List of My Life as a Teenage Robot characters

This is a list of characters from the Nickelodeon animated series My Life as a Teenage Robot. This article is still very new and underproduced, so it would be of great help if you could add to it.

Main Characters

XJ-9 (a.k.a. Jennifer "Jenny" Wakeman)

Jenny is the main protagonist and the "teenage robot" the title refers to. She is a state-of-the-art automaton created by Dr. Nora Wakeman five years prior to the series, though she was designed as a 16-year-old girl. Her programming is based on the 'advanced' Cybocell 19 language ('Tradeshow Showdown'). Though XJ-9 was designed to be Earth's protector from natural disasters and alien threats, she perfers the life of a nomral teenager and has given herself the nickname Jenny. Jenny's best friends are Brad and Tuck Carbunkle, and she unwittingly became the object of affection for school tech geek Sheldon Lee after saving him from a group of bullies in "Attack of the 5 1/2 Foot Geek". Since she's a robot, Jenny doesn't eat human food and, as revealed in "This Time With Feeling", doesn't have physical feelings, though on several occasions has noted feeling pain after taking damage, and example of which being from acid burns inflicted by a giant fly ('Saved by the Shell'). Though she sleeps to recharge, Jenny did not have the ability to dream until "Daydream Believer" when Dr. Wakeman developed a Dream Mode microchip at Jenny's request.

Bradley "Brad" Carbunkle

Brad Carbunkle is Jenny's best friend and next-door-neighboor. He is outgoing and adventurous, and he quickly makes friends with Jenny after his brother, Tuck, sees Jenny, freaks, and tells Brad about the "killer robot" in Wakeman's house. As seen in "Unlicensed Flying Object", Brad his his driving learner's permit, but his dad will not let him drive the family car.

Tucker "Tuck" Cornelius Carbunkle

Brad's little brother, Tuck Carbunkle, is afraid of a lot of things, including big wheels. He was even afraid of Jenny at first, but the two became as close as she is with Brad. Tuck often tries to impress his friends with the fact that he lives next door to a robot superhero, as seen in "The Boy Who Cried Robot". Tuck manages to go overboard with just about everything that he attempts, from building a snow fort ("Doom With a View") to making a film for class ("Tuckered Out"), to being a daredevil ("Indes-Tuck-table"). One of his lines in "Saved By The Shell" suggests that he's quite knowledgeable of science and/or chemistry for his age, as he knew "acid can't eat through glass". In the episode "Pain in my Sidekick" he acquires a secret identity as a 'sidekick' to the Silver Shell: The Tin Can. In the episode "Indes-Tuck-table" it is revealed that Tuck will live at least 80 more years (and apparently not grow another inch in the meantime).

Dr. Noreen Wakeman

Dr. Noreen Wakeman is an elderly robotics scientist and the one who built XJ-9 (as well as prototype XJs -1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7 and -8). In her younger days, Wakeman was a member of Skyway Patrol and enemy of Queen Vexus (a la Max Tennyson to Vilgax in Ben 10). It was the worry of threats like Vexus that motivated the creation of the "XJ" line. Notably, the XJ series is not her first attempt at robotics. At age 14, she created her first robot, Lil' Acorn, a converted defense droid turned ventriloquist dummy in "Puppet Bride". Later, to save the Earth from unspecified alien threats during the First Intergalactic War, she created what would probably become her most dangerous legacy, Armagedroid, a Godzilla sized robot with the singleminded task of destroying all weapons who eventually turned on it's creators. Though Wakeman does indeed love her "daughter", she'll often butt into her personal life and is known to call on her at the most awkward moments. Her rival is a male robotics scientist named Dr. Mogg. Despite being only human, she shows no reluctance in fighting directly with foes such as Vexus when necessary, as seen when she tackles the Cluster Queen in "Tradeshow Showdown". For a woman of her advanced years, she is very able, even capable of dodging some of XJ9's more deadly attacks, as seen in "Turncoats". She has a difficult time with slang, however, most notably in the episode "Armagedroid".

Sheldon Oswald Lee

Though not as heavily featured as the rest of the main cast, he arguably qualifies as a core member of the group, appearing not as often as the previous three but far more than any of the rest of the supporting cast. Sheldon is Jenny's romantic admirer. Despite a slight running gag portraying him as having a chronic case of robophilia/technophilia (which would place his interest in Jenny in the realm of fetishism as opposed to mere infatuation or romantic interest), of all the characters of the show, he is the one who seems to believe in Jenny's most human qualities and has the most loyalty to her, even when everyone else abandons her (this is most clearly seen in "A Robot For All Seasons"). While his romantic approach has been most to (attempt) to appeal to Jenny's emotions and get her to like him traditionally, this has not put him above such ideas as to attempt to purchase Jenny outright from Dr. Wakeman ("The Price of Love") or to attempt to use the XJ9 blueprint to find a way into her good graces. His obvious skill in robotics, however, combined with the fact that he has never attempted to simply reprogram XJ9 directly, suggests Sheldon wants to win Jenny's heart 'fairly'. As a competent roboticist in his own right, Sheldon has created gadgets and modifications for Jenny, as well as doing minor repair work ("Attack of the 5½ ft Geek", "The Price of Love"). He has even done more extreme modifications when requested by XJ9, nearly always because Dr. Wakeman refused (or would refuse) to do them herself, such as removing all of her weaponry in order to achieve a 'thin' look ("Victim of Fashion").

He even has a secret alter ego, The Silver Shell. Silver Shell is a secret identity used by Sheldon originally to show that robot males were not desirable as a romantic partner. This plan, of course, backfired, causing Jenny to be in love with Silver Shell while simultaneously rebuffing the human Sheldon's advances. As a hero, the Silver Shell has an imposing appearance, and a 'smooth' demeanor, and an excess of confidence, all qualities the human Sheldon lacks in his normal guise. Despite the posing and arrogance, however, the Shell does possess some ability, handily beating the Space Bikers when Sheldon was trying to spend time with Jenny ("Dancing in my Shell").Once, when Tuck accidentally discovered the Silver Shell costume in Sheldon's garage/lab, Sheldon was forced to craft a secret identity for Tuck as well, The Tin Can ("Pain in my Sidekick").