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'''''[[Deadpan Snarker|Atomic]] [[The Hero|Robo]]:''' I'm a robot and you're a [[Brain In a Jar]]. Is that a trick question?'' }}
'''''Atomic Robo''''' is a comic about, well, Atomic Robo, a robot built by [[Nikola Tesla]] in the 1920s. Given citizenship by the US government in exchange for missions against [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|Nazis and other similar scumbags]], he later started TeslaDyne, a high tech organization devoted to fighting really weird evil and advancing human knowledge. Along with his elite team of Action Scientists, he travels the world (and further) fighting things on the fringes of human knowledge.
There are six complete volumes so far, and a seventh will begin in June 2012. Every year on [[wikipedia:Free Comic Book Day|Free Comic Book Day]], a new short story is released. In addition to these, a parallel series called ''Real Science Adventures'' has been started as of 2012, with each issue containing several new stories, either one-shots or multi-parters. A short animated film, ''Atomic Robo: Last Stop'', was at first [[Development Hell|expected to be released in the first half of 2011]]. It seems that it'll be [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fZrKE2MT0o coming out in 2012].
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* [[Achievements in Ignorance]]
{{quote|"This is just...there ''can't'' be giant insects. [[Square-Cube Law|They'd crush themselves.]]"
"But do ''they'' know that?"
"Probably not, no." }}
* [[Action Girl]]: The Sparrow, one of Britain's top operatives, who ended up working (Rather reluctantly) alongside Robo in parts of Volume 2. They didn't really get on.
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* [[Made of Explodium]]: Everything that exists, according to Tesla.
* [[Made of Iron]]: Robo, naturally enough. He is really, ''really'' tough. Artificial Intelligence aside, his body is a metallurgic ''miracle'' given that it's built with early-20th-century technology.
** Pretty much the only thing that brought him close to death was an ''[[
* [[Mad Scientist]]: As a distinguished Robot of Science himself, it's no surprise that Robo encounters quite a few of these:
** Vanadis Valkyrie, the female German scientist behind the Brute program.
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{{quote|"Jenkins doesn't sleep. He ''holds back.''"}}
** During the "Revenge of the Vampire Dimension":
{{quote|'''Robo:''' "Oh, no. [[Watchmen (comics)|We're not trapped in here with]] [[Our Vampires Are Different|them]]. ''They're'' trapped in here with ''Jenkins''."
'''New Guy:''' "What's a Jenkins?"
'''Robo:''' "Jenkins is... well, he's on '''our''' side. You'll come to appreciate that." }}
** The titular [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|genius, nigh-indestructible, immortal atomic robot]] is ''his'' sidekick, according to [[Word of God|Scott & Brian]].
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** Meaning of course that not only can they not solve his budget problems, very likely they ARE his budget problems
* [[Retired Badass]]: {{spoiler|Tesla}}. [[Seen It All|He never, ever]] [[Fantastically Indifferent|even so much as]] ''blinks'' at all the Mad Science and insane adventures that crop around him. Compare to Robo, who normally is fabblergasterd by the shenanigans of the working Universe even after 80 years of life. Just by passing references, Robo is barely catching with him 57 years after he died.
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Tesla'''}}: {{spoiler|*While Robo is battling a vampire*}} ''Robo, it is my conjecture that [[Dull Surprise|the Electronoscope is in fact, a portal to another dimension]].
[[Beat]]
{{spoiler|'''Tesla'''}}: [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|Either that or the subatomic world is actually filled with monsters]]. Hmmm''. }}
* [[Reverse Polarity]]: When a Tesladyne experiment accidentally causes an invasion from the Vampire Dimension, this is Robo's solution, only to discover the machine lacks a reverse setting. He considers this criminally negligent with the sort of ludicrous science they get up to.
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** Example: moving a ''house'', intact, out of Bletchley Park, England, to Japan, via truck, boat and the sixth-ever-built Airbus Beluga (of which there are only 5), ''with no paper trail''.
{{quote|'''Lewis:''' The sheer bureaucratic gymnastics behind that are ''mind bending''.}}
* [[You Can Talk]]: [[H.P.
{{quote|'''Lovecraft:''' See how it vainly cobbles together a string of sounds not unlike words?}}
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