Apothecary Gary

Apothecary Gary is a character that appears in the animated Disney series Amphibia. He is a formerly evil fungus that is able to take over the mind of his host. 
==Background==
===Physical Appearance===
Apothecary Gary, in his fungus form, resembles a large purple mushroom with light blue spots that flashes as he speaks. His host's eyes turn bright purple with light pink pupils. 
==History==
Apothecary Gary made his first appearance in the episode segment "Children of the Spore" as the main antagonist. Prior to the events of the episode segment, Apothecary Gary took control of a local frog named Lloyd. He later encountered Hop Pop and tricked him to having a jar of elixir that would make Anne, Sprig, and Polly behave better. However, unbeknownst to Hop Pop, the "elixir" is actually a concoction of mind-control spores. 
Slowly, the spores took over Anne, Sprig, Polly, and the rest of the Wartwood residence (except for Hop Pop and Bessie). After revealing his true self and motive, Gary battled Hop Pop in Bessie's stable. Eventually, Gary was eaten alive by Bessie after she ate the rest of his mushrooms, breaking his control over the other Wartwood residents, despite his pleads that his species would become extinct. Despite this, some of his spores survived and took control of Hop Pop's beetle Jeremy, which grew another Gary. 
After leaving Wartwood, Gary and his host traveled Amphibia for a place to regrow Gary's strength. After long traveling and hardships, they were eventually found and taken in by the future citizens of Gardenton, where they formed a true symbiotic relationship where the frogs willingly used Gary's spores to become better gardeners without mind control, using this power to make Gardenton into a paradise, and, in turn, Gary became the village leader.
At some point during that time, King Andrias got his hands on Gary's species' spores and used them for mind control collars to control the local wildlife that were produced in a factory until it was boom-shroomed by the Wartwood Resistance. 
In "The Root of Evil", Anne, the Plantars and Leopold Loggle incidentally stumble upon Gardenton. Hop Pop asked to meet Gardenton's leader with the hope of recruiting the village to the Wartwood Resistance, only to discover the leader was in fact Gary. After Gary explained how he came into power, Hop Pop caused a distraction by stepping on a flower, resulting in the Gardenton citizens panicking, allowing the party to flee. Fearing they would lead others to Gardenton, Gary ordered his minions to pursue and they quickly cornered them just as they found Bessie. However, a tracking device was soon spotted on the Fwagon, before a squad of Andrias' robots arrived and set fire to the whole village. Though the Plantars initially used the chaos to flee, Hop Pop guilted them into coming back to help, saving Gary's life in the process. In turn, Gary rallied his citizens into defeating the robots. After exchanging compliments with Hop Pop, Gary attempted to attack them again only for Hop Pop to flatter him over his horticultural abilities and offered Gardenton a chance to join the Resistance. Acknowledging that Gardenton's isolation blinded him to how bad the outside world had become and in the interest of protecting his home, Gary buried the hatchet with Hop Pop and pledged Gardenton to the Resistance. He became further excited to learn of Andrias using fungal spores to control large creatures, indicating they was another spore like himself out there; he became irritated when Anne suggested that the mushroom might be female.
In "The Beginning of the End", during the battle against Andrias' forces he returns to aid the Resistance, where Gary uses his spores to override the spores used on the beasts imprisoned by Andrias, allowing them to turn against Andrias's forces.
Nine months after the events of "The Hardest Thing", Gary has found another fungal to be with.
==Trivia==
*Gary's species seems to be based on the amphibian (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) and salamander (Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans) chytrid fungi, both of which causes the disease Chytridiomycosis in amphibians; as well as entomopathogenic fungi that controls their victims' brains and sprouts out of their bodies.
*Apothecary Gary is the first major character (excluding the dangerous wildlife) in the series to not be an amphibian but rather an non-animal being. 
*In the Latin American dub, he named Apothecario Mario in order to rhyme.
**Similar in the Italian dub, where he named Battista il Farmacista
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==External Links==
*Apothecary Gary on Amphibia Wiki
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