Tutor Bot
- Tutor Bot is an automaton from the Transformers Animated franchise
Tutor Bot is a robotic teacher, employed (and presumably built) by Isaac Sumdac. Tutor Bot is known to teach Sari on a regular basis, though by his teaching style it seems that he is designed to be used in a larger classroom environment instead of for solo tutoring. It is unknown whether or not Tutor Bot is yet in widespread use.
So far, he has been destroyed twice; once by Bulkhead's shenanigans and once by the Dinobots. Before that, Sari had used her key to fry his circuits and get out of class early. Basically, his life is pain. Fortunately, he doesn't feel a thing.
Fiction
Transformers Animated
- Voice: ? (English), ? (Japanese)
Tutor Bot was first seen trying to teach Sari about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff. Sari, however, was more interested in getting her security key away from her robot dog Sparkplug. Transform and Roll Out!
Several weeks later, Tutor Bot was boring trying to teach Sari about the Quadratic Equation on the day she was to spend the night at the Autobots head quarters. Sari decided to use her key to fry Tutor Bots circuits and get out of class early. (Don't pretend you wouldn't have. It just makes you a liar and a hypocrite.) Home Is Where the Spark Is
When Sari took the Autobots to the animatronic dinosaurs at Dino Drive, Tutor Bot displayed some rather questionable factual accuracy on dinosaurs. He also said that dinosaurs were incredibly dimwitted creatures, and one would be no match for his XL-4 processor. Unfortunately, Bulkhead's eagerness to see if a pteradon could fly caused it to fall from it's perch, crash and decapitate a triceratops, and cause a Tyrannosaurus rex to fall, nearly crushing Sari and Tutor Bot. Bumblebee managed to get Sari out of the way, but Tutor Bot was crushed. A day later, Tutor Bot was accidently brought on line and began telling the newly sentient Dinobots about how dinosaur fossils gave way to fossil fuels, which Grimlock took to mean that cars ate dinosaurs. With some prompting from Megatron, the Dinobots used their fire-breath to incinerate Tutor Bot. Apparently, the XL-4 processor does not contain any self-preservation sub-routines. Blast from the Past
Tutor Bot was one of the first automatons that Soundwave took control of, but quickly lost control. At an impromptu concert in the park, Tutor Bot displayed some dance moves that did not suck. However, when Bulkhead arrived trying to warn Sari about Soundwave, Tutor Bot quickly moved out of the Autobot behemoth's way. Teacher's never stop learning. Later that evening, Tutor Bot was taken over by Soundwave, and prepared to teach Sari a new lesson: the destruction of all humantity! Sari apologized for placing a "kick me" sign on him, assuming that was what the trouble was about. Sound and Fury
Curriculum
History
Math
Earth science
Human / Robot relations
Trivia
- The Tutor Bot's appearance is similar to Lord Canti from the anime FLCL.
- The Tutor Bot's "brain" is an XL-4 processor.
- The Tutor Bot seems to be the Animated universe's whipping boy.
