Philip J. Fry (Fry)

(Born August 14, 1974)

Fry is the main protagonist of the animated sitcom Futurama. Philip was a native to the 20th century who was cryogenically frozen seconds into the year 2000, having fallen in just as 1999 ended (Life in the 20th century). He was revived in 2999 where flying cars, and space travel existed and was the normal life (Life in the 30th & 31st Century). With an excitment to start a new and better life, he subsequently became a Delivery boy for the Planet Express Company. He is the male protagonist of Futurama.

Appearance

Fry has a unique appearanc that makes him stand out from the rest of the crew and charecters. He has fair skin and orange hair with two spikes at the front. His usual attire consists of a red jacket over a white t-shirt, blue jeans, and black sneakers with gray soles and white laces. He's also got a small gut, noticeable through his clothes.

Personality

Philip I is generally very lazy at work, spending most of his time in the office sitting on the couch: watching TV and drinking Slurm. This laziness has caused him to miss at least one delivery mission. He is often immature, which causes him to get into tight spots, usually forcing Leela to rescue him. Despite this, he is a good, sensitive and sentimental man who loves his friends and will usually go to any lengths to save them.

Abilities

Philip I is "special". He is immune to all forms of attack, such as from Brain Slugs as well as the Brainspawn. Usually, this is passed off as a 'Fry is stupid' joke, but it is actually because he lacks the Delta Brainwave. This is because he is his own grandfather, meaning his very existence is a space-time anomaly.

If this was a genetic defect, Yancy Fry, Sr., Yancy Fry, Jr., Philip J. Fry II, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, Cubert J. Farnsworth, and Igner (and many unnamed others) should have inherited this immunity, but it was caused because Philip I is his own grandfather and with the exception of Yancy Sr. are not directly their own ancestors: they are Philip I's double-ancestors. This means that while they are all anomalies, their existence is not additionally cyclical like Philip I's.

Since "The Late Philip J. Fry", Philip I is now even more of an anomaly than before: initially, his existence in the universe was cyclical, but now he is also living in a universe he was not even born into. It is unknown how this may manifest in the future, but this means that as a time-traveling out-of-universe observer, he should theoretically no longer be subject to alterations in the current universe's Time Stream because of further time travel.

Since they traveled with him in The Late Philip J. Fry, Bender and Professor Farnsworth are also out-of-universe observers.

Age

Philip I was biologically 25 at the start of the series but is chronologically 1,025 or 1,026 in the year 3000. In Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles, he is now around 29 before an accident occurs and he is regressed to the age of 14 but after he is re-aged to adult it is presumed he is his original age, though it is speculated he is less than 30 since the Professor didn't use the age detector on them.

By the time of Bender's Big Score, Fry is biologically 33 years old and chronologically 1033 but after traveling back in time and freezing himself again for another 1007.95 years he is about 2040. By the time of Into the Wild Green Yonder, Fry is 35 years old and chronologically around 2042 years old, seeing as "Into the Wild Green Yonder" takes place in 3009. As of the seven season, he is 200 quindecillion years old after "The Late Philip J. Fry" fast forwarding through time and seeing the creation of the universe twice.

Because of these trips through time, Fry is the second oldest member of the crew.

Death

Between Into The Wild Green Yonder and Rebirth, Fry died and Leela replaced him with a look-alike robot. Then, it short-circuited, putting her into a coma. Fry came back to life after his hair and some skin that was left in the machine rebirthed him. Fry also killed his alternate-universe self after traveling so far forward in a time machine that he arrived in a new universe that was 10 feet lower than the previous universe, crushing the alternate-universe Bender, Fry and the Professor.