Chuckles

Chuckles was a Robot Clown who became a gladiator in Freddie Maxwell's destructertainment.

Biography
Chuckles, along with all other Earth robots of his generatio,n owed his advancement to Alistair Gryffen. Before Gryffen and his thought matrix, which allowed a robot to think for itself, came along, robots were nothing more than windup toys, but they moved on. Chuckles had a partner, Boris with whom he had been a clown at the circus. Balloons were his act and kids loved it. However they were taken by Freddie Maxwell and became gladiators to fight in Crashclub. Freddie considered Boris one of his best and a real contender. When K9 Mark 2 went undercover to take Freddie down, his crate was taken to the gladiator pens. Chuckles introduced himself and Boris to K9. They were soon met by the champion, Pain-Maker, whom the clowns feared. Chuckles and Boris were excited that K9 was their new roommate and showed him around the place, but the walls were the only interesting feature. K9 observed Boris blow up a balloon, let the air out and then repeated tis action over and over again. K9 asked Chuckles why he kept doing it, saying it was illogical. Chuckles told him it seemed perfectly logical to him. K9 asked what would he know about logic? Chuckles explained that Balloons were his act in the circus.. Freddie then called Boris onto the ring on the intercom, to face the Pain-Maker. The Pain-Maker tried to strike Boris but he evaded the attacks using his acrobatic moves. However he couldn't hold out forever and was soon destroyed by the Pain-Maker. Freddie was shocked by this. Thorne was revealed to be behind the scheme and made K9 face the Pain-Maker. He had the Pain-Maker flash Boris' ascot to taunt K9 into destroying the Pain-Maker, who was laced with the explosive solarmite so Thorne could take K9's Regeneration circuit. K9 was angered but he refused to fire, He managed to escape the Pain-Maker's self-destruction. Freddie was put out of business and Crashclub was closed down. Boris was soon rebuilt with a new pink ascot and a honker. He and Chuckles called K9 to thank him for shutting down Crashclub and Chuckles cheerfully informed K9 that he and Boris were going back to the Circus. (K9TV: Robot Gladiators)