Philip J. Fry

Philip J. Fry I is the main protagonist from the Futurama series.

Fry was a native to the 20th century who was cryogenically frozen seconds into the year 2000, having fallen in just as 1999 ended. He was revived in 2999 and subsequently became a Delivery boy for the Planet Express Company.

Personality
Philip I is generally very lazy at work, spending most of his time in the office sitting on the couch: watching TV and drinking Slurm. This laziness has caused him to miss at least one delivery mission. He is often immature, which causes him to get into tight spots, usually forcing Turanga Leela to rescue him. Despite this, he is a good, sensitive and sentimental man who loves his friends and will usually go to any lengths to save them.

Abilities
Philip I is "special". He is immune to all psychic forms of attack, such as from Brain Slugs as well as the Brainspawn. Usually, this is passed off as a 'Fry is stupid' joke, but it is actually because he lacks the Delta Brainwave. This is because he is his own grandfather, meaning his very existence is a space-time anomaly.

If this was a genetic defect, Yancy Fry, Sr., Yancy Fry, Jr., Philip J. Fry II, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, Cubert J. Farnsworth, and Igner (and many unnamed others) should have inherited this immunity, but it was caused because Philip I is his own grandfather and with the exception of Yancy Sr. are not directly their own ancestors: they are Philip I's double-ancestors. This means that while they are all anomalies, their existence is not additionally cyclical like Philip I's.

Since The Late Philip J. Fry, Philip I is now even more of an anomaly than before: initially, his existence in the universe was cyclical, but now he is also living in a universe he was not even born into. It is unknown how this may manifest in the future, but this means that as a time-traveling out-of-universe observer, he should theoretically no longer be subject to alterations in the current universe's Time Stream because of further time travel.

Since they traveled with him in The Late Philip J. Fry, Bender Bending Rodríguez and Professor Farnsworth are also out-of-universe observers.

Trivia

 * Philip J. Fry I is actually named after Phil Hartman, who died before Futurama was picked up by FOX: he was the original voice for Zapp Brannigan.
 * Due to having become his own grandfather, Philip I possesses no Delta Brain Wave: making him immune to psychic attack and making his mind unreadable. Although he can count things right after he sees it.
 * Despite being the least mature of the Planet Express Crew, he is the second oldest member chronologically after Bender.
 * Philip I only sleeps in his underwear.
 * Philip I was born during this baseball game between the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers, on August 14, 1974. The script states his birthday is actually August 9, 1974 (oddly, this is the date Richard M. Nixon resigned as President of the United States). Ironically enough, 1974 was the year Homer and Marge from Matt's other series the Simpsons met. Also, one of the episodes took place in 1947, which is 1974, only with the 4 and 7 swapped.
 * Philip I may have a form of synesthesia, a neurological disorder wherein the sufferer mixes up sensory input. This can be seen in The Why of Fry ("Did everything just taste purple for a second?") as well as Roswell that Ends Well ("Hey, what smells like blue?"). The form is more likely to be the rare lexical form, where different phenomenon may cause 'color, smell, sound, or taste sensations' like the quotes above.
 * Philip I states he cannot swim on at least two occasions: Fry & the Slurm Factory and The Sting.
 * Philip I's middle initial is the same as several of Matt Groening's other creations, Abraham J. Simpson, Homer J. Simpson, Bartholomew J. Simpson. It is currently unknown what Philip I's middle name is, although in Bender's Big Score, a New York City telephone directory from the time Philip I lived there lists a Philip Joshua Fry alongside a few other P. Frys. Bender tracks Philip I down using one of the listings shown, but it is not shown which one he used.
 * He has no problem interacting with robots or aliens.
 * His time paradox duplicate Lars Fillmore may have worked at a casino Bender's Big Score.
 * He was almost snu snued to death by the Amazonians and suffered a broken pelvis.
 * He is the only person besides Zapp to have sex with both Amy and Leela.
 * Usually the first to refer to someone as dead, though he has no medical experience.
 * He is notable for being the only person besides Professor Farnsworth to treat Zoidberg decently.
 * It is stated in Bender's Big Score that Philip I is the only one who never struck Zoidberg.
 * It seems Philip I has heart problems, In Fry & the Slurm Factory, he told Leela how he used to drink 20 cokes a day until his third heart attack. In Ghost in the Machine, Philip I receives a heart attack from being scared by Bender and in "Fry Am the Egg Man", he comes close to a heart attack after eating fast food. But he takes a pez and his heart attack stops.
 * It would seem Philip I's favorite song would be "Walking on Sunshine", which he normally sings, out of tune albeit, but nonetheless, Zoidberg even mentioned it, saying "where's Fry, what with the walking on sunshine" (note, this is not a direct quote, but rather a paraphrased version)
 * Philip I along with John A. Zoidberg and Turanga Leela, are commonly referred by their surname.
 * His story about him getting unfrozen years later is similar to Captain America's.
 * Philip I appears to be missing his right kidney. This is seen in Insane in the Mainframe when Philip I is given an x-ray upon admission to the asylum.