Minor Characters
Marvin
A depressed robot aboard the Heart of Gold. Like the other robots onboard, Marvin was designed with GPP features: Genuine People Personalities. This is why he’s capable of feeling enough emotion to experience depression.
Fook
A programmer who helped build Deep Thought and who, along with Lunkwill, turns the supercomputer on for the first time.
Majikthise
A “hyperintelligent pandimensional being” who belongs to the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Thinking Persons. As a philosopher, Majikthise doesn’t want Deep Thought to determine an answer to “Life, the Universe and Everything,” arguing that the “eternal verities” belong to thinkers, not machines.
Vroomfondel
A “hyperintelligent pandimensional being” who belongs to the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Thinking Persons. As a philosopher, Vroomfondel doesn’t want Deep Thought to determine an answer to “Life, the Universe and Everything,” arguing that the “eternal verities” belong to thinkers, not machines.
Pouchg
A “hyperintelligent pandimensional being” who—along with his colleague, Loonquawl—asks Deep Thought to finally reveal the answer to “Life, the Universe and Everything.” Pouchg is disappointed when Deep Thought says that the answer is 42. Arthur Dent watches a virtual recording of this moment while standing in Slartibartfast’s office.
Loonquawl
Pouchg’s colleague, a “hyperintelligent pandimensional being” trying to find out the answer to “Life, the Universe and Everything” from Deep Thought.
Frankie Mouse
Benjy Mouse’s colleague, a “hyperintelligent pandimensional being” who has been living on earth in the form of one of Trillian’s pet mice.