Boris (Robot Gladiators)
Boris was a robot Clown who became a gladiator in Freddie Maxwell's destructertainment.
Biography
Boris along with all other Earth robots of his generation owed his advancement to Alistair Gryffen, before he and his thought matrix which allowed a robot to think for itself came along robots were nothing more than windup toys but they moved on thanks to him. He was distingushed from his partner Chuckles in that he wore a red ascot and had a black dot with a B on his forehead. Also unlike him he couldn't speak, he communicated to Chuckles with a clown honker. Boris along with Chuckles used to be clowns at the circus, Balloons were his act and kids loved it. However they were taken by Freddie Maxwell and became gladiators to fight in Crashclub, Freddie considered Boris one of his best and a real contender. When K9 Mark 2 went undercover to take Freddie down, his crate was taken to the gladiator pens. Chuckles introduced himself and Boris to K9. They were soon met by the champion, Pain-Maker who the clowns feared. Chuckles and Boris were excited K9 was their new roommate and showm him around the place where the walls were the only interesting feature. K9 observed Boris blow up a balloon, let the air out and then repeat it over and over again. He asked Chuckles why he kept doing it saying it's illogical, Chuckles told him it seemed perfectly logical to him. K9 asked what would he know about logic, explain that Balloons were his act in the circus.. Freddie then called Boris onto the ring on the intercom, to face the Pain-Maker. The Pain-Maker tried to strike Boris but he evaded the attacks using his acrobatic moves, however he couldn't hold out forever and was unfortanutely soon destroyed by the Pain-Maker. Freddie was shocked by this saying. When Thorne was revealed to be behind the scheme and made K9 face the Pain-Maker. He had the Pain-Maker flash Boris' ascot to taunt K9 into destroying the Pain-Maker as he was laced with the explosive solarmite so Thorne could take K9's Regeneration circuit. K9 was angered but he refused to fire, he managed to escape the Pain-Maker's self-destruction. Freddie was put out of business and Crashclub was closed down. Boris was soon rebuilt with a new pink ascot and a honker. He and Chuckles called K9 to thank him for shutting down Crashclub and Chuckles cheerfully informed K9 that he and Boris were going back to the Circus. (K9TV: Robot Gladiators)
