Johnny 5 would eventually return in a TV short named Hot Cars, Cold Facts with his having his own home and a car. But all this takes a back seat to Johnny being manipulated by thieves to help in a bank heist, which shatters Johnny's naiveté and leaves him wanting revenge.Ī third film was in talks afterwards, but was eventually canned due to scripts not meeting expectations. Unfortunately, Ben's business partner Fred Ritter ( Michael McKean) sees bigger opportunities. So, Stephanie sends Number Five, now calling himself Johnny Five, who is a one robot production line. Living out of a truck, Ben now hustles little NOVA-inspired toys in Manhattan, but he's having problems getting production up to speed. The second film ( Short Circuit 2, 1988) centers on Benjamin Jabituya (now inexplicably called Benjamin "Jahrvi"), who helped program Number Five and was blackballed as a result.
Sure enough, Number Five pulls into a nearby town and befriends a Granola Girl named Stephanie Speck ( Ally Sheedy), who mistakes him for an extra-terrestrial and NOVA for an evil government agency.
In a panic, NOVA deploys its private security force to recapture and/or destroy the robot while his original programmers ( Steve Guttenberg and Fisher Stevens) try to stall them. With mobile tank treads, hair-trigger tactile response, dodgy AI and packing serious heat, Five is the grandaddy of corporate liability.
In the first film (1986), Number Five short-circuits during a routine maintenance check and flees his birthplace of NOVA Robotics. It doesn't slot easily into any one genre, instead toying with hard sci-fi, romantic comedy, tragedy, revenge drama, and slapstick (Number Five ignoring his laser cannon to sling mud at people). Dubbed "Number Five" (Tim Blaney), his first instinct as a sentient being is to invert the Killer Robot genre: he doesn't want to kill, and is hunted by the weapons manufacturer that made him. Short Circuit is a pair of films about a bleeding edge military robot who becomes self-aware.
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