| rdfs:comment | - REAL NAME: Robot #32198
- The Automan had a Robot Buddy (actually, a Pixel Buddy) by the name of Cursor, who could become virtually any object Automan needed. This ability manifested itself most often when Cursor would "draw" Automan's car/coptor/plane or provide Automan with normal clothing.
- An expert programmer and police officer, Walter Nebicher (Desi Arnaz, Jr.) has created a crime fighting AI at police's mainframe, powerful enough to be able to bring to real world a program's hologram (Chuck Wagner) spontaneously, who introduces himself as Automan (the "automatic man") and resembles a program in TRON: his body glows with geometrical patterns in neon cyan light. To avoid arousing suspicion, Automan disguises himself as a common human, a G-man named Otto J. Mann (a play which sounds almost like "Auto-man") who collaborates with his creator, to whom he shows total loyalty.
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| abstract | - REAL NAME: Robot #32198
- The Automan had a Robot Buddy (actually, a Pixel Buddy) by the name of Cursor, who could become virtually any object Automan needed. This ability manifested itself most often when Cursor would "draw" Automan's car/coptor/plane or provide Automan with normal clothing.
- An expert programmer and police officer, Walter Nebicher (Desi Arnaz, Jr.) has created a crime fighting AI at police's mainframe, powerful enough to be able to bring to real world a program's hologram (Chuck Wagner) spontaneously, who introduces himself as Automan (the "automatic man") and resembles a program in TRON: his body glows with geometrical patterns in neon cyan light. Automan exhibits superhero-like abilities in the real world, but he completely fails in human relationships. He can materialize such transportation as a car (a Lamborgini Countach), a plane or a helicopter by means of a companion polyedrical and free-floating character called "Cursor" (which resembles TRON's Bit). At Automan's request, Cursor is able to draw three dimensional wireframe vehicles and materialize them in seconds. When the constructs are no longer needed, Cursor can perform the inverse operation to delete them. As a side effect, the car driven by Automan only turns in 90 degree angles (due to it using the same algorithm that Pac-Mac uses, as implemented by Nebicher), and defying the physics' laws, it turns around instantaneously. Human passengers are invariably buffeted around inside due to inertia during such turns. To avoid arousing suspicion, Automan disguises himself as a common human, a G-man named Otto J. Mann (a play which sounds almost like "Auto-man") who collaborates with his creator, to whom he shows total loyalty.
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