Editing Marvin the Paranoid Android (section)

==Name==
According to Douglas Adams, "Marvin came from [[Andrew Marshall (writer)|Andrew Marshall]]. He's another comedy writer, and he's exactly like that."<ref name=interview>{{cite web|title=Exclusive interview with MARVIN... well i mean Stephen Moore ! |url=http://www.douglasadams.eu/en_h2g2_interviews_stephen_moore.php |publisher=douglasadams.eu |access-date=2011-08-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331044050/http://www.douglasadams.eu/en_h2g2_interviews_stephen_moore.php |archive-date=March 31, 2012 }}</ref> (Indeed, in one of the early drafts for ''Hitchhiker's'', the robot was called Marshall. It was changed to "Marvin" partly to avoid causing offence, but also because it was pointed out to Adams that on radio the name would sound like "[[wikt:martial|Martial]]", which would have undesirable military connotations.) However, Adams also admitted that Marvin is part of a long line of literary depressives, such as [[A. A. Milne]]'s [[Eeyore]] or [[Jaques (As You Like It)|Jacques]] in [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[As You Like It]]'', and even owes something to Adams's own periods of depression.<ref name=interview/>

Marvin does not actually display any signs of [[paranoia]], though [[Zaphod Beeblebrox]] refers to him as "the Paranoid Android".<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Nor does he show any signs of [[mania]], though [[Ford Prefect (character)|Ford]] refers to him as a "manically depressed robot". He merely remains consistently morose throughout. In fact, he exhibits remarkable [[stoicism]], being willing to wait hundreds of millions of years for his employers to come.