Call-Me-Kenneth | |
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Position | Robot Revolutionist |
First Appearance | The Robot Wars |
Status | Destroyed |
Personality
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Call-Me-Kenneth was at first fighting for the equality of robots and for them to be recognised as sentient beings with emotion, however as the story unravels it becomes clear that he was really a self serveing fascist who was more than happy to execute and abuse his own people, even taking notes from his idol Adolf Hitler on how to rule.
History
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Chaos erupts as the robots rampage across the city. Dredd takes back his badge and leads a squad of Judges to battle the robot menace. Kenneth sends out the Heavy Metal Kids to fight Dredd's squad but they are quickly defeated by their own stupidty. Dredd decides to try and infiltrate Kenneth's base with a good robot named Walter. The two are caught by Kenneth's sentry's however and brought to him. Walter is sent to the assembly line while Kenneth gives Dredd a tour of his factory showing off his weaponry. During this time Dredd sees the cruel way that Kenneth rules over the robots and compares him to Adolf Hitler. He goes on to show Dredd a perfect duplicate of the Judge and tells Dredd that he plans to place Dredd's brain in the robot duplicate. Dredd attempts to escape but is beaten down by Kenneth's Overseers. However Walter later comes to his aid and destroys his bonds with corrosive acid.

Kenneth leads his assault
Badly damaged but still working, Kenneth goes on a final maddened assault. He hijacks a Texas City oil liner and attempts to flee, Dredd follows and the two fight atop the ship, Kenneth accidentally hits a oil pipe, the oil spurts out soaking Kenneth in it and knocks Dredd off the ship, as he falls however Dredd fires a round from his Lawgiver which ignites in the oil roasting Kenneth almost instantly before blowing up and taking the oil liner with him.

Years later a model of Kenneth's body was gatherd by Walter the Wobot who had origonally fought against Kenneth during the Robot Wars. Walter began to use the model as a object of worship, placing it on a crucifix as he attempted to start off a second Robot War. This fails and Dredd knocks the model from the cealing smashing on the ground in front of Walter's subjects.
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- A lot of Kenneth's mannerisms are based on Adolf Hitler, at one point even claiming to be a fan of his.
- Kenneth was last seen in the draw of Tharg the Mighty, alongside many other dead characters.
- The Call-Me- part of Kenneth's name has become a running theme with robots in the series, examples include Call-Me-Rowena and Call Me Sparky.
- When creating Kenneth, writer John Wagner expected to receive some kind of backlash for making him a carpenter who rose up to lead a revolution but was surprised when he received none.