Dr. Newman

> I always thought you were worthless, but you're now part of an exciting project.
>
> - Dr. Newman moments away from sending Eileen Howells into unconsciousness.

**Dr. Newman** is a character created by theryanjake11 and appears in the HydroVerse series of comics, he is a major antagonist.

He initially started as an administrator for Sigma Research and would oversee the many projects the organization would be involved in, after his death his corpse would be used in an experiment with a cube-shaped artefact that would result in his resurrection into a powerful entity nicknamed Rezur.

## Appearance

Dr. Newman is a Caucasian male with blue eyes, he has greying slicked back hair. He is often seen wearing a variety of business such as his grey Sigma Research clothing and beige variant.

## History

### *Insect-Woman: Redemption*

In 1999, Dr. Newman was working from a small warehouse made into a Corvus outpost. Sometime earlier he had found and captured the young Danny Torrance, Newman would later capture his mother Wendy after finding her wandering around somewhere close by.

When a hideous creature nicknamed "Skelinsect" made itself known to Wendy, this triggered a transformation into the Insect-Woman, something that visibly angered Dr. Newman. He ordered his assistant Jin to send in a squad and apprehend her. From this point onwards, Dr. Newman would not be seen again as he managed to escape unharmed.

### *Hydro-Girl: Remastered*

Dr. Newman began operating within Sigma Research where he became its administrator for three years and watched over an important experiment involving the opening of a portal to another dimension. This research into dimensional travel was actually a ploy to track down a demigoddess known as Hurihiko for an evil being named Vortak, with Newman's reward being access to assets from Vortak's realm of Lucifero.

In the room that held the massive gateway to another dimension, Dr. Newman continued his observation until he realised that the rather late Eileen Howells had finally turned up.

After berating her tardiness, Dr. Newman nominates Eileen and assistant Slick as the first two to enter the portal and survey whatever's on the other side. Newman makes it clear that they should not return if they don't find anything of value. After Eileen and Slick are both injured on the other side, they are brought back through to Sigma Research by a recovery team.

As Eileen doesn't regain consciousness in the Sigma medical bay, Dr. Newman coldly dismisses her condition and orders Slick to get back to work. He is interrupted however by Eileen's life signs, causing him to leave the room and board a helicopter to his own private island reserve. Newman begins speaking to the skull of a ram as Vortak speaks through it, Newman tells his ally that they may have found Aqua-Irava much to Vortak's admiration.

Dr. Newman would later realise that Eileen could not have recovered from such an injury the way she did, and suspects her to be harbouring what he and Vortak have been searching for: Hurihiko, also known as Hydro-Girl.

Showing up alongside his troops to an abandoned warehouse in Downpour City, Dr. Newman ambushes both Hydro-Girl and a young boy named Kevin, taking out the former with a stun bullet fired by a sniper and simply kidnapping Kevin. Dr. Newman traps Eileen down on a metal table and watches her from a distance, preparing a laser device that will dispose of Hydro-Girl.

The laser is activated and Eileen is immediately knocked unconscious by the blast, sending her into her own head where she manages to connect with Hydro-Girl, Dr. Newman flees to his helicopter. The helicopter hovers close to the mouth of the volcano located on Newman's private island.

As a beam is activated from inside the volcano and shoots up into the sky, it begins opening a black hole in the clouds. Newman smiles evilly as he throws the ram skull Vortak speaks through into the black hole, this causes Vortak to finally emerge from the darkness and grasp his claws into the mouth of the volcano.

Newman's helicopter then keeps its distance, as Newman himself orders out the US air force as a way for Vortak to begin his attack. Dr. Newman would disappear after this.

### *End of the Line*

When Motesius traps Hydro-Girl within a hallucination, Dr. Newman (in his Rezur form) appears alongside fellow villains Lilith and Kore as they all attack Hydro-Girl at once. Outside of the trance, the three villains are actually Motesius' minions converging on Hydro-Girl.

## Personality

Dr. Newman is a very cold and inpatient man, easily getting irritated if things take too much time moving along. He's also very cruel, as he put the young Kevin Harrison into containment and had no problem with his guards threatening the boy with their weapons.

He also comes across very deluded, as he believed that the wicked Vortak would just simply give him access to his world's assets, even though Dr. Newman is a mere human that Vortak could easily crush at any given moment.