Dr. Lugae (Final Fantasy IV)

Dr. Lugae is a character in Final Fantasy IV. He is a servant of Golbez and does experiments for him and the Archfiends. He works in the Tower of Babil. His prized creation was a robot named Barnabas.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Dr. Lugae is an elderly man who sports disheveled white hair and a beard. He is dressed in a lab coat and wears glasses or goggles. In his Yoshitaka Amano artwork he is gaunt and has a thin hook nose and various accessories attached to beaded chains.
=== Personality ===
A mad scientist, Dr. Lugae is obsessed in experimenting on others. His experiments to turn people into monsters even disgust Rubicante himself. He seems to revel in having power over others and witnessing their suffering, as even when he is going to lose, he still boasts that his cannons will finish off the dwarves.
== Story ==
thumb|left|260px|The doctor encounters the party.
Lugae is responsible for killing the King and Queen of Eblan and turning them into chimerae, although Edge blames this incident on Rubicante. Lugae is also responsible for the construction of the Tower of Babil Cannons, the tower's most potent weapon.
Cecil Harvey, Kain Highwind, Rydia, Rosa Joanna Farrell, and Yang Fang Leiden encounter Dr. Lugae in the sixth-floor basement of the Tower of Babil while he warps Rubicante from the tower to the Overworld. Rydia speaks up after this, which catches Lugae's attention. Lugae summons Barnabas and orders it to attack the party. However, Barnabas is poorly programmed, and attacks Lugae instead.
If the party defeats Barnabas first, Lugae attempts to control the robot himself by jumping inside his ruined creation, but this fails and Barnabas self-destructs. Alternatively, if Lugae falls first, Barnabas self-destructs upon running out of oil.
Following this initial battle, Lugae transforms into a heavily armed skeletal robot and attacks the party with a variety of lasers and status effects but is defeated again and drops the key to the Tower of Babil Cannons. Before dying, however, he gloats that Rubicante is already at the top of the tower and that the cannons are primed to wipe out the dwarves.
== Gameplay ==
=== Final Fantasy IV ===
Dr. Lugae is fought inside the Tower of Babil. He has two forms, the Doctor fighting alongside Barnabas, and the skeletal monster form.
=== Final Fantasy IV: The After Years ===
Dr. Lugae is fought again in Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. If Golbez is in the party, he will think on Lugae's potential if he had taken a different path.
== Musical themes ==
Dr. Lugae's theme is called "Dancing Calbrena" and is shared with Luca's dolls.
== Other appearances ==
=== Final Fantasy XIV ===
Doctor Lugae appears as a boss in the Tower of Babil. He initially makes an appearance with Barnabas, who attacks him before teleporting away.
Lugae would later make an appearance in the Endwalker Hildibrand questline. Having survived his defeat in the Tower of Babil, he sought to continue his work on artificial lifeforms, having taken personal interest in Hildibrand Manderville's nigh indestructibility. He arranges a meeting with the Hannish merchant Jubraca to bring Hildibrand's comatose body to him, while the Warrior of Light and Nashu Mhakaracca rush to his aid with the inspector's spirit vessel. After a dramatic restoration of Hildibrand's physical body, including blowing up Lugae with his own shoulder-mounted missile, only the doctor's head remained.
Later on, Lugae's head was in jail in Radz-at-Han, only to be freed by a mysterious character. He later kidnapped Nashu Mhakaracca and demanded the Warrior of Light come to the Tower of Babil to fight. Godbert and Hildibrand arrived in the Warrior's place and fought Lugae, with Hildibrand and Godbert piledriving his body into the ground. The doctor's head survived the impact and launched a final laser attack at the Warrior of Light upon their arrival, only for Hildibrand's clone to bounce the laser back at him. With a little assistance from Godbert, the Warrior kicked Lugae's head away.
After his defeat, the doctor's head was collected again and brought to a secret meeting where he plotted with someone against the Warrior of Light. 
He once again appears (as just a flying head) after the Warrior of Light and Hildibrand's group are nearly scammed when trying to buy an ingredient for a remedy. He fires his laser at the Warrior of Light, and Hildibrand's clone reflects it again, but Lugae learned from last time and reflected it himself. Hildibrand attempts to block it with an object he picks up, but when he realizes its a coblyn, he tosses it away in disgust and attempts to block the laser with his bare arms. The beam electrocutes him and blasts him away. Lugae begins charging an even larger beam and Nashu attempts to block it by throwing the coblyn basketball-style into his mouth. It bounces off, but the Warrior of Light leaps to slam dunk it, causing Lugae to blow up and fly off into the distance.
=== Pictlogica Final Fantasy ===
PFF Doctor.png|Lugae.
PFF Dr. Lugae.png|Dr. Lugae.
=== Final Fantasy Record Keeper ===
=== Final Fantasy Trading Card Game ===
Dr. Lugae appears in Final Fantasy Trading Card Game as Ice-elemental Forward cards.
DrLugae TCG.png|Lugae [14-039R] Chapter series card.
Lugae 5-048H from FFTCG Opus.jpg|Lugae [5-048H] Opus series card.
===Other media===
In Final Fantasy Tactics, one can acquire a string puppet Artefact called a Lugae, which resembles Lugae's skeleton form on strings.
In Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Nono crafts a "lugaborg" as a gift for Audience Day at Bervenia Palace.
Dr. Lugae is also the name of a character in Final Fantasy Dimensions.
== Gallery ==
Amano Lugae II.jpg|Artwork of Dr. Lugae's monster form by Yoshitaka Amano.
Barnabas-Z (Final Fantasy IV) Amano.jpg|Artwork of Dr. Lugae with Barnabas.
FFRK Lugae & Barnabas FFIV.png|Final Fantasy Record Keeper.
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