Rob - Revision history

FaviFake at 15:01, 16 September 2025

2025-09-16T15:01:54Z

82.132.244.228: 14: Copyright (note space!) contains a Cueball, but not obviously a Rob Cueball.

2025-08-27T05:16:01Z

14: Copyright (note space!) contains a Cueball, but not obviously a Rob Cueball.

Me a meep sheep at 00:30, 27 August 2025

2025-08-27T00:30:56Z

Me a meep sheep at 00:29, 27 August 2025

2025-08-27T00:29:30Z

FaviFake at 22:41, 25 April 2025

2025-04-25T22:41:33Z

FaviFake at 17:12, 7 April 2025

2025-04-07T17:12:33Z

Eunakria: Revert [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Rob&oldid=87248 this] ancient edit. The scare quotes are unnecessary and the subtext is not explained or apparent. Feel free to add them back with explanation

2024-10-09T14:10:47Z

Revert [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Rob&oldid=87248 this] ancient edit. The scare quotes are unnecessary and the subtext is not explained or apparent. Feel free to add them back with explanation

172.70.85.167: Undo revision 345939 by 172.70.92.182 (talk) That's not how to do that, if indeed everyone agreed...

2024-07-10T03:41:29Z

Undo revision 345939 by 172.70.92.182 (talk) That's not how to do that, if indeed everyone agreed...

172.70.92.182 at 02:40, 10 July 2024

2024-07-10T02:40:14Z

FaviFake: added Category:Minor characters using HotCat

2023-08-24T08:47:33Z

added Category:Minor characters using HotCat

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 :''For the generic Rob, see [[Cueball]].''</noinclude>
-'''Rob''' is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. Rob has no identifying features and is a [[Cueball]]. In most cases, he seems to represent the same character, usually being portrayed as [[Black Hat]]'s roommate. He is one of the few of Randall's characters to be given a name. In [[276: Fixed Width]], his screen name appears as "rob", and in [[723: Seismic Waves]] he is posting on the internet as "robm163". In [[838: Incident]] his username appears as "robm". In [[1783: Emails]], Cueball replies to his email in the title text. After the Emails comic, Rob is not mentioned for 800 comics before the name is used in [[2584: Headline Words]]. Cueball is also in this comic, but it seems like Cueball represents Randall rather than Rob in the comic.
+'''Rob''' is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. Rob has no identifying features and is a [[Cueball]]. In most cases, he seems to represent the same character, usually being portrayed as [[Black Hat]]'s roommate. He is one of the few of Randall's characters to be given a name. In [[276: Fixed Width]], his screen name appears as "rob", and in [[723: Seismic Waves]] he is posting on the internet as "robm163". In [[838: Incident]] his username appears as "robm". In [[1783: Emails]], Cueball replies to his email in the title text. After the Emails comic, Rob is not mentioned for 800 comics before the name is used in [[2584: Headline Words]], which reveals that Randall and Rob are different people.
 ==Name==

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 In [[1102: Fastest-Growing]] it seems that Rob is [[Black Hat|Black Hat's]] roommate. In fact, it's possible that within the xkcd continuity, every time we see Black Hat's roommate, it's Rob. But with no name mentioned it is not enough to list these comics as comics featuring Rob.
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 In [[1102: Fastest-Growing]] it seems that Rob is [[Black Hat|Black Hat's]] roommate. In fact, it's possible that within the xkcd continuity, every time we see Black Hat's roommate, it's Rob. But with no name mentioned it is not enough to list these comics as comics featuring Rob.
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 {{incomplete|Summarise the discussions that led to the name used in this wiki, like we did for [[Cutie]], [[Cueball]], [[Danish]], etc.}}
 The name for this character was discussed at length. See the following [[explain xkcd:Community portal|Community portal]] topics:
-* [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals#Cueball/Rob|Proposals § Cueball/Rob]]
+* [[explain xkcd talk:Community portal/Proposals#Cueball/Rob|Proposals § Cueball/Rob]]
-* [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals#Merge Cueball & Rob|Proposals § Merge Cueball & Rob]]
+* [[explain xkcd talk:Community portal/Proposals#Merge Cueball & Rob|Proposals § Merge Cueball & Rob]]
 * [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals#Re-proposing merging Cueball and Rob|Proposals § Re-proposing merging Cueball and Rob]]
 * [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals#New character category for blonde woman news reporter (from 1699)|Proposals § New character category for blonde woman news reporter (from 1699)]]

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 ==Relationships==
-Rob had a relationship with a "woman" known as <emily> on IM. This ended tragically in [[276: Fixed Width]] when he told her the relationship was only for sex while he wasn't really paying attention to what he was writing; he just wanted their chat responses to line up nicely on the screen. Two years later, in 2009, he had a relationship of a few months with what ended up being a spam bot. He discovered this when he asked the bot to pass what it calls a VK test, a reference to the world of Blade Runner, where they use a Voight-Kampff (VK) test to help determine if someone is a replicant. This happened in [[632: Suspicion]].
+Rob had a relationship with a woman known as <emily> on IM. This ended tragically in [[276: Fixed Width]] when he told her the relationship was only for sex while he wasn't really paying attention to what he was writing; he just wanted their chat responses to line up nicely on the screen. Two years later, in 2009, he had a relationship of a few months with what ended up being a spam bot. He discovered this when he asked the bot to pass what it calls a VK test, a reference to the world of Blade Runner, where they use a Voight-Kampff (VK) test to help determine if someone is a replicant. This happened in [[632: Suspicion]].
 In [[647: Scary]] we find that he has a nephew born after September 11, 2001, but by 2009 he was old enough to have discussions with Rob about it.

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