Robo-Vac

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This article is about the character Robo-Vac. For the eponymous storyline, see Robo-Vac (storyline).

Robo-Vac is a fictional superhero, created by Damond Villes. Formerly a Chicago Police detective named Tom Hoover, he was transformed by a lightning bolt into a half-man-half-vacuum cleaner dedicated to the cause of justice.

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The Comics

Ordered to pursue the Dust Bunny, a clinically insane criminal in a rabbit suit, Tom Hoover took a break to vacuum his apartment during a lightning storm. Instead of killing him, the lightning bolt he was hit by, as comic-book-based lightning tends to do, fused him with his vacuum cleaner, transforming him into the mighty Robo-Vac. After dedicating his new existence to the "purging of crime, hatred, and the Spice Girls" (he was apparently successful with the last one), he went on to pursue and apprehend the Dust Bunny.

Later on, he, Scooby-Doo, and Daphne would free Bob Denver from the Enviro-mental (secretly Big Brother in disguise). Immediately afterward, nuns would arm-wrestle the Statue of Liberty. Yeah. The writer started taking narcotics during that issue.

There was also a Clone Saga at some point in time.

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The Movie

Rumblings of a Robo-Vac movie were first heard on the Internet in 2000.

In January of 2004, the Robo-Vac movie premiered, starring Denzel Washington. Robo-Vac was almost entirely CGI, disappointing some fans who expected to see a more "real-looking" hero made with traditional costume and prop work.

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