He may be bored. He may be manically depressed. He may not be the best of company, 24/7. But there’s something profoundly charming about Marvin the Paranoid Android.
This short and stout robot has a prototype version of the Genuine People Personality software from Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, allowing him sentience and the ability to feel emotions and develop a personality.
Despite being a ‘Personality Prototype’, Marvin is typically made to perform menial tasks and labour: escorting people, opening doors, picking up pieces of paper, and other tasks well beneath his ‘brain the size of a planet’.
Indeed, E&T observes that Marvin is unlikely to fall in love with another being. He has far too much hatred for everyone and everything he comes into contact with, having no respect for anybody and will criticise and insult others at any opportunity. This is likely rooted in the fact almost every person...