Les personnages du Guide de l'auto-stoppeur de la galaxie

The character I chose is called Marvin. It’s the hero of The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a comedy science fiction "trilogy" written by Douglas Adam. The first book was published in 1978. Marvin is a fictional character. It’s a robot, aboard the starship Heart of Gold. He is servant, on this spaceship.

Marvin is endowed of the GPP (Genuine People Personalities), so he has human’s feelings. This GPP causes to him some problems: Marvin is afflicted with severe depression and boredom, he is also paranoiac and it’s a person with suicidal tendencies ; he is a little annoying for the other characters, who don’t like him very well. He has a brain the size of a planet. He has seldom, if ever, the chance to use it. Indeed, the true horror of Marvin's existence is that no task he could be given would occupy even the tiniest fraction of his vast intellect.

Marvin claims he is 50,000 times more intelligent than a human. He has some enemies: the automatic’s doors of the cybernetics of Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky; or Krikket white’s robots. But he also has some friends: Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford Perfect, Trillian, Arthur Dent, and most of the characters. Marvin helped, repeatedly, the heroes in their events, in particular by killing two policemen: Indeed, he provoked the suicide of the computer of the spaceship which kept alive these two policemen, by exposing his vision of the life and the existence...

Marvin was removed by Krikket’s white robots, its enemies. He was found almost dead by Arthur (the hapless protagonist) and Fenchurch (another character) on a small planet. He died happy. He invented a lullaby: Now the world has gone to bed

Darkness won't engulf my head

I can see by infra-red

How I hate the night

Now I lay me down to sleep

Try to count electric sheep

Sweet dream wishes you can keep

How I hate the night

The line "try to count electric sheep" is a reference to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, another comedy science fiction inspired the movie Blade Runner.

Radiohead makes a reference to Marvin by the title of the song Paranoid Android.

I like Marvin, because he’s very fun and charming. We feel full of pain for him. He is nice and he help the other characters.

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