Futurama

by Matt Groening & David X. Cohen

Futurama follows Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy who accidentally cryogenically freezes himself on New Year's Eve 1999 and wakes up a thousand years later. In the 31st century, he joins the Planet Express delivery company alongside Leela, a one-eyed mutant captain, and Bender, a hard-drinking, larcenous robot. Together they deliver packages across the galaxy, encountering bureaucratic nightmares, evil corporations, alien invasions, and the occasional tear-jerking moment of genuine human (and robot) connection.

71 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Amy Wong-Kroker — Klutzy Martian heiress and Planet Express intern-turned-physicist — wealthy, fashionable, and perpetually losing her wallet to Bender's sticky fingers
• Barbados Slim — The only man to win Olympic gold medals in both limbo and sex — Hermes Conrad's impossibly suave archrival who has a suspicious relationship with Herm
• Bender Bending Rodriguez — A hard-drinking, cigar-smoking, larcenous bending unit who is somehow Fry's best friend — a self-proclaimed sociopath with an inconvenient streak of g
• Calculon — The greatest (self-proclaimed) actor of the 31st century and star of All My Circuits — a melodramatic robot thespian who never does second takes and h
• Cubert J. Farnsworth — Professor Farnsworth's clone-son, grown from a back growth — a chubby, condescending boy genius who considers everyone around him an idiot and is usua
• Dr. John A. Zoidberg — Planet Express's incompetent alien staff doctor — a Decapodian crustacean who lives in a dumpster, knows nothing about human anatomy, and is the kinde
• Elzar — New New York's most famous chef and TV cooking personality — a four-armed Neptunian who seasons everything with a dramatic 'BAM!' and charges exorbita
• Flexo — Bender's identical twin bending unit distinguished only by a small goatee — a running gag where everyone suspects the wrong one of being evil.
• Francis X. Clampazzo — The Robot Mafia's enforcer — a volatile robot whose solution to every problem is clamping and who replaces his clamp-hands with alarming frequency.
• Headless Body of Spiro Agnew — Nixon's headless former Vice President — a shambling, growling body that serves as Nixon's muscle, transportation, and occasional weapon.
• Hedonismbot — A golden robot built for the sole purpose of pleasure — a decadent, self-indulgent machine that reclines on a couch being fed grapes while making ever
• Hermes Conrad — Planet Express's Jamaican bureaucrat and accountant — a man who finds spiritual fulfillment in paperwork and once saved Bender's life by falsifying a
• Igner — Mom's youngest and most innocent son — secretly the biological child of Professor Farnsworth, a fact neither knew until the events of Bender's Game.
• Kif Kroker — Zapp Brannigan's long-suffering amphibian lieutenant — a gentle, shy alien whose sigh of perpetual exasperation is the most relatable sound in the uni
• LaBarbara Conrad — Hermes Conrad's wife and the most patient woman in New New York — perpetually caught between her husband's bureaucratic obsessions and Barbados Slim's
• Larry — Mom's middle son and MomCorp's designated punching bag — dim-witted, hapless, and perpetually caught between Walt's schemes and Igner's obliviousness.
• Leo Wong — Amy's wealthy father who owns the entire western hemisphere of Mars — a brash billionaire buggalo rancher who desperately wants grandchildren.
• Linda van Schoonhoven — Morbo's perpetually cheerful human co-anchor on Channel Root-2 News — blissfully unfazed by her colleague's constant threats to destroy humanity.
• Lord Nibbler — An ancient Nibblonian lord disguised as Leela's adorable pet — secretly a cosmic intelligence who orchestrated Fry's journey to the future to save the
• Lrrr — Ruler of Omicron Persei 8 who repeatedly invades Earth over cultural misunderstandings — a menacing alien conqueror whose marriage problems are uncomf
• Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer — The long-serving mayor of New New York — a well-meaning but inept politician who has presided over countless alien invasions, robot uprisings, and hol
• Mom (Carol Miller) — The richest woman in the universe who publicly plays a sweet old lady while privately running a robot-manufacturing empire with sociopathic ruthlessne
• Morbo the Annihilator — A large-brained alien news anchor who bides his time on Earth while secretly planning humanity's destruction — delivering the weather forecast alongsi
• Ndnd — Empress of Omicron Persei 8 and Lrrr's perpetually dissatisfied wife — the nagging force behind most of his interplanetary invasions.
• Philip J. Fry — A 20th-century pizza delivery boy cryogenically frozen until 2999 — chronically underqualified for the future but cosmically important due to being hi
• Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth — A 160-year-old mad scientist who founded Planet Express primarily to fund his experiments — inventor of doomsday devices, the Smell-O-Scope, and an al
• Professor Ogden Wernstrom — Professor Farnsworth's bitter scientific rival — a vendetta spanning over a century, started when Farnsworth gave him an A-minus.
• Richard Nixon's Head — The 37th President of the United States, now the 30th President of Earth — preserved as a head in a jar and ruling with the same paranoid megalomania
• Robot Santa Claus — A four-ton robot built to judge naughty and nice whose standards were set impossibly high — now a homicidal Xmas Eve menace who terrorizes Earth with
• Scruffy Scruffington — Planet Express's perpetually overlooked janitor — a mustachioed philosopher who reads pornographic magazines in the basement and refers to himself in
• The Brainspawn — An ancient race of giant floating brains that seek to collect all knowledge in the universe and then destroy it — the only threat that makes the Nibbl
• The Donbot — The head of the Robot Mafia — a cigar-chomping, fedora-wearing crime boss who runs New New York's underworld with his goons Joey Mousepad and Clamps.
• The Robot Devil — The flamboyant ruler of Robot Hell who runs the underworld from an abandoned amusement park in New Jersey — a master dealmaker who considers Bender wo
• Turanga Leela — One-eyed mutant raised as an orphan who believed she was an alien — captain of the Planet Express Ship and the only competent person in any room she e
• Turanga Morris — Leela's sewer mutant father who secretly watched over her throughout her life — a devoted parent living in the shadows beneath New New York.
• Turanga Munda — Leela's sewer mutant mother who gave up her daughter so she could live on the surface — Leela inherited her purple hair and her fighting spirit.
• Walt — Mom's eldest and most competent son — the scheming lieutenant of MomCorp who does his mother's dirty work while absorbing her constant abuse.
• Zapp Brannigan — Earth's most decorated and least competent military officer — a velour-clad narcissist who wins battles through sheer expenditure of other people's li

Locations

• Applied Cryogenics — The cryogenic freezing facility where Fry was frozen on New Year's Eve 1999 and thawed into the 31st century — ground zero for the entire series.
• Decapod 10 — The homeworld of Dr. Zoidberg and the Decapodian species — a planet of lobster-like aliens with a Yiddish cultural identity and a mating cycle that me
• DOOP Headquarters — The headquarters of the Democratic Order of Planets — a United Nations-style interstellar organization that is exactly as effective as you'd expect Za
• Elzar's Fine Cuisine — New New York's most prestigious restaurant run by the four-armed Neptunian chef Elzar — exorbitantly priced and frequently the setting for disastrous
• Eternium — The ancient homeworld of the Nibblonians — a planet where time passes at a different rate and cosmic decisions about the fate of the universe are made
• Mars — A colonized planet home to Mars University, the Wong family ranch, and the native Martians — Earth's nearest neighbor and Amy Wong's homeworld.
• Mars University — The premier university on Mars where Amy studied engineering, Farnsworth teaches quantum physics, and Wernstrom's century-long grudge was born from on
• MomCorp Headquarters — The corporate headquarters of the universe's largest conglomerate — behind the friendly facade, it manufactures every robot with a hidden obedience ch
• Neptune — A frozen planet where Robot Santa operates his death fortress at the North Pole, staffed by exploited Neptunian elves working in a shantytown called J
• New New York — A gleaming 31st-century metropolis built directly on top of Old New York's ruins — cosmopolitan, crime-ridden, and regularly invaded by aliens.
• Old New York — The buried ruins of 20th-century New York City lying beneath New New York — a dangerous underground world populated by mutants and Fry's nostalgia.
• Omicron Persei 8 — A distant alien planet ruled by Lrrr and Ndnd whose entire foreign policy toward Earth is driven by cancelled TV shows and cultural misunderstandings.
• Planet Express Headquarters — The red-brick home of the galaxy's least profitable delivery company — part office, part lab, part hangar, and entirely a magnet for catastrophe.
• Robot Arms Apartments — A robot apartment complex where Fry and Bender live — each unit is a closet-sized space with an enormous closet, designed for robot-sized occupants.
• Robot Hell — The afterlife destination for sinful robots, hidden inside an abandoned New Jersey amusement park — ruled by the Robot Devil with musical numbers and
• Sewers of New New York — The underground sewer network beneath New New York where mutants live as second-class citizens — forbidden from the surface by law.
• The Central Bureaucracy — The massive labyrinthine headquarters for Earth's bureaucrats — where paperwork goes to live forever and some visitors have been waiting in line for o
• The Head Museum — A museum in New New York showcasing the preserved living heads of history's most important people — free on Tuesdays.
• The Near Death Star — A planet-sized facility where all humans over 160 are sent to live out their days in isolation — a Star Wars Death Star pun that is also deeply unsett
• The Nimbus — DOOP's flagship warship commanded by Zapp Brannigan — a Star Trek parody vessel that has been damaged, destroyed, and rebuilt more times than anyone c

Items

• Dark Matter — The densest substance in the universe — each pellet weighs as much as 1,000 suns, is produced as Nibblonian fecal matter, and was the primary starship
• Doomsday Devices — Professor Farnsworth's collection of world-ending weapons kept in a secret floor beneath the control tower — including the Spheroboom, mutated anthrax
• eyePhone — MomCorp's invasive smartphone — inserted directly into the eye, it records everything the user sees and uploads it to Twitcher. A parody of consumer t
• Fing-Longer — A simple but revolutionary invention — a glove with one extremely long finger, allowing the wearer to point at things that are far away. The Professor
• Forwards Time Machine — A time machine that can only travel forward in time — never backward. Fry, Bender, and the Professor used it to travel past the end of the universe, t
• Holophonor — A musical instrument combining an oboe with a holographic projector — nearly impossible to play well, and the source of one of television's most beaut
• Parallel Universe Box — A cardboard box that contains an entire parallel universe — every decision made differently, accessible by reaching inside. The Professor made it acci
• Planet Express Ship — A bright green delivery spacecraft that doesn't move through space — it moves the universe around it. Also has a sentient personality and once dated B
• Slurm — The most popular soft drink in the universe — highly addictive, beloved by Fry, and secretly produced from the anal secretion of a giant worm queen on
• Smell-O-Scope — A telescope-like device that detects odors over astronomical distances — one of the Professor's more practical inventions, if 'smelling things in deep
• Suicide Booth — Street-corner automated death machines found throughout New New York — where Fry first met Bender after mistaking one for a phone booth. Only 25 cents
• What-If Machine — A gold television-like device that predicts the outcome of any 'What if?' question — limited to three uses per year, each one producing increasingly u
• Wrist LoJack-a-mater — Leela's wrist-mounted multitool — part communicator, part laser, part Tetris machine, part tracking device. The 31st century's most versatile accessor

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