Doctor 0

Doctor 0 is a pre-War scientist and member of the Think Tank operating in Big MT .
==Background==
The human who became Doctor 0 was originally an executive of the Big MT Research and Development Center. Sometime after the Great War, he and his fellow executives underwent a procedure to extract their brains and place them inside robotic think tank shells to continue their work at Big MT. Doctor 0's scientific specialty is in robotics, both construction and deconstruction.The Courier: "What do you do here?"Doctor 0: "All things robotical. You see a robot, I made it. See a broken robot, I made it that way. Deconstructed it down to parts. I have a gift with machines. I can render inoperable - them in a non-functioning state."(Doctor 0's dialogue) He also possesses an immense hatred for Robert House and RobCo Industries. Fueled by his blind hatred, he built Muggy, one of the appliances installed in the Sink with the intent of making a mockery of House's Securitrons.Courier: "Who are you?"Muggy: " Maybe you've seen some of those big, imposing Securitrons with their lovely laser guns and rocket launchers and scary faces? I'm not one of those. Dr. O was always jealous of House Industries, and he thought it would be fucking hilarious to build a tiny neurotic Securitron. Big fucking laugh. So, umm... you got any coffee cups for me now?"(Muggy's dialogue) He hated the billionaire businessman to the point of getting irate upon merely seeing RoboCo technology like the Pip-Boy near him.The Courier: "What, my Pip-Boy?"Doctor 0: "How dare you bring RobCo tech in here! What, are you showing off? How great Robert House and his biiiig company are? Rrrr! You're lucky I don't have hands to tear that Dip-Boy off your arm - or feet to stomp on its stupid metal guts! Ooooo, damn RobCo!"(Doctor 0's dialogue)
Another source of much frustration for Doctor 0 is that the typical way his colleagues pronounce his name ("Oh") is not actually how he thinks of it. Instead, he strongly prefers to go by Doctor (Zero) yet has endured so much of everybody reading his name wrong that he's given up on correcting them over it.The Courier: "If they kept confusing the letter with a number, your name is Dr. 0... Dr. Zero?"Doctor 0: "[SUCCEEDED] Yes! Thank you. I am Zero. How hard is that? A narrow, thin Zero."(Doctor 0's dialogue)
Of the members of the Think Tank, he is generally treated with the least amount of respect,Doctor Klein: " BE WARNED, INTRUDER! YOU ARE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE MIGHTY THINK TANK OF BIG MT, THE COLLECTIVE GENIUSES ...BY OPPENHEIMER, WHICH ONE OF YOU SELF-PROFESSED GENIUSES HAS BEEN ADJUSTING MY VOLUME KNOB? WHO WAS IT?! WAS IT YOU, 8?"Doctor 8: ""Doctor Klein: "OH, 'DR. O,' WAS IT? , O COULDN'T SPARK TWO NEURONS IF THEY WERE IN A LATTICE OF BIOMED GEL."Doctor 0: "What? Me? Breaking news, Klein, it wasn't me - all right?! I am the robotical engineer, 8 is soundwaves, that's his 'specialty.' You always do this, you always demean me in front of guests! And it's not 'O,' all right, it's...!"Doctor Klein: "ENOUGH! EITHER OF YOU DO IT AGAIN, IT'LL BE THE LAST TIME. NOW... NOW... ...GREAT. NOW I FORGOT WHAT I WAS SAYING... WHAT WAS I TALKING ABOUT?"(Doctor Klein's, Doctor 8's and Doctor 0's dialogue) particularly by Klein and Borous, and as a result, has adopted a snarky and unpleasant attitude to compensate.
==Interactions with the player character==
===Interactions overview===
===Quests===
* Old World Blues: If Klein cannot be convinced otherwise, 0, along with 2 other members of the Think Tank, is needed to convince Klein to give up trying to escape Big MT.
* Picking Your Brains: After completing Welcome to the Big Empty, the Courier needs to talk to 0 and the rest of the think tanks to complete this quest.
* Welcome to the Big Empty: The Courier has to talk to 0 as with the rest of the think tank to complete the quest.
* What's in a Name?: The Courier must have 9 Intelligence or the Math Wrath perk in order to help him with his name problem. The player character will suggest adding a slash through the zero to differentiate between the zero and the O, or, through the correct dialogue, convince Dr. 0 to keep his name as "O."
===Other interactions===
* If the Courier passes Barter skill checks during their initial dialogue with the Think Tank, he will give them 50 caps upon request once per day.
===Effects of player's actions===
* If the Courier has helped out 0 with his name problem, and they do not have a 100 in Science or 85 in Medicine to convince Dr. Klein alone, 0 will side with the Courier in convincing Klein to back down.
==Inventory==
==Notes==
* His house in Higgs Village is #00.
* He has a bigger mouth in comparison to his colleagues.
* He has a portrait of Mr. House in his home at Higgs Village that has several knives thrown at it. The portrait is identical to the one in the House Resort, only smaller.
==Notable quotes==
==Appearances==
Doctor 0 appears only .
==Behind the scenes==
* If the Courier is working for House, 0 can be informed about it. His subsequent quote is a reference to the comparison of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison where Tesla died poor and lonely and Edison died rich, with Dr. 0 hoping that House would share the fate of Tesla. If House is dead, this too can be mentioned, by telling him that he "does not have to worry about House anymore." 0 will defensively reply that he was never "worried" about House and will then gloat about having outlived his rival.
* James Urbaniak also plays the voice of Dr. Thaddeus S. "Rusty" Venture of The Venture Bros. Like Dr. Venture, Dr. 0 is very emotional, easily frustrated, and suffers from an inferiority complex as well a blatant ineptitude with technology, despite his claims to the contrary.
* With the Wild Wasteland trait, one of his broadcast messages across the crater will be "Attention: Lobotomites. Do not neglect to wash the walking eye." This is another reference to an episode in The Venture Bros when Dr. Venture is seen washing the walking eye in front of a gathering crowd. With Wild Wasteland, these walking eyes also appear in the magnetohydraulics complex, although the Courier cannot interact with them.
* Both names, 0 (number) and O (letter) are infinitely looping figures, which goes along with the naming theme of the Think Tank scientists.
* Dr. 0's personality was originally intended to be a frenetic, hyperactive newscaster type, but was re-written to a "scientist-who's-aware-he's-not-brilliant-or-valued" after James Urbaniak was cast into the role. This can still be seen when talking to him before the main quest is finished.In Dr. 0's dialogue files - "Breaking news, Klein, it wasn't me, all right?" and "Breaking News. Talking Lobotomite arrives in Think Tank."
==Gallery==
0Human.png|0 before becoming a think tankChris Avellone on Twitter
==References==
Non-game
Category:Think Tank characters
Category:Big MT characters
Category:Fallout: New Vegas scientists
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