Scorpius

Scorpius, also known as Grasshopper, Harvey, Nosferatu and Scorpy, is one of the main characters from the Farscape series.
== Charactah Account ==
Scorpius is a deformed, ruthless and surprisingly combat-hardened Peacekeeper scientist, obsessed with gaining knowledge of wormholes as a means to power. Scorpius also honestly loves his biological mother, who he never met, and is consumed by anger at what the Scarrans did to her, and to himself.
Scorpius' personality, at first glance, is cold, dangerous, and intimidating, especially to those who are either enemies or unfamiliar to him. But Scorpius has shown his softer, or less cold side several times. He seems to genuinely care about Sikozu and Braca, and to some extent Natira, although not nearly as much as the wormhole knowledge in John's brain. He will lie, cheat, steal, abandon allies or enemies (or even helpless civilians), tell the truth, kill in cold blood, risk his life, torture people, torture himself, risk the lives of others, use himself as a shield, desert his Peacekeeper post, and completely humiliate himself to achieve that end. Yet he is extremely intelligent, so much so that Moya's crew find themselves willing to keep him alive or ally themselves with him when they absolutely have to, despite that he murdered Gilina and his mental clone Harvey killed Aeryn Sun who Zhaan later sacrifices herself to resurrect. On top of that he has pursued and tortured the crew of Moya for cycles. He is as tough as they come and manages to survive anything that's thrown at him, throughout the entire show.
Scorpius is somewhat ashamed of his monstrous, half-Scarran heritage. As a result, he makes it a point to be very polite and precise when he talks, and particularly, to speak very softly and gently, not raising his voice even when angered. Only in rare moments of extreme rage will Scorpius raise his voice, revealing that he can speak using the inhuman guttural growl of a Scarran's voice. On these rare moments when he slips into speaking with a Scarran's growl, Scorpius will afterwards become very embarrassed with himself for giving in to his Scarran side.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* Farscape: Compulsions
* Farscape: D'Argo's Trial
* Farscape: Gone and Back
* Farscape: Strange Detractors
* Farscape: The Beginning of the End of the Beginning
* Farscape: The War for the Uncharted Territories
=== TV Series ===
* Farscape
* Farscape Season 2
* Farscape Season 3
* Farscape Season 4
* Farscape: Scorpius
* Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
== Trivia ==
* Scorpius was developed as a character in the pre-production stages of Farscape and was intended to look more insectoid. Virginia Hey recalls her first time seeing him saying, "I was floored by this futuristic S&M post-punk pop star in his alligator suit." (Farscape: The Illustrated Companion)
* When Scorpius made his first appearance on Farscape, it was originally intended only to be a 3 or 4 part story arc, but the producers saw much more potential in the character and in actor Wayne Pygram.
* Scorpius' original costume called for "reptilian" contact lenses, but when producers saw Pygram in the costume without the lenses, they thought the image of his cold blue eyes made the mystique of the character more chilling.
* In concept designs Scorpius had long white hair.
* In preparation for the role of Scorpius, Wayne Pygram studied Vincent Price's performance in the 1968 movie Witchfinder General.
* Scorpius is one of nine characters to appear in all four seasons of Farscape as well as The Peacekeeper Wars. The others are Crichton, Aeryn, D'Argo, Rygel, Chiana, Pilot, Stark and Braca.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Scorpius at Farscape Encyclopedia Project
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