In the early 90s, after an attempt at creating a robotic vacuum cleaner that didn't work, Marc got the idea for watching robots beat the hell out of each other in front of an audience. From this came Robot Wars - the original, US version of Robot Wars, which was kind of taken out from under him for the UK show and is why the US version is called Battlebots. Robot combat has since blossomed into a real, proper sport, with Battlebots in particular morphing from a snide pastiche on Comedy Central to a genuine full-card tournament on Discovery. This is the only good thing about Discovery right now.

Marc was rightly respected in his many creative fields, but he was beloved in the robot combat fraternity. He was the godfather of the sport, the pioneer of design, the person who showed us that heavy lumps of metal trying to destroy each other was Good Actually. Along with inspired artist Mark Setrakian, Marc was the first person elected to the Battlebots Hall Of Fame in 2022. I am glad he lived to see it.

He died after a decades-long battle with Parkinson's disease, and he is survived by his daughter Megan. May his memory be a blessing.

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

It's not often you see a man whose job was building people's childhoods.