Dr Nefarious (Alternate)

## Dr. Nefarious

* Nefarious:Dimensions
* A Crack in Time

**Dr. Nefarious** is a major character in the Nefarious Franchise. He is a evil scientist and proclaimed super villain.

He is also Riley's adopted father and Emperor Nefarious's Dimensional counterpart.

## Appearance

As an organic life form, in the Qwark vid-comics Dr. Nefarious was depcted as a humanoid, with a large, egg-shaped head, grey/yellow-ish skin, a hunchback, and a large mouth bearing his teeth. Little is seen from the vid-comics to make out his attire as an organic life form, but it appears he wore a grey bodysuit with matching gloves and boots.

Dr. Nefarious' typical robotic form is that of a tall, humanoid robot. He has a green, transparent, egg-shaped head-dome featuring gears, cogs, pistons and a rotating satellite dish inside. His eyes are brightly colored red. Nefarious has red highlights across his torso, a pair of mechanical wings attached to his pauldrons, hydraulic pipes on his chest and back, and diamond-shaped guards on his legs and arms.
Nefarious' appearance changes slightly between different releases.

In Up Your Arsenal, his body is more realistically proportioned, with a blue body, and red highlights adorning his eyes, chest, groin, forearms, and shins.

In A Crack in Time, he retains this color scheme, but has a larger head, more sunken-in eyes allowing for more facial expression, a broader upper torso, and exaggerated proportions.

In All 4 One, Nefarious' body is purple rather than blue. He appears much shorter, with a larger head as proportional to the rest of his body, and a more exaggerated torso with ganglier limbs. After Ratchet traveled back in time to rescue Orvus, he gained a scar on the right side of his head after having a grenade thrown at him, slightly cracking his head and causing his right eye to limp slightly within its socket.

In Rift Apart, Nefarious' proportions return to what they were in A Crack In Time, while retaining his purple colour scheme from All 4 One and also having his scar repaired. However, if one were to look close enough, a faint scratch can be seen where his scar used to be. A subtle new touch is the fact that his optics now have apertures in them which allow his pupils to shrink and grow in addition to telescopic eyelids that allow him to actually close his eyes, all in the name of giving him improved expressiveness. His face is more skull-like and his eyes are larger and more sinister, resembling their appearance from Up Your Arsenal. The Doctor's dimensional counterpart Emperor Nefarious possesses a distinct appearance from him; being taller and having a slightly bulkier, more embellished body.

The Emperor also sports a different color scheme, with a white body adorned in orange highlights and a smaller orange cranial-dome. The inside of his transparent head-dome also contains three simple radio transmitters, unlike the Doctor's mass of various moving machinery. Perhaps a visual allegory for the two's different life paths and methods of thinking, with the Emperor preferring to rule as a tyrant with brutally simple conquering techniques and the Doctor being a scientist that concocts elaborate plans to outdo his enemies.

## Personality

Dr. Nefarious is characterized as a deranged, eccentric, egomaniacal scientist, sadistically showing no remorse for his actions and pleasure in villainy. He is also very conceited, with many of his creations being made in his own image, and many of his robotic servants resembling him or sharing his mannerisms, suggesting narcissistic traits. He has an extreme hatred for organic life, referring to organic life forms as "squishies", and seeking to exterminate them or transform them into robots. Even when putting aside his hatred towards them in order to further his goals, he vowed to eventually destroy them again once he was finished.

Nefarious has proven to be cunning, able to manipulate many to work for him. He was able to fool the fongoids, the terachnoids, the Valkyries, and the Zoni to ally with him, before betraying them all. While working with them, however, he has often shown a complete impatience towards them when they fail him. While he normally betrays his allies once he has obtained his goal, when it seems clear that they will no longer be useful or co-operate with him, he will betray them prematurely.

Nefarious appears to have had a turbulent relationship with his mother as she had at one point suggested he was a disappointment. This also seems to be a source of his personal drive to succeed and prove her wrong. After brainwashing and enslaving the Fongoids on Zanifar, the doctor's computer repeated several phrases including one declaring that he was not a disappoinment like his mother had once claimed.
Towards the end of All 4 One, Nefarious' companionship with Ratchet, Clank and Qwark appears to have changed him, being close to tears when looking at a photograph of the four of them.

However, in Rift Apart, Nefarious seems to have reverted to his evil supervillain ways but has grown tired of losing to Ratchet and Clank and sought to make them know what it feels like to lose by going to an alternate dimension where he always wins. After successfully entering the dimension where an alternate version of him reigns supreme, Nefarious was exuberant at the thought of actually succeeding and didn't hesitate to take his counterpart's throne. Nefarious engrossed himself in the power his new position as emperor, almost enjoying it too much.

However, after meeting his more capable counterpart, Nefarious showed an uncharacteristic submissive side, begging for his life to team up with Emperor Nefarious to save himself and almost regret from impersonating him. Though their team up appeared decent it was ultimately a very tense one, as Emperor Nefarious overshadowed and dominated over Dr. Nefarious the entire time, abusing him, leaving the doctor to be quiet and subdued; things Nefarious never is. Nefarious would try to advise his counterpart and make suggestions, but he would be ignored and belittled, leaving the doctor despondent and sullen. Nefarious would ultimately feel outraged and betrayed after his counterpart announced his plans of invading his home dimension, as he believed that was his dimension to rule. He would, however, get his own form of payback as he watched with amusement as Emperor Nefarious struggled in defeating the heroes and rebels that united against his counterpart, stating all along that the heroes besting him wasn't because of him but because the heroes and people of his home dimension were stubborn. After Emperor Nefarious was completely beaten and defeated, leaving him begging Nefarious for help, the doctor would simply use his counterpart's own cruel words against him and abandon the emperor to his doom.

Although the Emperor appears to be much more self-obsessed and overconfident than even the Doctor, the two share more in common than what is initially evident. When Dr. Nefarious took over the Emperor's role in Rivet's dimension in his absence, he began becoming increasingly egotistical and felt he was unbeatable. This is reflected in Rivet's fights with both the Doctor and the Emperor, where they both use the Dimensionator whilst fighting her. In both fights, the Doctor and the Emperor both display the same mannerisms, believing they are the one true, all-powerful emperor that cannot be defeated and are beloved by all their subjects. What this suggests is that if Dr. Nefarious had truly been as successful as the Emperor, he would have become just as self-obsessed and conceited as his counterpart. The Emperor describes the Doctor as lacking in his own elegance, good looks, and enchanting wit, while the Doctor describes the Emperor as lacking in artistry, imagination and elegance. Interestingly when the two describe what the other lacks they both mock that the other is lacking in elegance, highlighting that they both have their own definition of what this means. The Doctor values the elegance of creativity and new ideas; a product of his life's path as a scientist and the adversity faced against his capable enemies. While the Emperor has never known defeat or been pushed to ever think in such a way, leading him to only value the elegance of shallow qualities such as his own appearance and charisma.