Monty (comic strip)

• Monty Montahue is the protagonist and titular character. He is an odd, optimistic nerd who often comes up with strange inventions and works odd jobs. Monty was introduced to the Robotman strip in the early 1990s. In 1996, it was revealed that Monty was brainwashed of his past life as a government scientist when he invented Robotman. Monty is typically depicted as socially awkward, having poor dress skills and has a prominent nose but no chin. He takes on various (often very nerdy) hobbies and daily occupations, regularly failing because of a mix of goofiness and excessive self-confidence.

First Appearance: Early 1990s [9]

• Fleshy is a skinny, hairless housecat resembling the Pink Panther cartoon character. Fleshy is remarkable for his being the complete opposite of feline attitudes: he is goofy, fearful, unable to catch even the most innocuous of butterflies. Fleshy is frequently shown to be entirely uninterested while in the presence of people, but once alone, he shows his intelligence to be on par with humans. He has a son, who was abducted (and then returned) by the same aliens that took Robotman.

First Appearance: April 2, 2001[9]

• Moondog McHorney is the only true friend of Monty. He's a chronic beer drinker, and his house is one of the biggest centers of entropy in the world.

First Appearance: April 14, 2001[10]

• Pilsner is Moondog's cynical parrot, who often seems to be smarter than his owner, but still hasn't managed to understand that the other parrot he sees in the mirror is himself.

First Appearance: April 23, 2001 [11]

• Dehlia is Monty's casual girlfriend. She works part-time with him in a Halloween pop-up store.

First Appearance:September 19, 2015 [12]

• Professor Xemit is a time traveler from the year 2525 who came to visit the early 21st century and wound up living with Monty for a while and still visits occasionally.

First Appearance: April 9, 2007[13]

• EB3 is a cyborg and a friend of Professor Xemit's. Small in stature and painted white, he frets incessantly about the fact that he has a "P-word" (in his case meaning pancreas, not what you might think it means). Monty often tries to reassure about his pancreas anxiety ("I have one. Doc has one. It's nothing to be ashamed of!"). Recently, he has shown romantic interest in a vacuum cleaner.

First Appearance: October 14, 2008[14]

• Sedgwick Nuttingham III is a privileged child who inhabits a mansion somewhere in Monty's neighborhood. His only companion is his faithful manservant Jarvis, who does anything that Sedgwick desires, from carrying ammunition as Sedgwick hunts Fleshy, to serving as a human target for snowballs, darts etc. Sedgwick's parents do not appear in the strip. The characters have occasional contact with Sedgewick's father, but he is usually away on business and rarely home. Sedgewick's Aunt Polly lives in the mansion and exercises some parental control, but is not seen in the strip. Auntie Nell appears sometimes. The only other characters that Sedgwick interacts with besides Fleshy are various doctors and psychologists. Sedgwick is highly conservative politically, elitist, and convinced of his innate superiority to all others. First Appearance: May 11, 2009[15]
• Jarvis is Sedgwick's aristocratic butler, with a politely sarcastic sense of humour. First Appearance: May 11, 2009[16]

• Robotman the original character for which the comic was originally named. He was portrayed at first as visiting Earth, but was later revealed to have been built by Monty in a secret government project. He originally lived with the Milde Family.
• The Milde Family was the original supporting cast for Robotman during the 1980s. They portrayed an American middle-class family that lived in suburbia. It was made up of Robotman's best friend Oscar who was an insecure boy about 10 years old, his cynical teenage brother Gary, and their parents. When the strip shifted focus away from Robotman, they stopped appearing.
• Bruce; Robotman's evil twin. He too was phased out after Monty's debut.
• Olga; was one of Monty's girlfriends in the mid-90s. She was a personal trainer, large-boned and muscular, in contrast to the out-of-shape Monty.
• Loco Ohno was Monty's on-again/off-again girlfriend, a parody of Yoko Ono. She was cynical and artistic, very different from the optimistic and technology-minded Monty. She was a devoted feminist, often finding men being the root of evil.

First Appearance: April 16, 2001[17] Last Appearance:April 27, 2004[18]

• Gretchen is a coffee waitress on whom Monty has a crush. She, however, does not return the feelings. She's a friend and is currently single.

First Appearance:

• Lorri (also spelled Laurie) was Monty's aggressive girlfriend. She works at a garage.[19]

First Appearance: September 29, 2004[19]

• Chimpy was a talking chimpanzee. Chimpy constantly attempted to demonstrate his superiority to (or at least parity with) human intelligence and culture, but in fact, he was not particularly bright. For example, he attempted to use a circular saw as a hammer. He left the strip for no apparent reason two years after his debut.

First Appearance:July 3, 2001[20] Last Appearance: December 20, 2003 [21]

• Dave-7, formerly known as Mr. Pi, was an alien from Rigel and served as Monty's straight man. Dave-7 lived with Monty. He was very logical and deeply involved in studying sciences such as quantum mechanics. There were occasionally ominous references to his race's plans to take over the earth. Nothing has come of them yet. The closest they ever got was to the moon. Then Chimpy got his hands on Dave-7's fleet-command-device, thinking it was a video game, and annihilated the entire fleet.

First Appearance: April 2, 2001[9] Last Appearance:

• Giggles the Gumdrop-Eating Bear was introduced when Robotman met him in a "coping with cuteness" support group. His relentlessly cheerful personality is embraced by readers and syndicate executives who love him and his tie-in merchandise, but the other characters find him creepy and off-putting.