Futurama would be nothing without Bender and if he were in 2001: A Space Odyssey, he’d steal the show in that too. Check out this fun video of voice actor John DiMaggio doing a scene as HAL 9000 as Bender. This is guaranteed to make you laugh.
Alex Solis has created an art series that shows familiar pop culture characters in disguise as other pop culture characters. Below are just a few to whet your appetite. He has many more on his Instagram page. I’m not sure why, but there is something very appealing about seeing these characters inside of other characters. I really like that Gizmo is hiding inside of a Furby. I knew it all along.
French artist Georges le Mercenaire created this series that imagines famous Pop Culture characters, mostly robots, as fossils dug up by some fictional future generation. Below are just some of them. I love art like this that thinks outside of the box and shows you familiar things in new ways. It’s a fantastic concept.
Among the Sci-Fi characters presented here are Twiki from Buck Rogers, a Cylon, an AT-AT, Darth Vader, Bender from Futurama and more.
Bite my shiny metal bat! What? Andy Whittingham created this fun mashup featuring our favorite wisecracking robot, Bender Bending Rodríguez as, well, just about every geek character we love. Bender as Batman, Bender as Boba Fett, C-3PO and more.
Bender’s camouflage technique is is pretty awesome, now if he could only change his shape, we might be fooled.
