Jacob Lykos

Prof. Jacob Lykos

**Professor Jacob Lykos** is the main antagonist of the *Godzilla: Dino Destruction* series.

## Biography

Professor Jacob Lykos is a scientist who wants to revive dinosaurs. After a series of failed experiments which led him to be expelled from the scientific community, he becomes a mad scientist and creates a weapon called the Devolution Gun which reawakens dormant cells. His expulsion from the scientific community led him to believe that humanity is a plague that needs to be eradicated, and to achieve his goals he intends to build an army of dinosaurs and prehistoric reptiles to exterminate humankind and reclaim Earth as theirs.

### *Godzilla and the T-Rex of Tokyo*

Lykos goes to Japan to initiate his campaign by reviving a 65-million-year-old *Tyrannosaurus* from a mounted skeleton within the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, resulting in the death of a former prefect and 17 others in Tokyo. He later moves to New York City where he revives a *Spinosaurus* and a pack of *Velociraptor* from a museum. However, these revived dinosaurs are defeated by Godzilla.

A distraught Professor Lykos, who was sentenced on death row after being arrested in New York, then warns the world's capitals about his mission to destroy humanity and a worldwide dinosaur attack which comes from the revival of dinosaurs from all dinosaur museums of the world to wipe out the entire human race. Lykos then activates a satellite that fires his Devolution beam across the world, causing dinosaur and prehistoric reptile fossils from around the world to be fleshed out and escape. The dinosaurs then begin attacking the world’s famous cities.

Hideyo Higuchi, a researcher at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, eventually uncovers Lykos' dastardly plans when he is in the satellite control base, and commands the Japanese military to destroy the satellite. The military destroys the base with Lykos in it, and the satellite. However, he is shown to have survived the destruction of the base and unleashes a chimerical beast named *Ultimasaurus Rex* to kill Godzilla, but Godzilla eventually defeats it after a brutal battle which left the King of the Monsters terribly wounded.

### *Dino Cyber-Dominaton*

Lykos used a complicated device to upload himself into the internet and hacks the server of a globally-popular massively-multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) named *Avatar X*. He also uses the device to build the M-Hive (Mesozoic Hive), a lab which he uses to extract dinosaurs and prehistoric reptiles from pictures on the internet to build a dinosaur army in an attempt to realize his intentions, and as *Avatar X* is a video game based on the history of human civilization, vows to change history in his views.

Throughout the game, Lykos sets several traps including releasing dinosaurs and a meteor to prehistoric Africa to exterminate humankind's ancestors, and allying with Adolf Hitler from the World War II era and the Soviet Union from the Cold War era, reinforcing their armies with his dinosaur army to crush the winning forces of the wars. Ultimately, this plan also fails due to Godzilla and other monster allies being uploaded by Chinese *Avatar X* champion and master programmer Ho Shiao Leng into the server to save the game.

Lykos eventually finds himself back in the real world, with his legs gone and barely able to move.

## Trivia

* Professor Jacob Lykos is inspired by several mad scientists:
	+ Jonathan Jacobo from *Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed*.
	+ Dr. Karl Lykos/Sauron from Marvel Comics. They share a similar last name.
	+ Dr. Jane Tiptree from the *Carnosaur* film.