Tommy Turnbull

Tommy Turnbull
First Appearance	Dog-Ra
Last Appearance	Momma's Boy
Voiced by	Lorraine Pilkington
Allies	Robotboy, Gus, Lola, Professor Moshimo, Robotgirl
Enemies	Dr. Kamikazi, Constantine, Donnie Turnbull, Kurt, Stu, Mookie, Special Agent, Protoboy, General Yakitori, Felonious Hexx, Klaus Von Affenkugel, Bjorn Bjornson, Bjornbot, Agent Kalaschnikov
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Family	Dwight Turnbull (father) Debbie Turnbull (mother) Donnie Turnbull (older brother) Grandma Turnbull (paternal grandmother) Unnamed Maternal Grandmother
Hair color	Blond
Age	10-11

Tommy Turnbull is a blond, square-headed boy, and Robotboy's new caretaker. He is smart, responsible, sensitive, likable and acts as a mentor to Robotboy. Tommy tries to teach Robotboy the ways of the world through his eyes. He is the younger son of Debbie Turnbull and Dwight Turnbull, and the little brother of Donnie Turnbull. He is the unofficial leader of the team.

Official synopsis

"10-year-old Tommy Turnbull is a smart, sensitive and likable boy. He’s a best friend and mentor to Robotboy, and tries to teach his robo-buddy the ways of the world as seen through the eyes of a human child."

Friendships

Robotboy

Robotboy is Tommy's best friend, and they have been accompanied in many adventures which improves their attachment. In many episodes he teaches Robotboy about the humanity and behavior, being a very special mentor to him whenever he needs explanations. In the episode "Robot Rebels", Kamikazi broke their friendship with his disguising plan but thanks to Tommy they reunited again. In fact, there are many times in which countless villains have broken their friendship and after an explaining their friendship is attached again. In the episode "Crying Time", Dr. Kamikazi reprogrammed Robotboy to do and obey his bidding, and his bidding was to destroy Tommy. But after Robotboy seeing Tommy cry for mercy he remembers one of his moments with Tommy and doesn't destroy him after all.

Donnie Turnbull

Donnie is the older Brother of Tommy. Donnie usually bullies Tommy. Despite this, Tommy still treats Donnie like a family.

Lola

Lola is a 10 year old confident and smart daughter of a rich African ambassador, and one of Tommy's best friends. She also secretly has a crush on him, which Tommy does not seem to realize. Tommy also gets annoyed whenever someone calls Lola his girlfriend, though he won't accept her true affections towards him.

Gus

Gus is one of Tommy's best friend, even though Gus constantly takes advantage of him and sometimes acts selfish. He won't think twice about stealing from Tommy and abandoning his friend for his own sake. Still somehow they remain friends and Gus does occasionally help the team out of a jam.

Villains

Dr. Kamikazi and Constantine are the main villains the the show, although Donnie (His big brother), Kurt and Special Agent have become a big threat to Robotboy in the series.

Trivia

• The truly main reason why Tommy got to be the keeper for Robotboy is unknown but it is believed that it is for being Professor Moshimo's Number 1 biggest fan of him or could have been chosen randomly coincidentally.
• Along with Robotboy, Tommy has appeared on all the episodes of the series.
• Tommy is the only boy in his family where his name does not start with the letter "D".
• Tommy gets frustrated whenever someone calls Lola his girlfriend, very much like in 'Chowder', when Chowder keeps telling Panini that he's not her boyfriend.
• Donnie can get on Tommy's nerves as shown in Up a Tree.
• His appearance is based on Mac from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends because of his square shaped head and has a nasty big brother like Mac's big brother Terrence.
• Tommy was the first character apart from Professor Moshimo to have mistakenly called Gus "Goose".
• Tommy Turnbull's name maybe a reference/homage to Timmy Turner from The Fairly OddParents.
• Tommy has been able to meet his idol The Human Fist twice.
• In Nursing a Grudge, Felonious Hexx had called Tommy "Tommy Turntable" upon meeting him.
• He is female in the Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Kazakh and Kyrgyz dubs of the series.

Gallery

Oh, Snap!

Taking Robotboy in my backpack.

Always bring extra batteries just in case.

Best friends!

This is fast as heck!

Let me think.

Profile

Tommy's character profile from Robotboy - Special Edition CD-ROM

Gus, Robotboy and Tommy waiting for Robot Girl

Robotboy and Tommy playing video games

Tommy fighting in his superactive mode (Season 3, Automatommy)

Upgrading Robotboy

Tommy being kidnapped by Dr. Kamikazi

Seeing something in the skies

Watching television with Robotboy

Are you interested in cooking with insects?

Tommy and his friends: Gus, Lola and Robotboy

Tommy's skeleton (Season 1, Sweet revenge)