"No. Plus, repressed emotional baggage was only worth two points on the rubric. And is it supposed to be that color?"
―The Teacher, responding to Uzi's question about the class project.
Uzi's Teacher (most commonly referred to as Teacher) is a recurring minor character in Murder Drones.
He is the teacher of Uzi's class, teaching students such as Thad, Lizzy, Doll, Rebecca, and Braidon.
Physical Appearance[]
He is a Worker Drone with neon orange eyes, wearing a green hardhat with a pair of round glasses. His attire consists of a green diagonally striped vest with a black undersuit with a matching tie.
Camp Outfit[]
For his camp outfit, he wears a straw hat and a sky-blue colored jacket with a floral pattern over his vest, despite the freezing conditions of Copper 9.
Personality[]
Unlike the vast majority of Worker Drones who are typically seen as cowards in life-or-death situations, he surprisingly is one of the few Worker Drones to manifest an apathetic mindset regardless of any circumstances. This is supported by how he treats his responsibility as a teacher where he often plays solitaire rather than engage with his students and disregards the multitude of Uzi's outbursts during class where he shows an amount of insouciance rather than annoyance with how she acts. This apathy may be feigned, however, as at the very end of Episode 8 he can be seen expressing frustration towards Uzi's behavior.
Even when the rest of the class becomes concerned with their safety, he chooses to care less about anyone's well-being which is further expressed by his lack of concern after organizing a trip to Camp 98.7 where he doesn't mind the Disassembly Drones killing off his students; after the trip ended when he noticed that some of them were missing, he nonchalantly accepted V's attempt to take the blame for the missing campers despite Uzi (under Absolute Solver's influence) being the one responsible for them going missing, not caring about what happened to them (even though the latter expressed remorse and disgust towards her actions).
Biography[]
Season 1[]
PILOT[]
He first appears when Uzi gives her presentation on her railgun. While she shows it off, scaring the other students, he displays complete uninterest and instead points out that the homework was a word problem on buying watermelons. She asks if her magnetically amplified photon converger doesn't count, and he replies with a blunt "no", adding that repressed emotional baggage was only worth two points in the rubric. He then asks if Uzi's railgun is supposed to be red, before it explodes in the classroom.
Heartbeat[]
When Khan Doorman attends the parent-teacher conference without Uzi, the teacher tells him that she's been absent. Khan brushes it off, stating that she grounded herself. When he's about to tell Khan of Uzi's behavior, Khan assumes that she's precocious, popular with her peers, and has a supernatural understanding of doors, to which the teacher responds with disappointment before telling that she's the complete opposite of Khan's vision of her, while also going on to state further that she may have damaged programming. Khan, surprised, questions if Uzi's behavior was of his doing, and soon snaps at the teacher for thinking that her programming is damaged, pointing out that she's bored in his class and that her classmates suck. He also threatens to install a door on the teacher's face, to which the teacher is completely unfazed, as he's playing solitaire in his visors.
The Promening[]
Some time before prom, Khan asks the teacher to help Uzi find a date for the prom, which resulted in them asking Lizzy and Doll to help.
Later, he attends the prom, albeit without changing his attire. Thad breakdances to show off to him, though he merely displays indifference as he drinks from his flask, hinting he might abuse the Drone equivalent to get through situations like this. When V crashes the prom, he decides he had enough and leaves the gym.
Cabin Fever[]
In between the prom and current events, Uzi asks if she can go to Camp 98.7 by herself. Unfortunately, the class failed a test some days before, so the teacher uses this as an excuse to punish the students for failing the test. He leaves the class under the supervision of N and V, who are camp counselors, going to the rooftop of a cabin to relax.
After the field trip, he asks V about the students who have gone missing, and V lies by saying that she ate all of them since she was hungry. Uncaring, the teacher tells V to calm down, as he was just asking a question.
Absolute End[]
At the beginning of the episode, the Teacher is seen grading Uzi's paper. He looks at everything in his classroom float and then fall back down with no response or reaction. He then goes outside only to see the planet's exposed core. One of the Solver's tentacles that came from the core slap him in the face and the Teacher again doesn't respond.
Several scenes later, the Teacher climbs up to take a peak of what Khan is doing, and then climbs back down. Then, at Uzi's class presentation, the Teacher is seen hitting his head against his own desk.
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Trivia[]
- In Heartbeat, he was shown to be able to play Solitaire (or some other single-player card game) in his mind on his visor.
- On the same screen, we can see that his Worker Drone ID (shown as WDID) is #2342.
- In Dead End, Uzi's WDID suggests that his actual name could be #2342.[1]
- On the same screen, we can see that his Worker Drone ID (shown as WDID) is #2342.
- He is possibly Lizzy's father due to her mentioning that her father has enough power to dock people's grades as stated in The Promening, though this is not confirmed yet.
- From a common misconception in the credits of the Pilot, the Teacher's name was thought to be "Riley". This character, however, was confirmed to be one of Uzi's classmates.
- He is one of the few Worker Drones to not change attire during The Promening.
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