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Marvin the Paranoid Android is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams. Marvin is the ship's robot aboard the starship Heart of Gold. Severely depressed, Marvin was built as a prototype of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's "Genuine People Personalities" technology. He has a brain the size of a planet, but seldom gets the chance to use it. Instead, he continually whines about his troubles, irritating his crewmembers.
Marvin's voice was performed by Stephen Moore on radio and television, and in the upcoming theatrical movie; David Learner operated his body on television, and Warwick DavisWarwick Davis (born February 3, 1970) is an actor noted for being short — he is three feet six inches (about one metre) tall. He is probably best known as Wicket, the Ewok befriended by Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi his first film role. He continued is going to wear the Marvin costume in the feature film. He is "probably... the most popular character to appear in the Guide," according to Geoffrey PerkinsGeoffrey Perkins has been a central figure in British comedy broadcasting. He appeared in, or was involved in the production of, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Uncyclopaedia Of Rock, Hordes of the Things, Spitting Image, Saturday Live (UK), Norbert, producer of the radio series. He released two popPopular music sometimes abbreviated the genre pop music, is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are (at least in their heyday) broadly popular. Broadly, any music that is a part of popular culture, including classical, folk, or other singleAlternate meanings: Single (disambiguation In music, a single is a song considered commercially viable enough by the artist and record company to be released separately from an album, usually featuring on an album as well. It is often accompanied by severs — "Marvin"/"Metal Man" and "Reasons to be Miserable"/"Marvin I Love You" (double B-sideB-sides are songs released on the same record as a single to provide extra "value for money. These songs are normally songs which did not make it onto the album, either because they were not considered good enough or because they did not fit in with the o) — in the UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly in 1981Events January-February January Sarawak Chamber found January 1 Greece enters the EEC January 1 Palau becomes self-governing January 4 Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 16 Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette D, though neither reached the top 40.
According to Douglas Adams, "Marvin came from Andrew Marshall. He's another comedy writer, and he's exactly like that." Indeed, in an early draft of Hitchhiker's, the robot was called Marshall. However, Adams also admitted that Marvin is part of a long line of literary depressives, such as A. A. Milne's Eeyore or Jacques in Shakespeare's As You Like It, and even owes something to Adams's own periods of depression.
" Paranoid Android" is the name of a song by British rock band Radiohead, possibly named after Marvin, but without any other apparent explicit reference. The line "When I am king you will be first against the wall" might be a reference to Marvin's introduction, in which the marketing department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is described as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes".
One passage from the series demonstrates Marvin's absolute depressed state and outlook on life:
- "I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself into [the ship]'s external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length, and explained my view of the universe to it, " said Marvin.
- "And what happened?" pressed Ford.
- "It committed suicide," said Marvin.
