If you came away from that movie thinking Bender is cool, you need to rewatch it. He’s an angry violent kid with a broken spirit due to dad’s emotional and physical abuse, and he’s inheriting his dad’s substance abuse issues too. You might think he’s “cool” because of his disaffected attitude towards the school’s authority figures, but he’s likewise disaffected about friends and family. He’s a lonely, nihilistic, troubled kid acting out and headed down a bad path. That’s hardly “cool” and has a lot of similarities to Twitter/X’s perceived user based these days.