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#Futurama alien news anchor series

The Fake Cutie: A rare heroic example.Extreme Omnivore: Able to eat any creature regardless of its size.Incomprehensible name? Check (his real name takes several aeons to say). Eldritch Abomination: Older than our reality? Check (17 years).De-power: After Bender's Game, Nibblonian poop is useless as fuel, being replaced with whale oil.Depending on the Writer: While some episodes are shrewd enough to sneak in hints of his intellect, in others Nibbler's actions (which include deliberately endangering himself or the crew or maintaining his act even when unsupervised) make no sense under knowledge of his secret identity, implying the story treats his dumb animal act as being his real personality.Cute Little Fangs: Well, not exactly little.When he's left alone in the hold with the other creatures, he immediately eats them. Cute Clumsy Creature: In his first appearance, Nibbler is just an Ugly Cute critter among other animals on his planet that the crew tries to rescue.Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite his overwhelming cuteness, he is a soldier.This becomes a source of frustration for him in "That Darn Katz", where he can't get the crew to take him seriously because of his adorable appearance. The Comically Serious: He's actually a commanding, authoritarian leader with a Badass Baritone.

#Futurama alien news anchor series

Chekhov's Gunman: Present since the series premiere, in fact.Big Eater: And how! Most things he's eaten are bigger than he is.Badass Baritone: As voiced by Frank Welker.Badass Adorable: There's practically a whole episode devoted to how adorable the crew find him (much to Bender's chagrin), and in as the series progresses, it is revealed that the Nibblonian race was already 17 years old at the time of the big bang, and are charged with protecting the Earth from the evil Brainspawn and also that Nibbler himself had a fairly big part to play in getting Fry cryogenically frozen for 1000 years in the first place.It's never quite made clear whether it is down to being this trope for real or just taking his role a bit too seriously. His role largely consists of playing this however as his persona is frequently destructive, gluttonous, and never breaks character to help the crew when they are in danger. Apathetic Pet: Played with, as Nibbler is in fact The Mole and a highly intelligent surveyor who is pretending to be Leela's dumb pet.

He still never breaks from character to preserve himself. "I Second That Emotion" is a key example, where his act earns the murderous chagrin of Bender and later leaves him a sitting duck for a sewer monster.

Absurdly Dedicated Worker: To maintain his secret identity, Nibbler will rarely ever break from his dumb animal façade, even when it leaves his own well-being at stake.

Until he officially assigned himself to Earth as a part of the Planet Express crew. It turns out that his species employs Obfuscating Stupidity in order to defend the universe from the Brain Spawn, and nobody remembers his actions due to his wiping of their minds afterwards. He proved to have a voracious appetite, but thankfully, he's Solid Gold Poop incarnate - his species produces dark matter, which could be used as starship fuel. The Ridiculously Cute Critter that the Planet Express crew encountered while saving two of every animal from a planet about to implode.

It's unknown if she's still alive since she was eaten by one of the creatures in Simpsorama, which is possible that she may or may not if the new upcoming revival of Futurama might confirm that with the new episodes coming.Debut: "Space Pilot 3000" (shadow only), "Love Labours Lost in Space".

She was once terrified by Morbo's exposed torso, screaming hysterically on live TV.

When she is hot or in a panic, her make-up and eyeliner is smeared.

According to the commentaries, this is because the writers leave Morbo out of episodes that have a large focus on aliens, such as H.

In several episodes, she newscasts alone.

Her last name, which is revealed in a deleted scene of Into the Wild Green Yonder, is Dutch ("van" being Dutch for "of" and "Schoonhoven" being the name of a city in the Netherlands).

Linda is one of the few non-primary characters who appear in every film.