Ghost Robot is a superhero (protagonist) who first appeared in Handsome Ransom. He is a ghost who lives in the head of a robot. He is also "Weatherbot 5" on "Channel 5's Action News". In Every Which Way But Zeus it is revealed that he is the sidekick of U.S. Steel. In the same episode he is kidnapped by Henchman Zero and brutally "killed" by Henchman 21 in gladiatorial combat. Seemingly his sidekick's immortality, U.S. Steel weeps when Ghost Robot fails to emerge with the rest of Zero's prisoners after they are freed.