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Plot

After routinely chasing Mandark out of his Lab when he tries to steal the "Neurotomic Protocore", Dexter is confronted with a group of robots that have appeared from his time machine. They declare that they are here to destroy the one who saved the future, and make ready to attack Dexter. Dexter easily destroys them with the use of various tools and gadgets from his lab (including a black and white suit never seen before in the television series). However, news that he is "The One Who Saved the Future" intrigues him, and he decides to travel through time to discover how cool he is. ASIMO, a humanoid robot manufactured by Honda. ... Look up Future in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

In the first time period he visits, Dexter finds a tall, skinny, weak version of himself working in office-designing cubicles, with Mandark as his rich, successful boss. The child Dexter unwittingly reveals the existence of blueprints regarding the "Neurotomic Protocore" from the beginning of the movie, and Mandark steals it after the two Dexters move forward in time. An office is a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organisation with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one... For the 2003 film, see Blueprint (movie). ...

In the second time period, Dexter meets his much older self, a wizened senior citizen Dexter about the same height as the child Dexter (and Mandark's brain in a vat who cannot do anything than complain about his situation). All the technology from the blueprints has been implemented, creating a utopian society where anything can be materialized with the power of the mind. The old Dexter can't remember how he saved the world, so they travel back in time to find out. Old age consists of ages nearing the average lifespan of human beings, and thus the end of the human life cycle. ... In philosophy, the brain-in-a-vat is any of a variety of thought experiments intended to draw out certain features of our ideas of knowledge, reality, truth, mind, and meaning. ... See Utopia (disambiguation) for other meanings of this word Utopia, in its most common and general meaning, refers to a hypothetical perfect society. ...

In the third time period, they find a dystopic world where everyone is stupid and fire and technology are forbidden, controlled by Mandark thanks to the "Neurotomic Protocore". They meet action hero Dexter, who is tall, muscular and bald (senior citizen Dexter, it turns out, wears a wig), as well as having grown a large beard from digging underground after Mandark stole the plans. They go back to Dexter's laboratory and build a giant robot to invade Mandark's fortress. Reaching there, they are faced by the monstrously corpulent dystopian Mandark, who has summoned versions of himself from other time periods to oppose the Dexters. A battle royale ensues, with each Dexter fighting the Mandark of his own time period. A dystopia (or alternatively cacotopia) is a fictional society, usually portrayed as existing in a future time, when the conditions of life are extremely bad due to deprivation, oppression, or terror. ... Heroine (female hero) redirects here. ...

Ironically, after an epic battle between the Dexters and Mandarks, Dee Dee saves the world by wandering in from the open time gate and pressing the button to reverse the waves of the "Neurotomic Protocore", thus creating the utopian world. The Dexters - overcome with rage - create a group of robots and tell them to "destroy the one who saved the future", and send them back through the time machine to take care of Dee Dee, unwittingly setting the whole series of events in motion. When Dexter notices, he decides to ignore it and go eat lunch. An ontological paradox is a paradox of time travel that is often used as a convention in science fiction. ...

Cast

• Christine Cavanaugh - Dexter, D12, Old Man Dexter
• Kat Cressida - Dee Dee
• Eddie Deezen - Mandark, Executive Mandark, Overlord Mandark, Braindark
• Kath Soucie - Mom, Head Secretary
• Jeff Glen Bennett - Action Dexter, Mandark Robot, Dad, Robot #1, Officer 9412
• Tom Kenny - Curator, Village Man, Robot #2, Computer, Man

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External links

• Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip at the Internet Movie Database
• "Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip" at TV.com