Cubix: Robots for Everyone
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Cubix: Robots for Everyone is a CGI animated series that takes place in the year 2040 in Bubble Town where robots outnumber humans. Robots are made in RobixCorp. Everyone has a robot, each with its own unique duty. This show centers on the Botties, a special club for people who know how fix robots, along with the evil Dr. K., who has plans up his evil sleeve. Cubix was created by Korean company called Cinepix and licensed through 4Kids Entertainment for North America, and aired for two seasons on Kids' WB!, lasting from August 11, 2001 to April 26, 2003, and getting a second run on 4Kids TV.
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[edit] Characters
[edit] Cubix
Cubix is a robot who is made out of a number of cubes. He can transform into a hover bike, an airplane, a helicopter or just a simple wall. In later episodes it turns out that he can fly without the need to transform into a vehicle that can fly. Hidden in each cube there is different gadget like a fire extinguisher, an extra arm, a laser cannon, an energy shield and etc. which allows Cubix to have solution to almost every dire situation.
When it comes to fighting Cubix is exceptionally strong, he is powered by a Solex generator which his rumored to be the ultimate power source but nobody knows how exactly it works. Cubix' body is also constructed out of an exceptionally resistant metal that is capable of resisting a lot of damage without breaking.
He can also transform himself into a better version of himself.
Cubix is a friendly and helpful robot to his friends however at the start of the series he lacks some advanaced intelligence and especially speech capability while speaking seem to be a thing that almost every other robot is capable of, usually he can just repeat what people around him say or from a few coherent words, however later this improves greatly and he will be capable of forming sentences and dialogues.
[edit] Humans
[edit] Botties
Connor: The main human character of the series, 13-year-old Connor is obsessed with robots. He moved to Bubble Town, and soon after joined the Botties' Pit and fixed the "unfixable" robot, Cubix.
Abby: Connor's next-door neighbor, best human friend, and fellow robot-lover, Abby was the first to show Connor around Bubble Town. She is a member of the Botties. Her pet robot, Dondon, has been her best robot friend since Abby was 6 years old. Abby's idol is Hela Nemo.
Chip: The short and smart Bottie, Chip knows a lot about robots. He's best friends with tall, dumb Mong, and his robot is Cerebrix.
Mong: The fat, tall, picky but kind Bottie, Mong loves to eat and make bad jokes. He's best friends with short, smart Chip, and his pet robot is Maximix.
Hela Nemo: The adult Bottie, 30-year-old Hela knows everything about robots. She's the daughter of Professor Nemo and the idol of Abby. She owns the Botties Pit, and her main robots are Diagnostix, Mr. Fixit, Ixpressive, and Attractix.
[edit] Villains
Dr. K: The main villain of the series, Dr. K used to work for RobixCorp, but he lost his arm in a lab explosion and now as a rouge robot inventor he uses his smarts for evil probably because of venegenceful inents. In Season 1 he's after a substance called Solex to build the ultimate robot and destroy Bubble Town. His main robot is Kolossal, but he has his own line of evil robots such as Katastrophe, Kannon, Krab, and Kilobot.
Raska: Bubble Town's most famous celebrity, Raska is the spokesperson of RobixCorp. She doesn't really have any robots besides the Cinematixes that film her. However, Raska's true form is an alien being of unknown origin who is Dr. K's boss. She only appears in the first season.
[edit] Miscellaneous
Graham: Connor's dad, he works at a local donut shop. He doesn't like robots, and his closest things to his own robot are Cubix and the Waitrixes that work at the donut shop.
Taryn: Connor's mother, she died before the series started. Connor keeps a picture of her in his room as a memory.
Professor Nemo: The ultimate robotist, Professor Nemo is a robot encyclopedia. He was the one who built Cubix. Nemo disappeared in the aforementioned lab explosion, but was later found kidnapped by Dr. K. A giant sculpture of Nemo was always kept on the first floor of RobixCorp.
Charles: A spoiled brat, the richest kid in town, and the son of the mayor. Charles' family has important connections in Bubble Town, so he gets all the latest robot models. His main robot, Quixtreme 5000, Charles thinks he's the coolest robot ever, but boy is he wrong!
[edit] Robots
[edit] Botties Robots
(other than Cubix)
Maximix: Maximix is Mong's blue green colored robot. Maximix is has a unicycle propulsion instead of legs and is also capable to transform into a Go-kart like vechicle to provide Mong with transportation. Although not as strong as Cubix or Kolossal, Maximix has proven himself to be a formidable opponent on several occasions. He can hold his own against a fight with Kolossal or any of Dr. K's robots albeit for only a limited time. His power source can dump all its energy at once at such occasions however at such high energy usage it quickly worns out. Thanks to his unicycle propulsion he can reach high speeds in moments even outdoing Cubix in his human form, he is quite agile nible on his weheels and can resist a good deal of damage. Once he was capable of rolling on Kolossal's harpoon arm cable without problems. His intelligence is average and his quick thinking can be very helpful. his personality is similar to his master somewhat hot headed, competitive and a bit conceited but he can always be relied on.
DonDon: Dondon is Abby's bee like robot. Dondon is a personal interaction and entertainment robot, she is outfitted with hovering capacity and can hover and fly for indefinite periods of time and although she has wings the wings are more for decoration than any practical use. Being only at the size of a handbag Dondon is not a fighter. Her functions include video telephoning and a more complicated personality program. Her role in the story is usually the trapped little thing that needs to be rescued by the others.
Cerebrix: Cerebrix is Chip's robot. Like his master Cerebrix is more of a brain focused character, he is bipedal has two legs but has no arms. He is equipped with advanced memory, sensory, computing and processing systems stored in his "large head". He can also fly in the means of a retractable propeller that is on the top of his head. His main functions include a huge sensory array and he is also equipped with two antennae through which he can tap into almost any communication wavelength and cause disturbances and creating confusion in his foes. Also his advanced probability computing system is capable of determining the outcomes of events before the occur and the time before they occur, usually this is shown as warning before a bomb should explode or something bad about to happen. His personality and speech is also a lot more machine like than most other robots as he rarely says anything but usually when does it is very important.
[edit] Villain's Robots
Kolossal: A Frankenstein's monster esque robot, Kolossal is the brute of Dr. K's forces. Not too intelligent and continuessly relies on his master for orders but actually almost equal to Cubix in fighting ability, Kolossal serves as Cubix's nemesis in the early part of the show. Kolossal's equipped with various equipments most importantly a detachable floating platform on his left shoulder where Dr. K. takes seat. Kolossal is big strong, durable and although bulky he is capable of limited flight and agile high jumps, his left hand is a sort of claw like and he can also launch it on a wire to grab things from afar, his right shoulder includes a built missile launcher, his right forearm houses a bomb dispenser and other gadgets but most of the time he uses only brute force to win. Without his master's continuous coordination however he can only complete basic tasks.
Kilobot: First appearing on the second season, Kilobot is Vampiric and far smarter than any of his cohorts, Kilobot is Dr. K's finest creation. Developed to absorb data from other robots, Kilobot's name comes from the fact that he has the potential to copy the powers of up to 1000 other robots. As such, his power is potentially unlimited. Kilobot originally appeared in a bat-like form, but later upgraded to a bulkier body. Kilobot is Cubix's new arch-enemy.
Kontraption: Dr. K's largest automaton, Kontraption serves as his blimp headquarters after his original base is destroyed. However, Kontraption can also turn into a large robot with great destructive capability.
Krab: Squat and crustecean-like, Krab has powerful claws and shoulders that contain a variety of weapons.
Katastrophe: A robot capable of splitting into two halves. Katastrophe's top half can fly, while the bottom rolls around on a wheel.
Kannon: An artillery robot developed by Dr. K, his body is an assembly of cannons.
Klawber: Menace of the skies, Klawber is a super-fast plane that flies through the air.
Zombots: Dr. K's army of duplicating machines. When defeated, their parts can regenerate into new Zombots. In addition, they can evolve into larger, stronger versions of themselves.
[edit] Solex
Solex is a source of energy of unknown origin and unknown makeup. It has two forms the first one is the liquid form which physically appears as a teal colored gloving liquid substance, the second is the more stabile crystallized form which is not shown. It is not known how this power source works but the story suggests that it has a psychic nature as reacts to sentient thoughts, emotions and stress. Solex in both liquid and crystallized form is capable of producing immerse power of unknown levels and unknown time duration from nothing, however in liquid form this is very hard to control and the energy could randomly fluctuate rapidly from incredible levels to next to nothing. The crystallized form is stable enough so it can be utilized for controlled energy production and as a power source for robots or machinery. Cubix was the only know robot who was outfitted with such a power source which is an explanation to the origin of his great power.
[edit] Solex in the 1st series
In the first season of the series Dr. K is collecting Solex and utilizes its power to complete his ultimate plans with the aid of the Alien who is using the alter ego of Raska. It is suspected that the Solex was originally discovered/invented by professor Nemo. Nemo fearing that Dr. K will attempt to misuse this power separated the Solex to small doses and placed them into completely random robots to prevent Dr. K from finding it.
The liquid Solex however produces unexpected effects in robots; this is referred to as Solex infection. As the robot’s Emotion Processor was put under heavy stress or emotions the uncontrollable energy reaction of the liquid Solex causes them to malfunction and go berserk, besides that the infected robot also gains extreme power far beyond its normal capabilities. This contains enhanced strength and unnatural functions like shooting fire from a cannon that is normally a fire extinguisher. However this extreme power could overload the host and could end up in the host’s destruction unless it gets deactivated or the Solex’ energy returns to normal by itself.
In the end of the first season however the Solex dissipates and it s last fragments travel back to Cubix to revive him, Cubix after reactivation claims that “the Solex is no more”. Cubix supposably absorbed all last remaining Solex into himself to come back to life. Although he is still one of the strongest robots without the Solex his power had drastically reduced.
[edit] Origins of Solex
Some fans theorized that Solex is actually brought to Earth by the Alien Raska for unknown reasons but reflecting his attitude from the series most probably his reasons were hostile towards humanity. The Solex was lost for some reason and being all alone on Earth the alien decided to recruit the rouge robot inventor Dr. K in order to retrieve it, promising him power in return. He instructed Dr. K on how to collect the Solex and how to contain it. The Solex was found by the founder of the Robix corp. Professor Nemo who wisely hid the Solex before Dr. K and Raska captured him. With Nemo removed from Robix corp. Raska used his psychic power to create a position for himself at Robix corp. and make sure the Solex and Nemo’s kidnapping does not get public attention.
The psychic affections of the Solex also provide a clue as the Alien might not be able to morph its body physically but could be using psychic illusion to mask his presence among the humans of earth and make everyone around him believe that they see a woman instead of an alien begin, even being able to do this through television or even visual records this could also explain why it is capable of speaking human language in an alien form albeit having no mouth or anything close to human body. This suggests a connection between him and the Solex.
[edit] Robix Corp's other miscellaneous robots
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Acoustix:spear like speaker that shows time and anccounces things
Aquatix:like a walking water despencer
Attractix:a megnet like bot that can turn positive to pull things toward it or negitive to push it away
Babysix:finaly a robo babysitter includes pacifiyer, blankets and more
Botanix:
Brutix:
Cheddrix:
Cinematix:basically a walking movie projecter
Sergeant Civix:policeman bot nothing more!
Correctix:a giant calculator bot you got me?
Delishix:a waiter
Demolishix:this bot is a wrecking ball sent in by a 11 year old who love the show cubix
Detectix:
Diagnostix:
Directix:
Disposix:
Dummy N:
Endurix:
Heroix:
Hop2ix:
Illuminix:
Ixmow:
Ixpressive:
Ixtinguish:
Lectrix:
Meterologix:
Microphonix:
Mixmutt:
Mozzarellix:
Mr. Fixit:
Optix:
Pestixcide:
Propelix:
Quixtreme 5000:
Rangerix:
Rid:
Securix:
Sewix:
Spike: A member of the Dino Demolition Team, Spike is second-in-command to Tyranosaurix and is based on a saber-toothed cat.
Squeejix:
Transix:
Tyranosaurix: Leader of the Dino Demolition Tri Ball team, Tyranosaurix is based on Tyrannosaurus rex. He is a powerful robot, but that turns to his disadvantage when Kilobot copies his data, knocks him out, and takes his place at the head of a brain-washed Dino Demolition team in an effort to take out Cubix.
Vendrix:
Waitrix:
Weldnfix:
[edit] Trivia
- It was never stated what the last names of Connor, Abby, Chip, and Mong were.
- Many fans consider Abby to be an exact lookalike of Misty from Pokémon, due to them both being redheads.
- There is a manufacturer, specializing in "blade-servers", called Cubix Corp.
