| Not to be confused with Bob Bobowski. |
| “ |
I like corn |
” | —Rob the Scarecrow | ||
Robert P. Umpkin,[1] known commonly as Rob the Scarecrow, is a recurring-turned-minor character in the SMG4 series.
Rob is Steve's corn-obsessed scarecrow who includes corn in a lot of things he says and does. During The YouTube Arc, Rob joined the Anti-Cast as Bob Bobowski's doppelganger and was sent by SMG3 to Bob's debut in SM64 Bloopers: Can Ganondorf come out to play? to prevent Mario from meeting Bob. In the finale of the arc, he and the rest of the Anti-Cast were motivated by SMG4's Gang to turn against SMG3, and after Rob's former leader was banished to the Internet Graveyard, he became a companion of the gang.
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Appearance[]
Rob is a scarecrow with a straw orange hat, his eyes are shaped like Bob's eyes, and his hands are forks tied to wooden arms. When he first met Mario and his friends in SMG4: 🌽🌽🌽🌽𝓒𝓸𝓻𝓷🌽🌽🌽🌽, his head was retracted into his body, making his pumpkin body appear like it was his face until he revealed his eyes after he began trusting the group. He does this again in SMG4: Deleted, although this time he revealed his face with the intention of scaring Mario and Luigi.
Personality[]
Rob is a corn-obsessed scarecrow. It was revealed that a radio was implemented to him by Steve to be able to speak with predetermined lines about corn. Steve doesn't want to give Rob any voice lines not related to corn. However, as of SMG4: I Can't Believe It's Not SMG4!, it is revealed that Rob has limited control over what he says, and he is shown to be obsessed with corn in SMG4: Deleted. He seemed to be unable to say anything that doesn't have the word "corn" in it, as shown in SMG4: Mario VS Youtube with "I'm corning for the gaming room." This was proven false in SMG4: Deleted when he says "Are you really contesting me in my domain?". It seems that in more recent bloopers, Rob can actually speak instead of relying on his radio.
Compared to his counterpart Bob, he is shown to be more empathetic, as he is reluctant to commit a hit and run. Incidentally, he also speaks much more quietly.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powerlevel: C[]
- Lord of Corn: Rob can manipulate large masses of corn, giving him the likeness of a monster. This form is only used to frighten people off, however.
- Iron Golem Compatibility: Thanks to his pumpkin body, he can be turned into an Iron Golem. Sadly, his head comes right off if you make him fall over.
Trivia[]
- The text-to-speech program used for Rob's dialogue is from text2speech.org.
- Despite having a obsession with corn, he is shown to mention "corn" significantly less in later videos such as War Of The Fat Italians 2020. This is especially evident in SMG4: Mario's Corn Trip, where most of Rob's lines are regular sentences where Corn isn’t mentioned.
- When he tried to speak without using his radio in SMG4: 🌽🌽🌽🌽𝓒𝓸𝓻𝓷🌽🌽🌽🌽, he made squeaking noises instead. This probably doesn't happen anymore.
- Although Rob was likely created by Steve, it was Bob who named him.
- Curiously enough, both names - Bob and Rob - are derived from the same name, Robert.
- According to Rob in S̶M̶G̶4̶: I Can't Believe It's Not SMG4!, Rob’s "nuts" is quite literally corn however, it remains to be seen if he still has nuts after Bob chopped them off with his blades.
- He wishes he had legs.
- He can merge with Bob to become an extremely powerful top-like weapon that can spin at high speeds. However, if ONE of them gets distracted, they will both lose all momentum.
- Rob was ranked by Luke & James as the most powerful character in the "C-Tier" section in "SMG4 Character Powerlevels" tier list during the 5,100,000 subscriber livestream.
- In SMG4: Food Wars, he is revealed to love candy corn, to the point of performing "demonetization worthy actions".
- Rob has a slightly similar appearance to the Grass/Ghost type Pokémon Pumpkaboo and its evolved form Gourgeist.
- Like Mario, Rob despises any vegetables (except corn, any type of corn, even candy corn).
- Like Mario, Meggy, & Saiko he has a favorite food and would do anything for it (even attempt to humping it).
- He sometimes sees Steve as his father. Unfortunately, Steve doesn't see it in the same way.
- In Hobo Bros: Can Akinator Guess Our NEW SMG4 characters? Rob is alluded to being non-binary or perhaps agender.
GMOD models[]
References[]
- ↑ In SMG4: SMG4 NEWS, at 8:13, the headline name Rob as « Robert P. Umpkin ».