- "Whoa, whoa, whoa! What's a SAR?"
- "Second Alien Robot."
- - John, then Will, Penny and Judy in unison[1]
SAR (Second Alien Robot) is the name given by the Robinson Family to the robot that attacked Will's Robot on the Jupiter 2. He is the overarching main antagonist of the series.
History[]
""Kill all masters. Now kill heart."
- - SAR to Will Robinson, "Final Transmission"
Like all the other Robots, SAR was built by an alien race currently known as the Robot Builders. It is unknown when he was built and his full origin. Later, for reasons unknown, he wiped out their creators by activating an alien engine on the Shattered Planet. In 2046, he and at least one other robot possibly the THAR like Robot took their Spaceship to the Unknown System where the dying Unknown Planet was, likely because of an attempt to rescue Robot.
SAR found Robot floating in space and both attempted to destroy the Jupiter 2 and take the Alien Engine but Robot had been changed because of Will. SAR threatened to kill Will but Robot saved him then sacrificed himself to fight SAR and ejected into space and impacted on the Resolute, continuing to fight. The colonists evacuated to the amber planet and the two eventually landed there as well. SAR trapped Will's Robot there and waited for Will Robinson to follow him there. When Will discovered its true identity, it attacked Will and Ben Adler crushed it with his mobile EMF device. Despite this, he survived, as it is later revealed other robots moved one of his internal wires and placed in a new robot body for him to use, angrily declaring: "Find Will Robinson."
He appears to be the leader of the Robots or at the very least, a high-ranking member. SAR is revealed to be trying to wipe out humanity and to have been responsible for the extinction of the Robot Builders. He laid a trap on the Amber Planet for Maureen, John and Don, capturing Scarecrow and later killing him.
His interest in Will stems from Will's ability to free Robot from his programming. Will went to SAR attempting to reason with him, hoping that he could change his programming in the same way that the Robot had changed. SAR, however, revealed to him that he was responsible for the death of the Robot Builders. He then attacked Will, impaling him through the heart.
It then attacked Alpha Centauri; as the defensive shield was brought back online, his ship accelerated constantly to make it through, and partially did, crashing into the shield, sections of the ships being destroyed or stuck on it, while the rest trailed down and crashed on the surface. It then continued it's attack, but was halted and kept in check by several other robots damaged from the crash, saved by Penny and several other young adults, one being named 'Sally'. "Trouble, Penny Robinson." After a while, the new allies to the colonists were defeated, but not destroyed, and SAR activated the alien engine not too long after, using it to take out everyone on the planet as he did with his 'Masters.' But as the engine was overloading, Will and June returned from another planet, looping an alien sound that compelled SAR to obey. His refusal caused him to retreat, but was quickly surrounded by Grant, Judy, Maureen, Penny, Don, John and more, trapping him near the engine, with Will ordering him to turn it off. "Noooo. Kill, masters. Kill, heart!" At this point Will disabled the sound, and SAR instantly ran up and impaled Will again - but Will said that Robot knew he would go for his heart again. Then blue energy courses from Will's chest and rapidly overtakes SAR, reconfiguring him to Robot's humanoid shape, who proceeds to turn off the engine before it destroys Alpha Centauri, saving the day, and everyone. SAR is presumably entirely erased as a result, ending his threat once and for all.
Powers & abilities[]
Being of the same basic construct as the Robot, its abilities were extremely similar. It possessed immense physical strength and the ability to go on a destructive rampage, and has the ability to control other robots as seen with scarecrow, and robot through him. However, having never formed a bond with a human, it lacked the empathy displayed by Robot. It did, however, display cunning, luring Will to a cave on the amber planet by making him think that it was his Robot for an unknown reason.
Appearances[]
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