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Lola Mbola (originally Lola Mbolắ) is one of the main characters of Robotboy, as well as one of Tommy, Gus, and Robotboy's friends.

Official synopsis

"10-year-old Lola is the confident and smart daughter of a rich African ambassador. She can fly jet planes and control speedboats despite her age, and is secretly in love with Tommy (but would be devastated if he ever found out)."

Profile

She's a 10 year old, blue-eyed daughter of a wealthy African ambassador. Lola is a very well-educated, mature and intelligent girl. Despite her young age, she can pilot jet planes and speedboats among many other surprising skills. She has a huge crush on Tommy Turnbull but is very secretive about it, and Tommy doesn't even seem to realize that Lola has these feelings for him.

Appearance

Lola is a young black African girl with baby blue eyes, her hair is in an odango-style with a baby blue hair ties holding them in place and a straight bang facing forward with hair strands on each side, a baby blue go-go dress with a white belt around her waist and matching knee-high go-go boots.

Family

The ambassador is the only person existent in Lola's family as her father. He represents many times his personality like making play acts, see the news over a flat-screen plasma TV in a big mansion on the top of a hill of the Bay Area (city) or buying expensive cars or even huge robots. He also owns a personal airplane.

Friendships

Robotboy

They are good friends and she always counts on him to save the day. In "The Homecoming", she kissed him as a farewell to him after Dr. Kamikazi disguised as Professor Moshimo said he needed to return.

Tommy

She captures her eyes more on Tommy, due to being "Sweet" but sometimes selfish when:

  • Not agreeing on doing things together (like not going to the movies that day, and deciding to go another day)
  • Bambi's around and he blushes when looking at her
  • Spending too much time with Robotboy.

She loves Tommy Turnbull, especially in Seasons 1 and 2, which Tommy doesn't seem to realize. Even though she would:

  • Rest on him affectionately
  • Hug him to give him company
  • Kiss him for good luck, to make him feel better about something or for helping her out of a dilemma

Robotgirl

Robotgirl and Lola are best friends, they get along so well. They first met in The Return of Robotgirl, where Lola came to keep Robotgirl company, after Gus hurt her feelings. She taught her how to see through her emotions to help herself, and it worked. They may live together now (just like Tommy and Robotboy).

Gus

While being friends, they don't share a very polite relationship. Like Tommy, Lola can also become mad at Gus whenever he does something uncomfortable, like when he kissed her on her cheek, or when he wanted to smooch with her. In a rare moment, they can become polite to each other, only if they need to realise for Tommy if he doesn't get along with them.

Trivia

  • Disc5

    Lola's character profile in the Robotboy - Special Edition CD-ROM.

    Only Lola's father was shown in the show itself, and it's currently unknown where her mother Titi is. However, she can be found on a special paper sheet from the Robotboy promo site and disc, in the series bible and can also can be found in the background (along with Ambassador Mbola) in a CN City promo where the gang throws balls at the dunk tank to dunk Dr. Kamikazi.
    • In Lola's character profile in the Robotboy - Special Edition CD-ROM, it states that her parents are often jet-setting around the world, which implies her mother's existence.
  • Lola has appeared approximately in 54 episodes in the series.
  • She is the only one of the main characters who hasn't faced Felonious Hexx, nor has she ever been told about him. She has not faced General Yakitori either, but she does mention him on the episode "Gus's Mix", which shows a possibility that Tommy had told her about him off-screen. She has also never confronted Bjorn Bjornson, but she has met him when he was hers, Tommy's, and Gus' classmate for one day in the episode "Brother Bjorn".
  • She has been able to kiss Tommy twice, one for "Kamikazi Nightmare" (although it could be on his cheek) and one on "Valentine's Day" where she kissed him on the lips for being rescued by him and Robotboy.
  • She bears a resemblance to Ami from Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi—another Cartoon Network program—because both have similar hairstyles, and wear similar 1960s fashion.
    • Her hairstyle is—in a way—similar to Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon. Usagi's name is Japanese for "Rabbit", which could be a reference to the Looney Tunes character, Lola Bunny.
  • She also has somewhat similar design to Bubbles from The Powerpuff Girls, another Cartoon Network series. Both wearing sleeveless blue dresses, having similar blue eyes, and their hair tied up in similar ways (Bubbles wearing pigtails, Lola wearing odango buns)
  • In the final two seasons, she doesn't show much love to Tommy as much as she did in the first two seasons, but it hasn't been confirmed if she's still interested in him or not, since she would still help him in many situations and needs of actions.
  • In her character profile in the Robotboy - Special Edition CD-ROM, as well as some pieces of artwork, she's shown with pink lips.
  • Princess Justine wears a similar outfit to Lola's, but mainly pink.
  • Despite of having a dark-coloured complexion, she has blue eyes, which is a rare phenomenon/mutation, it's possible she's mixed race.

International Dubs

Language Voice Actor/Actress
Swedish Therese Reuterswärd
Hebrew Orna Katz
Castilian Spanish Carmen Cervantes
Latin Spanish Rossy Aguirre
Danish Annevig Schelde Ebbe

Vibeke Hastrup (aged up in "Zap! You're Old")

Polish Joanna Pach

Gallery

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