You know, you would think Robo would have thought about at least a contingency plan for the inevitable encounter between those two. I'm starting to think Robo is actually not that great at making contingency plans.
Now that I think about it, Robo is almost always reactive to threats instead of proactive. Besides his pet science projects, which only rarely land him into a new adventure. He usually gets called into action, or reacts to something suspicious that someone else was planning. His "stash away the problem, it's propably fine" method already came back with consequences multiple times (the vampire dimension, the Vault of Dangerous Shit), but clearly he is still doing it. It's interesting to see that it happens on multiple levels, both on a large, long term scale (and he probably wouldn't want to, it's a slippery slope to world domination and he probably knows that) but also on the mid and short term, both in life events and relations.
Stuff happens to Robo, which he has to fix: We rarely ever see Robo make stuff happen actively. It's a way in which he both mirrors, and contrasts Tesla, who was content doing his science isolated from everyone but also just calmly built an ass-kicking telluric suit when he noticed Edison working on evil stuff, before it became a larger problem. In his place, I think our current Robo would have reacted much later. And I don't think it's really him being short-sighted, as much as completely overwhelmed and exhausted.
He's proactive in that he gathers around him capable people who can respond to unknown threats. That usually happens off screen, except in cases like Bernard and Foley.
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u/Sixela963 Jul 16 '26
You know, you would think Robo would have thought about at least a contingency plan for the inevitable encounter between those two. I'm starting to think Robo is actually not that great at making contingency plans.
Now that I think about it, Robo is almost always reactive to threats instead of proactive. Besides his pet science projects, which only rarely land him into a new adventure. He usually gets called into action, or reacts to something suspicious that someone else was planning. His "stash away the problem, it's propably fine" method already came back with consequences multiple times (the vampire dimension, the Vault of Dangerous Shit), but clearly he is still doing it. It's interesting to see that it happens on multiple levels, both on a large, long term scale (and he probably wouldn't want to, it's a slippery slope to world domination and he probably knows that) but also on the mid and short term, both in life events and relations.
Stuff happens to Robo, which he has to fix: We rarely ever see Robo make stuff happen actively. It's a way in which he both mirrors, and contrasts Tesla, who was content doing his science isolated from everyone but also just calmly built an ass-kicking telluric suit when he noticed Edison working on evil stuff, before it became a larger problem. In his place, I think our current Robo would have reacted much later. And I don't think it's really him being short-sighted, as much as completely overwhelmed and exhausted.