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| caption = A close-up of Rob from [[782: Desecration]] | | caption = A close-up of Rob from [[782: Desecration]] | ||
| first_appearance = [[276: Fixed Width]] | | first_appearance = [[276: Fixed Width]] | ||
Revision as of 15:19, 1 February 2013
| Rob | |
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 A close-up of Rob from 782: Desecration | |
| First appearance | 276: Fixed Width |
| Appearances | 13 |
Rob is a stick figure in xkcd. Rob has no identifying features and appears as a Cueball character. He is one of the few of Randall's characters to be given a name. Rob is specifically named in 276: Fixed Width, 632: Suspicion, 647: Scary, 716: Time Machine, 782: Desecration, and 1168: tar. 632: Suspicion was the first comic to confirm Rob by his name in the transcript - in 276: Fixed Width, all readers knew for sure was that his screen name was "rob". Rob also appears in 1102: Fastest-Growing, but only offscreen.
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 to keep the lines the same width. Two years later in 2009 he had a relationship of a few months with what ended up to be a spam bot. He discovered this when he asked the bot to pass a Turing test. 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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