Lord Nibbler

Lord Nibbler is a member of a proud and ancient race, the Nibblonians. He is over a thousand years old, and was responsible for pushing Fry into the cryogenic tube and sending him to the year 3000. Nibbler was stationed on Vergon 6 until Leela discovered him there and instantly fell for his cuteness. Despite the fact that he is now Nibblonian Ambassador on Earth, he hides his intelligence and poses as Leela's pet, so as to be close to Fry. Nibblers purpose is to watch over Fry, who is the Nibblonian's "Mighty One", as well as "The Other", believed to be Leela. Nibbler is not his true name, for this one would take too long to pronounce properly, or so he claims. While pretending to be Leela's pet he generally wears only a red cape, small yellow shoes and diapers. In Bender's Big Score he revealed his true nature to the crew during a failed attempt to avert disaster and on seeing the formation of a tear in the time-space continuum he escaped the universe by swallowing himself. He returned in Bender's Game after Yivo was gone, but how it is unknown. He is kidnapped by Mom's sons and inprisoned in Mom's dark matter farm with hundreds of other Nibblonians.

Trivia

 * If you look closely, you can see Nibbler's shadow under Fry's chair when Fry falls into the tube. (1ACV01)
 * In 2ACV16, when Fry misses the freezer by an inch in the alternate future the What-If Machine shows, Nibbler's shadow is gone, though this may be why Fry doesn't go to the future.
 * However, in 4ACV10, when Fry tries to cross Nibbler and eventually decides to let himself be sent to the future after all, there are two shadows under the desk - those of Nibbler and Fry (seen earlier in 4ACV07).
 * Nibbler's spaceship, parked inside a container in the Planet Express building's neighbourhood, is just big enough to accept him and an adult human in extremely cramped conditions - if Nibbler scootches up his seat, that is.
 * Nibbler's right fang broke in "I Second that Emotion" when he chewed at Bender's butt, it was replaced by a tooth of the veterinarian that he lost while trying to persuade a jaguar to let go of one of his teeth.
 * Supposedly the rings on his tooth indicated his age. This, at least in human time, is disproved, as he is over 1,000 years old, and there were only 5 rings.
 * The Dark Matter he excretes was used to fuel the Planet Express Ship.
 * He told Fry he would help him win Leela's heart, but apparently has done nothing to do so. However, this may very well be unnecessary now.
 * He comes in the Toynami action figure line as an one of the Professor's accessories.

Appearances

 * (as a shadow)