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Nora Wakeman

Dr. Noreen "Nora" Wakeman is the deuteragonist of My Life as a Teenage Robot (2002-2006).

She is a brilliant scientist specializing in robotics, Jenny's mother, and creator of the XJ series.

Background

It is shown in the episode Armaggedroid (2004) that Dr. Nora Wakeman used to work for Skyway Patrol in "The First Intergalactic War", and was on many magazine covers, venerated as a renowned scientist. After Armaggedroid was defeated, she started the XJ series.

Appearance

Dr. Wakeman appeared in the pilot My Neighbor Was A Teenage Robot (1998) as an aged woman with styled blonde-gray hair, wearing clear stylized glasses with a white button-down lab coat and turtleneck.

In the 2002 series, her appearance is amended to her characteristic white updo, pointed nose, red lab goggles, black turtleneck, and yellow button-down lab coat with matching heels.

Personality

Dr. Nora Wakeman comes off as a lively and exciteable woman, devoted to her robotics science and defending Earth from intergalactic terror. She is typically seen building gadgets, reading science articles and newspapers, drafting plans, or testing Jenny's robotic abilities. When in danger, she's usually the first to jump into action, standing her ground without hesitation.

Relationships

Jenny

Nora has always treated Jenny more like an actual daughter instead of simply a robot she invented. She serves as a typical loving mother to Jenny, concerned for her safety and well-being, but often calling at inopportune times for Jenny to save the Earth, and inadvertently embarrassing her in front of her friends. Initially, Wakeman kept XJ-9's existence a secret, insisting that the young robot remain in her room while not defending the planet. But Jenny's loneliness and misery soon prompted Wakeman to change her mind. As a result, she enrolled Jenny in high school to learn alongside other teens and make friends.

As the series progressed, Nora treated Jenny more and more like a normal teenager (while still acknowledging that Jenny is technically robot and not a human).

Brad and Tuck

Dr. Wakeman is often rather annoyed with Jenny's next-door friends for constantly distracting her from her mission as a superhero. Nonetheless, she respects Brad and Tuck and understands that they are close and dear friends of her daughter, and approves of her socializing and adventuring with them on a regular basis as long as she doesn't abandon her duties.

Sheldon

Dr. Wakeman and Sheldon both care deeply about Jenny, and have used their advanced scientific talents to assist her in fighting villains, especially the Cluster. They worked together to create a portal device in Escape from Cluster Prime (2005) in order to recsue Jenny.

In Attack of the 5½ Ft. Geek (2002), Wakeman sees Sheldon and tells Jenny that she approves of her "dating" Sheldon.

In Good Old Sheldon (2005), an aged Sheldon flirts with Dr. Wakeman, developing a crush on her.

Marty Rossian

A boyfriend of Dr. Wakeman who appeared in Mama Drama (2005). Wakeman liked Marty very much and enjoyed her dates with him, but after Jenny misunderstood his eccentric personality and convinced her that he was an evil psychopathic villain with intentions to harm her, she allowed Jenny to attack him. It turned out that Marty wasn't evil at all; insulted by Jenny and her mother's false and paranoid accusations, he deems Nora's family "too creepy" for him, and breaks up with her.

Phineas Mogg

Dr. Wakeman's rival, a fellow scientist who is often competing with her to create better inventions and robots. Wakeman has a rather bitter rivalry with Mogg, and often accuses him of stealing her inventions.

Appearances

Season 1 (2002)

# Title Year
1 It Came From Next Door 2002
2 Pest Control 2002
3 Raggedy Android 2002
4 Class Action 2002
5 Attack of the 5½ Ft. Geek 2002
7 Ear No Evil 2002
8 Unlicensed Flying Object 2002
9 Party Machine 2002
10 Speak No Evil 2002
11 See No Evil 2002
13 The Return of Raggedy Android 2002
15 Sibling Tsunami 2002
16 I Was a Preschool Dropout 2002
17 Hostile Makeover 2002
19 Dressed To Kill 2002
21 Daydream Believer 2002
22 This Time With Feeling 2002
24 Tradeshow Showdown 2002
25 The Wonderful World of Wizzly 2002
26 Call Hating 2002

Season 2 (2004-05)

# Title Year
27 Victim of Fashion 2004
29 Mind Over Matter 2004
30 Future Shock 2004
31 Humiliation 101 2004
32 Love 'Em or Leash 'Em 2004
34 A Robot For All Seasons 2004
35 Pajama Party Prankapalooza 2004
36 Sister Sledgehammer 2004
37 Dancing With My Shell 2004
38 Around the World in Eighty Pieces 2004
39 Armagedroid 2004
40 Killgore 2004
41 A Pain In My Sidekick 2004
42 Crash Pad Crash 2004
43 Designing Women 2004
46 Mama Drama 2005
47 Toying With Jenny 2005
48 Teenage Mutant Ninja Troubles 2005
49 Escape from Cluster Prime 2005

Season 3 (2005-06)

# Title Year
51 There's No Place Like Home School 2005
55 Never Say Uncle 2005
56 A Spoonful of Mayhem 2005
58 Girl of Steal 2005
59 Mist Opportunities 2005
62 Teen Idol 2005
63 Good Old Sheldon 2005
64 Infectious Personality 2006
68 Puppet Bride 2006
71 Labor Day 2006
72 Voyage to the Planet of the Bikers 2006
75 Turncoats 2006

Foreign voice actors

  • Spanish (Latin America):Edilú Martínez
  • France:Claude Chantal
  • German:Liane Rudolph
  • Polish:Małgorzata Kaczmarska
  • Russian:Lyudmila Ilyina
  • Portuguese (Brazil):Melise Maia

Trivia

  • Wakeman has a New Ager sister named Wisteria Wakeman, gifted with an ability to manipulate plants, and a nephew named Glenn that happens to be a swamp creature.
  • Wakeman's physical age is unknown seeing as she uses the youth machine to skim off a year or two every now and then.
  • People outside of the scientific-world (mostly Jenny's friends and schoolmates) often call her "Mrs." Wakeman rather than "Miss" or "Dr." Wakeman.
    • As far as anyone (including Jenny herself) knows, Nora presumably has never been married. Though in the episode Mama Drama (2005), she revealed that she has had many boyfriends (including Marty Rossian).

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