Zoo Man (Multiversal CEO)

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2018

**Zoo Man** is the **Multiversal CEO** of **The Broccoli Company** and founder of the **T.B.C. A.N.A.L. Council.**

He's the richest and most powerful man in the Multiverse and is a more cynical, disconnected and intimidating version of usual Zoo Men.

Little is known about the MCEO. His age, original Universe, relatives or past remains **completely unknown**.

## Head of the A.N.A.L. Council

The MCEO is the founder and current CEO of the T.B.C. A.N.A.L. Council.

It's unknown how long the A.N.A.L. Council has existed, but some consider it to exist for **more than several hundred years**, and others even speculate going further into the thousands.

The T.B.C. A.N.A.L Council owns the majority of T.B.C.s out there, effectively making T.B.C. a corporational mega-conglomerate that maintains an unbreakable firm grip on the Multiverse.

It's theorized, that the Council has had this dominion for at least more than 500 hundred years.

However, such grip was made much harder to maintain ever since Jeff the Securitron disappeared in October 2019.

## The 500+ Year Theory (And Paradox)

When one tries to estimate what the origins of the MCEO are, a paradox arises.

It would take around 700 years to travel the Finite Multiversal Curve on **Full Asynchronous Speed Transfer**.

Since there's presence of the A.N.A.L. Council in *almost* everywhere within the Curve, this would mean the Council has to be over **500 years old** to have established that kind of presence.

Since it is known the current **MCEO Zoo Man** was the one who founded it, it would mean that he too is (at the very least) **over** **500 years old**.

But a paradox arises. Cakepeople's usual life expectancy is **just 300 years**.

Because of this, several experts have **opposed the 500+ Year theory:** the only Cakepeople who even lived longer than 300 years were the original Mainlore Cakepeople from the Survival Era.

Some 500+ Year theorists have countered this by saying the MCEO is indeed a Mainlore Cakepeople descendant.

However, this would mean he would be a Zoo Man from Mainlore, which poses a metaphysical paradox: there already is a Mainlore Zoo Man, and since both he and the MCEO share the same UUID, they can't be both be from the same Universe.

And so the mystery about his origins remains.

## Personality

The MCEO is known to oscillate between the happy-go-lucky businessman persona and a more condescending, disconnected personality. He's also marked by his extreme cynical and disconnected view of the world.

In person, he usually maintains his upbeat personality, but he'll show a vague, repressed disdain for either the person he's talking to or, deep down, for himself, which sometimes comes to light.

Zoo Man has described people as *"a blur"* in the past, further showing his distancing from reality, and he looks visibly older and more *"worn-out"* than other Zoo Men.

Many attribute these personality traits as proof for the 500+ Year theory, while others say it's simply a reflection of Zoo Man's experience and interactions with virtually thousands of other timelines.

His disconnection and alienation usually turn into repulsion towards others, often calling them "insignificant" or "bleeps in the Multiverse", which sometimes reveals glimpses of loneliness and sadness within Zoo Man.

However, most of the times he simply regains his composure and returns with the up-beat businessman attitude.

* **Moth:** "I've just been trying to live simply."
* **Zoo:** "I once tried that."
* **Moth:** "If you can't tell, it hasn't exactly been working out that way."
* *[Zoo looks at a random spot at the diner, in the corner. There's nothing there.]*
* **Zoo:** "Maybe in some universe it is."
* **Zoo:** "You'd be surprised how many... alternate versions of each of us are there. How tangled their lives get. And how... complicated things get."
* *[Zoo bears an expression of sadness.]*
* **Moth:** "I could only imagine."
* *[He looks back at you, and smiles. His charming businessman persona snaps back and reappears in his expression.]*
* **Zoo:** "Well, Nep! This has truly been a blast! I almost had forgotten the excitement of not fully knowing someone like you!"

**Joker Zoo Man** once noted in an interview:

* **Zoo:** "It's an irony of fate, really. I think that's why [the MCEO] often asks people if they feel insignificant when they're faced the Multiverse, and gets frustrated when they don't."
* **Murray:** "Why is that?"
* **Zoo:** "Because he feels insignificant himself. When you climb the ladder all the way up and you realize there's nowhere to look but down, that's when you truly feel an unparalleled existential dread."
* **Murray:** "Is that why you're dressed like a clown?"
* **Zoo:** "I was born this way, Murray. And watch it before I kill you!"
* [Audience laughter]
* [Gunshots]

## Quotes

* *"I despise people like you. Irrelevancy. Insignificance. Your whole universe could be purged and business would go on as usual. I've broken that threshold. And when I look at you... At your tiny, insignificant eyes... I see nothing."*
* *"Congratulations, you failed! In every single timeline!"*
* *"Does it ever bother you? The awareness. The knowledge about all of this. All the different yous, all equally irrelevant to the incomprehensible infinity of the multiverse?"*
* *"Cass? As a waiter in the T.B.C. McMonkey's?! That's crazy!"*
* *"Good news! There's a little something called T.B.C. and we figured out a way to safely ride, and then exit, the Death Chunks before the point of no-return. Talk about the perfect pull-out game, citizens!"*
* "*Let's settle this mano-to-mano, Faz! Multiversal debate. One-on-one. Freddit-23329."*
* *"I often forget how you look like. How it feels to... be here. To live a life confined to a grain of dust. I almost had forgotten the feeling."*
* *"Well I'll be going now! But as a gesture of good faith, I'd like to give you some advice. Find the anchor to your world, and never let go of it."*