Douglas Davenport

Big Guy (by Bob)

Douglas Orville Davenport is a major character in the *Lab Rats* franchise, serving as a major recurring character and former antagonist in *Lab Rats.*

He is the younger brother of Donald Davenport, the biological father of Adam Davenport, Bree Davenport, Chase Davenport, Daniel Davenport and Estelle Danvers, the step-uncle of Leo Dooley as well as the creator of Marcus Davenport. 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 the overarching antagonist of Season 1, the main antagonist of Season 2 and the central antagonist of Season 3. 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, prior to the Academy's disbandment.

## Biography

### Early Life

Douglas was born in the 1974 and the younger brother of Donald, the father of Adam, Bree, Chase, and Daniel, the brother-in-law of Tasha, and the uncle of Leo, and Naomi. As children, Douglas was often bullied by his older brother and underappreciated, even building a robot, Fisto Roboto to beat him up. Because he was often mocked by his brother, it turned Douglas into a bitter, anti-social scheming genius. Their parents' names were never given in the series. According to Douglas, he does not want his mother to know he was alive because she never stops calling him.

### College

Around 1995, He attended college, and during this time, he was dating a robotics major Giselle Vickers. However, she broke up with him, causing Douglas to be heartbroken and one of the worst days of his life. He later went to med school to study to be a doctor. However, Douglas was dismissed for screaming too loudly when he saw the needles. Instead, he went to cooking school sometime in the 1990s.

### Creating the World's First Bionic Humans

Donald and Douglas founded Davenport Industries in 1992, creating technology and sent androids on missions that were meant to perform things impossible for humans to do. However, Douglas found a way to infuse Bionics with the human nervous system, but it could cause whoever used them to glitch. He went behind his brother's back, genetically engineered Adam, Bree, Chase and gave them bionics. Unknown to everyone, Douglas created a fourth bionic, Daniel, keeping his existence a secret from his family years later. Douglas wanted to use them as cyber-soldiers of mass destruction, selling them to terrorists and dictators until Donald figured out what his brother was up to and promptly booted him out of Davenport Industries and disowned him, taking Bree, Chase, and Adam, and hiding them in a lab he created with hopes of raising them as heroes and use their powers for good, opposite of what his brother intended. Douglas only managed to get away with his youngest son, Daniel, who was only a baby at the time, and faked his own death, leading everyone to believe he died, including his brother and parents.

Losing his three eldest children, Douglas gave up his youngest son to a family looking to adopt to ensure he had a normal life and chose to live a life on the run.

### Partnership with Krane

At some point, after he was booted out of Davenport Industries, Douglas became partners with millionaire Victor Krane, who was the only one who believed in him. He provided Douglas with eighty million dollars in exchange for giving him his research and bionically enhancing him. Back when he was evil, Douglas bought an evil lair with Krane, an old townhouse and found an injured stray dog, Otis, and put bionics in him to heal the dog. Essentially, the two became best friends, but Otis eventually ran away because Krane frightened him.

Meanwhile, Krane did the same thing to Douglas as he had done to Donald years prior by going behind Douglas' back and created at least one-hundred bionic soldiers and infuse them with Douglas' bionic research. However, he never thought anything by it, not even questioning the hundreds of baby pictures on his wall.

### Davenport Civil War

#### Creating Marcus

To have Adam, Bree and Chase back, he created Marcus and have him all his eldest children's abilities and finally, Douglas could get revenge on his brother once and for all.

## 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, making their arguing ironic. Despite this, the two brothers could never learn to get along and Douglas would stop at nothing until he ruined his brother for taking his kids away 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. 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 superhumans of mass destruction, selling them to the highest bidder, whether they be dictators or mad Men. He had no qualms with harming Leo when they were enemies, despite him only being fifteen years old, considering him a "nosy kid" who constantly gets in his way. Douglas later left Marcus for dead so he could ensure his own survival. Despite his negative traits when he was evil, there was still a lighter side to him, as there were times when his sense of humor would overshadow the seriousness in a room. Apart from being evil, Douglas still cared for his bionic children. He did what was best for his youngest creation, 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 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 friendly manner, 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. At first, Douglas selfishly thought that he upped his brother yet again and told Leo he could not "wait to shove his face in this one." However, Douglas relented when he saw Bree really was in trouble.

After Donald found Leo with Douglas, surprisingly, it was Douglas who 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 Bree. 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. Despite being grateful for Douglas' help, Donald tossed him out, but was convinced by Bree, Adam, Chase and Leo to give Douglas a second chance. At first reluctant, Donald told Douglas he may have been a little harsh with his brother and offers him to stay at their house for a while if Douglas apologized for hurting their family. At first Douglas thought Donald was being more than a little harsh, but with a threat of only sleeping in a bush, Douglas agreed and felt it was clear his brother needed him. However, it appeared that Douglas thought he needed Donald and his family. He apologizes for what he did, showing that Douglas feels some form of remorse for his actions in the past. However, the brothers get right back to fighting, albeit, in a friendly manner, Douglas and Donald will once in a while squabble. Douglas also shows remorse in "You Posted What!?!" where he says it is not fair that Donald is taking the heat for putting bionics in humans. In Season 4, Douglas finally had a chance at being a father towards his youngest son, Daniel. Donald noted that with Douglas' newfound friendship with Daniel, Douglas would make a good father. In response, Douglas jokingly told Donald he would make a good one too one day. Of course, in a mocking way as Douglas was indirectly referring to Donald's parenting skills when dealing with Adam, Bree, Chase or Leo.

Since then, Douglas has been kinder and caring to his family. He empathized with Chase when he was being bullied by Adam and gave him a new bionic ability, Laser Bo to best Adam, whom he later gave a Pressurized Lung Capacity. Douglas and Chase bonded and have defended each other from Donald at least twice. He also became close friends with Leo despite their bad blood. Douglas and Leo worked fairly well when finding out who exposed the kids' bionics to the world. Douglas enhanced injured arm with bionics after it was crushed by a ceiling beam caused to land on him by Taylor. Douglas also installed a deactivation in Leo's bionics during the day so he would not get into any trouble and later, promised to train him with his Bionics. However, they sometimes bicker like brothers do, insinuating they have a love/hate relationship like Leo does with Chase. Later, Douglas melted Marcus when he was going to fight Leo yet again and probably knew it was a fight Leo would not have one. He also retains his humor but most of Douglas' goofy personality are lightened more, as he and his brother playfully argue with each other. Douglas no longer has his evil tendencies and helps anyone else, showing he had indeed changed. However, his recklessness and sometimes, arrogance, rendering him an anti-hero. 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.

## Appearance

Douglas is a man of forty years old, with light skin, light brown hair and hazel eyes. He often keeps his hair spiked but once flattened it in Bionic Action Hero. Douglas also wears five bracelets on his right wrist.

## Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect:** Much like Donald, Douglas is a genius of multiple fields; he is even smarter than Donald, creating technology such as short-range teleportation, which Donald hadn't mastered yet. He also claimed and proved to be the better programmer. It was he who made Adam, Bree and Chase and gave them their bionics in the first place. He was also able to hack Eddy, Davenport Industries, and Donald's bank account all without being caught. Douglas has lots of intelligence on bionic abilities and he has shown capable of giving Chase his Laser Bo ability, Adam's Pressurized Lung Capacity, Bree ability to turn Invisible, and Leo's Energy Transference ability. Douglas even created a virus while thinking on his feet to fry all of Giselle's systems. However, he has trouble encrypting Victor Krane's software.
	+ **Medical Knowledge:** Douglas is savvy about medical treatments. For example, is aware of common practices of how doctors deal with amnesic patients. However, the credibility of his knowledge is questionable as he never completed his doctorate, because he flunked out due to screaming at the sight of needles. However, he did show skill in repairing severely damaged limbs such as when he repaired Leo's arm after it was damaged.
	+ **Excellent Strategist:** Douglas is an accomplished strategist, able to come up with incredibly complex and brilliant plans quickly.
		- **Detective Skills:** Douglas does have detective skills, and made careful observations while trying to investigate the natural gas pipeline with Leo.
		- **Cooking**: Douglas went to cooking school as a result he can cook very well. He can even cook street food, when he became a vendor while hiding from Krane and even Chase and Leo have commented on how well he made soup and chip dip.
		- **Piloting**: Like his brother Donald, Douglas is a skilled at flying a helicopter. This was shown in Sink or Swim when he rescued Adam, Bree, and Chase while being disguised as his brother.
* **Martial Arts:** Just like Donald, Douglas is an accomplished fighter, able to take Donald on at an equal level. He claimed he was the better fighter of the two; however, this was not proven, as their fight never reached a climax.
* **Impressions:** Douglas claims he does a killer Krane impression, and Douglas said he used to kill it at their dinner parties (before Krane threatened to kill him). When he pretended to be Krane while trying to get Taylor to remember how to deactivate a doomsday app, Douglas actually did an impressive imitation of Krane but Taylor was horrified by Douglas and Chase's reenactment of her recreation and she hoped that if she was going to explode, she would take out Chase and Douglas.

## Weaknesses

* **Reckless/Destructiveness:** Douglas can be rather reckless or destructive. This continued to be a flaw and running gag in the series. He also wanted to send in Adam, Bree and Chase as beings of mass destruction and spread chaos throughout the world. In "No Going Back," he set up explosives in the lab and set it off in an attempt to kill Leo and Donald. Even after Douglas changed his ways, he still has those violent tendencies. In You Posted What!?! Douglas suggested in blowing up the lab to Leo for them to escape from the FBI agents. He even made unhelpful inventions that could bodily harm someone, such as a pencil bazooka or a truth detector chair that would spin violently if the subject was lying. Douglas also experimented on Donald's self-driving but indestructible limo, using dynamics and other explosives to make it explode.
* **Fear of Needles:** In Elite Force, He was kicked out of med school for screaming every time he saw needles.
* **Hair:** In Bionic Showdown, when he was fighting Donald, he told him to keep his hands off his hair. He also happens to think his hair is flawless and, as he said many times before, much better than Donald's. Also, in You Posted What?!?, Leo accidentally burned Douglas' hair tips, and Douglas was upset when that happened.
* **Arrogance/Immaturity:** Douglas can become just as immature and arrogant as Donald, who he constantly bickers with.

## Equipment

* **Triton App:** He can hack the bionic systems and takes control of the target, causes the victim's irises (colored part of the eye) to glow green. Can only affect the bionics circuits, not their human attributes. This was exploited by Leo and Chase in Sink or Swim, where Leo appealed to his brother's human side by showing Chase their time together and their growing brother relationship; however, Chase still fainted almost immediately after.
* Blaster: Starting in Rise of the Secret Soldier, since Douglas has no bionics, he uses a blaster on missions.