Zix, Travoltron, and Tee

Zix, Travoltron and Tee
Appears In
TV Series	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
General Information
Gender	Male
Alignment	Bad, later Good
Family	Unnamed mother (Zix)
Friends	Jimmy Neutron Carl Wheezer Sheen Estevez Cindy Vortex Libby Folfax Goddard
Enemies	King Goobot V Ooblar Professor Calamitous Beautiful Gorgeous Grandma Taters Eustace Strych Baby Eddie The Junkman
Likes	Money, stealing (formerly), groceries, good deeds, swimsuit magazines (Zix), Jimmy and his friends (currently), good deeds (currently)
Dislikes	Jimmy and his friends (formerly), floating around in space, being arrested, good deeds (formerly), stealing (currently)
Behind the Scenes
Voice Actor	Zix: Maurice LaMarche Travoltron: Jeff Bennett Tee: Kevin Michael Richardson
First Appearance	A Beautiful Mine
Last Appearance	The League of Villains (episode)

Zix, Travoltron and Tee are reformed antagonists in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

History

The Space Bandits first appear in A Beautiful Mine. They attack Jimmy and his gang while they're collecting Astrorubies and attempt to take the rubies for themselves. They try to lie to the gang about Ruby Madness, but after they left, they started to go insane. They later attack the gang while they are heading back to Earth. Jimmy gets them away from the bandits and causes them all to crash their bikes into each other, thus successfully defeating them. However, the rocket runs out of fuel upon doing so and thus, he and his friends are forced to sacrifice all the astrolabes in order to get out of Jupiter's orbit and back to Earth.

The trio is seen briefly at the end of Men at Work still floating in space. The building of McSpanky’s flies by and they commandeer it as their new vessel, and make a cameo appearance in Win, Lose and Kaboom.

They appear again in The Incredible Shrinking Town when everyone is tiny. Upon realizing everyone is much smaller, they plan to sell them to alien children as toys. Their plan is foiled when Jimmy and his friends, in their miniature state, pretend to be their conscience and turn them against each other, with Carl using ventriloquism to turn the three against each other. They were eventually shrunken and given to Sheen to play with as toys. It is unknown how they returned to normal size afterward.

The trio appears one final time in the series finale as part of the group the episode is named after and is the episode in which they have their largest role. Their part of King Goobot's master plan involved sealing Jimmy's lab in green sticky goo that will keep Jimmy from being able to get in. Tee is set to guard Jimmy and Sheen when the two are imprisoned aboard The Junkman's ship, and Sheen forms a friendship with Tee, convincing Tee to leave with him and Jimmy when they escape. When they use their pod to reunite with Carl, Cindy, and Libby after crashing on a different planet, Tee initially frightens the three until Sheen convinces them that he is good now. When returning to Retroville while it's caught in a wormhole leading to prehistoric times, Tee is confronted by Zix and Travoltron about his decision to switch sides, but when they are cornered by a giant snake, Tee tries to convince Jimmy to help them, because even though they are still evil, they are still Tee's friends. Even after the N-Men rescue them, Zix and Travoltron refuse to be good until Tee convinces them that they have no reason to be evil and are not villains after all. After saving Jimmy by telling the T-Rex to go eat Baby Eddie, they realize it feels good to be good, and abandon their positions in the League of Villains. After helping Jimmy and the others defeat the League of Villains and restore Retroville, Sam invites them into the Candy Bar and Zix promises to pay for the treats.

Quotes

A Beautiful Mine

• Travoltron: "That was awesome, I swear!"
• Tee: "Hush yo' mouth, fool!"

Men at Work

• Zix: "For weeks, we've been searching for a ship that will help us in our quest to take over the universe."
• Travoltron: "Yeah, and one that gets good gas mileage."
• Zix: "And has good lumbar support for my lower back."
• Travoltron: "And has room for lots of groceries. I love groceries."
• Zix: "Yeah, those gallon water jugs take up a lot of--would you be quiet?!"

The Incredible Shrinking Town

• Tee: "Listen you chumps you think I'm Dumb I got 3 words that says otherwise."

The League of Villains

• Travoltron: "Tee, you broke my heart."
• Tee: (angrily) "I'm gonna break yo' face!"

Gallery

Zix

Tee

Travoltron

Trivia

• The Space Bandits may do bad things throughout the show, but they are definitely not the nastiest bad guys. Professor Calamitous, King Goobot, Eustace Strych or better yet, the other villains in The League of Villains, are the nastiest villains in the whole show. The space bandits are more anti-heroes than total monsters.
• The bandits themselves are caricatures of Mr. T, Jon Lovitz, and John Travolta. Hence their names. 
• There were plans to make the bandits have more appearances in season four (in which, they'd have an arc about them settling into life on Earth and they would join Team Neutron on some of their adventures).
• The episode The Incredible Shrinking Town reveals that Tee wants to open up a dress shop, to which Zix and Travoltron reacted by awkwardly backing away from him.
• Zix is voiced by Maurice LaMarche, the voice of The Brain from Pinky and the Brain, and Rob Paulsen is known for voicing Pinky.
• Tee was a major character in The League of Villains, and eventually, because of him, the bandits became good.
• In A Beautiful Mine and Men at Work, Travoltron is referred to as Barbarino in the credits.