Douglas Davenport

**Douglas Orville Davenport** is the younger brother of Donald Davenport, the biological father of Adam Davenport, Bree Davenport, Chase Davenport and Daniel Davenport, the uncle of Leo Dooley as well as the creator of Marcus Davenport, the brother-in-law of Tasha Davenport and the husband of Izzy Davenport and the great-uncle of Ava and Talya Dooley, and the grandfather of Liam Davenport, Emma Davenport, Chase Davenport, Jr., Evie Davenport, and Michelle Davenport, all members of the Legacy Force. He is also the one to give Victor Krane and Leo bionics. Due to Donald taking Adam, Bree and Chase from him, he is known as their uncle but had come to be considered as a second father to them.

Douglas was an antagonist hinted at throughout Season 1 and the main antagonist of Season 2 and half of Season 3, alongside Victor Krane. However, halfway through Season 3 he had a change of heart and became a “good guy”, leading him to being accepted by and joining the Davenport Family (moving into the Davenport Household). Due to his actions and personality since his change, he could be considered an anti-hero of the series.

He is also the former Co-Founder of Davenport Industries and in Season 4 he became the Head of Research and Development of Davenport Bionic Academy and possibly the Overseer of the Academy when Donald is out.

He is portrayed by Jeremy Kent Jackson, who reprises the role in *Lab Rats: Elite Force* as a recurring cast member.

### Personality

At the beginning of the series, Douglas' evilness was built on the fact that he used to be bullied by his brother, Donald and felt overshadowed by all of Donald's successes. Because of their poor relationship, Douglas became anti-social and distant, driven by his hatred and jealousy of his older brother. The poor treatment Douglas got is what led him to go behind Donald's back and create four bionic human children, Adam, Bree, Chase, and Daniel. Douglas came to hate his brother after Donald learned what his younger brother intended to do with the children and kicking his out of Davenport Industries and taking Adam, Bree, and Chase away from Douglas caused him to find ways to get revenge on Donald. Despite their differences Donald and Douglas were more alike than they realized: intelligent, but proud, egotistical, and arrogant. Despite this, the two brothers could never learn to get along and Douglas would stop at nothing until he ruined his brother's life for taking his children from him.

Douglas was once selfish and uncaring, such as using children as weapons, starting wars, and robbing old women and taking over a country no matter what the cost. Also, despite everything, Douglas was a lot like his brother: intelligent and egotistical but would not admit it. Though he had a father/son relationship with Marcus, he didn't seem to care that Marcus would burn out before he was sixteen. He also had no qualms turning Adam, Bree, and Chase into bionic supersoldiers. When he was enemies with Leo, Douglas had no qualms with harming the boy, despite him only being fifteen years old, considering him a "nosy kid" who constantly got in his and Marcus' way. During the bionic showdown between Marcus and the Lab Rats, Douglas let his cowardice get the better of him, leaving Marcus for dead (which is what causes Marcus to hate him when Giselle brings Marcus back to life). Despite his negative traits when he was evil, there was still a lighter side to Douglas, as he was sarcastic and humorous and overshadow the seriousness in a room. He still cared for his bionic children. He did what was best for his youngest son, Daniel, by giving him up for a chance at a normal life and he did take on a stray dog, Otis, giving him bionics to save his life and he saved Chase from an avalanche (in this case, however, Douglas was attempting to manipulate Chase) and later protected the Lab Rats from Victor Krane saving their lives once. He obsessively loved his children, up to the point where he tracked their GPS chips. When he did capture Aram, Bree, and Chase in "Sink or Swim," he wanted to use them for scams but also develop a family connection with them, like making Mondays family game nights.

In most of his earlier appearances when encountering Donald, Douglas could be quite childish and acts like an immature younger brother trying to get back at his older brother. When they were reunited after fifteen years, Douglas and Donald first insulted each other by calling themselves by their embarrassing nicknames and they continued mocking each other. He stole money from Donald and only blew up his brother's lab to get back at him for taking Adam, Bree, and Chase from him. Later, when Douglas was with both Leo and Chase, they called Douglas out on his rivalry with their father. In the latter's case, Douglas pointed out he just wanted to get back at Donald, Chase wondered when both were just going to grow up, Douglas shouted in anger that he would "grow up when [Donald] grows up." Meanwhile in Leo's presence, after Douglas gloated Donald could not fix something he made (Bree's chip) and that [he won] again, Leo told him it was about Bree, and not about Douglas beating his brother. Apart from getting back at his brother through all these years, Douglas had to bury the hatchet with Donald for them to work together to fix Bree's chip. Eventually, the two moved past their petty grudge after Donald decided to give his brother a second chance.

During his one last attempt to control Adam, Bree, and Chase, Douglas enjoyed using the kids to torment his family, reacting mostly like a five-year-old tormenting his older brother. He was driven to do this is stemmed out of his rivalry for his brother, and, it comes from the fact that both Douglas and Donald were arrogant and childish. However, Leo spoke through to Chase, much to Douglas's frustration, and he later told Adam to attack Chase, but not enough to damage him. After Chase override the Triton App from Adam and Bree and Krane made it clear that he wanted them destroyed once Douglas fixed the App, it was made clear that Douglas didn't want to hurt them and allowed Douglas to reminiscent on his past actions. Between his appearances, Douglas tried reconciling with his brother, kids and nephew, first by sending then friend requests, but they refused every time. Only Adam accepted it, as it appeared Douglas’s eldest son had begun to forgive him. When Douglas contacted them again, he was genuinely there to warn the family that Krane was a danger to them all. However, because Douglas tried killing Donald and his youngest son (Leo) and kidnapping Adam, Bree and Chase constantly, the family refused to trust him and didn't heed Douglas' warning. By this point, Douglas was afraid of Krane and turned to Leo because he was the first to figure out what Douglas and Marcus were up to. Unlike their previous encounter, Douglas spoke to Leo in a good-natured and friendly matter, convincing his step-nephew that Krane was a serious threat. Subsequently, he saved Adam, Bree, and Chase when Krane was about to kill them and in return, Chase saved his biological father by throwing up his Force field to deflect Krane's attack on Douglas. The man would have succeeded in killing Krane had his brother returned shortly after rescuing his wife and son. Donald tossed Douglas out of the house and the younger Davenport left in defeat.

Afterward, Douglas went into hiding and kept his distance from the Davenports until Leo approached him for help to fix Bree's bionic chip after she destroyed it. He also came to Leo's defense when Donald yelled at his son for disobeying him, telling his brother to “lay off the kid” because Leo was just trying to help. The brothers began to pointlessly argue until they realized Bree's haywire abilities could potentially kill her and the two brothers solved the problem together. Afterwards, Donald chose to forgive Douglas from the past after Douglas apologizes for hurting the family, Douglas was invited to live with them for the time being. Since then, Douglas has been kinder and caring to his family, such as not bickering with his brother as much, giving the kids new bionic Abilities, such as Bree's invisibility, Chase's laser-Bo and giving Adam lung capacity and becoming close friends with Leo, such as enhancing his arm with bionics after it was crushed by a ceiling beam caused to land on him by Taylor, and finally had a chance at being a father towards his youngest son, Daniel. He no longer has his evil tendencies and helps anyone else, showing Douglas is a changed man.

Douglas helps anyone else, showing Douglas is a changed man. However at times, he does have some of his destructive tendencies remaining on at least two occasions. In "You Posted What?!?" Douglas suggested to Leo that he could blow up the Lab again so they could escape from government agents until Leo came up with a better solution. This is also notable in "Mission Mania", where Douglas made inventions that caused the students harm, such as a bazooka loaded with pencils that could potentially harm someone or a lie detector chair that would spin violently if the subject was lying. Despite this, Douglas remained an anti-hero the rest of the series. He was reluctant to connect with Daniel due to past incidents with his own kids but the two formed a strong father & son relationship. He also cares about the well-being of the students that lived at the bionic Academy as he demanded that Giselle reveal where she was holding the kids hostage and threatened to kill her. When he learned Marcus was alive again, Douglas begged him to stop torturing Daniel and tried offering them to be a family again. However, Marcus refused and when he tried to kill Leo again, Douglas saw his android son was beyond reason and ended him by melting him.

## Romance

### Izzy Davenport

Izzy married Douglas Davenport in 1995 and developed four kids: Adam, Bree, Chase and Daniel. They were very much in love. She grew disillusioned with him when Douglas admitted he was training them to be Supervillains, causing Izzy to betray him to Donald for the safety of their children. Douglas did not acknowledge that it was his fault at the time until much later. In season 3, Izzy and Douglas get along but it is revealed by Izzy that despite them hating each other recently.

It is revealed in "Bionic Action Hero" Izzy still has feelings for Douglas. When Daniel gets back into their lives, Douglas admits to him that he still loves Izzy, which she overhears. Izzy confided to Bree that she too was in love with Douglas. The two reconciled and remarried in the epilogue.

### Giselle Vickers

**(Ex-girlfriend)**

When Douglas was still divorced from Izzy, he tried everything he could to impress Giselle and commit another relationship with her. He did so by changing his looks and boasting to her about Marcus. When Giselle revealed that she was plotting to steal Chase's intelligence out of vengeance because Adam, Bree and Chase stole the spotlight when she was going to unveil her Androids to the world. Even after it was revealed that Giselle is evil, Douglas is nearly tempted to accepting to protect her when Troy tried to kill her and getting back together with her if theyshare coffee until Izzy and Leo dragged him away from her.

Douglas lost all interest in her when she kidnapped all the Bionic Soldiers and his own son, Daniel.

### Terry Perry

**(Crush on her side)**

Terry Perry has an abnormal crush on Douglas, which he is often irritated by. She later turned her attention to Leo's father.

### Leo Dooley

**(Friend/Step-Nephew)**

Leo and Douglas used to be bitter enemies until "Taken" when Douglas goes to Leo for help on protecting their family from Krane. After his reformation, Leo and Douglas get along better and despite often tease each other, they do care about each other. Douglas made him a bionic arm after learning he will never be able to use its original arm ever again and apologizes for framing his nephew's own father. Izzy knew Leo was Douglas' first real friend in a long time.

### Talya Dooley

**(Step Great-Niece)**

Talya is one of Douglas' great-niece through Leo and Taylor. However, their relationship is not explored until much later, where Talya tells Douglas that Leo and Taylor didn't let him near her or the other kids until they were seven or fifteen, and only interacting through Face Talk.  He does treat her as if she were one of his own grandchildren.

### Bree Davenport

Bree is Douglas' biological and only daughter and adoptive niece. She initially hated her biological father but learned to get used to him when they began living together after Donald let him move in. He helped fix Bree's chip and even gave her the new ability of invisibility. However, Bree does not trust Douglas, mostly because he steals Tasha's bracelets out of respect for her close relationship with Tasha.

### Tasha Davenport

ouglas does not get along with his sister-in-law, mostly because he kidnapped Adam, Bree and Chase and tried to kill her husband and son. She was also upset when Douglas gave Leo a bionic arm and often gets mad at him if Leo gets hurt with them. Season Four revealed Douglas also steals her bracelets, which is why Bree does not trust her biological father. However, he does not seem to mind whenever Tasha (or Bree) call him "Dougy and, like the rest of the family, presumably congratulated her and Donald on their first baby.

### Taylor

Douglas met Taylor when she and Krane confronted him and his step-nephew. She preceded in attacking Douglas, Leo, and Perry. Because Taylor caused Leo's injury, Douglas had to fix it with bionics.

When she showed up at the Bionic Academy, Douglas feared her due to his and Leo's past encounter with her. This time, she was not there to hurt anyone and came to them for help, which would actually warn them of the doomsday virus that was not only on her chip but also, the Bionic Soldiers, and the Lab Rats (excluding Leo). Douglas and Chase tried to jog her memory on how Krane put the virus on her chip by recreating the day she was created; She was disturbed by Douglas's and Chase's impression of Krane and her and was reluctant to put her life and her siblings' life in Douglas.

After Leo accidentally blinded her, Douglas created glasses for her that vibrated whenever there was an obstacle coming near her and she would be able to move around obstacles.

### Daniel Davenport

Daniel is Douglas' youngest son and child and someone he is rather protective of. He gave him up for adoption because he knew he could not raise a child while on the run. He reunited with his son when Daniel was thirteen and contacted Douglas, who was not ready to be a father. Despite this, experiences with Adam, Bree, and Chase taught Douglas to be a better father for Daniel, such as be honest with him, help him get used to his bionic abilities and give him fatherly advice.

At first, Douglas didn't want to have a relationship with Daniel until his family encouraged him to invite Daniel over to the island to meet them. However, Douglas never told Daniel he was Bionic like his brothers and sister until they accidentally reawaken his bionic chip. Daniel was hurt by his father lying to him and Douglas accidentally shouted he didn't want Daniel coming there in the first place. The two reconciled when Daniel had a conversation with Leo. Douglas happily told Daniel he could come by any time. However, like Douglas did with Leo, he let Daniel haven't his Bionics because he thought he could handle it without realizing how similar the boys were. After learning Daniel was using his bionics, he enrolled him into the Bionic Academy and didn't want Leo to give Daniel the upgrade they gave the other students.

After Giselle kidnapped Daniel and the other Bionic Soldiers, Douglas and his family did everything to find them. When Marcus took Daniel's form, Douglas thought that it was his son until it was too late. Realizing how close Daniel and Douglas were, Marcus decided to take out his little brother first until Douglas encouraged Daniel to replicate Marcus is abilities, therefore seemingly destroying him. When Douglas revealed he was going to recreate Marcus and reprogram him, Daniel and the rest of their family shouted "No!".