sitting. The Engineer from The Authority has powers not unlike Forge, plus nanomachines for blood.
And Tomorrow Woman in the background is related to Red Tornado, another robot created to infiltrate the Justice League.
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