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| “ | I'm a computer! I'm a computer-y guy! Everything made out of buttons and wires! | „ |
| ~ Colin introducing himself. |
| “ | DON'T TOUCH MEEEEEEEEEEEEE! | „ |
| ~ Colin's breakdown after Red Guy hits him. |
Colin the Computer is the main antagonist of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4 and a minor character in the television series.
Unlike the other antagonists, Colin is arrogant and only acts as if he is teaching the protagonists. At first, it was presumed that he was successful in the exile of the Red Guy, but it was later discovered that he made it out of the show and into the real world, thus making Colin the most dangerous teacher.
He was voiced by Joseph "Joe" Pelling, who is one of the co-creators of the series.
Design[]
Colin is a normal-sized computer puppet with square eyes and a square mouth near the bottom of his monitor. His screen is dark and rectangular, showing an image of a wrench, a nut, and a screw, though it frequently changes throughout the episode. His left hand appears to be able to change into a pointer or an hourglass.
When he gets angry, red jagged lines run over his eyes, his pupils turn green, his screen flashes green light, green fluid runs out of his eyes and mouth and his hands turn into red wires shaped like human hands. When inside the digital world, Colin's appearance notably changes. He gains legs made from computer wires, his keyboard becomes his torso, and he has a computer mouse for each foot.
In the episode "Friendship" of the television series, it's also seen that he's able to stretch his own face/monitor's width at will.
History[]
Web series[]
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4[]
The video begins with Red Guy, Duck Puppet and Yellow Puppet playing a card game until eventually Red Guy gets the question, "What is the biggest object in the world"?
This time the puppets expect something random to happen and glare at Gilbert the Globe, which eventually gains eyes and a smile. However, before he can talk, Colin suddenly appears and starts singing about himself and his intelligence, constantly interrupting the puppets. He then tries to get information from them, ignoring Red Guy's question about what the biggest object in the world is.
Annoyed by Colin ignoring him, Red Guy slaps him on his keyboard, causing Colin to grow blood-shot eyes and yell "DON'T TOUCH MEEEE!!!" The video then starts glitching, showing flashing images of the puppets and terrified screaming. Eventually, the video resumes in a much more digital world. They start talking about what's real and what's not in the "real" world, as all of them are in the digital world. Soon, the digital world starts glitching endlessly in loop, showing the puppets in a more horrific state. Stressed out by the constant looping, Red Guy chooses the real world over the digital world. He steps into the real world and sees crude renditions of him and the other puppets in what appears to be the set of the first video. His head suddenly explodes into glitter, ending the video.
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 6[]
Colin briefly appeared in the sixth episode, during the part where the Red Guy was tampering with the machine, causing Tony the Talking Clock to morph into Colin. Colin appears in his digitized form, and his presence also forces the Yellow Guy into his digital form as well. Colin starts singing the song about his digital world, ignoring the Yellow Guy's horrified screams, but later morphs into Shrignold.
Television series[]
Friendships[]
In the new television series, he is now friends with the trio and acts as their personal computer. He arrives annually for the groups "computer day" and at the end of the episode he gives them unlimited access to the internet.
Symbolism[]
Colin obviously symbolizes the internet itself; focusing on how easy it is to get distracted and sidetracked when you go to it for an answer. He reflects how people today are more likely to turn to the internet for information rather than a book, or a globe.
Red Guy mentions that the gang already has a laptop, which Colin dismisses. This could be seen as a representation of competitive brands (similar to the Mac vs. PC ads) and their aggressive marketing. Colin collects personal information on the puppets, much like Facebook and other social media sites due to sell to advertisers, and during the line "Help you to find something you're wanting to find" he points to an advertisement on a newspaper, symbolizing how searching something on the internet often leads to being directed to advertisements, and ads taking up the top space on a Google search.
The "three things to do" in the digital world might symbolize the following:
- The charts that Yellow Guy sees represent educational websites like Wikipedia and others. The charts are eventually replaced with an oblong, then nothing at all, symbolizing how easy it is to get sucked into believing false information.
- The "digital style" represents shopping sites like eBay and Amazon, or alternately sites where people show off their style to one another such as Facebook. Duck's metamorphosis can be seen as watching someone you know post unflattering information of themselves (such as drunk selfies or hateful messages)
- "Digital dancing" represents fun, time-wasting websites. Eventually, the digital dancing, the least productive of the three, overtakes the other two, and the puppets get trapped in it.
Gallery[]
Images[]
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- Colin, alongside Tony the Talking Clock and The Lamp, are the only DHMIS villains from the original series to make a reappearance as a non-threat to the trio in the TV series.
- Colin demonstrates the largest vocal range of any character in the series.
- Much like Duck Guy, his voice is done in auto-tune.
- In DHMIS 4, he seems to mention oats a lot. An example is when he uses the printer to print a picture, he prints a bowl and spoon with oats in them with the text saying "Oats"! Another example is near the end, with a hidden dancing oats box seen with the digital clones.
- It's implied that Colin was stealing the gang's information so that it could be used for the film set in the final scene. Given how hasty he was with collecting their information, this may explain why the end result looked so crude.
External Link[]
- Colin on the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared Wiki.
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