Editing Marvin the Paranoid Android (section)

{{Short description|Fictional robot in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}}
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{{Infobox character
| name = Marvin the Paranoid Android
| image = Gunnersbury park 24 11 2023 08 (53353623095).jpg
| caption = Costume used in the TV series, on display at Gunnersbury Park Museum in 2023
| first = ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases#Fit the Second|Fit the Second]]'' (1978)
| last = ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases#Fit the Twenty-Sixth|Fit the Twenty-Sixth]]'' (2005)
| series  = [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
| creator = [[Douglas Adams]]
| portrayer = [[David Learner]] (television)<br />[[Warwick Davis]] (film)
| voice = [[Stephen Moore (actor)|Stephen Moore]] (radio and TV)<br />[[Jim Broadbent]] (2018 radio series)<br />[[Alan Rickman]] (film)
| occupation = Servant
| gender = Male design
}}
'''Marvin the Paranoid Android''' is a fictional character in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' series by [[Douglas Adams]]. Marvin is the ship's [[robot]] aboard the [[starship]] ''Heart of Gold''. Originally built as one of many failed [[prototypes]] of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's ''GPP'' (Genuine People Personalities) technology, Marvin is afflicted with severe [[Clinical depression|depression]] and [[boredom]], in part because he has a "brain the size of a planet"<ref>[[q:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Chapter 11|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 11]], ''[[Wikiquote]]''</ref> which he is seldom, if ever, given the chance to use. Instead, the crew request him merely to carry out mundane jobs such as "opening the door". Indeed, the true horror of Marvin's existence is that no task he could be given would occupy even the tiniest fraction of his vast intellect. Marvin claims he is 50,000 times more intelligent than a human<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book |title=The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |page=92}}</ref> (or 30 billion times more intelligent than a live mattress), though this is, if anything, an underestimation. When kidnapped by the bellicose Krikkit robots and tied to the interfaces of their intelligent war computer, Marvin simultaneously manages to plan the entire planet's military strategy, solve "all of the major [[Mathematics|mathematical]], [[Wikt:physical|physical]], [[Chemical substance|chemical]], [[Biology|biological]], [[Sociology|sociological]], [[Philosophy|philosophical]], [[Etymology|etymological]], [[Meteorology|meteorological]] and [[Psychology|psychological]] problems of the Universe, except his own, three times over", and compose several [[Lullaby|lullabies]].