Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future | |
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Voiced by | Matt Maiellaro |
Episode count | 7 (including the film and AquaDonk) |
Species | Robot |
Gender | Male |
Abilities | Tells long nonsensical stories, Claw hand, Laser eyes, Can fire bullets from beak, Various other weapons, can disassemble and reassemble himself. |
Quote | "Thousands of years ago..." |
The Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future is a crazy robot who claims that he is the Ghost of Christmas Past. He first shows up in Carl's house and tells Carl "what Christmas was like" when Carl was eight, in which he was made to eat carpet by his father and his house was destroyed by robots and lasers. He then proceeds to fill Carl's pool with elf blood as a plot device to tell the Aqua Teens and Carl about the original Santa Claus, an ape named "Sir Santa of Claws", and elves from Mars. He has a penchant for telling drawn-out stories such as this with absolutely no factual basis or consistency. He says that the only way for Carl to get rid of the blood is for Carl to have sex with the Great Red Ape in Space. Carl eventually gets rid of him by selling his house to Glenn Danzig, who buys the house specifically for the blood, and whom the Ghost can't stand.
He may be related to Turkatron, who once claimed to be the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future but was later discovered to be a defective toy from the present. Still, the Cybernetic Ghost and Turkatron have the same voice and same penchant for telling convoluted stories. He says he has something to do with Sigourney Weaver and that he survived the "Quickening of the Dragonoids". He is one of only seven members of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday... who survive "The Last One", along with Ignignokt, Err, the Rabbot, Happy Time Harry, Mothmonsterman and Major Shake.
He also appears in Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters in which he snuck aboard the Plutonians ship and hangs out with them for the entirety of the movie, it's also revealed that he was created by Dr. Weird. The film also revealed that he doesn't know anything about the past and future, and instead randomly strings words together to make up events that never transpired and never will. In the film, he is frequently humping various objects and made out with Oglethorpe. He is last seen post credits humping the Aqua Teen's television set as a female Frylock tells him to come to bed.
He appears as one of two sports commentators in Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Zombie Ninja Pro-Am, frequently annoying the actual sports commentator at the begining of every level. He also makes cameos in the theme songs for Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1, Aqua Something You Know Whatever, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever.
He makes his next appearance in "Larry Miller Hair System", where he is seen showing a video of Carl with his metal wig to an army of robots to present their mission of going back to the past and destroying the wig, one of the robots in the audience tries to go to the "Time Chamber", but after he points out that it's just a refridgerator box, the Ghost looses his patience and repeatedly tries to activate the "Time Chamber" himself, while the credits roll.
He then makes his last appearance in the final episode, "The Greatest Story Ever Told", where he is seen attending a church allong with Shake, Meatwad, and several other characters. He then tries to kill Frylock, Carl and Lambert under Shake's orders, but fails dues to them being immortal, he is then shot to death by two police officers.
The Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future makes his return in the Aqua Teen spin-off AquaDonk Side Pieces. On the sixth episode, "Breakie B", he goes to the Powerpuff Mall in order to destroy a breakdancing robot toy named Breakie B, whom he thinks is a cybernetic assassin who will "give birth to the quickening of the dragonoids and 3 billion lives will vanish in an instant", but he can't get past the metal detector since he's completely made of metal, so he dissasembles himself to get past it in his ghost form, but Shake (the recently hired security guard) comes in to check if there are any dangerous weapons. Despite him obviously having dangerous weapons in each and every part of his body, Carl (the other security guard) lets him go, and so he not only destroys Breakie B with his laser gun, but also blows up his copies and lots of other things in the store, while Carl and Shake quit their jobs.
Appearance
He's a relatively tall and skinny grey robot, he has a bucket-like head with yellow eyes, a Mohawk and a beak with a speaker inside. His chest and pelvis appear to be hollow as you can clearly see the machinery inside of it, he also has a pair of clippers on his left arm and claw like hand on his right arm, with wide, duck-like feet. In his ghostly form, he looks like a shiny blue silhouette of his robot body, with a tiny brain inside his head.
Personality
Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future is a pathological liar who needs constant attention, and is shown to lose his patience easily whenever someone contradicts or questions his stories, as seen in "Cybernetic Ghost Of Christmas Past From The Future" and "Larry Miller Hair System". He also seems to have an immature sense of humor as he's seen annoying the sports comentator by repeatedly teasing him or rambling about the traditions of his "home planet" in "Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Zombie Ninja Pro-Am".
Powers and abilities
He's most notably ability is to be able to tell ridiculously long distracting stories usually starting of with "Thousands of years ago...", followed by smoke always appearing when he says this. The smoke - according to Err, smells "smooth and menthol-y", possibly indicating that it's cigarette smoke that always appears. His right hand is a pair of clippers which can be used as weapons, and can be expanded into multiple, more deadly weapons. He is also shown to have laser eyes and the ability to shoot bullets out of his mouth, he is also able to store various weapons in each of his body parts and dissassemble and reassemble himself.
Trivia
- He often tells stories that are very long winded, have no relevance to the episode plot and are contradicted later on in the series; examples of this include Santa Claus.
- It's unknown if he's related to Turkatron in any way, though the latter is aware of him.
- His right hand can become multiple other weapons.
- He also made a surprise appearance in the Adult Swim Brain Trust as a caller on Space Ghost's show.
- It is revealed in "Breakie B" that the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future is an actual ghost in a suit of robot armor.
- According to Favorite Episode Promos, Aqua Fakt says Cybernetic Ghost claiming to be thousand years old, but he's actually only 32 years old.
See also
Appearances
- "Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past From the Future"
- "The Last One"
- "Deleted Scenes"
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Zombie Ninja Pro-Am
- "Larry Miller Hair System"
- Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 Theme Song (cameo)
- Aqua Something You Know Whatever Theme Song (cameo)
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever Theme Song (cameo)
- "The Greatest Story Ever Told"
- "Breakie B" (Aquadonk Side Pieces)