Animated Character Database
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The Larry 3000 is a time-traveling robot who serves alongside officer Buck Tuddrussel and Otto Osworth in the Time Squad.

Larry was originally designed as a diplomatic assistant, something he reportedly excelled at. However, he was put into Time Squad's service when the world's nations all joined together in the year one million, rendering his original purpose obsolete. He is the only team member capable of operating the time-traveling technology and most of the technology aboard the satellite.

Appearance[]

Larry is a greyish-brown, medium-tall humanoid robot. His mouth does not open or close, but rather flashes with a blue glow as he speaks.

Personality[]

Larry is a sophisticated, well-mannered, non-violent diplomat. This is in stark contrast to his partner, Buck Tuddrussel. Although Larry is a robot, he is very sensitive and prone to his emotions. He can also be very cynical and passive aggressive. He is dramatic and sarcastic, but also shows happiness and adoration often. Although he appears to lack bravery and strength, he can stand up for himself and others when the need arises.

Larry is very openly effeminate, often engaging in feminine activities and wearing feminine clothes. He has also shown a strong affinity towards cuteness. However, he does occasionally partake in masculine activities, including shooting weaponry.

Towards the beginning of the series, Larry showed annoyance towards Otto. However, as the series progressed, Larry quickly grew to love Otto and now serves as a maternal figure for him. This includes homeschooling, cooking, and caring for Otto when he becomes sick.

Skills[]

Larry takes pride in being cultured. He is skilled in painting, sewing, figure skating, cello playing, dancing, cooking, and literature. He can speak every known language and understands diplomatic skills like manners and class. He also (to his disdain) is in charge of cleaning the satellite and all of the messes his unit creates for him.

As Larry is a robot, he has quite a few useful tools. He uses the time travel-capable computer in his arm most often, but he also has detachable limbs, a built-in radio, a printer, a camera, a flashlight, and microscopic vision. He is however evidenty antiquated by current mechanical standards, being largely outclassed in function and capability by other robots among Time Squad's ranks, such as XJ5 and The Lance 9 Trillion. Being a robot, Larry is able to take a lot more physical punishment than Tuddrussel or Otto, such as having his head removed or being blown up. Although he is robotic, he is capable of many human traits, including the ability to smell, dream, and feel emotion, although he openly admits that despite being a chef, he lacks the capability to physically taste food. He is also able to drink liquids like oil.

Larry is the only member of the team who knows how to operate the station's computer and time travel technology. Despite this, he has at times experienced misfires, causing the team to be sent to the wrong era or location due to tiny mathematical errors.

Gadgets[]

Despite his antiquity, Larry is equipped with a number of tools and functions that both assist him on the satelite and aid the team on missions. Such gadgets include:

  • A miniature computer built into his left arm that both remotely controls the Time Travel computer and retrieves related historical information. The computer updates history in real time, allowing Larry to keep track of the changes Time Squad's actions make on history.
  • A video camera built into his head that allows him to record video from his own eyes, which are stored on his internal hard drive. Larry is also able to project this recorded footage from his optics like a projector.
  • An emergency Alarm built into his upper torso that sends a signal throughout history requesting additional backup from any available Time Squad units.
  • An FM/AM Radio receiver built into his upper torso, which also functions as speakers.

Other media[]

Larry has appeared in several Cartoon Network commercials and promos from the network's Powerhouse and CN City eras.

The Larry 3000's severed head appeared in Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall. It is used as a part needed to complete a time machine during the Future portion of the game. The rest of his body went missing after he was destroyed in a battle at Tech Square and thrown away at Goat's Junk Yard.

Larry appears alongside Tuddrussel in the poster that Cartoon Network distributed at the 2012 San Diego Comic Con to commemorate the network's 20th anniversary.

Larry appears in an episode of Villainous alongside Tuddrussel and Otto; though he is given no lines.

Larry makes a cameo appearance in the "OK K.O.: Let's be Heroes" crossover special, Crossover Nexus as one of the heroes who got turned into stone by Strike.

Trivia[]

  • While Larry was a diplomat, he served under the government of a character named Senator Fiskmeyer. Based on Larry's recollections, he had a silent adversarial relationship with Fiskmeyer, making the effort to either show him up or play pranks on him. Despite this, Fiskmeyer did consider Larry's services invaluable, enough to at one point gift him a set of Golf clubs in gratitude.
  • Although Larry's original nationality is never made clear, he speaks with a British accent. In the Latin American version he talks with a normal Mexican accent, though sometimes switches to poor English for humorous effect.
  • he does a terrible imitation of a British Accent.
  • According to himself, Larry spent the first nine years of his childhood boxed up in a warehouse.
  • It is revealed in the episode Child's Play that Larry likes Jackie Collins and Danielle Steel books.
  • At the ending of Day of the Larrys, during which multiple Larries were constructed, there is one Larry left, but it's left unknown if the character is the true Larry or one of the many duplicates. Writer Carlos Ramos later said that the original Larry most likely came back.
  • Larry can experience personality shifts when exposed to magnetic fields or electricity, as shown in Where the Buffalo Bill Roams and Pasteur's Packs O' Punch.
  • Although Larry is obsessed with cuisine and food, he is never actually shown to have the capability of eating. He openly admits he has no physical sense of taste.
  • Despite being a robot and by all accounts should be emotionless, Larry is in fact the most emotional character of the show, an indication that Robots in the future have developed some anthropomorphic traits.
  • Mark Hamill, Larry's voice actor used the same voice he provided for the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series and other related media.
  • Larry 3000 is the only Time Squad character to make an appearance in Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall.
  • Larry was written centrally by Michael Karnow.
  • On episode 39 of Talkin Toons with Rob Paulsen, the podcast made by the voice of Buck Tuddrussel, he and his guest star Mark Hamill (the voice of Larry) imply that Larry is gay.
    • According to Carlos Ramos , Cartoon Network censors at the time didn’t care when Larry acted gay, showing the network was quite permissible.
    • When Time Squad hosted Cartoon Cartoon Fridays, during one of the segments, Johnny Bravo and Buck Tuddrussel were seen flexing their muscles and Larry called the behavior “uncivilized yet oddly compelling”, another hint that Larry could be gay.
  • During the Latin American version of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays, Larry hosted the show by himself rather than with Otto and Tuddrussel.
  • in the Latin American version of the show, Larry sometimes goes by the nicknames “L”, “Lar”, and very rarely “L3000”, this was done for simplicity as well as for the character to be call something a bit more “robotic” from time to time as he was rarely called by his given name on the show.
  • Larry could possibly be a parody of C-3PO, another robot character from Star Wars.
  • Larry appeared as stone in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode, Crossover Nexus.
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