Marvin

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Marvin, a.k.a. Marvin the Paranoid Android is a robot manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. He is equipped with "Genuine People Personalities" technology which is designed to make him more like a person.

In the 2005 film adaptation of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Marvin is voiced by Alan Rickman, but the costume is worn by Warrick Davis.

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Marvin is a severely depressed robot, so depressed that when he gets bored and talks to other computers, they commit suicide as it was the case for a police ship (which resulted in the asphyxiation of two policemen) and a bridge which killed everyone on it. This is due to the "Genuine People Personality" he received while he was being manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. (Marvin is a personality prototype.) Marvin also dislikes the cheerful doors that were built into the spaceship Heart of Gold.

Marvin's brain is the size of a planet, (in fact because of this, he is eternally bored because nothing takes up his entire mind) enabling him to calculate the probability of just about anything. However, when he bothers to share the probability to those around him, they just ignore him because he usually just ends up depressing them.

The Radiohead song Paranoid Android was named after him.