Dave (BotBots)

The name or term "David" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see David (disambiguation).

Dave is a human from the BotBots continuity.

"Inspector Gadget is always right. Well, except for that time in Tangiers. And then there was that mess in Austria. I was almost right. Would you believe... close? How about half right? Most of the time? No? Well..."

Dave the Security Guard (aka "the flesh creature"; b. February 29) doesn't ask for much out of life, which is probably for the best, as life seems disinclined to give him much outside of grief and disappointment. The sole member of night security at the mall the BotBots call home, Dave constantly manages to get in the way of his own ambitions of mediocrity. Out of luck, out of shape, and out of his depth, the meager scraps of respect he strives for constantly slip from his greasy grasp, even to the point where his own mother makes fun of him. Desperation pours off him like sweat, as do fast-food crumbs and actual sweat.

And yet...

And yet...

For all that's going against him, there seems to be no malice in Dave's heart. Sure, he wants to capture those tiny robots he's convinced are hiding in the mall... but only so people will see he was right for once. He'd be happy with a little bit of recognition... and maybe a fresh donut, rather than the day shift's stale leftovers. Not that he won't eat the stale leftovers. Off the floor. But, you know. Man's gotta have a dream. And for all its headaches, he seems to love his job, love the mall he works at... he just wants to be where he belongs.

Maybe he's not so different from certain Bots after all.

Fiction

BotBots cartoon

Voice actor: Mark Little (English), Svatopluk Schuller (Czech), Sonny Lahey (Danish), Martijn van Voskuijlen (Dutch), Samuel Kujala (Finnish), Emmanuel Garijo (French), Rainer Fritzsche (German), Zoltán Karácsonyi (Hungarian), Kamal Chaturvedi (Indian), Harda Billy (Indonesian), Simone Crisari (Italian), Mohd Azizul Sani Mohd Salleh (Malay), Kim A. Wifladt (Norwegian), Wojciech Chorąży (Polish), Douglas Guedes (Brazilian Portuguese), André Raimundo (European Portuguese), Pavel Dorofeev (Russian), Nacho López (Castilian Spanish), Miguel Angel Ruiz (Latin-American Spanish), Cristian Neacșu (Romanian), Christian Hedlund (Swedish), İlham Erdoğan (Turkish)